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IRE #1: JFK's Assassination

Please see the previous entry for details on my concept and what this might all be about.

Today is the anniversary of JFK's Assassination. The first IRE, then asks you to take that idea and turn it into a game scenario for a campaign.

Read on for my own answer

I am going to go system specific and take the event literally, rather than allegorically. I am going to use a time travel game, specifically Continuum. You probably could use this, too, with things like GURPS' Infinite Worlds, too.

The PCs, who are low level (Span 1s) time travellers, are suddenly asked to head back to that fateful morning in 1963 because tampering of the event by Narcissists has been detected.

The PCs go back to JFK's assassination, but its an event that is covered head to toe by spanners preventing any tampering with things. So what are the Narcissists up to?

Some research, some time combat, some frag later, it soon becomes clear. The Narcissists have clevered tampered with Jack Ruby's life, and a point a few months before the assassination. The frag only really has become clear now, on November 22, 1963, when he is not there to play his historical role. The PCs must now laboriously span backward some more and try and get things on the right course.

I like the poignancy of this...that the players have to make sure, no matter that it is a horrible event, that the events of the assassination must take place as history records them.

Posted by Jvstin at November 22, 2004 10:04 PM