The older kids you learned it from really failed you in not passing down the tradition as it should be. Quicksand is an acceptable replacement, and Graboids (creatures from Tremors) is a clever variant that would give diegetic reason for allowing brief touches of the ground or fast sprints across it for short distances. But as a kid who grew up on the San Andreas fault line, I just can’t accept earthquakes.
Same! Except we had no idea what it was from because we learned the game from older kids and so we assumed it was earthquakes
Earthquakes? Eartquakes?! It’s Lava. The classic has been lava for generations. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_floor_is_lava
The older kids you learned it from really failed you in not passing down the tradition as it should be. Quicksand is an acceptable replacement, and Graboids (creatures from Tremors) is a clever variant that would give diegetic reason for allowing brief touches of the ground or fast sprints across it for short distances. But as a kid who grew up on the San Andreas fault line, I just can’t accept earthquakes.
No, we had “the floor is lava” which was for inside.
Also we had earthquakes here too
It was literally the smartest among us went “tremors is like a earthquake” and that was it