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Conspiracy X: What's up with Morris?
Thu, 10/30/2014 - 16:13 — binder
Marcus Bone
It began, as it always does, with a phone call. "Mother is ill and requires your assistance…" How it ends, however, is up to you…
What's up with Morris? is a Conspiracy X adventure in which the characters discover that the "truth is out there" (or maybe not?) Set in the fictional town of Morris, Illinois during the halcyon days of the 1960s, this episode includes strange deaths, UFO sightings, and a sprinkling of conspiracy nuts. The big question for the investigators isn't exactly who to believe, but rather who not to…
What is Conspiracy X?
Conspiracy X takes place in a world of dark secrets and hidden agendas where the only certainty is nothing is what it seems. The president might not be human, and the sign carrying paranoid on the street corner ranting about CIA mind control satellites may very well be right. In other words, a world just like yours, if you could see beyond the lies.
A combination of X-Files, Fringe and every other alien-hunting, government conspiracy setting you've ever read or watched on TV, Conspiracy X sees the players take on roles as agents of Aegis, the front line against and invasion of aliens and the supernatural. It is their actions that protects the world from within and without, often with great sacrifice.
Style of Play?
A story driven game for 3-5 players, it is primarily an investigation and clue-hunting game that throws in a bit of quite deadly combat. Expect handouts, the occasional tactical map and a few stand up figures. It should be noted that this adventure is simply a good old RPG scenario, like the ones you'd likely be playing in the comfort of your own home, and is what the players make it!
Unisystem
KapCon 24
Map-based combat
Mild humour
Armageddon's Children
Mon, 11/04/2013 - 20:12 — Luke
In the dark shadows of our city streets, children with special powers are trained to fight for the safety of people they have never met. They are given no names and are considered monsters. This is a story of children who began to wish for Armageddon.
In modern world of dark conspiracy, super-powered individuals fight in high octane duels against monsters; monsters who they themselves will become if they push beyond their limits and lose those things that they care for and seek to defend.
Double Cross is one of Japan's most popular RPGs now translated into English. Drawing on inspiration like X-Men, Darker than Black, Gantz and Chronicle, Double Cross is an action packed game in which the characters weigh what they can do against what they can save. This game will be run with player generated scenes and 'open secrets' so that everyone can direct the flow of play and contribute ideas to maximise the drama the characters face.
Dark Heroes
teen angst
Operation Thundering Faith
Mon, 08/05/2013 - 12:42 — binder
Mr Verity requires your attendance...
And so it begins again, another mission for the Ordo Veritatis (a secret organisation dedicated to the protection of humanity and the destruction of Outer Dark Entities). In this operation the characters find themselves called into investigate the apparent suicide of a high school student, who has seemingly, almost overnight, developed a vestigial twin.
Facing a hostile town, reluctant witnesses and a hidden evil, the operatives are in a race against time to prevent the permanent destruction of the membrane that protects reality from the horrors of beyond.
The Esoterrorist (2nd Edition) is a modern day conspiracy horror game using the GUMSHOE system. This adventure is one of investigation, discovery and drama, and would best suit players looking for a hard hitting, plot driven, game session (i.e. more SVU/Criminal Intent than Action/Adventure). Please note that this plot includes some adult themes, although the depth to which these are explored will be left up to the players to decide during play.
Esoterrorists
Sun, 12/18/2011 - 09:27 — binder
Everyone expected another attack after 9-11; be it from Islamic extremists, Arab dissenters or even Russian hard liners. But no one could conceive that the strike would come from those calling themselves true American patriots.
And yet it was. In the space of barely a second, half of Oklahoma was wiped off the face of the earth; devastated by the largest nuclear device to be detonated in the history of man.
The year is 2023, and America is no longer a country of freedom and democracy.
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