[UA] Campaign help - or sanity - needed

[Tim Groth]

Just as a note, on RPG.net in Tangency Open there is a thread about
presidential bad asses.  A lot of presidents past are essentially already UA
characters.

On Jan 24, 2008 3:50 AM, Chris Cooper <insectking at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Gareth Hanrahan <mytholder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The upshot of it all is that the PCs are all former
> > American Presidents,
> > raised from the dead by a mysterious cult in order
> > to save the soul of the
> > USA.
>
> I'd say the soul would be best as an artifact of some
> kind. I have read Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein
> and the bound-in-Gray-alien-skin McGuffin in there was
> a Secret Constitution of the United States of America,
> with the 23 invisible Amendments.
>
> Like mentioned before, perhaps you could make it a
> symbol of old school royalty, the Crown of the Secret
> King of America. The crown is kept in a vault so no
> one can wear it.
>
> Taking a Warren Ellis riff: maybe it is the Ark of the
> Covenenant with the real paper Constitution on it.
> Writing amendments on the Consitution causes it to
> occur in real life. Someone has stolen the papers and
> is scribbling all sorts of heresies trying to erase
> the separation of church and state, a Charismatic
> Christian Theocracy, and bring about concentration
> camps for dissenters, heathens, and heretics (Hey, I
> watched Jesus Camp recently).
>
> We've got Washington, Kennedy, JFK, Nixon and
> > the real George Bush Jr
> > (the guy in the White House at the moment is an evil
> > imposter).
>
> Holy Crap! That's amazing. ALthough I'd substitute
> Reagan for Bush Jr. I don't think it matters whether
> they were resurrected or volunteers altered for the
> task, they are powerful magically torqued analogues
> and are the people they appear to be.
>
> Cool.
>
> Chris, not El Presidente para la Vida yet but he's
> working on it.
>
>
>
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