Play Dirty: Sylvie Hates the Bye-Bye Box

Advice for a friend I thought others might find useful.

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[W4RW017]

Woah... I'm planning on leading an adventure at a horror-genre based convention called f.e.a.r.qul (basicly "fearnight", the qul being an englishified version of the swedish word for night). I'd love to do this kind of thing to the player, should probably have them pretty shaken.

I might even steal the whole idea of them helping the hero restore the world by offering their own lives.

[LordStrange]

She's 16. I added a note to the video.

[GMCiaramella]

That scenario is horrifying... I wish I had been there. I've found that it is the games like that... with true horror that pushes me, as a player, farther than I ever expected to be pushed... that is the game that years down the line, I remember.

[Nyarlathoteplol]

Daaaaw, kitty!

[Armasjoel]

Samurai Jack? Sounds like straight-up Days of Future Past, all the way.

I'm intensely interested in how this actually worked out in play and how the girl felt about it. From the outside it looks like a cool story development but a pretty abusive tactic for the real people involved. The way it's all planned out in the GM's head to "teach" the player how to play right sound downright icky.

[bathlarper]

How young is this girl? Its a cool campaign concept but I wouldn't run this for a young group.

[highpriestrsw2]

damn! That sounds intense!

I'd love to run this scenario using Burning Wheel with the character's belief's and instincts reflecting that they are indeed heroic cannon fodder!

Brilliant!

If your book has this much insight and interesting scenarios I'm buying it!

[Minael2010]

another amazing post

[NevTheDeranged]

Interesting plot idea, but I can't help but wonder if it isn't just an elaborate way of f*cking with the poor girl's fun. Obviously I don't know anything beyond what's been shared in this video, so it's impossible for me to know for sure. But it sounds like it could be. *shrug* Neat idea, though.

[W4RW017]

My bad, it was supposed to be the word for evening, kväll. Kväll, with an english pronunciation, could be spelled qul.

[PanzerDivisionBOM]

I'm really curious now: precisely how do you turn the word "natt" (pronounced as the English word "nut") into "qul"? I've seen my fair share of linguistic oddities, but this one just about takes the cake and sodomizes it.