Nashville Transmission, Part VI
Welcome back for another exciting addition to my Technoir transmission: Nashville! Todays topic is Threats. It’s exciting that I’m getting to the end! After the threats, all that’s left is to make the tables, and try to pretty it up!
Threat Inspirations
The first thing we need to do is figure out the inspiration for the threats. For that, we’ll go back to what we’ve already done, try to tie it all together.
First up are the factions. Who do we have that could use some muscle? the Adian Syndicate and the Bradford Family pop out right away. Even though Monoc Cybernetics doesn’t “pop” out, I think it would be cool to have a threat of their experiments…both current and failed.
So that’s three, halfway there! After factions, let’s go way back to the beginning, the Exposition. The society section, specifically, calls out to me. “…many of the workers are underpaid and overworked…” and “Drug dealers and pimps are on the rise.” The first quote just screams unruly citizens. Thankfully, the playtest transmission, The Twin Cities Metroplex, has just such a threat! From there a gang of dealers & pimps rounds things out nicely.
So far, we’ve gotten 5 of our 6 threats! That’s not bad for just looking over what I’ve already done!
For the sixth and last threat, we need to think a bit. Heck, since we have nothing but “bad guys” so far, why not make one of our threats be “good guys”? I mean, it’s not like the protagonists are going to be on the right side of the law, so a threat of Nashville’s finest would work nicely!
After an hour or so of pondering, I finally have my threats!
- Adian Syndicate goons
- Bradford Family heavies
- Monoc Cybernetics experiments
- Unruly Citizens
- Pimps & Dealers
- Nashville’s Finest
Today’s Efforts
For today, I’m going to be working on the Monoc Experiments, Nashville’s Finest, and yoink whole-cloth the Angry Citizens.
Blog Format
I’m not going to be giving you the entire write-up here. If you want to see everything fully laid-out, please download the current draft of the PDF in the downloads section.
Assistance Requested
Now that I have most of the transmission up, I would love some help getting it finished right. Mainly, please let me know of any typos, editing mistakes, etc. You can either leave them as comments here, or get in touch with my via Twitter (see my stream on the right of your screen?) or any other method you may have.
Also, I’m not that good with stating out NPCs…either actual stats or gear. So I’m going to be leaving the objects section empty for now on the transmission. If you’d like to advise me on some stat changes or object additions, please! I’ll be sure to credit you!
