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Xinder posted:Seconding this. Obviously a lot of it (probably most of it) is completely garbage, but you don't have to look too hard to find something good and useful in my experience. One of the very few SCP entries I remember clearly is the one where it's a book with an alternate history written in it that retroactively changes reality to make its history real, and describes some sort of quasi-supernatural Mongol Horde analogue. When blood is spilled on the pages of the book, it absorbs it and writes more history, making the civilization creep closer and closer to present historical context. I mostly remember it because, when I read it, I thought it would be an excellent way to present a manifestation of the Prince of 100,000 Leaves.
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Daeren posted:One of the very few SCP entries I remember clearly is the one where it's a book with an alternate history written in it that retroactively changes reality to make its history real, and describes some sort of quasi-supernatural Mongol Horde analogue. When blood is spilled on the pages of the book, it absorbs it and writes more history, making the civilization creep closer and closer to present historical context. This one?
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Yep, that'd be the one. I spent a lot of time perusing SCP some years back but as stated most of them are utter garbage so you really need to be ready to cherry pick the good horror ideas. If I recall correctly they even had to do a site-wide reboot after a point to purge everybody's terrible OCs and researcher/administrator fanfiction.
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Daeren posted:Yep, that'd be the one. Didn't they keep the ones staff members of the site had? Which included things like Probably Satan, Man who resurrects by magic necklace replacing your mind with his, A Dog, APPLESEEDS, and the butterfly one?
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you can sort SCPs by rating, might be a good start
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May 17, 2017 06:55
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The only good SCP story on that god-forsaken site.
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Unless you're making a distinction between SCP STORIES and SCP ARTICLES then we're going to have an argument here, given that http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981 exists.
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 Apparently he was some kind of low-gen dressed up like the Prince to act as a decoy. But the Anarchs didn't know that.
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Kurieg posted:
I'll be honest, that he created the circumstances that allowed this to happen is a point in favor of Swedracula.
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story idea: why does this policy exist https://twitter.com/gunmouth/status/865371397392138240
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May 19, 2017 02:22
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Because Visa hates me personally, obviously. I'll just have to start using bitcoin to sell my Vampiric Spanking Paddles made of Pressed Opium and Shell Casings.
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In Today's Mage Game: I sit back and watch my Gnosis 1 Mages struggle to open a puzzle box using magic. "We sit in a room staring intensely at a box. Occasionally we yell or poke at it." "When in doubt, throw lightning at it" cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 09:59 on May 19, 2017 |
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nasa-space-weather-earth-cocoon-van-allen Turns out we may or may not have shoved the van allen belts and Earth's magnetic field further out into space than it should naturally be thanks to our radio emissions. Everything is proceeding to the God Machine/Technocracy's plans!
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cptn_dr posted:In Today's Mage Game: I sit back and watch my Gnosis 1 Mages struggle to open a puzzle box using magic. Bleeding on it worked too!
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cptn_dr posted:In Today's Mage Game: I sit back and watch my Gnosis 1 Mages struggle to open a puzzle box using magic. Hah, I did that in my current campaign (school for mages, cliche but fun archetype, especially since eight months in, I am still keeping them confused if it is a Guardians of the Veil school or an Seers of the Throne school) to introduce the newbies to Mage sight: they stared at something covered in a baking pan for a while, getting info like "your Life sight shows it is primarily plant matter and glucose" and "Your space sight shows a complex surface of round, circular, fluffy shapes embedded in a solid support." The first person to say "muffins!" got in game muffins and an xp beat. thegoatgod_pan fucked around with this message at 11:06 on May 19, 2017 |
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cptn_dr posted:In Today's Mage Game: I sit back and watch my Gnosis 1 Mages struggle to open a puzzle box using magic. That's actually interesting. What is the best way to open a puzzle box with only magic?
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ZeroCount posted:That's actually interesting. What is the best way to open a puzzle box with only magic? Mind control someone into opening the puzzle box.
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ZeroCount posted:That's actually interesting. What is the best way to open a puzzle box with only magic?
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Zereth posted:Especially at Gnosis 1, which limits your options quite a bit. I think it cuts off most of the stuff like "whip up a telekinesis spell and use that to solve it the normal way". Depends on how much paradox you're willing to risk and if you're being restricted to the written spell list or not.
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You use Matter or Space 1 to get a perfect mental map of how the box fits together and then go at it.
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Mors Rattus posted:Mind control someone into opening the puzzle box.  There's a reason why my Mastigos has no rote attack spells. Because why bother killing your opponents when you can have them kill themselves for you?
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Use Time magic to look into the past and see how it was put together. Use Fate magic so you just give it a good shake and drop it and it pops open.
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Mors Rattus posted:Mind control someone into opening the puzzle box. No. It is not hands that call us.
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Obviously you take a hammer to the box to open it, both displaying your capacity for destruction and not revealing anything about your magical capabilities to all the potential rivals in the room.
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The correct answer is to leak the location of the puzzle box around occult circles and kill anyone that shows up. Nobody that spends their time hunting down and opening mystic puzzle boxes is good for the health of the universe.
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Mulva posted:The correct answer is to leak the location of the puzzle box around occult circles and kill anyone that shows up. Nobody that spends their time hunting down and opening mystic puzzle boxes is good for the health of the universe. GuardiansoftheVeil.txt
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Mulva posted:The correct answer is to leak the location of the puzzle box around occult circles and kill anyone that shows up. Nobody that spends their time hunting down and opening mystic puzzle boxes is good for the health of the universe. You. I like you.
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Mulva posted:The correct answer is to leak the location of the puzzle box around occult circles and kill anyone that shows up. Nobody that spends their time hunting down and opening mystic puzzle boxes is good for the health of the universe. They gotta have something good in them eventually!
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ZeroCount posted:They gotta have something good in them eventually! I see that and I picture the quiet and normally straight laced researcher of esoteric threats that is just screaming at the top of their lungs for like 5 minutes while trying to beat you into a fine paste. Someone tries to remind them that they could use magic to give you an aneurysm or something, and all they can say is they want to feel you die. I imagine most people would get that way at, and this is at most, the third magic puzzle box clean up.
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Mulva posted:I see that and I picture the quiet and normally straight laced researcher of esoteric threats that is just screaming at the top of their lungs for like 5 minutes while trying to beat you into a fine paste. Someone tries to remind them that they could use magic to give you an aneurysm or something, and all they can say is they want to feel you die. I imagine most people would get that way at, and this is at most, the third magic puzzle box clean up. seersofthethrone.txt (or at least how they try to portray themselves)
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Mulva posted:I see that and I picture the quiet and normally straight laced researcher of esoteric threats that is just screaming at the top of their lungs for like 5 minutes while trying to beat you into a fine paste. Someone tries to remind them that they could use magic to give you an aneurysm or something, and all they can say is they want to feel you die. I imagine most people would get that way at, and this is at most, the third magic puzzle box clean up.
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I want you to imagine literally anything, and then I want you to tell me how it is improved by adding a magic puzzle box to the equation. Or lets narrow that down, imagine something undeniably positive and how the inclusion of having to break into a magic puzzle box enhances the process of getting it to people. Like wow, here is the ultimate weapon to combat the Exarchs.....I don't know, why don't you just use it and not put it in a puzzle box? Amazing, you developed the cure for all human illness.....and can only maintain an erection when you imagine the sheer futility of hundreds of generations of people failing to break the insane security you put around it? It's like a rule, nobody good puts unnecessary speed bumps in the way of something simple and useful. If they are locking it away with byzantine security it either deserves to be locked away or they are a sadistic bastard, and either way it's unlikely to be particularly fun opening the thing up. Magic puzzle boxes: Not even once
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By that logic you should be against underpants and nuclear power.
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Mulva posted:I want you to imagine literally anything, and then I want you to tell me how it is improved by adding a magic puzzle box to the equation. Or lets narrow that down, imagine something undeniably positive and how the inclusion of having to break into a magic puzzle box enhances the process of getting it to people. Like wow, here is the ultimate weapon to combat the Exarchs.....I don't know, why don't you just use it and not put it in a puzzle box? Amazing, you developed the cure for all human illness.....and can only maintain an erection when you imagine the sheer futility of hundreds of generations of people failing to break the insane security you put around it? It's like a rule, nobody good puts unnecessary speed bumps in the way of something simple and useful. If they are locking it away with byzantine security it either deserves to be locked away or they are a sadistic bastard, and either way it's unlikely to be particularly fun opening the thing up.
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The entire concept of "things man was not meant to know" is a boondoggle.
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A puzzlebox is the mystical equivalent of literacy tests for voting.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:A puzzlebox is the mystical equivalent of literacy tests for voting. That's actually pretty much how it happens in my game. The Silver Ladder keep a store room of them to throw at new Cabals who think they're clever. Something something, hubris is a coward's word. Edit: When you get to the middle, you get a congratulatory certificate (and some arcane beats, I'm not a monster) cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 11:32 on May 21, 2017 |
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Reading the Dark Osprey books kind of makes me want a version for WoD, as bizarre as that is.
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Well someone has to solve these puzzle boxes! A new one falls out of the screaming portal to the Abyss in the second-floor basement every week and they're really starting to pile up and just be, I don't know, generically inscrutable everywhere.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:By that logic you should be against underpants and nuclear power. I am.
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