Bryant's unusual mashup this week involves the Boston Red Sox...
Beloved Losers of Beantown? Or cursed by some unseen force? Keeping it in a mostly real modern world suggests a couple of games to me, but someone already picked In Nomine.
Instead, I am going to pick Nobilis.
Make the PCs Nobles of a Chancel with convenient exits to the Boston area. Even better, if at least one of them is originally from Boston, and has a tie to the Red Sox as a bond. Even better if a PC is the Power of Baseball. (Sure its a small Estate, but given its influence in America and the world, it could work). Or a more general Nobilis of Games.
Now, let the PCs be exposed to yet another heartbreaking season for the Sox, and plant the idea, if they don't have it already, that they might investigate this odd "curse".
So what is the curse? Depends on how you want to play it. You could do anything from a simple spirit which follows the team, seeking to cause it misery and anguish, to another Noble who has decided to hold a grudge against the team and ensure its perennial heartbreak (the team might even be an anchor in that manner!), or if you really wanted to ramp up things, make it that the Cammorae, Lord Entropy's henchmen, are behind the annual losses.
And then the PCs can decide what, if anything, they will do about it...
Posted by Jvstin at October 21, 2003 12:54 PM