The Christine Plague
A Champions Writeup by Earl Hubbell
This was a Champions adventure run in the Before Breakfast
universe, set in San Francisco, involving the group of paranormals
known as the Berkeley Mob. They're known as such because they tend to
be unorganized, cause large quantities of property damage, and are
mostly female with high COM. This is based on the GM's recollections,
and so is naturally incomplete in a number of the player's
opinions... but it was fun, so forgive me my alterations. :-)
[Editor's note: I have lightly edited this, but it is inherently
the same as Earl Hubbell's original USENET post in July of 1990, with
the addition of some HTML foofooraw and a dramatis personae.]
The Story
- Part I
- an unusual patient, and killer cars
- Part II
- the Berkeley Mob "helps" contain the problem
- Part III
- the cause is deduced, but not located
- Part IV
- a partial cure for the symptoms
- Part V
- a plan is made to stop the cause
- Part VI
- the cause is located... and stopped?
- Part VII
- curing the plague
Dramatis Personae:
- Michael Shermerhorn, AKA Bonecrusher
- a vampire paramedic
- Rich
- Michael's paramedic partner
- Rebecca
- Michael's vampire girlfriend
- SAT (Special American Tactics)
- police for paranormals
- Matilda Elphick, AKA Fay
- Michael's fay advisor at UC Berkeley
- Hairtrigger
- Fay's speedy and neurotic friend
- Mistress Napalm
- Fay's firestarting advisee
- Mei-Ling
- Fay's martial artist friend
- Tim
- Mei-Ling's martial artist boyfriend
- Snow Tiger
- Fay's were-tiger advisee
- Flinger
- Fay's eco-freak teleporter advisee
- Sparks
- Fay's android reporter friend
- Carl Richter
- the fluorocarbon mage
- Foxbat
- an unlucky villain
- LeRoy the Awesome Exoskeleton Man
- Foxbat's sidekick
- Alan Wiese
- an overly ambitious mage
- Rebecca Jones
- a dream elemental
Last modified: September 26, 1996
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