Ancient History
Dec 24 2007, 04:06 AM
Neon lights reflect off shiny green wrapping like verdigris and ancient chrome. A ribbon the color of old blood ends in a bow more complicated than the virginity knot of a trained geisha. The package Mr. Johnson hands you is the size and heft of an adobe brick.
Micromillimeter radar bounces and bores through the foil, returning useless garbled crap in your image link. The chemsniffers have gone mad and question marks sidescroll along the bottom of your vision. You don't have to take a sniff to know your enhanced olfactory vision won't reveal a thing. Next to you in the booth, the shaman has started to whimper like a wounded dog and shy into the corner, as far away from it as possible.
Not that you expected anything less. You don't have to ask what's in it. You already know.
Fruitcake.
toturi
Dec 24 2007, 04:10 AM
And Merry Christmas to you too.
apollo124
Dec 24 2007, 05:36 AM
And the 100

question is...to whom does it go now?
kzt
Dec 24 2007, 06:04 AM
It's not soy.
BookWyrm
Dec 24 2007, 06:23 AM
Obviously it's going to someone the Mr. Johnson doesn't like.
hobgoblin
Dec 24 2007, 09:52 AM
those lizards and their mind games, bah humbug...
knasser
Dec 24 2007, 10:44 AM
Nice one.
Someday, I'm going to send my players on the Fruitcake run just for the degree to which it will mess with their minds.
Ancient History
Dec 24 2007, 05:01 PM
I may be alone in having worked up stats for the Fruitcake.
Rotbart van Dainig
Dec 24 2007, 05:11 PM
QUOTE (Ancient History) |
I may be alone in having worked up stats for the Fruitcake. |
That happens to things left in the fridge for too long...
Magus
Dec 24 2007, 05:22 PM
Where is the fruitcake run? I remember reading it once upon a time.
Aaron
Dec 24 2007, 05:28 PM
After all this time, it even has a flavor in astral space.
Ophis
Dec 24 2007, 05:59 PM
QUOTE (Ancient History) |
I may be alone in having worked up stats for the Fruitcake. |
Care to share them sir?
Happy Yuletide to all.
Ancient History
Dec 24 2007, 06:39 PM
[ Spoiler ]
Dunkelzahn's Fruitcake
Duration: Essence + 1d6 hours, maximum 12 hours.
Effects: This dual-nature fruitcake may be consumed by astral forms. The magical compound extends the amount of time an astrally projecting magician or spirit with Evanescence may sustain itself on the astral plane (before returning to their body or losing Force, respectively) by its duration.
Description: At the end of the duration, if a metahuman consumer has not returned to their body yet, they must make a successful Essence + Magic (4) Test or slip into a coma that lasts 1d6 weeks, during which they transform into a drake.
Exotic Ingredients: One unique radical of earth, one unique radical of water, and one unique radical of dragon's blood.
Alamaise' Fruitcake
Duration: Essence + 1d6 hours, maximum 12 hours.
Effects: The cake-eater immediately possessed (no test) by a Great Form ancestor spirit (Force 2d6), which engages in hedonistic and licentious behavior.
Description: At the end of the duration, the possession immediately ends, the cake-eater falls unconscious (if not there already), and all memories of the possession are erased from their mind. These memories cannot be recovered by any means, technological or magical. Any children conceived during the possession will be elves.
Exotic Ingredients: Three natural radical laésal fruit.
Magus
Dec 24 2007, 06:57 PM
So that is the Origen of Fortune? His father ate Alamaise's Fruitcake!!
Woweee.
apollo124
Dec 24 2007, 06:58 PM
So I ask again...Who's fruitcake is it, anyway? Ghostwalker?
Although, I'm not sure if I would try the one he would probably send back, he creeps me out.
Fortune
Dec 24 2007, 08:40 PM
QUOTE (Magus) |
So that is the Origen of Fortune? His father ate Alamaise's Fruitcake!! |
Never dine with a Dragon.
Kyoto Kid
Dec 24 2007, 09:09 PM
...I'd hate to even imagine the one Harlequin bakes up. Send you on another metaplanar quest to take on the legion of Evil Shedim Santas or something like that.
BTW
Happy Christmas to all
"...oh, and pilgrim, never, ever trust an elf...especially them ones who say they only make the toys."
Spike
Dec 25 2007, 05:37 AM
Just for that I will be personally sending each and every one of you exactly ONE loaf of my Great Grandmother's Secret Recepie Fruit Cake.
Which I, for one, happen to love.
But if, by this time next year, you have not actually EATEN the GGSRFC, feel free to mail it to someone else on this forum, I assure you that while it may no longer be moist and chewy, it is still quite edible.
Depending upon how you, personally, define 'edible'.
Ryu
Dec 25 2007, 09:00 AM
Happy X-Mass days and good run-free loot for you all!
I want the GGSRFC-recipe, too!
Ophis
Dec 25 2007, 01:01 PM
Thanks for that AH. Now I want to find and eat the big D version. After learning to Astral Project.
ElFenrir
Dec 25 2007, 02:50 PM
Those fruitcakes actually sound fun. Im surprised, though, that they havn't began using fruitcake to rebuild the Barrens in lieu of plascrete.
And merry christmas all, hyvää joulua.
MITJA3000+
Dec 25 2007, 03:30 PM
Come on AH, tell us who's playing the fruitcake-game with Alamais now?
QUOTE (ElFenrir) |
And merry christmas all, hyvää joulua. |
HYVÄÄ JOULUA! Ja onnellista uutta vuotta.
Merry Christmas.
hyzmarca
Dec 25 2007, 03:34 PM
QUOTE (Ancient History @ Dec 24 2007, 01:39 PM) |
[ Spoiler ] Dunkelzahn's Fruitcake Duration: Essence + 1d6 hours, maximum 12 hours. Effects: This dual-nature fruitcake may be consumed by astral forms. The magical compound extends the amount of time an astrally projecting magician or spirit with Evanescence may sustain itself on the astral plane (before returning to their body or losing Force, respectively) by its duration. Description: At the end of the duration, if a metahuman consumer has not returned to their body yet, they must make a successful Essence + Magic (4) Test or slip into a coma that lasts 1d6 weeks, during which they transform into a drake. Exotic Ingredients: One unique radical of earth, one unique radical of water, and one unique radical of dragon's blood.
Alamaise' Fruitcake Duration: Essence + 1d6 hours, maximum 12 hours. Effects: The cake-eater immediately possessed (no test) by a Great Form ancestor spirit (Force 2d6), which engages in hedonistic and licentious behavior. Description: At the end of the duration, the possession immediately ends, the cake-eater falls unconscious (if not there already), and all memories of the possession are erased from their mind. These memories cannot be recovered by any means, technological or magical. Any children conceived during the possession will be elves. Exotic Ingredients: Three natural radical laésal fruit.
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But what are their Barrier Ratings?
Ancient History
Dec 25 2007, 05:09 PM
You can cut it with a monosword.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
Fortune
Dec 25 2007, 05:31 PM
Ho Ho Ho!
Gotta ask Santa for a Minigun next year.
Zhan Shi
Dec 26 2007, 01:03 AM
There is an apocryphal story from the American Revolution. Supposedly, the Marquis de Lafayette reported to George Washington that the army was running low on ammunition. Washington replied, "We have plenty of fruitcake, don't we? Make use of it."
BookWyrm
Dec 26 2007, 01:53 AM
QUOTE (Fortune) |
QUOTE (Magus @ Dec 25 2007, 04:57 AM) | So that is the Origen of Fortune? His father ate Alamaise's Fruitcake!! |
Never dine with a Dragon.  |
Or if you do, at least have
this &
this.
apollo124
Dec 30 2007, 01:00 PM
My God, you can find anything online, can't you?
knasser
Dec 30 2007, 05:29 PM
QUOTE (apollo124) |
My God, you can find anything online, can't you? |
Whipstitch
Dec 30 2007, 05:48 PM
Ah yes, Archie McPhee.
I've always been fond of the
Avenging Unicorn Playset
Eurotroll
Dec 31 2007, 01:50 AM
The cake is a lie.
BookWyrm
Jan 6 2008, 01:52 AM
All praise to McPhee.com!
My GF gave me the Freeloader Fork as a thank-you last year, and when she told me a vendor in Coney Island had the Sneaky Spoon, the next chance I had to get out there & went & picked it up.
Magus
Jan 7 2008, 02:24 PM
So can anyone point me to where I can find this run? I would love to send my runners thru this. I am going to have to change it up a bit as our games are based in London.
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