Re: [DL] Harmonica o' Horror

[Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:44:51PM -0400, Jodi and Clint Black said:
> The harmonica allows the player to use his perfomin': harmonica in place of
> the ridicule aptitude and gives the performer a +4 bonus to his roll.  No
> matter what song is played, the notes always sound mocking.  The Marshall
> may give the player an additional bonus of +2 if the song is of special
> importance to the person being ridiculed (ex. Mocking "Dixie" to a loyal
> Southerner).

 [snip]

> Well, what do you think, sirs?

 Fantastic stuff!  I'm gonna go with this alright.  Except we're not gonna
 be using dice for his harmonica skill, the player is going to have to
 actually play his harmonica, and myself and the other players will judge
 how good his performance was and assign him a result as appropriate.  When
 he gets better at playing it, he can spend bounty points to raise Marvin's
 skill too.  :>)  (for the record, he does actually have a harmonica and it
 was his idea to give one to his character - but he's crap at playing it so
 this should work out well for everybody)

 Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions, and to those who said they like
 the idea - I'll keep y'all posted on how things go.

 Actually, that reminds me... the posse member who survived the last scenario
 without becoming undead is a mad scientist who was blinded when a lab
 experiment went awry (explosive) long ago.  Thing is, it was an alchemy
 experiment, and after the stuff splashing in his eyes the only thing he
 could see was a glowing puddle where the stuff he'd been working on was
 (it was some kind of miracle-grow gardening formula, as I remember).  He
 scooped up as much of this stuff as he could, figuring it was the key to
 seeing again.  So, traveling westward in search of a cure, he blundered into
 Indian lands, where he was taken pity on and looked after by a tribe.  Whilst
 there he managed to find an ingredient that let him mix up a formula with
 his miracle-grow stuff which he used to treat a pair of glasses, letting him
 see, to a certain extent.  His vision is kind of like infra-red, with
 background stuff in purple and living things in green.  The whites of his
 eyes are purple also, and the irises are glowing, radioactive green.

 So, whilst he can see just as well (or badly) in the dark as in daytime,
 and can see vaguely that Dave (who spent yesterday picking grave dirt out
 of his ears) is looking a bit peculiar and scary, he won't be able to see
 Marvin at all.  He'll be able to hear him, and hear the harmonica playing
 of course.  I haven't yet justified this with pseudo-physics, but I think
 it'll make for some fun roleplaying.

 Right, I'll shut up now.

 Wishkah

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