Get High, Make an Army

yourplayersaidwhat:

(We’re in an ancient forest, trying to find out why a messenger who travelled through it can’t remember anything that happened and failed to deliver his message. The further along we get, the more affected the mushrooms in the forest, which impairs our judgement and more or less makes us very high. Antonius, our tactician is the first to be affected and decides to shove his head into a hole in the ground.)

GM: “You find a colony of underground moles.”

Tactician (speaking with his head underground): “Mole People!!!!” 

Me and the other player: o.O

Tactician (OOC): “I want to convince them to be *my* people.”

GM: “…Roll cunning.” 

Tactician (rolls stupidly well): “Mole People!!! SERVE ME!!!!”

GM: “…Half the moles decide to leave their homes and follow you.” 

Tactician (head still underground): “Yeesssss! My expendable slaves!” (flailing as we pull him out of the ground) “I will create an army!!!!!” 

how the Kingdom Hearts series was made

skypillar:

skypillar:

(with full apologies to Tetsuya Nomura who I’m sure is a lovely person)

KINGDOM HEARTS 1

Nomura: thank you so much for meeting me, I know how valuable your time is

Disney lawyers: the pleasure’s all ours, sir. you said you had a business proposal about how to profitably combine some of our intellectual properties with your Final Fantasy series?

Nomura: yes [pulls out laptop] ok so I wrote this crossover fic

CHAIN OF MEMORIES

Nomura: okay team that first game was pretty good but we’re gonna have to step it up. how about we make like, a card-based battle system in this one?

Staff: sir is that a yugioh card falling out of your sleeve

Nomura: also for the storyline I want to introduce a bunch of new characters who are all plotting amongst each other for mysterious reasons and then have them all die violent deaths

Staff: sir have you been reading Game of Thrones

Staff: sir

KINGDOM HEARTS 2

Nomura: ok let’s do everything we did in the first game but EVEN MORE BETTER

Staff: sir are you sure you sent this through QC? the plot is kind of…I mean the tutorial mode stars a different character and is 3 hours long?

Nomura: also use the triangle button a lot, that one’s my fave

Staff: this doesn’t really wrap up the story very well?

Nomura: triangle button

358/2 DAYS

Nomura: look it’s really not THAT weird

Staff: sir we’re just not sure you can make a game about existential angst that ends with a child goading her best friend into assisting with her suicide? we’re working with disney here

Nomura: legal said it was ok as long as I never do it again

BIRTH BY SLEEP

Staff: sir I thought you said we couldn’t make any more games about dead children

Nomura: none of them die. one becomes a comatose vegetable, one is damned to wander hell for eternity, and one is possessed by a sociopath and loses his mind

Staff: how did you—

Nomura: none of them die, legal couldn’t touch it

RE:CODED

Nomura: remake the cell phone thing as a game

Staff: what? why? I thought we were supposed to—

Nomura: [scribbling furiously] make the phone game. stall for time. I am Planning

DREAM DROP DISTANCE

Nomura: [sets posterboard down] and THAT’S the whole plot so far

Staff: but that doesn’t even…make any…oh god. Oh god. there are hints about these things in the past FOUR games. how many drugs are you on??

Nomura: yes

KH CHI

Nomura: you know, I’ve always wanted to make a KH MMO…

Staff: what?? but that would be so much work to update and maintain

Nomura: don’t worry, we’ll keep it really simple, it’ll be a piece of cake. we won’t even release it outside of japan

UNCHAINED X

Staff: YOU SAID WE WOULDN’T RELEASE CHI OUTSIDE OF JAPAN

Nomura: we’re not. we’re remaking it as a cell phone game–

Staff: WE ALREADY MADE AND THEN REMADE A CELL PHONE GAME

Nomura: –and releasing that outside of japan. also we’re gonna keep updating it concurrently with the original browser game, because of reasons.

Staff: you promised…..you’d keep it simple….

Nomura: well i accidentally a lot of plot so

2.8 PROLOGUE FINAL CHAPTER

Staff: sir this is. this is literally not even a real game. it’s a game remake and a random movie and a half-game you wanted to make like five years ago. how did you get this approved when we’re supposed to be making kh3

Nomura: oh it was pretty easy, i just explained the idea to the president the same way I just did to you guys

Staff: and he said yes???

Nomura: well he signed the budget request while crying and saying ‘please just go away’