Real world plot seed.

[azato]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080511/ids_photos_wl/r4184494436.jpg/

[BoloOfEarth]

It's a few years old, but the Italian town where things spontaneously combust (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1529261) is also a potential real world plot seed.

[Kenn]

Hephaestus is doing product testing???

[Major Tom]

Either that, or he's trying out a new electro-plating process.


Major Tom :D

[azato]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/may/30/alien-commission-causes-commotion/?partner=yahoo_headlines

[bubba smith]

here's one
our hero/heroine belongs to either a health club ,gym or MA school when he goes to classes he finds the doors PADLOCKED
the organization haveing gone OUT OF BUISNESS, leaving the members in the lurch without refunds or a place to train no refererals to other gyms/schools
i've heard a few of these in the past year

[TheQuestionMan]

here's one
our hero/heroine belongs to either a health club ,gym or MA school when he goes to classes he finds the doors PADLOCKED
the organization haveing gone OUT OF BUISNESS, leaving the members in the lurch without refunds or a place to train no refererals to other gyms/schools
i've heard a few of these in the past year
Yep, happened to me once. I was pissed. Turned out they had moved to a new location and offered to continue my membership, but it was too far away.

Rat Bastards

QM

[bubba smith]

you're one of the lucky ones
the kind of clubs i'm talking about shut down unexpectedlyand didn't refund any members money or try to transfer the memberships to another club

[azato]

Holy Shades of Steve Ditko, Batman!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031062/Faceless-aliens-spotted-crowd-Wimbledon.html

[azato]

The fires burning under Centralia could have a number of hooks - especially dealing with the demonic realm. Perhaps it attracts infernal creatures. Perhaps it was really caused by an infernal creature. This also gives some info if you wanted the same type of effect but somewhere else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

http://youtube.com/results?q=centralia&search_type=

[Zeropoint]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/new...ahoo_headlines

So . . . the plot point is people going crazy over poor amateur alien videos?

[Egyptoid]

Centralia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania)

map attached

[Egyptoid]

and then of course I . . . .

[azato]

Forget the stupid "aliens'' thing, people without any features showing up in public might some spark for somebody.

Also these people look an awful lot like The Question. Perhaps instead of being a lone agent, it is a society who seeks to remain to hide their identities.


So . . . the plot point is people going crazy over poor amateur alien videos?

[Vulcan]

Hephaestus is doing product testing???

Always at work trying new things!;)

[azato]

The Japanese plan for moon exploration.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioijx5DLWQ4vTbjJmhNgHsNszNhwD97AVVSG0

[Cancer]

An independent real-world plot seed (or, perhaps, complication feature) described in an NGD post here (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1813402#post1813402): shallow earthquake swarm not far from the Hanford Atomic Works.

(You could have such a swarm anywhere that was convenient for your plot, though.)

[azato]

Crazy---

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090612/sc_space/boyhitbymeteorite