[UA] Hey! Help make my game weirder!

[Chad Eagleton]

--- Chris Williams <lord_of_the_geeks at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> So what did they find? The apartment was
> wall-to-wall shelving, each unit housing row after
> row of VHS tapes. The journals the PCs took appear
> to be full episode synopses, and general examination
> shows no real pattern or significance to the shows
> or episodes, though they haven't had a terribly long
> time to really study them yet. They DID find a note
> card that contained the instructions for the Ritual
> of the Smoking Head, which one of the players
> managed to pull off. All they found on his old, out
> of date computer was about 40 pages of Friends
> fanfic that involved Ross turning into a leopard
> gecko, but they went ahead and copied most of the
> files onto the journalist's flash drive anyway. They
> also came across the deceased's pet, a leopard gecko
> named Ross. Also in the apartment were various
> reptiles, all in very well constructed, homemade
> cages, though these were understood to belong to the
> ex-roommate of the deceased, who had moved out a few
> weeks ago. Lastly, they found a name and an address
> for a dealer in antiquities and books.

The real story is the gecko. It's the man's roommate.
The roommate was the videomancer. The dead guy just
likes snakes. The roommate was obsessed with Friends,
before he died under mysterious circumstances.

The dead guy got some failed notches when he came home
and found his roommate dead, watching his corpse burn
into ash/speedily rot away/bugs devouring it.

He knew something/someone was coming for him. He left
instructions for his roommate for a ritual to send his
spirit into a department story dummy. Only the
roommate botching the ritual sent the roommates spirit
screaming into the gecko.

The dead guy kept his roommates death secret, finally
a couple of weeks ago putting an end to the charade by
claiming he moved out in the middle of the night.

The roommates consciousness has quickly been
diminishing. He had been trying to tell his roommate
what happened, how to fix him, get revenge, whatever.
But the only points of reference he's able to convey
(maybe by walking on the tv guide?) are tv shows. The
notebooks are of episodes of tv shows the roommate
directed him to watch, and the dead guy's attempt to
make sense of what happened/who killed his
roommate/how to fix him.

> specifically snakes. There could be weird magick
> involved, or the guy could have committed suicide.

The guy's death was an accident as he tried to inact
another ritual he thought he had deciphered from his
roommates episode "suggestions".

> However, if it IS weird, what
> kind of stuff should they find in the journals, or
> on the computer files, or back in the apartment,
> should they want to break and enter? Red herrings
> and dead ends are just as appreciated as general,
> genuine UA-style weirdness.


There's really nothing else of note that leads
anywhere in the apartment. The real weird stuff is in
the storage unit in the basement.

-Chad


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