Turning it into a horror setting
Turning it into a horror setting posted in Gamma World forum comment posted by derek_holland The heroes find a small settlement where all the inhabitants have recently become addicted to a weird behavior or object. It becomes all consuming within a few days and they will die from dehydration if a cure isn't discovered.
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An intelligent Fortean storm is following the heroes and dropping phobia-inducing things on them. Seeing one's own deformed clones moaning in pain is nightmare fuel (and that is the least weird thing).
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The heroes were captured for fighting in arena. All the gladiators get crappy cyberware and are experiments for a mad scientist.
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A vehicle recently discovered by the heroes will take them anywhere they want for it has more fuel than they have ever seen in their lives. The price is high- it will keep one of their number as a pet and to perform maintenance as it is needed.
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Several buildings collapse around the heroes, leaving them alive and buried in rubble. They can then hear squeekers using their sonic attacks to pulverize the broken duracrete as they search for prey.
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A glow cube emits a flash of light when someone firing a laser weapon nearby suffers a Critical Failure. The flash activates the combat training in nearby animals and plants with fleshy eyes.
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The heroes discover a common action has changed significantly and do not remember when or why. It could be handshakes have been replaced by loud clapping, one replaces a power cell with the off hand (and thus the artifact suffers a penalty to its functions), mourning is a time for fist fights, or starting a fire begins with a supplication to the Ancients. Soon more changes occur...
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A mutant with Planar Travel opens a portal to a reality that is populated by living, swarming weapons. A horde of them spill onto Gamma Terra and attack everything as they have no understanding of this reality.
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A new mutation modifier is Dietary Requirement. Those not consuming the needed food and still use the mutation suffer Fatigue damage.
To make this horrific, make it a choice for the player and part of a parasite mutation. They can get this incredible power but the price is likewise incredibly steep and disgusting.
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Duplicates of the heroes are found to be termite mechs. Once they have been discovered and broken, some SCMs will wonder of the heroes are just more termite mechs hiding in plain sight.
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