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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 574624" data-attributes="member: 704">The problem, as I see it, is that I have no real familiarity with the series.  This is largely intentional, since I am certain that if I were to watch so much as one full episode, I would be compelled to tear my eyes from my skull and stomp on them.  All I know of the show is that it is about the lives of 6 people who are so perpetually happy that only a steady and endless supply of mind altering drugs could explain it in real life.  I had to spend a few minutes with Google to get so much as their names for my post.That aside, I would imagine that transforming their idyllic lives into a horrific and bloody descent to the depths of insanity would not be difficult.   I suppose one could start with one of the episodes as a Hook.  Perhaps there is an episode where Rachel and Phobe a co workers cat or dog, but do not tell the others.  In a normal episode, Hilarity would ensue as their comic and unlikly antics run amok as they try to hide the dog.However, instead of finding the dog in Joey's closet ruining a pair of his designer shoes, something more sinister could be found.  Perhaps instead of finding the dog in Joey closet, they find the dogs torn and bloody corpse with its head torn off, nailed to the wall by its tounge as the center of a profane altar to Nyrlathotep.Or maybe, a few days after the dog is taken in, Chandler goes missing.  And nothing is found of him for days unitl Joey and Ross are playing fetch with it using Chandler's Femur.Or maybe the dog, known to mortal men by the name of Scruffy, is really a mask of Nyrlathotep, who tell's Ross that Phoebe shall give birth to the antichrist, and that he must slay her and her unborn baby.  And when Chandler, Monica, Ross and Rachel get back from that coffee shop, they walk in Ross as is plunging a bloody steak knife repeatedly into Phoebses chest and stomping on the fetus of her unborn child, with Scruffy hiding under the table.  And as Ross is hauled away in a Straight Jacket, no one beleves him when he says "But Scruffy told me that she was Evil.  I had to do it to save the World!".The problem is how to best involve the players, I think.  Would we want the players to be an intrested third party, or do we want them to take the roles of the characters?  I fear that if I let the players take the roles of Joey, Ross, Chandler, Rachel, Monica, and Phobe, that I would be compelled to inflict a TPK much too early in the session.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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