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

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.

MaOCT: Mumble Road Trip Session 2

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.

MaOCT: Mumble Road Trip Session 1

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)

MaOCT – Young Monsters

a few months back, a few of us got together and started up a teen superteam game in the spirit of the Pop Music Changes Everything game (Young Justice with weird kids). Haven’t played in a long time due to schedule whackiness, but we managed to edit up some of the episodes. #1 for ya down there

Players: characters
Josh: Beatrix. a clever girl who got out of a terminal disease by learning to bind and command demons into battle
Callum: Felix “The Phoenix.” Excitably drama club kid, also saved from a terminal disease by a pact with Ra the sun god, who can turn him into a firey birdman
Claes: Emily “The Beast.” A werehyena and rebellious tough girl
Eli: Bones. Indifferent gambler, won the magical dice of The Lady herself, causing random chaos to effect his foes based on their results.
Alex: Raphael “Raspiel.” Cursed to be the antichrist, but blessed and guarded by an angel. Still a good-natured kid, despite his cultist parents.
Travis: Chloe “The Plant.” Kooky creepy girl, big on playing with movie makeup and special affects for no reason. Is slightly green due to her questionable bond to a haunted marsh and her power to talk to plants.
Sean: DM/Kenny “Creepy Crawly.” Football jock who can turn into a swarm of insects as a defense mechanism
Me: Tina “Turtle Power.” Hyper half-Asian girl trained in Inhuman martial arts by horrifically mutated radioactive turtles.
Me, take 2: Cassie “Queen Coffin.” Popular girl and former cheerleader, having to drop out to hide the fact that she’s a recently dead zombie. Will KILL you if you tell anyone!

I didn’t show up until parts 2 and 3, and Sean ran this one, so our characters don’t appear at first. There’s some mention of them early on though, though, so listed them to avoid confusion. I also couldn’t make up my mind for ages on my final character, to test ran each of them in the two sessions I was in

 

Pregame Chatter

Monsters One Shot (Part 2)

Skyler Froster – kiddevil – Lover of all things cute. Has a hidden side which comes out during food fights. Skyler is short and has brown eyes and bleached blonde hair that is cut in a shoulder length bob with straight bangs. She dresses inappropriately for her age, specifically she still dresses like she is 4 years old (She is 12).

Baskerville – Juju-Monster-Man – 4 week old hell hound found at a crossroads by Skyler. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn149/CircusFreakshow13/Hellsing/Baskerville.png

Keelut – FreePork – Inuit Exchange student who lives in Skyler’s Family’s Restaurant’s Freezer. On a spirit quest.http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110225191052/castlecrashers/images/f/f4/Screen_shot_2011-02-25_at_19.09.55.png

Clarence – 20 cubic foot monster of mouth, also has stubbly arms and legs. Loves eating cars and small furry things. Also Keelut’s “Spirit Guide”.https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/wBFTeaET_56GOGtdzGpOKGFZr9Lb4QTbLd-I5FfNnqB3CrqBJVzBWBfcN_df08poxeMHQk2_mB4m56NgNYxxzd3CxQ0aW5XcVeOglUnnAN_3yuFvyuI

Monsters One Shot

Skyler Froster – kiddevil – Lover of all things cute. Has a hidden side which comes out during food fights. Skyler is short and has brown eyes and bleached blonde hair that is cut in a shoulder length bob with straight bangs. She dresses inappropriately for her age, specifically she still dresses like she is 4 years old (She is 12).

Baskerville – Juju-Monster-Man – 4 week old hell hound found at a crossroads by Skyler. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn149/CircusFreakshow13/Hellsing/Baskerville.png

Keelut – FreePork – Inuit Exchange student who lives in Skyler’s Family’s Restaurant’s Freezer. On a spirit quest.http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110225191052/castlecrashers/images/f/f4/Screen_shot_2011-02-25_at_19.09.55.png

Clarence – 20 cubic foot monster of mouth, also has stubbly arms and legs. Loves eating cars and small furry things. Also Keelut’s “Spirit Guide”.https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/wBFTeaET_56GOGtdzGpOKGFZr9Lb4QTbLd-I5FfNnqB3CrqBJVzBWBfcN_df08poxeMHQk2_mB4m56NgNYxxzd3CxQ0aW5XcVeOglUnnAN_3yuFvyuI