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    Conspiracy UK

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    CONSPIRACY

    THE
    IN
    UK

    a fiasco playset by Simon Brake


    CONSPIRACY IN THE UK
    CREDITS

    Written by Simon Brake

    Edited by Simon Brake

    Cover art by Simon Brake

    BOILERPLATE

    This playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully


    Pulpit Games.

    This playset is copyright 2014 by Simon Brake. Fiasco is copyright 2009


    by Jason Morningstar. All rights are reserved.

    For more information about Fiasco or to download other playsets and


    materials, visit www.bullypulpitgames.com.

    If youd like to create your own playset or other Fiasco-related content,


    wed like to help. Write us at [email protected].

    When you play, play hard. Theodore Roosevelt


    The Score
    THE STREETS OF LONDON...

    Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London.
    Ill show you something thatll make you change your mind...
    - Ralph McTell, Streets of London

    London. Seat of the British government, home to the royal family, and
    magnet for all sorts of weirdness. The papers are full of stories that years
    ago wed have dismissed as fiction, but in our increasingly paranoid
    world, fueled by articles in the tabloids and speculation on the internet,
    its all too easy to see that the world we think we know is just a front.
    Theories and ideas abound, not entirely impossible to disregard. Perhaps
    the terrorist bombing campaign was nothing but a hoax orchestrated by
    the government to justify joining a unjustifiable war. Perhaps the recent
    outbreak of flu was the result of something the Russians have been
    engineering in their labs. Perhaps ancient standing stones and modern
    day crop circles are evidence of alien visitors. Perhaps members of the
    royal family are really lizards.

    For every person actively chasing after conspiracies there are those who
    are drawn in unaware. And sometimes, just sometimes, theres some
    truth to those stories, and theres someone eager to stop them spreading
    any further.

    Whether its agencies at crossed purposes, friends with crossed agendas,


    or crazies with crossed wires, you can guarantee people are going to get
    hurt in the crossfire.

    Movie Night

    Although these are mostly sources filmed in and around London,


    some of them are set elsewhere but concentrate on a theme that blur the
    lines between thriller, science fiction and doomsday scenarios...

    Movies: The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Skyfall, The Bourne
    Ultimatum, Mission: Impossible, Hot Fuzz, Worlds End, Attack The Block,
    Storage 24, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Children of Men, V For Vendetta,
    The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass and The Pit.

    TV shows: 24: Live Another Day, Spooks, Bugs, Utopia, The Prisoner, Sherlock,
    Torchwood/Doctor Who, Misfits, Orphan Black, Quatermass

    Comic books: The Secret Service, V For Vendetta


    Relationships...
    1 Family
    1 Scarred parent and worried child
    2 Concerned parent and obsessed child
    3 Siblings
    4 Cousins
    5 Step parent and step child
    6 Teenager and connected uncle/aunt

    2 Friends
    1 Friends since school
    2 Work together, day in, day out
    3 Drinking buddies
    4 Internet contacts
    5 Shop assistant/bartender and regular customer
    6 Members of the same club

    3 Support Group
    1 For victims of the same tragedy (inc. families of victims)
    2 For alcoholics/drug addicts
    3 Grief counselling
    4 Social events for newly divorced people
    5 Rehabilitation for criminals
    6 Stress counselling for military personnel
    4 Romance
    1 Happily married
    2 Unhappily married
    3 Have a child together
    4 Having an affair
    5 Had a drunken fumble that one time
    6 Will they/wont they?

    5 Professional
    1 Employees of Her Majestys government
    2 Representatives of a sinister agency
    3 Scientists at a medical laboratory
    4 Worked together on a Top Secret project
    5 Working for a foreign power
    6 Investigator and assistant

    6 Street
    1 Journalist and subject of current story
    2 Homeless person and someone who knows him/her
    3 Conspiracy theorist and suspicious figure
    4 Addicted to the same drug
    5 Criminal connections
    6 The hunter and the hunted

    ...On THE STREETS


    OF LONDON
    Needs...
    1 To Get Rich...
    1 through selling secrets
    2 through blackmail
    3 through working to the top
    4 through completing this one last job
    5 through a revolutionary new product
    6 through computer hacking

    2 To Get Laid...
    1 before you reach 40
    2 with your great looking new colleague
    3 with your partner for one last time
    4 to prove you still can
    5 now that youre back on the market
    6 in order to deliberately spread your disease

    3 To Discover The Truth...


    1 about your mysterious past
    2 about the aliens
    3 about the reoccurring code/symbol
    4 about what happened to your experiment
    5 about what happened to a loved one
    6 about the terrible tragedy
    4 To EXPOSE...
    1 the power behind the throne
    2 the power behind the government
    3 the agenda of the monolithic corporation
    4 the secret alien invasion
    5 secrets hinted at by a dead writer/artist
    6 details about an ancient civilization

    5 To Locate...
    1 the missing child
    2 the highly sought-after technology
    3 the dimensional gateway
    4 the stolen Top Secret information
    5 the mysterious blackmailer
    6 .the antidote/cure to the disease

    6 To Escape...
    1 from the police
    2 from the men asking questions
    3 from the city/town/village
    4 from the country
    5 from old friends who arent what they seem
    6 from reality

    ...On THE STREETS


    OF LONDON
    Locations...
    1 Famous Landmarks
    1 In a pod of the London Eye
    2 Midway across Tower Bridge
    3 In the Whispering Gallery of St. Pauls Cathedral
    4 In the grounds of Buckingham Palace
    5 In an office near the top of the Shard
    6 By the base of Cleopatras Needle

    2 Crowded Locations
    1 In Trafalgar Square, during an annual festival
    2 Before a film premiere at Leicester Square
    3 Beneath giant neon adverts at Picadilly Circus
    4 Weaving through shoppers and tourists on Oxford Street
    5 Waterloo Station at rush hour
    6 The Notting Hill Carnival

    3 Galleries and Museums


    1 The new exhibit at The British Museum
    2 A quiet corner of The British Library
    3 Around a popular canvas at the Tate Modern
    4 Beside pickled and preserved samples at the Royal College
    ofSurgeons

    5 Amongst dinosaur skeletons at The Natural History Museum


    6 A private party at The Victoria and Albert Museum
    4 SANCTUARY
    1 An old World War Two bunker
    2 A dimly lit church
    3 A private office near the back of the building
    4 The small upstairs bar above a quiet pub
    5 An old boys club
    6 A restricted-access laboratory

    5 Escape Routes and Dead Ends


    1 A rooftop/balcony with an amazing view
    2 The tunnels of an Underground station
    3 Lost amongst the boxes in a warehouse
    4 Down a long, dark alleyway
    5 In the back of a taxi-cab
    6 Into the sewers

    6 Out of London
    1 A quaint and quiet little village
    2 A large mansion in Surrey
    3 On the Thames heading towards the sea
    4 Fleeing across the moors
    5 On the streets of Liverpool
    6 A dingy nightclub in Manchester

    ...On THE STREETS


    OF LONDON
    Objects...
    1 Weapons
    1 An easily concealed handgun
    2 A sniper rifle
    3 A switchblade knife
    4 A cricket bat
    5 Kitchen utensils, in the wrong hands
    6 Quick acting poison

    2 Technology
    1 Advanced electro-stun weapon
    2 A small weapon concealed within a mundane item
    3 A scanner that detects strange energy fluctuations
    4 A rocket assisted vehicle
    5 An alarmingly complex bomb
    6 A small beeping device with unknown properties

    3 Biology
    1 Reptilian DNA
    2 A blood sample from a suspect
    3 An infected animal in the streets
    4 A vial containing a deadly nanovirus
    5 The unknown carrier of a terrible new strain
    6 The cure, finally isolated!
    4 PAPERWORK
    1 A rough manuscript of an unpublished book
    2 A list of names, one of which is crossed out
    3 Observations of someones activities
    4 Words scrawled in an unknown/alien language
    5 A print out of apparently random numbers
    6 A diary of someones final days

    5 Pictures
    1 A still from a security camera
    2 Faded photographs from twenty five years ago
    3 A childrens drawing, with worrying content
    4 A photo with clues hidden away in the background
    5 A hand drawn plan/map with notes
    6 A photo of the next target

    6 Memories
    1 Strange lights in the skies
    2 Snapping jaws and slashing claws
    3 Being strapped into a chair
    4 Part of a song you cant pin down
    5 Flames, bodies amongst rubble, the sounds of screaming
    6 Your true identity, unlocked by a single word

    ...On THE STREETS


    OF LONDON
    A SINISTER
    Insta-setup
    Relationships ON THE
    STREETS OF LONDON
    For three players

    **Family: Cousins

    **Support Group: For victims of the same tragedy

    **Professional: Employees of Her Majestys government

    For four players, add

    **Friends: Internet contacts

    For five players, add

    **Street: Conspiracy theorist and suspicious figure

    Needs ON THE STREETS OF LONDON


    For three players

    **To Discover The Truth: about what happened to a loved one

    For four or five players, add

    **To Escape: From the men asking questions

    Locations ON THE
    STREETS OF LONDON
    For three, four or five players

    **Famous Landmarks: In an office near the top of the Shard

    Objects ON THE
    STREETS OF LONDON
    For three or four players

    **Pictures: A still from a security camera

    For five players, add

    **Weapons: Kitchen utensils, in the wrong hands

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