Thursday, October 1, 2026

d100 police responses

god gotta shake these winter blues and throw up a blog-post.

d100 ways that the police respond to something


  1. the street rumbles. and collapses. the police were trapped in the sewers beneath and they're now free.
  2. cops are taking shits in nearby bathroom
  3. cops immediately decide they need to consult a psychic
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  5. cops set up an astrolabe and begin consulting it. crime scene slowly becomes more and more about astronomy/ology as night progresses
  6. evil cop demands everyone's shoes, steals them
  7. cop breaks down door like kramer
  8. cops very sneaky show up slowly poking their noses around corners
  9. very scary not funny thing where the cops make you go through simon says or shoot you
  10. cops slowly start deconstructing the house
  11. cut to: police tape on the ground, serious detectives having a police procedural conversation, the interim elided over
  12. cops start gossiping about you in front of you, picking apart your appearance and being snotty
  13. cops more concerned about the serial killer who is said to be probably "close by"
  14. cops eating lunch, try to get you to buy hoagies for the police hoagie sale
  15. cops trying to sell raffle tickets and will only do what you want if you buy more and more tickets
  16. one cop has his shoes untied and will fall over at comic time, gets really angry and will get violent 
  17. cops were just playing paintball and file in with all their gear still on, with paint splotches, have grudges etc
  18. frantic yelling and giant gorilla-like cop bursts into scene named Mongo, other cops have to calm it down 
  19. cops are late to motocross, rival team shows up revving their bikes really loud outside crime scene
  20. competitive putting using a glass and a putter to kill time
  21. drinking tea out of big mugs using both hands
  22. flash photography, blue latex gloves, gas tanks, heart rate monitor... sick people start showing up, seems like the flu's in season. travelling witch doctor-show sets up outside. purpose of the scene seems to have changed somewhat.
  23. humiliating body searches of all present (good luck -ed)
  24. police mislabel all evidence and cart it all off and are never seen from or heard ever again
  25. everyone gets arrested, evidence is manufactured to pin it on random PC present
  26. a great evil is afoot... police invite hooded figures to the scene and keep discussing "the warden"
  27. redneck sherrif + barefoot deputies with shotguns
  28. add'l evidence is uncovered which completely changes the case
    1. murder weapon added/subtracted from scene (if one was present, subtracted, etc)
    2. secret room with blood messages on the walls (or similar)
    3. mutated half-alive fetus, parentage apparent, squirreled away at scene
    4. evidence literally falls from sky
  29. small meteorite lands near scene
  30. fastfood delivery & subsequent argument
  31. police horse freaks out and gets destructive, police refuse to euthanize it
  32. supervillain is involved (see: http://rememberdismove.blogspot.com/2019/01/d50-villains.html)
  33. police accidentally break something vital and profusely apologize
  34. detective taking over the case is covered in tattoos and seductive
  35. cops are aliens
  36. cops refuse to leave car, will not for any reason, talk through window etc
  37. random object magnetized by lightning exactly like in The Court Jester (1955)
  38. one cop is also a serial killer trying to deal with the conflicting parts of his identity and audibly goes through the motions.
  39. cops blare really loud music from the car the whole time they're there
  40. cop has native roots and uses a bow and arrow, facepaint, stereotypical native clue-gathering methods, listening to ground, voodoo etc
  41. cops are ghost hunters
  42. cops deeply hate each other 
  43. small fire starts and will escalate if players dont do something
  44. fantastically obese cop(s)
  45. cops kinda gossipy and drinking appletinis 
  46. scene is haunted and manifests blood on the walls / time loop / hallucinogenic ghost presence / items rearrange / curse distribution / demonic chanting
  47. cops are satanists! 
  48. K9 dog has foaming horrible rabies
  49. cops are using messenger pigeons
  50. Cop is one day away from retirement! 
  51. serial killer/ other horrible person(s) is in disguise as a cop(s), (supervillain may be involved see #32)
  52. SNAFU involving undercover police already at scene
  53. cop is compulsive masturbator(s)
  54. cops trying to sell drugs to PCs... a sting?
  55. cops doin
    1. coke
    2. ketamine
    3. ecstasy
    4. methamphetamines
    5. opiods
    6. LSD
  56. cops have regressed to a pre-modern state, alike cavemen
  57. cop has massive weeping wound(s) no one acknowledges
  58. cops are very nerdy and wheedly, pocket protectors, cokebottle glasses 
  59. preggo ladycop goes into labor
  60. cop is one of those mechs from Robocop (1987)
  61. cop is Robocop
  62. cops are babushka-wearing grandma cops
  63. cops are forever on their phones 
  64. cops are drunk gettin drunker
  65. cops don't know how to use a computer! they need to though, could you help?
  66. cops are totally competent in this case.
  67. copgun goes off aciddentally at worst time
  68. cops all have a seriously flu
  69. none of the cops can read
  70. dispatcher promises cops will show up but none ever, ever will
  71. cops skin slowly changing colors
  72. cops "smell" crime
  73. cops are all terribly beautiful
  74. dinosaurs show up
  75. cops are compulsive gamblers
  76. cops are greatly speculative about chess
  77. cop mentions he has a single day until retirement
  78. bomb squad robot shows up first, alone, due to scheduling error
  79. cops are all terribly hungover
  80. cops are in a band together and are kinda like Mystery Incorporated
  81. bishonen detective
  82. cop has chronic pain flareup and requires paramedic attention
  83. cops are all actually ghosts
  84. seemingly quite intelligent detective determined to fake evidence for own goals
  85. cops arrive at wrong location and are unable to travel to correct one although dispatch will unceasingly attempt to coordinate this
  86. cop has a phobia about flying bugs which arrive periodically, he freaks out, other cops have to calm him down, keeps happening
  87. cops seem like they're really good genuinely kind friends to each other but commit terrible cruelties to each other as well
  88. -100 : reroll

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