Play Report Thread
Mar 9, 2013 10:24:16 GMT -8
Post by kaitoujuliet on Mar 9, 2013 10:24:16 GMT -8
I thought it would be fun to have a thread where people can just post game writeups for the entertainment and edification of readers. I thought about tacking this onto Jimto's game report thread, but wasn't sure about the etiquette of that, so I'm just starting a new one. I encourage other people to tack onto it.
I'll start with the game I ran at Winter War last January, which I've been very remiss in not posting earlier. The group chose the Gencon playset, but we made a commitment early on to play it to the hilt. So here's what we came up with...
Joe Dirk, security guard
Jenny Burgh (AthenasFire), attendee
Rupert von Hindenburg (H8m0ng3r), attendee
Mr. Deng, attendee
Rupert and Joe Dirk both owe a lot of money to Mr. Deng. Dirk comes up with the idea of trying to catch Deng doing something illegal on tape and turn it over to the cops, to get him off their backs. He thinks he can pressure Jenny, whom he caught selling pot to finance her GenCon weekend a couple of years ago, into helping with the entrapment plan. What he doesn't know is that Jenny has just signed on with Mr. Deng herself, agreeing to resell some bootleg DVDs in exchange for being able to keep her share of the profits. She goes straight to Deng and tells him about Dirk's plan. This is later backed up by Rupert.
Meanwhile, Jenny and Rupert have struck up a friendship, not realizing that they are bitter internet enemies on a gaming forum. (Jenny is a Forgeite indie-game player, while Rupert is a Warhammer 40K enthusiast.) They discover a briefcase containing $10,000 in one-dollar bills. They decide to split the money and not tell anyone about it. Rupert uses part of his half to pay off his debt to Deng and then offers him the rest to arrange for something bad to happen to "AthenasFire." Deng traces the username, finds out that it's Jenny, and tells Rupert her real name.
Deng leans on Dirk while setting out miniatures for a wargame, making some thinly veiled threats against not only him, but his mother. Realizing that Jenny has sold him out, Dirk is panicked into taking stronger action: he conspires with a cousin of his, who's a waiter, to poison Deng by putting lye in his coffee. Deng survives, but is hospitalized. When questioned by the police, Dirk plants suspicion on Jenny as the poisoner.
Jenny shows up at her friend Rupert's hotel room late that night. She says she's heard that the police are asking about her, and she wants to hide out in his room until she can skip town the next morning. She shows him a gun that she's bought and tells him, slightly hysterically, that she's not going back to prison again. Rupert confronts her about being AthenasFire and reveals himself as H8m0ng3r. Jenny points the gun at him and orders him to get into the bathroom and lock himself in while she leaves. From the bathroom, Rupert calls Joe Dirk on his cell phone. Jenny hears him and shoots at him through the door.
(Here we rolled for Aftermath.)
Rupert is badly wounded, but manages to have a brief tussle with Jenny before she breaks free and runs out onto the fire escape. Dirk arrives at Rupert's hotel room, where he finds the backpack containing Jenny's half of the money. He takes the backpack, shakes his head at the obviously done-for Rupert, and leaves.
As Jenny is running down, a door opens and a police officer steps onto the landing above her. She looks down and sees another policeman waiting at the bottom of the stairs. She tries to jump over the railing to get away, but misjudges her jump and ends up dead on the pavement. Rupert sees this from his window before collapsing to the floor and bleeding to death.
Dirk takes the money, picks up his mother in his car, and drives off to California. Deng recovers but believes it must have been Jenny who poisoned him after all. The last scene is of Deng arriving at another Gencon the next year with his precious miniature army packed up extra-carefully--because gamers are so unreliable.
I'll start with the game I ran at Winter War last January, which I've been very remiss in not posting earlier. The group chose the Gencon playset, but we made a commitment early on to play it to the hilt. So here's what we came up with...
Joe Dirk, security guard
Jenny Burgh (AthenasFire), attendee
Rupert von Hindenburg (H8m0ng3r), attendee
Mr. Deng, attendee
Rupert and Joe Dirk both owe a lot of money to Mr. Deng. Dirk comes up with the idea of trying to catch Deng doing something illegal on tape and turn it over to the cops, to get him off their backs. He thinks he can pressure Jenny, whom he caught selling pot to finance her GenCon weekend a couple of years ago, into helping with the entrapment plan. What he doesn't know is that Jenny has just signed on with Mr. Deng herself, agreeing to resell some bootleg DVDs in exchange for being able to keep her share of the profits. She goes straight to Deng and tells him about Dirk's plan. This is later backed up by Rupert.
Meanwhile, Jenny and Rupert have struck up a friendship, not realizing that they are bitter internet enemies on a gaming forum. (Jenny is a Forgeite indie-game player, while Rupert is a Warhammer 40K enthusiast.) They discover a briefcase containing $10,000 in one-dollar bills. They decide to split the money and not tell anyone about it. Rupert uses part of his half to pay off his debt to Deng and then offers him the rest to arrange for something bad to happen to "AthenasFire." Deng traces the username, finds out that it's Jenny, and tells Rupert her real name.
Deng leans on Dirk while setting out miniatures for a wargame, making some thinly veiled threats against not only him, but his mother. Realizing that Jenny has sold him out, Dirk is panicked into taking stronger action: he conspires with a cousin of his, who's a waiter, to poison Deng by putting lye in his coffee. Deng survives, but is hospitalized. When questioned by the police, Dirk plants suspicion on Jenny as the poisoner.
Jenny shows up at her friend Rupert's hotel room late that night. She says she's heard that the police are asking about her, and she wants to hide out in his room until she can skip town the next morning. She shows him a gun that she's bought and tells him, slightly hysterically, that she's not going back to prison again. Rupert confronts her about being AthenasFire and reveals himself as H8m0ng3r. Jenny points the gun at him and orders him to get into the bathroom and lock himself in while she leaves. From the bathroom, Rupert calls Joe Dirk on his cell phone. Jenny hears him and shoots at him through the door.
(Here we rolled for Aftermath.)
Rupert is badly wounded, but manages to have a brief tussle with Jenny before she breaks free and runs out onto the fire escape. Dirk arrives at Rupert's hotel room, where he finds the backpack containing Jenny's half of the money. He takes the backpack, shakes his head at the obviously done-for Rupert, and leaves.
As Jenny is running down, a door opens and a police officer steps onto the landing above her. She looks down and sees another policeman waiting at the bottom of the stairs. She tries to jump over the railing to get away, but misjudges her jump and ends up dead on the pavement. Rupert sees this from his window before collapsing to the floor and bleeding to death.
Dirk takes the money, picks up his mother in his car, and drives off to California. Deng recovers but believes it must have been Jenny who poisoned him after all. The last scene is of Deng arriving at another Gencon the next year with his precious miniature army packed up extra-carefully--because gamers are so unreliable.