Booby-Trapping Arlington

Jimmie Bise, Jr.
Subject: DG: Re: Booby Traps
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:37:56 -0500

> DG should booby trap it's coffins. That way when evil ghouls come a
> callin' they get Blown Up Real Good (TM). Cremation is just too wussy a
> strategy for me. You want Agent Zelda's brain? Come an' get it! Dinner is
> served!
Oh you have sooooooo read my mind! I was thinking last night, "Why should DG just leave the graves of its agents sitting around helpless?". The answer? It wouldn't!


Phil Ward
Subject: Re: DG: Re: Booby Traps
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:14:30 +0000

OK, question is, do they leave sorcerous traps designed to take out the mythos beings or ghouls that might dig up a grave; do they use anti-personnel mines and risks taking down the police who've been sent along to exhume the body, or has the brain been removed by the coroner, to avoid secrets falling into the wrong hands.

I prefer passive countermeasures that wont lead to a big investigation of just where an AP mine was stolen from.... However in cases such as Reggie's last battle, they might lay down weapons there.

So, hows the Arlington interlude looking up? Anyone want to take the Submarine Volcano Base interlude, and does anyone have any idea's for other other interludes?


The Man in Black
Subject: Re: DG: Re: Booby Traps
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:19:30 -0500 (EST)

If you can use a corpse's POW to make an elder sign, this might be an excellent spell variation to use on every DG body. It may prevent other spells from being used (roll Body's POW or Elder Sign caster's POW vs. Ghoul/Violator's POW). If you bury agents under false names and play around with switching bodies, it's unlikely that legitimate authorities would get blown up. Mines and Grenades are OK, but really, just use a shaped charge homebrew. Not sure which is easier to trace.

On an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, the cops were trying to find a "potter's field" corpse and they got the wrong body. A mixup in the records led to several erroneous exhumations before they discovered that the body was missing and probably buried in a ditch. You see, it was winter when they buried the victim, so the grave-diggers used a backhoe to hack up a mass grave rather than work through the icy ground.

This cutting of corners was based on real events. Talking to a (now deceased) buddy of mine, who was a trained licensed mortician before his cut-rate morgue to crenatorium delivery service got him blacklisted in the hide-bound world of Death Services, confirmed that this sort of thing happens all the time.

If you remember from my Arlington outline, DG is using NANCY and other ghouls to beat the NewSchool types to the punch. DG and it's ghoul friendlies will eat the brains first! This program is guaranteed to cause trouble with GRU-SD8.


Jimmie Bise, Jr.
Subject: Re: DG: Re: Booby Traps
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:55:30 -0500

I'd guess they'd use a combination of both measure, including having a person on the inside, either in the honor guard, or on the cemetary staff. That way, they'd be able to work around the "mundane" traps should there ever be an exhumation.

Of course, the best way to prevent someone from stealing a body is not to bury it at all...

> So, how's the Arlington interlude looking up? Anyone want to take the
> Submarine Volcano Bases interlude, and does anyone have any idea's
> for other other interludes?
My part of it's about half-done, though I need to slide it over to MiB, because he has some definite ideas on it, too, and I don't want my ideas to conflict with his. This weekend, I'll post my rough outline for the interlude, along with some factual sidebars folks may need to know about the cemetary (such as the criteria for burial in ANC).


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