11-30-2021, 09:16 AM | #1 |
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Wierd War 2 plot help
I'm cooking up a solo game, and I'm a little short on plot. So, I thought I'd turn to you woderful people for help. I have my big plot, but I need short-to-mid term plots.
We're set in World War 2. I'm doing Very Little supernatural. The kind of thing that stays hidden. My PC is running an underground anti-facist newspaper in Verona. We're looking summer 1940 to summer 1941. She has a radio which keeps her in contact with others in the resistance, but has minimal contact (some for an adventure is cool). So... what are your ideas? |
11-30-2021, 09:32 AM | #2 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
A while ago now, Tim Powers wrote a novel, Declare, about the use of radios for espionage in Nazi occupied France, in a setting where radio signals attracted the attention of supernatural beings. There was a lot of good detail on how radios were used and how their use was concealed.
You might also like to look at GURPS High-Tech: Electricity and Electronics, where chapter 6 specifically includes devices used in electronic warfare during World War II.
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11-30-2021, 09:56 AM | #3 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
It seems that standard WWII plots work well for small stuff in that sort of game.
Do they have contact with a command chain outside of Italy, or will they be doing everything by themselves? Some Ideas:
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11-30-2021, 10:22 AM | #4 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
Verona has a quite decent under layer of Roman ruins and, before that some theories point to an Etruscan heritage. So being literally underground in Verona has some possibilities.
Especially if you look at one of my favourite historical pointers - when the Romans took over from the Etruscans, a culture with elaborate burial customs was replaced by one that insisted on burning its dead. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Some other ideas: An escape chain bringing someone unusual through ... someone certainly more esoteric than the traditional downed aircrew An Ahnenerbe/Sonderkommando Thule/Other Wacky Nazi operation retreats through town, or sets up shop here. Supernatural assets of one side or another playing havoc - traditional Italian Strigae (vampiric witches) could work for either side, both or neither and be annoyed by any of them Werewolves are generally seen as a Germanic thing. Whose founder was raised as a wolf again? Last edited by The Colonel; 11-30-2021 at 10:39 AM. |
11-30-2021, 11:53 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
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12-01-2021, 01:42 PM | #6 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
Thanks for the ideas, guys. Yes, non-weird ideas are great. Since she's working with the church, she has some protection from authorities.
I'm musing all the ideas, though. And the local witches will show up later. So something involving them eould be good. |
12-01-2021, 11:17 PM | #7 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
Hiding things from the Nazis is always good. People, gold, artwork, prototypes. Or stealing the same from the Nazis.
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12-02-2021, 11:55 AM | #8 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
Check out Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days -- set in Berlin in the pre-war and early war years and focused on Mildred Harnack and her circle. Good look at life in a resistance group.
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12-02-2021, 05:54 PM | #9 | |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
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Many things that happen in Northern Italy will touch Verona, because it's at a road intersection. Troops for the invasion of France will pass through there, as will their supplies. Keeping count of troops and supplies and reporting on them will be basic resistance work, as will slipping copies of the newspaper into the supplies: Italian quartermasters were always aware that the war was running on a shoestring, and may be receptive readers of alternative news.
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12-03-2021, 10:30 AM | #10 |
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Re: Wierd War 2 plot help
Is the newspaper broadly communist, socialist, or anarchist? None of them get on well with each other, unless they're getting together to fight off the blackshirts.
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