Grind: Competition

8th

Mar10

By Sebastian Hickey

I’m looking for help, so I’m holding a contest. This has been posted over on The Forge and Story Games too.

I’m looking for sample scenarios (called Frames—read this?). They’re 7 lines long (see below).

Best entry goes into the book and wins a PDF.

HfL: Standard Frame

Setting: Near future, hyperviolent media, vast public screenings, global slums, sex, drugs and bruises
Adversary: The Network
Gore Threshold: 5
Connection: Class of ‘99
Drop-Off: London Bridge
Objective: Insein Prison, Burma
Checkpoints: Travel to India, Destroy Kalaymyo Barons, Parachute into the Insein Prison

Submissions by the 18th of March.

Comments

  1. I think HfL can do history very well, especially persecution/escape.

    The French Wars of Religion Frame

    Setting: 16th Century France
    Adversary: The Crown
    Gore Threshold: 7
    Connection: Huegenots of Paris seek to flee France during and after the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
    Drop-Off: Ile de France, Paris
    Objective: Board a ship to England
    Checkpoints: Escape Paris, kill the Duke of Guise on the road to Cherbourg, infiltrate the closed port of Cherbourg.

    This model could work well for a slave escape, or the smuggling of Allied airmen out of France i the ’40s.

    Eoin on March 8th, 2010 at 4:47 pm

  2. Incidentally, it occurs that the above frame may be of particular interest to Dublin players, on account of the excellently named Duke of Guise, the villain of the piece.

    Eoin on March 8th, 2010 at 5:07 pm

  3. Note: Duplicated on Story games

    Setting: The pinnacle of the great Aztec Empire following a wretched group of human sacrifices desperate to flee the wrath of their glorious leader.
    Adversary: Ahuitzotl, the Great Speaker, the warrior caste and his jungle witches
    Gore Threshold: 3
    Connection: Villagers from the same tribe torn from their lives and tossed into this maelstrom.
    Drop-off: Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan
    Objective: The Skull of Huitzilopochtli, a wrecked ship nested on treacherous rocks where some great power can be found.
    Checkpoints:
    - Flee Tenochtitlan and the warrior caste
    - Enlist the aid of the heathen “Night Pygmy” tribe to capture a jungle witch
    - Navigate the Blood River and it’s falls to the sea and the location of the The Skull of Huitzilopochtli

    Jason on March 10th, 2010 at 1:29 pm

  4. The competition is now closed. Thanks for your genius.

    I’ll be back soon with the results.

    Sebastian Hickey on March 19th, 2010 at 11:03 am

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