What's the weirdest RPG experience you've had?

[jeffmoore]

Wow! That's weird... and a cool story!!

[ravensron]

When first playing D&D we fell into the same hack'n'slash mentality that was prevalent, the role-playing aspects subordinated to the wargaming aspects. In one game a players' character was injured and wanted to find an NPC Cleric to heal him. The player said he wanted to go to the temple, another player asked "what temple?" and the first player said "what's the difference?" The second player pointed out that you can't have "just" a temple, that it's going to be a place devoted to some explicit religion or deity, it can't just be "Fred's Temple." Upon which the first player said, "Oh yeah? It CAN be Fred's Temple, all hail Fred, Fred is god and Steve Martin is his prophet." From then on, in any games that first player refereed, we'd tend to encounter the disciples, acolytes and devotees of the mighty deity Fred. The concept of "Fred's Temple" became an expression outside the game; everybody in my family started using "Fred's .____" as the explanation for any sort of generic or nondescript place or item or concept.

[Sock Golem]

One time, quite a while back some friends of mine and I were all playing D&D after school. The evil dean of students ordered us to leave campus, 'cause D&D is evil or something. However, none of us had anywhere to go, the only driver in the group's car was in the shop and we all lived half an hour or more away by car, which is to say nothing of on foot so we had to wait for a ride to show up. We hid in this tiny room that isn't quite a hall way and isn't quite a room and got back to playing. We switched to Call of Cthulhu, and it began to rain as we played, occasionally someone would walk by and we'd panic. Finally, several of us needed to use the bathroom, and we made a run for a bathroom. Every bathroom we tried was locked, except one, a girl's bathroom. We used it, since no one was there, but I guess we made too much noise, 'cause the first one to go out comes running back in yelling: "SECURITY!" We all bolted and barely made it back in time. It really set a good mood for CoC.

For a sillier event, I believe I mentioned in the gun thread that I played Top Secret for awhile. For some reason we've never been able to explain, perhaps it was the inane rules forcing us to get really creative at times, the craziest things happened during this game. My friend and I each had a character we used when we both played together, and we put marks on the paper for each mission that was successful, and each mission that was not. We had about a %60 success rate. Nothing terribly exciting happened during our sucessful missions. However, the failed missions were AMAZINGLY FUNNY.

In one mission, we were in Canada and we were trying to break into a factory. We stole a truck, rigged it with explosives and ran off, using the explosion as distraction. Things were going well at first, until we lit the only stairwell on fire. We were trapped on the top floor and one player, in an act of frustration, threw a grenade out the window. It blew up over the crowd of workers waiting for orders, injuring many of them. Soon the military was coming in on helicopters and we had to leave out a fire escaped while helicopters shot at us. It's amazing that any of us made it since several characters sustained nearly fatal wounds.

In another mission we were supposed to get pictures of a drug and arms deal going down, and we all hid around the place. One person tried to get the closest and hid in a car. One of the gangsters came up, noticing movement in the nearby car, and tapped on the window. My friend locked the doors, the gangster pointed a gun at him until he opened the door. The gangster said: "What are you doing?" My friend said: "Nothing." The gangster pointed to the camera in my friend's hand and said: "What's that?" My friend said: "Nothing." And smashed the camera. Then one of the gangsters had to pee, so my friend jumped in and, in his own words "Smacked him on the back of the head until he stopped moving." It took ten minutes for us to stop laughing. Then he stole his clothes and went back up. One of the other gangsters asked what took so long, and he said that he had to poop. Then the gangster said: "Say, didn't you have a mustache." To which my friend replied: "Someone stole it." The gangster, dumbfounded asked: "Have you been sampling the merchandise?" My friend said: "Maybe...."

It was a failed mission, but HILARIOUS.

[tygertyger]

My weirdest gaming experience, hmmm... that would have to be a Vampire LARP where everyone, and I mean everyone, for some strange reason started telling sick jokes or playing malicious pranks in character. As in, squirt guns loaded with holy water and equally tasteless (to vampires) stuff. So many jokes flew that the evening came to be know to the local Camarilla chapter as the Night of 1,000 Puns.

Second weirdest experience? Another VLARP, this time an IC costume party. My Gangrel PC went as a seeing eye dog. The weirdness came from how little confusion this caused.

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[Wolfboy]

My weirdest ever RPing experience would have to be Couples.

Couples was a live-action one-shot game I played at KapCon in Wellington, NZ. We came into the room where we were playing, and got divided into pairs - our couples. All the characters had an in-game spouse. The first half-hour we just looked at our character sheets, the second we talked about our in-game relationships with the other half of the couple and the last two-hours were the actual game.

I spent two hours fighting really hard not to lose my wife. Who I'd never met out of game. At the end of the session, I sought out a friend of mine who leans to the occulty end of the belief-spectrum and actually straight out asked him for an exorcism so I could get the character I'd just been playing out of my head.

Hard freakin' core. Jeez.

[Rob Lang]

That was odd indeed. Was it one of those experiences where you can see long term relationships starting - or ending?

[kumakami]

[Wolfboy]

[Rob Lang]

I've had to read that through six times to fully understand it. Sounds like the borders between play and reality blurred.