Friday 1st June 2018.
First slot was my Firefly game No Power in the ‘verse with me dressed as the character Badger. Seven players so we had the full crew except Simon and River. They were a little shocked at seeing Badger on their ship armed with a comic book about the survey ship Far Horizon.
Me GMing dressed as Badger. Photo by Tom Zunder
A heist caper ensued with the crew upsetting the 47 Tong Gang as well as the Oryx Private Military Group. A high-profile prisoner released, an auctioneer’s heart broken violently, torture, double-switch, and the revelation of secrets best kept hidden. Lots of laughs, alternative ways of solving problems, and consequences quashed. A great game. Photo below of the players with their character sheets.
The players from my Firefly game.
The second slot in the afternoon was my Supernatural/Grimm/Sleepy Hollow game Headless in Rapid City. I only had three players for this game and I was considering pulling it. The players were keen to play and, boy, were they keen. We had Sam and Dean Winchester with Icihbod Crane stuck into a deep mystery in Rapid City. They were responding to news reports about a biker gang decapitated during a police shoot out, with additional news about strange lightning strikes, escaped tigers, stolen swords from museums, and sudden violence on the streets of Rapid City.
The players lapped up all the handouts and were demanding more and more; I provided ample more with dodgy characters to boot too. It got to the stage where they wanted to stick them all on the wall like a ‘murder board’ in a detective TV show with string attached to the different people and locations. The players noticed the patterns and additional clues within the handouts and then were making intuitive leaps about the mystery as it unfolded.
Great moments in play and the players captured the characters perfectly in their portrayals. The chap playing Ichibod wasn’t at all familiar with the TV show but played him impeccably. An intense yet fun game with the plot taken in huge chunks.
I could kick myself for not taking a photo of this great group of players.
Slot 3 in the evening was my Tales from the Loop game Atomic Butterflies and Feral Buddleia. I had six players who were interested in the Tales from the Loop game but none had never played it as yet. For one of the players it was her first time playing a role playing game. No pressure then.
So I started with the ‘Principles of the Loop’ and began char-gen.
We had a Bookworm, Elizabeth Bellmount, armed with her signed copy of ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’, Timothy Lansden, a Computer Geek with his trusty Commodore 64, Tiffany Bell, a PopularKid with her diary of secrets, Alexandra Bell, a Victorian dressed Weirdo with her drawing pad, William ‘Billy’ Carter, a Hick with his faithful German Shepherd called Joey, and finally Walcot Preston, a Troublemaker with his fags and lighter.
Their Hideout was the Stocker Flats Farm old barn with power for the computer, broken machinery, piles of old books, an oil drum fire, a vanity table, fairy lights in the rafters, and lots of dog-torn soft furnishings.
These troubled young teenagers were living life in Derby in 1984 within the boundary of the MoD’s Loop. Escaping the humdrum of home life they grouped together to play in the summer sunshine. Playing in ‘the Meadow’ they discovered the absence of the birdsong and the missing hum of the insects and started investigating straight away. Discovering strange tracks and the scattered bones of small animals and birds they ventured into the ‘Dark Wood’. Contending with the school bullies acting suspiciously, an ethereal Lepidopterist, butterflies zipping away, a dodgy man approaching them inappropriately, a cute little robot, scary abandoned buildings, and the popular, clever, pretty, sporty, strange, troublemaker Lola.
Of course the adventure ends with several of the Kids exercising their pyromaniacal tendencies in a spectacular fashion and a careless disregard for characters suffering seizures.
Another great game driven by some fantastic players and I believe that the ‘newbie’ enjoyed herself and wasn’t put off from this weird little hobby of ours. There was lots of laughter throughout.
The photo below is of the group at the table watching the dice cast.
The players from my Tales from the Loop game.
I returned home on the last train filled with the after glow of happy games and players.
More to follow about Saturday at UK Games Expo.
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#Supernatural
#Grimm
#SleepyHollow
#Cortex+
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