The Sally Rivers Show

The Sally Rivers Show

The Appearance:

 A typical, ordinary, daytime talk show with a demographic skewed towards out-of-work black people and poor white trash. Most of the shows are geared towards incendiary topics to stimulate argument with the guests, audience and professional "experts" The hostess of the program is, of course, a bubbly vivacious young woman with no training, an occasional weight problem, a tendency to man-bash, and a penchant for asking "have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife-yet?" questions.

It's rude, It's crude, and It's rating are going through the roof....

The Reality:

Sally Rivers is the result of a test marketing of "GET THIN" pills. they were discontinued because the Fomor that they were creating were wildly unstable.

Sally is one of the few success stories. She has a unique fomori power in that she brings out the absolute worst qualities in people without becoming an obvious target. The program airs on OMNI-TV and is beginning to garner an insane amount of the market share. The Program also acts as a platform for many books put out by so-called self-help experts which actually are extremely damaging. Many of these books are put out by Dawnbreak press.(a subsidiary of Vesuvius Publishing)

Many audience participants are dosed with minute amounts of Fomorach.(candy given out before the show.) Guests on Sally's show usually alternate between, paid actors, attention seeking weirdoes, who will lie about anything to get on T.V. and a few people with serious problems. These people usually go home shattered or worse than before.  Other people tend to have a massive cathartic reaction akin to participating in a "Two Minute Hate" which makes them want to go back for more.

Titles:

*You made love to my sister and I want you out!

*Bisexuals and the couples who love them.

*My child looks like a freak!

*My parent looks like a freak!

*You made love to my brother and I want you out!

*I married a Homosexual!  (Obviously not about Homosexuals in marriages with other homosexuals.)

*Secret Crush

*My girl is a slut!

*My boy is a dog!

*Young and Pregnant! (tied with Secret Crush for the cause of most suicides.)

*Safe Sex? I don't think so!

*That's not my Child!

*Strippers and their families.

* I want to tell you off! (part 23)

Campaign Use: This is what I call a "drop-in" Usually this show is one of those things that is background noise in the World of Darkness. Hollow Ones watch it for fun, Caitiff watch it to feel better about themselves. and it's on the T.V. at the house of any poor person that the characters visit. This is one of those things that may never develop into an adventure at all....However

If you've laid the groundwork when the truth becomes known it should shock the P.C.'s into action just by its utter pervasiveness if not by its sheer insidious nature.

It'll generally go like this, The characters befriend someone who likes the show or maybe has a real problem. Maybe the N.P.C. is one of the assorted hangers-on of a Hollow One's cabal who's one of those aforementioned attention seeking weirdo's. They go to the show, get dosed with fomorach (in minute increments) and either go through withdrawal or they go back to the show...over and over again. Soon it becomes a problem as the Fomorach begins to twist them up inside. Only characters with hearts of stone will ignore this hideous transformation. Verbena will go buck wild when they hear about this.So will local Garou. And of course, it's always possible that when they go to deal with the problem they might even find themselves working at cross purposes just long enough for a Pentex Strike team to turn up.