/tikilounge/ - So, I'm basically doing a traditional roleplaying game that essentially puts the players in the shoes of a Scooby-Doo like mystery solving gang, and I'm brainstorming ideas. I want to do a Hawaiian/tiki themed scenario, but I'd like to do something that ha

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Mahu 02/15/2015 (Sun) 18:42:30 No. 378

So, I'm basically doing a traditional roleplaying game that essentially puts the players in the shoes of a Scooby-Doo like mystery solving gang, and I'm brainstorming ideas. I want to do a Hawaiian/tiki themed scenario, but I'd like to do something that hasn't really been done before. Was thinking of using an expy of that abandoned tiki park as the setting (so it might be more of a "modern" thing unless I put in a genuine cursed tiki that summons Night Marchers or something).

Were there any tiki-related urban legends or seedy rumors? I'm trying to think of something that hasn't been done before.

BIG KAHUNA 02/15/2015 (Sun) 19:03:13 No. 380

I got a book named "Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Gods" :^)
It's online as well, luckily

http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/

I recall this story about a cannibal Shark-Man:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog13.htm

I don't think a sharkman that has a mouth filled with teeth on his back has been done before :^)

This is my favorite story from that book:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/hlog/hlog12.htm
But I'm not sure if this story would fit what you're going for

I also have plenty of other books on Polynesian mythology, but I can't really recall reading anything that would fit in a scooby-doo-esque story. I'll try to plow through the annotations I made in em to see if I can find anything useful.

Adolos are pretty interesting too, but they are shadow creatures in Kwaio mythology. And Kwaio are Melanesian and not Polynesian, so they might not fit the tiki theme.

Hope that helps (^:

Mahu 02/15/2015 (Sun) 19:09:21 No. 381

>>380
nice. i'll have to give this a look-through, thanks

BIG KAHUNA 02/15/2015 (Sun) 19:10:10 No. 382

Another nice idea might be ghosts of cannibals.
Fiji had some very gruesome cannibals, Ratu Udre Udre for example!
He got the world record for eating the most people :^)
He ate between 872 and 999 people.

Or the prophet Ndungumoy, who mixed Christianity with local beliefs and made the Tuka cult (cult of immortality).
The missionaries and colonialists were able to stop cannibalism in Fiji for 4 years until Ndungumoy showed up with his cult and revived it again, in all its gruesome splendor. :^)

Mite b kewl

BIG KAHUNA 02/15/2015 (Sun) 19:11:50 No. 383

>>381
you're welcome :^)

Mahu 02/16/2015 (Mon) 00:12:25 No. 398

like, a video game? or a tabletop roleplaying game?

Mahu 02/16/2015 (Mon) 12:36:26 No. 415

>>398
A tabletop game, over IRC. I'm planning on using a super rules-lite system for it and seeing where it goes from there

Mahu 02/16/2015 (Mon) 19:42:37 No. 426

A recurring element in Oceanic mythology are shapeshifters. A wereshark or werebird following Oceanic rather than Western rules and characteristics could be a nice surprise for your players.

Menehune and their mythic buildings could make for a small dungeoncrawl, and you could throw in a lot of related crackpot theories like that of the continent Mu.

Nanakia (woman-stealing jungle goblins) and Tutumaiaro (ugly gnomes who beachcomb and haul treasure with nets at night) are also too weird to ignore.

If you want to play with Tikis, you could play around with Porotai - double-faced stone spirits who can turn invisible.

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