 He went in that creepy house., they always do man, they always do. |
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Prime Runner  Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221  |
Ever notice the world seems studded with creepy houses for heros to enter-Scooby Doo, Abott and Costello, bad slasher flicks.
Have you ever run into one of these? if so what were the conditions? |
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Mar 12 2007, 02:30 AM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
there's a few around chicagoland. some operahouses, a few "Phantom houses" (only show up at such-and-such a time/condition).
never felt like actively seeking paranormal trouble. |
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Mar 12 2007, 04:17 AM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,950 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
Quite a few actually. Many times the elderly owners died and the estate took time to settle or when it did, the inheritors didn't want to move in and the place was put up for sale. Many times the property needed repairs or modernized, or at least the grounds cleaned up and trimmed. The conditions made them look overpriced. A bunch of older empty homes are in what used to be the wealthy part of town a hundred years ago or more when they were built. Some are being restored, but many are empty and will stay that way for a while as they are in high crime areas. The homeless will camp out in them and relieve themselves where they feel like it, as the plumbing is many times looted for scrap copper, and the water has long been turned off. A friend inherited one of these old mansions and said the entire inside had been stripped of anythin of value - things like light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, copper pipe and wire, the staircase, moldings, etc.. It was in a historic district, so he couldn't even tear it down. The city gets a bunch like that for back taxes. |
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Mar 12 2007, 05:15 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Yeah, as a rule of thumb I'd be less concerned about ghosts when entering a creepy house and more about any of the following:
1.) Falling through a floor and breaking a leg 2.) Stepping in squatter poo 3.) Having a drug crazed squatter stab me with a shard of glass and eat my innards 4.) Ghouls |
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Mar 12 2007, 05:21 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 27-October 05 From: Waterloo, ON Member No.: 7,900 |
That'll happen.
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Mar 12 2007, 06:22 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,102 Joined: 23-March 04 From: The Grizzly Grunion, in a VIP room. Member No.: 6,191 |
Also, you can never be too careful about Grue attacks.
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Mar 12 2007, 06:53 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Please bring this to a Shadowrun topic .
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Mar 12 2007, 07:29 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
That's why I mentioned the ghouls. In SR abandoned buildings are filled with ghouls. And they eat you. |
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Mar 12 2007, 07:45 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
:D *no ghoul emoticon. Pretend the teeth are pointy.*
* Makes not:Need ghoul emoticon* |
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Mar 12 2007, 08:18 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 |
First rule of Shadowrunning: No matter how tempting the loot may be, never do something that would probably get a trideo character killed. This includes wearing a red uniform on your first mission with a group of experienced vets, letting your defeated foe have one last request, gloating, expositioning, employing elaborate automated deathtraps, and exploring creepy houses.
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Mar 12 2007, 12:05 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
How do Shadowrunners explore creepy houses?
They burn them down/blow them up with rockets from outside and sift through the remains for anything of value. |
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Mar 12 2007, 02:27 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
That's what I was going to suggest too. Exploration by explosives. :-)
This reminds me of a scene from one of the Harry Dresden novels (yeah, yeah, it's not bad actually). [ Spoiler ]
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Mar 12 2007, 03:23 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,950 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
In SR there are going to be a bunch of derelict buildings due to relocation after the tribal victory, due to VITAS and then the crash making it impossible to locate heirs, and even due to goblinization as the house next door stands empty for a week and then some ork or troll shows up claiming to be the previous owner - even going so far as to present the former ownes ID, which loks nothing like the trog who no doubt mugged your poor neighbor to get it and the keys to his house..
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Mar 12 2007, 05:13 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
That is the best idea I've ever heard. "Yeah, dat's me. I wuz Ste-fen Haw-king. I got bigger. Yous wanna take da keys from me?" Even if the troll has logic 6, I think that's the voice that should be used, for effect. ;) |
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Mar 12 2007, 05:42 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,462 Joined: 31-December 06 Member No.: 10,502 |
In real life you get lots of abandond houses out in the country. Rural populations are dropping and so old farmsteads and the like go abandond. When I was a kid we would sometimes go out to a place like that. It was mostly sound but had split in two roughly down the middle so you had to jump from one side to the other.
In SR the less structurally sound buildings in barrenish areas would be abandond as even squatters wouldn't want to stay there. Also there are some high rises in squatter areas. And I'm betting squaters don't do more than six floors of stairs. Finally I'm betting between VITAS, mass relocations and the fact many Native American tribes went back to basics there are probably whole ghost towns out in those territories. |
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Mar 12 2007, 05:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 14-January 07 From: Zurich Orbital Member No.: 10,642 |
Towns, heck, I would imagine some smaller cities going abandoned...
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Mar 12 2007, 08:02 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
when i was in third grade, i spent an entire day in a creepy abandoned house, skipping school with some sixth-graders. it was actually really, really boring, after the initial thrill.
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Mar 12 2007, 08:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
It doesn't even have to be the country. In Austin, there are any number of abandoned houses just on the edges of town. Not 5 minutes south of me, still within city limits, there are at least 10 abandoned buildings in various states of disrepair. They just finished bulldozing an old vanilla extract plant that was *creepy* as anything. |
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Mar 12 2007, 11:52 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Heck, in Baltimore there are entire blocks of abandoned old rowhouses. Just bad houses in bad neighborhoods. I would call any of them 'creepy'. All the windows are busted out and a quarter of them the second floor has collapsed into the ground floor. But there are plenty of them, and they're well within city limits.
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Mar 13 2007, 12:00 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...one of the creepiest houses I know of is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC...
if the walls there could only talk... |
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Mar 13 2007, 02:10 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Well in the urban abandoned places that's where you *are* more likely to find squatters and/or gang members. |
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Mar 13 2007, 03:04 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
I recall reading somewhere of a group of Call of Cthulhu players who took that approach to an investigation. When they were done, they returned to their van, feeling quite pleased with themselves, and discovered that while they'd been distracted playing urban renewal on the creepy house, something had come by and peeled the top off the van like a sardine can. |
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Mar 13 2007, 03:29 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
975 Things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG: #38: When investigating evil cultists not allowed to just torch the decrepit mansion from the outside. #566. When confronted with a haunted house with bleeding walls, no converting it into a self supporting blood bank. #694. Search the old castle means enter it, not level it with artillery and dig through the rubble. :D |
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Mar 13 2007, 04:46 AM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
frankly that's a lot easier to do in Delta Green than in Call of Cthulu. You can't call in Snake And Nape in the 1920s.
Portable nukes are also a favorite, but I like to save them for special occasions. |
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Mar 13 2007, 03:00 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...I don't know, a couple of revolutionaries with some well placed molotovs could burn most old houses of the day down. As "insulation" back then a lot of victorians were built with paper between the outer and inner walls and the wood used was usually rather dry. Also lath & plaster burns much more readily than gypsum board, as do lace and velour curtains (there was no flame retardant treated fabric back then and at best, early extinguishers here hand pumped "soda" units that were fairly ineffective once even a small a fire really got going). True it took longer but it usually was thorough since most fire departments were literally "bucket brigades" and hose pumpers were steam or human powered. Police departments then also didn't have arson or CSI units. If the house was fairly "new fangled" it also had piped in gas. A break in a line + a molotov = *boom* Yes, I've played a bit of CoC and on our last assigmnment we did just that. |
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