Thursday, August 24, 2006

Academic Underground Secret Societies

I was working on roughing a AtB game a while back and began thinking that the Academic Underground would make an interesting antagonist or protagonist (depending on which side you take) in a drawn out campaign.

By the sounds of the background, the group isn't treated with much respect by the population at large, or at least not those in power (politicians and the Elite Militia). I would imaging that's because they tend to meddle with pre-death technologies and occasionally unearth some pre-crash horror that was better left buried in the ruins of the old world.

One of the options I've been pondering is creating secret sects within the Underground that protect/guard some of those secrets that may be better left buiried and make sure no unsuspecting fools stumble across and unleash them on the new world.

Some of these secrets could include:

  • Nuclear weapon silos
  • Biological weapon research facilities
  • Embionic Genome Generator (EGGs) sites
  • Cryogenic Hybernation sites
It just sounds like a fun thing to add to an adventure in the AtB setting.






The above image was a spoof on the Marvel Comics "Civil War" series of comics based on my support of the Academic Underground, but got me to thinking that one of the secrets guarded by the Underground could spark a civil war within Cardania, so I created the following image as a counter to it for fun.



Both images include prominant characters in my campaigns:
Academic Underground, Rali Fox; Elite Malitia, Rooster.

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