Face the Wheel

[Agnieszka]

The New York University Sci-Fi club is doing a kind of re-enactment of Barter Town, and I am in charge of making The Wheel. Though I doubt any deals will actually be broken, it'll be a nice addition to the atmosphere to have it. The problem is that I'm not sure of what all the options were on The Wheel. Can anyone help me out?

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[HUMVEE Driver]

In Reply to: Face the Wheel posted by Agnieszka on February 16, 2000 at 15:16:55:


Some of the "options" were: Gulag, Hard Labor, Freedom, Death, Aunty's Choice, Forfeit Goods, and Banishment. I'm not sure about 'Bashnishment', but I know I saw the others. Good Luck!

: The New York University Sci-Fi club is doing a kind of re-enactment of Barter Town, and I am in charge of making The Wheel. Though I doubt any deals will actually be broken, it'll be a nice addition to the atmosphere to have it. The problem is that I'm not sure of what all the options were on The Wheel. Can anyone help me out?

[JtB]

In Reply to: Re: Face the Wheel posted by HUMVEE Driver on February 16, 2000 at 15:24:37:


: Some of the "options" were: Gulag, Hard Labor, Freedom, Death, Aunty's Choice, Forfeit Goods, and Banishment. I'm not sure about 'Bashnishment', but I know I saw the others. Good Luck!

: : The New York University Sci-Fi club is doing a kind of re-enactment of Barter Town, and I am in charge of making The Wheel. Though I doubt any deals will actually be broken, it'll be a nice addition to the atmosphere to have it. The problem is that I'm not sure of what all the options were on The Wheel. Can anyone help me out?

I thought Gulag was banishment...?

[Big Bopper]

In Reply to: Re: Face the Wheel posted by JtB on February 16, 2000 at 23:38:03:


Amputation (spell check!) was another

[HUMVEE Driver]

In Reply to: Re: Face the Wheel posted by JtB on February 16, 2000 at 23:38:03:


: : Some of the "options" were: Gulag, Hard Labor, Freedom, Death, Aunty's Choice, Forfeit Goods, and Banishment. I'm not sure about 'Bashnishment', but I know I saw the others. Good Luck!

: : : The New York University Sci-Fi club is doing a kind of re-enactment of Barter Town, and I am in charge of making The Wheel. Though I doubt any deals will actually be broken, it'll be a nice addition to the atmosphere to have it. The problem is that I'm not sure of what all the options were on The Wheel. Can anyone help me out?

: I thought Gulag was banishment...?

Gulag was a death sentence by sending you into the desert to die. Banishment was just making you leave Bartertown forever.

[Slattung]

In Reply to: Face the Wheel posted by Agnieszka on February 16, 2000 at 15:16:55:


one was spin again I think.

[ZHP]

In Reply to: Face the Wheel posted by Agnieszka on February 16, 2000 at 15:16:55:


I pretty sure there's a fairly good shot of it in the movie, where you can see all the options. You might want to watch it with your finger on the pause button.

[Bloke with bumless leather pants]

In Reply to: Re: Face the Wheel posted by Slattung on February 17, 2000 at 11:08:10:


: one was spin again I think.

Im pretty sure i saw "bankrupt" , "freespin" and "$1200".....ooops Ive been watching too much wheel of fortune

[Mad Maxwell]

In Reply to: Face the Wheel posted by Agnieszka on February 16, 2000 at 15:16:55:


: The New York University Sci-Fi club is doing a kind of re-enactment of Barter Town, and I am in charge of making The Wheel. Though I doubt any deals will actually be broken, it'll be a nice addition to the atmosphere to have it. The problem is that I'm not sure of what all the options were on The Wheel. Can anyone help me out?

Here's a consenses on the choices, although it looks like there are too many:

gulag, amputation, forfeit goods, auntie's choice, spin again, underworld, hard labour, banishment, death, freedom.

-Evan

[Tom]

In Reply to: Re: Face the Wheel posted by HUMVEE Driver on February 17, 2000 at 10:41:15:


: : I thought Gulag was banishment...?

: Gulag was a death sentence by sending you into the desert to die. Banishment was just making you leave Bartertown forever.

This discussion got me wondering what the word "gulag" really meant. Until this point I thought it was a word made up for the movie, but I decided to actually look it up in my "Webster's College Dictionary." Here's what it said:

gulag, n (sometimes cap.) 1. the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union. 2. a Soviet forced-labor camp. 3. any prison or detention camp, esp. for political prisoners. [1970-75]

Obviously this doesn't quite mesh with what we saw in the movie, so maybe they did just make it up and coincidentally it happed to really be a word.

Tom