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Monkey's Paw: A Game

Foust is SO authentic

01:47 / 28.09.04

In which you make a wish, only to have a fellow 'Lither twist it into something horribly evil.

Example:

Wish: I wish that I'd never have to worry about gaining weight.

Result: Your body loses the ability to process nutrients and you starve to death.

No compound wishes, like "I wish for a million dollars, but it can't be from inheritences because I don't want all my reletives to die..."

Points for wishes that can't be twisted, and for the best twistings.

unheimlich manoeuvre

02:04 / 28.09.04

evil, pure unadulterated evil. okay...

I wish that I would have a relationships with the significant other of my dreams.

iconoplast

03:15 / 28.09.04

Twist: While you and your dreamlover share a soul, ze considers you hir soul mate alone. Your deep conversations are constantly interrupted by hir complaints about the vapid fling of the week. You cannot bear to be parted, but ze simply will not "risk your friendship" for anything more.

unheimlich manoeuvre

03:56 / 28.09.04

iconoplast - that twist sounds strangely familiar.
no soon-to-be-spoilt wish of your own?

Charlie's Horse

04:02 / 28.09.04

Here's a fun 'un.

Bush loses.

iconoplast

04:10 / 28.09.04

Ah. It's that kind of game. Righto:

I wish that I could be accepted, today, into a prestigious graduate program in Economics, somewhere overseas.

Papess

04:35 / 28.09.04

Bush loses and Barbelith mysteriously vanishes from cyberspace.

I wish all wrestlers wear mini skirts and stillettos in a match as their dress code.

grant

17:06 / 28.09.04

Unfortunately, it nearly immediately becomes de rigeur for the wrestlers to strip the items off each other's bodies, using the shoes as weapons and finishing the bout stark naked, bloody, greasy, hairy and gleaming. Rants become increasingly misogynistic, and female spectators often find their own skirts and shoes being torn off by rowdy fans.

I wish that I had the power to possess Ganesh's body. (the Barbelith user, not the Hindu deity)

grant

17:13 / 28.09.04

Leaving no stone left behind...

I wish that I could be accepted, today, into a prestigious graduate program in Economics, somewhere overseas.

Ah! Sunny St. Kitts! Jewel of the Caribbean! New home to the joint Yale/Oxford School of Developing Nation Macroeconomic Studies! Glimmering beaches, multinational geniuses, a state-of-the-art campus beloved by students, faculty and locals alike! Unfortunately not built up to stringent hurricane codes, so when Category 6 Hurricane Godzilla comes to town in October, 2005, nothing is left but glimmering beaches and a few pulpy multinational gobs of bone and blood.

I wish that my company would hire a masseuse for the writers.

Charlie's Horse

17:47 / 28.09.04

The masseuse is mildly allergic to the surrounding environment - just to the point where ze has a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week runny nose. Allergy shots and treatments do no good. Your wonderful massages are constantly interrupted by the masseuse wiping hir nose, and you begin to wonder if the massage oils have mixed with the endless flux of mucus. At least, that might explain the terrible rashes.

I'd submit a new one, but I wish I had the power to posses Ganesh's body is still on the floor.

charrellz

17:51 / 28.09.04

You take over Ganesh's body, but lose all ability to form a sentence, so no one on the board learns of your success. You go stark raving mad longing to share your experiences with your former fellow lithers, eventually throwing yourself under an elephant.

I wish I could think of a good wish to be destroyed.

Grey Area

17:59 / 28.09.04

"I wish that I could be accepted, today, into a prestigious graduate program in Economics, somewhere overseas."

The prestigious university overseas is located in a country where, during one of your lectures, a counter-capitalist anarcho-syndicalist revolution takes place. Being an economics student, you're next in line for summary execution.

Grey Area

18:00 / 28.09.04

Oops, forgot my wish. Well, let's see...I wish that I could finish my PhD research and thesis before Christmas.

astrojax69

23:36 / 28.09.04

.... but having submitted, the markers all go off on hols and tell you to wait til after christmas, which is a shame 'cause you go through a fictive time space loop to narnia when it is always winter and never christmas. : (

i wish all religions and national borders would cease to exist. now.

Jack Fear

00:52 / 29.09.04

Ecological chaos ensues as all the natural features that serve as national borders disappear--hundreds of rivers and lakes go dry, mountain chains crumble, landslides fill in the valleys. In fact, since island nations like the UK and Australia have the sea as their only borders, the sea itself ceases to exist. The earth shortly becomes a lifeless husk; the last generation of humanity dies in torment, without even the idea of God to bring it comfort in its last miserable days.

I wish I had a pony.

Foust is SO authentic

01:56 / 29.09.04

One night, your pony, overcome with sexual frustration and the loneliness of being seperated from other ponys, creeps into your room...

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