THE PLOT: "Doppleganger"
-=PC's See: Slowly NPC's start coming up with flawed clones, simple things go wrong when they are being clones, etc. �(Note: Since the clone is a "system" thing, PC's will always be allowed to update for "free" after paying if they get a flawed procedure. �An "attendant" will notice, and tell them there was a malfunction, can they please sit down and try again.")
A "new" company starts providing clones, slightly cheaper. �Not much, just a smidgeon. �They are the company that the faulty clones are coming from. �But the rates are enough to attract new customers, and some PC's.
It starts out being 1 in every 20-30 clones, somewhat randomly. �It should only happen to a few PC's in the first stage. �If they choose to investigate, it need not happen in any others. �It will NEVER happen to WJF employees/PC's with "real withmore" jobs.
As PC's investigate, they will find NLM postings that are sort of cryptic about the situation. �If they bother to try investigating those, they start coming up with proof that ReKall is storing the old clones and has cloned from that data. �(Only NPC's to keep the effects away from affecting people negatively who have put in time on their chars, and to avoind any potential "you didn't like me, so you screwed my char" comments.)
Eventually a clone that looks like one of the NPC's but is committing actions that are COMPLETELY unlike that PC will surface and cause problems. �However Judges will not arrest the clone, only the PC. �(Again note: There will be no murders/killing of the PC for the clone's action…resisting arrest however is quite different.)
If they have someone who can access the network of the new company, they will see that it is the first stage in a test of cloning from older tissue sample, and providing them with different memory sets/programmed commands. �It is a goverment sponsored experiment to help boost the industrio-military complex.
After getting what info they can from the cryptic message sender, the confront the "new" clone company who offers to buy them off to insure their silence. �If they accept, they each get an amount of chyen equal to the cost of three or four new clones. �If they refuse, they can try to take the info public, where it will be broadcast over NLM, warning people about this new company.
Either way, shortly after confrontation, the new company closes, and the employees are never heard from again. �If seen on the street, all except the cryptic message sender seem cheerful but vague when asked about the company. �The cryptic message sender is never seen again.
-=What's really going on:
Rekall and the government of Withmore are indeed experimenting in making clones and programming them with a different set of ideas, the theory being that one person can actually provide two or three workers/infantrymen if cloned correctly. �They use a fony company as the front for the operation. �One doc in the program gets a shiver or two about doing it, and ends up acquiring a conscience over it.
He places the NLM ads, and attracts the PC's, giving them what data he can without being busted. �He does it for free, and the promise that the PC's will help him out if he gets caught. �They don't kill him, since they need the in to the secret info.
As the gov't and Rekall finish up the first phase of the experiment, they are busted by the PC's. �The info goes *poof* and they claim innocence. �If the PC's push, they are marked for hitmen, and will be cloned from material that is "clean" and supposedly doesn't have any of the info. �(NOte, if the PC's send themselves NLM mail, they can easily get around that.) �If the info goes out over NLM there is official "denial" that either Rekall or the government knew anything about it. �However, they now have the info for the future.
When they get caught, the pretend to close up shop in a hurry, really storing the data for a day when they will need to clone armies/labor in a hurry. �Rekall offers to buy off the PC's, to ensure their silence, and lets them know that they are marked, in case they ever dissent. �
-=POETNTAIL BRANCHES/PROBLEMS:
+In the future, clones are made of PC's or well known NPC's that cause problems. �The idea of "real identity theft" comes up.
+It is traced back to the government and a PC organization for governemnt "monitoring" is set up, leaving it open ended for conspiracy theorists/PC governemntal actions. �Perhaps a PC mayor, or city councilman. �
+If the PC's sell out, further opportunities for them to be dragged into helping corps with shady ideas, especially Rekall with sabotaging other medical company efforts.
-If the PC's don't bite, there is no way to get them interested in the damaged clones, and a different "buy in" has to be found.
-Distrust of ALL cloning is caused on Red and we have a larger percentage of Perma-death until people realize it is foolish.
POTENTIAL FOR PC'S/# OF PC'S:
*This plot can be as small as two or three PC's, as large as ten, the only real requirment being that they would get to know each other over the course of the plot.
*It could be run by only one GM in the tightest circumstances, however the fact that the NPC organizations are multi-faceted, it offers the oppurtunity for many GM's, each controlling one part of the whole.
RESOURCES
2 or 3 real NPC's to be the Doc with a Conscience, and Representitives of Withmore Gov't and the "new company" in cloning.
Enough Chyen to buy off PC's without flooding the market
A facility for cloning/data storage
Potential network to be broken into
