[UA] Madhouse (long)

[Chris Cooper]

--- Mark K <markk131 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Greg Stolze, Tim Toner, Steven Roman look no further
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> I'm serious you bitches, the only people you are
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> Good, I think they are gone.

You can always hope. ;p 






> Any suggestions for pulling it off?
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> Any suggestions for character concepts, details or
> scenes that would be 
> powerful?

For my input. This would rock. I love mind-fuck games.
This one has massive potential. If I were running this
is what I'd add.

Cutscenes and Sanity
Presume that since the PCs are all mindrinsed and
amnesiac sociopaths and the past cannot be changed,
the PCs are human and time does bring distance to
trauma. My suggestion is to create two, three
cutscenes for each PC - a short narrative description
of strenuous past events with a particular stress
check at the end.

Although you still have the past result of the stress
check all written down, there is no reason why the
characters could review these experiences in a new
light, and since they are starting at zero notches
they experience all the hideousness again.

They may end up as better people than they were, which
is a kind of heroic event.

Booby Traps
Being aware that the Punk Band is a whole cabal and
not a single individual, the Sleepers may have
second-guessed the PCs eventually coming the closet of
horror. This in place certain memories are
booby-trapped. A good twist would be one of the
sideline roadies. He never was part of the cabal, but
is a Deep Sleeper agent - an adept that pissed the
Sleepers off before and has now been magically rewired
into the past events. This process is not seamless,
there can be irregularities in memories, events missed
or fabricated (memory confabulation as Greg Stolze
likes to say).

R.I.P.
The punk chick in the band didn't actually exist.
She's a complete construction - a tulpa. When the PCs
reminisce about her (everyone has feelings for her)
but everyone has recollections about having a bit of
hot, fantastic steamy sex with her in secret. Everyone
holds her on a pedastal (which would be odd of
sociopaths).

When they start to think of her when they're alone.
During these moments, the Tulpa memory construct
attempts to "possess" the PC with it's bogus Soul stat
and get the body to a telephone where "she" calls up
some Sleeper sleeper and informs him that the
mind-wiping is becoming fast unglued. She then takes
the body back to where it was and the PC wakes up from
a particularly vivid dream where she and he walked
hand-in-hand through the asylum, ordered pizza (or
something bizarre like Bad News Bibles with hot
piquantes) and went back to the cell with time to
kill. At this point the character wakes up.

Radio killed the Video Star.
Snatches of the Lost Album drift everywhere. Make up a
few little catchy ditties, whistle or hum them at
particular, meaningful times. These tunes minor
Unnatural phenomena that erupt when the magic hlding
the PCs thoughts down start degrading.

Infections of Clues
As the memories start surfacing some of the extreme
paranoid schizophrenics spontaneously writing out the
Lost Albums lyrics or draw disturbing pictures based
on the imagery. This happens more and more until faces
and events of the Sleepers start appearing. The faces
and wild stories give the PCs terrible deja vu and a
feeling up the spine like someone is walking across
their graves.

How's that?

Good luck with it.

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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