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Rogue
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Since: 08-17-04

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Posted on 07-14-06 04:29 PM Link | Quote
This is a little game, but not just a describe the "Person above you" or "Don't you hate when...?" thread.

This is a game where the person above you poses a scenario and you, the next poster, MUST come up with a way to solve the problem.

After proposing a solution, you must also provide a problem for the next person to solve.

Make the problem as complicated or ridiculous as you will, but do try to make it interesting. Posting something like "Your mother is dying. What do you do?" is a rather broad, and quite lame, scenario. What can one really say to that?

But... when you pose, "Your mother has been poisoned by an obscure spider venom. It just so happens that a local liquor store happens to carry an antidote. You have a 1 hour window to get the antidote to her before the venom cannot be remedied. If you fail to reach her in time, her skin will break out into painful, infectious boils and she will have a gruesome and tragic end, suffering for hours before finally kicking the bucket.

Your car has been in the shop for the past week and with no bicycle, skateboard, Segway or any other form of self-transportation in sight, you must reach the store which is 5 miles away using another method.

The local cab company would take 45 minutes to send you a cab, and the next bus doesn't come for another 25 with a 30 minute trip around the city before getting even remotely near the store.

The local hospital doesn't have the antidote and due to a 757 plane crash on the other side of town, the ambulance company is backed up for hours and probably will not reach you until it is far too late.

What do you do?" is a much better scenario.

Now a few ground rules:
  • You MUST find a solution to the problem. In the case of the poisoned mother, you cannot simply say, "Well I hate my mother anyway" or "I'd shoot her to put her out of her misery" or "I'd call the mysterious and delicious misunderstood super hero, Taco Man, to come help." You cannot just walk away from the problem--where's the fun in that?

  • Whatever the person above you describes, you must take as fact, no matter how impossible or unrealistic the problem or parts of it might be. Work with what you're given. If you get a lame scenario or one you simply can't solve, work with it. Make your answer complex. No lives are really on the line, but you never know, one day you just might have to face a 20-foot tall, walking-talking statue of Jesus Christ with laser deathrays for eyes, who's bent on taking over the world and you're the only who can solve humanity.

    Also take into consideration, that if it is not specified, then it can be however you make it, but in realistic terms. Example: Your lost in the woods. It is not specified what is in your pockets. So you might "suddenly" remember that you have a compass and a pocket knife.

  • Your character does not have super powers. So no time control. No teleportation. No super strength. No telekinesis. No flying or running at the speed of light. Nothing. You are completely and painfully mortal, my friend.

  • Be somewhat realistic in your answer. Even if the problem is too fantastic to be real, you must answer it as though, you yourself is in your character's place. If you come face to face with a great white shark, I doubt you'd be able to out-swim it. If you need to look up ways to beat it on another website, all the better. The more creative and feasible your answer, the more fun the game gets.

  • Not all of the problems have to be about possible death or injury, but simply that you've been place in a situation where you just happen to have extremely rotten luck and you have to deal with it. Possible problems could be about work, school, relationships, drama with friends, going to the bathroom, getting in trouble with the law, you name it. The more shocking and embarrassing the scenario, the better.



Now for a problem for the next person to solve:

Your work has decided to send you on an all-expenses paid trip to sunny Big, Angry Volcano Island of Death. Don't worry, it's just a name (it's actually a penisula).

While there, you soak up some of the local color and meet a girl with whom you fall deeply and passionately in love, even if you just met her and she just put the lei on you when you got off the plane.

She invites you to come visit her little village, of which she is the chief's daughter, several miles outside of town in the middle of the jungle to do a little bit of sightseeing. Upon arriving, you are welcomed with open arms like a golden gold descending upon the lost children of civilization seeking salvation. They have a feast to honor you, seat you with the chief who drinks several toasts to you, and afterwards they give you the biggest hut they have for you to stay in.

The chief's daughter and you have hot, animal sex the whole night long and you fall asleep gratified and in wonder of your new found fortune.

When you awaken, you find yourself tied, naked and covered in tribal paint, to a stake at the edge of a bubbling volcano, the chief's daughter dancing naked around you and all of the villagers chanting in a language you obviously do not understand. It's implied that they mean to sacrifice you to a volcano god of sorts.

As tradition goes, they will leave you there for a few hours, but return later with ritual daggers with which to peel away your skin and drop you into the lava.

After they have left, you are alone with none but the smell of sulfur and brimstone for company.

What do you do?
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