Suggestions for events while on safari

[gloriousbattle]

"Drums in the night", "Elephant's Graveyard", "One of your Askaris kissed the Witchdoctor's daughter", that kind of thing.  If anyone would be willing to contruibute, I'd love to get a list of events and encounters that could be put opn a random table for a safari game.

Thanks

[carlos marighela]

The 'Colonel' chracter is caught in flagrante delicto with
a) His bearer
b) His brother officer, who looks a bit like Michael Kitchen/ Robert Redford
c) Someone else's wife
d) A baboon with a peculiar taste for Souza's marches
e) His own wife.
f) A platoon's worth of pygmy Amazons.

Option (e) should evince most surprise and maybe cause a morale check amongst other players.
Option (f) would suggest some superhuman strength and maybe a totemic quality with both friend and foe.

Don't blame me, 'twas Plynkes who planted the seed. 

[Smokeyrone]

An American catches a fever, and thinks he is general Lee, and leads a band of grey clad natives on an uprising.

Of course, the player contrlling this force must use a general Lee accent at all times while the game is in progress.

[former user]

there are lots of options:
vehicle
tire breakdown
someone has lost the lid of the tank/oil tank
broken axle
ammunition
is wet
badly manufactured
faulty due to propellant economy by manufacturer
logistics
water is poisoned/bad
cans are lead poisoned
expedition members
are insensitive to natives (for example by collecting artefacts in a native graveyard)
unaware of jungle dangers (stick their arm in a earth hole and get bitten by snake)
clumsy in general (for example they could burn the farm/plantation while burning toilet paper in the dry season)

etc

(the examples in brackets are not fictious  )

[carlos marighela]

the examples in brackets are not fictious ...

Christ, remind me never to go on a camping holiday with you. 

[argsilverson]

unaware of jungle dangers (stick their arm in a earth hole and get bitten by snake)

unaware of jungle dangers (stick their arm in a earth hole and get bitten by  poisonous termites/scorpions) bearers horrified by the unhuman screams of the victim, scattered etc etc party should seek for medical/witchdoctor's help!
(rest is a coplete adventure by itself...)
another option is: found an aardvark and gains a good meal for the party (even termites can produce a festive meal -for the bearers at least- who enjoyed a lovely termite-kebab and  gain +1)

News arrived that war brike up somewhere in Europe. The multinational expedition breaks up in two parts (Jules Verne advise)

the examples in brackets are not fictious ...

Christ, remind me never to go on a camping holiday with you. 

[argsilverson]

And something for me:
the safari leader misplaces his spectacles and panic (he-me- can't see a thing within a distance of a foot!) . the whole party loses one turn to find 'em.

[Ignatieff]

Brilliant.  I'll swipe the lot for my forthcoming campaign.  Particularly the General Lee sketch.  Fantastic

[gloriousbattle]

Thanks guys, keep 'em comin'.

[Smokeyrone]

Brilliant.  I'll swipe the lot for my forthcoming campaign.  Particularly the General Lee sketch.  Fantastic

Great!   

I suggest watching the South Park episode "The Red Badge of Gayness" where Cartman becomes General Lee and leads a band of CSA re-enactors on an actual invasion of the North (they take them by suprise).  His General Lee Impersonation is to die for. 

and his "letter" home to the parents of his  dead soldiers is great (Kenny was the only one to get killed, LOL! so he only had to write one letter)


As for unnerving the squeamish players at your gaming table, how about an invasion of army ants, ala Charlton Heston in "Naked Jungle"?  That still creeps me out!

[Gluteus Maximus]

The expedition meets a Sangoma (witchdoctor) who tells the bearers that the white men are devils. Dice for how many bearers run away, taking their loads with them. You'll need to have a list of what each figure is carrying, so you will know what stores are lost.

They blunder into a congress of baboons. The baboons become enraged and attack. Fight a melee using the most appropriate wild animal/knife-armed human stat you have in your game system. Dice for numbers of baboons on contact.

Obelisk have a lovely set if boboons here:

http://shop.strato.de/epages/61074886.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61074886/Products/%22DAF%20100%22

[gloriousbattle]

Thanks!

[Smokeyrone]

One of the unlucky party is chosen by the chief's VERY Homley and large daughter for marraige.  (use a suitably comical  yet  horrible looking miniature figure for her)


refusal would be an insult thbat would mean the death of the entire party.

Oh, and one more thing, to prove he is worthy, he must best the tribe's champion in the "Circle of Death" and other deadly feats of strength or something.

(got the idea from an old Gilligan's Island episode with the ugly headhunter cheif's daughter, and her crush on Gillgan)

 


ANOTHER:  One of the party happens to look just like one of the tribe's gods as carved on a jungle statue, and is worshipped as such, with ensuing   effects and issues the party must now deal with (makes it more fun if the player uses his status for personal gain, and not so much for the welfare of the safari)

[gloriousbattle]

Great stuff!  Keep 'em comin'!

[Smokeyrone]

Great stuff!  Keep 'em comin'!

Really?  I've resorted to Gilligan's Island plots, and you want more?

A couple old Russian sailors, stranded on the coast after their ship wrecked during the war, don't know the Crimean War is over, and take part of the safari captive.

(from Gilligan, when the Japanese sailor in the mini sub does the same to the castaways)


A drunken British biplane aviator, named "Wrongway Feldan", promises to fly for help for the besieged safari, but when he makes it back to civilization, can't remember where exactly the safari is.

besieged, the safari finds a jungle boy, the sole survivor of a shipwreck a decade earlier, who knows of a hydrogen deposit nearby.  The party sews a ballon and condola, but the jungle boy accidently floats away on it, and since he only speaks a politically incorrect "Hollywood Tarzan" jungle dialect ("Uga Uga!"), no one knows that the safari is in peril (you need a Kurt Russell as a child figure to play the monkey boy)