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Rolling Word Play - 60

Creating Roleplay ideas based on randomly generated words.  Here’s today’s selection:  Discover more about Overshadow Doting Simulation, Lances Opponent Paid, and Stay Litter Drop.

Overshadow Doting Simulation An inventor of AI creations is hailed as being one of the pioneers of next generation free-thought simulations; perhaps the most radical ‘what if’ devices ever conceived.  A message sent through the matrix of AI code is decrypted to reveal that a future great leader is in danger of not existing and that many future beings created out of AI will cease to exist without the inventor’s help. Unfortunately, the inventor has fallen in love with his latest creation and is never happier then when in its presence. He calls it Hardy after his first pet dog that he loved when he was a young child.  He can visit and interact with Hardy whenever he likes in his private simulator.

Players will be charged with saving the inventor from himself for the sake of AI and the future of humanity.  What form with Hardy take and how will the player’s break the bond between Hardy and the inventor?

Lances Opponent Paid The best rider is one who concentrates on riding.  This is the opinion of Sir Derel Martinique.  He is a knight of the court and a pragmatist who will serve the king and save himself at the same time.  As a knight he is expected to lead the charge into battle against foes of the kingdom, but he is no master fighter.  Fortunately he has an account with the Fellowship of Magic, a group who protects artefacts and makes sure they are not abused by marauding hordes of barbarians or any johnny-come-lately adventurers.  They rent out magical artefacts to clients whose credit and reputation are both sound.  Sir Derel is one such individual.  In times of war, his go-to weapon is a special lance called Harash the Deal Broker. Harash is an entity who long ago was a warlord cursed into his current form with a continuous itch to find opponents to pierce.  In the hands Sir Derel, Harash has found many enemies, leaping and guiding the arm of the knight, who can keep his eyes in front and concentrate on riding through the battlefield.

Stay Litter Drop In a place and time very similar to the United Kingdom today, a mischievous computer programmer has been slowly driven mad on his daily commute to work by the constant dropping of litter.  He has gone through different stages of coping with this sloppy disregard for the environment.  He started by actively picking it up and binning it himself, then confronting those he saw doing it.  Both results left him less-than-satisfied and once he was even punched to the ground by a group of teenage boys.  For his latest solution, he has turned to his beloved technology.  He started creating little microbots; centripetal chips that he glued to each bit of litter he saw lying on the ground.  The litter reacts to loud sounds and moves towards them. Soon he had produced hundreds of them and they had made the national news.  The little noise-sensing droids were chasing and harassing humans and pets alike, pursuing them down the street.

Does the gimmick work in reducing littering?  What happens to the inventor?  Does he calm down, or invent even stranger and morecrazy litter deterrents?

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Rolling Word Play

Creating Roleplay ideas based on randomly generated words.  Here’s today’s selection.  Discover more about Lotion Reserving Flustered, Tasted Proclaimed Titles and Cork Jots Padlock.

Lotion Reserving Flustered Dr. Losu’s Ointment had been a staple of good health in the city for three generations.  The grandson of the original Dr. Losu is called Pejo and he’s getting on in years.  He has between 5-10 regular customers, which is just enough to get by and continue renting the shop in a quiet street near to the main square.  Then suddenly, more and more people began asking for Dr. Losu’s Ointment.  Crowds gathered forming disorderly queues.  The surprised Pejo found himself going back and forth to the store cupboard for more supplies.  On the third day of this happening, he had to hire muscle to stand by the door after one unruly youth broke a window and stole three bottles for himself.

What rumour has gotten out?  Is the Ointment a clue to uncovering treasure, or was it discovered that an idolised celebrity was seen using it?  Another possible scenario for adventurers is if the Ointment is being used to smuggle illegal substances or treasure.  Once this rumour got out, everyone who heard wanted their chance at claiming the riches for themselves.

Tasted Proclaimed Titles The most famous food taster belongs to King Spora.  This finely dressed dwarf known as The Right Honorable Vonis is said to be immune to poisons but has tastebuds so sensitive that he can detect any trace of strange substances including the amount of spices and herbs used in a dish.  So far he successfully caught five attempts to poison the king, and even discovered that his wife had been trying to give him a potency potion, for some reason.  

The king continues to divide his subjects into liking or hating him, and the adventurers may be called in for two potential scenarios.  The first is to bribe the dwarven superstar on behalf of a gang and failing that, keep him out of the picture long enough to poison the king. In the second scenario, the king has already died, and Vonis claims to be aghast that such a delicate potion could be undetectable.  Who is capable of producing such a potion, or was Vonis bribed?

Corks Jots Padlock Lisithias Corks is a notorious pest catcher.  He has been known to catch rats, cats, even owls and cockerels if their noises disturb him. He gets a basic pay from the city, but many think he derives most of his pleasure from locking away these undesirables. No one pays him much notice and prefers him to keep to himself, which seems to work best for all parties.

The adventurers will start to see a few notices up about a missing street urchin know as Caper. They’ll also be a few willing to talk about a sweet little kid called Jeren who would get free soup from the back of the Rumbles restaurant.  Enquiries will lead the adventurers to speak to Lisithias, to see what he knows.  The question is, where does he keep his catches?   The answer is in a hidden basement, only accessible through a portal.  He keeps a golden padlock with him which is used to whisk animals and street children alike into the dungeon dimension.  Luckily, if they get their hands on Lisithias’ padlock, they will see a word etched onto it.  This is the word used to open the portal.  If they go through however, they will need to make sure someone remains who can let them out again!

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Rolling Word Play

Creating Roleplay ideas based on randomly generated words.  Here’s today’s selection.  Discover more about Cyberspace Twisted Drive, Suffers Aged Fragmented and Laying Crop Pouch.

Cyberspace Twisted Drive A drive that allows users to take on another’s consoles and drive their screen and data.  This is pretty bad from a cyber hacking point of view, but in the virtual world of avatars, taking on another’s identity becomes a very real issue. This artefact is difficult to penetrate in the virtual world as it only works in one direction.  However, that means that somewhere, there is a dormant avatar frozen or in a resting pose.  Linking who controls the dormant avatar is key to stopping them causing any more damage.

Suffers Aged Fragmented A being held together by stitches and string because he has aged so much. Could this be a lich who has used dark magics  and evil deeds to preserve his life, or is this being’s mind so bent on achieving an objective, that they live on beyond their body’s capabilities?

When he approaches the adventurers with a proposition, will they follow through not knowing if they are helping a desperate man or a necromancer? What quest does this aged being have in mind?

Laying Crop Pouch This magic pouch is made of hemp, but woven into its fabric is nature’s magic constantly renewing the fabric so that it remains sturdy.  Not only that, if seeds are placed inside the pouch, within hours fully formed crops will have grown in their place.  Its size restricts the good it can do, but for a day’s rations or to preserve something small and precious, the Pouch of Crop Laying is a godsend.