Yep, I had another idea for a one-shot. This one actually came to me a few months ago, before re-watching "The Terminator", but it has really solidified since then. Give just how quotable that film is, I'm pretty certain that the game would be a lot of fun.
The idea, simply put, is this: "The Terminator" in the Wild West.
The system would be White Wolf's Storytelling system (the one from the new World of Darkness"), with the weapons and such lifted from their "Werewolf: the Wild West" game. And the major, underlying question in the game is this: can modern-day players figure out a way to destroy the T-101 using only weapons and material available in the Old West?
Anyway, the synopsis:
The Razing of James Connor's Barn
Harvest 1876, Colorado:
On the new Connor farm, it is a night of many celebrations. The farm is a season old, the state is scant months old, the nation is a hundred years old. James Connor has raised a barn, and is hosting a dance attended by the entire town to celebrate. But the celebration is doomed to be short-lived, for James' outlaw brother J. Harley "Jack" Connor is about to invite himself to the festivities, a posse of bounty hunters hot on his tail...
Meanwhile, in the dying town of Leadville, a naked man strides into the roughest dive in the place. He confronts "Wild" Mick Tannen, calmly informing him that "I need your clothes, your boots, and your... horse". Tannen's mocking laughter is short-lived, and soon the man rides north...
And from the east, a man in the stolen clothing of a post rider makes dangerous haste in the night. He carries an urgent message for the ears of James Connor: "Come with me if you want to live..."
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