| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (CJ Tipton) |
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| Subject: | Horror in sr |
| Date: | Fri Mar 15 11:40:01 2002 |
everything but the kitchen sink. We've seen stuff from Vampire:the
Masquerade,
GURPs Cthulupunk (An odd sourcebook if ever I've read one), GURPs Horror,
and GURPs Voodoo: the Shadow War (It has ED style Horrors in it!).
The sad thing is, other than the characters occasionally blowing a fright
check, the impact of horror on the players was minimal.
Then the GM scared the holy hell out of us. We had just run across a
strange cult that worshipped these Cat People (GURPs Voodoo, and these
guys are pretty
cool) who are all over the place promoting ancient cat worshipping
religions in a bid to turn the world into their litter box/hunting
grounds. We got on
pretty well with these guys, as two of the PCs are Neko Mouser and
Chester Cheetah: cat shaman & cat poser. In a discussion with one of
their leaders,
it was revealed that they could change shape (in the blink of an eye, not
in bad werewolf movie style) to a single human form determined when they
are
born, and to a single cat form also determined at birth. No big deal
right? Well, it wasn't until the leader shifted from Cat Person form to a
human form
Neko knew as the lady who lived next door with her cat when he was
growing up! Even having developed a friendly relationship with these
guys, Neko
is now terrified that ANYBODY he has ever met could be something entirely
different. After having explained the sensation to the other characters,
their a
little shook up too, especially after Neko revealed the Cat Leader's
vague suggestion that there were things like them other than cats. They
attempted to
alleviate their fear after a protracted silence by suggesting Ho Chin Na
(aka "Double Chin", "Triple Chin", and "Phonebook Chin"), a
major Seattle
crimelord
and constant butt of PC jokes, might be a Hippo Person. The joke did
little to ease our paranoia. The next encounter with a cleaning lady,
fast food worker,
or anybody else by the PCs is destined to end in the magically actives
all mystically strip searching the person to make sure they are really
just a normal
whatever.
In other words, Tentacles are neat, but they're much less likely to scare
you than the idea that you have already met the tentacled one, and it was
masquerading
as the person at the diner across the street from your squat who makes
your morning coffee.
COWBOY(wants to know why it had to be snakes)
CJ
Arkades@****.com
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