[UA] Dark Grail?

[Ville Halonen]

Delurking.

I'm planning to run Green Glass Grail as the next scenario in my campaign. 
In the previous scenario my players managed to find a copy of the Naked 
Goddess tape. Now I'm trying to fit the G3 with its Grail imagery into the 
storyline and my head is full of ideas and themes; one of them is the Naked 
Goddess tape as a sort of Dark Grail.

The analogy is not perfect, but I think there are some points where the two 
connect:

1) Both are lost and have attained a mythic status. 

2) Both are connected with the Ascension of a God.

3) Both are -- in a way -- containers; the tape in a very modern way. 
(Okay, this may suck, at least in itself.)

4) The Grail is a sort of paradox: no one knows what it does exactly, but 
it sure will do something magnificent, and everyone seeks it with fervour 
just to find out what it is. How many in the Occult Underground know what 
the Real NG Tape does? How many legends are there? 

5) The "dark side" of the NG tape: in order to attain the Grail, you had to 
be a virgin and innocent in general. The tape is a recording of a Goddess 
who attained her godhood by being the opposite of a virgin; what will you 
have to do in order to get it to your hands? I don't know the Grail mythos 
that well, but I'm sure it would give a bunch of ideas for a NG tape hunt.

6) The Grail may be seen as a symbol of the Paradise Lost, the Golden Age: 
the state of perfect happiness and even innocence that has been lost, but 
may still be found; the return to paradise, to God -- after which nothing 
of this earth and flesh means anything: you don't have to desire anything, 
because you have attained the highest thing anyone can have. The tape, on 
the other hand, involves happiness and pleasure whose very condition is the 
loss of innocence, and which allows the creation of new pleasure.

Any thoughts?

-V
still thinking of ways to fit Monty Python into his Grail imagery in such a 
way that the story doesn't turn into a farce