Re: [DL] Plot Idea

["Brom Clancy" <spleen23@webtrolls.com>]

> 
> S
> 
> P
> 
> O
> 
> I
> 
> L
> 
> E
> 
> R
> 
> S
> 
> 
> A
> 
> H
> 
> O
> 
> Y
> 
> 
For additional fun have the duplicate lead the posse into a another nest 
of enough pods to duplicate the whole posse just before the real 
character catches up.

For real fun have the newly made harrowed flipping back and forth for 
dominion through out a multi sence gun fight with various duplicates of 
the posse and some newly made walking dead former victums whose 
duplicates are the gaurdians of the yet to be hatched pods.

> I got this idea for a variation on the use of a Replicant (RVC II, p.
> 85).
> Now, this may bend the rules a tiny bit for how those abominations
> work, but
> I think it could be really cool if done well.  A quick caveat, though
> -- it
> is really only useful if you want to turn one of the characters
> Harrowed
> "for free" (as in "The Dark Canyon" adventure in Book o' the Dead).
> As the posse is traveling around, they discover that someone is
> following
> them; that someone turns out to look almost exactly like a member of
> the
> posse.  Clearly this is some kind of doppelganger.
> But, unknown to the players, here's what's really happened: a replicant
> has
> been stalking a member of the posse and has already replaced him/her. 
> It
> has successfully transferred all of the information from the posse
> member,
> killed them and left the body in the pod to dissolve.  BUT... the
> character
> has come back Harrowed, escaped the pod and been tracking the posse to
> catch
> up with them.  The player has actually been playing the replicant for
> the
> majority of the adventure and you've been running the Harrowed as
> though it
> were an NPC.  You return the now Harrowed character to the player's
> control
> when everybody finally realizes what's going on (and then presumably
> turn on
> the replicant).
> Granted, this would probably require a bit of finesse to pull off, but
> I
> think that the potential payoff would be worth it.  You could also play
> with
> the whole "which one is real?" thing (particularly if they notice that
> the
> one following them is dead-looking BEFORE they notice their fellow
> posse
> member only seems to bleed whitish liquid).
> Comments?  Remarks?  Insults?  ;)
> 
> -- Jim
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe, send a message to esquire@gamerz.net with
> 	unsubscribe deadlands@gamerz.net
> as the BODY of the message.  The SUBJECT is ignored.