MUP Ep 277 – Horror Where You’re At




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Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This episode, Keepers Murph &amp; Bridgett riff on single location horror scenario ideas!<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Patreon Plug &amp; Update<br> <br> <br> <br> We have a Patreon! To back us you can click the button on the sidebar of our website, <a href="http://www.mu-podcast.com">mu-podcast.com</a> or head over to Patreon directly at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/mup">www.patreon.com/mup</a>!<br> <br> <br> <br> Murph has a movie Night coming up on August 17th at 7:30pm Central time. <br> <br> <br> <br> The Discord Plug<br> <br> <br> <br> We have our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: <a href="https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D">https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D</a> <br> <br> <br> <br> And thank you to our editor Max for editing this episode. Thanks Max! <br> <br> <br> <br> Bridgett’s Pet Pick Shout Out<br> <br> <br> <br> "Okay, listen. It's worth going to our show notes to see Jasper, doggo of friend and fan of the show, FredKiesche. I recognize that it's not winter, but you gotta see the look on this dog's face as it launches itself through the snow. It's the pick me up you need today, promise!"<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Main Topic -- Single location horror scenarios<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * Persons in house/apartment/room<br> <br> <br> <br> * Persons in vehicle<br> <br> <br> <br> * <a href="https://crimebythebook.com/blog/2021/2/18/cbtbs-recommended-locked-room-mysteries">Locked-Room Mysteries</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * Class struggle in the vein of <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1782352/">Upstairs, Downstairs</a> but downstairs hears the prep, staging, production, fallout, and eventual aftermath of the event upstairs. The event could be the KiY or a ritual, mass murder, etc. Might be a staff only game of Regency, set entirely within the kitchens. (Sort of inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie">Miss Julie</a>.) Players would have to defend against their mutated “Betters” who are storming downstairs to eat, pray, and be merry.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * Guests are invited to a house party in a friend of a friend’s apartment. Their friend never shows up, and a few guests seemingly go missing. There could be some fatally locked room, akin to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard">Bluebeard</a>, but their friend is actually within the trunk/coffee table at the center of the living room (a la Hitchcock’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(film)">Rope</a>). <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * A group of friends witness something horrible and are seen by the perpetrator, take a spin on <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017289-rear_window">Rear Window</a> and have it based across the street from the original crime, with a single bad guy hell bent on murder, but a Charm skill that is astronomical. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * Take a page from <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/coherence_2013">Coherence</a> and have a group of friends get together while Miller’s Comet streaks by overhead. There is an exact replica of their house next door, populated with an exact replica of themselves as well. Unbeknownst to the players, one of the guests arrives late and stumbles into the wrong house, their house. Things go even further sideways when a third house is revealed to have been there in the opposite direction the entire time.. By the end no one should be able to determine which house is real nor who is the original version of themselves.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * A one-shot maybe solo game, where the player(s) are part of a boiler room,...