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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9185106" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The Carnivore's Crown</span></strong></p><p></p><p>Hypocritical Vegetarian</p><p>Permanent Ink</p><p>Unlikely Mutiny</p><p>Living Chessboard</p><p>Cheerful Melody</p><p>Divine Triceratops</p><p></p><p></p><p>A superhero sandbox murder mystery. </p><p></p><p><u>Hook</u>: An attack/accident shoves PCs from Earth through a dimensional rift</p><p></p><p>PCs find themselves in a prehistoric jungle, with dinosaurs etc roaming. Home is visible briefly through the rift, before flicker-blurring, then being replaced by an alternate reality, then another, then another in ever-accelerating succession. Scientifically/magically knowledgeable PCs can deduce the portal is unstable because of fundamental undermining of the foundations of this reality. PCs can't return home via the rift until this has been stabilised.</p><p></p><p>PCs who can track dimensional perturbations, or who can somehow see over the forest, will spot on the horizon the only civilisation in this reality. A stupendous mountaintop palace, marble and gold - Karkostim, the Hall of the Dinosaur Gods.</p><p></p><p><u>How it works</u>: Every dinosaur(/etc) has a representative God-Beast in Karkostim. Karkostim is built around a vast checkered gameboard. Periodically a bell tolls and the gods make their way to the board (<strong>living chessboard</strong>) to take a game turn. Gods move according to complex divine gamerules, and god-beasts ending up on the same square fight to the death. Losers are reborn outside the game and relegated to watch future turns from the sidelines. At the end of each day, the one god left on the board is crowned the King of Beasts. It's always God-T-Rex. The king is the king, the great cycle is eternal. God-Tortoise can explain this to PCs - he's always one of the first losers and is philosophical about it. Tortoises don't really want to rule anyway.</p><p></p><p><u>What happened</u>: Saturnalia is a trickster entity who once saw Les Miserables on Broadway and now travels the multiverse inciting uprisings against tyrants. God-Triceratops (<strong>divine triceratops</strong>) had long been loudly critical of God-T-Rex's bloody dominion, and listened to Saturnalia receptively. He secretly murdered God-T-Rex outside the gameboard (unlikely mutiny), and ate the body (<strong>hypocritical vegetarian</strong>) to avoid detection and to absorb God-T-Rex's power. This is permanent, but God-T-Rex's death also results in death to all T-Rexes in this reality. The unnatural fall of the forever God-King of Beasts outside the Great Gameboard at the hands/horns of its eternal prey is what's destabilised dimensional reality.</p><p></p><p>Saturnalia also tempted the currently-minor gods of mammals and birds, talking of a time when dinosaurs disappear and they will rule. </p><p></p><p><u>Clues</u>: </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">rodents and birds are whistling/squeaking 'can you hear the people sing?' (<strong>cheerful melody</strong>), which culturally-aware PCs will notice and probably find suspicious (and, as time goes on, creepy)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a couple of game-turns in, God-Triceratops discovers that usurping God-T-Rex's mantle means he's growing carnivore fangs. To conceal this, he'll start to head-down mumble when speaking, and then murder and eat God-Ammonite so he can black out the incriminating fangs with its divinely concealing <strong>permanent ink</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">in the world outside, PCs notice a lack of T-Rexes, but also overgrazing etc due to herbivore overpopulation. Once God-Ammonite dies, the seas change colour, choked with algae. Other gods will start to fade/die as their embodied creatures suffer and dwindle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">God-Rodent is a red herring - he believes PCs are emissaries from a mammal-ruled reality and updates them on Saturnalia's activities (he doesn't know about God-Triceratops). He views PCs as allies, and will be resentful if they don't agree. He's not particularly dangerous (as gods go - PCs will still find him tough), but his rodent children see and learn everything</li> </ul><p></p><p><u>Complications</u></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Saturnalia fights any attempt to disrupt his revolution.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PCs joining the Game are deemed to be species representatives. If they die off the gameboard, so does their species.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">killing any God-Beast outside the gameboard makes the dimensional/ecological instability worse</li> </ul><p></p><p><u>Goals:</u></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">defeat Saturnalia</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a God-T-Rex must return to the gameboard, and win the day's game</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">convince the revolutionaries it's a bad idea (possibly by revealing how Les Miserables ended!), otherwise it'll all happen again.</li> </ul><p></p><p><u>Possible outcomes:</u> </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">solve the murder, then convince God-Triceratops to BECOME a new God-T-Rex to fill the metaphysical void. He can do this by fully and willingly embracing his newly-acquired predator side, and leaving his herbivore self behind. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. God-Beasts can't leave Karkostim, so PCs must find/capture and relocate a particularly mighty mundane triceratops to Karkostim to become the new God-Triceratops.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">find the divine clock that rings out the game turns and wind it back to when God-T-Rex is still alive, then prevent his murder</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">somehow find/summon/become a T-Rex to defeat God-Triceratops on the gameboard for title of King of the Beasts</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 9185106, member: 5948"] [B][SIZE=6]The Carnivore's Crown[/SIZE][/B] Hypocritical Vegetarian Permanent Ink Unlikely Mutiny Living Chessboard Cheerful Melody Divine Triceratops A superhero sandbox murder mystery. [U]Hook[/U]: An attack/accident shoves PCs from Earth through a dimensional rift PCs find themselves in a prehistoric jungle, with dinosaurs etc roaming. Home is visible briefly through the rift, before flicker-blurring, then being replaced by an alternate reality, then another, then another in ever-accelerating succession. Scientifically/magically knowledgeable PCs can deduce the portal is unstable because of fundamental undermining of the foundations of this reality. PCs can't return home via the rift until this has been stabilised. PCs who can track dimensional perturbations, or who can somehow see over the forest, will spot on the horizon the only civilisation in this reality. A stupendous mountaintop palace, marble and gold - Karkostim, the Hall of the Dinosaur Gods. [U]How it works[/U]: Every dinosaur(/etc) has a representative God-Beast in Karkostim. Karkostim is built around a vast checkered gameboard. Periodically a bell tolls and the gods make their way to the board ([B]living chessboard[/B]) to take a game turn. Gods move according to complex divine gamerules, and god-beasts ending up on the same square fight to the death. Losers are reborn outside the game and relegated to watch future turns from the sidelines. At the end of each day, the one god left on the board is crowned the King of Beasts. It's always God-T-Rex. The king is the king, the great cycle is eternal. God-Tortoise can explain this to PCs - he's always one of the first losers and is philosophical about it. Tortoises don't really want to rule anyway. [U]What happened[/U]: Saturnalia is a trickster entity who once saw Les Miserables on Broadway and now travels the multiverse inciting uprisings against tyrants. God-Triceratops ([B]divine triceratops[/B]) had long been loudly critical of God-T-Rex's bloody dominion, and listened to Saturnalia receptively. He secretly murdered God-T-Rex outside the gameboard (unlikely mutiny), and ate the body ([B]hypocritical vegetarian[/B]) to avoid detection and to absorb God-T-Rex's power. This is permanent, but God-T-Rex's death also results in death to all T-Rexes in this reality. The unnatural fall of the forever God-King of Beasts outside the Great Gameboard at the hands/horns of its eternal prey is what's destabilised dimensional reality. Saturnalia also tempted the currently-minor gods of mammals and birds, talking of a time when dinosaurs disappear and they will rule. [U]Clues[/U]: [LIST] [*]rodents and birds are whistling/squeaking 'can you hear the people sing?' ([B]cheerful melody[/B]), which culturally-aware PCs will notice and probably find suspicious (and, as time goes on, creepy) [*]a couple of game-turns in, God-Triceratops discovers that usurping God-T-Rex's mantle means he's growing carnivore fangs. To conceal this, he'll start to head-down mumble when speaking, and then murder and eat God-Ammonite so he can black out the incriminating fangs with its divinely concealing [B]permanent ink[/B] [*]in the world outside, PCs notice a lack of T-Rexes, but also overgrazing etc due to herbivore overpopulation. Once God-Ammonite dies, the seas change colour, choked with algae. Other gods will start to fade/die as their embodied creatures suffer and dwindle. [*]God-Rodent is a red herring - he believes PCs are emissaries from a mammal-ruled reality and updates them on Saturnalia's activities (he doesn't know about God-Triceratops). He views PCs as allies, and will be resentful if they don't agree. He's not particularly dangerous (as gods go - PCs will still find him tough), but his rodent children see and learn everything [/LIST] [U]Complications[/U] [LIST] [*]Saturnalia fights any attempt to disrupt his revolution. [*]PCs joining the Game are deemed to be species representatives. If they die off the gameboard, so does their species. [*]killing any God-Beast outside the gameboard makes the dimensional/ecological instability worse [/LIST] [U]Goals:[/U] [LIST] [*]defeat Saturnalia [*]a God-T-Rex must return to the gameboard, and win the day's game [*]convince the revolutionaries it's a bad idea (possibly by revealing how Les Miserables ended!), otherwise it'll all happen again. [/LIST] [U]Possible outcomes:[/U] [LIST] [*]solve the murder, then convince God-Triceratops to BECOME a new God-T-Rex to fill the metaphysical void. He can do this by fully and willingly embracing his newly-acquired predator side, and leaving his herbivore self behind. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. God-Beasts can't leave Karkostim, so PCs must find/capture and relocate a particularly mighty mundane triceratops to Karkostim to become the new God-Triceratops. [*]find the divine clock that rings out the game turns and wind it back to when God-T-Rex is still alive, then prevent his murder [*]somehow find/summon/become a T-Rex to defeat God-Triceratops on the gameboard for title of King of the Beasts [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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