[HOE] Adventure Idea

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

Spoiler, just in case someone actually uses this (Bob Fletcher, don't read
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Looking at the Gimme Shelter page one of the joke archetypes they have is
the Templar Impersonator. That got me thinking that that might be a cool
idea for an adventure.
The posse arrives in town (in disguise) that is obviously having problems
with Black Hats. They are REALLY low on food and ammo and many of their
able-bodied men are lying injured. Looking around the town they see that
many refugee families live there as well as mutant families and most of
the town is angry and wants to fight the Black Hats.
So the templar in the group pulls off his robes and reveals (with much
fanfare and blowing of horns, da-da-da-dah!) that he IS a templar and
wants to help them. Only the horns go flat when most of the town just
glare at him and couple people actually come out to attack him and the
posse!
The posse learns (over time and difficulty) that another guy came through
claiming to be a templar and organized a bunch of them into an ambuch
party. They loaded all their food (as bait) and spare ammo into their only
truck and arranged a payment with the Black Hats. Then he and all the men
in town went out to setup the ambush. But just as the Black Hats arrived
the "templar" peeled out in the truck leaving them with no food or ammo
and also giving away their ambush location to the Black Hats (who killed
most of them and sent the rest back as a "message" that they would be
coming back in a week to finish the job).
So now the posse has to convince the town their the real deal, save the
town from the Black Hats, restore the name of the Templars and hunt down
the false-templar.
Maybe he's a servant of the reckoners. Maybe he's an anti-templar. Maybe
he's an abomination himself (skinwalker that took a real templar's skin?
That the posse templar knows? That could really muddy the waters). Maybe
he's just a real bastard.

This could also be easily adapted for other groups. Doomsayers, Law Dogs,
Sykers, Sky Pirates, even Postmen (like in the beginning of "The Postman"
movie).

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab


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