Dread: Part Seven
I’ve let this one bubble up a little bit since Charlie’s hard luck run at the hands of Pop’s during the Barrier Peaks episode and I hope you’ll not be too hard too Charlie. He’s human and took a a little joy from this but don’t worry, he’s not really grudging the group. The chemical payload triggering at 10 minutes was planned and well, from here on shit gets pretty real game-wise.
Hey let’s announce some Dread contest winners! First things first, there were a LOT of awesome entries and I actually enlisted the aid of Top People to help with the judging process once I narrowed down to a dozen of my favorites. That said, I’d like to thank you all for entering and I hope to run more of these kinds of contests in the near future. If you are a winning entry, shoot me an email with your mailing address so we can get the prizes on their way!
1) From Clifton: You few samurai survived the battle that crushed your lord, and fled into the mountains to safety – but something is in the woods with you.
2) From The Chatty DM: Lovecraftian Prison, all characters try to escape. Twist: Everyone’s an aspect of the same person imprisoned in a cultists’ corrupted mind.
3) From Cirlot: You wake from cyro into zero-g and frozen drops of crimson tumbling through a dead ship. Outside the glass you don’t see Sol. You don’t see anything.
I started writing out honorable mentions but then it hit a dozen and I decided to just reinforce there were a TON of great entries.
A little bummed out I didn’t win, but I will admit… those are pretty good scenarios.
Those would all be fantastic scenarios in ANY system. Well done!
#3 sounds like Event Horizon. Not that this is a bad thing. That would be downright awesome to RP!
A dimension of ultimate chaos, and ultimate evil.
Meanwhile, in said dimension…
Demon 1: Boy, we sure are chaotic and evil over here, in this dimension.
Demon 2: You said it. I hope some humans finally develop space travel and fall through a black hole, so we can put eyeballs on their fingers, or something similarly chaotic and evil.
Demon 1: Yep.
Demon 2: Yep.
Heh, yeah, definitely some Event Horizon influence in it – equal parts that and Pandorum I think, or rather, the first act of Pandorum before the dropped the psychological horror for more conventional scares. I liked the idea of there being something obviously wrong both inside and outside the ship at the same time from the start: you get the physical threat (something/someone is INSIDE THE SHIP!) plus the existential threat (there are no stars, no points of light – there is only The Nothing! ALL WE KNOW IS WRONG!!!) for a nice splatterpunk/lovecraftian mashup while at the same time opening up the players to the idea that it’s not just Science in their SF horror.
Good choices, Brian. They would be great if mine had been chosen though. Just kidding! 😉
Congrats to “Chosen”!
Ooh I really like that cultist one. That sounds fun.
My guess as to where this is heading:
The room next to theirs has an identical tank that is currently counting down too, and has 20 min left. So, when the tank in this room hits zero, the tank in the next room floods their room, killing them.
They need to trick the people in the next room into smashing their own tank, killing themselves, so the liquid doesn’t flow into this room.
all 3 winning entries are movies i’ve seen
I guess that will make running any of the 3 selections that much easier, should you choose to do so.
All three sound really good, esp. the last one.
Woooo!!!
Please feel free to use any of my ideas in any of your games you like. I was having fun. Email on the way…
I too quite enjoyed the contest, and if anyone decides to use or publish my ideas, just kindly give me credit, as I’m trying to push my Erdos number down below the 9 or 10 I currently have.
Brian, feel free to use my entry…well, 3 times a week. 😉
Wait, minutes? I thought it was counting hours:minutes:seconds. I guess this explains why it’s counting down so quickly.
I love when you do in-game storylines. They’re always excellent. 🙂