One Shot plot Opinion

[Arrlong28 789]

Hi everybody!

I'm in process of preparing a One Shot Session (My Little Pony Roleplaying game by Renegade Games) and I would like to know your opinion about my one shot idea. This One shot will be played a few times and the players who liked how I play as a Game Master will be proposed to play a full Campaign designed by me.

Of course if you live in Barcelona and play in a role-playing club, please don't read!! Spoilers ahead!!

 

TITLE: Moving to Ponydorf

Spoiler

The story goes like this. The Pony Characters live and are friends in this little town called Ponydorf (Swiss style houses, lots of hills and mountains full of trees, and trains).

One of the characters is a Pony moving to Ponydorf from Las Pegasus. This Pony Character (played by one of the players) has a wagon "a la Trixie" with his or her things. He or She moved to Ponydorf to find the inherited  Mansion and live there, and has one Master Key of the Mansion  with a letter from his uncle Shinetop:

Here is the key to the mansion I built in Ponydorf, Oldhoof Mansion. Fill it with the joy that I couldn't muster when I built it.

Shinetop

The other players will notice the new arrived character to the town, and when asked by the Mansion they just have no idea that there's a Mansion in Ponydorf.

If they search for information, the teacher of the school, the Major and the old Applestrudel know about the Mansion.

They decided to not speak about the Mansion 'cause the mansion is "Haunted". So the players have to convince Applestrudel and the others to know how to get to the Oldhoof Mansion.

The road is old and is reclaimed by nature. They will arrive to a intersection of the road, with 3 options. 

A road with a rusty sign, that leads to the mansion by a slippery mountain pass and a forgotten cave.

Crossing through the woods but there's a claw mark in one tree (if they choose this option, there will be an encounter with Timberwolves).

A road with a trail of a wagon. Trixie was lost and her wagon has a broken wheel. And the road is so tiny due to the plants and branches of the trees that the characters need to find a solution.

Once the team reach the Mansion, they see a mansion (a la Casper Mansion) White, with thunderclouds on his top. The garden is now savage, full of grass and spines. The windows are so dusty that they can't looks inside. And there three options: Use the Master Key to enter the mansion, open the service door in the kitchen and or enter by the basement.

If they don't dispel the thunderclouds, they will have more difficulty inside the Mansion.

The Kitchen is clean, it's used and there's ingredients that come from the town, and there's some Muffins in the oven. Not very good muffins. And there's a service room, with a bed and some juggling tools.

The Main entrance is dark, and the lights don't turn on. The ponies characters listen Drums, Drums in the Darkness... So they have to be brave or suffer damage. If they have "interpretation" and the dice is a success, they know the source: Two big bongo's uppstairs. The drums stop.

If there's a unicorn, they can explore the mansion in the dark 'cause their horns can glow, but they will know that the lamps in the walls have light Cables that go to the basement.

Inside the big room will be scared, a Pony (older than the characters) hidden under the bed and two big bongos near the bed. She tells them that she is an Earth Pony Called Ivory Step and she lives there, alone, because she was so bullied in the past for not having a Cutie Mark that fled there. And sometimes goes to the town to steal ingredients for food.

In the basement there's the switch to give electricity to all the mansion, tools for cleaning.... but is the lair of 4 or 5 Giant Spiders. If no one can speak with animals, their leader can speak.

Depending on how they resolve those 3 problems and the order will happen different things, but at the end Ivory Step will disappear, the basement cleaned from giant Spiders and all the town will come to the mansion to see if the players are fine.

Days will pass and the Major will declare a Welcome party for the player that is moving to the mansion. Almost all the town will be there.

When the party starts, Ivory Step, possessed by the darkness that dwells in that Mansion, now an Alicorn, starts her ritual to absorb all the good mood of the town and turn them into darkness.

The ritual is called "The Chaos Conga."

All the other ponies get Hipnotized by her magic, but the characters have a few options to defeat Ivory Step:

Beat her in the trials of the Chaos Conga (playing Limbo, and other games).

Fighting tooth and hooves against her.

Convince her by any means that what she's doing is wrong. (The Major and the Teacher of Ponydorf are the ones who bullied her in school and they're very sorry for that, and they will know that at the start of the Chaos Conga).

If Ivory Step is defeated, she will turn into herself again and will hug and forgive the Major and the Teacher. The other ponies will tell her that his "Chaos Conga" was scary but fun, and at that moment Ivory Step will acquire his Cutie Mark, Two bongos and a sunset.

The party goes on, the characters saved the town and the wish of Shinetop (the Mansion filled with Joy) is fullfiled.

 

 

 

What do you think of this idea for a One shot?

 

Edited October 28 by Arrlong28

[Finding_Marty 822]

I like it. I must say I don't have much experience with roleplaying. I played D&D with some friends looong time ago... but I have a friend who has a lot of experience in that kind of games.

Basicly, I know that a good GM is the key here... but he is here! 

Next, you need a good scenerio and this one is nice. Haunted, old mansion may seem like a cliche but discovering the secret behind its story is the real deal. I would like the scenerio to be longer with more scary secrets that need to be found before we learn about the full story of the house. But probably the story will get longer over time. I hope! 

I love the plot twist with Ivory Step who is possessed by the darkness. And the ending is very MLP-like which is lovely.

Now let's hope that the players will be creative 

Edited November 4 by Finding_Marty