Prime

Story Ideas

By Brant Harvey
Feb. 1995

The basic mood of Bellerophon Tower is one of strangeness and of unrestrained futures. From this point, everything is possible, even possibilities which no one has yet considered. The unexpected will occur, apparently of its own volition, and every mystery solved will engender two new ones.

Story Ideas for Bellerophon Tower

  1. While investigating a strange metal tower in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the characters suddenly find that the land around them has changed. Trapped in the Prometheus Desert, they must brave giant lizards, unseen antagonists and the environment itself. Even if they survive this and find Bellerophon Tower, will the characters be able to convince the Laboratory members of their good intentions?
  2. The characters have been in constant conflict with the New World Order of St. Louis. While trying to infiltrate it, they discover that the New World Order is performing some infiltration itself. It suspects a young Etherite Laboratory within the city and is attempting to place a spy in it. Will the characters risk blowing their operation to save this Chantry?
  3. The strange occurrences in the Prometheus Desert suddenly become much more frequent. Mapped territories change inexplicably and Scientists start to disappear. What is causing this and why? Most importantly, how can it be stopped?
  4. The Pegasus returns from a voyage but has brought a Zigg'raugglurr stowaway with it. The achronological being, loose in the Realm, begins summoning allies through the Horizon. Unless it is stopped, it will have killed all of the Bellerophonians and used the Realm as a beachhead for an invasion of Earth. Any one trying to use the Sphere of Time to understand its nature will have a difficult time in the Horizon Realm.
  5. One of Dr. Shih's experiments goes hideously awry and the plants in the electrohydroponic chambers attempt to take over the Tower. Can anybody keep Bellerophon Tower from becoming a Little Shop of Horrors?
  6. After consulting the alien Xenologic bio-computer Dr. Lichtenstein falls into a coma. Professor Gordon Laws takes advantage of the situation and raises support for converting Bellerophon Tower into a war chantry. Can the players stop this runaway train before the woefully outgunned group starts something they can't finish with the Technocracy?
  7. Professor Etienne Deveraux's odd behaviour has increased lately. His explanations of his solitary trips into the desert don't match up and the system upgrades he's passed to Jane "B-Loop", although they initially excited her, are now making her worry about a software system that has grown too complicated for her to manage. Is the Xenologic computer using Etienne to further its own plans?