Resident Evil Idea - My Peeps STAY OUT!!

[mistergone]

Whoa whoa whoa

Hey, sorry to get off topic here and hijack the thread, but I'll let it go quick, I promise....but

chatdemon... your REAL NAME is "Dick Trickey".... AND YOU DON'T GO BY THAT ON THE BOARDS? Life is strange. Okay, that's out of my system.

Uh, on topic, as a player in Kitana's RE game around here, I have to say, yeah, the feeling is "familiar yet unknown", and for me, it's working so far. There's a eerie vibe there, like "I've seen this, but it's not turning out exactly like I was expecting".

Also, this may seem odd, but I think it's really important that you establish in your game universe whether there's such things as zimboe horror movies that player character might have seen. 'Cause no matter what, they are gonna attempt to draw on that knowledge when faced with zombies...

 

[Shemble Fizzlebump]

Couple ideas.

The man stumbles in yata yata yata .. grabs onto the PCs pant leg(dont matter which) and ghasps something like "The Plague is coming" then slumps to the floor dead.


They contact authorities. The authorities come take the body away or Umbrella corp authorities soon follow up the man and just drag his corpse off into a van. They are unaware of the vial who ever they work for.

Have the vial and a key card get found a lil while after the body is taken away.

Label on vial says something along the lines of Y7 Imunization or what have you. Make them pills in the vial(enough for the group.)

Later on its sheer madness. Rioting ect in the streets news flash on TV "blah blah blah some sort of plague outbreak yatta yatta yatta

Give the PC with the vial an insanely easy int check to put 2 and 2 together if he/she doesn't do it on his/her own.

PC figures hey that guy said the plague is coming this says imunization maybe we should take these. Even if only one pc takes it you have your hook. The pills make the PCs immune to the effects of the virus however they now also emanate a pheromone that attracts the zombies, dogs, what have you. Some are more sensative to it then others. Umbrella corp. made a successful imunization with a bad side effect that attracts all monster within say a mile. This will make it so you can usher arround the PCs like cattle by having alot of monsters shambling down the street towards them if they start going the way you don't want them.

Hope that helps a lil.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Re: Whoa whoa whoa

Also, this may seem odd, but I think it's really important that you establish in your game universe whether there's such things as zimboe horror movies that player character might have seen. 'Cause no matter what, they are gonna attempt to draw on that knowledge when faced with zombies...

No, that's completely valid and not odd at all. When I first started the RE game I realized that would be a problem because many of the players know the RE universe + story and they like to extrapolate. As long as they don't go beyond knowledge that makes sense or that they shouldn't have, it should work fine.

In fact, you can make their initial "prejudices" work to your advantage and end up surprising them later. Just because PC's make assumptions on their own doesn't mean you have to validate it

Their assumptions could be dead wrong...heh...heh...dead wrong...

 

[mistergone]

Re: Re: Whoa whoa whoa

In fact, you can make their initial "prejudices" work to your advantage and end up surprising them later. Just because PC's make assumptions on their own doesn't mean you have to validate it

Their assumptions could be dead wrong...heh...heh...dead wrong...

Actually, this makes me think of All Flesh Must Be Eaten (which will have D20 Modern conversion rules in it's next edition, due out next week). In that game, it has a very customizeable system for zombies. For instance, while it is traditional that a "head shot" will take a zombie out, in AFMBE they have many options for the "Achillie's Hell" or "sweet spot" a zombie might have, such as the heart, spinal column, or an even more unusual way might have to be found to take them down.

 

[Angelsboi]

all are valid points. I told my players ...

"Im running a D20 modern based off the Resident Evil Genre. This takes place around after Code Veronica and Resident Evil 4 in the town of Hidden Falls, Massachusetts."

Thats all i told them.

 

[Drakron]

A few things ...

The T virus is not airborn, it infects someone that is wounded by someone infected by the T-virus or is directly injected with T-Virus (Raccon city outbreak spread because of infected sewer rats).

The T Virus by itself does not kill, Wesker infected himself with the T virus and looking at his abilities I doubt players will want to get rid of it.

There are at least two companies with the T virus, Wesker is not working for Umbrella Corp and used hunters.

 

[KitanaVorr]

A few things ...

The T virus is not airborn, it infects someone that is wounded by someone infected by the T-virus or is directly injected with T-Virus (Raccon city outbreak spread because of infected sewer rats).

The T Virus by itself does not kill, Wesker infected himself with the T virus and looking at his abilities I doubt players will want to get rid of it.

There are at least two companies with the T virus, Wesker is not working for Umbrella Corp and used hunters.

Its a good place to start but you can have a new strain of the T-Virus that can do all those things or anything unpredicable you want. Its part of keeping your players on their toes and being surprised. There's nothing more boring that knowing what to expect and getting it all the time.

Make the familiar unfamiliar! That's my favorite thing to do.

 

[Alzrius]

The T virus is not airborn, it infects someone that is wounded by someone infected by the T-virus or is directly injected with T-Virus (Raccon city outbreak spread because of infected sewer rats).

The T-Virus is never shown to be airborne, that's true, but then, we've never seen direct instances in the games of it being released into an environment via the air, so that's somewhat unknown. It's interesting to note that the novel Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy, Wesker thinks to himself that he deliberately had the S.T.A.R.S. wait before heading towards the mansion because he wanted to be sure the virus was no longer an airborne threat in the mansion itself after the spill. Likewise, in the novel Resident Evil: Caliban Cove, the variant virus (not sure if it had a T-Virus base or not, but I think it was somehow related) created by the mad scientist there (I forget his name) is extremely airborne, and his plan is to release it so it can infect the world.

And or course, the movie, like the scenario I mentioned from the first novel, had the T-Virus being spread as an airborne contagion for the first few hours after its release, until several hours later when it was no longer an airborne pathogen.

The T Virus by itself does not kill, Wesker infected himself with the T virus and looking at his abilities I doubt players will want to get rid of it.

Now, admittedly I haven't played Code: Veronica, but everything I've seen leads me to believe that's incorrect. For one thing, in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Jill is infected with the T-Virus, and she is slowly dying until Carlos gets the vaccine for her. Likewise, Wesker in C:V has become some sort of creature, but nothing says its T-Virus based.

It's interesting to note that the T-Virus doesn't immediately cause death however. Rather, when infecting a human, the infected host regresses to a zombie-like state. While the game never directly mentions it, it is alluded to (and outrightly said in the novels) that eventually, the "zombie" created by the T-Virus infecting a human simply corrodes to the point where it just falls apart, unable to function at that level of decay.

There are at least two companies with the T virus, Wesker is not working for Umbrella Corp and used hunters.

Wesker released those hunters when he realized Chris was coming, that's true, however, he was on Rock Fort Island at the time, and that was an Umbrella facility. He simply let the monsters out that were already there, he did not bring those hunters with him. Umbrella is the only corporation with the T-Virus (though, as evidenced by the thing that Wesker has become, there are other corporations out there experimenting along similar lines, and probably want the T-Virus and related projects for themselves).