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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Adventure idea [Spoiler!]
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 21:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
At 06:32 PM 5/24/96 -0500, you wrote:

>Any adventure that starts with the runners kidnapping a famous person is
>going to smack of Queen Euphoria. Maybe that'll work out quite well: While
>everyone is looking out for non-existant bugs, they won't see the real
>threat coming. Heck, I did an adventure similar to that, only it was a
>beauty pageant contestant (Miss CFS) being kidnapped while the local yak and
>mafia were trying to win money betting on the outcome. It was a fun run
>(although two of the characters wound up in the hospital; one for a week,
>one for a month).

Not to mention being able to use some ideas I've had floating around in my head.

After the party takes the celebreity to a posh hideaay...

GM: "You see a man wearing an armored jacket and some heat trying to shove a
package wrapped in plain brown paper into the door slot.."

Players: "Yikes! It's a bomb! Shoot him!"

*blam blam blam*

GM: "Congratulations. You just killed the postman!"

Players: "Doooh!"

Repeat with the meter reader, garbage man, and whomeever else you can think
of. *grin*

--
"I remember my first sexual encounter because I kept the recipe."
- Jeff Dahmer

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