The Detrimental Robot
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:40 am
Wasn't sure whether to put this in the book or film thread so I compromised by starting a new one...
Have recently been watching 70's BritCrime series The XYY man. The latter episodes feature a ruthless intelligence officer called Dero who takes his name, for reasons not entirely clear, from the Detrimental Robots created by sci-fi author Richard Sharpe Shaver. The Deros are intellectually advanced but morally degenerate humanoids living in huge subterranean cities. I suppose they're a not uncommon sci-fi trope but the wikipedia write up got me thinking that the Deros were pretty similar to DC's conception of the Dark Elves. Shaver claimed that the Deros and their cities were real but it does appear that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
Using Shaver's ideas in Dark Conspiracy you could perhaps have a pulp sci-fi author with a high Foreboding skill who starts receiving visions of the Dark Elf civilizations beneath the Earth. When he writes them up into bestsellers the Elves decide he needs to be silenced and try to assassinate him. It's the PCs job to keep him alive as he embarks on a book tour to promote his latest blockbuster. Cue mass assaults by Igors, Animators and once everthing else has failed the Dark Elves in person.
Have recently been watching 70's BritCrime series The XYY man. The latter episodes feature a ruthless intelligence officer called Dero who takes his name, for reasons not entirely clear, from the Detrimental Robots created by sci-fi author Richard Sharpe Shaver. The Deros are intellectually advanced but morally degenerate humanoids living in huge subterranean cities. I suppose they're a not uncommon sci-fi trope but the wikipedia write up got me thinking that the Deros were pretty similar to DC's conception of the Dark Elves. Shaver claimed that the Deros and their cities were real but it does appear that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
Using Shaver's ideas in Dark Conspiracy you could perhaps have a pulp sci-fi author with a high Foreboding skill who starts receiving visions of the Dark Elf civilizations beneath the Earth. When he writes them up into bestsellers the Elves decide he needs to be silenced and try to assassinate him. It's the PCs job to keep him alive as he embarks on a book tour to promote his latest blockbuster. Cue mass assaults by Igors, Animators and once everthing else has failed the Dark Elves in person.