Friday, August 31, 2012

A FIASCO scenario: The Inheritance goes to...


I present hereby my first attempt to create a FIASCO setup.
To discover more about fiasco in a very enjoyable way... here is a video.


So, without further ado, here is The inheritance goes to...

CREDITS: written by A.A.CHARANTONIS

THE INHERITANCE

(goes to...)



Someone was wealthy. Someone provided for a lot of people. Now that he is dead or dying, others are after the money, others are after a closure and others are here for far darker purposes.

Movie Night: Arrested Development (TV series),

RELATIONSHIPS

1 Work

i) Police detective and suspect
ii) Patient and my doctor
iii) Employee and boss or ex-boss
iv) Lawyer and client
v) Partners in business
vi) Handyman/maid and estate resident.

2 Romance

i) Secret lovers
ii) Sexual chemistry, but opposing worldviews
iii) Object of long lasting lust
iv) Married
v) Divorced
vi) Master and Slave

3 Friendship

i) Since university
ii) From the army
iii) From prison
iv) From church
v) From childhood
vi) Since only last week

4 Family

i) Siblings
ii) Parent and child
iii) Parent and stepchild
iv) Nephew or niece and uncle or aunt
v) Son or daughter -in-law and parent-in-law
vi) Distant relatives that have never met

5 Odd

i) Me and my AA sponsor
ii) Me and my mentor
iii) Me and my spiritual advisor
iv) Me and my dealer
v) Me and my bodyguard
vi) Me and my hairdresser

6 Wealth and finance

i) Together we are the major shareholders
ii) We organize the regatta for the Wellington club together
iii) He / she makes sure my investments are well placed
iv) He / she owes me a lot of money
v) Patron of the arts and his/her protege/protegee
vi) My empire is based on his/her invention

NEEDS

1 To get revenge

i) for him/her stealing what was rightfully yours
ii) for all the humiliation over the years
iii) for not keeping a promise
iv) for the death of a loved one
v) for not being paid your dues
vi) for sleeping around

2 To get laid

i) to get the information you need
ii) to rekindle an old flame
iii) to get over someone
iv) to frame someone
v) for the last time
vi) to alleviate the suspicions

3 To get Rich

i) by getting your hands on the will
ii) by ruining the reputation of the opposing company
iii) by emptying the safe
iv) by finding the off-shore accounts
v) killing the opposition
vi) by fulfilling your contract

4 To find the truth about

i) your real parent
ii) the mysterious illness
iii) his/her feelings
iv) the company
v) the accident all those years ago
vi) someones fidelity

5 To get closure

i) for a long suffering love relationship
ii) by reconnecting before it is too late
iii) by revealing everything
iv) by finally finishing the artwork
v) by confronting your wildest fear
vi) by asking for forgiveness

6 To hide

i) the real testament
ii) the remaining evidence
iii) from someone that scares you
iv) your true feelings until it is over
v) your real identity
vi) someone else from the law

LOCATIONS

1 The Estate

i) In the vast gardens next to the lake
ii) In the library filled with ancient books
iii) In the living room with the roaring fireplace
iv) In the bedroom with the canopy bed
v) In the staff's quarters, with the leaking roof
vi) In the attic with the relics of a youth long past

2 The Funeral

i) In the big cathedral in the city
ii) In the family mausoleum
iii) In the parking lot before the procession starts
iv) During the banquet held in the hall next to the church
v) In the crematorium
vi) By the freshly dug grave

3 The Hospital

i) For the harvesting of the organs
ii) In the poorly lit mortuary
iii) In a private white room
iv) In the blood donor center
v) In the emergency care unit
vi) In the cosmetic surgery office

4 Odds and ends

i) The lawyer's office
ii) The cinema
iii) The bank
iv) The country house in the mountain
v) The local police department
vi) The kennels

5 The company's headquarters

i) The boss's office
ii) The loading dock
iii) The warehouse
iv) The Accountancy office
v) Outside the sealed laboratory
vi) The cafeteria

6 The country club

i) The gazebo overlooking the pool
ii) The horse racing track
iii) The golf course
iv) The « Golden Crustacean » restaurant
v) The beauty spa
vi) The tennis court

OBJECTS

1 Transportation

i) The Ferrari
ii) The sailing boat
iii) The helicopter
iv) Blackfoot, the purebred
v) The hidden stairs
vi) A mobility scooter

2 Lethal

i) An exotic and deadly wasp
ii) A sniper gun
iii) A pair of antique dueling pistols
iv) A radioactive ring
v) The sword held by the statue outside the Estate
vi) An axe

3 Drugs

i) Sleeping pills
ii) A joint of marijuana
iii) A boat-full of cocaine
iv) A cabinet full of Viagra
v) ''Xu97-B_01'' the new, untested drug
vi) Hallucinogenic gas

4 Papers

i) Two sets of fake IDs, waiting for new photos
ii) The code to the safe, hidden in a book
iii) ''Come at once to the statue'' written on a crumpled up paper found in a dustbin
iv) An article revealing an unknown connection
v) The will
vi) The true accounting books of the company

5 Identification

i) A hypodermic GPS tracking device
ii) An eyeball, kept fresh in ice
iii) A tattoo on in an unusual place
iv) A USB stick containing the mastercode to the company computers
v) A birth certificate
vi) A DNA paternity test

6 Valuables

i) A diamond-set tiara
ii) The details of an 70 millions off-shore account
iii) The replica of a Picasso that is actually the real thing
iv) The asteroid collection
v) A thousand years old bottle of whiskey
vi) Two hundred and seventy two grams of enriched plutonium



A inherit-ly fun insta-setup

The inheritance goes to RELATIONSHIPS

For three players...

*Family : Parent and child
*Work : Partners in business
*Romance : Secret lovers

For four players, add...

*Odd : Believer and his/her spiritual advisor

For five players, add...

*Work : Police detective and suspect

NEEDS from the inheritance

For three players...

*To get rich : By getting your hands on the will

For four or five players, add...

*To get revenge : For him/her stealing what was rightfully yours

OBJECTS from the inheritance

For three or four players...

*Papers : The true accounting books of the company

For five players, add...

*Identification : An eyeball, kept fresh in ice

LOCATIONS from the inheritance

For three, four or five players...

*The Estate : In the living room with the roaring fireplace

Playtips:

This setup can either be played with one of the characters being the dead or dying wealthy provider and the rest of them in the role of the "vultures", or the provider can be an npc, in which case the game plays better if he is already dead. Should you choose to assign the role of the provider to one of the characters, this is an ideal set-up to play with flash-backs. It is important however not to be conscious not to overdo it with these scenes, since the provider will always have to play in such scenes, and if other players choose to set up flash-back scenes, the game might not get enough momentum to reach an interesting end for act 2. Another way to deal with a player portraying the dead or dying provider is to appoint him the role of a retainer in other scenes, such as a lawyer or a confidant.

The true agendas of everyone tend to remain hidden for some time and create a great deal of drama, and very unexpected resolutions. Don't be afraid to pick very random elements from the tables to maximize the mayhem and lead to a complete FIASCO!

This playset is copyright © 2012 by A.A.CHARANTONIS. All rights are reserved.
This playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully Pulpit Games. Fiasco is copyright © 2009 by Jason Morningstar. All rights are reserved.

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