Re: [HoE] I'd like to brainstorm with other Marshals here.

["iguana.1031" <iguana.1031@gateway.net>]

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OK - for horror elements, the disease/epidemic could do disgusting,
ebola-like things to people that the PCs, once exposed, begin to suffer.
You try keeping weapons clean when your arm is slowly melting and running
down you shirt, spilling on it.  Fevers, vomiting, hallucinations can put a
crimp in the standard adventure.  Also, what kind of beings are the Wolves?
Normal wasters or muties?  Or worse?  Or, could they be having their own
problems with (fill in critters here)?  Then there's the vaccine.  It is
probably a hideously powerful substance that counteracts the epidemic where
it finds it in a host - a fire/water thing, where they cancel each other
out.  But what if it doesn't have the 'water' there to cancel it out?  The
Wolves could be suffering from their own epidemic and how you want to solve
that . . . well, have fun whatever you do.  Hope it helps.





----- Original Message -----
From: Doctor X <doctorx@aa.net>
To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 5:34 AM
Subject: [HoE] I'd like to brainstorm with other Marshals here.


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> All right, here's the premise of the adventure I'm writing so far:
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> The Place: Big Whiskey, Wyoming  (Yes, I know, it's been done.  My working
> title is "Bad Day at Big Whiskey.")  Pop: 85 and dropping.
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> Big Whiskey, a town which has gathered some small fame for it's primary
> export (guess what) is in the grip of an epidemic.  (I haven't decided
what
> yet, but the vaccine is extremely rare.)  Three weeks ago, one of the
> townspeople risked the journey through Wolves' territory (A militant biker
> gang with a grudge against the town for successfully repelling their raids
> thus far.) to reach Boise and plead Big Whiskey's case before Simon.
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> Simon sent a Templar to escort him back to Big Whiskey with the antidote,
> but the pair ran afoul of the Wolves and were both killed (The Posse finds
> the burnt-out wreckage of the car with their corpses inside on their way
to
> Big Whiskey.) and the vaccine taken from them.
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> The town has quarantined themselves, but let the Posse in, thinking
they're
> the group returned with the vaccine.  When they tell of the bodies they
> found on their way there, the local sheriff is able to put together that
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> Wolves have the vaccine at their base of operations at Ft. Laramie.  The
> gang's leader, The Shadow Man, is unwilling to negotiate, as he has put
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> and two together and realizes that he could blackmail/exact vengeance on
Big
> Whiskey by witholding the vaccine.  The Posse's only option is to raid Ft.
> Laramie and steal back the vaccine.
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> Now, the big question, the reason I'm posting this:  How to work the
horror
> element into the story?
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