Games that you should never play, Movie rip off inspired by Jumanji. |
Games that you should never play, Movie rip off inspired by Jumanji. |
Nov 15 2005, 07:42 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
As Sam knew that buying magical artifacts from an online auction was always a crapshoot yet he couldn't help be dissapointed as he sifted through box after box of useless junk. He had bid a small fortune on a "collection of infernal tomes and heirlooms from the estate of Allister Crowley's last scion". What he has recieved nearly two dozen boxes full of worthless mundane trinkets and old H.P. Lovecraft books.
Occasionally he would find a serious magical text in the collection of junk only to be dissapointed again by the content. There were explicit textbooks on tantric metamagic, an annotated magician's edition of the Kama Sutra, a instruction manual on turning an adept into a twisted sex slave, and several volumes on sexual congress between astral forms. While interesting, none of these could provide material for a Masters Thesis titled "The Dead and You: Magicial interactions with the deceased." He had hoped that these boxes would contain a trove of old school necromancy. As he pulls yet another H.P. Lovecraft novel out of a box and throws it aside, Sam spies a faint glow on the astral plane. Sam digs beeper into the box, hunting out the magically active artifact. What he finds is an ornate hardwood box, with the name "Monopoly" clearly inscribed into its top. Opening the box reveals that it is, indeed, a Monopoly game. However, instead of having places for the community chest and chance cards it has two crystals. Those crystals are the source of the astral glow. Assensing reveals that they are indeed enchanted but doesn't reval the exact nature of the magic. The mana pattern resembles that of the divination metamagic ever so slightly but is very different. It seems that the crystals were supposed to replace the cards somehow. A cursery inspection of the rule book confirms this. Everywhere the word "card" should appear it is replaced with "magic eye." Sam inspects the came pieces one by one, placing them down on Go as he is finished. Each is made entirely from an alchemical radical of gold and are fairly hefty. They'd be worth the price he paid for the boxes by themselves. However, they were also tied into the enchantment somehow. The dice are made from the ivory of an awakened animal. Sam can't identify the species but the traces of critter magic are certainly there and they were tied to the same enchantment, as well. Sam decided that he would take the game to someone more knowledgable than he in the morning. and droped the dice onto the board before closing the box. He didn't see the racecar move on its own. ------- In 2057 a brilliant but inane Parker Brothers employee saw that mundane board games could no longer compete with DNI based video games that are all but indistuniguishable from reality. He successfully lobbied for funds to magic up classic Parker Brothers board games in the hopes that enchantmments would give board games an edge over their electronic counterparts. The first protoype, a version of Risk, cost over half a million nuyen to manufacture. In order to make a reasonale profit they would have to sell them from (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) 850,000 each. No one would pay that much for a board game that normally costs less 19.99. There was also the incident where a playtester was shot with a flintlock musket. Due to the spectular failure of the enchanted board game concept, this visionary employee was fired. However, he continued to secretly make magical versions of popular board games with the help of an underground initatory group and taught his skills to others. For this reason a variety of such games can be found. All are dangerous. Recently, this magician has been hired by Milton Bradly and their are rumors that they are incorporiating a less expensive version of this magic into their new board game, Attack of the Horrors, due out this Christmas. ------------ There are many different metaplanes and many are influanced by human thought and culture. Some even take on the trappings of pop culture. There are metaplanes of trid shows. There are metaplanes of novels. There are even metaplanes of board games. These enchanted games serve as metaplaner gateways linking our physical world with the board game's metaplane. It can pull through as many spirits as are required to complete the game but none can be of a force greater than the force of the enchanted board. Spirits come through the gateway to enforce the games rules and makes its imaginary effects real. The spirits remain untill the game is finished regardless of anything else that happens. If they are disrupted they can return instantly and they cannot be destroyed so long as the board exists. If the board is destroyed any spirits that came through it remain but can be disrupted or destroyed normally. If the game is finished, all spirits return to their metaplane instantly. Games of a force greater than 8 can also physically pull people and objects into the metaplane. All of these games are dangerous. The spirits that come through follow the game's rules through the letter without regard to anyone's safety. People have been known to die while playing these games. Just recently, a little girl was eaten by a Burmese Python while playing an enchanted version of Snakes and Ladders. ---------- |
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Nov 15 2005, 07:59 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 11-November 05 From: Tri-Cities, WA - USA Member No.: 7,947 |
That's hilarious... and so, the cursed items shall be broken out when the players doth become bored, and there shalt be much crying and tearing of character sheets, and the GM shalt smile and say, "Time for a new campaign thou assholes!"
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Nov 15 2005, 08:04 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
This is twisted. I love it, bwaahaahaaaaah!
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Nov 15 2005, 10:10 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 |
Nice! Haven't seen Zathura yet (heard it's similiar to Jumanji, but that it's got a great 1st half but bogs down in the second.)
Might make for a neat one shot, however...Your characters are young punks who find the game and start playing just out of sheer boredom. (I.E. Compulsion to play game...which stops as soon as the game is over) I think I might try that to explore SR4 mechanics. muahahaha.... |
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Nov 15 2005, 12:13 PM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
hmm very nice idea.
would an enchanted monopoly use your actual money? I also start to wonder about the application of this to cheap ass games... |
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Nov 15 2005, 02:12 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 |
"Before I kill you, Mr. Bond..." *wince* |
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Nov 15 2005, 07:51 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 975 |
I could totally see a Kill Dr. Lucky SR game... Better yet, House on Haunted Hill! |
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Nov 15 2005, 08:33 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Of course, and it would leave a paper trail so the IRS would think you are a tax-evading real-estate tycoon. And Operation would force you to preform surgery on a real metahuman. |
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Nov 15 2005, 10:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 10-July 05 Member No.: 7,492 |
My players perform surgery on real meta-humans all the time. Well ... they mostly just make the insides the outside with large blades, but that's still surgery, right?
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Nov 15 2005, 10:51 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Spacial rearrangement surgery. It's all the rage these days. How do you get it? Just piss off someone with a Couger Fineblade, an Ares Combat Axe, or anyone with Dikoted anything.
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Nov 15 2005, 11:33 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Yeah, but in this case you lose a turn if the patient dies. |
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Nov 16 2005, 10:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 777 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,110 |
somebody's been reading Ancient History's dark personal journals, lol <3 |
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Nov 16 2005, 10:39 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
Hmm, munchkin, now that's the card game to play.
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Nov 16 2005, 10:44 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 11-November 05 From: Tri-Cities, WA - USA Member No.: 7,947 |
Now that would be... AWESOME!
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Nov 16 2005, 12:54 PM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
do you dikote a lot of your PC's? |
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Nov 16 2005, 01:16 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Dikote protects from pregnency and STDs and you just put it on once and leave it on. There is no need to worry about it. |
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Nov 17 2005, 01:25 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 |
Not if you knock on the door and encounter the Plutonium Dragon it ain't. |
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Nov 17 2005, 02:11 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
OMG! My DM finally found a way to get back at me for taking Allergy Uncommon & Moderate: Plutonium that didn't involve nuking the greater metropolitan area of Seattle.
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