Tag: game chef
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Open the Pod Bay Door
While investigating a distant star system, the cryogenic, terraforming, colony starship Appleseed became infected by a computer worm. A planetary scouting team was caught outside on the unarmed, short-range pod, the Snow Day. The ship’s infected robot killed everyone awake on the Appleseed and locked the team out. The pod’s air supplies are almost gone……
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The Worm in the Apple: Red Box Edition
Eons ago, the overlords tamed the lands, vanquished the ghouls, gods and ghosts, and built a mile-wide, 36-level tower to govern the world – a place that allowed them to see everything and know everything. Around the tower grew a culture of supplicant monks whose only goal in life was to climb the 36 levels…
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Chaucer’s Daughter Lost: a lost Shakespearian Role-Playing Play
Here’s the rough draft for my Game Chef 2011: Shakespeare entry. I’m using the following ingredients: Daughter, Nature, Exile (Forsworn – sort of). In order to claim the title as England’s Bard, Shakespeare travels back in time and kidnaps Chaucer’s daughter, Agnes. As ransom Chaucer must go into exile and not write The Canterbury Tales.…
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Burial at Crossroads
Burial at Crossroads At the crossroads, a pile of broken water-rich rock marked the road west; the north road bore a sign marked ‘To New Askja.’ Those who could read went north. You journeyed west. West across the volcanic desert, past other grēners who already marked their claims with names like Lamia, Usha’s Hole and…
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Important Places of Burial at Crossroads
Important Places The Black Desert (The West): Black as far as the eye can see with a westerly backdrop of towering mountains abruptly rising from the ground. In some areas, the rocks are jagged, but in most places they’re smooth with a black sand filling in the depressions. Shifting black sand dunes exist in places.…