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It's not so much a Geekapalooza...
Jun. 28th, 2007 07:19 pmAs it is the Radin-Dushays coming down for the weekend; nevertheless I hope to get some gaming in. Here are the options I sent to the invitees for what will hopefully be an afternoon game on Saturday the 7th. In all cases one of the central characters is Bob Dushay's pulp adventurer Roger Frost - a white man raised by the inuit and now a Yale professor of anthropology, he is an expert tracker, master with the harpoon, can speak with animals and has a pet wolf, Leet.
1) Gamma World: the last time we saw Frost he was staggering away from
the crash site of Wells time machine (which had been stolen by the
Germans), lugging the unconscious body of Carrie-Ann Cross.
Unbeknownst to him, he is being observed by a group of mutated humans
and animals in the post-apocalyptic weirdness that is the Gamma World.
Continuing this without Eugene would be a pain, but the idea of Carrie
Ann being unconscious during the whole of her time in the story of the
century has a certain appeal.
2) Doris the Vampire Slayer: I just got the Buffy The Vampire Slayer
rulebook and would like to try it out. The premise would be a Slayer
operating in New Haven in 1903. There's been a string of wolf-like
killings in the area, and from the Slayer's perspective that boy just
brought back from the arctic would be the logical suspect. This would
be two 'hero' level characters in the form of the Slayer and Frost and
a pair of 'white hats' as the Slayer's watcher and either Frost's
uber-competent butler or Winslow Watkins, the anthropology
professor last seen in 1908's "First Wild West Picture Show."
3) Call of Cthulhu: if I could quickly borrow Stephen's copy of the
rules I could whip up an arctic expedition in the 1880's in which
something is found that makes events go drastically wrong. I warn you,
this is the story that gets Frosts' parents killed and orphans him
with the Inuit, so it is very much a 'And I Alone Escaped To Tell
Thee' scenario. I expect a casualty rate of 75%. On the other hand,
it's a 4 hour one shot, and there's something refreshing about going
totally crazy or leaving a really messy corpse.
I have no idea which they'll pick, but I wouldn't have suggested them if I didn't like all three. Of course, it would help if they'd get back to me so I had more than a few days to plan (hint hint).
1) Gamma World: the last time we saw Frost he was staggering away from
the crash site of Wells time machine (which had been stolen by the
Germans), lugging the unconscious body of Carrie-Ann Cross.
Unbeknownst to him, he is being observed by a group of mutated humans
and animals in the post-apocalyptic weirdness that is the Gamma World.
Continuing this without Eugene would be a pain, but the idea of Carrie
Ann being unconscious during the whole of her time in the story of the
century has a certain appeal.
2) Doris the Vampire Slayer: I just got the Buffy The Vampire Slayer
rulebook and would like to try it out. The premise would be a Slayer
operating in New Haven in 1903. There's been a string of wolf-like
killings in the area, and from the Slayer's perspective that boy just
brought back from the arctic would be the logical suspect. This would
be two 'hero' level characters in the form of the Slayer and Frost and
a pair of 'white hats' as the Slayer's watcher and either Frost's
uber-competent butler or Winslow Watkins, the anthropology
professor last seen in 1908's "First Wild West Picture Show."
3) Call of Cthulhu: if I could quickly borrow Stephen's copy of the
rules I could whip up an arctic expedition in the 1880's in which
something is found that makes events go drastically wrong. I warn you,
this is the story that gets Frosts' parents killed and orphans him
with the Inuit, so it is very much a 'And I Alone Escaped To Tell
Thee' scenario. I expect a casualty rate of 75%. On the other hand,
it's a 4 hour one shot, and there's something refreshing about going
totally crazy or leaving a really messy corpse.
I have no idea which they'll pick, but I wouldn't have suggested them if I didn't like all three. Of course, it would help if they'd get back to me so I had more than a few days to plan (hint hint).
