>Gun metal grey setting.
>Eldritch abominations start to bust out of people's heads, normal weapons have no effect.
>Due to positive energy within toys, they kill abominations better than actual weapons that have negative energy.
>Soldiers start going into battle on roller skates wielding toy lightsabers.
>Or moon shoes and hulk fist.
>Or pretty much any combination of equipment that you can think of.
>Candy heals. Because why not?
How do you make a good setting from this idea?
>>47644500
You're a big doo-doo head.
>>47644652
Thanks for the bump.
>>47644500
skipping rope into combat, i'm sold
>>47644688
Yup. Ropes are whips, or shields. Or whatever.
>>47644500
It sounds like an already amusing setting. Shit, you could make a movie from this stuff, just then put a ten year as the new 'general' (who is the son of one of the soldiers he's now commanding) and try to help a bunch of stone-faced soldiers rekindle their inner children to make their new arsenal more effective.
>>47644688
>>47644816
Maybe used as an entangling weapon against these nightmares?
>Volgen nu!
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI_RKZgUUbY
>>47644500
So the greatest warriors ever are 90ies 12 year olds?
>>47644926
Why not all of the above? Some are cool (specialized) others are imaginative (versatile).
>>47644500
So I can charge into battle on a bicycle wielding that bigass nerf sword (the red one) and a shield made out of a large-ish rubbermaid container lid and some tape while shouting "Death!" at the top of my lungs?
Would the abominations march against us to a funky bass line?
>>47644926
>help a bunch of stone-faced soldiers rekindle their inner children
Dude, some of those nerf gun designs look fuckin' badass. Pretty sure you could get a bunch of soldiers to get behind carrying 'em if they work.
>toy companies become the new weapons manufacturers, swelling in power as they devise new nerf arrow calibres, specially designed water baloons, sniper slingshots, etc
I want it
>>47644500
Remeber those kids who would go "my power is to counter all your powers!" Remember all of those That Kid's? They are now wizards.
>>47645087
Nah, they're very likely just assholes.Or bully abominations if they were really bad.
Wouldn't toys eventually became associated with negative things and then charged with negative energy when they become weapons of war?
Wouldnt this mean that only toys that have been played with and genuinely enjoyed are efffective?
Would you need a playground full of kids having fun to 'recharge' your weapons?
>>47645087
>kids stopping eldritch beams of energy by shouting "nuh uh I have an alien proof shield!"
Also, lego would be pretty strong right? Imagine, lego tanks and airplanes
>>47645105
>Those kids who stuffed you in a locker are now monsters that stuff you in a locker before knocking you off a cliff.
Yes.
>>47645025
However one imagines it to work, half of the positive energy is that kids just make shit up.
who's ready to fire these from the hip at the eldritch abominations?
>>47645132
>soldiers wearing ablative lego armour
>>47645129
Probably not, because their being used against Satan and Cthuluhu. But I imagine ones that were played with and enjoyed would be stronger.
>>47645048
>mfw my tech school dorms had a closet full of nerf and water guns.
>>47644500
As long as there's hella super soakers, I'm in
>>47645048
using jacks as throwing stars and caltrops
>>47645060
>But as they become weaponized, they lose their childlike positivity. Only classic toys still remain innocent enough to work against the Menace.
>Actual collectors' items, however, prove mediocre sources of weaponry, as it is the innocent joy which suffuses a beloved toy that empowers them.
>Garage sales become the breeding ground of a new generation of black-market arms dealers, determined to snatch a bargain before the ATT agents (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Toys) arrive and appropriate them for their covert war.
>>47645060
The battle is against soulless adulthood. If toy companies became weapons giants with weapon R&D teams, they would lose all their power.
>>47645228
Well could be more of a joke setting, focus on the silliness of everything that people use.
>>47645210
buying children toys and spoiling them becomes important so to create weapons powerful enough to combat monsters, happy children more important than ever.
>>47645146
>not using a voltage-modded, stocked Vulcan with a bunch of belts linked together feeding from a backpack
I can shoot for longer than you, AND mine looks cooler.
>>47645208
>jacks as caltrops
>not legos
>ctrl-f
>vorpal
>0 results
I am disappoint.
>>47645132
Lego grenades. They have a soft explosion designed to simply scatter the legos, thereby making terrain UTTERLY IMPASSIBLE.
>>47645129
Agreed. Collectors items would become the main source of weaponry.
Oh sweet jesus, our elite troops would be hippies and new age college kids, the ones who are genuine.
>>47645210
I can imagine that soldiers are encouraged to play games and fuck around with their weapons in order to keep positive and keep weapons powered. Nerf wars and water fights are regular in camps.
>>47645311
>More kids than ever want to join the military because it's fun.
>Until they get fucked to death by a abomination.
>>47644500
But OP, all you would need to do is sprinkle the battlefield with Lego and you would have already won.
hold the fucking phone
>make fun out of hand, go "bang bang"
....the ultimate in childhood toys; imagination!
>kids run into battle completely unarmed
>in their minds they have swords, and guns and giant summoned teddy bears
>parents watch on in horror as the two lines are about to clash
>monsters die in throws as kids effectively kill them with "magic"
I want this
They have been making humans more cynical over the past few decades to weaken us. To the point where even the children are world weary, now the world depends on us regaining that childlike wonder.
>>47645348
>Monsters manage to capture some children.
>Party frees them.
>KND style Braveheart.
>>47645378
>Good parties are like nuclear strikes to aboms.Lets get awesome.
>Government employs imaginary friends as spies and secret agents,
>The soldiers must each fight their nightmares they had most as a child/what they feared most
>The range of things that scare children are so varied, no one ever knows what to expect
>One day they're fighting back giggling clowns with balloon animals, the next they're trying to fight back the dark itself with flashlights, night lights, and stuffed animals
What would you have to fight /tg/?
>stealth and camoflauge tech devolves into "if I can't see them, they can't see me"
>the ultimate defense is now covering yourself completely in your duvet or similar blanket
What would be your weapon of choice?
>cool stick master race reporting in
>>47645568
Fog. Or lightning. I'm pretty sure I'm scared most of the unknown and shit I can't dodge, like electricity and lightning.
>>47645568
My dad let me watch Aliens when I was 6.
I'm sorry everyone.
>>47645586
Pillowforts are now a thing.
>>47645625
But anon, that's fucking awesome. Always wanted to beat up a ayy with my hulk fist.
>Tfw, swinging high in the sky with spiderman gloves and screaming "HULK SMASH" when I fall on a lmao queen.
>>47645628
>literally writing "nO ALEENZ ALLOWED" on it stops it from being able to be seen by the enemy
>>47645625
My dadthat's it. He beat me when I got bad grades or didnt do my chores, and terrorized my mothernot really, but fighting your dad would be hella dark
>>47645568
Simpsons Halloween episodes, they were horrible!
>>47645656I got my fetish from those.Does that count?
>>47645666
Do not magical realm in the cool imagination happinesss thread
>>47645568
Massive birds of prey. Shit like legends and stuff where a mama falcon the size of a building has a bunch of bus sized Falcons flying behind her.
>>47645666
Please no. My worst, still don't like it, us when Homer gets the hair transfusion. It instilled in me a fear I still have, that my parents will try to hurt me. It made the Shining unwatchable (book is good because Redemption), same with the Babadook
>>47645568
Sontarans mind controlling my parents is one I remember
>>47645652
I dont think anything works differently other than how it affects the eldritch. Hulk smash would work, and silly string would be unbreakable bindings, but no swining tjrough the air.
What're those inflatable things called again? Bop'ems?
What about halloween costumes?
Do they grant the wearer the abilities of the character in question?
>>47645812
I think so, Bop'em aboms good!
>>47645812
Sock'em boppers
Also
>not wanting spiderman gloves to let you have spiderman web swinging powers
Wouldn't children basically become orks?
>>47645843
>dusk falls on a camp, the soilders gather the wounded and place them in a medical tent
>a boy of 8 in am army costume walks into the camp
"What's the problem men?"
"It's Ryan, he's hit real bad"
"Get me my equipment"
>a soilder leaves and returns with a doctor costume and some batman bandaids
>the child dons the outfit and walks over to the wounded man
>he bops him a few times in the knees with a toy reflex tester rubber hammer, slaps a bandaid on his elbow, and leaves the tent to go to bed
>it was past his bedtime after all
>the next day the man is perfectly fine again
>>47645568
My dad made me watch IT and Mist when I was 5...
I also have a huge fear ofYanderes
I'm so very sorry Anons
>>47645921
Eh, sounds a bit OP gameplay wise. Might as well keep it to candies.
>OH SHIT MY ARM'S GONE!
>QUICK, GET THIS MAN A MILKSHAKE!
>>47645921
>mother's kisses now cure all injuries.
>chicken soup now cures all diseases.
>>47645953
Not every camp will have a child on hand to magically cure every injury with hugs and bandaids. Definitely not out on the field
>>47645953
>implying we won't need every little trick in the book to fight Eldritch abominations
"There's too many boo-boos, I need more mommys"
>>47645969
>INFIRM tents are now full of busty, high-test mums giving kisses and serving chicken soup
>>47646009
No, bad magic realm!
>>47645953
Mothers join the army as Jesus-tier healers.
>Let mommy kiss it better.
Mall Santas become unstoppable killing machines, leaving battlefields bloody and full of holiday cheer.
Hollywood actors who are known for certain roles become walking gods on the battlefield.
While the ironman suit props dont make him Iron Man, the palm blasters still allow Robert Downey Jr. to decimate hordes of the eldritch.
Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack joins forces with Orlando Bloom as Legolas to perform covert ops missions.
David Tennant once more takes up his personal Sonic Screwdriver.
>>47646071
>Hugh Jackman
>literally an unstoppable killing machine
Goddamn son...
>>47646071
>Iron Man.
Then eldritch Mickey Mouse sues them. Think about it, he would be 50 50 because is the mascot of a very scary corp when you think about it, yet is a children's mascot.
>>47646071
>autographs from said actors grants powerful boons and limited copies of their skills
>>47646071
continuing my thought,
Every military has a platoon of Yo Gabba Gabba suited people.
Barney suits made of kevlar are given to sociopaths who are then airdropped in the midst of eldritch nests.
Cosplayers. 'Nuff said.
With their culture so heavily saturated with mascots, idols, and moe, Japan becomes the world's foremost defender against the Eldritch.
Disney parks stay open to help keep childhood alive, but this makes them targets as well. Disney princesses and other people in character costume are required to have elite training to fend off eldritch attacks until the military garrisoned there can take over.
>>47646156
Wouldn't psycho barneys be Eldritch stuff?
Japan is totally okay due too all chuunis everywhere suddenly being validated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVgOYew58LQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5sDJ1ipKA
>>47646191
Nah. Children see Barney as a source of goodwill and love. Eldritch are defeated by positive energy. The sociopath inside the suit doesn't care, he just knows he's a dinosaur and he's gonna eat some monsters. Footage of Barney being a great defender of love and friendship further fuels child belief in him. It's a cycle.
>>47646156
Can't eldritch buds have equivalents? Imagine someone cosplaying as Dr Doom.
>>47646264
Doom wouldn't help any pansy-ass aliens fuck up his vision for humanity.
>>47646300
Well yeah, but it's not truely Doom. It's a guy dressed up as Doom to imitate his power. Just because you have the spider man costume doesn't mean you're literally spider man. You're just a guy with his powers.
>>47645568
How do you fight a fear of abandonment?
>>47646332
I meant that acting OOC would put a dampener to powers. Therefore Doom wouldn't be dangerous to humans.
>>47645048
>Pretty sure you could get a bunch of soldiers to get behind carrying 'em if they work.
Soldier here. We're all just giant man children. We don't need an excuse to dick around with nerf swords and hulk hands
Literally any sane soldier would be an anathema to anything affected by inner child
>>47646358
Well yeah but he would still be Dr fukin Doom.
>>47645348
Children become high-priority
>teams of men in cardboard/paper armor made by their sons/daughters and armed with nerf guns, swords, and hulk hands defending children that run around screaming "Bang Bang Bang!"
At the top of their lungs
>>47645568
My dad not coming back from Iraq
>>47646389
Pretty much this. Every kid plays soldier at some point, and some of them never grow up.
This got too silly too fast.
>>47646470
IT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN!Shouldn't we talk about eldritch/boogeymen more though?
>>47646470
>Fighting Eldrict Abominations with toys
>Too silly too fast
>>47646509
I agree. I mean to be a threat they can't have proverbial kid gloves on. That means they'd have to be able to maim and kill people, which would take the wind out of any kids' sail.
If I were running the setting, I wouldn't let candy, or "mommy kisses" do anything. If a tentacled horror rips you in half, band-aids and pretty stickers aren't going to put you back together.
>>47646556
Well yeah, but by that logic toys shouldn't work either. I can see "there's no way to come back to life" working though.
>>47646264
The difference being the Eldritch assume horrifying forms. I guess if someone finds Doctor Doom terrifying?
OP's point was that the positive energy instilled in toys hurts the Eldritch. My point was that children believeing in something invests power into it. So like I said, Robert Downy Jr. doesn't become Iron Man, but the belief that he will prevail combined with his prop palm repulsors makes him powerful. In the same way, Chris Evans wouldnt become super strong, but if you gave him the Capshield the shield would be invulnerable.
The toys of those items would have power assuming you let children play with them first, but the actual props have power as symbols that children saw and believed in.
What about things like sugar rushes? Would it cause people to speed up? What about a caffeine rush?
>>47646667
>My light up shoes make me run faster!
>Well mine have red stripes on them, so I'm even FASTER
>>47646610
>children are 40K orks, forcing things to happen through belief alone
>>47646556
I'd make it like that maid anime people post; it's gaunty, high-octane kiddy fun...but at the same time dark and legit nightmare fuel.
>>47646667
Now we're confusing positive energy with "childhood fantasy becomes real." Have been really. I'm guilty of it too, won't lie.
Back to basics then, toys children have played with are weapons agaimst eldritch horrors cuz of positive energy. If I chucked my old teddy bear down one's throat it would probably explode like a nuke. Mr. Teddy had a lot of love from me and then my very young sister. I'd be sad to use him like that though.
This entire thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwrbyVaC6EU
>>47646071
>>47646787
Hmm...perhaps things like gangs or mafias got fucked pretty much instantly? They would have tons of bad karma on them.
Would squirt guns and garden hoses be kind of like flame throwers?
>>47646864
Yes. Bubble guns now trap people in bubbles too, as well as vidya controllers being able to control people if you can stick the end of the cord into them.
>>47646730
bro light up shoes beat red stripe shoes hands down
Both trumped by pic related, though
>>47646875
>vidya controllers being able to control people if you can stick the end of the cord into them.
Come to think of it, how would /v/ be? Most games would have lots of pos energy, but what about things like Hatred or Doom?
>>47646875
What about plastic army men?
>tfw all of those sets of plastic army men get full size and fight for you
>>47646953
Hmm...maybe like in toy story. Good for spying and fighting certain other minis aboms love to use...
>>47646903
Doesn't seem very cool tho, literally just painted shoes.
>>47646918
/v/ would be like a cancer that tries to drain the fun out of everythingLike it is nowbut eventually they'd see all of the good their favorite games are doing and reconnect with their inner child.
>>47647044
Agreed. Needs to have Flash shirt on too to really unlock inner speed.
>>47646970
You clever girl.
Society revolves around "the secret." Children must never know about the war or they will become depressed and stop pumping positive energy into things. To this end, policies and procedures are put in placw for designated safe spaces to escort children to when there is an Eldritch attack. Bimonthly mural paintings are comissioned, where children are encouraged to help paint. Schools commonly have walls lined with handprints that act as wards. Playgrounds have bunkers built under them. When a toy has expended all its charge it is carefully cleaned of all gore, sent back home, and cycled into the toys children play with at school.
When a person is deemed mature enough they are let in on the secret. Depending om their reaction they may be added to lists of people not allowed near children for fear they will let slip the secret. Doing so results in charges of treason.
>>47644500
>Supersoakers and other water toys have a melting effect on the demons
It's what I've always asked for and never knew it
>>47645568
Those fucking velociraptors from The Lost World.
>>47645228
Great, except toy companies are largely soulless corporate giants just out to make an easy buck because kids are easily the most retarded and easy market to exploit. Don't confuse them with your friendly old local toy shop full of hand crafted wooden toys or w/e the fuck. Toys'R'us don't give a fuck about children, they give a fuck about their parents wallets.
>>47645270
This. Like why even bother with an actual caltrop?
>>47645568
I don't know.
I can't remember what it was like to be a kid.
>>47647500
>You must fight yourself, as a middle aged balding man working a 9-5 in a cubicle
>Destroy your adulthood to rekindle the fire of childhood
>Bop-its make a kind of wave field that harms the abominations when you miss the right action
>The longer you keep playing a Bop-it without missing, the stronger this field is once you finally muck up the pattern and fail
>>47647610
I would love to have a steady 9-5 desk job instead of shitty part time work frying overpriced fast "food."
I could finally bust this baby out and have the foot flail i always wanted to utilize!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFLhFu9ZXQ
>>47647645
Agreed. As someone who has done odd houred manual labor, 9-5 cubicle job was my dream job.
>>47646519
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>>47647749
Vaguely defined boring desk job that only exists in cartoons was always what I wanted to do when I grew up.
>>47646791
Overwatch in a nutshell
>>47647645
Then you have to kill a giant Big Mac with tentacle arms. Like a Beholder but also a sandwich
>>47647810
My dad actually had that job when he worked for BellSouth. He sat in a cubicle, listened to calls made by customers, and sent in reports and files
>>47647643
>that Spartan turtle shield while the kid inside builds charge on it
>>47647664
>that crazy acrobatic with one on each ankle and twirling ribbons kartwheeling over the battlefield
>>47647810
My dream job was to go to a building, wear a suit, sit inside a cublice that i can decorate with cutouts from magazines e type on a computer.
Like, I thought you were paid to type. Just typing specific things or even non specific. The more you type, the more productive you are. So that's what I wanted to do.
I wanted a comically insane asshole boss too, preferably overweight and prone to shouting, and all the 90s office shenanigans.
>>47647610
>He throws the book at you.
>It's a giant fucking book.
>>47644948
>90ies 12 year olds
Anyone born in the 90s is at least 16 or 17.
>>47648557
1998 here. 18 came way too fast.
>>47648557
>born '91
>am 25
U wot m8?
So anything else about abominations?
>>47648665
And '99 would be 8 years younger than you.
>>47646573
>joy and imagination works to damage horrors
>joy and imagination should also heal us
Your logic is terrible bit anon. Our joys and imaginations impact horrors because of what horrors are. Just because a nerf gun could blow a horror's head off brutally doesn't mean it would do anything when you shot your friend with it.
I would totally run this with my players. I've tried D&D but they got into giggle fits after I allowed them to come up with an item that would roll on the 10,000 magical effects table once a day. I've tried champions super hero role playing system and they just made the most generic super heroes and did goofy shit all session and laughing. Tried fucking Runescape 1e and they managed to steal the prince's chariot and chase some random citizen across town with it laughing all the way.
>>47648739
Not the nerf gun no, but certainly candy. Because fuk u that's why.
>>47648744
Exalted
OR
Everyone is John
>>47648848
Candy and hugs fix everything when you're a kid
>>47646389
Also, I'm pretty damn sure every grunt would be chuffed if instead of like 60lbs of gear your patrol pack would be two nerf guns and a pack of oreos, plus a pack of Donald Duck band-aids if you're a medic...
>>47648744
Your group sounds awesome. Mine is full of serious grumpy old nerds who like to crunch numbers and powergame.
>>47650767
Jesus christ I'm just diamonds at the thought.
Twice the firepower and a tenth of the rucking asspain. My poor knees would thank me
>>47650938
Not to mention tons of mobility, what with moon shoes and roller skates.
Didnt /tg/ developed a setting like this a while ago?
>>47651079
We had this same thread about 4-5 months ago. And it was just as fun and sillymaybe BugWorld will come back now
>>47644500
>Premise is that guns are inherently bad
Man.
>>47651476
No, It's just that kid toys are more fun and "positive"
>>47651554
I'm just salty.
My childhood was pretty /k/, and a lot of people automatically associate guns with "negativity".
My guns are for play.
>>47651614
To bad, horrors don't care. Not after Trump nuked Mexico and made many of them.
>>47644500
I am pretty sure it would mean that humanity is fucked unless that shit covers toys at whole instead of individually and that positive emotions stay with them for long ass time even though soldiers are using them
Only real exceptions that I can think of are people under drugs or these madmen that love fighting to death
>>47651614
I mean, toy guns would still be ok, right?
>>47648665
At least, as in the minmum. There is no such thing as a 90s 12 y/o.
>>47651476
Actually, I bet the guns owned by true /k/ommandoes would work on the eldritch. The point is that it's based on the energy put into the weapon, so a weapon that has been lovingly cared for, or is a memento, or holds a fond memory would probably be fine.
>Jimbo, how come no matter how much berserker fury you pour into yer gun it still werks on them aliens?
>Ok, imma let you in on a sekrit, but you can't tell nobody. Every night I make sweet love to Matilda here. I rub her down with oil, and I clean out her barrel, and then I fuck her til I need to zero in her sights again.
>Thas bootiful. Homo.
>>47648657
are you me?
God damn it, /tg/, I had shit to do today...
Those terrorist bastards. I don't know how, but they came up with a way to unleash some serious shit on us. "Let them fight their nightmares" they said. So, we did. Demonic clowns, The Thing Under The Bed, the Boogieman, all that shit. Our armed forces were losing. Badly. Until a little boy named Jimmy was attacked. While everyone else was running away, young Jimmy brought up his squirt gun and shot the thing drooling, jibbering thing running at him. And when he pulled the trigger, it started to melt and scream. After a brief testing period, the US government began raiding toy stores. Nerf guns, squirt guns, and laser tag guns for the grunts. When we found out that innocence scared the monsters, the Chair Force started dropping "Barbie Doll ordinance". The Military Intelligence and special forces units started unwrapping and training Army Men and action figures, after a bunch of kids touched them and brought them to life, to preform a guerilla war against the monsters. Little boys, and girls, everywhere were required to carry water pistols or dart guns at all times. The tide turned. And little Jimmy was given a chest full of medals for his actions.
Fight our nightmares. Right. The thing about kid's nightmares is they make no goddamn sense, so of course kids toys worked on them. How many kids curled up with a toy gun at night, to keep the monsters away? I don't think I was the only one.
America might not be prepared for everything, but with the money that parents spend on their kids, we were prepared for this. Guess we're just lucky... Or maybe the American Dream is the perfect counter to out worst nightmares. Don't ask me, I'm just a grunt with a delivery to make. Those darts don't move themselves, you know?
>>47645568
Things in the shadows, hordes of bugs and spiders.
>>47645568
Tornadoes, I have never been close to one but as a kid I used to cry whenever it was raining because I tought a tornado was going to kill me
>>47646903
bazinfa!
>>47645604
>cool stick
Sticks aren't fun. What you posted is fun, that's clearly the Legendary Golden Sword of Heroes.
>>47644500
manchild escapism
>>47644500
so in other words eldritch abominations are basically dad's
>oh no you have bested me, how did you know that foam bullets are my weakness... everything...going dark.
