Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6728977" data-attributes="member: 8835">Check out Monte Cook's book on conspiracy theories/people.  Haven't read it myself, but he did a lot of research on the topic and that may give you some idea on how far out there stuff goes, and where to go looking.  You don't need a book, checking online in the right places will lead you to tinfoil hat land.I do suspect that you need to make your initial hook conspiracy sort of obvious.  In the sense that the PCs stumble onto it and can realize this is a deeper thread they can tug on.  Otherwise, if they are cops, and are investigating a basic crime, that's all they may see is a basic crime, and once solved, case closed.Consider the lesson I learned in Accounting in college.  One reason for making people take vacation is that it unravels their embezzlement scheme because normally, they are on top of intercepting every call/data request so they can hand out the correct lie.  Once they go on vacation for a week, somebody calls for something, and Joe answers and starts poking around to answer a question, and notices something unusual...That's the start of how a conspiracy gets revealed, is limit of human control is reached and an outsider sees the oddity and investigates.</blockquote>