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General Category => Role Playing Public Radio Podcast => : Shallazar December 02, 2009, 11:53:54 PM
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Alright, So I still cannot believe how awesome this episode was.
I wish I could have been in any of the games. It just blew my mind.
However, It had inspired me to create my own MALL NINJA CoC game, at least a several session long descent into Carcosia.
The Mall Ninja thread itself is pretty Fucking Insane, and I know guys like that- bullshitters and musketeers.
Any suggestions after running it so much Ross? I mean, I don't want to steal, but i want to take, so like,
How did the flashbacks work mechanically? Is there a resource I might check out?
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Join google wave man, the full night mall compendium is being worked on there if you want to join the effort.
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You need to make the night mall wave public. I tried to link it on the Delta Green wave but someone told me they couldn't get in.
Well, the main trick is that you have to walk a fine line between absurd and horrific. The initial setup is quite odd so some players will think it's a comedy game. On the other hand, you can't just go full blown crazy right off the bat.
Here's my general run of events - this is a very barebones thing
check the dumpsters outside
sniper rifle on roof - shoot the bunny
cinnabun - Cinnabun is a turning point - most players have a strong reaction to it
Arcade gunfight - by this point hte players NEED to be wondering what the fuck is going on. After this point, keep ramping shit up. Don't let them recover.
Supervisor MacCready goes Col Kurtz
Book Store
Restaurant
Finale
I ad-lib shit pretty well so I throw in and change stuff around every time.
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Join google wave man, the full night mall compendium is being worked on there if you want to join the effort.
I might just not know how to work my wave correctly, but I can't even find the DG wave. Haelpp Pleasee.
And yeah, I mean Aladdin's Castle was pretty important to everyone I game with So the arcade boosting is gunna be alright.
And of course some NeoNazis, crips, and a mayors nephew?
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inspirational photos http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/ghosts_of_shopping_past/
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Join google wave man, the full night mall compendium is being worked on there if you want to join the effort.
I might just not know how to work my wave correctly, but I can't even find the DG wave. Haelpp Pleasee.
And yeah, I mean Aladdin's Castle was pretty important to everyone I game with So the arcade boosting is gunna be alright.
And of course some NeoNazis, crips, and a mayors nephew?
What's your gmail account?
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whahahaha! now I haz cont of ur interwebz!!!!1!!1!1112
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Done. Added you to the wave and deleted your post
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You are an amazing person.
Thank you!
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I haven't seen you edit anything yet. Feel free to just add a bubble and start writing down your ideas.
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I can't imagine a much better resource for a game like this than Mall Cops: Mall of America (http://www.twincities.com/ci_14022099?source=most_viewed). After all, where better to be a mall ninja than in a grotesquely oversized mall? Plus, it would make it seem a lot more normal for a bunch of special-forces/covert-ops types to infiltrate mall security in what appears to be the world's elite mall security force.
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Yeah, I can now see an entire night mall campaign. During the day, it's more or less a normal mall but at night...
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MORE MALL NINJAS http://lonelymachines.org/2006/08/12/return-of-the-iron-fist-of-the-mall-ninja/
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Wow. I wish my mall was big enough that I could defend it with firearms. We don't even have a parking strucutre, just a lot.
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MORE MALL NINJAS http://lonelymachines.org/2006/08/12/return-of-the-iron-fist-of-the-mall-ninja/
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/8712/filestroll2.jpg)
If you catch my drift...
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inspirational photos http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/ghosts_of_shopping_past/
yeah, the picture of the chick at the bottom really freaked me out.
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I f-ing love this AP! Tom's reaction during the fight in the arcade every time a punk pulls out a bigger and bigger gun is hilarious!!!
I would love to check out the Mall Ninja g-wave. Maze, can you add me to that wave? My gmail address is "jonhook at gmail dot com".
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I would love to check out the Mall Ninja g-wave. Maze, can you add me to that wave? My gmail address is "jonhook at gmail dot com".
Yeah if it's still around, I'd be interested (have a Google wave account, mckma6)
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Done and done, You can just add stuff at anytime, although ideas should be in a different bubble. We found that scheduling an evening and working on it at the same time while talking on skype is very productive, if you want to join it let me know through g-mail.
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Can I get an invite as well? I believe I sent you a PM with the details of my wave address.
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When do you guys want to do another work session? I'm thinking Monday, at around 7pm EST?
Also, if possible you should set up Skype and add me as a friend. We used Skype and wave at the same time so we could talk while we wrote. Made a big difference. My skype name is "eenlikebean", same as my AIM if anyone wants to talk to me about it.
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Monday sounds good, who's up for it?
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I might drop in for a little while, I'm not too familiar with the system or what exactly has been done so far (need to read up), but I would love to listen in and throw out some ideas.
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I may still be at work, so I could follow along on wave, just not on skype.
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This is the essential document for night mall http://fairfieldproject.wikidot.com/night-mall
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Work session going on now. We're on skype and wave at the same time.
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I just finished the a day or so ago very good
so much more you can expand on. can you imagine a campaine on this
you would have to start off slow with actuall mall problems and map it out
but it is possible.
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Alright. Next work session monday 7pm eastern time. Feel free to hop on.
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Could I get added also? I am new to google wave, but my account is richardstarr1 (at) googlewave.com.
Thanks!
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I would like to participate, but I'm headsetless ATM. I may rectify that over the weekend.
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I ran this scenario for a bunch of friends tonight with fantastic results. My group was sort of resistant to following the missing boy thread at first, but I managed to get them back on track. I think the focus drifted because I had given each of them one of the strange tidbits to chew over--like the mysterious bottle display, and a bit I created especially for one character who was an author where he walked into a bookstore and found copies of a book he hadn't written yet--and they were trying desperately to connect them. After a few reminders, though, Carcosa worked its maddening magic.
I think one of my favorite ways in which my runthrough varied from the one Ross ran followed immediately after they captured the kidnapper. My players wanted to interrogate him using the Good Cop, Bad Cop method, and didn't seem interested when McCready asked them to go up to the roof with him. When they told him they had to interrogate the prisoner, I had him ask them if he could sit in, and magic happened. Of course, he brought along a shot of sodium pentothal and a case full of torture instruments, and they bloody freaked out! They finally managed to make McCready stop doing terrible things to the kidnapper by convincing him that the usual methods weren't working, and he excused himself to go get a car battery and a sledgehammer.
All told, a great AP and a fantastic one-shot to run for your friends on a Saturday night.
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I ran Night Mall 6 times altogether and every time it wound up ending differently. I'll have to post the APs sooner or later.
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Hmm - some ideas for Night Mall - characters can find themselves in abandoned buildings around the world - walk through a door and find yourself here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35291555 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
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Hmm - some ideas for Night Mall - characters can find themselves in abandoned buildings around the world - walk through a door and find yourself here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35291555 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel
I love when communist countries attempt super projects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Soviets) and then realize, "holy fuck, our economic system doesn't produce enough capital to allow for this and no one wants to invest."
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hahaha, yeah good point. What is with totalitarian societies and mega-construction projects?
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hahaha, yeah good point. What is with totalitarian societies and mega-construction projects?
It's a conflation of nationalism and "my dick is bigger than your dick" ideology.
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Can't we just agree that they are all big dicks and move on with our lives?
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Can't we just agree that they are all big dicks and move on with our lives?
If George Carlin is to be believed, you may have just hit upon a pathway to world peace. Unfortunately, I think that there are too many people who are too insecure about what they're packing to simply ignore international dick measuring altogether. It's sort of a staple of being male.
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George Carlin lives by the book.
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Seems like it'd be alot less effort to just establish a dick measuring branch of the UN to do a regular census.
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Seems like it'd be alot less effort to just establish a dick measuring branch of the UN to do a regular census.
I'm tempted to write this up as microfiction.
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Or establish an internation committee to regular dick based economic ventures. A percentage of GDP towards dick related construction sounds fair but might be unfair for smaller countries. A flat dick maximum would have to be quite low for some poor countries to even come close to reaching it.
Maybe an internation dick fund? Dick relief for countries without leadership who feel the need to construct dick monuments. I'm sure there's plenty of wealthy dicks in America and China who can spare some dick change for the third world.
Have I said "dick" enough yet or should I keep going?
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Or establish an internation committee to regular dick based economic ventures. A percentage of GDP towards dick related construction sounds fair but might be unfair for smaller countries. A flat dick maximum would have to be quite low for some poor countries to even come close to reaching it.
Maybe an internation dick fund? Dick relief for countries without leadership who feel the need to construct dick monuments. I'm sure there's plenty of wealthy dicks in America and China who can spare some dick change for the third world.
Have I said "dick" enough yet or should I keep going?
Write that shit up as a script and make the RPPR crew perform it.
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Tonight on Hardline we discuss the new marijuana legislation being passed around in Congress but first we have phallic pundit Peter Johnson in the studio to whip out the latest news in international dick treaty along with special correspondent Dr. Roster Block.
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Dr. Roster Block was conducting studies for the Richard Edward Society to determine to what extent low blood pressure was contributing to continued flaccidity in the economy and how shoring up the oil industry could lead to more erections near heavily used wells that are drying up. The friction generated by this debate is likely to lead to an explosion of incredible proportions. Face it, this is one oral engagement you don't want to end prematurely.