Clock Crew

Meet Harry.

Harry is a nice enough guy once you get to know him. He has a sense of humor (probably), a winning personality and all that. Somewhere. The only problem is that he looks like kind of a douche. And he acts like kind of a douche.

He's working on it.

In this adventure, you the forum user will help guide Harry to a new life!! It's sort of like Morgan Quest 64, but a lot worse!!! You'll be lucky if I feel like doing more than a few updates!!!!

Anyway, our story begins in the kitchen. I think it's a kitchen.

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IN YOUR POSSESSION:
- fedora-like hat with deliberately ugly pattern
- chunky glasses
- terrible facial hair
- even worse fitted t-shirt
- neon sneakers
- skinny jeans
- nothing else; the pockets of your skinny jeans cannot actually hold anything

AROUND YOU YOU SEE:
- a gas oven
- a pistol
- a knife
- a length of rope
- a vial of pills

Don't be too creative just yet. I still have a ton of things to draw, including a proper starting scene. :o

Take off the glasses
Take off the terrible facial hair
Take off the even worse fitted t-shirt

Stab yourself in the forearm.

Take the rope.
Tie it into a lasso.
Become a cowboy.

pick up the knife and shave yourself to look like wolverine

Quote from: Reisen Udongein Inaba;1602074Take off the glasses

You take off the glasses.



Apparently they are prescription glasses. You need them to see, at least for the time being.

Quote from: Reisen Udongein Inaba;1602074Take off the terrible facial hair

You attempt to take off the terrible facial hair, but pulling at it proves ineffective.

Quote from: Reisen Udongein Inaba;1602074Take off the even worse fitted t-shirt

You would take off the even worse fitted t-shirt, but VCRClock has not drawn you a torso. You opt to stay in one piece for now.

Quote from: Marlix Wright;1602076Stab yourself in the forearm.

You attempt to stab yourself in the forearm.



In doing so, you discover the knife is actually a plastic knife. Upon closer inspection, the plastic knife is made of marshmallow. You cannot cut anything with this knife unless it is marshmallowy or softer.

Quote from: AnkhClock;1602080Take the rope.
Tie it into a lasso.
Become a cowboy.

You take the rope...



...only to discover it is actually a fashionable bracelet!! How cute!!!

Goto Shopping mall

Do nothing.

Quote from: PatriotClock;1602083pick up the knife and shave yourself to look like wolverine

Put the bracelet around your neck
fulfull your lifelong dream to be a puppy.
and if that doesn't work, closer inspect all the other stuff too

Quote from: PatriotClock;1602083pick up the knife and shave yourself to look like wolverine

Didn't I tell you the knife was made of marshmallow? I don't know about you, but last time I tried to shave with a marshmallow no good came of it.

Quote from: Carl Fredricksen;1602088Goto Shopping mall

You have not yet exhausted all the possibilities of this training stage!

Quote from: Jugger;1602099Do nothing.

Nothing happens.

Quote from: Reisen Udongein Inaba;1602101Put the bracelet around your neck
fulfull your lifelong dream to be a puppy.
and if that doesn't work, closer inspect all the other stuff too

The bracelet, while it appears incredibly long in the first illustration, was initially intended to be a belt until somebody realized you could choke yourself with it. As a result, it was shortened and can no longer be wrapped around your neck. Told you this adventure would be shitty.

You decide to give all the other items in the room a closer look.



You attempt to stick your head into the gas oven to inspect it, but discover it is a cardboard cutout. (You wouldn't know how to use it if it was real, anyway.)

Hoping for sweet release, you turn to the pistol...



...only to find that it is a piece of jewelry about as tasteful as the rest of your wardrobe. A safety closure prevents you from strangling yourself with it. The adventure must go on. Unless...



...that vial of pills wasn't filled with Skittles. But it is. You eat some, and don't feel any more dead. Oh well.

YOU HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS TRAINING STAG--wait a second, didn't I just say... never mind.

That's all for tonight! Prepare yourselves for the rest of the shitty adventure next time, where you might even be able to go outside!!

this adventure
sure is shitty

So many twists in this story, I don't know what to believe any more!

Examine yourself to make sure you're actually a person!

That was a shitty forum adventure.

Bite your tongue off.

Smoke pot while wearing sunglasses and playing a musical instrument.
Also that kind of looks like Snake Clock.

Cut your face on the cardboard gas o matic so that in the future you can tell everyone you got the scar in your face from eating pineapple.

Quote from: TabascoClock;1602362Smoke pot while wearing sunglasses and playing a musical instrument.
Also that kind of looks like Snake Clock.

The resemblance is unintentional. I think it's just the hat and glasses.



Anyway it's pretty clear I had no idea what I was doing when I started this adventure -- I kept calling it shitty just to cushion my own fall, but I see some major problems now, not the least of which was that I didn't actually leave any space for outside input. I pre-drew too much, and, not wanting those drawings to go to waste, basically prohibited everything that wasn't in the script, resulting in (as Thor said) too many "plot twists."

If I was to pick this up again ("outside"), I'd leave it more open-ended (as a forum adventure ought to be), draw more after people had posted commands, and all that. But to be honest, I don't even like my protagonist enough to want to continue -- he's simultaneously an easy target and not at all funny. That, and an actual adventure on the scale of Morgan Quest would be a lot of work I somehow didn't anticipate!

Quote from: TabascoClock;1602362Also that kind of looks like Snake Clock.

I was wondering when someone would notice. :o

Quote from: VCRClock;1602373The resemblance is unintentional. I think it's just the hat and glasses.

Anyway it's pretty clear I had no idea what I was doing when I started this adventure -- I kept calling it shitty just to cushion my own fall, but I see some major problems now, not the least of which was that I didn't actually leave any space for outside input. I pre-drew too much, and, not wanting those drawings to go to waste, basically prohibited everything that wasn't in the script, resulting in (as Thor said) too many "plot twists."

If I was to pick this up again ("outside"), I'd leave it more open-ended (as a forum adventure ought to be), draw more after people had posted commands, and all that. But to be honest, I don't even like my protagonist enough to want to continue -- he's simultaneously an easy target and not at all funny. That, and an actual adventure on the scale of Morgan Quest would be a lot of work I somehow didn't anticipate!

You probably have a goal in mind for the character to achieve, a leave little hints about how to use specific tools to achieve those goals, but other than that, leave it open ended. Concepts should flow from there.

Also, we kind of have to like the character to make him want to do stuff, otherwise we just want the character to fail and tell it to kill itself.

Quote from: BIN 9000;1602379You probably have a goal in mind for the character to achieve, a leave little hints about how to use specific tools to achieve those goals, but other than that, leave it open ended. Concepts should flow from there.

Also, we kind of have to like the character to make him want to do stuff, otherwise we just want the character to fail and tell it to kill itself.

The ultimate goal was not to look like a douche, but one of the flaws was that there was no way to achieve that goal in this scene (i.e. you couldn't take off the shirt -- that was nothing more than artistic laziness on my part, whereas the glasses and facial hair would have been challenges for later on.)

I thought the character would be despicable enough to want to kill from the get-go. I think the problem was that I made it too obvious that "Kill yourself using X" was the command I was looking for -- and that I was looking for that command specifically.

Also:

Quote from: Reisen Udongein Inaba;1602352Bite your tongue off.

Quote from: TabascoClock;1602362Smoke pot while wearing sunglasses and playing a musical instrument.
Also that kind of looks like Snake Clock.

Quote from: DWARFINATOR;1602370Cut your face on the cardboard gas o matic so that in the future you can tell everyone you got the scar in your face from eating pineapple.

SUCCESS!

Finally Harries epic hell adventure can begin

I want a "The eighties were greaties" t-shirt. Is that bad?

Quote from: Thor, God of Thunder;1602402I want a "The eighties were greaties" t-shirt. Is that bad?

Bite your tongue off.

go to hell

Quote from: VCRClock;1602114Didn't I tell you the knife was made of marshmallow? I don't know about you, but last time I tried to shave with a marshmallow no good came of it.

You have not yet exhausted all the possibilities of this training stage!

Nothing happens.

The bracelet, while it appears incredibly long in the first illustration, was initially intended to be a belt until somebody realized you could choke yourself with it. As a result, it was shortened and can no longer be wrapped around your neck. Told you this adventure would be shitty.

You decide to give all the other items in the room a closer look.



You attempt to stick your head into the gas oven to inspect it, but discover it is a cardboard cutout. (You wouldn't know how to use it if it was real, anyway.)

Hoping for sweet release, you turn to the pistol...



...only to find that it is a piece of jewelry about as tasteful as the rest of your wardrobe. A safety closure prevents you from strangling yourself with it. The adventure must go on. Unless...



...that vial of pills wasn't filled with Skittles. But it is. You eat some, and don't feel any more dead. Oh well.

YOU HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS TRAINING STAG--wait a second, didn't I just say... never mind.

That's all for tonight! Prepare yourselves for the rest of the shitty adventure next time, where you might even be able to go outside!!

HE WOULD GET MARSHMALLOW ALL OVER HIS FACE

Quote from: PatriotClock;1602423HE WOULD GET MARSHMALLOW ALL OVER HIS FACE

Man at this point I still don't know if I want to continue this, but if I do I will definitely give him the marshmallow beard/Wolverine sideburns combination.

In hell.

Quote from: BIN 9000;1602379Also, we kind of have to like the character to make him want to do stuff, otherwise we just want the character to fail and tell it to kill itself.

My first post originally had me demanding he give himself non-leathal wounds with all of the objects before eating the pills and sticking his head in the oven.

if the character dies now then this will be the first adventure thread ever to be completed.

make leek come from a dark dimension and save him by stopping him from killin' his own face
 
because leek protects beardy ppl

lol si u

Goto Shopping mall with new look and show off to all the ladies

question

why is harry a hipster