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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Re: My handful

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

There was a data company here in Buffalo, original name escapes me at the moment, that changed their name to Client Logic Integrated Technologies. They had a billboard on the roof, forms, stationary, business cards, etc all printed out. When they gave stationary to 'the girls in the steno pool' one of them worked out the acrostic. It cost them nearly $10K to destroy all evidence of the new name and go with Client Logic. :D
-- Dagonell