und ein ausgearbeitetes Abenteuer (bis Ende September ohne Spieltest) für folgenden Plot-Hook mit dem Cinematic Unisystem (Buffy, Angel und Army of Darkness) anbieten:
The Flower Pot Case
Some time ago, five influential members of the city council conspired with a real estate developer to claim a residential district using the city’s eminent domain authority. The plan to bulldoze the neighborhood and erect a three-story, ultramodern shopping district moved forward in spite of the human cost; there were repeated scenes of families being pulled from their homes by law enforcement while bulldozers thrummed nearby. Development continued as an appeal traveled to the highest level of the courts. The elicited sympathy wasn’t enough to quell the plot.
Almost forgotten among the evictees was a quiet man, a gardener whose wondrous front-yard garden was plowed under. No one ever heard from the man again, but he has returned to seek his revenge. A string of horrible deaths rocks the new shopping center. Shopkeepers in the new mall are found strangled by vines, a councilman is found stung to death by killer bees, and an official known for taking bribes was stabbed to death and pinned to a wall with several pairs of gardening shears. Before long, the lead contractor’s decomposed body was found in a mulch pile, and a building inspector turned up dead after taking a bite from a poisoned tomato. The district’s developer discovered his trophy wife hideously transformed after an allergic reaction to exotic pollen.
During their investigation, the PCs find a newspaper clipping that shows the neighborhood before it met the plow of a bulldozer. The gardener’s beautiful front yard is unmistakably the most prominent feature in the photo.
When the party looks for the gardener, they learn he enrolled in chemistry and biology classes at the local university. One of his professors remembers the gardener as a man obsessed with the idea that plant life could be infused with an animallike nervous system. The professor recalls the gardener had a friendship with a hulking fellow studying botany.
Tracking the hulking student to his apartment, the PCs come upon a terrible sight. He has been transformed into a monstrous, tentacled man-plant whose trunk is permanently fused to a pot. This creature lashes out and attacks anyone who gets close. It’s impossible to communicate normally with the transformed botanist.
Searching the man-plant’s apartment uncovers a map of the city. A single location is marked on the map. Following the map leads to an abandoned greenhouse outside of town. Here the gardener has set up a number of traps to protect his laboratory, where he is growing massive, hideous plant monsters.
Easily adapted to: Action Horror, Anime, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Pulp, Sci-fi, Steampunk, Supernatural, Supers, Traditional Fantasy
Tags: (TT) artificial life form, city, investigative, madness, monster, politics, social, twist, villain
und ich habe bereits die Erlaubnis des Autors für eine Veröffentlichung unter der Bedingung der Nennung des Autors und des Buches. Ich hoffe das ist kein Problem. Zusätzlich würde ich noch eine ganze Reihe von Charakteren mit Vernetzung erstellen, so dass man das Ganze als One-Shot losspielen kann.
