Adventure Plots Up For Grabs

[Neoskel]

You are a headhunter. You hunt people down, kill them, decapitate them and then shrink their head. Except you're not some illiterate tribesman with a bone through your nose, and you're not out in the jungle somewhere, you're in the city. A futuristic dual dystopia/utopia city at that. The typical 'upper levels are paradise, lower levels are hell' type deal. And you're not headhunting to just collect keepsakes here. Something's going down, the whole city is in danger but the public doesn't know and the corrupt bureaucracy isn't going to do a damn thing bout it. In fact, no one is consciously aware of the threat, even those involved in perpetrating it. That's why you need their heads. With some secret advanced cybertech, you can extract information from the heads of those involved by turning them into cooperative 'guides' to help you find out the truth about the nature of the threat to the city. Which is why you have to shrink the heads. You can't exactly carry around more than the normal quota of full-sized heads inconspicuously. But if you have a shrunken one in your jacket and converse with it out loud people will just think you're calling someone over the net and not give you a second thought.

[OldManRupee]

A white void. A person stands in the void, with the power to see the "essence" of any object, and combine 2 essences to create a new object. And a small wooden chair.

Lets build a world.

[Neoskel]

A person stands in the void, with the power to see the "essence" of any object, and combine 2 essences to create a new object. And a small wooden chair.

So every time he makes something, a small wooden chair is also created as a byproduct?

[kd7sov]

So every time he makes something, a small wooden chair is also created as a byproduct?

No, I'm pretty sure OMR means there's a person and a chair in this void.

Also this would be a really cool adventure. Maybe I'll make it at some point, especially if no one else does by the time I feel up to it.

[MultiversalInk]

No, I'm pretty sure OMR means there's a person and a chair in this void.

Also this would be a really cool adventure. Maybe I'll make it at some point, especially if no one else does by the time I feel up to it.

The first idea sounds rather funny, though. Try to both create a world, and dispose of several wooden chairs that come from it!

[PriffyViole]

A white void. A person stands in the void, with the power to see the "essence" of any object, and combine 2 essences to create a new object. And a small wooden chair.

Lets build a world.

So, Doodle God: The Adventure?

[OldManRupee]

No, I'm pretty sure OMR means there's a person and a chair in this void.

This.

Also, I'm sure I don't know what iPod app you're talking about, PriffyVole. Certainly not one that I downloaded onto my recently new iPod Touch (birthday present) and have since had vivid dreams about.

[Reecer6]

An homage to old time adventure games using the SCUMM engine

You would only accept commands that use one of the predetermined actions.

Look at X
Use X (with optional Y)
Take X (Inventory)
Give X
X to Destination

etc. So a command would be like.

Look at CRAB

"The Crab does not look very friendly it might be wise to stay away or become victim to those pinching claws."

Use CRAB with FACE

"Perhaps putting the Unfriendly Crab on your face was not the best course of action. You are in a lot of pain."

Use HAND with CRAB

"It took some work but you managed to evict the CRAB from your face though now your hand hurts from gratuitous pinching! Some loud screams of pain has startled the CRAB enough for it to let go and bury itself underneath the sand."

WALK to COOLER

"You walk to the COOLER but forgot to take caution of the CRAB in the sand! Your toes are now in a lot of pain."

Would this have any entertaining bugs such as being able to control an aquarium like a toy robot and use it to sequence break?

[Brickman]

Another dream idea:

You are one of a young couple (or possibly a single person of parenting age). One day, through whatever circumstance, you find a pair of orphans, a boy and a girl, and decide to take them in. (Or maybe just adopt them through normal channels). They seem so alone and vulnerable, you'd have to be a monster to turn them away. However, they still appear fairly untrusting and secretive, which you find understandable.

A few days in, however, without even trying to you overhear a conversation that stops you cold. The children are arguing about "the last time they died", and about whose fault it was. As you listen more, either right then or in coming days, you catch hints that they have "died" many times and these deaths tend to take those around them as well. And the boy seems to expect it again in about a week's time...

[ashdenej]

Another dream idea:

You are one of a young couple (or possibly a single person of parenting age). One day, through whatever circumstance, you find a pair of orphans, a boy and a girl, and decide to take them in. (Or maybe just adopt them through normal channels). They seem so alone and vulnerable, you'd have to be a monster to turn them away. However, they still appear fairly untrusting and secretive, which you find understandable.

A few days in, however, without even trying to you overhear a conversation that stops you cold. The children are arguing about "the last time they died", and about whose fault it was. As you listen more, either right then or in coming days, you catch hints that they have "died" many times and these deaths tend to take those around them as well. And the boy seems to expect it again in about a week's time...

I somehow feel that this might work equally well with being adopted by an old couple. Hmm.

Or just an old couple that move in next door to you? I dunno. Be easier to get away, I suppose.

[OldManRupee]

Question: what are those stars next to certain thread names in this sub-forum? And how do I get some?

[autoglassmasterclass]

For a year or so, users were allowed to rate threads. Now only mods can, and I don't think any bother.

[ashdenej]

For a year or so, users were allowed to rate threads. Now only mods can, and I don't think any bother.

I have no idea if or how I can do that

SOUNDS EXCITING THOUGH

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You are a rogue mod, about to unseat the powerbase of a forum. The admins keep a tight ship, but you're sure you can manage. What do you do?

Alternatively, you are a normal user who is affected by this power struggle. Mhmm, mm.

[autoglassmasterclass]

As I recall it was around here.



Maybe they can't anymore, though.

[Brickman]

I somehow feel that this might work equally well with being adopted by an old couple. Hmm.

Or just an old couple that move in next door to you? I dunno. Be easier to get away, I suppose.

Maybe. A young couple is just easier for me and, presumably, most of this forum's userbase to write. The adoption part is important though, because the idea relies on the protagonists having already committed (or at least consciously decided) to helping these kids before finding out that something serious was wrong.

[OrangeAipom]

Maybe it's an old couple but it takes place in the future.

[ashdenej]

You are an inhabitant of Nurseryville. One "Humpty" Dumpty has left you his vast fortune.

Other inhabitants - most pertinently, Old King Cole's horses and men - are not happy about this.

What do you do?

All characters must come from the Nursery Rhymes category of Wikipedia. For further points, commands could be entered in a nursery rhyme style.

[Brickman]

Being a king and/or queen of Narnia sure is great, right? I mean yeah, first off suddenly finding out you can live the rest of your life as royalty is pretty cool, but then? When you're at death's door and it's time to pay the reaper? You can flip him the bird, go back to the real world and live out an even longer life doing whatever you would've done in the first place. There's literally zero opportunity cost for doing this right?

Well, almost. There is the little issue of aging forty or so years in a day, without anyone believing you. Everyone will assume the worst of your sudden personality shift, and what seemed fun or important to you then will seem pretty trivial now. Not to mention the chance that you might just know something about that other girl who disappeared and didn't come back, which plays right into their narratives about your personality shift.

[Anthano Zasalla]

I almost don't want to leave this up for grabs but okay

You are an extremely skilled rapier duelist in the late 19th century. You have world renown. You also have temporal renown, because you have mastered the Art of Causal Manipulation: you have the power to alter reality and travel through time. This, of course, has no bearing on your dueling success. A gentleman doesn't cheat, even if he can steer reality in nearly any direction he chooses.

But it soon enough comes to your attention that you have some dangerous rivals. By "dangerous rivals", you mean alternate versions of yourself. And by "comes to your attention", you mean one of them has you at sword point in your own home.

Of course, you're not particularly worried. You're the QUANTUM DUELIST, after all.

[MultiversalInk]

I'd love to see an adventure written in the same style of the IF game For A Change by Dan Schmidt.

For those unfamiliar, it's a really beautiful IF game. The style takes English words and sort of twists them around to make their meanings slightly different, often based more on feeling than direct meaning, and using long, flowing sentences and unusual formulations. The true meanings of words are not always clear, and it sort of has a dream-like feeling. For example, the opening paragraph reads:

Under the High Wall (on the resting)
Sweetness fills the shade of the High Wall to your east. Under this sweetness lies a small expanse of fod. A mobile releases mildly to the west; far in that direction a tower proudly plants itself, while the ground rises more slowly to the south and relaxes to the north.

Spread on the resting is a guidebook.

Sleep gradually departs from your eyes. A small stone has been insinuated into your hand.

It could be a very interesting text adventure, or possibly one with simple or rough illustration.

[Kíeros]

²This is not for you

House of Leaves¹
A Forum Adventure

The forum adventure² that will kill you.

¹ Based on the novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

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I have no clue where you would go, but with that much fun stuff, it would be great to read. For a while.

[Reecer6]

Something like Parallels and Perpendicularities, a puzzle adventure with 2 characters controlled each on different threads, but each thread is on a different forum. You might even be able to pull off 3. If someone manages to find one of the other threads, they may not link to it anywhere or even hint about it or post in the new thread, but they can use the information in the thread.

[TruthHurts22]

You and 2 others have been tied/super-glued/molecularly combined/connected in some way or form and must work together to escape where-ever the hell you are.
The catch; each person has two of three handicaps. One can't see or hear, but can use their hands, one can't hear or use hands, but can see, and the other can only hear.

[Kíeros]

You are going to die in around five sec-

Oh, look; you're dead already. Now, figure out how, using your ghost, you can prevent you from having already been killed.
Temporal mechanics obviously involved.

[OldManRupee]

You need to organise a giant concert, but things keep going wrong! Whatever happens, THE SHOW MUST GO ON.