[HOE] Ideas

[toadpooka@juno.com]

>>I wanna see your brains work! That means you too Rich, you haven't
posted in a while. 

Yeah, I've been suffering from no-HoE brain-rot, but I'll give these a
try anyway.

..Here's the game, I'll throw out some things I've just seen and I want
to see what it sturs up in your heads.

1) Mutant Surf Punks! 

Well, I did run a surf-oriented adventure once...sadly, they weren't
mutants
The posse comes into a Maze town that has problems with thieves sneaking
in, completely undetected by the local militia, and stealing supplies
from the storehouses.  Normally, though, the thieves aren't a big
problem; the town is fairly well-off, and the thieves never take enough
to make a big dent.  Stuff disappears every two weeks or so, they take it
for granted.  BUT, while the posse is in town, the thieves hit the
weapons shed for the town militia, taking all the guns that aren't
currently in the possession of the guards.  This daring hit gives away
where they've been coming from, though: down, toward the water.  Without
their guns, the town is probably going to ask the heroes to stick around
and fend for them, so if the posse ever wants to leave, they'll have to
help get the guns back: down they go...

2) Mr Umpty's Burger shack!

The posse, out of food and supplies from their last adventure, is lucky
enough to find the ruins of a Mr Umpty's Burger Shack, complete with
boxes of preserved burgers that cook up quite well (especially if there's
a Doomie with Powerup to operate the microwaves in the store).  There's
even enough that they can share with the next town they visit, should
they be feeling so generous....

3)Sci-Fi o rama!

The characters are walking through an old graveyard when they get
attacked by a bunch of shambling zombies.  A few minutes and spent clips
later, they're doing pretty good.  Later, they fight some slimy swamp
creature, manage to electrocute it or something, and move one.  Then,
they find themselves accosted by tall, bald guys in tinfoil suits with
rayguns.  They find the sleek, shiny rocket and activate the
self-destruct system with the bad guys conveniently locked inside.  Their
car pops a flat, and they seek shelter in a spooky house on the hill,
only to find it inhabited by a mad scientist who's trying to raise the
dead.  Tehy feed him to his pet giant octopus, and all is well.
Then, they come to a town.  Several traders are selling a popular line of
vid-slugs of the characters' adventures.  Frighteningly enough, there's
actual footage of the PCs fighting these things.  There's even scenes set
inside the character's vehicles, tents, etc (if any of the characters are
harboring deep, dark secrets from the others, you can let a few slip, as
they've apparently been filmed).  The posse wants to find out who's at
the bottom of this, either to put an end to it, or to get a cut of the
sales.


And Now, the Spoiler endings:

1) The food & stuff was being stolen by a gang of outlaw surfers; they
may steal to live, but they're basically good people, so they never take
more than they need.  These guys were in the "extreme" category before
the War (you can't get much more extreme than surfing the Maze), and just
decided to go full-time when the bombs fell.
Their problem is that a hive of Croakers has been giving trouble to them,
and to a few of the other towns that they rob.  The surfers, of course,
think they can handle the problem, both because they understimate the
Croakers, and they overestimate themselves.  So, they steal a bunch o'
guns and go Croaker huntin'.  By the time the posse catches up, they're
engulfed in a fight ouside a sea cave, and in need of the characters'
help taking out the Croakers.

2) Mr. Umpty takes exception with the characters stealing his burgers. 
The statue comes to life, and stalks after the posse.  Eventually
(probably several adventures later), Mr Umpty catches up with them, and
there's gonna be Hell to pay.  Just for fun, if the PCs give any burgers
to townsfolk, they can later come across the same town, completely
decimated, with two more cases of Umptyburgers sitting in the middle of a
bloodstained street...It seems that Mr. Umpty replaces his stolen burgers
by making patties out of the people who eat them...

3) Someone's gotten hold of a swarm of pre-war nanotech spy cmaeras. 
Like little robot bugs, they've been flying around the characters for
weeks, remotely controlled by a man who wants to horn in on The
Director's business.  Now they have to figure out how to track down a man
who can record their every move.

Now if any of these quickie images brings any ideas out, let's hear 
'em. 

--
From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo
"And if she's the Devil, give her a wedding dress"
     -Possum Dixon, "In Buildings"

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