[UA] First Campaign

[Chris Cooper]

--- Thuvasa3 <thuvasa3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
> Or something else happens!  If so, what?
> 
> Horrible things...  There are a few terrible things
> I
> want to work in here.  The first is a nightmarish
> doctor's waiting room.  People with all kinds of
> deformity, etc, all crammed in to a shabby and
> horrible space.  

Some sort of terrible, wayward agent for a defunct
Room of Renunciation. The Agent is a mystical surgeon
that operates on people correcting them and them
shelves them to show off to clients.

Two, cancer!  Basically, I want the
> guy to reach into the author, pull out a huge, black
> tumor, and then "whoever" shows up.  The guy drops
> the
> tumor, and it crawls away.

Or even better. The tumour becomes animated because
the writer had cancer of the soul too. The cancerous
soul and tissue have fused together into some sort of
parasitic, vampiric, fluid-dripping abortion.

  Three, the room in the
> back.  In the pandemonium, the players find the room
> in the back, where the "faith healer" has several
> people trapped.  They realize that the "healer" has
> been transferring the illnesses/injuries from his
> patients to these victims.

I wrote up an archetype for this called the Grotesque
Libertine. It's somewhere in the list archives and in
the UA website.

> So...I'm open for ideas.  What level of stress
> checks
> are we talking about for these things?  I'm thinking
> unnatural checks for everyone that sees the "reach
> into the body and pull out the crawling cancer"
> maneuver, plus an additional...what?  for the
> author? 
> Self, helplessness?  (ideally, his cancer has
> metastasized from the orignal site, so he's still
> sick).

Start with the small ones at "witness level" start on
the nastier stuff as the game goes on.

Does the writer's cancer go into remission? Or does it
start over from scratch. Doeshe start budding these
hideous tumours regularly? Do they mobilse and attack
people in dim porn theatres and under-street bars?

> What sort of check for realizing that the guy has
> been
> passing the illnesses on to other people?

It really depends on how the character perceives the
situation. To some it's violence, some it's Unnatural,
or Helplessness. Level five or six.

> Also, if anyone has any ideas for avatars/archetypes
> for The Running Man, and The Devil's Advocate, I'd
> like to hear them.

Running Man is the Pilgrim and Gambler or Judge fills
the Advocate role.

> Any comments on a good setting for this are
> especially
> welcome!

Run it in your home town, or nearby city.

Good luck.

Cheers,

Chris.

=====
The little bird that is the song in my heart
is too tired to be carried
by its battered wings.

It falls, crashes...
... and is still in its bone cage...

Dead Inside from Atomic Sock Monkey press.


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