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Mad D&D monster idea:
The gelatinous tesseract.
Looks and acts just like a gelatinous cube *except* it extends through the fourth dimension (time). If an adventurer is ingested then fights their way out, roll a d6 to determine which instance they emerge from. (DM needs to pre-plan the history around the monster and work out when each facet exists.)
If you don't kill the jelly you can dive back in and try for another time. But once it's dead you're stranded whenever you killed it.
@cstross
Reminds me of a sci-fi short story I read some decades ago. An architect designed a building like an unfolded tesseract, i.e. eight connected cubes. (Like you can unfold a 3d cube into six connected 2d squares.) During a kind of earthquake the building collapses into a single cube, apparently. But when people enter, all rooms are connected to each other directly!
That's what I remember.
@cstross "I am Ogthor the Barbarian! What is this place?"
"I am Esch-R-MAD-3. Drop the weapon in the name of Friend Computer!"
@cstross @futurebird Do you want Primer: The Campaign? This is how you get Primer: The Campaign. 😛
@cstross
This idea truly gells in regards to time and place events.
@cstross 6 for each 4d facet? I was going ot say 36, but it doesn't matter which way you come out of it in a particular time.
( i love it )
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