Monthly Archives: June 2016

Candle Cove Redux

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so sort of a story to this one…

game fell through one week, so rallied up a Monsters& game. Matt shared his notes from the Road Trip session for Candle Cove, so ran it as a one-shot. THEN we shot the shit for about a half hour, then Max showed up and could play but turned out to only be for a few minutes, and then 10 minutes into the actual gameplay I realized I hadn’t had the players introduce themselves after all the small talk. But yes! Basically a cover album based on the Road Trip episode!

Players:
Peter and Becky: one-armed kid with an interest in drawing. lost his arm in an accident, but shortly after was found by the alien biotech prosthetic arm that attached to him to provide super strength, lasers, and wifi.
Oliver and Ankh: rich son of archeologists who unearthed Ankh, a controlling, pretentious, levitating ankh and former guardian of the child kings of ancient Egypt

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Godchilds: Monsters in Ancient Greece

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Random session with some forum buddies, in between Monster Force Zetas and other one-shots. Debut of an idea I’ve had for a while now but only just manifested itself.

Basically the players are monster kids in ancient Greece/Rome. A few happy coincidences later, and they’re seen as the prophets of what are clearly strange but powerful gods to these people, and worshiped and followed faithfully. How does a city turn out differently when there’s four children at the highest positions of power, with an emotional wreck of a sea goddess, a huge man-eating butcher, a meek maternal moth, and a wealth god who is all but made of money at their beck and call? Hilarious, that’s how!

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Ghostbusters Inc/International Session 4

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Meat the Family!
the source of the undead cow creature comes forth, and delivered with so many metaphors by the godfather of the local mob. Can they put a spectral assassin who wields meat as a weapon, all while avoiding open affiliation with a very legitimate businessman!?

Eli – Bianca, All business lady out to take over the entire Ghostbusters franchise.
Sean – Cliff, the Staten Island with a tough outer shell but a good heart
Crazon – Filmore, excitable amateur occultist. way too glad to be here
Toku- Butch, a Jersey boy who once saw a ghost, and is more interested in his getting shots for his youtube channel than actual busting

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Ghostbusters Inc/International Session 3

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the team starts gaining some popularity, scheduling some more busting, publicity, and mad science/witchcraft. little short due to a smaller cast and sleepies

 

Eli – Bianca, All business lady out to take over the entire Ghostbusters franchise.
Sean – Cliff, the Staten Island with a tough outer shell but a good heart
Crazon – Filmore, excitable amateur occultist. way too glad to be here
Toku- Butch, a Jersey boy who once saw a ghost, and is more interested in his getting shots for his youtube channel than actual busting

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Ghostbusters Inc/International Session 2

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The gang grows some fame, getting called into a slightly bigger job at the nearby middle school that’s been struck by a spectral disaster, and get to test out some new equipment

Eli – Bianca, All business lady out to take over the entire Ghostbusters franchise.
Sean – Cliff, the Staten Island with a tough outer shell but a good heart
Crazon – Filmore, excitable amateur occultist. way too glad to be here
Toku- Butch, a Jersey boy who once saw a ghost, and is more interested in his getting shots for his youtube channel than actual busting

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Ghostbusters Inc/International Session 1

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Running a campaign for Ghostbusters International, the official rpg that came out with the movie way back when and actually still holds some water. Story goes that the Ghostbusters became such a success that they sold their name to whoever wanted to set up their own HQ in other cities and work under them. Follow the adventures of the Pumpkin Center, CA branch as they set up their base, get their first call, and bust their first ghost

Eli – Bianca, All business lady out to take over the entire Ghostbusters franchise.
Sean – Cliff, the Staten Island with a tough outer shell but a good heart
Crazon – Filmore, excitable amateur occultist. way too glad to be here
Toku- Butch, a Jersey boy who once saw a ghost, and is more interested in his getting shots for his youtube channel than actual busting

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Space Cowboys One-Shot

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Run on an ORE mod for a scifi western I threw together in the spirit of Sparks Nevada Marshall on Mars, Bravestarr, and Flash Gordon style outdated scifi from the 60s. Or in RPG terms… run Deadlands in Eclipse Phase, only if Eclipse Phase was written by an 80’s cartoonist

robots are clunky and talk funny, fishbowls let you breathe in space, cyborg horses like nuts, and humans have moved to colonize Mars ever since we learned that martians possess laserite, the powerful laser fuel, but were incapable of mining it. so grab your laser lasso and six-shot blaster and head into the wild Western side of Mars’ deserts!

Party:
Otnot. (Crazon). A native Martian out to avenge the killer of his tribe. Big beef with the killer moon men, keen on tracking and sneaking around, aboard, and behind things/people.
Myra Starr. (Korok). Quick-thinking, fast-talking human. Armed for trouble and always out for a buck or someone to outwit (and then shoot, if necessary).
Doc TOR. (Eli). Tumor Operation Robot from Pluto. Capable human-fixer, but after some reprogramming himself, he decides to go on a mission to find and prove himself. He proves equally adept at taking people apart with his mighty robot fists, a laser rifle, or, this one time, with a gravity cutlass. Also, Eli tests out a voice modifier

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MaOCT: Mumble Road Trip Session X: Night of the Living Roadkill

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With the Road Trip crew receiving their last post card, it seems like that campaign’s drawing to a close. Not to object, given all the good times it’s had, but if you’ve read the book, there’s some untapped potential there. In the final stretches of the book, there are 2 pit stops presented for DM use. They’re basically the equivalent of The Frogs of War and the Grinning Man arcs of the podcast; not part of saving the world, but something crazy on the side. Realizing that the podcast wouldn’t be using it, I decided to run that part as a one-shot.

Night of the Living Road Kill takes place in the middle of a fake campaign of Road Trip, thrown together when we were bored last week and shy a few players for anything regular. I wanted to run it because of it being a bite-sized and fun scenario, and with a neat mechanic at the end for how a whacky mystery-solving chase scene would work in Monsters.

Players:
Rachel (Callum/Freepork); the third wheel of the popular girls. Secretly isn’t that popular and likes geeky things.
Dorothy (eli): Rachel’s monster, a gigantic spider with the dress and personality of a kindly old lady

Ashley (eli): kind of hyper kid way into zombie movies and bustin’ heads
Matryoshka (callum): a man-sized wooden doll within a wooden doll within etc. Represents the crone, the mother, the maiden, and the baby, each with their own personality and feuding to be the one on the outside.

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MaOCT: Mumble Road Trip Session 2

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Beheading Cool Rat, or Uncivil Engineer
Sucrose Park and Sunny Vale. The kids wind up in Cool Rat’s play prison, and don’t hesitate to raise some ruckus and make a few friends. After that, it’s off to Sunny Vale, to rob a diner, rob a mechanic, do a B&E on Zoltron and jump to a few conclusions.

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MaOCT: Mumble Road Trip Session 1

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between some spare time and the urge to run it anyway, started up our own version of Road Trip with Freepork and Librarydan

Rachel and Dorothy: the third wheel popular girl, closet geek. Dorothy is her bus-sized granny spider with knitting needle legs

Lee and Matryoshka Doll: dirty-fighting kid way into modern tech, video games, and zombies (mostly killing them). His monster is a series of wooden dolls inside eachother vying for position based on the Crone (a bully of a witch), Mother (stern and bossy figure), Maiden (singing and prancing naive girl), and Child (big-eyed baby who speaks in racist Russian)

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