Cellar Board Game
 

your thoughts?

A bace ball bat and a bottle of burbon

I'll bring the cigars.

Cellaropoly? Candyassland? Chutes and Liars? Clueless? IOTDictionary? Trivial Pursuit (no need to modify that one, we'll just steal it)?

I can print out pictures from the Member's Image Gallery and tack 'em to a board out at the range ... is that what you meant?

It's a great idea, but to properly play it you would need a massive gallery of silent onlookers to serve as the lurkers.

We would need to come up with a clever mounting for the game board, which would have to be in the form of a mobius strip. (After all, there could never actually be any goal or objective which would allow the game to end.)

But I'm sure we could do it. Everybody out to Toad's house this weekend to play the inaugural rounds! (It would have to be played at Toad's house, wouldn't it?)

Definite potential there. Can you set up a web cam?

Hey, we could all play!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4022147.stm

To go that one better, how about setting up a remote sniper rifle in an abandoned building in some crime infested city. You could pick off drug dealers and winos from the comfort of your living room. :D

Cute, but if I'm gonna kill something, I want to actually be there for it.

I can kill deer on the TV anytime I want. I have Cabela's Big Game Hunter.

we could pair off, go out into the mountains, set up sniper nests facing each other at unmarked yardages over 1500m, and try to shoot batteries off each other's shoulders with .50 cal sniper rifles.

It doesn't have the public-service angle of 404's idea, though.

i'm not so sure about that. there may be a few cases where knocking off a cellarite would be a public service. :rattat:

There will have to be some kind of lottery system, I think.

The Lottery, was that Shirley Jackson? i may be mixing up my authors.

No, you got it right. That involves stoning instead of firearms, though. Too 20th Century.

That story affected me deeply as a yoot. I didn't sleep at all the night after we read it in class. I had read horror, but was completely unprepared psychologically for really well-delivered creepiness. Less is more when it comes to scary stuff, in my book.

i haven't read it in years, but i remember being frustrated at the character's unwillingness to stop the madness. i also remember thinking how similar it was to an old Star Trek episode.

Thinking ... thinking ... thinking ... which one?

Kirk was horrified to find that the society had been at war so long they had come up with basically a game of planetary laser tag. when the loud speaker said you had been killed by an attack you were required to report for destruction at one of the centers. people willingly filed in to meet their demise because those were the rules.

A Taste of Armageddon

I'll have to rewatch that, and reread the story, but I don't recall them as similar.

i don't think they were extremely similar. i just remember being equally frustrated with people that were willing to die without a fight, because it was a rule of their society. the stories weren't the same, just a concept within.

on a side note kinda like Logans Run.. EEK! my dot is blinking!

you know, this is one of the reasons i like the cellar. people here can understand my brand of nerdy humor. :grouphug: