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ways_back_room2013-06-23 01:36 pm
herr_bookman) wrote in ways_back_room2013-06-23 01:36 pm
Proposed plot: Breakfast 42! with your daily dose of vitamins, minerals, and handcuffs!
All right, y'all! So I was reading up on other people's RP comms and found an interesting entry (backdated to 2009) where two characters were randomly handcuffed together as part of a curse.
So who else is drawn towards the idea of bar-wide, randomly-selected handcuff shenanigans?
The logistics might be a bit ridiculous--especially if there's four or more people to a thread--but seven out of eight experts agree that this has the potential to be hilarious. Just imagine: Sunshine and Eric! Lohengrin and Fakir! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! All voluntary, of course. I'm not sure how long this will last, or how long it needs to. We may even just make it a party post.
One possible inciting incident that Mia-mun and I were batting around might be that Bar gets a limited-edition assortment of sample-sized boxes of "Breakfast 42", which she then offers up for free. Randomly selected pairs will each be assigned a type of cereal, each of which only has two boxes. The next time the pups pass one another after eating it, they'll be magically cuffed together.
Obviously the handcuffs are unbreakable and inescapable by magic or force, and pups cannot damage each other--though they can damage themselves. We encourage all attempts at escape, however futile they are. (Please DM each other first. This won't work well without excellent communication!) I'd also like to offer the proposition of the cuffs as nullifiers to all sorts of magical powers, though that's not necessary.
There are two ways out of this:
1. One lucky pup will receive a glow-in-the-dark, plastic police badge as a prize. It, of course, holds the key to all the cuffs, though since it looks like a kitschy toy, it may end up lost...
2. Once the cereal runs out, a timer will be set for all of the cuffs to break.
ETA: So, so far we've had a good response and a decent amount of feedback! Thank you! :) Here are some more discussion points:
A. Should the selection be lottery? Hand-picked? A mixture? I like the idea of a mixture, but time-zones have been brought up as a concern, so going with an entirely hand-picked roster may be the way to go.
B. "Pups cannot damage each other" is literal. For example, Pup A may try to cut Pup B's hand off, but they will fail. All pups are immune to physical damage from their cuff-partner. Similarly, the cuffs will fit on any pup.
C. This is super complicated already! If anyone has suggestions for simplifying it, then hit us with them, by all means.
(More) Thoughts? Critique? Bueller?
So who else is drawn towards the idea of bar-wide, randomly-selected handcuff shenanigans?
The logistics might be a bit ridiculous--especially if there's four or more people to a thread--but seven out of eight experts agree that this has the potential to be hilarious. Just imagine: Sunshine and Eric! Lohengrin and Fakir! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! All voluntary, of course. I'm not sure how long this will last, or how long it needs to. We may even just make it a party post.
One possible inciting incident that Mia-mun and I were batting around might be that Bar gets a limited-edition assortment of sample-sized boxes of "Breakfast 42", which she then offers up for free. Randomly selected pairs will each be assigned a type of cereal, each of which only has two boxes. The next time the pups pass one another after eating it, they'll be magically cuffed together.
Obviously the handcuffs are unbreakable and inescapable by magic or force, and pups cannot damage each other--though they can damage themselves. We encourage all attempts at escape, however futile they are. (Please DM each other first. This won't work well without excellent communication!) I'd also like to offer the proposition of the cuffs as nullifiers to all sorts of magical powers, though that's not necessary.
There are two ways out of this:
1. One lucky pup will receive a glow-in-the-dark, plastic police badge as a prize. It, of course, holds the key to all the cuffs, though since it looks like a kitschy toy, it may end up lost...
2. Once the cereal runs out, a timer will be set for all of the cuffs to break.
ETA: So, so far we've had a good response and a decent amount of feedback! Thank you! :) Here are some more discussion points:
A. Should the selection be lottery? Hand-picked? A mixture? I like the idea of a mixture, but time-zones have been brought up as a concern, so going with an entirely hand-picked roster may be the way to go.
B. "Pups cannot damage each other" is literal. For example, Pup A may try to cut Pup B's hand off, but they will fail. All pups are immune to physical damage from their cuff-partner. Similarly, the cuffs will fit on any pup.
C. This is super complicated already! If anyone has suggestions for simplifying it, then hit us with them, by all means.
(More) Thoughts? Critique? Bueller?
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