[gurps] Stealing Scenario Ideas: Torchwood

[Troy Guffey]

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I've been watching the Torchwood series on BBC America, and it occurs
to me  that the episodes might make a good source of ideas for Bureau
13 or other  'hidden hunter' games.

Series premise:  Torchwood is a field unit combined with "think tank"
set in  the "Doctor Who" universe.  They are based in Cardiff, Wales,
UK where there
is an unstable dimensional rift so that alien things slip through
frequently.  The Torchwood people deal with the results and study the
slip-throughs to arm the human race.

The most stealable idea was the recent episode "Countrycide"
Setup:  People have been going missing in a mostly deserted area of
the  countryside.  The only known commonality is that they were
traveling the  minor thouroghfare that crosses the area from Cardiff
to somewhere else.

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What's really going on:
It's essentially a "Hoax with nasty twist" episode.  Every decade,
for a  period of at least 17 months, the villagers capture and
slaughter (for food)  those travelers who will least likely be
missed.  In the episode they do it  for no other reason than
tradition, and binding the villagers to the secret.


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