I run a loose 2 player game with one player local at the table and the other is an infomorph playing remotely on our TV via skype vid-chat... He spends all his time in a ride-along module carried by player 1.
What I would like to do is have a third person also remotely guest star as an advanced AI NPC and "hack" player 1's mesh. The effect in-real-life would be that, completely unannounced, a new disembodied voice begins talking in-character to the players.
I'm still unsure how to do this without tipping my hand in advance. I would really really *love* to have that hackle-raising "Who the hell?!? What the &*%! Where is that coming from!" feeling happen to my players for realsies.
Solutions I've come up with are incomplete or would raise suspicion so far.
Assets currently available:
2x free skype accounts
1x g+ account
1x laptop I GM from
1x media pc I use with the TV as my player 2 skype video (has webcam with mic attached)
1x android phone
1x android tablet
1x radio with aux cable
1x untested bluetooth audio bridge (I think it takes a bluetooth audio connection and runs it to a regular headphone plug?) Also, I don't really know where this is now since I bought it for my wife and it has since stashed somewhere.
Recommendations?
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Need help: Want creepy unknown remote voice IRL in game...
Thu, 2013-02-14 18:06
#1
thelabmonkey
Need help: Want creepy unknown remote voice IRL in game...
Sat, 2013-02-16 18:26
#2
Aggrotron
Vent
I would run Ventrillo in the background on the Media PC with Player 3 connected. Player 1 hears Player 3 through the television. I do not know how Player 2 listens to his audio, but if he is able to hear Player 3 being piped out of the Media PC into the webcam mic, I would think that would work.
Mon, 2013-02-18 07:04
#3
Shredicine
You, Sir...
You have been very crafty in your GM methods. I will try and expand my own craftiness through your aforementioned ideas.
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Mon, 2013-02-18 16:26
#4
thelabmonkey
Aggrotron wrote:I would run
This could work, yes... I'm pretty sure there's a way to do audio mixing into a virtual input that you can assign as the mic in skype... so then it would go directly. But then it would echo the skype output? It sounds... complicated and prone to error: http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/162990-possible-direct-audio-outp...
The easiest route is probably doing a second skype connection through my laptop to a second set of speakers with the bluetooth dongle... but the effect would not be nearly as spooky or surprising as a "ghost voice" on the main line.
Mon, 2013-02-18 16:32
#5
thelabmonkey
I wonder if I could use this:
I wonder if I could use this: http://roll20.net/
Then jump the guest player into the middle or, better still, as a secondary GM in some kind of stealth mode.
Wed, 2013-03-06 09:35
#6
nezumi.hebereke
This is an incredible idea!!
This is an incredible idea!! Keep us posted on how it works out.
Wed, 2013-03-06 21:15
#7
GreyBrother
Sadly, roll20 gives away new
Sadly, roll20 gives away new users, albeit not with a blaring message, but everybody sees, who is watching a game right now in the lower left corner. It doesn't do stealth.