What's your scariest in-game experience?

diaglo said:
i think you answered your own question. i mean if everything is wet from spilt drinks how will it catch fire. :D

Don't assume that because something is liquid, it isn't flammable. Those guys could be drinking gas or Mountain Dew.

As for scary stories, nothing to add. We never get serious enough to build up any kind of tension...

Slim
 

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okay another scary one then:

DM from my story number 2. :D

some background on the group: me (an OD&D (1974) gamer); a younger skinny chainsmoking guy doing an internship at a tech company here in ATL from Germany; another techie from Mich (who soon after moved back for a better job); a very heavy set guy (bigger in size than the DM) into CoC the only other married guy besides me in the group; and one of the DM friends from a former campaign.

we had been gaming for about 2 months or so by this point. the CoC guy had been the newbie to the group as he joined 2 sessions after me. ;)

anyway. the DM announced at the beginning of the session, he would like to add 2 new players. we had 2 other players in the group which were friends of the DM from an older campaign drop out due to scheduling conflicts. so the DM felt we could accomodate more. which was fine with the rest of us. the new players would be arriving at this session. all the DM knows about them is they are a couple. he had chatted with them online and by phone. the guys "real" name is Magus. i forget the girl's name. they end up showing up late.

the guy is playing a samurai bodyguard half-red dragon something or other. he is older than me. which was a first. late 40's or so. his girlfriend is playing a noble ranger with some class tweaks and race stuff from 1edOA but converted to 3ed. she is supposed to be the talker in the group. but in fact the silent bodyguard...aka...Magus the player never shuts up the whole session. besides two minutes in i (and i suck at the rules) caught him cheating during combat. anyway the DM and Magus square off after an hour or so of this. Magus was a pretty burly guy too. but he was a smoker too. so he went out to smoke. the girlfriend looked to be about 18 tops. and she didn't say boo the whole session. they were either very good LARPers or just into some things i didn't do. Magus came back from his smoke break glaring at everyone for considering looking at his woman. which was funny he took it out on the other gay guy in the group the most. the DM called the session early. and we never saw them again. but i have heard from a few people in the area about meeting these guys. i laugh everytime they start with describing the couple.
 


A quick apology

The_Universe said:
TEWLIGEN AND AMOS_STEN:
Is there some secret contest going on that I don't know about? Are there bonus points for saying "person X is an offensive, fiendish _____aphobic jerk, and I'm the most tolerant angel in the history of the friggin' universe!" ?!?!?
Hey, a 5-pointer for Universe!

Heh, I joke. Um, yeah, I was out of line in my last post. I almost didn't post it, but that little part of me that loves to make snide comments talked me into it. I'll try to keep that little guy under better control in the future. So, I apologize to the people who were reading this thread and found themselves suddenly mired in unnecessary sniping. And, more importantly, apologies to Amos for jumping him for no good reason. It was uncalled for and more than a little rude. Sorry, man.

Now, back to the topic at hand. Carry on, carry on...
 

Well...its not about a rpg game session...

During the week, I live alone in a house my uncle owns. I usually go home on the weekends and stay here for classes in the week. Anyway about two years ago, three of my friends, Chase, Blocker and Chris, decided they'd come down instead and stay the weekend. It was a big party weekend and we hung around on campus and the strip until well into the night. Then we came home and played some Magic: the Gathering (none of us felt like playing any D&D). We play at the kitchen table.

My kitchen's rather plain. At one end is a small room with the table. Beside the table is the door to the carport. At the other end of the kitchen, past the counters, fridge, stove and island bar, is a door to a storage room. This is the interesting door. Supposably, this house is haunted. The previous occupant, a close friend of my uncle, died in the house. He was in his early forties. He had been dead a decade when I moved into the house. My uncle had told me to expect but ignore strange occurances. He wouldn't go into detail about them. I shrugged and thought little of it. I still don't, because I've learned to expect and ignore strange occurances. If anything is haunting this house, then its not violent. Well, not often. I'm not a big believer of ghosts anyway.

Anyway, I had warned my friends of this. I had warned them of specific things: Don't be alarmed if the storage room door opens and never close the door in the back bathroom while you're in it. If you need to, use the other bathroom.

Well, one of my friends, Chris, gets easily scared and wanted to go back home almost immediately. btw, this guy wet his pants at age 18 while watching 13 Ghosts in theater. Lo and behold, the strange occurances for the rest of the weekend center on him. If there's really a ghost, then I suppose it sensed the fear and picked on him. Chris goes in the back bathroom and is careful not to shut the door. While using the bathroom, the lights go out and the door slams and locks. We all hear the slamming and its result (he screamed lol) and go an investigate. The door's locked from the inside so there's little we can do. He bangs and turns the knob. After about two minutes the door just swings open and almost knocks him down. The lights are back on. Chris has wet himself again.

That was just one incident.

This brings me back to the gaming session that night...

We're having a long, drawed out multiplayer game when a noise comes from the storage room. As we watch (nothing new to me) the door unlocks and the knob turns. Then the door swings open. Silence. No one moves. A few minutes pass and then the door slams shut and locks itself again. An hour later...the same thing. This time, however, the door doesn't slam. It slowly shuts itself and doesn't lock...as if its trying to entice one of us to entering it. We went to bed after that. Chris begged to not be left in a room alone. He ended up sleeping in the floor of my room beside my room. He protested when I turned the light out, so I settled for having a lamp left on until morning.

Chris has never returned to this house and still swears he never will.
 

ArcOfCorinth said:
Well, one of my friends, Chris, gets easily scared and wanted to go back home almost immediately. btw, this guy wet his pants at age 18 while watching 13 Ghosts in theater. Lo and behold, the strange occurances for the rest of the weekend center on him. If there's really a ghost, then I suppose it sensed the fear and picked on him. Chris goes in the back bathroom and is careful not to shut the door. While using the bathroom, the lights go out and the door slams and locks. We all hear the slamming and its result (he screamed lol) and go an investigate. The door's locked from the inside so there's little we can do. He bangs and turns the knob. After about two minutes the door just swings open and almost knocks him down. The lights are back on. Chris has wet himself again.

That was just one incident.

This brings me back to the gaming session that night...

We're having a long, drawed out multiplayer game when a noise comes from the storage room. As we watch (nothing new to me) the door unlocks and the knob turns. Then the door swings open. Silence. No one moves. A few minutes pass and then the door slams shut and locks itself again. An hour later...the same thing. This time, however, the door doesn't slam. It slowly shuts itself and doesn't lock...as if its trying to entice one of us to entering it. We went to bed after that. Chris begged to not be left in a room alone. He ended up sleeping in the floor of my room beside my room. He protested when I turned the light out, so I settled for having a lamp left on until morning.

Chris has never returned to this house and still swears he never will.

Damnit! Now I'm scared... :(
 

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