B&BoB: 52 Ways to Die
I seek your input, everyone - especially from the non-gamers who read this (if there are any of you at all, that is).
In Billions and Billions of Bullets, I kinda want there to be a lot of death. Not only will the main character be killing a lot of foo’s, but they’ll likely die painful deaths themselves before the game is over as well. To best facilitate the in-game narration of these deaths, and to give the players some ideas when narrating the deaths of others, I’d like to follow in the “everything can be randomly drawn if so desired” spirit of Cannibal Contagion and include a table containing 52 ways for a character to die, conveniently placed in the back of the book.
I’d be grateful honored if anyone who reads this would leave a comment or three with some ideas of ways that they would like to see a character. The rules:
* Must be under 12 words (I’d like to have it in a neat line-by-line chart)
* Must be adaptable to a variety of settings
* Can by gruesome, simple, embarrassing, epic, or ignoble, but I’d rather they not be intentionally amusing. This game is not being written with the tongue-in-cheek approach I took with Cannibal Contagion. One or two amusing ones might be snuck into the list, but please steer away from that.
So for example:
* Deadly fall from a building
* Ripped apart by pitbulls
* Bullet through both of the eyes, execution-style
* The worst food poisoning ever.
* Death by firing squad
* Poisoned champagne
* Lots and lots of scorpions
What are your ideas?
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– suffering \"the bends\"
– buried unconscious but alive in a construction zone
– covered head to foot with napalm
– completely skinned and left in the wild (from a Haruki Murakami book; scarred for life by that one)
– falling/dropped into lava
– dissected by laser beams (Resident Evil)
– strychnine poisoning
– being drawn and quartered
– falling backwards onto a table saw (Supernatural)
– burnt at the stake
– beheading with an blunt blade
– being skywheeled
– failed bungee jumping
– entombed by avalanche/landslide
– eaten by pirahnas
– keelhauled
– blown apart by landmine(s)
– embolism
– necrotic poisoning
– smoke/C02 inhalation
ooh this is nice stuff. Thanks!
– being road-dragged by racist hicks in a pickup
– having your torso ripped open, your guts spilling out and then eaten by wild dogs
– cement shoes
– bricked up alive inside a wall (Cask of Amontillado)
– prolonged radiation exposure
– having your existence reduced to a nuclear shadow
– locked inside a freezer
– buried alive in a pine box
– wood chipper incident
– meat packing plant accident
– drinking saltwater due to extreme thirst
– nth victim of serial killer
– abducted and killed by religious extremists
– drive-by shooting
– crushed under weights (The Crucible)
– sinking vessel
– train collision
– packed in rock salt and dessicated (Bones)
– suffocated and swallowed by snake
– electrical appliance + water
– sucked into jet turbine (The Incredibles)
– death during consensual sexual act
– unwitting participant in snuff film
– struck by lightning