| Author |
Message
|
| Rickton |
 Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: |
  |
|
BLUE
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
Posts: 1708
Service Group: R&D
|
After playing In Nomine with a group of people from this site, this one's really a natural.
Warning: Religious content?
PARANOIA is Other People (I'm terrible with names.)
The forces of evil are very, very real. They lurk in the shadows, tempting us and driving us to sin and commit evil. What's worse is that our sins actually create more of them. Murder, Adultery, Insurance Fraud -- when these mortal sins are committed, monstrous demons are born.
Of course, the smaller sins make demons too. A married man's eye lingering just a few seconds too long on a passing woman, a kid eating the last cooking and forgetting to throw away the package, the driver who gets slightly annoyed at the worse-than-average-but-not-that-terrible traffic. Even these tiny acts, so inconsequential we wouldn't even think of them as sins, can cause beings of evil to come into the world.
Of course, tiny sins bring about tiny demons, and in Hell, size matters.
Players take the role of "imps," the most pathetic demons in existence. Most imps usually just get used as a snack by bigger demons, but occasionally a Demon Lord has a suicide mission or incredibly trivial task it can't afford to send valuable powerful demons on, and so it puts together a group of imps and sends them on their way.
Of course, the imps have to deal with several other threats besides the potential lethality of the mission, their own incompetence, the whims of their patron, bigger demons who want to eat them, and Angels who could literally destroy them just by looking at them.
They're all treacherous scum. Hey, what else could you expect from the lowest of the low of Hell?
See, each Demon Lord has their own agenda, and frequently passes along secret goals to imps on a mission. Sometimes, imps might even be working for The Enemy, who's offered them a chance at redemption, You-Know-Who knows why. Maybe they're a Humanist, and want to protect humans or keep both divine and infernal influence off of them, though considering the humans are much more in control of their own lives than the imps are, that's a little dumb. But Imps don't tend to be very bright.
_________________
Pleasantville by Night, a horror-humor web game I created. Join a secret society and try to take over the city!
Sometimes I write stories too. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
| Toph - R - WDK |
| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
RED
 
Joined: 14 May 2008
Posts: 376
Service Group: CPU
|
For some reason, that makes me think of the PC game Dungeon Keeper...
_________________
Name: Toph-WDK
Wearing: Ripped Jumpsuit Pants, False Teeth
Holding: Two Brooms |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Adam-R-LON-1 |
| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
INDIGO
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
Posts: 3851
Service Group: HPD&MC
|
I really like this idea, mainly because having 'Sired by: Housewife sweeping dust under the carpet' on your character sheet is quite funny.
_________________
For the Glory of Friend Computer! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Zild |
| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
GREEN
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 1812
|
@Zombies:
| Quote: |
| Technically you just cross over the name of your dead survivor and write new name above it. |
That there just abouts sums up how Zappy the concept is, I'm afraid. No attempt to maintain a character or their plot arc, only 2D reasons for betraying their fellow players.
@Daemons:
Sweet idea, I'd love to hear more...
_________________
Blog: [DELETED FOR SECURITY REASONS] Is A Compliment |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Aratos |
| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
BLUE
Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 4621
Service Group: Power Services
|
| Zild wrote: |
@Zombies:
| Quote: |
| Technically you just cross over the name of your dead survivor and write new name above it. |
That there just abouts sums up how Zappy the concept is, I'm afraid. No attempt to maintain a character or their plot arc, only 2D reasons for betraying their fellow players.
|
You say it as if its a bad thing.
At the end of the day, zombie settings are the most fun you can have without monkeys.
_________________
Episode 5 info for Aratos-B-SCO-7
Wearing: Trenchcoat, blue jumpsuit, Esoteric Order of the Needlessly Pretentious Subnet Idiots Pin, Reflec
Carrying: Energy pistol and force sword |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Zild |
| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
GREEN
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 1812
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Aratos |
| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
BLUE
Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 4621
Service Group: Power Services
|
You don't want to get within breathing distance? I agree.
There's a factory workers idea with vying for promotion to supervisor floating around somewhere. Maybe office drones...
_________________
Episode 5 info for Aratos-B-SCO-7
Wearing: Trenchcoat, blue jumpsuit, Esoteric Order of the Needlessly Pretentious Subnet Idiots Pin, Reflec
Carrying: Energy pistol and force sword |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Scalene |
| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: |
|
|
BLUE
Joined: 06 Jul 2006
Posts: 1814
Service Group: Power Services
|
I've always thought a game set in a desert, with a limited supply of water might work. Players have reasons to hate each other.
Problem is giving players multiple lives.
_________________
¬_¬
  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Zild |
| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
GREEN
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 1812
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Silent |
| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
BLUE
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 2885
Service Group: HPD&MC
|
| Zild wrote: |
@Zombies:
| Quote: |
| Technically you just cross over the name of your dead survivor and write new name above it. |
That there just abouts sums up how Zappy the concept is, I'm afraid. No attempt to maintain a character or their plot arc, only 2D reasons for betraying their fellow players. |
Unless...
Let say your team occupies a Church and finds a Priest, a free character. But that Priest doesn't automatically serve as an extra "life". You have to earn that extra life, by convicing the Priest to accept your secret society objectives. The Priest is free to align himself to whatever Player he wants. Once that Player kicks the bucket, the Priest can step in and serve as an extra "life".
Of course, your secret society can send you free "lives" in the form of allies. And of course, your fellow comrades can go off and kill those extra "lives" just to make sure nobody can take advantage of them.
_________________
| Phial, in ARC wrote: |
| I know I'm a dummy but, I realised as recently as yesterday why the IC game is in PLN sector. |
Silent-B-PLN-6
Chief of Security(pending)
Works in: HPD&MC, Internal Security
Wearing: BLUE Jumpsuit
Silent-V-PLN-10 (deceased) Runs XAI Subsector |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Zild |
| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
GREEN
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 1812
|
But that idea is only suited to certain types of secret mission - for example, it does not suit a mission along the lines of "don't let the team find out you've been bitten" because he hasn't.
That said, I can see some merit in a setting (hell, an entirely separate game) where the sole purpose is to recruit NPCs for use as replacement PCs - especially given that your fellow players will be trying to do the same. Last idealogy standing wins!
_________________
Blog: [DELETED FOR SECURITY REASONS] Is A Compliment |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Silent |
| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
BLUE
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 2885
Service Group: HPD&MC
|
| Zild wrote: |
| But that idea is only suited to certain types of secret mission - for example, it does not suit a mission along the lines of "don't let the team find out you've been bitten" because he hasn't. |
...Unless the way to recruit the NPC is to bite him.
_________________
| Phial, in ARC wrote: |
| I know I'm a dummy but, I realised as recently as yesterday why the IC game is in PLN sector. |
Silent-B-PLN-6
Chief of Security(pending)
Works in: HPD&MC, Internal Security
Wearing: BLUE Jumpsuit
Silent-V-PLN-10 (deceased) Runs XAI Subsector |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Zild |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
GREEN
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 1812
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Aratos |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
BLUE
Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 4621
Service Group: Power Services
|
If zombies has enough interest, I say we go for it. Democratic system and all.
_________________
Episode 5 info for Aratos-B-SCO-7
Wearing: Trenchcoat, blue jumpsuit, Esoteric Order of the Needlessly Pretentious Subnet Idiots Pin, Reflec
Carrying: Energy pistol and force sword |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Zild |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
GREEN
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 1812
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
