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Real stories weird enough for your game
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smileyman
Teller of gaming stories
Joined: Sun May 29, 2011 5:55 am Posts: 862
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Kerala temple's secret vaults yield £12bn in treasureQuote: Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep beneath an old Hindu temple where treasure worth more than India's entire education budget has been found.
A seven-member team of experts has so far entered five of the six secret subterranean vaults piled high with an estimated £12.5bn-worth of jewels, which have lain untouched for hundreds of years.
The temple has been placed under round-the-clock police guard as onlookers and devotees thronged the shrine in the centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of southern Kerala state.
Sacks filled with diamonds were found next to tonnes of gold coins and jewellery, reports claimed, in the vaults of the 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, the royal chapel of the former rulers of Travancore, now part of Kerala.
"The current market value of the articles found so far by the committee members would be roughly 900bn rupees[£12.5bn]," one temple official who was not authorised to speak to the media said. Lots of fun plot potential here. You could make it a heist job (someone needs something recovered before the government files it away forever), a projection job (thieves are going to steal the treasure and the party needs to protect it), or a dungeon delving job (something nasty is eating/destroying/killing the guards and workers and the party is hired to go take care of it). Or you can have it be a combination of all three of those (or more), and turn it into a mini-campaign.
_________________ -- I learned more from a 3 minute record than I ever did in school.
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smileyman
Teller of gaming stories
Joined: Sun May 29, 2011 5:55 am Posts: 862
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The missing person who isn't missing. Quote: On August 31, 2004, Kyle was found unconscious behind a Burger King, near a dumpster. He was naked, beaten, and bitten by fire ants. His wallet and ID were gone -- as was much of his memory. He could not recall any of the events of the past twenty years. He did not know what his name was, where he was from, and did not even recognize his own face. The mystery man adopted the name "Benjaman Kyle" in part because the initial -- B.K. -- are also Burger King's. He believes that his true first name is "Benjaman" (with the curious spelling) and therefore uses that name, but there is little to no evidence that he is correct. http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=288 ... a2b927dae1
_________________ -- I learned more from a 3 minute record than I ever did in school.
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clintmemo
Sat through Dan's Cap Ship Lecture and didn't fall asleep... mostly
Joined: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:38 am Posts: 11771 Location: Louisville KY
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_________________ I'm not a real drummer. I just play one on TV. http://clintmemo.blogspot.com/
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xsgtdanusmc
I am the story stick
Joined: Sun May 03, 2009 7:29 pm Posts: 1467 Location: Johnston County, North Carolina
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Cameron Village is a fairly high end shopping center near NCSU. I gad an apartment across the street from there before I bought the house.
_________________ Dir hat man wohl ins Gehirn geschissen und vergessen umzurühren.
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clintmemo
Sat through Dan's Cap Ship Lecture and didn't fall asleep... mostly
Joined: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:38 am Posts: 11771 Location: Louisville KY
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English speaking teen found in Germany, claims he has been living int he woods for 5 years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14950656
_________________ I'm not a real drummer. I just play one on TV. http://clintmemo.blogspot.com/
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clintmemo
Sat through Dan's Cap Ship Lecture and didn't fall asleep... mostly
Joined: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:38 am Posts: 11771 Location: Louisville KY
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_________________ I'm not a real drummer. I just play one on TV. http://clintmemo.blogspot.com/
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| Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:46 pm |
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TheQuestionMark
Pat's Knob Polisher
Joined: Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:24 pm Posts: 172 Location: Tennessee
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We're learning about Gacy in Criminal Justice class. That is one twisted S.O.B.
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| Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:27 pm |
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clintmemo
Sat through Dan's Cap Ship Lecture and didn't fall asleep... mostly
Joined: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:38 am Posts: 11771 Location: Louisville KY
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_________________ I'm not a real drummer. I just play one on TV. http://clintmemo.blogspot.com/
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Johann
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Joined: Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:50 pm Posts: 2091
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TheQuestionMark wrote: We're learning about Gacy in Criminal Justice class. That is one twisted S.O.B. I work with a guy that says he shared a prison cell with him for a brief time. He agrees that Gacy was a really weird guy.
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pkalata
Actually Thinks They Can Take the Baron
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:41 pm Posts: 10094
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-asia-16343288An Australian crocodile attacked, drowned and then guarded a lawn mower earlier today.
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