Comedy

This game is presented as a chance for people new to Storium to get to grips with things and ask questions, as they find their way to additional games. You might see this to the end, or it would be acceptable to leave once you are established.
I will have less internet access for the coming week - I will respond to you, but my typing may be erratic and short as I am using a portable device.

So now we are all in trouble.

The Emperor had new clothes. Take the old ones to the incinerator, he said. Such sad rags should not be associated with me.

So his footman did take them down to the incinerator.

Except at the incinerator, they said that would be a waste. Take them to the Royal Housekeeper to make them into blankets for the widows and orphans of the city.

So the incinerator sweeper did just that and went to the Housekeepers assistant.

But the Housekeeper’s assistant had a better idea. Those clothes would not make good blankets, and they are worth more intact. So sell them, and the money can be used to buy more, better things for the poor.

So they were taken to the Mistress of the Robes, who sold them to a supplier for a bag of gold.

That supplier sold them on to another merchant, who took them out of town, seeking a great price from the nobility.

Now the Emperor has nothing to wear for the banquet tonight. So he has sent his messenger to the incinerator, charged with being sure to run and get there before it is too late. On pain of death.

As I say, now we are all in trouble.

In the 22nd century, humanity ventures into deep space in search of knowledge — and power. Space is vast and humans aren’t the first to explore it but thousands of planets and stars have yet to be claimed and humanity intends to make a home for itself among the stars. Meet the deep-space starship Dauntless and her crew, embarking on a new mission of exploration beyond the colonial boundary…

A game run to get you started on Storium…

Colton Herbert Fizz was famous for his ground-breaking confectionary.

His sweet factory was legendary. But he wanted to share the magic!

He opened a competition which would enable lucky contestants to visit his factory, try out his latest creations, and make their own design a reality. All they had to do is submit an idea for a new kind of sweet - and hope he judged it one of the winners!

If you think you can guess what this story is based on - yep, you are probably on about the right track. You have the general idea.

A sci/fi time travel adventure loosely based on the British TV series Doctor Who, without a need for canon knowledge.

This game is nearing the end, but I have the lobby open so newcomers can make contact and get signposted to a suitable game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETK7aQhc_E

This is a fast paced game, played in a welcoming way to meet the needs of each player.

If you think you might like to play, better to try out than miss out…

Leaders from across the galaxy are planning to build a taskforce to take the fight to the daleks for once and for all.

Peace at any cost? Is any price worth paying for peace? What is going to far? And if you create a force that can drive out the greatest threat, how do you prevent that becoming the threat once the evil it was designed to counter is gone?

Even as these decisions are grappled with, democracy is under threat in unexpected ways, and there are other troubling developments….

The world has plenty of superheroes looking to defend it from the likes of Mechanon and the Slug. You’ve chosen to focus your heroic efforts on this one city. It’s your home, and you want to protect it from street scum, corrupt officials, supervillains, natural disasters, weird menaces, and other dangers.

{This is a “Beginner Game”. Please only apply if you are new to Storium or feel you still need to learn more about how Storium games work.}

It is Lent.

This game explores the world in the run up to the crucifixion of Christ, and the events and characters of that time still remembered today.
They had no idea that they were making history, and their lives would be the subject of discussion, disagreement and wonder for centuries to come.

I would want any player to tell me if I need to adjust to increase their access. I think in particular of those with sight impairment and the use of art, but I include anything I have not thought of.

A Massive cosmic entity threatens the east coast, bringing a threat completely unlike anything the world has ever seen. Furthermore, the world’s most devious villains and most fiendish masterminds have joined this unfathomable being of evil.

But this story is not about that conflict and you are not those legendary heroes. who have joined the fight against it.

The west Coast city of Emerald City Oregon used to be a hotbed of super-powered activity, but now, only the most pathetic and inept heroes and villains remain.

The players take on the incompetent or pathetically weak Z-list heroes, and must defend Emerald city from equally inept and powerless villains.

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This game is meant to be a comedy superhero game in the style of Saturday morning cartoons. and it is meant to help teach beginners how to play Storium in a simple 3-scene short game.

each scene will be narrated by a different member of the Storium Arc podcast.

This game is for those who like to tell short stories.

It consists of little stories within a story. Modern day.

Use this game to learn the ropes and meet other players - you can put in one mini-story and go if you wish!

The usual assignments are filed as with every other year.
However, not quite as usual.
The first submitted is a rather impressive yarn.
So one by one, the students seek to out-do one another, as each successive submission becomes more embellished than the last.
By the time it comes to show-and-tell, imagination has totally run riot…

The Village by the Sea is too beautiful not to fall in love with, too magnetic to be anything but a tourist trap. Over the decades, the struggling colony became a town of wealth and industry.

Now, Easterbrook College pulls in more out of town students to its vaunted halls than locals. The descendants of the Founding families seek to maintain the picturesque reputation, the “small town charm,” and the quiet obedience to the weight of custom. But underneath, the Village struggles with itself and the secrets contained within it. Its growth into a bustling community of size conceals a horrible truth: it was built on the darkest magic imaginable.

For those new to Storium, this is a beginner game (players/writers with no or limited previous game activity.). We will focus on learning how to use Storium. Each Scene will have Challenges that are designed to help you learn different aspects of the awesome Storium Universe and we will complete about 3 scenes for this Storium game (a shortened story for a beginning game).

Mulysa (means dirty dump in the native tongue) was a dead-end world on the edge of human space, given the formal name of Everlorn even as the few souls to stumble across its wasteland and make it home stuck to the native name. It was destined to skip through space as a forgotten lump of rock — until the day a prospector stumbled out of the desert with a million credits’ worth of hyperdrive crystals in his hands. Now spaceships thunder through the skies above the planet’s boomtowns, and fortune hunters fill the dusty streets. Strap on a blaster or pick up a digger and stake your claim in this space western. You may find yourself exploring alien ruins and risking the wrath of the desert tribes, or riding a howling hoverbike and living the life of an outlaw. You might be a farmer trying to help feed the masses or perhaps you just want to open a nice little shop in town.

It’s the wild west meets future space age (ok yeah it’s a lot like Firefly :)

For those new to Storium, this is a beginner game (players/writers with no or limited previous game activity.). We will be focusing on learning how to use Storium. Each Scene will have Challenges that are designed to help you learn different aspects of the awesome Storium Universe. Stay and play to learn and then when ready you can “leave town” and retire or hand-off your character, ready to ride off into the Storium Sunset to face new adventures ;)

Please Note - the structure of this game is different than many Storium games. Each week I will post a new scene whether the challenges are complete or not. This Storium will run for the course of four weeks. The ideal is to post once or twice a week and make sure you can play for the full four weeks. If a player misses a week, that is ok, the Narrator will just weave the story to include any missing player posts.