Posted by Oakley on December 08, 2000 at 06:58:40:
In Reply to: Re: well, why not posted by aeon on December 07, 2000 at 13:37:42:
: : Food for thought - how happy would an unscrupulous biocorp be to have a large, roving group of test subjects...er...people...visiting potential disease vectors...er...towns?
: Even more ominous... what if the group wandering
: around the country is the one spreading the
: disease? A few weeks into their tour, people
: start noticing that wherever they've been, they
: leave a trail of sickness in their wake, perhaps
: unintentionally, perhaps as a way to drum up
: additional media attention to the show. After all,
: if the media picks up on the rampant illness,
: and makes the connection, they'll start paying
: more attention to the show, and more press
: means more audience, and more audience means
: more money.
Well, that's kind of what I had in mind...and the characters could well be sent on some sort of fact-finding/light espionage mission to discover the source of the disease...my favorite missions are ones where in order to achieve their objective the PCs have to use pretty serious detection skills.