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TTRPG Tuesday: Scenario Premise Brainstorming

Had a wretched Monday and didn’t get the Out of Mana written in advance.  Have now remedied that so that I for sure have one for next Monday, but since it’s Tuesday how’s about a TTRPG Tuesday? I really enjoyed writing a scenario for The Company RPG, so today I’m just going to brainstorm the concept seeds for a few more possible scenarios.

  • The DOLLIE Reprisal: The ARC team is tasked with securing a Company weapon that has hit the black market; weaponized clones of themselves, a byproduct of their Hall of Mirrors raid.
  • What Music They Make: A Company scientist has reported sabotage at a sonic research and testing site in the far North.  The ARC team arrives to find 23 hours of night, with a rapidly dwindling supply of hostages to save, and an ever-increasing and screaming blood-sucker problem.
  • The Othersun Town: In remote Huang Bai, the border between here and somewhere else has been rubbed thin by government meddling.  The heat hits different, the plants are growing strange, and absolutely everything the light touches is starting to wriggle beneath the surface.
  • Hot Payload: The ARC team is sent to a surveillance state city stronghold where the only way to smuggle out a defector’s new bio-enhancement is to inject it.  But what all was in that shot?
  • Red Red Ink: The ARC Team has orders to bring in a fugitive Employee, with distinctive tattoos and scarring - features that somehow disappear from one person, and move onto another.

Ok, that’s a respectable number of premises.  That’s it for today, back next week with an all new Out of Mana.  Til next time!

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