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JoeyTD wrote::{
Spoiler:It's coming. When I feel like making the thread.
Yeah, it isn't a novel's worth of connection. It's simple and elegant. Somebody disrupted the order of things.Phobus wrote:That made no sense!
The Experiment IS the disruption. And it has caused an inter-dimensional war, so actually it's totally another absurd disaster.Gez wrote:And because of that disruption, the experiment worked instead of resulting into yet another absurd disaster?
Yeah, but not one that affects the scientists.Captain Ventris wrote:The Experiment IS the disruption. And it has caused an inter-dimensional war, so actually it's totally another absurd disaster.
Every sci-fi story involving scientists can be recreated with these tables. Some writers are clearly Luddites.Scientist A: "Behold! I've repaired the toaster."
Scientist B: "Great! Let's try it then."
*schlunk*
<roll on table 1> emerges from <roll on table 2> and <roll on table 3> the scientists <roll on table 4> before attempting to <roll on table 5> <roll on table 6>.
TABLE 1:
1: An army of robots
2: A legion of demons
3: A horde of aliens and/or mutants
4: A wave of protoplasmic goo
5: A herd of carnivorous dinosaurs
6: A stupidly-huge giant monster
TABLE 2:
1: the toaster
2: a wormhole or other transdimensional gateway
3: a spatiotemporal rift
4: behind them
5: an old occult book that was in the laboratory for some reason
6: Scientist A's innards
TABLE 3:
1: slaughters
2: massacres
3: murders
4: engulfs
5: brainwashes with mind-control rays
6: kills and assumes the shape of
TABLE 4:
1: in a spectacular explosion of gore
2: in a way which splatters odd organs all over the walls
3: during a scene so violent that it is censored even in the Director's Cut
4: in gratuitously grotesque fashion
5: leaving nothing but ashes or a smudge of blood
6: surprisingly cleanly
TABLE 5:
1: invade
2: rampage through
3: destroy
4: terraform, except, you know, more like "xenoform"
5: strip-mine
6: raise an army of the dead in
TABLE 6:
1: Tokyo
2: New York
3: Paris
4: Earth
5: the galaxy
6: the entire universe
Yeah, but we don't CARE about the scientists anyway.Gez wrote:Yeah, but not one that affects the scientists.Captain Ventris wrote:The Experiment IS the disruption. And it has caused an inter-dimensional war, so actually it's totally another absurd disaster.
.. Hey Xaser, you got a story for a new mod!printz wrote:A legion of demons emerges from the toaster and massacres the scientists in a spectacular explosion of gore before attempting to raise an army of the dead in the galaxy.