Other note to self: make it so that it's not like this one either: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=88&start=50#1062
Draft 6:
Validity: doesn't ban WMDs
Description: @@NAME@@ has developed a revolutionary submarine that is almost impossible to track and even detect, and can fire nuclear warheads! Unfortunately, while testing it, noxious fumes killed everyone onboard, leaving the sub to head straight toward Blackacre.
Option 1: Your minister of defense slams a fist on the table. "We can't risk having our secret technology captured! The only way to avoid it is to blow a hole in the sub, leaving it to sink and never be found again. Now hopefully we don't hit the nuke... but that probably won't happen."
Result: years and billions of @@CURRENCY@@ have been blown to the bottom of the ocean.
Option 2: "That's billions of @@CURRENCY@@ and years of effort wasted!" your minister of cost-cutting exclaims. "We must send a special team equipped with gas masks in to steer it to the nearest island, where we can then determine what went wrong! Never mind that the island has been cut off from civilization because of the wildlife that mysteriously dies whenever humans visit it. You want nukes or baby seals? Wait. That's not what I meant..."
Result: @@NAME@@ claims that @@ANIMAL@@s has been extinct for years.
Option 3: A tech monitoring the submarine suddenly bursts into the room. "We have to let it go! That sub just sailed into Blackacre's waters! If we go to retrieve it, they'll declare war! Just let them take it and tell them it was a gift from us to them. And tell them to ignore the dead bodies."
Result: TV watchers are horrified when Blackacre national news shows dead bodies in @@NAME@@'s 'gift'.
Option 4: An odd looking man suddenly appears out of nowhere and slams into your table, startling everyone. "My teleporter actually work - AUGH!" He jumps backward, stumbling over his hand which is now attached to his foot. "Ignore that, @@LEADER@@, I can fix your problems! My teleporter can just whisk this time bomb wherever you want, even into space! It might horribly malfunction but that probably won't happen."
Result: @@LEADER@@ is now surreptitiously being evacuated to a bomb shelter.