101 fun things to find in a Sci Fi cargo crate

[FreddyNoNose]

362) A box containing 202 fun things.

[Bohandas]

362.) Bottled farts
363.) Light-absorbing diodes
364.) Charger cables
365.) alien happy-face stickers
366.) Bags of liposuctioned fat
367.) Alien lingerie
368.) Happy Fun Ball^TM
369.) An old fax machine

[JAL_1138]

370: A dozen live sugar-gliders.
371: Twenty coffee plants, just barely sprouted out of the potting soil. Fifteen coffea arabica plants and five coffea canephora (robusta) plants.

[Bohandas]

372.) The kind of chimes that are played in the beginning of the Futurama theme
373.) Bottles of Pepto-Bismol
374.) The Energizer Bunny
375.) finger splints

[Max_Killjoy]

368.) Happy Fun Ball^TM

Warning -- do not taunt.

[JAL_1138]

376: The entirety of the galactic government's tax code, code of regulations, and statutes. On paper. In print that would be extremely small for microfiche, so it can fit in one crate instead of in six very large libraries.

[Bohandas]

377.) VHS copies of the Jetsons movie

[braveheart]

378: Hydroflasks
379: expensive alien booze that is dihydrogenoxide based as apposed to alcohol
380: "nothing that you can perceive" (actually nothing and paranoia)
381: Puppies =)
382: dead puppies =(

[JAL_1138]

383: A small, terrier-sized dog with a curled tail...wearing a Soviet spacesuit. (Bonus points if Earth doesn't exist in the setting.)

[Bohandas]

384.) Tiny toy shipping crates for use in dollhouses
385.) Colt 45 malt liquor
386.) Billy Dee Williams
387.) Slurmb

[anotherthumb]

388. Swearing in Mandarin for Dummies

[Bohandas]

389.) Liquid Schwartz
390.) A Gadgetron Omniwrench

[Bohandas]

391) "Cinna Bars" A flavored granola product containing 100% of the daily mercury intake recommended by traditional eastern healing practitioners.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

392. Elves.
393. The inside of the crate is painted. The paint is still wet, and there isn't a brush in sight.
394. A fully stocked bar, music playing and everything. The crate is sound proof and much bigger on the inside.
395. Candy bars.
396. Data disks topped up with millions upon millions of microscopy pictures of cells.
397. Money for nothing, and chicks for free.
398. This time it's really nothing. Honest.
399. A nail.
400. A nail, the kind that is creepy alone in a crate because it supposedly used to grow on a finger.
401. A toolkit with several screwdrivers and a whole lot of screws. And one little note saying "Screw you!"
402. Rabbits.
403. Rabbits, with a strange cough.
404. Large power cells, top of the line.
405. Three hoverboards (the real, futuristic kind) and a recharging station.
406. An inventory list of the last crate you opened.
407. A singing ghost.
408. The complete adventures of the all guardsmen party.
409. A light military trike.
410. A beach buggy.
411. A beached bug. And it's rotting.
412. Crates all the way down.

[Deliverance]

413. Two crates of the same size as the containing crate and a pamphlet on the practical uses of the Axiom of Choice
414. An aleph-zero infinite set of drawers containing nothing but socks and containing at least one sock in each drawer
415. A complete solution to Hilbert's 23-points program
416. The skull of Kurt Gödel - no matter from which angle you look at it, it always looks incomplete, but in different ways depending on angle
417. 101 Dalmatians

[Lvl 2 Expert]

418. A small village of space-gnomes. Or spaced-mogwai, or tribbles.

[Spore]

419. Quantum-compressed tribbles food. Enough to sustain approx. 2^16 units.

[Bohandas]

420.) Bales and bales of hemp
421.) DVDs of a direct to video movie starring Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson and directed by Roman Polanski
422.) lightsaber letter openers

[goto124]

423) Lightsaber shavers.

[DavidSh]

424) Spools of nichrome wire.

425) A dozen plush alligators, labelled "Uinslo".

426) A gross of Fruity Oaty Bars.

427) Bags of loose-leaf green tea.

[John Campbell]

428) A cargo manifest lying in the bottom of an otherwise-empty crate. On close examination, it lists several other crates with extremely valuable contents. On closer examination, it turns out to be for the previous ship the crate was on.

429) A one-ton cube of vat-grown undifferentiated chicken meat. Possibly including the vat.

430) Elvis, JFK, or other famous presumed-dead 20th-century Terran, in cryogenic stasis, looking some years younger than their last public appearance.

431) Thousands of rounds of ammunition, that doesn't fit any weapon the PCs have access to.

432) Thousands of 1cm steel ball bearings.

433) Hundreds of bat'leths. On close examination, they're made out of chrome-painted plastic, and even more useless in combat than a metal bat'leth.

434) A hundred used copies of the AD&D Deities and Demigods. On close examination, they're all the original edition, with the Cthulhu and Melnibonéan pantheons.

[Mutazoia]

435)

[John Campbell]

436) A dozen steel tanks, filled with (1d6):
1 - Helium.
2 - Half of a binary epoxy. The other half might be in a different crate?
3 - Half of a binary explosive. Ditto.
4 - Oxygen. The tanks are heavily marked with warning labels in the script of an alien race to whom it's highly toxic.
5 - Chlorine trifluoride.
6 - Roll again, rerolling any further 6es. The tanks are marked appropriate to the result, but they're empties.

[Max_Killjoy]

436)
5 - Chlorine trifluoride.

Freaking nightmare fuel, that stuff is.

[John Campbell]

Freaking nightmare fuel, that stuff is.

Nah, it's nightmare oxidizer. The nightmare fuel is pretty much anything else it comes in contact with.


437) Bubble wrap. Oh, there's probably something else in there, too, but the bubble wrap is the fun part.

438) Styrofoam packing peanuts. Nothing else, but the crate is big enough and there are so many packing peanuts that it's difficult to be certain that there isn't something small lost in all the peanuts.

439) Actual peanuts.

[ijon]

440. a grapple gun that also doubles as a tape measure
441. 1000 socks covered with dryer lint, none of which match
442. a soulsphere
443. 50 chainsaws, with delivery notes on the side indicating it was supposed to be sent to a completely different planet
444. a tiny microphone+transmitter, still recording
445. as much salted fish as one can cram into the box
446. a set of jetpacks that require an exotic fuel source (may or may not be included in the crate)
447. a shipment of 12 foot metal poles
448. a goo-spraying gun, which solidifies and becomes as hard as concrete within seconds
449. a solvent for the concrete goo

[Mutazoia]

450) 5,683 pregnant tribbles, all about to give birth.
451) A postcard size sheet of material, with strange alien writing. Takes 6 months to translate. Reads: How do you keep a moron busy for 6 months?

[Excession]

452. Guns. Lots of guns.
453. Gun. Just the one, but it fills the entire crate.

[goto124]

453a) A crate-shaped gun.

453b) The crate IS the gun.

[John Campbell]

454) Magnetic monopoles.

455) One end of an ansible.

456) Hundreds of data chips, each containing a petabyte of encryption-grade random numbers. One of them, by pure happenstance, contains the complete works of William Shakespeare, encoded in EBCDIC, starting about four terabytes in.