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User:Trip'T

2007-04-26T06:09:32Z

Trip'T:

Oh my gosh, I'm contributing.

User talk:Trip'T

2007-04-26T06:08:50Z

Trip'T:

Oh my gosh, I'm contributing.

In Real Life

2007-04-26T06:07:57Z

Trip'T:

*A letter arives consisting only of the word "BEWARE", a crude sketch of a beetle, and the caption "The Siberian Beetle". It is followed by others with captions saying things like "The Siberian Beetle Can Talk" and similar - each one postmarked slightly closer to the character receiving them. (This one courtesy of the FBI, which never actually implemented the plan to send folks these.)

*A book develops an inexplicable stain while sitting on the shelf. The stain looks and smells an awful lot like blood... (Ironically, the book this really happened to was my copy of Cthulhu Live. - [[User:Teucer|Teucer]].)

*Just off of I-84, about 40 or so miles west of Portland, there's a little campground in the forest there. As you enter the campground, to your left there's a big opening in the treeline, on the other side of which you can see the ghostly image of a broken railroad bridge, part of it dangling down. You can often even hear what sounds like the squeals of brakes. The disturbing part of course, being that there is no such brige on the other side of those trees, and there never has been. --[[User:J Arcane|J Arcane]] 16:37, 21 May 2005 (PDT)

*After getting some pictures developed, several opaque orbs are noticed hovering above a certain area within the picture. Different lighting conditions and points of view of the same area produce the same photographic phenomenon. As time goes on, the number of orbs slowly increases. Those with a family history of preternatural abilities state that they are now experiencing the sensation that something is present and trying to make contact. (My wife an I chickened out and dropped our investigation of the orbs in our backyard after she woke one evening and saw a man standing at the end of the bed. She turned on the lamp and he was gone. She also spoke to a child that was in our room and only later realized that it wasn't one of our own.) - [[User:Trip'T|Trip'T]].

*A group of friends decide to go out to woods to drink and hang out. Upon arriving at their destination they encounter a black cat standing in a field near the woods. With not a house for miles around, the friends decide that it would be best to rescue the cat and try and find it's owner. As they attempt to capture the cat however, it moves closer and closer to the woods. Each time the friends stop following the cat it turns and meows back to them, seemingly encouraging them to follow. When they near the woods, the cats demeanor suddenly changes and it starts hissing wildly directly at the darkened woods. The friends, overcome with a spine chilling sensation, run back to the car and race back to town. Not a word is spoken, no one looks back. Later at the local coffee shop, each describes to the other what made them run and each seems to finish the other's sentence. They each sensed a large, loping, feline shape made up of impossible curves. They each sensed the same sinister aura that desired to possess them. They each moved away from the small town that this happened in, and now I'm the only one who seems to remember their experience. - [[User:Trip'T|Trip'T]].

*Upon approaching a infrared sensing automatic door, you have to wait in front of it. A moment or two later it notices you and opens. When anyone else uses the same door however, it operates as intended and opens well before they reach the door. This effect seems consistent with all infrared sensing automatic doors. - [[User:Trip'T|Trip'T]].

[[Category: Eerie Event]]

In Real Life

2007-04-26T05:50:52Z

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In Real Life

2007-04-26T05:28:31Z

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Just Plain Weird

2007-04-26T04:56:47Z

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A character realizes that the spelling of a particular word has changed permanently. He knows that he's spelling it correctly, but everybody else spells it the new way. No one even recognizes the old spelling. Even the dictionaries confirm the new spelling, with no mention of the old. — [[User:Darren MacLennan|Darren MacLennan]]

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A word simply disappears from existence. For example, "smooth" is no longer in any dictionaries, nor do people ever use the word; they simply describe something as "not rough." — [[User:Darren MacLennan|Darren MacLennan]]

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A character wakes up and walks to the bathroom mirror to discover small metal screws in his temples. How they got there and what purpose they serve, he has no idea.
[[Category: Eerie Event]]

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A character develops an uncontrollable precognitive ability that forces them to experiences events that what will happen a minute or two from now. The events do not even have to be the characters own; they could belong to a friend, a stranger, or even an object or location. By placing the visions only a minute or two into the future, this tool can be used to create suspense and allows the storyteller some measure of control regarding the accuracy of the predicted event.
— [[User:Trip'T|Trip'T]]

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This event is best to be staged within some sort of long-term-care institution such as a hospital or a prison, but can be creatively adapted to work anywhere. A group of individuals within the afore mentioned institution have been spontaneously saying a single word. When taken apart, this act is meaningless. But recently someone noticed that a number of them speak one after another and there seems to be some logical sequence. While the whole statement is yet to be assembled (missing people mean missing words, cryptic double speak, poor connection to the message originator), enough is understood to raise concerns.
— [[User:Trip'T|Trip'T]]

Just Plain Weird

2007-04-26T04:38:27Z

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Category:Traveller

2007-04-25T00:34:09Z

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Traveller began as a science fiction game written by MArc Miller and published in 1979 by Game Designer's Workshop. Although it may not technically be the first SF RPG, it is certainly considered by many to be one of the great grand-daddies of the hobby. It has undergone a number of incarnations at the hands of a variety of authors and publishers. These are Classic Traveller (CT), MegaTraveller (MT), Traveller: the New Era (TNE), Marc Miller's Traveller (T4), GURPS Traveller (GT), and Taveller d20 (T20). Traveller Fifth Edition (T5) is currently in the works.

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In Transit

2007-04-24T06:15:53Z

Trip'T:

The players are driving along the highway when a deer jumps out in front of the car. They hit it, hard, taking damage in the process. The deer is killed instantly.

When they look at the deer, they see it has a fifth leg, growing from the side of its stomach, dangling uselessly. Apparently, it was born that way. But on their way to the next location, every other animal seems to have an extra appendage or mutation. Crows have beaks on the sides of their necks, squirrels drag an extra useless rat-tail. Not every animal, but a lot of them — and they didn't notice until now.

The last thing that they see before they arrive is a kid walking along the side of a road with his fishing pole over one shoulder, with his younger brother holding up the useless club of his third arm.

— [[User:Darren MacLennan|Darren MacLennan]]

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The investigator is sleeping in the back of the car, with another investigator driving. The investigator in the back drifts off to sleep. When he wakes up, there's somebody else driving the car — he looks like one of the other investigators, but he isn't. He turns and smiles reassuringly at the investigator. If the investigator looks out the window, he sees that they're driving along a road lined with endless bare trees on either side, the color and texture of bone, submerged two feet deep in black water. When he looks back at the driver, it's the original driver — and the outside is normal.

— [[User:Darren MacLennan|Darren MacLennan]]

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The investigators drive underneath an overpass, but one of them sees some kind of bundle tied up in the metal girders above their heads. If they can figure out a way to get the bundle down — since it's directly over the highway — they find the corpse of a teenaged hitchhiker, mummified in road tar. Embedded in the road tar are snippets from dozens of maps, each of them with the only nearby town violently scratched out in black ink. If the investigators go up the road towards that town, they find that the road has been deliberately sabotaged, with the road signs torn out and the road itself covered with potholes. If they go further, then they find out why the town cut itself off.

They find out big time.

— [[User:Darren MacLennan|Darren MacLennan]]

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The investigators are driving down the highway when they see a car by the side of the road. The doors are open, but the engine is still running. If the investigators look around long enough, they find a single shoe — brand new — where the ditch ends and the woods begin.

— [[User:Darren MacLennan|Darren MacLennan]]

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While driving down a long, flat stretch of highway, the driver glances up at the rear-view mirror and sees a very unfamilar landscape (the burning pits of hell, the blasted fields of a nuclear wasteland, a mind shattering alien landscape; etc.). When they glance back, it's the normal passing of the road behind them.

- [[User:FruitSmack!|FruitSmack!]]

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While driving down a two-lane road at night, the driver notices the dashed lines in the middle of the road taking on different shapes - crude letters or symbols that are slight variants of road dashes. They may spell out a message, or direct the driver to turn a certain way - or simply stop appearing once they have the driver's full attention.

- [[User:Dr. Awkward|Dr. Awkward]]

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The investigators drive to an isolated location. When they get back into their car, it doesn't start. Upon further investigation, they find that the entire engine is missing.

Variant: the engine is still present, but all of the fluids in the vehicle (gas, oil, transmission fluid, radiator water, windshield-wiper fluid) are all gone - or replaced by blood.

- [[User:PatP|PatP]]

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The investigators park for the night -- trying to get some sleep in their vehicle. The next morning, one or more of the investigators are sure that where and how they parked (location, orientation, etc.) is somehow different from where they actually woke up.

- [[User:PatP|PatP]]

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While traveling via subway, the players come across an old subway car setup as a memorial within a nearly derelict station. It is tended by an elderly individual whom everyone takes to be senile or mad. Each night he goes about as a subway conductor for the car which never runs. He seem to fully believe that the car still conducts passengers to their destinations. Perhaps it does.

- [[User:Trip'T|Trip'T]]

[[Category: Eerie Event]]