Adventure Plots Up For Grabs

[Advocate]

Bureaucracy Adventure. Various typical office hijinks, intrigue and so on, but mostly just looking for ways to make people's lives more difficult and to make a rival department do the paperwork.

Or you can do like Roger Zelazny allegedly did in one of his novels, which is basically the same, but with ancient Egyptian gods and in space. I'm serious, there could be some real potential in a Celestial Bureaucracy Adventure, as long as the rules are sufficiently labyrinthine and the intrigue Byzantine enough to provide for at least a decent starting point as the protagonist stumbles around trying to undo the damage he will inevitably cause by acting under our guidance in time for an inspection.

Actually, Zelazny novels are a good source of adventure ideas in general, like say A Night in the Lonesome October (creepily heroic grave robbing adventure!), Today We Choose Faces (just for the concept of psychically interconnected, yet personally distinct clones having to deal with some sudden problem) or Isle of the Dead (one word: worldscaping).

[Avi]

A man and a woman: a pair of 70 year old spies.

[Eddie]

a boy stranded on a castle in the sky, sees a town and wants to see what it's like to be with other people and so has to construct a flying machine to get down. It'd have to be in a non modern setting. think Castle in the Sky by Miyazaki.

Also!

A man who lives in the tower outside of time finds a dead body. he has to find out what happened using his windows to the past and stop the cosmic, timeless horror that caused it. also the body is his, he just doesn't realize it yet. think eternal darkness.

[Languidiir]

Bill Murray is a news reporter who has to do a report on Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. After grudgingly finishing the report, him and his crew find that a blizzard is moving in and they cannot leave for another day. However, when he wakes up in the morning, he finds that it's Groundhog Day again!! Bill has to keep repeating the day until he gets it right, at which point the cycle is broken. Think Super Mario 64.

[omegawill]

Deep in the australian wilderness, there is an old, forgotten army base. A military experiment gone wrong. This summer, one man becomes... Crocodile Humvee. Also, it's an adventure for some reason. YOU DO IT.

[Avi]

Secret guild which regulates fights between people on stilts

[omegawill]

Secret guild which regulates fights between people on stilts

[center:1v70qv3j]He may be a loser, but he is...



STILT RYAN![/center:1v70qv3j]

[Tam Lin]

<Cain> No... I never killed anyone
<Cain> My brother...
<Cain> He wanted heaven for himself
<Cain> Thought he could forsake his body by killing himself
<Cain> The ground hates me for manipulating it. For using it to provide for myself.
<Cain> God had judged too early.
<Cain> What the book says is not true.
<Cain> We never left Eden.
<Cain> Instead, it is our prison.
<Cain> The angel blocks not the way into Eden, but the way out.

[CheeseDeluxe]

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<Cain> No... I never killed anyone
<Cain> My brother...
<Cain> He wanted heaven for himself
<Cain> Thought he could forsake his body by killing himself
<Cain> The ground hates me for manipulating it. For using it to provide for myself.
<Cain> God had judged too early.
<Cain> What the book says is not true.
<Cain> We never left Eden.
<Cain> Instead, it is our prison.
<Cain> The angel blocks not the way into Eden, but the way out.

...woah.

Global "capture-the-flag"-type thing involving intelligence between two rival companies. This battle resulted in Coca-Cola being invented.

[goggleman64]

Okay, so you play as the wisdom teeth in this guy's mouth. You have no motor skills, but you can sense whatever your owner senses, you can intercommunicate through his NERVES, and you have specific individual MENTAL POWERS:

Stefan Tooth: Controls the American stock exchange.
Thornton Tooth: Controls whether it rains.
Krong Tooth: Controls the gas mileage of any particular car.
Gregory Tooth: Controls the scent of peppermint. Entirely.

What you have to do is prevent your owner from seeing the dentist and getting his wisdom teeth (you) removed.

To make this adventure, you would need to know how to draw the inside of a mouth, and would also have to be comfortable drawing a lot of different backgrounds around the world. I myself am pretty unsuited in both those ways, but hey, once I finish with my current story I might pick this up.

[Captain Lhurgoyf]

One idea I've had, but probably won't make seeing as I have other projects, was an adventure based on Axe Cop.

If you actually have a 5-7 year-old available to help write it, so more the better.

[orngjce223]

You are a vector in an educational video on vectors. Have fun finding your way out.

[omegawill]

(based a little on the previous idea)

You're in charge of creating educational videos for different situations around the workplace.
The adventure would basically consist first of putting together the demonstrative videos, and then seeing the effect on the company you produced the videos for.

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

I figured that I should collect all of the adventure ideas I've recently come up with in MSPAFA general chat and dump them into a pool of ideas in this thread.


Welcome...TO DIE!!! -- a cynical nineteen year old with not much going for him who is a buff on terrible and campy media gets news that he is going to die, and eventually comes to terms with the fact that maybe life isn't so shitty. Black comedy
In Utero--A young man, trapped inside a mechanical womb of mysterious origins, must work for his passage out by performing random tasks asked by the uterus's idiosyncratic citizens.
Murderer's Row -- minor league baseball teammates on a bus that breaks down in SPOOKY MYSTERIOUS TOWN; players start to disappear, there is a lot of fog (play it as a campy horror possibly? do we need to do that with the existence of Dreadmill 3?)
BATMAN FUCKS ON THE HIGH SEAS-- It involves two socially-maladjusted roommates who are terrible fanfic writers, and their night quest to get their masterwork fanfic "BATMAN FUCKS ON THE HIGH SEAS" (where BATMAN is a SEX-CRAZED PIRATE that goes from PORT TO PORT on the 50-footer GOTHAM WETDREAM and WHORE TO WHORE in his UTILTIY BANANA HAMMOCK) widely disseminated while they work day jobs as 1) a mail clerk and 2) the horse mascot for the local community college to MAKE ENDS MEET.
Goldfish Mix-Up Adventures with Gilbert and Xtreme http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread...=1#post3956374
Noodle Date - two lovers who promised to make a relationship work with a date of fancy noodles, date is constantly interrupted with crazy happenings involving the feuding of the two lovers' warring family/friends whatever
Popsicle-Fudgsicle Gang Warfare Sim-- man how does this not explain itself
Library Return Ride--already suggested it for Overdue
The Great Aimless Nothing -- what would be the first woman to mars is cut from her ship, left drifting through space; NASA does all they can to help while she comes to terms with the fact that she probably will not be alive after the five hours she has of air supply runs out
Escape from Hentai Hill -- A school bus containing a 5th grade class goes missing in Sierra Leon during a cultural exchange and it is up to one gumptiouous father to pull together a crack team of natives to locate- and rescue- them from an uncertain fate. As time wears, allegiances are tested and lesser men are bested as the most base parts of humanity surface. In the end, it comes down to one thing- whether the lost can truly be found. [This one was a joke to see if I could something sounding as derivative of a book jacket description as possible.]
The Deal with Airline Food -- a plane is thrown into panic as someone opens their bag of airline food to find a GODDAMN SCORPION in it. No one is able to catch it, and both paranoia and madness sweeps the riders over.
Communion Adventure: Three Sunday School buddies who are in a week about to get their first communion sneak into their church to ask Jesus why he makes them eat him. They hear some suspicious noises coming from the rectory, find a rabid dog has moved outside the exit, and generally go through an adventure. A communion adventure.
Bust Janitor Gaiden: the extended backstory of the janitor from Problem Sleuth in his final days and hours leading up to the inevitable death by gunshot outside of Problem Sleuth's office.
Murder on Square One A scheduling conflict that puts the Oregon Chalk Festival and the World Hopscotch Tournament on the same day and at the site ends in tragedy, with hundreds of chalk artists killed in mid-scrawl by stampeding hopscotchers.

Wheeeeeeatthins, man, when I do an adventure about an ancilliary character, it's going to be about that bird on your head.
WHAT IS THE MEANING BEHIND THE FIRE IN ITS EYES?

At the age of 16, a young chickenhat named Rocky Rhodes was left with nothing--no home, no family, no means with which to support himself--he was left with nothing at all. Nothing but a hunger for revenge. Without a place to stay, Rocky must hit the road, band together with old forgotten friends from the elementary coop and search each of THE SEVEN PROVINCES high and low for the ones who caused the explosion of his home which that took the lives of his MURDERED PARENTS. This summer, watch out for THE ROCKY RONIN.

[Captain Lhurgoyf]

Last night, it occured to me the ultimate adventure. Think about it.

There are quite a few Homestuck fan adventures. Some of them star trolls.

There are quite a few Pokemon fan adventures.

Put two and two together....

Fiduspawn MSPA. MAKE IT HAPEN.

[Draykon]

A couple that've been in my head for awhile, not that anyone will likely use them:

A new queen has come to power, in fictional futuristic-yet-still-ruled-by-a-royal-family-land, however despite her talents and charisma, the queen suffers from crippling self-esteem issues. Her soul source of confidence is a webcomic author she keeps in contact with online- one with even WORSE self-esteem issues.
An evil adviser to the queen seeks to abuse her lack of self-confidence in order to gain effective control of the nation. And so, in order to eliminate the one person the queen feels better than, he begins attempting to hire assassins to covertly kill that webcomic artist.

The protagonist is said webcomic artist, who must evade the assassins, and ultimately attempt to rob the evil adviser of his power, in a heartwarming quest in which she and the queen both learn their true value as people.





The other one is an Sburb adventure. () Thanks to a stable time loop, a group of data-physics universes have self-created, each with a game of Sburb- ending with the creation of the next universe in the chain, until the set loops around. It doesn't matter too much how long the chain is.

However, one universe in the chain has two sessions. One that creates the next universe in the chain, and another 'null session' in which one of the pre-prototypings was an eldrich abomination. The absurdly powerful Black King breaks out of the first medium, and tears his way into the second. The Super Black King quickly takes over this sessions army, but finds he can't destroy its Skaia, because 'the chain must be completed.' Else the universe would never have been born, and the Super Black King never created, and thus never able to destroy Skaia, thus the universe would be created, and the Super Black King would be able to destroy Skaia, etc. He settles for killing off all the players instead, hoping to delay the Ultimate Alchemy as long as possible.

That's when the protagonist comes in. Finding the destroyed remains of the universe from which both sessions began, the protagonist studies the Cruxite dowels, and manages to open a portal into the medium.

Protagonist investigates the history of the session, slowly learning of its nature, but is ultimately overpowered by the Super Black King, who breaks out into superspace, seeing for the first time the billions of universes it could destroy.

Without any further hope, the protagonist flees to an earlier session (Possibly utilizing the unusual chrono-properties of the mediums. Maybe a scratch?) and attempts to defeat those players, so as to stop the Super Black King from ever being born- even if it means sacrificing a few universes.

tl;dr: A ridiculously complicated scenario in which the protagonist attempts to stop a group of Sburb players from winning.
(This may or may not have been the plot of my Single Reacharound before I decided I could never pull it off)

[Niall]

I had this idea:

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But I can not come up with a decent plot for it, so I share it with you.

How about a quest to return the boat to the ocean? Not only would you have to figure out how to control the bottle, but you would need to travel difficult, puzzling terrain to reach a body of water (maybe it's a lake; you sail down a river to reach the ocean) and you would need to find a way of breaking the bottle without destroying the ship. Perhaps you are on a desert island and the boat is the only way you can find to get off the island. How does that sound?

[omegawill]

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How about a quest to return the boat to the ocean? Not only would you have to figure out how to control the bottle, but you would need to travel difficult, puzzling terrain to reach a body of water (maybe it's a lake; you sail down a river to reach the ocean) and you would need to find a way of breaking the bottle without destroying the ship. Perhaps you are on a desert island and the boat is the only way you can find to get off the island. How does that sound?

And in the end, you can choose whether to send the bottle into the rocks, smashing it and freeing the boat, or to just, I don't know, float around in the bottle maybe? Bottle

[Solaris]

Well, I had an idea for an adventure where all commands must be quotes of commands from other adventures.

I may actually do this.....

[midnightAgony]

Last night, it occured to me the ultimate adventure. Think about it.

There are quite a few Homestuck fan adventures. Some of them star trolls.

There are quite a few Pokemon fan adventures.

Put two and two together....

Fiduspawn MSPA. MAKE IT HAPEN.

Be the Red Haired Girl is a HS Fanventure with Pokemon in it (Somewhat)

[OldManRupee]

Dang it I had an idea to put here IT IS GOOOONE.

Memories why do you FAIL MEEEEEEEEE.

[eerr]

Dang it I had an idea to put here IT IS GOOOONE.

Memories why do you FAIL MEEEEEEEEE.

Meh,

[Brickman]

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It works best if none of the players have seen this post, because spelling it out makes it less funny once you do it. If you ever want to do it, PM me and I'll blank this post.

edit: As promised, I got a PM that I assume to have meant the writer wanted to implement this idea, so I'm un-describing it.

[CheeseDeluxe]

A Clockwork Slorange.

[Dragon Fogel]

A silly idea I had a little while ago. You have the hiccups, and you must cure them somehow.