Mark Rand Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 This is the first plot I want to run for my four-color campaign in Pittsburgh. It's designed more to get the players comfortable with their characters than anything else. Although the real Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix has been held each year since 1983, in the campaign this is the first year. The race site is http://www.pvgp.org. It starts with someone noticing a picture in the paper of the team's engineer with the team's patron and three time Indy 500 champ Johnny Rutherford. When questioned, he explains that the patron is a member of the organization that runs the race, Johnny is the Grand Marshal, and he's driving the pace car. He then passes the team secretary the event schedule. Two days before the race, the team's local liaison drops by and asks the team to show up at the race for an autograph session. He's also trying to make arrangements to have them take a parade lap around the track. I've attached something about the Vintage to this. Most of it is about the real race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted July 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot The Vintage will occur over a period of two weeks. Most events are car shows. However, there are two race weekends. The first is an SCCA race weekend that also marks the opening of the Washington County Raceway, a fictitious track that I based on the final version of the now defunct Riverside International Raceway. The second is the Vintage itself. The first day is practice and qualifying for the various race groups. The second day feature a number of parade laps and the races themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot And what is the actual plot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted July 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot And what is the actual plot? Unexpected things are going to happen. I'm thinking of having a Medieval-type knight on a pegasus appear in mid air over the area the heroes are in. He (or she) could be either friend or foe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted July 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot I'm making a slight adjustment to this plot. The heroes are, at the request of the city, at the first ever Pittsburgh Vintage Car Grand Prix for an autograph session. As it starts, they hear reports of a rift of some kind, at tree top level, at the nearby golf course. It closed after a figure, dressed like a Medieval knight, and riding a white pegasus, comes through. Better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot The heroes would do well to check out whether any psychedelic substances are being sold or whether anyone has been carting around projection equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted July 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot The heroes would do well to check out whether any psychedelic substances are being sold or whether anyone has been carting around projection equipment. Since the heroes can see the pegasus, too, the people who reported it aren't under the influence of any psychedelic substances and there doesn't seem to be any projection equipment around. (The golf course on on the outside of the track's back straight. One of the corner workers was the first one to report the sighting.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot Never overlook the obvious. When you have ruled out all the logical explanations, then you can look to the fantastic for answers. But a Pegasus at a Car Race seems odd. Now if it is black like certain car badges, a link begins to emerge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot Here I thought there'd be an adventure revolving around a mind control potion produced at a winery and distributed widely to the public as a decent, inexpensive red wine. Earlier vintages would have been made before the mind control stuff came out, so vintage matters in this case. Hm. May have to file that idea for later use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted July 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot Watching the pegasus circle the area, the heroes notice that it seems to be descending. From beyond the police line, a young male voice states that the rider is female and is dressed like a guard from the city of Waterdeep. From the same area, an adult male voice states that the way the animal is flying, it was turned into a pegasus recently, perhaps by some action of the rift. An adult female voice from the same area suggests that the rider might speak English the way someone using a phrasebook does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 30, 2007 Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot I'd add in Foxbat trying to win the race, thus begaining his new Master plan Oh using a stolen prop car Batmobile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted July 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot I'd add in Foxbat trying to win the race, thus begaining his new Master plan Oh using a stolen prop car Batmobile! Since there's five or six classes of cars at the Vintage, there's that many races. He could try to win one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 1, 2007 Report Share Posted August 1, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot Since there's five or six classes of cars at the Vintage' date=' there's that many races. He could try to win one.[/quote'] Even with his army of Fox-Bots? All he needs is to steal cars for each heat/race and his master plan will move into phase 42 1/2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted August 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot The heroes hear later the following: While the pace car driver was taking a break between races, a couple of kids took the pace car for a joyride, but didn't get far. They ended up driving it into the Westinghouse Memorial Pond, the water hazard on the course. The kids are now in jail, and the car's being pulled out of the pond. Since it's three feet deep, the car, more than likely, is ruined. Fortunately, both the Washington County Raceway pace car, a Ford Mustang, and the region's pace car, a Lamborghini Murcielago, are available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot I'm going to have a new version of this thread up, soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted August 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot A quick thought. Pittsburgh's vintage car race is held on city streets because no track was available when it was started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 16, 2007 Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot Cool! that makes ambush/kidnap plans much easier to set up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted August 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot Cool! that makes ambush/kidnap plans much easier to set up.... What does, blocked off city streets or a real track? The Vintage will be held at a real track. However, I think the heroes will be invited to the gala that kicks off two weeks of races, car shows, and other events. There's bound to be VIPs for the heroes to impress and party-crashing mooks for the heroes to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted August 17, 2007 Report Share Posted August 17, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot holding it on city streets...no way to clear every building, easy to make a gettaway, you can preposistion your resources......a track is controlled entry, a city street is a public place......lots easier to carry things around.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted August 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot holding it on city streets...no way to clear every building' date=' easy to make a gettaway, you can preposistion your resources......a track is controlled entry, a city street is a public place......lots easier to carry things around....[/quote'] True. That may be why Pittsburgh's vintage car race was run through Schenley Park. Of course, the two years we had a go-kart grand prix it was run downtown, in he vicinity of Gateway Center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted August 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Re: A "Vintage" plot The file "PVCGP" is going to be removed. The campaign will be in Seacouver, Washington, instead of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The track in the campaign will be Seacouver Raceway. It's based on Pacific Raceways. Their URL is: http://www.pacificraceways.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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