[UA] First Campaign

[Mario Magallanes]

Thuvasa3 escribió:
> 
> A writer with terminal cancer.  We haven't decided the
> where of the cancer yet, but wherever it is, doctors
> can't fix it.

The brain seems a good option for malignant, unfixable tumors. Also,
aside of regular unpleasantness (headaches, nausea, vomiting) brain
tumors may cause abnormal neural activity, including distorted
perceptions, lucid dreaming and visual hallucinations.

Hmmm, here's a potential plot hook. Let's say that the faith healer
pulls the cancer straight out, and everything seems OK for a while.
Then, he starts to have weird ideas. Situations. Plots. Characters.

He sets to write, and the stuff he churns out is *good*. Lightyears off
his usual writing. Somewhat unusual, somewhat weird, but so
well-crafted, so compelling, that anyone who reads it gets hooked. If
the character starts to publish his fiction, it gets instant cult
status. People starts to talk about him as the next Dirk Allen, maybe
the next Thomas Pynchon. The more he writes, the better (and weirder)
his writing becomes turns out.

Of course, the more he writes, the more the tumor grows, until it
becomes obvious he will barely live to write one last work. His
masterpiece, in fact.

That's when the Renunciation Agent reappears, with an offer. He can
completely remove the tumor, but it's got to be done *now*, before it's
too late. It will only take his writing skills ability forever.

So, what's going to be... life, or posthumous literary glory?

 
> 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).
> 

Unnatural 5 seems OK for the cancer removing. Helplessness for the
writer, once he realizes he still has it. 
Don't go too crazy with the stress checks, though. 


-M.