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...)

Comments

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

You also need the requisite college student/grad student intern with really bizarre fashion sense and some kind of weird yet oddly domestic hobby.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I knew one intern who habitually wore blue jeans, a shirt that was never more than half tucked in, and a tie. A bright orange tie, loosely knotted.

[jducoeur]

Interesting -- the deliberately rebellious intern. That has possibilities...

[metageek.livejournal.com]

Oh, he wasn't rebellious; he was just confused. Jeans and a not-tucked-in-shirt would've been normal in that office; what was bizarre was wearing a tie with them (or, indeed, at all).

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I have an online pal who seemingly wears only red, black, bats and spiders, and who knits. Lots.