This is a short description of the setting and situation for my game. I have a lot of ideas about mechanics, in particular about tools for structuring scene framing and creating fallout, which are in pretty solid shape. I'm still kicking around ideas about conflict resolution, character effectiveness economies, metaplot management (yea, this game has a freaking metaplot! OLD SKOOL REPRESENT!) Secret keeping and secret revealing, and other stuff.
Also, I've got custody of my darling daughter from now till Monday, so posting until Monday night will be slow to nonexistent.
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Situation: A person infected with Fury, a highly contagious strain of rabies which was spread throughout America in the aftermath of 9/11 (it takes the place of the anthrax mailings in actual history), escapes from a federal quarantine camp. An FBI agent, now assigned to the office of homeland securities new special situations task force, hunts down the escapee. But the infected in on the trail of secrets that could rock the new American security state to its foundations. Secrets men would do anything to keep.
Setting: The game takes place in late 2001, around Thanksgiving to Christmas. In late September 2001, mail bombs using a heretofore unknown and extremely contagious strain of rabies as a biological warfare agent detonated in the offices of senate leader Tom Dachle, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, as well as a high school in East Orange, New Jersey, a corporate office in suburban Chicago and a hospital in LA. The ensuing outbreaks of what the media came to call “Fury” threatened to overwhelm the nation until on October 1st, President Bush declared limited martial law in areas of know infection and began the process of quarantine. In the following month and a half, the nation has stood in shock, fists clenched, half ready to kill, half ready collapse in despair.
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