This idea was part of the 2025 game jam ideas project.
Pooper scrolls
Story setup
Guy has been having stomach pains for weeks. His doctor asks for a stool sample to run tests. When he fills the sample jar he sees some fabric peeking out of the side of the sample.
He fishes it out and there is some beautiful embroidery writing on it (old religious writing). A four line rhyme it provides an accurate description of the next 12 hours of his life.
As the story progresses we learn the rules of his new magical poop-scenario.
- The fortune is always in a series of four line rhymes. (Everyone loves things that rhyme, right?)
- The fortune only tells the future for the amount of his time between poops. Eg. If he pooped 6 hours before. The fortune will be for six hours in the future. (incentives to be constipated)
- The future can be changed if you act on your fortunes. (Future is not permanent)
- The prediction is for the person that prepared the food that the poop consist of (you can tell the fortune of other people if they cook you a meal, or your own fortune if you cook)
- The process is not enjoyable, and very painful the longer between sessions. (this might just be because you are pooping out a scroll, and being constipated isn't fun to start with)
- The separate poop scrolls seem to fit together to make a larger picture, but it looks like there are hundreds of parts (a reason to keep his poop scrolls, up on a wall, in a mad persons conspiracy style wall hanging of poop)