[UA] First Campaign

[Thuvasa3]

--- Chad Eagleton <ceagleto at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> What's it cost him? Obviously this healer doesn't do
> it for free...it should cost him something major,
> not
> just money...
> 

That's a big question.  I don't know.  I know it needs
to cost him something, but I can't decide what that
should be.  I thought about the scalpel of an infamous
surgeon, or maybe the dinnerware of a cannibal (maybe
that guy in Germany who was recently arrested for
cannibalism).  But other than that, I'm largely
drawing a blank.  I also need a price for the
folklorist to have to pay.  Nothing so severe as the
author should have to pay, BUT...

> 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?

Sleepers are definitely out.  I'm considering an
enraged former patient who found out the price was
more than he could bear.  Maybe he took a tattooed
mouth, or something like that, and he can hear it
whispering and chewing at night.  He's back, and he's
pissed.  Etc.  

The thing is, the folklorist doesn't know the author
beforehand, thus I need a reason (someone chasing
them), to get them in the same car, so I can do Bi3P. 
I suppose I could just use it as it is written.  They
*both* pull up at the crossroads, as if they had come
from different directions.

A sort of amusing scenario, assuming they succeed with
Bi3P--"Well, I'm glad that's taken care of." "Me too,
btw, where in the hell are we?"
 
> 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...
 
I haven't seen jacob's ladder in many years (and I was
too young to watch it when i did), but it's popped up
in conversation a lot lately, so I'll probably look
into it.

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

That's basically what I'm going for, except that I'm
going for a growing tumor that eventually comes to
resemble a white, flaky, version of the PC.  (with
*bits* that fall off...and start to wriggle away on
their own).
 
> Maybe the person that receives the cancer eventually
> becomes obsessed with "devouring" the original
> persons
> life...

I think that's definitely what the cancer-copy will be
up to.

Jonathan

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