Plattsmouth: A small rural town not too far from a city and military base. Plattsmouth has been growing lately because of its proximity to the “big city.” Because of this, some dark secrets are starting to come to light. Strange rumors, odd news articles, unusual happenings, and details of missing people have started to emerge. The unfriendly (if not downright hostile) townsfolk are silent and have done everything possible to keep newcomers out.
Enter Strategic Industries, a company founded by retired Army and Air Force personnel. Due to reductions in military spending, many people opted for retirement rather than moving. Some of the more enterprising retirees founded Strategic Industries and hired displaced civil servants and former military personnel. The company develops what it expects will be the “strategic” technologies of the future. It is a think-tank rather than an actual manufacturer. The company performs research and development, then sells the designs and plans to other companies.
Strategic Industries is looking to build a new office in Plattsmouth. The inhabitants are fighting it for the unwelcome attention it would bring to the town. The company views the development as bringing commerce to a town that has otherwise stagnated.
This initially appears to be a company versus town conflict, but there is something else going on underneath: missing people and strange unexplained events.
Possibilities
1 Plattsmouth is dominated by cultists performing blasphemous rituals in the hills and woods around town. They are the inbred descendants of Mi-Go experiments that have crossbred with human settlers. The investigators must pick apart the company-town conflict which hides Plattsmouth’s real secret.
Complicating matters are a number of people in Plattsmouth who know nothing about the cult but are against Strategic Industries’ expansion on principle.
2 The problem is actually Strategic Industries. They have created the incidences in Plattsmouth for a number of reasons: to draw attention from themselves, to drive property values down, to make themselves look like victims and strengthen their case to open a new office.
There is nothing supernatural happening at all, it is merely a clever sham perpetrated by faceless corporate suits.
3 Strategic Industries is actually controlled by cultists trying to reach the Great Old Ones and their minions at Hades. They have been researching the magical technology of the elder things in hope of bringing them back.
Cult-dominated Plattsmouth is located near several important sites - temples and the like. Strategic Industries want access to these sites to further their research. Unfortunately, the cult presently occupying Plattsmouth resents the intrusions and a cult war is developing.
© M J Aylor
Enter Strategic Industries, a company founded by retired Army and Air Force personnel. Due to reductions in military spending, many people opted for retirement rather than moving. Some of the more enterprising retirees founded Strategic Industries and hired displaced civil servants and former military personnel. The company develops what it expects will be the “strategic” technologies of the future. It is a think-tank rather than an actual manufacturer. The company performs research and development, then sells the designs and plans to other companies.
Strategic Industries is looking to build a new office in Plattsmouth. The inhabitants are fighting it for the unwelcome attention it would bring to the town. The company views the development as bringing commerce to a town that has otherwise stagnated.
This initially appears to be a company versus town conflict, but there is something else going on underneath: missing people and strange unexplained events.
Possibilities
1 Plattsmouth is dominated by cultists performing blasphemous rituals in the hills and woods around town. They are the inbred descendants of Mi-Go experiments that have crossbred with human settlers. The investigators must pick apart the company-town conflict which hides Plattsmouth’s real secret.
Complicating matters are a number of people in Plattsmouth who know nothing about the cult but are against Strategic Industries’ expansion on principle.
2 The problem is actually Strategic Industries. They have created the incidences in Plattsmouth for a number of reasons: to draw attention from themselves, to drive property values down, to make themselves look like victims and strengthen their case to open a new office.
There is nothing supernatural happening at all, it is merely a clever sham perpetrated by faceless corporate suits.
3 Strategic Industries is actually controlled by cultists trying to reach the Great Old Ones and their minions at Hades. They have been researching the magical technology of the elder things in hope of bringing them back.
Cult-dominated Plattsmouth is located near several important sites - temples and the like. Strategic Industries want access to these sites to further their research. Unfortunately, the cult presently occupying Plattsmouth resents the intrusions and a cult war is developing.
© M J Aylor
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