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This was posted by Sandy Petersen, the creator of Call of Cthulhu. It is wacky to imagine that this might (low chance, but non-zero) have happened in a Call of Cthulhu game.

https://twitter.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2018802600347328608

How would you have defeated this trap?
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>LOL its opaque you can't see

Bitch it's also thick. You can literally see a dip in the surface where they are.
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How long does whipped scream keep shape before it settles?
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I think I would have called bullshit on Sandy.

That being said: whip the cream with spears
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I would simply eat the whipped cream.
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The average American could easily consume that much whipped cream in 20 seconds or less
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Was the dungeon in candyland or something?
Saying this actually is giving me some ideas, dark fantasy but it's in candyland
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>>97496389
based fat ass
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>>97496400
>dark fantasy but it's in candyland
Blood in the Chocolate?
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>>97496379
1-4 hours at room temperature or a couple of days in the fridge, according to a quick search. Stabilizing chemicals can give it another day or two in the fridge.
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>>97496360
>no air pocket between the plate and the semisolid
What did he do, open up the trapdoor and lower himself in?
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>>97496400
A Candyland themed dungeon. That's an idea.
You'd need a silly evil dude at the end of it, and in the wrong hands it'd be too childish or fetishy, but I'm tempted to try and make it work.
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>>97496400

The infamous Mountains of Fatness
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>>97496360
Pretty sure this is from a Grimtooth book.
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>>97496360
>I'm so clever!
>I made a trap and then told the players that everything they did was wrong and didn't work!
>teehee!
>haha!
Tedious.
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>>97496360
>I also have third safer those above, but will reserve it for my personal use.
What, did he believe he was going to encounter his ingenious whipped cream trap in other games now that he shared it with the world?
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>>97496448
Start it out as searching for two missing children. Final villain is the witch that is about to eat poor little Hansel and Gretel.
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>>97496408
preferably without the inflation fetishism
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>>97496533
as obnoxious as
>I made a puzzle with a specific solution, if you don't do my precise thing it won't work even if it should.

followed by

>Why did we get nothing done today? Must have been that 5 minutes of talking you did, not the tedious hour spent on my clever puzzles
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>>97496395
Whipped cream is good.
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Fuck's sake, Sandy.

>10foot pole thwacking around until you hit something soft
>same for 10 ft ladder, but much easier to climb out
>filling with water (somehow) so the trapped PC can swim, gains an air pocket (the water will cut a passage through the whip for a second)
>pipes and bellows to blow the whip out of the hole?
>casting Mount over the hole; a fully grown horse splashes the whip out of the way, cancel the following round, trapped PC will be unhappy but alive
>as above but with an inflated tent (but requires more time) and someone "rides" the balloon down
>if high enough level, prop open a Bag of Holding and lower it with a weight attached for ballast
>crossing the streams (works for marshmallows)
>punching the GM in the face for suggesting we buy 'Gnomish Silly Straws - Extra Long' at the last town
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>>97496533
>>97496584
Ah, yes. Then everyone's favorite:

>you bypassed my bullshit no-win situation in a way that I didn't account for when suddenly something else makes things WORSE...be-because! It just does, okay?!
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A whipped cream trap was used in a certain french 3D animated show about ten years ago. Not only is Sandy a dumbass, she's not even original about it.
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>>97496617
>just waiting until whipped cream flattens back to being just cream
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>>97496574
I think that's a good starting point, but the witch is just the start and then the whole dungeon opens up.
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>>97496575
>preferably without the inflation fetishism
But that's the best part!
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>>97496688
>inflationfag
>eats slop
Pottery
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>>97496693
Would you prefer original Animation?
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>>97496662
>she
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>>97496711
>the real trap was trusting the name
I'll agree to be boiled alive now
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>>97496662
I don't remember that episode of Code LYOKO.
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>>97496389
That was probably #3.
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>>97496722
They must have upped the budget
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>>97496719
Water or Oil?
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>>97496751
Both
>oil floats on water
Anyway this thread is dead
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>>97496408
Don't know much about it but I thought it was more willy wonka
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>>97496830
>Don't know much about it but I thought it was more willy wonka
Blood in the Chocolate is a bad dungeon module for Lamentations of the Flame Princess that takes the premise of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and tries to use it for ham-fished social commentary.
As it is also a "Psycho-sexual romp" it poorly apes the fetish aspects of the whimsical confectionary factory in a manner most fetishes aren't comfortable with.
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>>97496950
What is it with Lamentations? Every module for it I've heard about seems to be some weird fetish thing, even more than demon lord
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>>97497233
Every LotFP writer had their minds blown by Dungeonland back in the day, and then never got over it.
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OK, but why whipped cream? Is there literally no other substance that would work? Like I dunno, opaque sludge, ooze, or some sort of oil. Why would a dungeon have a pit full of whipped cream?
That's retarded.
Also
>most deadly trap
>kills only one person
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>>97496360
I don't remember this Quake level.
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>>97497560
What do you want, trip wire tied to a stick that keeps demon core casing from closing?
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>>97497590
Objectively speaking, that is far more deadly. Also it isn't death by whipped cream.
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>>97497601
If we're talking specifically death by condiments, there's this infamous mishap.
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>>97496360
>whipped "cream"
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>>97496684
>>97496379
>>97496422
In a cool environment such as you'd expect in a dungeon that could take hours. In my fridge whipped cream easily lasts a week though it forms a thin crust. If sealed it takes much longer to go. This is cream I have whipped myself from a bottle of pure cream, no stabilising chemicals.

>>97496360
To defeat the trap, find traps and pits. A trap you avoid is normally a trap you have defeated, unless it existed to lead you to a bigger trap or an ambush.

If already caught, levitate the cream. Unseen servant to clean. Fireball it. Incendiary cloud.

Heat metal will give a few rounds of heat to destabilise the foam. As a foam there is a large volume change reducing to 40 to 50% of its whipped volume. The warmed liquid cream will rapidly sink to the bottom destabilising more of the foam on the way. If cast on a spear or polearm and thrust under the surface, voids formed will collapse under the cream's own weight as it's not mechanically strong. Lit torches will do the same.

Control temperature could also heat the cream by, for a minimum 6th level druid to cast the 4th level spell, 30 degrees Celsius. Assuming a cool 10 deg C starting temp which is the maximum you'd expect to keep the foam stable, that's a final temp of 40 deg. Cream foam starts to liquefy at less than 35 deg. At 40 deg the foam will completely destabilise in less than 10 minutes and will have undergone significant volume change in less than 4 minutes. The issue would be how fast the DM lets the air, which is what I assume is heated, transfer heat to the cream. Not sure people can easily float in cream.

Easier might be pouring lamp oil on the whipped cream. This should immediately destabilise the foam. I'm assuming it'd still be extremely flammable so igniting it could further melt the foam. I only had kerosene which is a bit like lamp oil. I'm not prepared to test enough of it to see if it can form a channel to let air in. Anyway burnt cream stinks worse than burnt milk.
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>>97496360
>How would you have defeated this trap?
Well, whipped cream is only about half the density of water. The whipped cream two feet down has an entire kilogram of weight compressing it, so i think at that depth it would collapse back into high fat cream and behave as a normal liquid equivalent to water. If it's magic or whipped with a lifting gas or something, then i would just tie a rope to my weapon and throw it in. My weapon is almost certainly dense enough to collapse the cream, and any that arent are polearms where i could just reach in.

All that assumes i dont have a 10ft pole or chain, which is usually default dungeoneering equipment.
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>>97497560
>>97497624
I was gonna post that a molasses trap is significantly harder to thwart and has historical precedent
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>>97496360
I like Sandy. I read some of his works and watched few videos with him on conventions. He seems like a bit of an ass, but fun to hang around.
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>>97496389
I wouldn't eat anything. I would listen to it whip and ne ne, which is what no one ever did.
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>>97498089
He's like the opposite of Tim Cain in that you like Sandy more the more you watch him.
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>>97499613
Guess I haven't seen enough of Tim Cain
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>>97496360
Can't you just swim out of this? What's more, I think realistically you don't even fall in fast enough for this trap to be effective.
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>Tonight's adventure: the GM's thinly disguised fetish
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>>97503355
Somewhat true in this case, this is clearly a case of a DM's obnoxious power fantasy of making some 200 IQ trap that none of his peasant players will get to solve because he can think up any excuse as to why any solution won't work before they die.
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>>97497877
The cruelest part of the trap? The evil wizard saved a few gold by actually filling it with store brand "lite whipped dessert topping".
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>>97498056
>Fall into the Cream of Doom
>Entire body flattens cream
>Standing at the bottom of a creamy equivalent to a sand trap
>"Throw me a rope."
>"Got no rope."
>"Guess I'll die."
I feel the cream trap is not as powerful as presented. Collapsing the cream is so easy that it'd be hard to avoid doing accidentally.
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Wouldn’t they see the hole the PC left when he fell in? It’s not like whipped cream is grain or sand
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>>97499613
What's wrong with Tim?
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>>97504835
He's an insufferable piece of shit with retarded ideas who plays the victim in about situations where it was absolutely unnecessary
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>>97504858
>t. Brian Fargo
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>>97504883
Have you actually watched any of his videos? I subscribed when he posted the first one and was ready to really like the guy and had probably unsubscribed by the third, he's a massive tool.
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>>97496688
>>97496708
Did someone say... CARNEVALE???
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>>97496395
Seems like a fairly small amount of cream for a average-sized american.
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>>97504943
>Have you actually watched any of his videos?
About 600 of them, maybe having skipped some Temple and Arcanum videos.
>I subscribed when he posted the first one and was ready to really like the guy and had probably unsubscribed by the third.
So you watched the channel introduction, the pick a topic one and bounced off when he talked about Lord of Light being his favorite novel. Okay.
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>>97496360
spider climb, levitate, summon monster, fly, gaseous form, stone shape, dimension door, teleport, passwall, contingency, shadow walk, phase door, plane shift, ethereal jaunt, reverse gravity, telekinetic sphere, astral projection, etherealness, shapechange
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>>97497590
A simple ceiling crusher would both be more effective and easier to reset, and wouldn't spoil in a matter of hours, thereby alerting everyone to its presence.
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>>97505007
We have such sights to show you...
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>>97496360
>the ropes floated on the whipped cream
What kind of rope were they using, fucking twine?
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>>97505007
Dobson wasn't into bike pumps and air tanks, not blueberries.
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>>97505027
you have dogshit taste, I can't imagine watching that idiot talk for any longer than I accidentally did
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What why whipped cream?
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>>97497624
>21 deaths
>150 injuries
It'd be of a trap and more of a session spanning disaster, akin to a flood or avalanche.
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>>97496708
>>97505185
One man's cautionary tale is somebody else's fetish.
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>>97496360
Why would the rope float on whipped cream?
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>>97508477
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>>97505021
Came here to make this post but you already made it. Good on you anon.
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>>97496453
Big Rock Candy Mountain.
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>>97508511
Because the GM was being a shitbag on purpose. I'd bet the players tried all manner of things that would realistically work just fine and he bullshit a reason it wouldn't work because he wanted his 'cool zany new trap' to get a PC kill.

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