csyphrett Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Wasn't Cheryl Ladd in that? I think I saw it in the theater if it's what I'm thinking of. --Kap Yes. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Wasn't Cheryl Ladd in that? I think I saw it in the theater if it's what I'm thinking of. --Kap So you were the one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folded Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre This thread just put me in mind of crimes that might actually have happened in the real world that would explain a few things. 1) Someone stole Keanu Reeve's acting ability at some point, probably during Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 2) The government of South Korea spent billions delaying the production of Starcraft II in a desperate attempt to prevent the total collapse of their country. 3) An unknown shadowy organization has been putting psychotropics into Japan's water supply, beginning the day that Tim Berners-Lee released the first browser to the world, just so that we (everyone not Japanese) would have a completely weird experience on the web at least once a week. 4) Time travelers have moved throughout history, providing originals for 'geniuses' to copy from, resulting in every significant work of art ever. This is the result of the most complex bar bet ever. 5) An alien species interfered with human evolution approximately 1 million years ago, guaranteeing our susceptibility to sedentary, entertainment oriented lifestyles. Blizzard is wholly owned by these aliens, as are most pizza delivery companies. Their purpose is to eventually have a permanent source of really good lard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre 1) Someone stole Keanu Reeve's acting ability at some point' date=' probably during [i']Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure[/i] Bogus, I can't rep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted November 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre A world-wide mental illusion, affecting only online chat and forum users, that they really are entering text in a comprehensible format. Apparently doesn't work on people above a certain INT threshold, but I'm not sure what that is, yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Bogus' date=' I can't rep.[/quote'] Heinous. Totally got him for you, dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted November 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/69946-Odd-News-Plot-Seed? In the middle of the night, two men break into a house and threaten the resident at knifepoint forcing her to give them..... her eggbeater. Lucius Alexander Bizarre palindromedaries for any tagline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quozaxx Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre In my first Champions GM experience. I had VIPER steal an entire celebration festival and put it in another dimension. Note: In it's place was a giant glowing white swamp. Complete with giant glowing white frogs and crocodiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folded Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre The Theobromian is a fanatic who requires purity... in chocolate. His mission is to eliminate any chocolate or chocolate-like product with less than 50% cacao. He routinely takes hostage large groups of people, refusing to let them leave until his demands are met. His demands? Each person there must eat a 1oz. piece of dark, semi-sweet or bitter chocolate, after which they may leave peacefully. Becoming one of his henchmen requires the consumption of a 4 oz. bar of baking chocolate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothere Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Here are two real life bizzare robberies that could be used. The first one I don't remember too much about. But the crime was they stole a beach. I forget if they ever found out who or why, but someone dug a hole about 2 feet down over a 50 foot area. The second I remember. The crime they stole a church. It happened in Russian theioir was an old church in town and a developer announced he would pay like twoicents a brick. He got very confused when people started dropping off bricks and asking to be paid. He figured itm out when after two weeks the church was gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Folded Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Let's see, been thinking about this. What constitutes a bizarre crime? 1. The motive itself is bizarre. i.e. This is something that no person would do for that particular reason. Stealing money to make a paper mache statue, for instance. 2. The subject chosen is bizarre or other than the obvious. Break into the Louvre and steal the frame from the Mona Lisa, leaving the painting behind. 3. The act undertaken is bizarre, and involves clearly criminal acts. Breaking into Seaworld and moving each animal into a different tank without harming them. 4. Something is done that sort of seems to be a crime, but no actual criminality is involved. The (real life) people in Seattle who put up a monolith on 1/1/2001 would be an example. 5. An anti-crime. Someone breaks into several thousand bank accounts and transfers a sum of their own (legitimately earned) money into them. 6. Bragging rights. Someone breaks into the Oval Office, leaves a harmless apple on the desk, and leaves without being caught. It occurs to me that this could make a really interesting campaign, with strange events representing an escalating series of challenges and dares between skilled, bored professionals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre For my own use, mostly 2, 3 and 4. The rest, to me, have at least a measure of general comprehensibility. Stealing all the lug nuts from every car parked overnight along one specific street, in order to maintain "cosmic balance" might make sense to the perpetrator, but odds are it'll never make sense to anyone else. Others that come to mind: Destoying (or attempting to destroy) the Washington Monument, and other large obelisk-like structures, because they're poking in the eye. Crop circles. I'm fairly sure flattening portions of someone's grain field is a crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Shop dropping. The oppposite of shoplifting. Go into a store and leave behind something. Preferably something they don't even have in inventory. Lucius Alexander where did this palindromedary come from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Typist Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Go one step further and make sure it has a barcode AND a price in the store computer. The clerk will be baffled, and never find any more of that item in their inventory... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted December 8, 2011 Report Share Posted December 8, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Shop dropping. The oppposite of shoplifting. Go into a store and leave behind something. Preferably something they don't even have in inventory. Lucius Alexander where did this palindromedary come from? If that includes cups of take-away coffee, life's way ahead of art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre A Clown-like supervillainess team kidnapped several PCs and forced them to play a superhero version of the Dating Game. A group called the Lollipop Guild showed up to try to kill an immortal NPC hero, in order to collect their "gold points and experience pieces". A villainous alien kidnapped dozens of prominent human females to recruit them into his harem, because "Lord Marzz needs women." Did he need them to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Go one step further and make sure it has a barcode AND a price in the store computer. The clerk will be baffled' date=' and never find any more of that item in their inventory...[/quote'] If that includes stuff from our bigger store four blocks away, once again, life is way ahead of art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre But what if they put it on the opposite side? Cut it in half and put them 180 degrees from each other, of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted January 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre Create a self-replicating nanomachine that converts any water it encounters back into hydrogen and oxygen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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