Seeking office horror stories

[jducoeur]

I seem to have accidentally wound up with the high concept for my game for Intercon next year. (As so often, it's all Christian's fault: he is always a font of game ideas.)

To that end, I am looking for any and all ideas for Drip -- the water-cooler horror game. It's going to be a vicious satire of All Things Office. The ideas are already flowing pretty quickly, but I welcome more: if you have character ideas, situations or just war stories about Office Life, send them along and I might work them in. Feel free to brainstorm wildly: weird and unlikely isn't necessarily a bar here. (Those who remember Panel will know how willing I am to get downright strange in my scenarios.)

(No, tpau, I'm not bidding it yet. Among other things, I haven't figured out the game's scope yet. It might be a one-hour 10-person Z game, a two-hour 20-person Sunday-or-Friday game, or a full four-hour 25-to-30-person slot. Once I understand how big the game is, I can think about bidding it...)

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[siderea]

So there was the temp job I had where it turned out the drepartmental pres, vp, and their pet secretary (the one they were being forced to discharge for gross dereliction endangering others lives) all belonged to the same cult. And I do mean cult -- this was at a university that had banned that same religious org from recruiting on campus because of their, uh, techniques.

[jducoeur]

Oh, that is *great* -- it almost demands to go into the LARP somewhere. Thanks!

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Depending on the size of the game, there could be 2-3 cults, mutually antagonistic, and nobody knows who's in which. There could even be someone who's in all of them.

[jducoeur]

Possible, but that may start to get away from the core spirit of the game. (And in fact, I've already played that game: Secrets of the Necronomicon, wherein our group -- consisting of the Wolfman, Dracula, and the insane FBI Agent -- were essentially the good guys because we were the only people *not* in a demonic cult.)

But we'll see: everything's on the table at this point...