[UA] First Campaign

[Chad Eagleton]

> The writer has done some discreet inquiry and heard
> of
> a faith healer who's for real.  He's made the
> necessary arrangements, and had the
> caretaker/orderly
> take him to "faith healer."  


What's it cost him? Obviously this healer doesn't do
it for free...it should cost him something major, not
just money...

> The folklorist needs to publish in order to keep
> tenure--she's heard about the faith healer and wants
> to write about him.  So she's there too.  
> 
> Then what?  
> 
> I've got a couple of ideas.  Possibly, the sleepers
> show up, and pandemonium ensues.  However, I would
> like for this to be the trigger event for the writer
> and the folklorist, so obviously I don't want them
> to
> die/have their minds noodled, so they need a good
> way
> to get away.  I thought that letting them escape in
> the general chaos might seem a little too easy for
> them.  
> 
> Possibly, TNI shows up.  A D level team is more
> likely
> to bungle things than a group of sleepers, but it
> could essentially be the same scenario as above.  
>

I'd say hold off on the sleepers and tni until the
players get a little more involved in the mojo of the
underground...i mean this healer guy is keeping things
discreet right? he's not doing it in front of a live
studio audience on broadcast tv, right?

 
> 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.  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.  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'm picturing something out of jacob's ladder
here...watch it if you haven't...the healer should
move from place to place; you receive a message with a
date and time and the price...but it's always
somewhere different...

Maybe when he throws the cancer into someone else,
that person is obsessed with "devouring"...food,
drink, cigs, items, people...

Maybe the person that receives the cancer eventually
becomes obsessed with "devouring" the original persons
life...

Or maybe, in a more mundane way, the person just gets
the cancer...you know the writer walks out and he's
fine, a little shaken up but what happen, but mostly
a-okay...and then like six months later he's watching
his local news and she's a story with the poor schmuck
he saw in the backroom (who got his cancer) talking
about being sick, about loosing his job, about his kid
having to drop out of school, blah blah blah...

 

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