Roll
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Reason
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1
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I have a death wish the size of Jupiter!
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2
| I'm seeking the one! |
3
| I'm seeking The One! |
4
| I'm collecting headbands! |
5
| I'm building up good Karma for my next incarnation! |
6
| I'm paying off the bad Karma from my previous incarnation! |
7
| I have to gather a hoard to turn myself into a dragon! |
8
| I have to gather a horde and retake my stolen throne! |
9
| My collection of (1. Swords 2. Spells 3. Coins 4. Bananas) were stolen by a (1. Hellknight 2. Mad Wizad 3. Master Thief 4. Crocodile King) |
10
| I need to bring back (1. Food 2. Water 3. Weapons 4. Money) to my (1. Parents 2. Village 3. Master 4. Dimension) |
11
| This is what I'd do for a Klondike bar. |
12
| I am two goblins in a trench coat and I've gotten too deep, there is no going back now! |
13
| I am a (1. Wolf 2. Horse 3. Tree 4. Politician) cursed into human form. |
14
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My other bodies perished in the Grasslands and I seek to expand myself once again.
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15
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I was a skeleton but a botched resurrection covered me with flesh, now I have to do things like getting a job and eating!
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16
| I have delayed my ascension to help others on their journeys. |
17
| I have been sent here from beyond (1. Time/Space 2. The Grave) for an important mission. |
18
| I'm collecting information on this world to report to (1. The Creator 2. The Space Council 3. Azathoth 4. Gary Gygax) |
19
| I was transplanted here from another system (1. Tunnel Goons 2. Esoteric Enterprises 3. SEACAT 4. 6th Edition) |
20
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I'm paying off my student loans!
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21
| I want to share the song my people! (d o o t) |
22
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Its none of your damn business!
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23
| The Derro will find me if I don't keep moving! |
24
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The Derro instruct me to keep moving so I can find them!
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25
| I'm seeking the Stone Books to translate ancient Atlantean knowledge! |
26
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I blew up the Tomb of the Serpent Kings and now Xiximanter has a vendetta!
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27
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I am seeking to usurp the power of Moloch!
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28
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I fell through a wardrobe!
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29
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A wizard invited a bunch of dwarves to my house and now here I am!
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30
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My doppelganger is out there and I must slay them!
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31
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I'm a doppelganger and I must slay my counterpart!
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32
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I'm on the run from a bunch of tulpas!
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33
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I have this extremely embarrassing tattoo and I can't hold down any other jobs.
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34
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I am getting paid so much!
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35
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I did it on a dare!
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36
| I did it on a dare to avoid Truth in Truth or Dare! |
37
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The regular hero is sick and I'm the replacement!
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38
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Had to get away from an ex.
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39
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Someone one has to be the adult around here.
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40
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I was a wolf who was bitten by a human, now I'm a wereman and I need to find a cure!
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41
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Bigfeet ate my goats, gotta get revenge!
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42
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Smoked too much Christmas Cheer and now I'm here.
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43
| I went off the grid and I'm getting paid under the table for wetwork. |
44
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My beet farm went under and now I have to used my only other talent, bear wrestling.
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45
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I was born in a dungeon and I only feel comfortable in dark dank places.
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46
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I got very lost on my way to the bathroom!
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47
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My (1. Dog 2. Sibling 3. Love 4. Nipples) vanished and I'm looking for them.
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48
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Someone stole my skin!
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49
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A pterodactyl is chasing me (there's no pterodactyl)
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50
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I want to be the very best! (Like no one ever was)
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51
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I'm stuck in a time loop caused by pirated cable and an explosion!
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52
| I was conscripted into the Knights of Mars and now I must beat the daylights out of the non-believers! |
53
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This is all a dream and I'm sleepwalking!
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54
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I'm actively proving that fortune teller wrong!
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55
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I owe Goody Mooncup money!
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56
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All the cool kids are doing it!
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57
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I'm collecting bones for my etsy store!
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58
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This is the last stage of my exposure therapy!
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59
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I'm an escaped psychopath.
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60
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My bathtub came to life, walked me out here to the woods and dumped me out.
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61
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I was told this was going to be a wholesome romp through Ghilbi-esque hills!
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62
| The Wizard Police are after me for Copyright Infringement! |
63
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I want to prove myself worthy of (1. My Power 2. My Heirloom 3. My Family Name 4. Myself)
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64
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I seek a way to release the spirit bound to my ring.
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65
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I just broke free of a Charm and who are you people?
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66
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I was just unfrozen from cryostasis and the currency from my era is no longer accepted.
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67
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The ghost of my great grandmother won't leave me alone until I prove myself a hero.
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68
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An annoying talking animal keeps telling me I need to fine the moon princess.
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69
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I ate a unicorn and now I'm desperately trying to make up for it.
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70
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My parents were killed before my eyes and I seek eternal vengeance against evil doers.
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71
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A Circle of Druids abducted my dog.
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72
| I keep reliving this timeline until I complete my quest...only I forget what the quest is... |
73
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I'm a gonzo journalist and things just got weird.
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74
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I was marooned here by my rebellious airship crew after they found I was a fraud.
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75
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I went for a bushwee and my family left me behind.
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76
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I'm on a twelve step program and "clear a dungeon" is step 4 I guess?
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77
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I have to help my pal master the four elements.
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78
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I have no attention span and ooh look a goblin!
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79
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I wished upon a star to become a real [Insert Species] and now I gotta pay rent.
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80
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I am Skeleton Jelly!
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81
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My ex-boss kidnapped my boyfriend's mom!
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82
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I just ran out of shit to do!
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83
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I went out into the woods to deliver a pie to grandma, killed a wolf, got to like violence.
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84
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We defeated the monster attacking the village but it turned out capitalism was the real monster all along.
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85
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I want to live the adventurous childhood I never had.
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86
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They told me fresh air would be good for me, pretty certain this cave air isn't fresh...
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87
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Step Aerobics just wasn't enough of an exercise for me any longer.
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88
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I got kicked out of the band because my lyrics were too "philosophical."
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89
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I am looking for reasons to adventure for a big list I'm compiling.
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90
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A sociopathic craving for violence that only a high-fantasy adventure of indiscriminately murdering beastmen free of accountability can sate.
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91
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My fiance-to-be is very demanding!
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92
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My spouse has developed some very strange cravings...
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93
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I'm escaping the consequences of a Las Faegas shotgun wedding!
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94
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I'm looking for the person who fits this glass shoe.
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95
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I'm escaping an aristocrat with a thing for feet.
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96
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I have this glass shoe that doesn't fit me so I'm keeping it away from my humble but pretty stepsister!
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97
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They cut me out of a troll's stomach and now I have to find my way home!
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98
| I was in the latrine at a Ren Fair and when I came out I was here. |
99
| I'm just looking for a really good cup of coffee. |
100
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Roll twice, shake well, and come up with something yourself
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
Another 100 Reasons to Adventure
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Things Found in a Troll's Stomach
Any good wizard knows that one of the prime ingredients in making your own bag of holding is an intact troll stomach.
1. A Gastrolith the size of a watermelon.
2. Troll Bezoar, difficult to differentiate from the Gastrolith. Goat Bezoars can heal poison, Troll Bezoars are made of the shit that even Trolls can't digest all rolled together into a thick horrific mass. 10% chance it cures anything, 90% of giving you Super Tetanus, Mummy Rot, and 1 other random disease.
3. A fresh adventurer mashed into a pulp. Roll on a random NPC charge with all of their equipment.
4. A Baby Troll. Trolls reproduce by eating enough meat in one sitting and eating a large portion of itself. Surviving, the meats combine and make a new unique troll. It gets a surprise attack on your face.
5. 10d6 Teeth, 60-Teeth gold coins, and a pair of very large butterfly wings.
6. 60 Gallons of a non-acidic liquid from the d100 Bottled Goods list. It got into a Distillery and/or Alchemist's lab.
7. A signet ring, a water tight case with scrolls regarding an armistice between two warring countries, and four horseshoes.
8. AAAAAHHHHHH FUCK MEAT BEE HIVE
9. A really really annoying/annoyed Demilich.
10. A small sphere of annihilation, no wonder the troll was so emaciated.
11. A License Plate from a 1971 Ford Pinto.
12. A partridge and a bunch of pears, 2 turtle doves, 3 french hens 4 calling birds, 5 gold rings 6 geese a-laying, 7 swans a-swimming, 8 maids a-milking, 9 ladies dancing, 10 lords a-leaping, 11 pipers piping, and 12 drummers drumming
13. A magically powered personal "massager" that is stuck in on.
14. 1d6 Taxidermy Deer Butts
15. A Sentient Disease that was piloting the troll towards as reservoir.
16. 6 Goblins piloting a very convincing paper machete troll.
17. THE ORKUS
18. Highly Corroded Antikythera Mechanism
19. Its Parent
20. An Ochre Jelly
69. Exactly what you'd think would occupy the 69th slot in this list.
70. A Cookbook, a cauldron, 1d6 random ingredients, and a one eyed hunch backed witch
71. A Troll Pearl- Like an oyster pearl, something indigestible gets stuck and overtime is covered in something not unlike Nacre. Eventually it is excreted in one fashion or another, but this one is massive and is worth a small dragon's hoard.
72. Troll Beer- Under very rare circumstances a troll's stomach will ferment its last meal into a highly potent alcohol capable of frying a dwarf's beard right from their face. Troll Beer gives its drinker a Troll's regenerative qualities as long as the drinker remains drunk. It also deals 1d6 permanent Con damage from the sheer taxing power it has on one's liver.
73. Oil- This extremely old troll's digestive tract has been compressing its meals for longer than mankind has been around, 1d10 barrels of crude oil pours from his million year bowels.
74. An Unbound Familiar
75. 1d1000 small magnetic balls
76. A fully outfitted and fully dead doppelganger version of the party.
77. Troll Ambergris- A green-grey greasy substance that is absolutely essential in crafting arcane perfumes. These allow Potions to be turned into an aerosol and affect via smell rather than drinking them. Also apparently goes excellent with scrambled eggs. Beloved by Wizards and especially decadent gourmands.
78. Gnorbert- A gnome in an acid and bludgeoning proof suit of his own design. Is really frustrated that the party let him out before the suit could be fully tested.
79. A tiny submarine with a staff of tiny scientists.
80. The lost 11th-20th Commandments.
81. A perfectly oven fresh loaf of bread
82. A dead infomercial host along with their product. Slapchop, Oxyclean, Red Copper Pan all come to mind.
83. A Brick of Fluorine that immediately sublimates and reacts. Google up how awful Fluorine is.
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Carnival Mini Games for my Eldritch Americana Campaign
High Striker
Coconut Shy
Stack of 6 coconuts knock them down for a prize. Touted as a test of manual dexterity and skill.
Dex test will always result in 1 staying up, Strength test to knock them all down (glued together).
Small Prize- A coconut
Big prize- Chalkware figurine , 1-in-6 chance of being cursed, 1-in-6 chance of being worth a small fortune to a collector.
Ring Toss
Toss rings to get prizes. Attack roll against Chain for random prize, Attack roll against Plate + Shield for a specific prize. This can work with a Balloon Pop game too.
Red- Chinese Finger trap, may require a Wisdom or Strength check to escape.
Orange - Goldfish
Yellow- Beaglepuss glasses, may work as a disguise against particularly dense NPCs.
Green- Living Balloon animal (acts as animal it is modeled after, 1 hp, no defense)
Blue- Tickets for Ferris wheel
Indigo- Big Swirly Lollipop
Violet- Scented Paper Flower
Octarine- Can only be seen by those with Wizard Vision or getting a critical success, win a random Minor Magic Item
Whack a Mole
A Mole-Man in a white jump suit pops up from one of 5 holes around you. Roll under initiative to hit them with a paint soaked foam-bat. The Mole-Man also has a paint-bat and will hit you back if you miss. Least painted after 5 rounds wins. Prize is a folding hand fan painted by the Mole-Man.
Bobbing for Heads
A carnie with a can stands before a tin tub full of water. "Bobbing for heads," he hawks, "That's right bobbing for heads, fun for the whole family!" When approached, he unsheathes his cane sword and cleanly slices off the heads of the interested party members. He rolls the still living heads into the water where they must shout commands to their headless bodies to pick their head back up and attach it back to their body. Remember left-to-right reversal also potential shenanigans for putting the wrong head on the wrong body.
Tunnel of Love
Yeah we had a romantic scene with magic lights and a first kiss between a man and a gooseman. DON'T JUDGE ME BRO IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!
Ferris Wheel
Nice big Ferris Wheel, see your house from the top. 1-in-6 chance it gets stuck with folks at the top. 1-in-6 chance it spins wildly out of control.
Wooden Roller Coaster
Roll constitution to avoid vomiting, immune to similar effects after saving.
Ride in a mine cart through a “haunted tunnel” while a variety of horrors cause Fear effect, save or react appropriately. Saving against Fear effect here renders you immune to Fear on your next appropriate encounter. I'm personally excited for the potential here because the Fear effects reactions from my party here range from Run Away to Freeze Up to GOOSE ATTACK MODE.
GLOOP! Eating Contest-
Contestants have their hands tied behind their backs and sit in front of a large trough. Gloop! of a variety of flavors is released into the trough. The Gloop wants to be eaten and makes happy cooing noises as they shove and ooze their way to the contestants' mouths. Roll Con each round to keep down the Gloop, may have other effects depending on the type of Gloop eaten. Last one standing wins. NPC contestants have 8, 10, 12, and 14 Con. Any vomited Gloops will coo sadly then try to have someone else eat them. Winner gets a 2 HD Gloop pet.
Friday, May 22, 2020
Craterton
I was going to make a play report for the live GLOG stuff I've been playing but I've not been in the right mind place to write it all up yet. It is nominally another Tomb of the Serpent Kings play through in what is essentially a take on Arnold K's Eldritch Americana. However after only going a little ways into the tomb, my players decided to head back to town for plans, supplies, and misadventures. We've spent the last three sessions in town and they are enjoying themselves so much that I'm afraid they won't leave. Here's a quick overview.
Craterton
Government:
Mayor Godfrey Burp, sentient gas-based lifeform from another dimension, inhabits a deep sea diving suit, will do anything to be re-elected, wants to turn the local snakeman tombs into tourist attraction.
Assistant Mayor Parry-Parry-Lunge- An épée swerda stuck in a tall, thin androgynous body, wears a variety of fancy hats. Can't talk, but is really good at charades.
Katrina Van Tassel- Burp’s Blemmyes secretary. Pince nez glasses, feathery hat, crows feet. Breeds Schnappshunds, 700 lb alcoholic bat-dog-camel beasts.
Landmarks:
The Tagaq River, infested with Walrus.
The Rock: Fell from the Moon when it hatched, the cause of the crater. About 5 stories tall, City Hall is built in front of it.
Locations:
University Extension Office- Underwhelming, run by Theo Finch, a twitchy man who mostly runs tests and numbers for the main campus. Believes in Sneeple. No students currently here. Building has a few temporary bedrooms, a testing room, and four temporary professor offices. Dr. Azoth, Chemistry, Dr. Drenan, Archaeology, Dr. Gilead, Medicine, Dr. N. T. Bang, Public Speaking.
The Galvanic Shrine of Edidon: Power Plant, Ardents of Edison take shifts turning The Great Amber Wheel to produce electricity. Mother Ion leads the congregation.
The Chamber of Commerce/Tourism Board: Desperately trying to bolster the town into something more than it is, currently just made it into an iffy tourist trap.
Rook’s Hashish Lounge- A hookah bar run by Roland Rook, a crowperson cowboy. Doesn’t really know what Hashish is, just stuffs random herbs into waterbongs and sees what happens.
Crooner’s Saloon: A Karaoke bar, owner is notoriously bad at singing. Drinks are great though. Deaf Dan is here, so is Boblin the Goblin, Halifax the Thief-King, various students. Bartender is Petey the Parrot
Cafe de la Lune: Near to townhall and the Rock, a cafe filled with small tables, chairs, checkers, outside seating and nearly no customers right now. Coffee comes from network of brass tubes and steamworks that take up most of the ceiling and the wall behind the counter. Run by married pair of scarab headed women, (Totally Khepri)
Ma Lubbik’s Five and Dime: General store with most general goods you might need. Ma Lubbik wares exceptionally thick glasses and has homemade boiled sweets at the counter. Carries basic guns and ammunition. Keeps a secret stock of dynamite.
The People Place: A temp hiring agency. Currently has a few students, a handful of roughnecks, The Mysterious Friend, and others. No staff, there is a coin operated tube that drops a lottery ball indicating who is available.
The Water Shop: Sells various waters, the owner is a Vodyanoy named Bolotnik, and sits in a bathtub in the middle of the store.
See No Evil: Shop is completely dark, sells mildly cursed trinkets. Owner is exceptionally ugly,
Pawn Shop: Run by a trio of Mandrills, Marley, Harley, and Barley. The three of them are colored Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
Land Office: Currently selling plots of land, includes novelty plots of land on the moon, Mars, and Opponent Earth.staffed by Norbert Stroud who is...uncomfortably attentive.
Tame Mimic Shop: Sells “tame” mimics that come in various forms. Current popular model is “Wooden Chair''.” Whole store is actually a mimic. Owner is Miss Faux, who is actually a mimic and the entire store.
The Sounds Shop: Sells sounds on wax cylinders, owner is made of wax, talks through photographs. Mr. Fin, sort for Paraffin. Some cylinders contain spells, curses, or both.
Telegraph Office: Next to Sounds Shop, Telegrapher has fractal hands and too many ears. No mouth. Fifty cents for a 10 word message from coast to coast.
Tinkerer/Blacksmith: Jackie Pulpit, mostly does farrier work but can handle custom jobs and tinkers with specialty guns.
Encounter Table, Road between Craterton and Anywhere Else
1-6 Bandits
7. Many Legged Walrus
8. Springchicken
9. Gifthorse
10. Roadhog
11. Scapegoat
12. Swarm of Wild Manikins
13. Skeleton Jelly
14. Goddamn Goblins
15. Swerda
16. Humsloth
17. Novelty Zombie
18. Boneneedle Man
19. Maenads
20. Troll 50% Metastasized
Friday, May 1, 2020
Automated GLOG Sheet
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Gourmet Street Now Available!
That's right my hungry friends, Gourmet Street is now available on Itch.Io! Those of you who backed the kickstarter should have received your key this morning and those of you who missed out on the kickstarter now have a chance to buy it!
https://theunlawfulneutral.itch.io/gourmet-street-fantasy-food
- A New Setting! - Gourmet Street, a collection of scattered and bizarrely connected alleyways, it seems to pop up in any settlement large enough to begin thinking of itself as a city. Stacked high in wood carts, laid out on intricate rugs, swimming in a myriad of sauces, food is the name of the game on Gourmet Street.
- ONE MILLION Food Vendors and Menus! - Never eat the same thing twice! Generate from 8,000 possible unique food vendors and LITERALLY ONE MILLION possible dishes; ranging from Soft-shelled Crabman Sandwiches with Tzatziki sauce and Egg Coffee, to Myconid Zapiekanka in Pesto with a shot of Absinthe!
- Food Factions! - From the hyper-radical (and slightly deranged) Neuvo Gastro-Alchemists, to the fanatical and militant Vinegar Knights, the food factions each come with their own wants, goals, and boons, IF you choose to serve them...
- A One-Page Adventure: ESCAPE FROM GOURMET STREET! Help a pair (or trio) of star-crossed lovers escape from Gourmet Street in a Snake-and-Ladders inspired chase! Fend off rival lovers, food cart brawls and escaped dishes as you dash through the alleys of Gourmet Street!
- And More! Monsters, magic items, and cookbooks for both Players and GMs to use and abuse!
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
d100 Phobias
Oh hey, Magnus Archives is back. Lets celebrate with a list of weird niche phobias.
Roll
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Phobia
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1
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Sticky Fingers
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2
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Long nails
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3
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Clacking teeth
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4
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Water
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5
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Large spaces
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6
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Small Spaces
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7
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Being crowded
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8
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Being alone
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9
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Being a tulpa
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10
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Clowns, but specifically ones not currently dressed as clowns
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11
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Being followed by, but not attacked by, polar bears
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12
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Being hated for reasons you were once loved
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13
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Falling into a crevasse
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14
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Human-like figures
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15
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Puppies
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16
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Those fish in Korean foot spas
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17
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Quilts with mismatching squares
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18
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Cat bean toes
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19
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Holes
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20
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Piles of leaves
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21
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People crunching ice cubes
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22
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Tadpoles
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23
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Human-like animals
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24
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Animal-like Humans
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25
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C# note
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26
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Matryoshka Dolls
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27
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Anything spherical
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28
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Religious iconography
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29
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The fact so many things taste like chicken
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30
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Maths (Common among druids)
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31
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Horses (and anything close to them)
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32
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Impossible Colors ( Stygian Blue for example)
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33
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The consistency of cottage cheese
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34
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Doppelgangers
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35
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Fire
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36
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Alliteration
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37
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Tiny people living in the walls
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38
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Being found dead in an embarrassing position
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39
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Dim light, not darkness, just dim
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40
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Of being a matryoshka doll
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41
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Grease
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42
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Spirals
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43
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Finding a hole perfect for you
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44
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Fish rising from the sea and taking over
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45
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Mosquitos
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46
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Things living inside furniture
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47
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Skeletons, but only the ones still inside people
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48
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Holidays without an apparently religious purpose
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49
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Your own reflection
|
50
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Being selected for an epic quest
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51
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Never being selected for an epic quest
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52
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Tests of any kind
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53
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Eggs
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54
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Buer
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55
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Attractive doctors
|
56
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Voiding yourself in public
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57
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Any music more energetic than smooth jazz
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58
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Aging
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59
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Disease
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60
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Getting caught in your own web of lies
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61
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MEAT
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62
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The Unknown
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63
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Being controlled
|
64
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Unpredictable violence
|
65
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Predictable violence
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66
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Descending into madness and not knowing it
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67
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Descending into madness and very much knowing it
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68
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Death
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69
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Perverse jokes
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70
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The Dark
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71
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Bright Light
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72
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Magic (the sleight of hand kind)
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73
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Magic (the real kind)
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74
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Long words
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75
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Short words
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76
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Opposable thumbs
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77
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The word “It”
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78
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Forgetting anything
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79
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Losing any part of yourself (skin flakes and snot included)
|
80
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Not being able to go back to your old career
|
81
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Having to go back to your old career
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82
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Being recognized in a crowd
|
83
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All of the supposedly good bacteria
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84
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The inevitable progression of entropy
|
85
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The possibility that there is no intrinsic meaning in the world
|
86
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The possibility there is intrinsic meaning in the world, and you’re wrong about it
|
87
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The possibility there is intrinsic meaning in the word, and you’re right about it.
|
88
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Being attacked while bathing
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89
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Topiary
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90
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Artificial light sources
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91
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The eyes on goats, sheep, and octopuses
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92
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The sounds hear in perfect silence
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93
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Waking up in an ice bath with missing organs
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94
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Waking up in a cornfield with extra organs
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95
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Contracts (and probably Lawyers)
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96
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Patterns, especially on undergarments
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97
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The sound of bells
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98
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Fungi, molds, and any related byproducts
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99
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Realizing that you are in a dream but being unable to wake up
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100
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Your whole life actually being a game.
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