A whole bunch of little story ideas
I have one problem with writing stories, and it’s that I come up with so many ideas that I never finish the ones that I already have. Since my group goes rather slow, I’m probably never gonna use all of these, so I’ll put most of them up here. I’m not gonna put the unfinished ones or the ones that I’m not proud of up here, so I might post more later. All of these are great for use in campaigns or for just quick one-shots to tide you over until the next session. Basically, they’re just titles with a brief outline or starting point for the story with little to no details. Use to your heart’s content.
Clint Eastwood: A street gang gets ahold of the Knocking Box. They threaten to open it but they don’t really know what it is, just that it’s bad if it ever is opened.
Voodoo: A demon summoner in a upper middle-class gated community is using the residents and demons as disposable hitmen.
Sex Type Thing: Someone’s attempting to ascend as the Rapist.
She Hates Me: Two amoromancers go at it with each other with the PCs caught in the middle. Just for fun, one heartbreaker created the other one.
No Brakes: A suicidal Entrepomancer decides to go out with a bang and gains several major charges instead. The occult underground goes nuts after he blows one to break into and run out of the White House during a press conference and tries to put him down before he gets everyone killed.
Ya Mama: The PCs are fighting a militant splinter group (“mutation”) of 101, dedicated to spreading themselves by forcing others to join their “network” instead of by choice.
Days Go By: Either help or stop a cliomancer trying to change the course of one day to save his wife. Use the High/Middle/Low Road model for determining his motives.
Easier To Run: An ex-epideromancer who was brought back from madness by his wife is forced back into the occult underground (“I’ve got an offer you can’t refuse”).
Smartbomb: A mechanomancer got ahold of spare functional bomb parts from Trinity test and is making walking automaton bombs and the PCs have to find and deal with them before they do any (more) damage.
Stick ‘Em Up: The PCs are cops or are undercover as cops and investigating a cabal in local precient, forced to both take down a narqui cult pushing significant works on the streets and stop the cabal in the precient.
Defender: A psycho is hunting down adepts. He starts off picking off the really screwed up ones but loses control and starts kacking the not-so-screwed up ones in screwed up ways, and the PCs have to stop him.
The Shame of Life: Find and kill a Western Cryptomancer thriving in Hollywood high society and is using all the celebrity secrets to erase his enemies from reality.
Chic ‘N’ Stu: TV advertisements are causing people to go on killing sprees. It could be either a test of some government mind control system or some Videomancer causing mass havoc, but the PCs never find out. (File this one under “Unsolved”.)
People of the Sun: A cult is working in Mexico City to restore the glory of the Aztec empire by using Thanatomancy and sacrificing the mayor and several TV stars to raise an undead Aztec army.
Ready Steady Go: The PCs caught in the middle of a high-stakes street drag race competition between dualing avatars of the Racer.
Electric Demonology.
Two demons – each named Lucifer, each armed with a gang of death metal Satanists – declare a turf war on each other. This town is too small for two Lucifiers and there can only be one. Death to the blasphemer.
Wakeup Call — PC wakes up handcuffed to a bodybuilding Annihilomancer on the day he goes out to collect two sequential major charges. Note: he entered the race for Governor of California, on the ‘Freak Power’ ticket. Throw in some ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ for texture, color, and appeal.
People Are Strange: In this film-noir story, the PCs are hired by a mysterious older man (really the Comte) and caught up in his personal mission to solve the problem of the Woman in Red. It’s up to you how close they come to actually catching her, of course.
PCs awaken with a loaded revolver glued to their left hands, and photograph in their right; they have full memories, except for the last forty-eight hours.
No one knows each other, yet.
The photo is the same man, but with a different racial appearance in each picture.
Is it the Comte or someone else?
Video Killed The Radio Star – Television is losing power to the Computer in the collective consciousness. People are using the net to read news, watch movies, even digital TV … and someone doesn’t want this to happen (avatar of the Herald? The Godwalker/archetype for The Star?).
Every computer in the city begins to fail. Machines runing Mac OS show a Golden Apple icon and refuse to work, or don’t do what they should, randomly. Windows machines crash, even more than normal. Linux suffers the “you get what you pay for” effect. TV stations begin showing Hitler at the Berlin Olympics, other famous TV moments/pranks/jokes and the PCs need to prevent this occult war from getting out of hand.
I’m particularly proud I got this one out. Also, any feedback on my ideas is more than welcome.
Battle Flag: An epideromancer took a flying leap off the edge of sanity when he managed to get a mechanomancer device to work. Now armed with the knowledge from two opposing schools of magick, accomplished his new insane goal of forcing the next evolutionary step in humanity. They look like us, act like us, have the same thoughts and emotions, are superior to us in every way, they’ve already taken over the small Midwestern town the adept lives in, and no one knows they exist. The PCs stop overnight in the town on their way through and find out it’s secret. Now they have to destroy them all before the rest of the human race is knocked off the evolutionary ladder permenantly.
I’m actually running the Rapist thing… He’s called Nebucchadnezzar, the archetype he’s trying to ascend is The Defiler, and he’s already been killed. But that’s not the end of it.
Attack of the fan-boys.
A group of videomancers, annoyed that they haven’t got their favourite actors to appear at their nearby convention, have taken to pulling out their characters from their shows. The problem is that there is quite a few different copys of the same character kicking about, from different episodes, so some of them will have subtle differences. And for the fans of the older shows, their characters have gathered the attention of some reporters, other fans, idolmancers…
Stars never fade –
Its mainly an idea about the horrible little notion that the images on TV and the Silver Screen in some way contain parts of the souls of the actors and participants. So eventually when these people die, their locked into our world through teh medium they so loved when they where alive.
Now begging to be let out, to be released they need the players to destroy the original prints (or something) so that they may be freed from the terror to reenact their fake lives on the screen night after night after night.
The Riots –
(This is an idea Ive had for some time now, since the 2001 riots in my hometown Gothenburg. Allot of my friends where arrested and beaten by the police and that kinda got my side of political field to reawaken with new fervor)
The point is that the whole set of riots where staged from point one.
Malmoe a week earlier; a small demonstration where met with extreme brutality by the police, forcing the Black Bloc demonstrators away from the rest and then attacking them with dogs and horserushes. Squeezed in here was one of Sweden many calm and collected middle aged politicians who where also beaten.
Before the riots, the first day of the demonstration; he held a speech, unlike all his other speeches previous to this – this one ended with the phrace “Lets not let them step on us, brothers and sisters, Ill meet you on the barricades!” (Other speekers after him tried to silence him and lessen his speech).
Now the Gothenburg riots are very close to home, so maybe its just me that feel so strongly about it. If someone has some cool idea how to turn them into a scenario I would be very grateful.
Phobia –
In one of the towns I grew up in we had this guy who hang around the subway system (This was Stockholm) he allways had this knitted cap pulled down over his eyes and he refused to see you in the eye.
Anyway me and my friends (being the snotnosed dreggy littel bastards we where back in the day) talked to him allot and asked why he did this and he told us his lifestory;
He had one day woken up from his job as accountant in one of the hospitals near-by and realised that his boss wasa vampire stelaing the souls of those that worked for him and other people in the hospital.
So he quit or he was fired (The guess is he did something to the boss, mostly just smacked him around).
When he told his wife and friends he realised that the vampire had turned them aswell into vampires and they “looked at him funny” (He said that they stared at him when he wasnt looking and so on).
The police never believed him and when he was scared people treated him like he was crazy which freaked him out (he knew someting wasnt good with him but mainly this was that he KNEW what was wrong and the rest where tricked).
Anyway a few years back he threw himself infront of the train to be released from the private inferno he was locked into. And this is the adventure idea…
What if you realised something was wrong, what if it was? And no one believes you and the second you act out on it your considered crazy? You see the monster come for your friends and family but they refuse to avoid him and defend themselves.
What if you still kinde understood why they thought you where crazy? I mean, wouldnt you start doubting you sanity? What would that be like? And what if there IS a monster… or better yet what if there are no actual proof your family has turned into the strange people (just faking to be your family), you can just fell their silent stares in your neck.
Fear of being insane – what kinda phobia is that?
No Shelter – A videomancer and an cliomancer have teamed up to wage war on reality through fabricating news stories, planting public belief in them, and getting them on the air.
Bawitdaba – A major LA street gang just got a new member – a seriously powerful (and seriously evil) entrepomancer with a rather large issue with the current leadership of Los Angeles. The gang declares war on the LAPD, who are totally outclassed by this new adept and his army of trainees. The underground forms some uneasy alliances to put down this menace before he takes over the City of Angels.
Six Shooter – Six murders, three seperate locations, all commited by the same person, all with one unique characteristic: all the shots were fired from inside the TV set.