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The Fortunate/Unfortunate Story

Started by Stork [1874681] on in Fun & Games.

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  • Stork [1874681] · 4 likes ·
    Unfortunately, the police that took the evil MIL's machete were still hanging around in the area, saw the unorthodox usage of a zombie corpse as part of machinery, and arrested our (nameless) hero for disturbing the peace.
  • BraveKath [1815519] · 3 likes ·
    Fortunately our non-clown, MIL escaping hero was packin', so he just blew off the head of a zombie that lingered outside the bus doors, dragged the now headless and dead body inside and slammed onto the drive shaft and proceeded …
  • QueenBurrito [1916577] · 3 likes ·
    Fortunately, the police were overpowered by the other survivors, who for some reason thought of our hero as a friend.
Stork [1874681] · #1

This is a game my brother and I used to play when we were younger.

The story begins with one sentence. The next sentence has to describe something related to the previous sentence that changes the character's situation to a fortunate/unfortunate one.

Each sentences alternate between adding fortunate and unfortunate situations, conditions, or realizations. The end result is a story with as many plot twists as you could imagine.

Here is an example:
  1. A man falls out of a plane.
  2. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a parachute.
  3. Fortunately, he sees a hay bale directly beneath the spot where he expects to land.
  4. Unfortunately, there is a pitch fork sticking out of the hay bale.
And so on. If you're wondering, that example was taken from the book "Gödel, Escher, and Bach".

I'm not really sure if this game will hit off on the Torn forum, but it should be interesting to see how the story plays out. :)
BraveKath [1815519] · #8

Fortunately, he could happily proceed on his when, when police swiped the machete from his mean mother-in-law's hands and tossed her into the back of their police car.
Ekko_ [1621978] · #11 · edited

Unfortunately, some passing clowns noticed that he wasn't a member of the Honourable Guild of Clowns and attacked him.
Ekko_ [1621978] · #13

Unfortunately, in his panic the man ran right through the road block and found himself inside a Zombie Quarantine Zone.
Ekko_ [1621978] · #15

Unfortunately, just then the bus driver's license expired and he had to stop the bus as it would be illegal for him to be driving a bus with an expired license.