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[The Strange] Dear God, save me and my players, but....

Started by san dee jota, August 06, 2017, 03:49:42 PM

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Odd thought but I think it makes sense in terms of The Strange's setting physics. There must be a metric crap load of pornographic Recursions, some of them pretty big and pretty old. Probably not something that will dealt with canonically but it was something that occurred to me.
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Quote from: Nexus;999850Odd thought but I think it makes sense in terms of The Strange's setting physics. There must be a metric crap load of pornographic Recursions, some of them pretty big and pretty old. Probably not something that will dealt with canonically but it was something that occurred to me.
Absolutely. There's essentially an infinite number of possible recursions out there, and given the popularity of certain things you just know there's at least a pretty big one based on 50 Shades.

That's the nice thing about The Strange. It lets a group explore literally anything they want. There aren't a lot of games where your characters can easily transition from crawling through dungeons to sampling the delights of an oversized, fictional version of the Playboy Mansion.

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Another cool thing about this setting is all those old supplements, modules, games, even notes for other games that you never got to use can now find all new life as Recursions.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

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This must be what developing a Spark feels like in a really limited Recursions.

[video=youtube;bLBcfoUwOWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLBcfoUwOWE[/youtube]

I've been thinking about West World and how to work a similar premise into The Strange. I came up with two possibilities:

1. It could be a small limited Recursion, possibly constructed that works along similar rules to the park (no one really dies unintentionally, etc) populated with unaware beings that just act out stories and planned events over and over. Someone from Earth has discovered it and using Gate is capitalizing on it as a 'theme park", live action MMO possibly even the original creator who can alter that various story-line playing out in their world. But more and more of the inhabitants are developing Sparks and they don't like being abused for the amusement of others.

2. It could actually be a Recursion drawn from the original movie, the show or their overall themes that the PCs someone get mixed up and have finish the story to translate out. The locals actually are Robots, some aware, some not. Waking up is a precursor to getting a Spark.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."