Yesterday was probably the last face-to-face roleplaying I'll get to have until sometime in 2017. Impending twins and all that. So, I wanted to go out with a bang. And we did.
The 4 hour game turned into a 2 hour game because of pizza, off-topic discussions, and character creation. Since there was only 2 players, we went all-out, despite the one-shot nature of this particular game. Below are a couple videos that capture the character creation experience that is Alpha Blue...
Steve's character, Azaxyr, was an alien pilot who needed an atmosphere suit to survive (non-oxygen breather). He was a dog-sized amphibian with a strange way of speaking, porcupine quills, hemophilia, and a Necrophilia sexual fetish. Oh yeah, he also had the power (more like a defect in the far future) of disabling any electronic device he came within a few inches of.
Patrick's character was a human pilot and bounty hunter named Gebek wielding a neon-frisbee. It's like a laser-frisbee, except neon doesn't cauterize the wounds, so you keep bleeding.
Since I don't have a chat-log that I can just look back at and retype here, I'm going to bullet-point the crap out of this actual play report.
- The space adventurers were traveling to Alpha Blue when intercepted by a Federation patrol ship who wanted them to submit to a random checkpoint search and seizure. "Fuck that," was the PC's response, naturally.
- It took awhile to destroy the Federation ship. Waterbeds were punctured on both sides of the conflict. We decided that once you take your waterbed off-world, the warranty is invalidated, and that artificial gravity is the leading cause of waterbed death.
- Once everyone was dead, the PCs went aboard and found a criminal in a similar survival suit to Azaxyr. This convict's name was Ettis, a human-sized being made of pure energy who considers the spilling of blood to be a sign of good fortune.
- The reason they were going to Alpha Blue in the first place was a new Ancient Egypt exhibit in the space station's museum - yeah, sex and drugs on Alpha Blue, but there's culture, too. Somewhere in this collection of Egyptology junk was a sarcophagus which contained hieroglyphs. When deciphered, the hieroglyphs gave coordinates to a stable wormhole (Patrick's idea).
- They got to Alpha Blue and Azaxyr disabled the space station's automated welcome wagon with a touch. This is where Azaxyr said, "I just want to watch the world burn... one small display screen at a time." The spacers continued on towards the Egyptian exhibit.
- That led them to the red hologram district where Gebek got knifed and the pair of them were propositioned by a hooker. No takers, as they had a mission to fulfill.
- The PCs entered a cross-section of the space station that was both red hologram district and party/entertainment. So, there was wall-to-wall sex, drugs, alcohol, and weirdness going on.
- They both smoked some pink crystals and enjoyed the benefits, as well as, succumbing to the dark side of alien narcotics.
- While Gebek was out of commission and propped up at a booth a la Weekend at Bernie's, watching a stripper with 5 boobs, Azaxyr took a job - kill 3 Federation officers walking around this section of Alpha Blue.
- Once Gebek woke up, there was a shoot-out. Azaxyr died in the laser fight. Ettis walked up behind the toughest Federation officer and blasted him in the back of the head.
- Luckily, Alpha Blue has one of the best medical care facilities in the galaxy. Although, Azaxyr didn't have space health insurance, so it cost him 1,400 credits to get a new pancreas, spleen, and right arm. I finally got to roll on the spare parts random table in the Alpha Blue book. Yay!
- Not only were pictures of the sarcophagus taken, but a space mummy was destroyed, and the entire sarcophagus was stolen by the PCs.
I wanted to play my CD of Heavy Metal (yeah, I still use CDs - when I can find them - I'm old) but lost it somewhere. Patrick used his phone to play the entire album. But the songs kept getting interrupted by Red Lobster ads. So, I told them that Space Lobster ads were coming over the "air waves" of the PC's starship... even though there isn't a Space Lobster within light years of here!
Anyways, it was a fun game. And the last for awhile. But I'll still run a few one-hour games via Roll20, so at least I've got that to look forward to.
BTW, Thilo reviewed Girls Gone Rogue on his Endzeitgeist website here.
Thanks for reading,
VS
p.s. Almost forgot! I'm still promoting my Trinity of Awesome kickstarter. Check it out, and tell your friends. ;)
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