Saturday, September 22, 2018

d100 city encounters

still from 1978's "Jubilee"

if necessary roll 2d6x10' for encounter distance.
  1. saxophone music is coming from somewhere
  2. man publically selling eggs, cutting hair
  3. a mouse election?
  4. 3 card monte but the shill won't stop winning or let anyone else play
  5. something the players would really want is on sale
  6. ...at a closed store that never opens
  7. competing funeral processions
  8. whatever building the players are trying to get to, a horde of golems are dissembling it for complex bureaucratic reasons, all the building's staff have their possessions in their hands or in piles at their feet (original, similar idea by d. sell I think -ed)
  9. fat, gross cat to accompany party
  10. man selling trained bats
  11. graffiti is obviously a url, if you follow it leads to clues (let's see you improvise THAT -ed)
  12. quality brothel
  13. street-side liposuction & other cosmetic surgeries... tummy tuck... bone reduction
  14. abandoned death ray
  15. folks burning a library
  16. lynching
  17. brick thieves tearing up a street
  18. coal truck leaking coal, urchins follow
  19. 3 card monte but dumbass dealer
  20. herd of pigs playing flutes guided by pigherd
  21. ugly and territorial goose terrorizing schoolchildren
  22. superhero makes appearance, saves someone
  23. leaping suicide
  24. leaping suicide but there's still time to save them
  25. nearby bombing
  26. violent protest + suppression by
    1. police
    2. soldiers
    3. rival faction
    4. mysterious hooded beings
  27. red neighborhood of gushing communists
  28. chase + cliche
    1. fruit cart
    2. workers carrying glass
    3. "kiss me!"
    4. banana peel
  29. evil plan they were wondering about clearly reported in blown-by newspaper
  30. bicycles recently invented
  31. demon inviting you into its well, inside:
    1. needs people to try its demon candy, effects: (will give you a package of the candy if you try one, and will let you go)
      1. horrible lust for the worst possible person
      2. eyeballs permanently switch to reverse side of head, uncurable
      3. genitals yell extremely loud next time used
      4. snake pills make snakes grow inside your body, they never leave, somewhat friendly
    2. "care for a game of chess"? willing to bet metaphysical stakes
    3. you find yourself leaving the well as soon as you climb in, and some time has passed
    4. needs someone to scratch its back, but only with their big toe... rewards demon jewlery:
      1. stinky bone attached to rope of beads, wards against good ideas
      2. toe ring that doubles your aging
      3. fat bracelet, makes you unconsciously always do rude gestures
      4. choker that completely removes the desire to do good from your brain when worn
  32. random PC has STD flare-up
  33. russian roulette street preacher (from "el topo" -ed)
  34. a bunch of kids all coming this way playing russian roulette each with a gun. they all keep winning but there's some incidental fire
  35. shore leave sailors en masse harass, cajole, befriend, fight, entertain, won't let you leave
  36. flock of schoolkids running with scissors
  37. firefighters dousing melting piano + burned pianist, another victim of the mysterious "piano killer..."
  38. fancy duel
  39. megalomaniac archer trying to find a kid to shoot an apple off the head of
  40. public execution by strangling taking really long and exhausting stranglers, officiant wants to know if PCs can help out
  41. weed-whacker style invention on the loose, pursued by inventor
  42. persistent singing merchants, as if leading up to a musical number
  43. speakeasy raid
  44. cheap crabcakes
  45. the mayor is making a speech...
    1. and an evil clown is standing behind him & to the left
    2. ...banning:
      1. knives
      2. open sale of furniture
      3. all dogs
      4. -- establishing a curfew due to the "piano killer"
    3. presenting a medal to a heretofore unknown but somehow still popularly known superhero 
    4. he's at the part of the speech where he's taking questions
  46. team of horses transporting giant stone head (from: "fellini satyricon" -ed)
  47. mass suicide
  48. man beating wife in street
  49. man beating domestic partner in street
  50. panhandler is persistent to the point of archvillainry
  51. giant scoby everyone ignores
  52. loose, wild horse is really destructive
  53. girl-watching crowd assembled and in wait
  54. the emperor is visiting
  55. public theatre performance features a real punitive amputation and then an incidental, real drama about a slave (also from satyricon -ed)
  56. old men in quantity trying to win the favors of noblewoman who is obligated to do public tryouts, she can't leave till they all go
  57. hideous, racist memorial unveiling
  58. the olympics are here
  59. fresh-faced youth recruiting for suicidal adventure
  60. near-perfect-quality fakes being painted and sold on street; these have obvious value, there's a growing crowd
  61. gang sawing off head of feminist hero statue
  62. it's one of the days where a nearby factory, or the equivalent, releases so much pollution that activity has to be limited and people with trouble breathing nearly die. 
  63. gang of artists stalking and assassinating cops
  64. street gang with rocks really trying to hurt you
  65. large and terrible fire
  66. adults egging on a child protester to stall carriages and throw rocks
  67. spies making contact but they're loud enough that it's obvious
  68. extremely powerful rare earth magnets on travelling display and for a high price
  69. accurate fortune telling from nomads
  70. feast
  71. you overhear a demonic ritual taking place in a building, they mean to cast Summon
  72. mass shooting, one shooter many victims, underway in nearby basement
  73. conmen attempting the "pigeon drop" on y'all
  74. eating contest, presumably bizarre
  75. people are chasing a feral cats to bag and burn
  76. fan of your exploits wants to join your party, has law trouble secretly
  77. crowd of your fans going "beatles"-level crazy and tearing at your clothes
  78. stand selling hemlock at steep discount + a feverish rush to buy
  79. rich and jealous lover burning effigy of copulating rivals... semiritual... 
  80. ventriloquist + dummy have stolen crown jewels and are openly wearing them (and mocking the crown). highly powerful ppl
  81. community college is offering some appealing classes
  82. band playing songs with subject matter distantly about the player characters
  83. dispute over plagiarized poetry about 10 seconds away from becoming a gunfight
  84. drug dealers offering regional variants on meth
  85. quality hand grenades for sale
  86. people are looting a gun store in advance of the cops. a battle has already killed the original perps and almost all of the staff 
  87. dedicated & doomed advance on the capital building, will result in a hours-long siege
  88. Guru CAN teach you the secret to levitation
  89. Tourists in quantity also curious about you
  90. Large public dance
  91. abandoned & spilled mailbag
  92. posters everywhere advertise a play, tickets are expensive, going gives you 1 skill point in Art Appreciation
  93. Black cat keeps crossing your path
  94. Alley tank is damaged, seeping much:
    1. Powerful glue
    2. Lantern oil
    3. Jellied Goldschläger (delicious!)
    4. Plasma (can be used to refill plasmic cores or inhaled as plasmic cores, is quite dangerous)
  95.  Economic boom! All characters offered reliable jobs.
  96.  Economic bust! All characters with reliable jobs are fired.
  97. One random character with a reliable job is fired with little cause.
  98. Chance encounter with a previous villain, now reformed.
  99. Uncanny doppleganger adventuring group encountered
  100. Police brutality.

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