| From: | "Damion Milliken" <dam01@***.edu.au> |
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| Subject: | Super Tuesday, Casualties of War |
| Date: | Thu, 23 May 1996 21:50:05 +1000 (EST) |
I'm going to be running Super Tuesday in a month or so during the mid year
break (I plan on letting my players determine the vote to send back on the
response card, based on their running experiences in the module). Now, my
campaign is set in 2053 (although shadowtech is well entrenched, and FoF gear
is trickling in, Awakenings and Cybertech are unheard of). I am moving the
election scandel from the 2056 election to the 2052 election - fits nicely.
Bug city has also yet to occur in my game. And when it does occur, I plan
on having the PC's intimately involved (I've been setting them up -
unknowingly of course - with KE/Ares Johnsons for various bug related runs
for some time - their team is going to be in on the big bug breakout bust,
or at least nearby). Now, I only have two weeks in which to run this things
mid-year (remember, in the southern hemisphere, the summer break of a couple
of months is over new year). I feel that the 5 runs in Super Tuesday will
just fit into this tight schedule. But Bug City runs, and the introduction
of Bug City, will most certainly not. And I wish to run the module _before_
the due date of the response card obviously.
Therein lies my problem. I wish to run the modules in Super Tuesday, but
without Bug City being a major political issue, and without Casualties of
War being set in Bug City. Hence I need another large scale military op to
be occuring, so that I can run a module _similar_ in configuration and
possible political/moral consequences as Casualties of War, but without
introducing Bug City. Something with magic associated with it would also be
preferable, as the magic aspect of the election, and the slant Bug City puts
on it, is important to the module.
I've thought of a couple of possibilites, each with their own pros and
cons. Firstly, I could have the run set in one of the many urban no-go
zones, like the Seattle barrens (or the Chicago shattergraves). In this way
I could run the module quite similar to the way it is set down,
particularily if I put in place some kind of police/authorities crackdown
so's that border guardposts can be setup. The problem here is that
something BIG will need to be occuring, which is kind of difficult to
arrange (at least without copying Bug City overly). Another thought I had
was setting up a military invasion of a portion of the UCAS by a
neighbouring (or not) nation. Say Atzlan annexes some coastal city of the
UCAS. This allows quite a combat zone to be set up. However, it slightly
changes the political scene - the candidates favouring a superior military
will obviously be in better standing, and those dencouncing magic will not
quite have the "Bug City" argument that they have in the module as written.
I've thought of having some corporation take over a city with a merc army,
but then this subtly changes the perception of corporations within the
election context.
What I need, is a Bug City when you're not having a Bug City. Something
with appropriately large scale consequences and repercussions, but that will
not alter the background of the module and the atmosphere of the election
too much.
Ideas, suggestions, thoughts, criticisms, additions, notes, advice, etc.
anyone?
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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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