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<blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 1084715" data-attributes="member: 12332"><p>When I get a game started, the Blackout of 03 will be a bit of backstory.</p><p></p><p>Cultists of an unnamable evil have been planning to perform the incantation that will bring their god-demon into our plane of existance. The ritual, however, centers around a gate artifact that requires massive amounts of energy to operate.</p><p></p><p>To that end, the cult infiltrates Unit 5 of the Eastlake power plant in Cleveland, intending to perform the ritual with the artifact connected to a main transmission trunk.</p><p></p><p>The ritual works, the doorway appears, the dark shape of the demon begins to shoulder it's way through ... and then something goes wrong. The gate draws too much power from the plant, causing it to trip ... the flow of energy dims, the gate begins to shut on the outsider. It gets trapped in the energy latice and drawn into the transmission wires as pure energy.</p><p></p><p>This is sort of like dropping an asteroid into lake Erie ... power is displaced, and has to have somewhere to go. A sudden flood of power travels along the network, literally melting transmission lines in places, tripping emergency failsafes all over the north east, causing a cascading black-out.</p><p></p><p>So now you have an angry god-demon in the Ohio power grid. Sweet.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>--fje</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HeapThaumaturgist, post: 1084715, member: 12332"] When I get a game started, the Blackout of 03 will be a bit of backstory. Cultists of an unnamable evil have been planning to perform the incantation that will bring their god-demon into our plane of existance. The ritual, however, centers around a gate artifact that requires massive amounts of energy to operate. To that end, the cult infiltrates Unit 5 of the Eastlake power plant in Cleveland, intending to perform the ritual with the artifact connected to a main transmission trunk. The ritual works, the doorway appears, the dark shape of the demon begins to shoulder it's way through ... and then something goes wrong. The gate draws too much power from the plant, causing it to trip ... the flow of energy dims, the gate begins to shut on the outsider. It gets trapped in the energy latice and drawn into the transmission wires as pure energy. This is sort of like dropping an asteroid into lake Erie ... power is displaced, and has to have somewhere to go. A sudden flood of power travels along the network, literally melting transmission lines in places, tripping emergency failsafes all over the north east, causing a cascading black-out. So now you have an angry god-demon in the Ohio power grid. Sweet. --fje [/QUOTE]
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