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:And it ''still'' gets worse. Any of the Exalts in service to the dead Primordial assholes who goes rogue will build up Resonance, that provides a good chance of tainting Creation's essence and possibly wiping out a village in a [[Walking Wasteland|massive necrotic pulse]] (and which adds a fair dose of [[Being Good Sucks]]). The ones in service to the imprisoned Primordial assholes eventually have to pull off arbitrary acts of villainy to appease their rather cranky patrons. One of the 13 evil undead demigods might well be the soul of the [[Complete Monster|very worst]] of the First Age Solars. The private buttmonkeys of the surviving Primordial assholes are turning themselves into ''more'' Primordial assholes. Oh, and that MIA woman who saved the world with the ultimate superweapon? {{spoiler|She's married to the nastiest of said Primordial assholes, who has hatched a particularly unpleasant plan to dick over the entire world with her help. They still control said superweapon.}} Now all we need to do is give the Unconquered Sun a bad reaction to his Celestial Crack so he has to go on life support, and we've ''got'' 40K.
:And it ''still'' gets worse. Any of the Exalts in service to the dead Primordial assholes who goes rogue will build up Resonance, that provides a good chance of tainting Creation's essence and possibly wiping out a village in a [[Walking Wasteland|massive necrotic pulse]] (and which adds a fair dose of [[Being Good Sucks]]). The ones in service to the imprisoned Primordial assholes eventually have to pull off arbitrary acts of villainy to appease their rather cranky patrons. One of the 13 evil undead demigods might well be the soul of the [[Complete Monster|very worst]] of the First Age Solars. The private buttmonkeys of the surviving Primordial assholes are turning themselves into ''more'' Primordial assholes. Oh, and that MIA woman who saved the world with the ultimate superweapon? {{spoiler|She's married to the nastiest of said Primordial assholes, who has hatched a particularly unpleasant plan to dick over the entire world with her help. They still control said superweapon.}} Now all we need to do is give the Unconquered Sun a bad reaction to his Celestial Crack so he has to go on life support, and we've ''got'' 40K.
* The origin of the monster Grond in ''Champion'' is pretty much this. While in prison, a criminal volunteers for medical experiments. But one night, they inject him with the wrong stuff. He pitches a fit, the guards throw him into a shelf of chemicals, which enter his bloodstream through cuts from all the glass. He escapes the prison, falls into a heavily polluted river, and gets struck by lightning. And they think radiation was involved too. Bloody hell. Now all they need to do is add magic and we have pretty much the entire list from [[How to Give A Character Super Powers]].
* The origin of the monster Grond in ''Champion'' is pretty much this. While in prison, a criminal volunteers for medical experiments. But one night, they inject him with the wrong stuff. He pitches a fit, the guards throw him into a shelf of chemicals, which enter his bloodstream through cuts from all the glass. He escapes the prison, falls into a heavily polluted river, and gets struck by lightning. And they think radiation was involved too. Bloody hell. Now all they need to do is add magic and we have pretty much the entire list from [[How to Give A Character Super Powers]].
* While ''[[Paranoia]]'' is always a [[Crapsack World]], individual missions start by describing some specific looming disaster and end by blaming the PCs -- sometimes quite rightly, sometimes not, for failing to stop it, or even helping to bring it about.
* While ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' is always a [[Crapsack World]], individual missions start by describing some specific looming disaster and end by blaming the PCs -- sometimes quite rightly, sometimes not, for failing to stop it, or even helping to bring it about.
** And then [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies|rocks fall and everybody dies.]] Seven times.
** And then [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies|rocks fall and everybody dies.]] Seven times.
* The board game ''[[Arkham Horror]]'' has Mythos cards which might as well be called "It Got Worse" cards. Drawn at the start of a turn, they open new dimensional gates, release new monsters, move the monsters around the board, and count down remaining time until [[Eldritch Abomination|the Ancient One]] awakens and [[The End of the World as We Know It|eats the world]].
* The board game ''[[Arkham Horror]]'' has Mythos cards which might as well be called "It Got Worse" cards. Drawn at the start of a turn, they open new dimensional gates, release new monsters, move the monsters around the board, and count down remaining time until [[Eldritch Abomination|the Ancient One]] awakens and [[The End of the World as We Know It|eats the world]].
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