Scowling Dragon
2012-11-29, 12:10 PM
Im just thinking, wouldn't it be cool if mysterious circumstances was an actual arcane disease? Well curse is more like it but still:
Over a period of time the character must succeed his saves/Roll/Form of fighting disease or eventually he dies of mysterious circumstances.
In a sense it warps the laws of reality so that the person dies a mysterious death caused by mysterious circumstances (A Random co-incidence caused by the reality warp) within a week of infection.
The point of this disease is to distract people from the fact that the person died of a disease allowing it to spread uncontrolled (Its infection is spread through investigation. Thus if you investigate a mysterious death you also die a mysterious death. Also by staring an infected person in the eyes for longer then a minute. This has to be intentional staring. Not just out of habit).
There has been no cure to infected people, but you can generally avoid being infected.
So for example:
Ms.McD dies under mysterious circumstances. With a pumpkin shaped scar over her eyes whilst clutching a piece of paper that said "BLUPLUPLULP NEVER AGAIN". She was killed by accidentally eating rat poison, the pumpkin scar is a coincidence and whilst trying to write a memoir she started writing gibberish for the fun of it and then decided that she would never again write gibberish.
This causes an investigation by an officer who wants to find out "The truth" thus causing him to die in some other mysterious way.
Over a period of time the character must succeed his saves/Roll/Form of fighting disease or eventually he dies of mysterious circumstances.
In a sense it warps the laws of reality so that the person dies a mysterious death caused by mysterious circumstances (A Random co-incidence caused by the reality warp) within a week of infection.
The point of this disease is to distract people from the fact that the person died of a disease allowing it to spread uncontrolled (Its infection is spread through investigation. Thus if you investigate a mysterious death you also die a mysterious death. Also by staring an infected person in the eyes for longer then a minute. This has to be intentional staring. Not just out of habit).
There has been no cure to infected people, but you can generally avoid being infected.
So for example:
Ms.McD dies under mysterious circumstances. With a pumpkin shaped scar over her eyes whilst clutching a piece of paper that said "BLUPLUPLULP NEVER AGAIN". She was killed by accidentally eating rat poison, the pumpkin scar is a coincidence and whilst trying to write a memoir she started writing gibberish for the fun of it and then decided that she would never again write gibberish.
This causes an investigation by an officer who wants to find out "The truth" thus causing him to die in some other mysterious way.