Sunday Nonsense: Elevator Pitches

[AOieiosle]

You go to a town council meeting where they are discussing raising taxes on property and instituting laws which punish those who do not mow their lawns with heavy fines and finally confiscating their property.

You, the hero, want to stop this from happening.

The Mayor and two of the five town council are doing this specifically to target those on the sides of their property. They want to have the town confiscate their neighbors property and then be able to buy it for themselves. The laws will affect the rest of the town, but the council is only focusing on these properties for present.

Killing anyone will results in your arrest and going to jail for murder. You need to win this by political diplomacy.

Fiasco. You don't truly win, it's just fun to tell the whole ugly story. This works if you really dig deep into all the personalities of the town.

 

[Bill Zebub]

When does killing anyone to resolve a property issue not send you to jail for murder?

That was likely Smaug’s last thought.

Dragons can be very litigious.

 

[Davies]

You are all members of a production team of a movie being run by someone who made an elevator pitch that involved shoving someone else half-way through an elevator door that opened up on an empty shaft and threatening to let that person drop to their doom if they didn't approve any ideas they came up with. Their sanity has not demonstrably improved, so if you fail to come up with solutions to their impossible requests, your body may be found but it will never be identified. Hijinks ensue.

Sorry but ever since I heard about the concept of elevator pitches, that image has been on my mind.