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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZSutherland" data-source="post: 2000963" data-attributes="member: 7638">I really appreciate all the responses, guys.  It says a lot about a game that people are so passionate about it.  If anyone's still in the mood to help, I'll lay out the broad strokes of a storyline I came up with and see if anyone has anything fun to add or advice to give on it in particular.  I'm down to 2 players atm due to work schedules and such.  I'm thinking of having them both be FBI Agents (one using the actual agent template and the other using either the psychologist template or the technician template) who are assigned to investigate the disappearance of a woman in a small town (either west texas or northern georgia probably).  I'm looking to combine and warp one of the plotlines from Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the movie "The Stepford Wives."  The men of this small town are all part of a cult.  Each year at a specified time, one of them sacrifices their wife or one of their children in a ritual to appease an alien being that they believe is a god.  They're somewhat xenophobic about the outside world (the internet is the tool of the devil, rock'n'roll is the work of Lucifer, etc) and in return for their sacrifice, the alien being (mi-go perhaps) protect them from outside influence, keeping the world at bay.  These people are basically still living in Ward and June Cleaver world.  The alien replaces the sacrificed wife or child (heavily modified and controlled) with a clone or some such.  These sacrifices have been going on for years.  However, the town doctor finally kicked it last year, and they need a new family practicioner.  The missing woman's husband, a fairly young man, is brought to the town with his family.  He is quickly brought into the fold, but his wife is suspicious and tells her mother who lives out of town.  When she's sacrificied, her mother's been in constant contact with her for a few weeks and doesn't buy her son in law's lame excuses about why she can't come to the phone.  When her daughter returns, very different in personality and no longer worried, mom doesn't buy it.  More to the point, she's already contacted law enforcement.  Perhaps mom is important (wife of a senator or a senator herself), but the PCs are sent to investigate.So:1) Is Mi-go a good choice or would something else fit the bill better?2) What kind of clues and such should I let the players find?3) Other than the freaky people in town, what kind of scares can I pull on them, especially in the first few sessions?4) What's a good way for the PCs to resolve this?Fire away, feel free to tweak, modify, or scrap.Z</blockquote>

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