| From: | Ojaste,James [NCR] James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA |
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| Subject: | A question for the lollipop guild... |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:52:07 -0500 |
> >...or EGM's everywhere.
>
> or howabout another idea for EGM's....
>
> a street doc, who is using substandard cyberware, by way of using some
> type of power cell to power the limbs (which would reduce cost) instead
> of hooking them up to the body to get their power (or however it's
> done...I heard that it might work kinda like those kenetic energy
> watches that are self winding)...so when the runner uses it for a few
> months, the batteries die...and poof, they loose the use of their limb,
> and poof yet again, the street doc is gone....I did this to one of my
> players...tho, they don't know it yet...muhahahahaha
>
Bah. Too easy to fix.
Try some prophecy - when a mage goes metaplane-hopping a spirit gives
the character a prophecy about each of the group. Does the mage
tell the prophecies to the respective people? Does he try to cover
it up? Does he try to stop them from coming true? Who sent the
prophecy? All sorts of fun... :-)
I just did this in my L5R campaign - the players are now suitably
agitated...
The trick is to come up with a prophecy that will come true - and
not just because you enforce it, but because they misinterpret it
or because their actions cause it to occur. :-)
In case anybody's interested, here's the prophecy I used (they were
just walking along and the characters "stepped" into the L5R equivalent
of the metaplanes for a second):
"Himiko, beauty in pain will outcry,
Yori, by his own hand destined to die,
Khan, the betrayer, his heart will deny,
Keifu, the master of maho-tsukai, (maho-tsukai = blood mage)
Tokeru, desperate seeker of lies,
Beware, for this is your future."
Of course, Yori now thinks he immortal because he doesn't intend to
kill himself. I can't wait to see his expression when his clone
turns up. EGMG.
James Ojaste
