| Outer Label | Top Envelope Contents | Bottom Envelope Contents |
| Item: Apple Pie It’s got a solid top crust, but there’s a hole in it that lets you just barely see what’s inside. If you nibble a bit of this pie, open the top envelope. If you get the pie in the face, open the bottom envelope. | Too much nutmeg! You feel a slight popping sensation in your mouth. You’d describe it as being like Pop Rocks if you weren’t playing a steampunk Victorian game. | The pie explodes in your face! You don’t take any damage, but you are knocked back several feet, and fall flat. If you were in a combat, you are out of it for this round. |
| Item: Pecan Pie Mmm – dark, gooey, and probably so sweet. If you nibble a bit of this pie, open the top envelope. If you get the pie in the face, open the bottom envelope. | Sweet, but not enough to send you through the roof. You feel just a bit more calm and relaxed. Really, that’s quite nice. | Too… much… sweet… You drift off into a contented slumber, the pie having seeped into every pore. For the next two minutes, you cannot be roused. |
| Item: Mince Pie The kind of thing you’ll definitely like, if you like that kind of thing. If you nibble a bit of this pie, open the top envelope. If you get the pie in the face, open the bottom envelope. | It’s that English thing – you feel almost regal. | That was The Regal Pie of High Command! For the next two minutes, you may command anyone near you, and they must obey. (Show them this card.) However, you mostly want to command them to grovel and scrape – practical affairs are simply beneath you for the moment. |
| Item: Chicken Pie Rich and savory – delicious heated over the campfire. If you nibble a bit of this pie, open the top envelope. If you get the pie in the face, open the bottom envelope. | Smooth, creamy sauce, with just the right amount of spice to bring out the flavor of the meat. Yum! Would be better hot, though. | It’s – well, it’s smooth and creamy. You don’t feel any dramatic effects, but it does make a nice gentle facial emollient. Pity that it’s all over your clothes. |
| Item: Lemon Meringue Pie Tart! (No, not you, the pie.) If you nibble a bit of this pie, open the top envelope. If you get the pie in the face, open the bottom envelope. | It’s a little more tart than you would usually go for, but that does wake you up. | Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy! Something about the combination of the lemon and meringue has made you uncontrollably enthusiastic about everything around you! This effect will last for five minutes. |
| Item: Chocolate Cream Pie The ultimate deadly sin, but what a way to go! If you nibble a bit of this pie, open the top envelope. If you get the pie in the face, open the bottom envelope. | It’s perfection in a pie shell! Mmmm – if you could just keep eating this forever… | That was The Unified Pie of Infinite Potential! You can see it – all of it. How to invent anything, how to cure all disease, how to solve the world’s problems and make everyone happy. And all it would take is – no, now it’s gone. Damn buggy pies… |
Characters In Game: Marie
All Characters: Marie
To Do:
We should come up with more kinds of available pie.
Build the actual pie tins.
The following were notes made while this was in development. They do not necessarily represent the final state of the thing.
The Circus Cook is locked up, but he had made a substantial number of Pies before then. Marie currently has them under lock and key. This certainly includes at least [Calming Pie]. Note that someone under the influence of Calming Pie cannot get worked up about anything for the next, say, three minutes. What else? Sleeping pie; Alert pie; Truth pie; etc.
Darker: A note: many of the pies may be experimental. We've seen that he tinkers with recipes for a while to get them right.
Darker: Pie notions: exploding pie, demon-horse-killing pie, flying pie, purpleface pie, lucky pie, memory pie, amnesia pie, angry pie, enthusiasm pie, gentle facial emollient pie, boomerang pie, sevenfold pie, rainmaker pie, the regal pie of high command, and a very early, very buggy attempt at the Unified Pie of Infinite Potential.
The problem, however, is that Marie doesn't actually know what most of the pies are. She's probably sussed out one of 4-6 flavors. She's sure that the rest probably do something, but she doesn't know what. So she has a low-level plot of figuring out what all of these pies do. She has the whole collection in her cabin.
Darker: Someone else really ought to know that they're there, so that there's the potential for them to be stolen and misused.
We'll need a Pie mechanic. Probably each pie has three "levels" -- what happens when you have a nibble, a slice, and get hit in the face. These are the slight, moderate and extreme versions of the effect of the pie. We probably want to use labeled envelopes to keep the effects secret until someone actually eats the appropriate amount. (Or has it thrown at them.)
Darker: ...do the pies actually do anything when eaten? My (admittedly very vague) impression was that they had to be...er... applied. Though I suppose having the nibble-mechanic means that experimentation is possible without chewing up GM time. Thought: instead of "nibble, slice, face", have "appearance, taste, face" - subtle details of the description could be the first clues to what's what.
Darker: Dammit, now I want pie.
We won't actually have physical pies -- too much danger of serious uncontrolled mess. We'll use empty pie tins, I think.