RPG Night, Sixth Floor Common Area, Wednesday Evening

[ultron_junior]

There'd been a handwavy email sent to the student body inviting them to games night, but Victor realized as he set out notepads and dice and stacked the manuals neatly by the chair he planned to sit on that he might be in over his head. He'd played tabletop RPGs a couple times, sure, but run a game?

Well. Fandom was all about new experiences, and the Lightning Bug premise seemed like an easy hook. He leaned back to study the manual one more time and waited to see who would show up.

[OOC: Open game!]

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Arrive & Mingle

[ultron_junior]

Talk, snack on chips and soda, etc.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[dollpocalypse]

Topher had assisted in planning this thing, if 'agreeing with Victor that he should run one' counted as assisting, so yeah, he was totally here.

The fact that it was Lightning Bug-themed meant that the cape he'd brought to offer the DM as a generous gesture probably wasn't necessary, though. But capes were too cool to have to be worn over ugly Christmas sweaters anyway, so he decided that was fine and stuffed it back in his backpack as he snacked on chips and waited for the game to start.

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[ultron_junior]

"Hi," Victor said. His sweater had bells sewn into it; he jingled faintly when he spoke. "Did you have a cape just now?"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[suitably_heroic]

"RPG?" Atton said, who had... pretty much just been attracted to the source of something that might have been a party (and involved playing tools of some kind). "What are you idiots doing now, and are you doing it for credits?"

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[dollpocalypse]

"More like chips," Topher informed him, passing some non-Pringle chips Atton's way. "Popular currency among high school students and the unemployed."

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[ultron_junior]

"It's a game," Victor explained. "Basically we pretend to be people on a spaceship and -- there's a whole story. No money in it, though."

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if you can gamble with role playing," Tony chimed in. "Hard to figure out what to bet on."

Re: Arrive & Mingle

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god, it's even nerdier than I imagined," Olive said aloud to no one in particular as she wandered in. She probably wouldn't be playing, but...look, this was as close as she came to cheering on the sidelines for things, these days?

Or at least mocking and eating their snacks.

Grab a Character Sheet

[ultron_junior]

Be a settler! Or an engineer. Or a creepy religious guy. Or a space hooker. Or whatever.

Re: Grab a Character Sheet

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Okay, show of hands. Who is shocked Tony picked an engineer to play? No one? Well then.

"Why do I have a weird sense of déjà vi about this?" Damn you, Kaylee!

Re: Grab a Character Sheet

[dollpocalypse]

Topher got... a girl engineer.

"At least it wasn't a space hooker."

Re: Grab a Character Sheet

[suitably_heroic]

"Helmsman," Atton said, and was mildly annoyed to find it wasn't there. "Guy with guns," he settled on, because he didn't have any idea what the squiggles meant.

Re: Grab a Character Sheet

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

"...Space hooker." Trust Ace to show up late enough to get the last character sheet available. Look, there was a special on bacon ice cream at Chilly Boulder today, like she wasn't going to hit that?

"No, wait, Level Four space hooker. That makes it so much better. Does level four mean I can shoot laser beams out my bra or something?"

She should probably check the gender on that sheet before she asked questions like that, because no. Not unless 'Rutland Moore' was into that kind of thing.

Gameplay: Get Your Mission

[ultron_junior]

The players are the crew and passengers on a small spaceship patrolling the outer reaches of the galaxy. You just got word there's a military coup in progress on a small planet called Alfredo. It might be risky, but stopping there will let you sell some excess weapons you have in the hold and maybe take on some refugees for pay.

The captain insists on taking the detour to Alfredo. React.

Re: Gameplay: Get Your Mission

[dollpocalypse]

"My character says let's do it," Topher reported. "Since she probably made the weapons. They're pretty great. You should charge a lot for them."

Or they'd been stolen from somewhere or something, but he was going to take the credit anyway.

Gameplay: Alfredo Army Base

[ultron_junior]

You land at a strangely deserted army base and get off the ship to explore. There's a variety of cool-looking military equipment left. After a few minutes, it's clear why the base is deserted: It's infested with slugs the size of cows.

Kill 'em dead.

Re: Gameplay: Alfredo Army Base

[dollpocalypse]

Topher squinted at his sheet. "Zona," he said, "jumps onto a nearby rock or something and starts firing like crazy, because in addition to being an engineer, she is also extremely badass."

It didn't actually say so on the sheet, but he figured it was Lightning Bug and she was a girl, so.

Gameplay: Alfredo Army Base, Front Gate

[ultron_junior]

It turns out the base isn't totally deserted -- there are a handful of thugs lurking outside the front gates. They don't look friendly. You need to either talk or bribe your way past them, or kill 'em dead.

Re: Gameplay: Alfredo Army Base, Front Gate

[dollpocalypse]

"Anyone charming?" Topher wanted to know. Even his badass Mary Sue engineer couldn't take on this challenge. Topher could never be charming.

Gameplay: Streets of Linguini

[ultron_junior]

You got past the thugs somehow and are now in the city of Linguini's main market, which is full of all kinds of vendors and is well away from the fighting. You need to discreetly make inquiries as to who might want to buy the weapons you have.

If you have other market business, you can take care of that too.

Gameplay: Commander's Palace

[ultron_junior]

Uh-oh, you got caught and marched off to coup HQ. The commander listens to your story and says he'll take the weapons, thanks, and since you landed without a permit you don't get paid.

Give them up, persuade him otherwise, or break away and run like hell.

Gameplay: Back at the Ship

[ultron_junior]

Whatever you did with the commander, it ends with you back at the ship and ready to take off again. As you fly away, the captain reveals he managed to steal a bag of gold from the army base.

You all share the money. Game over.

After the Game!

[ultron_junior]

Wasn't that fun?

Talk to Victor

[ultron_junior]

He is wearing a godawful sweater instead of a cape, but he does have the manuals and therefore the power.

OOC [12/11]

[ultron_junior]

Thanks to dollpocalypse for the OCD. I haven't played a tabletop RPG since college, please excuse any mistakes.

And we are playing a tabletop RPG today ... because we can :-).