Re: [DL] Plot Idea

[John Vogel <velvetandiron@yahoo.com>]

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Sounds cool.  I was actually thinking of doing
something similar with the Jeff Davis doppleganger
(bit of a change in DL history, but hey, that's why
they call it fantasy).
--- Jim Ryan <doc@daco.net> wrote:
> I got an interesting idea for a DL session recently,
> but as I'm not running
> anything at the moment (my game sadly fell apart), I
> thought I'd share it
> with some of you other Marshal-type folks.
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> 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?  ;)
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> -- Jim
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