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EASY LIKE SATURDAY MORNING
easy like saturday morning
PLOT DESCRIPTION
Disaster strikes a small town as their Stuff storm warning system fails and their TVs mysteriously get TV signals with children's shows and commercials. Born from the imaginations of the children, Stuff beings rampage through the town. The group must face surreal versions of children's toys and cartoon characters and stop their rampage long enough to help the town evacuate to the rig.
The group must face off against threats like a kaiju Barney the Dinosaur and the terrifying Sensational Six gang - the post-apocalyptic end result of a child watching Disney while his teenage brother was reading novels from the grimdark series Deathaxer 50,000.
PROMPTS
Some towns have found ways to survive in the Wilds. The town of Providence figured out that creating some distance between Stuff and people allowed them to weather Stuff storms with very little creation of monsters, and created a system of bunkers and safe rooms where people take refuge when Stuff storms come. A thorough system of watchers, cameras, sirens, and other equipment allowed for enough warning for people to take refuge every time it's necessary.
But a strange confluence of events just happened in Providence: the warning system failed somehow, TVs caught signals from Jorgmund networks instead the local station, and a Stuff storm swept through the town just as a plethora of children's programming was broadcast. The end result is complete mayhem, as cartoons and children's show characters go on a rampage. The imagination of the children is also animating their toys, creating widespread chaos.
A massive Barney the dinosaur, at least 80 feet tall, smashes buildings, while fighting against an equally massive apatosaurus, Littlefoot's mother. A pyrokinetic Elmo throws his arms up and fires spring up in buildings behind him. Looney Toons summon anvils that people need to dodge, not realizing or caring that the rules of physics are different here. A 30-feet tall Bob the builder tries futiley to fix crumbling buildings, sobbing "Can we fix it? No we can't."
In this chaos, the people that live here are trying to escape with their lives as their town is trashed around them. They need protection from out of control toys and cartoons, as well as rescue from collapsing buildings and fires.
They need help. Either these cartoons and toys must be destroyed or the townspeople need to be safely evacuated.
a) dream house
You don't remember how you got here. There was some kind of touch to your shoulder or back by by a perfectly manicured hand and you magically zonked out, caught up in her power.
You find yourself in a beautifully-curated pink-themed home in a fluffy down duvet-covered bed. Unfortunately, you're tied to it - and the person in charge is a bizarrely-proportioned blonde woman with a sledgehammer.
She looks uncanny, like she's not quite entirely human, but not quite entirely toy, her proportions unnatural.
"I am so sorry we had to meet like this," she says perkily. "But as a meet-cute, isn't it romantic?"
It's not. It's very much not.
"You see, I had to give up on love myself. Ken and I just didn't see eye to eye," Barbie says, "And now he can't see anything."
She gestures to them both.
"But you two would make a perfect couple," she coos. "If I can't find love on my own, the next best thing is playing matchmaker! You'll make a perfect couple for my dream house."
She hefts up the hammer.
"So hold still!"
Move fast and your ankles will thank you!
But don't expect her to be easy to defeat. She's handy with that hammer. She's been a construction worker before (along with many many other professions). Knives turn away from plastic-like skin when she's stabbed, knock her head off and she'll put it back on.
She has had many faces, has the knowledge from myriad professions, and is dangerously hard to kill.
She must be stopped or she'll use her Dreamhouse of horrors to kill again.
b) canceling the apocalypse
Buildings are being destroyed left and right as the massive Barney the dinosaur, 80 feet tall, stomps through the town. A massive apatosaurus is fighting it, trying to stop it from pressing its destructive influence towards a part of town that has more residential areas.
"I can't stop him, he's too strong!" says Littlefoot's mother, as she fails to press him back. Fortunately, even though the New Hires are small, the roofs of nearby buildings provide a good vantage point to attack.
There are also people that need to be rescued from collapsing buildings, fires from broken gas mains, and falling debris.
"Super dee duper!" Barney calls out as he crashes through another building. People in the streets below run screaming.
c) lemme at 'em
One courtyard seems to have been converted to a terrible fighting match arena, where innocent people are sometimes dragged in to fight against various cartoons. Nothing fences them in but some of the brainwashed fighters, creating a wall.
All of them look miserable, like they don't want to be there. If approached, one of the champions of the arena will attack the group, begging them to leave. It might be a large squinting sailor, with massive fore-arms.
"You needs to run," begs Pop-Eye. "Or he'll make us fight as emenies whether we likes it or not!"
But whatever force is controlling Pop-Eye makes him start laughing instead. "A-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah."
The mastermind behind all this? The tiny psychic Great Dane, sitting up on a high makeshift throne.
"You think you can stop me?" the pup cries, holding his hands to his temples. "Have a taste of some pupppppyyyy pooower!"
He'll use his psychic powers to direct his various assorted cartoon and children's show champions to fight against the New Hires, against their own will.
d) gak attack
Smush it, twist it, bubble it, mix it! What is Nickelodeon gak?
Usually it's not a massive green blob slowly taking over an entire block but right now it is. The blob is acidic, melting the flesh of anything living it absorbs into it, and alive enough to occasionally whip out tendrils to snag people trying to flee.
The blob can be fought with a variety of things, ranging from fire, freezing, electricity, and even caustic household chemicals that are extremely basic in nature like the lye in oven cleaner. Even a small amount can poison the blob and cause large portions of it to turn to ash.
But even those that can't fight it can use their powers and abilities to evacuate people from its path.
e) doo-dah
They're perched in many places, like actual birds. Any hostile architecture has been ripped off trees and other perching spots and thrown to the ground.
At first they're silent but any time there is movement and sound their glowing eyes snap open and and look in the direction it came from.
"Doo-dah oo-nye may-may kah doo?" they ask, and then they start to speak to each other in a call and response.
"Uh-oh." "uh-oh."
And then they attack, sailing through the air despite how they shouldn't be able to fly, razor beaks snapping. They attack the New Hires and anyone they're trying to help.
f) wild card
The chaos in Providence can take many forms: Looney Tunes dropping anvils on real people. Areas where rubber monsters wreak havoc and New Hires will now find they can transform to Power Rangers, only able to attack by calling out attack names. An area where Lamb Chop chases people with an axe. The ninja turtles needing help fighting Shredder and the Foot clan so innocent people can escape. An area where Statler and Waldorf throw shade at the New Hires' heroics from a window balcony Doooh ho ho ho ho. An area where Smurfs swarm anyone that passes by, tying them to the ground Lilliputian style, speaking to each in a language that seems to only consist of the word "Smurf." A bomb that can only be disarmed by reaching level 20 on a Bop It. ("Bop it! Twist it! Pull it!")
The only things the New Hires don't see are the main Mickey gang. They're being careful about whether or not they're seen.
For now.
You don't remember how you got here. There was some kind of touch to your shoulder or back by by a perfectly manicured hand and you magically zonked out, caught up in her power.
You find yourself in a beautifully-curated pink-themed home in a fluffy down duvet-covered bed. Unfortunately, you're tied to it - and the person in charge is a bizarrely-proportioned blonde woman with a sledgehammer.
She looks uncanny, like she's not quite entirely human, but not quite entirely toy, her proportions unnatural.
"I am so sorry we had to meet like this," she says perkily. "But as a meet-cute, isn't it romantic?"
It's not. It's very much not.
"You see, I had to give up on love myself. Ken and I just didn't see eye to eye," Barbie says, "And now he can't see anything."
She gestures to them both.
"But you two would make a perfect couple," she coos. "If I can't find love on my own, the next best thing is playing matchmaker! You'll make a perfect couple for my dream house."
She hefts up the hammer.
"So hold still!"
Move fast and your ankles will thank you!
But don't expect her to be easy to defeat. She's handy with that hammer. She's been a construction worker before (along with many many other professions). Knives turn away from plastic-like skin when she's stabbed, knock her head off and she'll put it back on.
She has had many faces, has the knowledge from myriad professions, and is dangerously hard to kill.
She must be stopped or she'll use her Dreamhouse of horrors to kill again.
b) canceling the apocalypse
Buildings are being destroyed left and right as the massive Barney the dinosaur, 80 feet tall, stomps through the town. A massive apatosaurus is fighting it, trying to stop it from pressing its destructive influence towards a part of town that has more residential areas.
"I can't stop him, he's too strong!" says Littlefoot's mother, as she fails to press him back. Fortunately, even though the New Hires are small, the roofs of nearby buildings provide a good vantage point to attack.
There are also people that need to be rescued from collapsing buildings, fires from broken gas mains, and falling debris.
"Super dee duper!" Barney calls out as he crashes through another building. People in the streets below run screaming.
c) lemme at 'em
One courtyard seems to have been converted to a terrible fighting match arena, where innocent people are sometimes dragged in to fight against various cartoons. Nothing fences them in but some of the brainwashed fighters, creating a wall.
All of them look miserable, like they don't want to be there. If approached, one of the champions of the arena will attack the group, begging them to leave. It might be a large squinting sailor, with massive fore-arms.
"You needs to run," begs Pop-Eye. "Or he'll make us fight as emenies whether we likes it or not!"
But whatever force is controlling Pop-Eye makes him start laughing instead. "A-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah-gah."
The mastermind behind all this? The tiny psychic Great Dane, sitting up on a high makeshift throne.
"You think you can stop me?" the pup cries, holding his hands to his temples. "Have a taste of some pupppppyyyy pooower!"
He'll use his psychic powers to direct his various assorted cartoon and children's show champions to fight against the New Hires, against their own will.
d) gak attack
Smush it, twist it, bubble it, mix it! What is Nickelodeon gak?
Usually it's not a massive green blob slowly taking over an entire block but right now it is. The blob is acidic, melting the flesh of anything living it absorbs into it, and alive enough to occasionally whip out tendrils to snag people trying to flee.
The blob can be fought with a variety of things, ranging from fire, freezing, electricity, and even caustic household chemicals that are extremely basic in nature like the lye in oven cleaner. Even a small amount can poison the blob and cause large portions of it to turn to ash.
But even those that can't fight it can use their powers and abilities to evacuate people from its path.
e) doo-dah
They're perched in many places, like actual birds. Any hostile architecture has been ripped off trees and other perching spots and thrown to the ground.
At first they're silent but any time there is movement and sound their glowing eyes snap open and and look in the direction it came from.
"Doo-dah oo-nye may-may kah doo?" they ask, and then they start to speak to each other in a call and response.
"Uh-oh." "uh-oh."
And then they attack, sailing through the air despite how they shouldn't be able to fly, razor beaks snapping. They attack the New Hires and anyone they're trying to help.
f) wild card
The chaos in Providence can take many forms: Looney Tunes dropping anvils on real people. Areas where rubber monsters wreak havoc and New Hires will now find they can transform to Power Rangers, only able to attack by calling out attack names. An area where Lamb Chop chases people with an axe. The ninja turtles needing help fighting Shredder and the Foot clan so innocent people can escape. An area where Statler and Waldorf throw shade at the New Hires' heroics from a window balcony Doooh ho ho ho ho. An area where Smurfs swarm anyone that passes by, tying them to the ground Lilliputian style, speaking to each in a language that seems to only consist of the word "Smurf." A bomb that can only be disarmed by reaching level 20 on a Bop It. ("Bop it! Twist it! Pull it!")
The only things the New Hires don't see are the main Mickey gang. They're being careful about whether or not they're seen.
For now.
➤ Players can draw from any canon or toy as long as a PC character is currently not from that canon in game. For larger canons, like Disney, only the specific franchise can't be used. So Disney princesses are fine, but not animated Toy Story toys. For canons like Marvel, the characters are a little more recognizable across adaptations so Marvel can't be used.
➤ This is a multi-part plot. A later part will involve the Mickey gang, so the mods request they not be used.
➤ Other than those limitations, players are free to do anything they like, including creating areas where certain childhood games or cartoon physics apply. Some of the animated toys and characters will be malevolent but some will be benevolent and seeking help fighting against something dangerous.
➤ Feel free to ask questions in the question top-level below.
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NO! No it doesn't. Not this time. Buzz struggles against the vision, flexing his left hand still attached at his shoulder, still working. He knows what's reality and what isn't. He knows -
He looks away from his hand and the vision intensifies, as he forgets what he was looking for at all, because his arm's come off and it's all pointless. Everything he thinks of himself is a pointless, bloated lie, and for all the suffering and all the evil that there is in the world, he can't do anything about it. A useless child's plaything who can't help anyone. Rain pounds the pavement around him, filling his ears, blocking out the sound of - of -
He knows there is supposed to be something else.
This is familiar. And it is old.
He's been here before. Someone got him out of it.
Buzz's fighting makes the bloody, towering creature snarl, and widen the inferno of its second vision to include him. His plastic exterior shines in the intense heat, and he's going to die, and Jessie's going to die, and Woody's going to die, and everyone he lives for is at the end of their lives, looking to him, asking him what to do, and all he can think to do is, at least, die together.
It's too hot. The fire roars with an edge like a scream.
What's the point of evading it? He can't help anyone, except to help them to face death with dignity.
Except that this is old. This is old, and there's no hand to reach out for, and he sure lived a long time after deciding that there was no point in living -
Because the despair was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
The heat on his exterior stops rising as he thinks that, how long he's lived anyway even after deciding that living was pointless. When he squints, he can see, through the fire - not the searing light, but the tatters of a white robe, dripping, dripping blood that sounded for a moment like rain -
He aims his laser high, at the metal balcony hanging over the creature, and with a blast severs the whole balcony to fall on top of the creature's towering head.]
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[The shrill voice. The shrill voice is the little girl screaming, because she'd been reliving something, something that's obvious by what she's crying out. "Mommy, why is everything crashing? I'm scared! Where is Ravi? He was right there! What happened to Ravi?!"]
[Whatever he's gone through, a child that's lived through such a terrible war has gone through something infinitely worse. It takes a second for her vision to fade, too, but she's still crying and scared. Woody drags himself to his feet, to go to her, but the thing, the terrible thing claws out of the rubble, and starts clawing towards her at a supernatural speed. ]
Oh, I don't think so!
[Woody lassos it and starts dragging it back, skidding at first because it's strong. Stronger maybe than a human because it can glide. But he manages to stop it before he reaches the girl and with a great deal of effort manages to swing it back the other way, slamming it hard into a rusty, abandoned car.]
[The little girl sees them, between her and it now, the lasso in Woody's hands glowing gold. Silvery dust has been kicked up in the street, some that had settled on the balcony.]
[It's a tiny bit. Only the tiniest bit of Stuff. The belief is only enough to shape the situation in this moment, give them qualities they will not have elsewhere, will not have past this time. The Stuff is not actually changing them, after all, it's changing the creature and the Rules for facing it. In the books, people call on magical guardian spirits, usually the embodiment of loved ones or heroes they look up to. Only these can hurt this creature.]
[In this moment, that's what they are. She's a small child. She's watched the movies over and over, like children do. And they're here, and real. And like any child would feel about a Disney character they like protecting them, she assumes they can win. So they can.]
[Woody gets a tighter grip on the rope to shorten how far the lassoed monsters can go, so it can't reach the girl again without a fight. It starts to squirm out of the wreckage and broken glass to take to the air again.]
Use your laser! See if that can hurt it!
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But Woody said to try it, and if they're wrong, it only takes a second to find out.
Still, Buzz aims for the creature's center mass before firing a sustained, deadly blast.]
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[She's less scared, now that the creature is gone, but still crying.]
[Woody comes up and reaches up a hand to gently touch her arm.]
It's okay, you're safe now. I promise we won't let anything hurt you. What's your name, little lady?
["Kamala."]
Kamala, you were very brave, running away from that thing and trying to get help. Some people would've just frozen in fear like a little mouse, but you did exactly what you were supposed to do and went for help.
["I'm lost. I can't find my mom and dad."]
That's okay. We'll help you find your parents. If they're not nearby, there's a place they're evacuating people from, getting everyone somewhere safe. Your family might already be there.
We need you to be brave just a little bit longer, okay? If you come with us, we'll make sure you get somewhere safe.
[Kamala nods and then grabs Woody and hugs him to her so fiercely his hat gets knocked off by her chin. Woody's expression is deeply moved as he hugs her back, glad that, for once, he can. His arms can't reach around her neck but it's still clearly a comfort to her. Her crying starts to quiet down. She reaches a little grabby hand for Buzz as well.]
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So Buzz isn't going to get jealous as Woody gets hugged, no sir. This is Woody's moment, something he deserves, after the years of service he's devoted and the work he's done to help other toys embrace their jobs, and Buzz is not going to mar that precious moment even a little by getting jealous that Woody gets a hug and he - oh thank goodness he gets a hug too.
The little heart Buzz doesn't have is so full, proud and grateful all at once, and so glad the little girl is all right enough to reach out to give and receive comfort. He's not as cuddly as Woody, but he pats Kamala comfortingly on the back.]
Your parents will be so proud once they find out how brave you've been.
[He could easily linger in comforting this kid, but there are so many threats that require situational awareness out here even now, so this moment will have to come to a close all too soon. Still, it's so rewarding to have it.]