01-10-2011, 05:10 PM | #31 |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
To hazard a guess as to why they might have a few scraps of mundane memorabilia, it could have been evidence from an investigation that was never returned (or replaced with fakes).
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01-10-2011, 05:24 PM | #32 | |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
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01-10-2011, 05:26 PM | #33 | |
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(For example, if the PCs find those "Number 2" badges I mentioned earlier, will they go looking for Rover, or Saltzmann's mind-swapper, or the instructions to perform Degree Absolute, or anything else from The Village?)
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01-10-2011, 07:55 PM | #34 |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
An old newspaper clipping regarding the mysterious disappearance of one Theodore Nemor.
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01-10-2011, 07:59 PM | #35 | |
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01-10-2011, 11:42 PM | #36 |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
Probably...but I need to hook the PCs somehow.
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01-11-2011, 12:37 AM | #37 |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
Some Scots and Irish entries:
A large black stone with two iron carrying rings, one at each end. The stone is covered with swirling pictographs. The card by it says: "Original. Only to be removed from warehouse at sovereign need. Do not use either extant fake". A leather bag drawn closed by a knot of thick iron wire, with the tooled enscription "Michael Scott, Esq." on the side alongside depictions of winds blowing. An alabaster scroll case, containing a lambskin scroll in coded Latin, sits next to a picture of the interior of Rosslyn Chapel, with an X marked in red on the Apprentice Pillar, near the top. The scroll's contents, by their layout, have the appearance of a geneology of some kind. A barbed spear, a paleontologist would recognise that it is made from the main flipper/thigh bone of a plesiosaurus. Another spear, this one wrapped about with leather rope to keep the head permanently immersed in a steel vat of what a pharmacist might realize is liquid opium. A small silk flag, about 18 inches square, of a yellow/brown color and spotted with red dots |
01-11-2011, 08:27 AM | #38 |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
A classified 'above top secret' file containing the locations of a number of hidden bunkers in the British Isles.
Officially listed as the ROTOR system, part of ADGB (Air Defence Great Britain), built between 1945 and 1955 at great expense, and disused since 1962, they are now the remaining dispersed out-stations of the most secure location in the country (Brit Warehouse 23). One, still marked on the map as RAF Fauld, is currently a crater about two miles across... This above could act as an introduction / seed for a 'Brit. W23' campaign. A little research can turn up real-world locations to use as part of this, paraleling the use of old airfields and army bases in the TV shows of the 1960's, as in the OP, such as the Avengers. It would be fun if one could be found near Portmerion, Wales... Last edited by sgtcallistan; 01-11-2011 at 08:29 AM. Reason: speling |
01-14-2011, 07:12 AM | #39 | |
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I think I'd be somewhat more justified by including the Club Book of the Junior Ganymede Club in the collection. Although most of the secrets contained therein are of a more mundane variety, nearly all fall under the category of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. Dang! I was trying to come up with something for Lord Peter but was drawing a blank. But as you say, nothing particularly weird or special about it, or about his custom walking-stick with the concealed sword (which I don't think he ever used), the compass in the head (which he left home on the one occasion it would have come in handy) and the shaft marked out in inches for measuring the length of footprints. |
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01-16-2011, 01:44 PM | #40 |
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Re: The British Warehouse 23
I have two more:
1. A small calling card with the words "Carry On" printed on it. When picked up it causes all humans within 20 hex radius to have the Lecherous disadvantage. The effect ends when the card is discarded or put down. 2. A block of Ice with an Edwardian Gentleman in Evening Dress inside.
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