I am doing a little one-on-one game of Shadowrun. My regular D&D group is not interested in Shadowrun so a friend and I are going it alone. I have found that only having one player means that I get to concentrate more on that player and developing his story. It works for both of us.
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Anyhow, here is my dilemma. I want to screw with his mind. (He takes a sick pleasure in f'ing with characters in his games, I want to return the favor, while still making it fun.) Luckily for me, his character has amnesia, is also prone to flashbacks, and has a dark secret. I have a lot to work with.
His character is going to wake up in a hospital. (That much I already established with him.)
So, where to next? I have a few ideas and I will detail them (with ***) now.
***His character was/is apart of a Lone Star. He was a undercover detective that was good at his work. He was quietly being recruited by another agency (Knight Errant possibly) and his boss got wind of it. An accident of some sort put him in the hospital. That accident may have been during an attempted meeting with the other agency, or non-related.
***He was a team lead for an elite, not-supposed-to-exist, black ops force (like the one being re-instituted by Lone Star). His job was to acquire outside workers (mercenaries) and take care of agency related shadow 'business'. While on an assignment, he discovers something very big, bad, and important about a megacorp, government agency, or his own agency.
***Someone decides he needs to die. (Possibly because he knows something he should not. Read above...) In the battle, several people go down, law enforcement arrives, etc... He happens to be carrying several forms of identification (due to his undercover work, perhaps) and gets picked up and taken to the hospital. He is admitted under an alternate name. That special someone that wants him dead is confused, frustrated, but let's the issue go when he does not show up for several months. Meanwhile, he sits in a coma...
***He is enlisted military that went AWOL. (Think A-Team) Somewhere along the line, something went wrong and he got severely hurt and hospitalized.
Anyhow, these are a few ideas that I have been working on. The hardest part is keeping in mind that he will have no memory prior to waking up in the hospital.
I also have not decided whether or not to have him roleplay out his flashbacks. It could be fun for him, but I think I may lose creative control of my plot if I do.
Also, in addition to all of this is his Dark Secret. I am thinking it should all be related so I can map it all into a big conspiracy, but if you have a better idea, it doesn't have to be.
Thanks for your time. =)