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Beautiful man, just beautiful! That is going to be a
fun game!
Jy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:04
PM
Subject: [HOE] Preparing a new
Marshal...
So, I ran some Demo Games for our new Marshal, to make sure
he's got the rules down pat.
I sent him into the "City of Tits...
Washington." (Yes, I read far too much Penny Arcade) three times with three
different characters (His NPC and Dues Ex Machina for our campaign, the
Librarian Archtype, and the Veteran Confederate Soldier
Archtype.).
First is his NPC, who enters the warehouse district of Tits
after getting through the Maelstrom, and hit "Luigi's You-Store-It" for the
first place to salvage. After finding the Master Key attached to the
Register Key, he opened one of the cargo containers. Pulling a card to
determine what was in it, I pulled the Black Joker. It was full of dead
bodies, some still moving. Chinese Illegal Immigrant Walkin' Dead.
"BLAINS!" After critically failing his Guts and Two Quickness Rolls,
they ate him alive. As I needed to have him alive for the campaign (And
didn't want to kill the NPC that's going to be with our group, and thus piss
off the GM!), I had him wake up in Junkyard from "A horrible nightmare", look
down under the sheets, and see lots of teeth marks.
Next up, the
Librarian! Critical Failure on the Spirit Check to get through the
Maelstrom (And I rolled a 3. Go figure.), and she comes through with a
mutation, "Glows in the dark". She's in the Suburbs. She finds a
house that's pretty OK looking, with a sports car in the driveway.
Warily, she goes around, checking the building, and finding the inside of the
house filled with graffiti. Moving around the back, she finds a swing
set and a gazebo. She then checks the car from the back, which is a
Hellstromme Industries DeLorian, which has one of the most advanced electronic
systems around. (Hense not being stolen.). Cognition check, and
she realizes that the gazebo was closer to the fence the last time she looked,
and now it's in the middle of the yard. Getting ready to run, the Gazebo
rises up, and reaches for her, where the player promptly goes bust on the Guts
roll. Heart attack, fails both Vigor Rolls, and dies.
Third up,
Soldier. Through the Maelstrom again. This time, into an abandoned
lot. Even the S-Mart had closed down, and was stripped of
everything. Including the Lightbulbs. Venturing forth, going over
the track, he realized that he was now on the wrong side of the tracks.
Ghetto territory! After having a skeleton fall all over itself trying to
panhandle from him, he saw a group of Walkin' Dead march out of a bar,
drunkenly, and go into the hotel that was connected to it. He decided to
camp out in the S-Mart, and leave. Quickly. Taking three wounds to
the Guts from Maelstrom Damage.
What did he learn? "Wow, Spirit
isn't the Dump Stat I took it for!" :-P
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