It's not exactly a secret (considering that the
organizations of Judgement, Lightning, Protection,
Revelations, the Sword, Trade, War and the Wind are
regular contributors, it can't very well be), but its
actual location is vague. The Evidence Locker is
supposed to be in the bowels of the Halls of Progress:
given the physics of most Superior Cathedrals, if Jean
doesn't want you to find it, you won't.
A shame, really: the place is fascinating. It's where
physical items seized during legal investigations,
military campaigns, covert operations and just plain
Incidents eventually end up. Anything deemed too
sensitive, too dangerous, or too weird to be released
into the general angelic population will be brought
here, catalogued, filed and stored - and quite often,
forgotten by everybody involved.
Granted, every so often Servitors of Revelations or
Archives or Lightning will sort through the assembled
materials, and a small (very small) number of angels
will be given limited research privileges, but for the
most part the items in the Evidence Locker just sit
there, untouched by any hands.
The gaming potential of the Evidence Locker should be
obvious. 20,000+ years of constant War have produced
all sorts of baroque and/or bizarre relics, and the
really sensitive stuff all ends up here. You could
find anything here. You can also justify anything
with an explanation of:
"It was a prototype: the Council immediately slapped a
'Suppressed' sticker on it. Of course, that was back
in 865 BC. The status was reviewed and upgraded last
week, and so it's OK now to release into the general
population. Suitably tested, of course. If you could
just sign here?"
or
"OH, MY GOD! Who signed it out of the
specially-reinforced bunker! Get it back - NOW!"
or even
"Beats me why anybody wanted to steal it. Still, they
went to a lot of trouble to grab it, so maybe they
know more than we do, huh? Better go track it down.
At the very least, find out what it does, OK?"
PCs could also be assigned to be the ones trying to
reel in new acquisitions, either in the Friday the
13th television series style ("Wow. Why did Vapula
make so many gadgets that required killing a human for
them to function? Wouldn't using puppies or something
be less blatantly obvious") or behind-the-scenes GURPS
Warehouse 23/:Raiders of the Lost Ark: style ("We've
got our top men looking into it." "Who?" "Top
men."). In either case, expect them to load up on
the toys: that should be OK, as long as their fingers
don't get too sticky.
Back to the INC Mainpage.
Back to the Settings page.
Send mail to the Curator