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Post by Oliver on Nov 25, 2014 15:12:20 GMT -5
Ok, I am basically using this as a place to store and sort through my ideas for my upcoming campaign. Feel free to comment or offer ideas!
The campaign kicks off in NYC on April 8, 2014, the morning after the first bridge dropped in Orrorsh. The news is reporting blackouts and lack of communication from Indonesia. Speculation is that there has been storm-related damage, though the 24-hour news channels speculate about everything from terrorism to a nuclear reactor accident to attack by North Korea. That morning, the first Living Land bridge drops in Queens, cutting off a huge chunk of NY, including the City, from the rest of the world. The axiom wash soon increases to include northern NY and southern Canada.
The PCs, in NYC for various reasons, witness the fall of the City into chaos as lizard men and dinosaurs begin terrorizing the inhabitants, many of whom transform into brutish neanderthals. The edeinos kill many to use as seeds in their massive Central Park gospog field. The PCs work to escape from the city, encountering several dangerous situations as they presumably flee south. En route to Philadelphia, the party will bump into Dr. Hachi Mara-Two who has traveled to Earth to help defend it against the invaders. She has been captured by a huge ape-creature and needs to be rescued. Mara-Two can fill the PCs in on the details of the Possibility War and some of the mechanics of axioms. Meanwhile, one of the PCs (the one with the highest Spirit) begins having dreams about an artifact (identity TBD) with clues to its location, somewhere in France. Shortly after Mara-Two's rescue, Thratchen arrives on Earth and immediately travels to Orrorsh to inform The Gaunt Man of the Kadandran's presence. The Gaunt Man sends ravagons after the party in an effort to destroy them. When they fail, Kurst is dispatched. Somewhere amid all this, the Earth's spin begins to slow.
One way or another, the PCs make it to France and begin the search for the Eternity Shard in the dream. While there, they see two things: 1) a country devolving into apocalyptic imagery as a recent ebola outbreak combined with the tales of Indonesia and the US lead to mass hysteria, and 2) a Japanese diplomat, mortally wounded. He tells them he has been killed by cybermonks to prevent his sharing information about the impending invasions of France and Russia by the Cyberpapacy and Tharkold respectively. Unable to do much about the Cyberpapacy, they experience its arrival and the subsequent rise of the Church. Cyberpriests begin healing those struck ill by ebola and mass conversions ensue. The PCs continue their hunt for the Eternity Shard only to be delayed by Malcolm Kane, an American national and former-CIA agent who has snapped and begun mass-murdering local French. After dealing with him, they eventually discover the location of the Shard but must overcome The Gaunt Man's final challenge, the Carredon. Only by using the Eternity Shard is the party able to defeat the mighty creature.
To be continued ...
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Post by Oliver on Nov 27, 2014 16:10:17 GMT -5
Some changes I've come up with since posting this, though:
I'm thinking that the battle will be with Thratchen instead of the Carredon (I'm having real issues with keeping Orrorsh a place of HORROR, rather than just full of monsters). Thratchen will have chased Mara-Two the cathedral in central France, which happens to hold the eternity shard as well as the active central stelae of the Papacy's cosm. During the battle, Thratchen will use some sort of cyber-Possibility stealer that will pin Mara-Two to the altar-stelae at the exact moment that the bridge arrives in Avignon. The axiom wash activates the stelae and absorbs the cyber-reality of Kadandra and will transform it to the Cyberpapacy.
Thoughts?
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