Golden Anvil

Okay, not actually a story yet, but I feel like, it being an RP thing, this may be the best place for this.  Especially as all the other places I could brag about it, people involved in the game may read it.

I think I may have just outdone myself in the evil genious GM category.

I'm starting up a game on a forum with a bit of an odd premise.  It takes the concept behind Gunslinger Girl ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger_girl ) and transplants it to a U.S. setting.  For those who don't feel like reading the whole article, the REALLY short version is that the Itallian government has been taking badly injured or ill girls and using the most advanced artificial prosthetic tech to repair their broken bodies, sort of "Six Million Dollar Man" style.  The resulting cyborgs are thus given a new lease on life.  Of course, what the Itallian government is NOT admitting to anyone is that in the process they are ALSO brainwashing the children, then using them as the ultimate assassins.  Cause no one suspects a little girl of being a gun totting maniac...

Well, my game takes that and presents the idea that the U.S. has their own similar program.  (The players are all GSG fans, but none of us know enough about Itally to play in the original setting.)  The players all have a "fratello" (a team consisting of one cyborg girl assassin and one adult "handler"), and is responsible for doing the Fed's dirty work.  The mission I'm about to toss out there?

A former Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb maker has been spotted in Seattle.  No one is sure why.  But it may be related to the recent theft of low level radiological waste from a hospital in Seattle, and rumors that a cell of Indonesian terrorists in the U.S. are Up To Something.  The fratelo in that area is being called upon to find out what is up and Do Something.

What is up?  Simple.  The bomb maker in question specialized in making shaped charges capable of breaching the shell of British Armored Cars.  The terrorists have hired him to create two MASSIVE shaped charges, one using 250 lbs of Composition-B, one of 750 lbs.  These massive charges will be loaded into a yacht that is 140 feet long, 28 feet wide, where the small one will be put in the stern, the big one in the bow.  They will then be surrounded with the radioactive medical waste.

Then the yacht gets to sail into the 150 foot long, 30 feet wide Ballard Lock seperating Puget Sound from Lake Washington...

I actually think that's a clever setup, don't you?

Okay... done bragging...