So been musing tonight about what I want to do with the PCs once I have them in Gary via their Preludes, but before we kick off with the New Year's Eve party. My current inclination is to go all in and run a set of the concepts presentes in the scenario. Most of these are of mild interest, but I think one in particular will be fun to see how it plays out long term:
Oscar, who is basically being groomed as an agent of Lodin in his early Prelude, will find his time with Lodin mostly unpleasant and even get a small glimpse at how things are really starting to unravel for him. On reaching Gary, I'm going to do the "Adopted Son" concept with him, keeping Modius seemingly genuine throughout. Of course it is his own long con coming into play so he can get an agent in Chicago to try and pull down Lodin in the end and stake claim to Chicago as well.
This of course will position Oscar directly between two Princes locked in their own little Jyhad. How he decides to proceed will of course be up to the player, but I think it will be fun sticking him into this position and if he'll throw in with a Prince or if his own greed and ambition will lead him to trying to gain the upper hand on them both (not an easy task to say the least).
As for the others, I'm thinking Maria will have the setup with Michael and Sullivan Dane, Cassey will encounter Evelyn and by proxy her brother making her linked to that mess, and as for Ocho it is looking like I'll need to just cook something up myself. The Juggler connection option doesn't really work, and I just don't see a low life thug being a target of Allicia's affections which are the last two presented directly.
I may also swap the Maria and Cassey plots, since Maria is directly warned about Juggler earlier so that connection could add some distress to the proceedings, but it also feels a little too on the nose to me as well. I'll have to keep chewing it over.
So, there you go, a few more general ideas on my end of the Chicago spectrum. Doing this from a phone due to lack of internet at the moment, otherwise I would have gotten into all that a bit more.
Oscar, who is basically being groomed as an agent of Lodin in his early Prelude, will find his time with Lodin mostly unpleasant and even get a small glimpse at how things are really starting to unravel for him. On reaching Gary, I'm going to do the "Adopted Son" concept with him, keeping Modius seemingly genuine throughout. Of course it is his own long con coming into play so he can get an agent in Chicago to try and pull down Lodin in the end and stake claim to Chicago as well.
This of course will position Oscar directly between two Princes locked in their own little Jyhad. How he decides to proceed will of course be up to the player, but I think it will be fun sticking him into this position and if he'll throw in with a Prince or if his own greed and ambition will lead him to trying to gain the upper hand on them both (not an easy task to say the least).
As for the others, I'm thinking Maria will have the setup with Michael and Sullivan Dane, Cassey will encounter Evelyn and by proxy her brother making her linked to that mess, and as for Ocho it is looking like I'll need to just cook something up myself. The Juggler connection option doesn't really work, and I just don't see a low life thug being a target of Allicia's affections which are the last two presented directly.
I may also swap the Maria and Cassey plots, since Maria is directly warned about Juggler earlier so that connection could add some distress to the proceedings, but it also feels a little too on the nose to me as well. I'll have to keep chewing it over.
So, there you go, a few more general ideas on my end of the Chicago spectrum. Doing this from a phone due to lack of internet at the moment, otherwise I would have gotten into all that a bit more.
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