[UA] Help Debugging a Scenario

Mark Lowell mclowell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 27 17:04:58 PDT 2006


Dean Reilly wrote:

> Sounds interesting- perhaps you could include a bunch of 
> eerily-plausible doomsday scenarios, like ways to wipe out entire 
> cities by poisoning a few strategic water sources, or immobilising a 
> government by rendering a few carefully-chosen officials unreachable- 
> stuff that a duke or cabal could reproduce or use without needing 
> millions/billions in funding and advanced degrees in aeronautical 
> engineering.  When the PCs eventually find this Otherspace, the 
> footprints in the dust (of course there's dust- it's an outmoded Cold 
> War Otherspace) lead straight past the shiny war-porn, and to a 
> battered filing cabinet in the corner...

Ooooh-I REALLY like that idea.   And I was already including a room full 
of filing cabinets full of planned but never executed CIA covert 
ops-this will fit in great. :)

> For ideas on this score, I recommend Warren Ellis' 12-issue comic 
> series 'Global Frequency', as well as 'Reload', ibid.

I'll have to check those out once I get the chance.


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