| From: | "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Vampiric Conspiracy (Was - Re: [OT] Noise) |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:09 -0500 |
> Dzoo-Noo-Qua (sp?), an orc becomes a Wendigo,but what does an elf or a
> dwarf become if infected?
Elf = Banshee
Dwarf = Goblin
BUT - If you have the Threats book things can get a little funky here.
According to the great SR Vampire Hunter Martin Devries (? I think that's
it) there is a conspiracy among the vamps to breed more varieties of
bloodsuckers.
This really opens up the opportunity for the GM to be creative!
I HATE the goblin - I just think it's stupid, so I came up with the
Bogeyman!
Basically it's a dwarf that loses all body hair, skin color, and begins to
crave essence/blood/flesh.
I also gave them an acute Psychological Allergy to Open Spaces
(Agoraphobia) which explains the preferences for living under beds, and in
empty refridgerators! :-)
I've got the stats here somewhere. If anyone is interested I could post
'em.
I only ever use the critter once with a single group of PC's.
The scenario runs like this.
The team is hired to extract the daughter of a prominent mafia Don.
She is pregnant, and under house arrest by her father, who is pissed
because the father of the baby is the son of a prominent Yakuza Oyabun
(read Shakespeare, you'll recognize some of this stuff there :-))
Anywho, the father of the child hires the team to rescue his beloved so
they can flee the country and live HEA (happily ever after).
Since she's rather fragile, and far along in the pregnancy, the yak kid
sends along a Dwarf medic to help the team move his pregnant girlfriend.
The dwarf is a Bogeyman (usually named Bodybag :-))
He works the ambulance detail on the night shift, since he has plenty of
opportunity to devour the "DOA's", and even make a few DOA's of his own.
Once the dwarf encounters the pregnant woman, his hunger becomes too great,
and he attacks the team during the middle of the extraction. (Wether he
kills the girl or not is up to your own sick minds)
My reasoning for the attack is that a pregnant woman can potentially
contain 12 points of easily drained essence - 6 for mommy and 6 for baby!
It's a real simple adventure that can really frag up a team in lots of fun
ways, esp. if the girl gets killed and one of the grandfathers find out.
Sure they don't want the kids together, but nobody kills their grandchild
without permission!
Hope this is useful, and I also hope it increases the signal to noise
ratio! :-)
Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com./users/bluewizard
"Not even God takes this long to get back."
