Running a group of players through a Firewall induction, I know I want some triple fakeouts/red herrings tossed into a complicated paranoid many-layered loyalty test, but does anyone else here have any experience running players through an induction? Any tips, pointers, ideas? Just trying to pad out my vague ideas with some concrete stuff.
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Firewall Induction
Wed, 2014-06-25 21:36
#1
consumerdestroyer
Firewall Induction
Wed, 2014-06-25 22:06
#2
ORCACommander
Have one or two of your
Have one or two of your players "in the know" and at the end of the recruitment test rp out the proxy with them asking for their evaluations and if further follow up is warranted. the in know players can drop some hints but i always got the feeling that firewall isa results oriented organization
Wed, 2014-06-25 22:30
#3
consumerdestroyer
Hmm, as they're all new
Hmm, as they're all new inductees I hadn't thought of that, but actually that's a good idea and still workable.
Wed, 2014-06-25 22:46
#4
ORCACommander
and then comes the question i
and then comes the question i failed to think of earlier. how many people actually know they work for firewall? even more than them being results oriented i can see them just manipulating things to be set in motion so that the people who get it done are only sentinels or erasures in action only and not affiliation.
hell you have a whole campaign plot there as the pc's start slowly pieces together disjointed facts and why they keep on finding themselves in situations with each other why inquiries about why they are doing something keep on getting the above your pay grade remark and follow up on recovered materials met with "lost" paperwork of people ignorant of existence in the first place :P oh god now i want want to be in your game as one of the behind the scenes proxies or vectors that cranks the wheels I can just picture it being like the opening to DE:HR right now...
Wed, 2014-06-25 23:05
#5
consumerdestroyer
hahahaha, that does sound
hahahaha, that does sound awesome but they already know they've been vetted for induction (and are aware of the bare details about what Firewall is to the extent that they've agreed to be a part of it), so I can't play 'em that hard! Besides, that feels more like a Project Ozma campaign taking place in the Inner System to me (and that's how I'd want to run a game like that...paranoia in the Venusian aerostats with a group of bewildered pawns seeking answers or manufactured LLA tensions moving a group of characters to and fro for Ozma's hidden goals...).
Thu, 2014-06-26 11:26
#6
Urthdigger
I imagine it's a lot like
I imagine it's a lot like joining the Men in Black.
Thu, 2014-06-26 12:18
#7
ORCACommander
consumerdestroyer wrote
oh but you can...
its simple really. OZMA sets of a fake small network of people who THINK they are firewall but are in fact not connected what so ever. firewall gets the credit/blame for their actions while ozma stays a further step removed. mean while true firewall is scrambling to get sentinels on task to crack this onion and they keep coming up against the pcs every so often :P
Thu, 2014-06-26 23:39
#8
consumerdestroyer
The core book mentions
The core book mentions extensive background checks, fork interrogations, loyalty tests, and the like...I think if you mean as in the movie [i]Men in Black[/i], my own inclination is towards something a little more paranoid.
Fri, 2014-06-27 06:23
#9
otohime1978
Proxy Wars
...what's to stop OZMA from doing the same thing? They are like the CIA or KGB during the cold war with nearly unlimited budget and virtually zero accountability. They would have liquid assets, not unlike your team, who believe they are working towards something completely different than they actually are.
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Fri, 2014-06-27 13:22
#10
Urthdigger
I did mean the movie. But
I did mean the movie. But then, I feel a splash of silly makes the darkness all the more bleak.