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Even more little story ideas

It’s really late and my brain is too full…

We Will Become Silhouettes: Avatars of the Fool are annoying, but not generally dangerous, unless they get their hands on something really, really powerful. One such instance drops right at the lap of the PCs, when a powerful Fool decides that the solution to all the anger, bitterness, and general malaise of modern society is a good sized dose of nuclear weaponry. This is quite obviously a very bad thing for a Fool to be thinking, and since the PCs are the only ones who he’s told about his plans that know well enough to believe him, it’s up to them to stop him from dancing his way to nuclear Armageddon.

Silent All These Years: One of the downsides of immense psychic power is that it makes it a bit hard to keep your thoughts straight when everyone else’s are too busy cutting in. The psychic in question here has been mute for years, living alone in the park, waiting for her moment to save the world. She accosts one of the PCs, and manages to swap consciousnesses with them, allowing her to communicate with the rest of the PCs, warning them of the danger. Problem is, she needs her body and the psychic powers that she left behind, but can the PC manage to cope with their new body and the powers and problems it brings with it enough to get the job done?

Down By The Water: On August 30th, 1941, Candice Littleton vanished by a bridge crossing the Housatonic River south of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. August 30th, 1957, Barbara Waddell. August 30th, 1973, Victoria Greer. August 30th, 1989, Celia Ashburne. August 30th, 2005, Christine Clemons, the mayor’s daughter. All were 16 years old, single children, and all vanished from the same spot, walking back into town for one reason or another. The PCs pick up on or are told about the pattern, and investigate. (GM Note: The force behind the disappearances is the spirit of a woman who was accidentally shot during one of the small, unmentioned skirmishes during the Shay’s Rebellion, which took place in that area. She fell into the river and died from blood loss, her last thoughts for her 16 year old daughter, who’s father had died in the Revolutionary War. Ever since, every 16 years, she’s taken a 16 year old girl down into the river to be with her “mother”. Unfortunately, they don’t survive well submurged at the bottom of a river, forced against the dead woman’s skeleton.)

2 thoughts on “Even more little story ideas

  1. Halitheres says:

    25 miles north of that spot on the Housatonic is a General Electric plant that made transformers for the last fourty years before being demolished as part of a consent decree with the EPA. Since then the site has housed GE’s Plastic’s Division. The plant dumped into the Housatonic watershed for most of its existence and contains Hill 78, the ninth most toxic site in New England.

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