[UA] Homebrew Cabal: Memnon

[David Tormsen]

On 5/5/06, Chris Cooper <insectking at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Why not give them a whole bunch of Narky Works just
> random drugs with strange names and give them to the
> players. They have no idea if they they have all
> magickal or partly magickal drugs. Let them taste test
> and pop their brains.

Yeah, that was sort of how it would work. Memnon's resident
(read:captive) narquis shurn out some Mars Dust, they put it in a
bottle marked Psylocibin 657 or something along those lines, and then
issue it.

> Military men are known to be notoriously superstitious
> as well. Or are the PCs the mercenaries.

Not at first. I meant Memnon as an NPC group. They could later though,
and I would like to develop Memnon enough that they could support a
campaign of their own.

> Y'know you could always "legalise" the mercenaries as
> security consultants sent to the DRC to do covert
> activities.

Most of Memnon's activities would be above-board, yes. I'd say even
their occult-type operations have perfectly legitimate covers behind
them.

> Thus, you could keep it in Africa and let them
> discover magick while doing dirty deeds. Weird howls
> moving in the treeline and child soldiers dressing in
> drag and shooting tricked-out AK-47s sounds like a
> nice UA possibility.

That was pretty much how I envisioned Private Enterprises, the African
portion of the company, first stumbled across the secret world. The
idea was that two private military companies stumbled across very
different sorts of magick, and both kept it to themselves, until
Someone brought them together in the Congo.

> As above, you could keep them in Africa. It then
> avoids the South American and Middle East dealings
> immediately. Perhaps it is something they can
> discover.

Maybe. I liked my slightly more globalised scope a bit though. But
maybe limiting it to one continent might be smart. I sorta thought of
them as being all over the place, not really knowing what they were
doing, mostly clueless occult dilletantes with lots of guns.
>
>
> Oops. You are keeping this in the US. Lots of what I
> said still applies. Special Interest groups etc. War
> is international.

Their offices are in the US, but they haven't really had any
operations there, with the exception most recently of trying to
exploit the situation in New Orleans post-Katrina. I saw that as being
their first foray into the American OU, and a dangerous precendent.

Tormsen