Possible Monty Python Connection (was RE: [UA] Dark Grail?)

[Cassady Toles]

 You have to look at the grail knights from PoMoMa, Lancelot specifically.  MPQftHG was one of the only modern camelot stories to include Lancelot's mad bloodlust.  Bring Lancelot in, do it slowly, start with the players on the hunt, then they find out later a particular contact was killed--horribly.  Get the party to think death incarnate is after them (because, well he is).  Kill groups, in front of their kids.  Kill bystanders.  Kill cops.   Now the cops start looking for PC's.  The PC's are the only connection between all the dead.  If the PC's start looking for the grim spectre of death, have them witness his bloodly work.  Again, start by getting them in on one of his murder scenes. I'd throw in some bogus rumors about a hit squad targeting them at some point, just to mess with their expectations... -cassadyCassady belongs in vaudeville. Expansive(loud), Charming(overblown), and possessing a wicked Wit(loud), he has to be my first choice of friends to be drunk with on the streets of an unfamiliar city. Having a remarkable affinity for tactics and crowd control, Cassady will be one of the few prepared souls should zombies attack. Cassady is a loyal friend, and implacable foe. Forces of nature would do well to step aside should he get his mind set on something. Other than these things, however, he bears almost no resemblance to Flaming Carrot. The rumor that Cassady's doomsday machine is nearing completion, and that he plans to use this leverage to rid the world of gopher repelent salesmen, is almost entirely unfounded. -Ben Breedlove--- On Thu 05/06, Ville Halonen < ville.halonen at helsinki.fi > wrote:From: Ville Halonen [mailto: ville.halonen at helsinki.fi]To: ua at lists.unknown-armies.comDate: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:56:07 +0300Subject: [UA] Dark Grail?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?-Vstill thinking of ways to fit Monty Python into his Grail imagery in such a way that the story doesn't turn into a farce_______________________________________________UA mailing listUA at lists.unknown-armies.comhttp://lists.unknown-armies.com/mailman/listinfo/ua

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