3 Lists

By Reverend K.

As a matter of fact, when I've been drinking ,I'll list quite a bit. But that's neither here nor there. At times I like to make a list for things that might happen just so I have something to refer to just in case. Here are a couple of them for grins.

At times it is necessary for Characters to steal a car. this sort of situation is ripe for exploitation.

1) The characters steal a car or mini van that unbeknownst to them has a sleeping infant or toddler in the back-seat. (could be big laughs.... 3 Garou and a Baby?)

2) The characters steal a car,truck or van that has a sleeping Rottweiler in the back-seat. (variation on a theme, I know. but much funnier.)

3) The characters steal a conveyance that has seen much better days. Has an extremely idiosyncratic engine and is generally a serious piece of shit. in order to turn on the wipers you have to reach up under the dash and wiggle the really thick red wire and at times the lights come on for no reason... (the owner may rejoice that you stole it. but you better pray that you don't get into any kind of chase scene.)

4) The characters steal a conveyance only to discover that the cars trunk contains interesting cargo. ( A live hostage from a bank robbery that the owner pulled, a dressed and butchered corpse and the tools of the serial killer that every police officer in three states is looking for. 50 keys of China White heroin, 50 grand in counterfeit bills, 50 lbs. of Semtex plastic explosives. You get the idea...)

5) The characters steal a 1957 cherry red Plymouth Fury named "Christine" (actually that's WAY to obvious, but the idea of a car that is a serious fetter for an extremely pissed of wraith is certainly possible. I could also see Garou making a fetish out of an automobile.)

Various hazards and problems that are encountered when chasing or being chased in an automobile.

1) Flying Dutchman. (really old woman in a big car who literally has trouble seeing over the dash. driving 30 mph slower than the limit.)

2) Children playing/loose baby carriage. (See how committed the Euthanatos really is, especially if one of those children is some kind of bad seed.)

3) FRUIT CART!

4) Two dumb guys carrying a large pane of glass. (I see this all the time in the movies. just like the fruit cart.)

5) Wreck or breakdown

6) Road work.

7) Mime (Go for the Mime! Extra Points!)

8) Pretty boy pinhead in a Jag who doesn't appreciate being passed and wants to impress his equally vacuous girlfriend.

9) Ooops, you made a wrong turn and now you have to deal with a set of outdoor stairs.

10) Dead end (Oh shit....Bootlegger reverse Mr Sulu....)

11) Narrow alley filled with garbage,crates and debris

12) Parade,Bicycle race, Marathon,Chinese new year celebration.

13) The pinhead you just cut off has a gun and a bad case of road rage. or maybe you just whacked into the side of a Barrio Cadillac and now there is a carload of pissed off, and heavily armed dudes coming after your ass in addition to whomever is chasing you already.

14) Drawbridge

15) Train tracks. w/train.

a list of changes or transitions in the umbral environment which indicate a change in the realm you happen to be in into another. Time Bandits is very instructive in this regard.

1) Doors (often in incongruous places or more prosaically, out in the open, attached to nothing and yet the portal to another realm. Also works with gates and portcullises.)

2) Waterfalls (duck underneath and you're in another realm.)

3) stairs or escalators (up,down,spiral, or Escher-like. some are crumbling, some are trapped.)

4) Revolving doors

5) a pool of water or light (that one must submerse oneself in, stuff might live in it.)

6) A fireman's pole.

7) A carousel.

8) A wrought-iron Victorian style elevator with checkerboard tile and milk-glass doors.

9) a vortex.

10) a glass-bottomed boat (scary in the Tempest.)

11) a Bridge (sometimes the different realm is on the other side. Some times you have to cross underneath. Sometimes you have to leap off...)

12) cave mouth in the shape of some great ravening Maw...

13) a roller coaster car and track. or even a train and train track. (again, scary if you're in the tempest.)

14) scary cramped and smelly pipes to crawl through.

15) Roads (from superhighway to dirt road, there is only one ineffable rule: Never stray from the path. Don't believe me? Read the Original Books of Magick where Tim Hunter strays off the path in Faerie. Or another good example is the funky way the road acts in the movie of THE WIZ.)