03-16-2013, 12:27 PM | #1 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Silly campaign ideas
So, you get this chap who turns up in 1916 in the Royal Flying Corps, at the time a new form of warfare is taking shape. He becomes rather good at it, while avoiding becoming excessively famous. His background is kind of fuzzy, and when you dig into it, parts of it don't fit together. He seems to get killed several times, but always shows up again, apparently without even getting seriously hurt.
He survives the war, naturally, and for the next fifty years he has aerial adventures all over the world, aging far too slowly, and accumulating a group of followers, who also age too slowly. They have a vague kind of fame - people have heard of them, but not enough to notice that their lives don't make sense. They never have families or close attachments, except to each other. Eventually, they disappear, inconclusively. If they were Ethereals, somebody would surely have jumped on them? If they were demons ... they weren't, they were generally on the side of justice, in a kind of vague fair-play way, with a sizable bias towards the British. He's a Malakite of someone, that seems certain. But who? Too willing to stay in one place for weeks to be Wind. War? The Sword? |
03-17-2013, 08:43 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Boston, MA
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Re: Silly campaign ideas
War and the Sword seem doable, though I feel like Michael and Laurence would encourage more attention to keeping that Role more subtle. (If the Sword, it could even be an Ofanite, as they might get the honor part from their Word rather than their Choir.)
An Outcast, formerly of the Wind, also seems a possibility. Janus is probably lax about Roles anyway, and may not even particularly mind if a former Servitor is promoting his Word pretty well anyway on a "leave of absence." That way he gets around the place-based dissonance condition (but remember that you can also get around it by just going for a long drive -- or flight -- every few days). And, of course, there's always the possibility that it's actually a human who stumbled onto some artifact that lets him fight for King and Country for longer than he ever dreamed possible... |
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