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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oh, man, not kidding...

[anu3bis.livejournal.com]

First thing I did when I got our new PBX was to disable the page features.
It's bad enough that the windows face Harvard Square and every siren makes the customers think the building's on fire, but to have pages too? No way.

Hmm...are customers a part of the game? Making them thread the PBX or front desk would be interesting.

Re: oh, man, not kidding...

[jducoeur]

My current thinking is that customers / clients may be horde / cast, but probably aren't principal characters -- it's just too hard to tie them deeply enough into the plot web to make them satisfying to play.

(But having some as horde is *very* possible. This makes me think about the possibility of the rude / abusive / persistent client, who keeps calling various people to yell at them...)