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My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Just caught up with this thread.

Gazetteer posted:

Your GMPC is a travelling potion merchant whose prices are so low he must be crazy! The potion merchant appears at increasingly improbable times and places in order to give the party free samples and heavily discounted healing items.
I have a merchant NPC who is exactly that. He travels by dragon, whenever he sets up his stall the dragon will sleep curled around it, and he carries a variety of useful items at premium prices. He shows up every time the party gains a level, no matter where they happen to be. So far the party are the only people who've seen him that they know of. I'm also tracking every coin they give him and every old item they sell, and I'm sure I'll think of something to do with that info eventually.

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Robindaybird
Aug 21, 2007

Neat. Sweet. Petite.

Don't you love it when the dice play along with the game events in the best way?


On Friday we had a Fate-powered game where the ragtime bunch of pirates, conman and merfolks ended up landing at a Pirate Casino(TM) to wait for a pretty nasty storm to blow over.

Half the party decided to take up on Mr. Butler the Butler's complementary Bounty Checking services (while my character - the Navigator) had a minor panic attack over the idea of giving his name out For Reasons).

Our Captain and Swordfish Mermaid Sworddancer both had their bounties bumped up to 20 million, while our resident conman was pissed there was no bounty on him despite that he painted his own name inside a bank vault, and our Shapeshifting Octopus Merperson Chef had... exactly a 150 bounty. Our ship doc refused to look, but Mr. Butler did asked if he's sure if he didn't want to see his updated poster.

After that everyone split off and their own thing in the Casino until it was time to head back. Our resident Conman managed to make a cool Two Million, the Chef failed in helping the Conman cheat, Doc nursed a drink, the Sworddancer practiced her dancing and got tips for it (50,000 if I recall). and Navigator didn't do much beyond breaking even.

Then when everyone came back to their room, the Captain started to slink in, shoulders slumped:

Everyone: WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Captain: What? I did nothing!

The captain's player rolled Deceive: ...and rolled a -3, completely botching it. Our Conman sussed out she played a game and did badly.

Badly to the tune of 40 million in debt, which the Navigator noticed it's the payroll for a Marine's base worth. Immediately our Conman suggested we go rob a Marine base to pay off the debt... except our Captain informed us the ship got seized as Collateral and will be auctioned off in 72 hours if they don't get the money.

So the entire party is plotting and scheming on how to get the money without sacrificing someone - as it turned out the Ship Doc's bounty would pay off the entire debt in one fell swoop and the younger crewmen being adamant about not letting him turn himself in.

I'm looking forward to how we're gonna pull this off.

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers
"You lost big and need to pay off the debt before X" is such a great plot vehicle. :)

(My favourite films are Snatch and Lockstock)

LornMarkus
Nov 8, 2011

Robindaybird posted:

On Friday we had a Fate-powered One Piece game where the ragtime bunch of pirates, conman and merfolks ended up landing at a Pirate Casino(TM) to wait for a pretty nasty storm to blow over.

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers
Depends if the plot-arc has an ending :v:

LornMarkus
Nov 8, 2011

petrol blue posted:

Depends if the plot-arc has an ending :v:

Pretty much. I'm just not bothering to catch up until it's done at that point. So sometime in my forties, I expect.

Robindaybird
Aug 21, 2007

Neat. Sweet. Petite.


Yep, you guys got me, it was One Piece-inspired, with thankfully a much tighter plot control - it's a blast just being utterly ridiculous.

LornMarkus
Nov 8, 2011

Robindaybird posted:

Yep, you guys got me, it was One Piece-inspired, with thankfully a much tighter plot control - it's a blast just being utterly ridiculous.

Oh yeah, if I actually had a group of people to play with I would totally do One Piece FATE or some such too. That's why I skipped out on any snarky comment after the quote.

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers
I tried to do srs-bsns sci-fi in FATE once. The attempt ended as a PC surfed an exploding robot dog through an airlock.

It hit the point where I had to respond to "I try to surf the robodog's body through the airlock", and at that point realism is lagging far far behind rule 0.

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
So, I've been a wrestling fan for two decades.
Today, I played my first wrestling RPG. I didn't think anything could live up to the grand spectacle of twenty years of fandom, but that was before I witnessed the saga of Outback Liam. Rules stuff in spoilers.

Nigel Bloodman (the clown archetype) was a well natured black New Zealander. He came to Infinity Championship Wrestling and, at the advice of his mates, took up the "Outback Liam" persona, figuring Americans loved Australians.

And they DID. Outback Liam appeared on the opening of the show, his big "AUSTRALIA" titan tron playing, his theme song blaring.

He was off for six months, and was now returning! The crowd in Detroit Michigan*, went wild as he grabbed a microphone from his new SAFARI JEEP...then realized they didn't know what he was saying.
His mic was broken.
Yes, I botched the first roll of the game with snake-eyes. Luckily I took the move where you get to rework a botched Promo...

A PA handed him a new mic. Liam dazzled with the tale with his six months off: he wrestled five Alligators and two komodo dragons! And ya know what they said? "Don't come back to this Zoo!"
Liam told the crowd he was here to kick rear end, right here in Detroit, and that the Outbackster may have his eyes on the title!

Of course, he was interrupted by Talos "The Bronze Greek", who roared his way down to the ring and challenged Liam to a hardcore match. Liam countered...by making it an Australian Rules match! And as everyone knows, no rules means just right!

Two other players were made announcers. Play-by play can "put over" a move, turning a 6- into a mild success or a 7-9 into a complete success. It's a great way to get others involved.

Liam stomped the giant before he even got into the ring, running his foe's head along the bottom rope and hitting him with some confusing gator rolls! He then took the moment to set up a table against the jeep, and put Talos through it!

Of course, Liam played up for the crowd, even joining commentary. ("I'd love to pin him, really I would, but in the first Australian rule is courtesy. These fans paid for a good long match!")

He was immediately broadsided by Talos, who SMASHED THE JEEP HOOD on Liam's head! Talos regained control, working over his khaki-clad competitor, dropping the hood in the center of the ring.

But Liam had other plans. First, he pointed to the hood. Talos looked. Then, Liam pointed AGAIN. The second time, Liam hit Talos in the stones. The crowd went wild for the One-Two punch!

The match went back and forth, with Liam getting his rear end whomped and fighting back. He had suplexed a distracted Talos onto the hood, and was on the top rope when an odd figure appeared on the entrance ramp!

A fellow player, El Cuervo the Provocateur, used his "interrupt the match" power.

The figure promised to bring Justice to ICW...and as Liam was distracted, Talos recovered and threw him onto the jeep's engine block!

Pyrotechnics! Fire! One hell of an opening segment!


TO COME:
RAY PRAK, COMMENTATOR: "You are hateful, and you are -SMALL!-

TOMMY BUZZZZ, KFM HOST: "El Cuervo's playing mindgames...just like my Ex-Wife!"

EL CUERVO: "There will be Justice...or my name isn't El Cuervo!"
NIGEL: "It isn't."

*You get +1 momentum once per session if you namedrop where the show takes place.

Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Mar 6, 2015

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Golden Bee posted:

So, I've been a wrestling fan for two decades.
Today, I played my first wrestling RPG. I didn't think anything could live up to the grand spectacle of twenty years of fandom, but that was before I witnessed the saga of Outback Liam. Rules stuff in spoilers.

Nigel Bloodman (the clown archetype) was a well natured black New Zealander. He came to Infinity Championship Wrestling and, at the advice of his mates, took up the "Outback Liam" persona, figuring Americans loved Australians.

And they DID. Outback Liam appeared on the opening of the show, his big "AUSTRALIA" titan tron playing, his theme song blaring.

He was off for six months, and was now returning! The crowd in Detroit Michigan*, went wild as he grabbed a microphone from his new SAFARI JEEP...then realized they didn't know what he was saying.
His mic was broken.
Yes, I botched the first roll of the game with snake-eyes. Luckily I took the move where you get to rework a botched Promo...

A PA handed him a new mic. Liam dazzled with the tale with his six months off: he wrestled five Alligators and two komodo dragons! And ya know what they said? "Don't come back to this Zoo!"
Liam told the crowd he was here to kick rear end, right here in Detroit, and that the Outbackster may have his eyes on the title!

Of course, he was interrupted by Talos "The Bronze Greek", who roared his way down to the ring and challenged Liam to a hardcore match. Liam countered...by making it an Australian Rules match! And as everyone knows, no rules means just right!

Two other players were made announcers. Playby play can "put over" a move, turning a 6- into a mild success or a 7-9 into a complete success. It's a great way to get others involved.

Liam stomped the giant before he even got into the ring, running his foe's head along the bottom rope and hitting him with some confusing gator rolls! He then took the moment to set up a table against the jeep, and put Talos through it!

Of course, Liam played up for the crowd, even joining commentary. ("I'd love to pin him, really I would, but in the first Australian rule is courtesy. These fans paid for a good long match!")

He was immediately broadsided by Talos, who SMASHED THE JEEP HOOD on Liam's head! Talos regained control, working over his khaki-clad competitor, dropping the hood in the center of the ring.

But Liam had other plans. First, he pointed to the hood. Talos looked. Then, Liam pointed AGAIN. The second time, Liam hit Talos in the stones. The crowd went wild for the One-Two punch!

The match went back and forth, with Liam getting his rear end whomped and fighting back. He had suplexed a distracted Talos onto the hood, and was on the top rope when an odd figure appeared on the entrance ramp!

A fellow player, El Cuervo the Provocateur, used his "interrupt the match" power.

The figure promised to bring Justice to ICW...and as Liam was distracted, Talos recovered and threw him onto the jeep's engine block!

Pyrotechnics! Fire! One hell of an opening segment!


TO COME:
RAY PRAK, COMMENTATORS: "You are hateful, and you are -SMALL!-

TOMMY BUZZZZ, KFM HOST: "El Cuervo's playing mindgames...just like my Ex-Wife!"

EL CUERVO: "There will be Justice...or my name is El Cuervo!"
NIGEL: "It isn't."

*You get +1 momentum once per session if you namedrop where the show takes place.

As a wrestling fan, that sounds amazing and a great way to get the other players involved! I should try to incorporate that into my “Star Wars” game somehow.

CzarChasm
Mar 14, 2009

I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

CobiWann posted:

As a wrestling fan, that sounds amazing and a great way to get the other players involved! I should try to incorporate that into my “Star Wars” game somehow.

Visit a Hutt controlled planet for some down time while the ship needs some repairs. Mechanic is dirty and overcharges or there's some other dirty play going on (Imperial blockade, but you can bribe an official, but you just spent your last space dollar on repairing the ship). But, conveniently there is a local wrestling competition for amateurs, and the top prize is more than enough to cover the costs of your escape.

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
Someone posted the entire session.

Highlights:
El Cuervo takes on Dick Chrysler, hometown hero. When Liam interferes, El Cuervo breaks kayfabe to call Dick Chrysler an anti-mexican racist on the house mic. Chrysler throws the luchador onto Liam's jeep, causing #SaveLiamsJeep to start trending. (People thought it was a One Direction thing).

Liam breaks up the subsequent backstage fight, as Dick says "if he calls me out, this better make me a ton of money!"
El Cuervo NEVER BREAKS KAYFABE, causing the exchange from above:

quote:

EL CUERVO: "There will be Justice...or my name isn't El Cuervo!"
NIGEL: "It isn't."

The night ended with a hardcore match so rough that one of the announcers puked, and a show so epic one more pop could've made our crowd size go from "Local Indie" to "Big Cable Contract".

Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Mar 6, 2015

Foolster41
Aug 2, 2013

"It's a non-speaking role"

Golden Bee posted:

So, I've been a wrestling fan for two decades.
Today, I played my first wrestling RPG. I didn't think anything could live up to the grand spectacle of twenty years of fandom, but that was before I witnessed the saga of Outback Liam. Rules stuff in spoilers.

Nigel Bloodman (the clown archetype) was a well natured black New Zealander. He came to Infinity Championship Wrestling and, at the advice of his mates, took up the "Outback Liam" persona, figuring Americans loved Australians.

And they DID. Outback Liam appeared on the opening of the show, his big "AUSTRALIA" titan tron playing, his theme song blaring.

He was off for six months, and was now returning! The crowd in Detroit Michigan*, went wild as he grabbed a microphone from his new SAFARI JEEP...then realized they didn't know what he was saying.
His mic was broken.
Yes, I botched the first roll of the game with snake-eyes. Luckily I took the move where you get to rework a botched Promo...

A PA handed him a new mic. Liam dazzled with the tale with his six months off: he wrestled five Alligators and two komodo dragons! And ya know what they said? "Don't come back to this Zoo!"
Liam told the crowd he was here to kick rear end, right here in Detroit, and that the Outbackster may have his eyes on the title!

Of course, he was interrupted by Talos "The Bronze Greek", who roared his way down to the ring and challenged Liam to a hardcore match. Liam countered...by making it an Australian Rules match! And as everyone knows, no rules means just right!

Two other players were made announcers. Playby play can "put over" a move, turning a 6- into a mild success or a 7-9 into a complete success. It's a great way to get others involved.

Liam stomped the giant before he even got into the ring, running his foe's head along the bottom rope and hitting him with some confusing gator rolls! He then took the moment to set up a table against the jeep, and put Talos through it!

Of course, Liam played up for the crowd, even joining commentary. ("I'd love to pin him, really I would, but in the first Australian rule is courtesy. These fans paid for a good long match!")

He was immediately broadsided by Talos, who SMASHED THE JEEP HOOD on Liam's head! Talos regained control, working over his khaki-clad competitor, dropping the hood in the center of the ring.

But Liam had other plans. First, he pointed to the hood. Talos looked. Then, Liam pointed AGAIN. The second time, Liam hit Talos in the stones. The crowd went wild for the One-Two punch!

The match went back and forth, with Liam getting his rear end whomped and fighting back. He had suplexed a distracted Talos onto the hood, and was on the top rope when an odd figure appeared on the entrance ramp!

A fellow player, El Cuervo the Provocateur, used his "interrupt the match" power.

The figure promised to bring Justice to ICW...and as Liam was distracted, Talos recovered and threw him onto the jeep's engine block!

Pyrotechnics! Fire! One hell of an opening segment!


TO COME:
RAY PRAK, COMMENTATOR: "You are hateful, and you are -SMALL!-

TOMMY BUZZZZ, KFM HOST: "El Cuervo's playing mindgames...just like my Ex-Wife!"

EL CUERVO: "There will be Justice...or my name is El Cuervo!"
NIGEL: "It isn't."

*You get +1 momentum once per session if you namedrop where the show takes place.

Welp, you sold me. I want to play or run this. I I don't know if I'd say I'm any sort of hardcore wrestling fan (I did enjoy watching it for a bit) but this sounds amazing. might have to buy this book.

DrTempest
Dec 11, 2011

It's not cute. It's all very serious.
Definitely interested in the Wresting RPG as well. Goon Wrestling Federation RPG needs to happen. I hope all your sessions get posted, Golden Bee!

Foolster41
Aug 2, 2013

"It's a non-speaking role"

DrTempest posted:

Definitely interested in the Wresting RPG as well. Goon Wrestling Federation RPG needs to happen. I hope all your sessions get posted, Golden Bee!

Actually, I forgot that was something I had been thinking of doing. Thanks for pushing me off that cliff! :P

The Bee
Nov 25, 2012

Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

DrTempest posted:

Definitely interested in the Wresting RPG as well. Goon Wrestling Federation RPG needs to happen. I hope all your sessions get posted, Golden Bee!

I don't even have time for RPGs these days and I'd still try to carve a special place in my heart and schedule for the GWF. If the concepts alone didn't sell me, Golden Bee's sessions definitely did.

The Crotch
Oct 16, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

The Bee posted:

I don't even have time for RPGs these days and I'd still try to carve a special place in my heart and schedule for the GWF. If the concepts alone didn't sell me, Golden Bee's sessions definitely did.
Can Ayla vs Ganondorf finally happen?

The Lore Bear
Jan 21, 2014

I don't know what to put here. Guys? GUYS?!

Golden Bee posted:

Someone posted the entire session.

Highlights:
El Cuervo takes on Dick Chrysler, hometown hero. When Liam interferes, El Cuervo breaks kayfabe to call Dick Chrysler an anti-mexican racist on the house mic. Chrysler throws the luchador onto Liam's jeep, causing #SaveLiamsJeep to start trending. (People thought it was a One Direction thing).

Liam breaks up the subsequent backstage fight, as Dick says "if he calls me out, this better make me a ton of money!"
El Cuervo NEVER BREAKS KAYFABE, causing the exchange from above:


The night ended with a hardcore match so rough that one of the announcers puked, and a show so epic one more pop could've made our crowd size go from "Local Indie" to "Big Cable Contract".

As the player of the participant of that hardcore match (the opponent was an NPC), was it the kendo stick spot or the semi-botched chair-to-spine flying spike stomp? That entire match blurred together as a series of awesome, violent things that work best when no real people can get hurt.

Also, it wasn't just the "It isn't." response that made that. The best part was how that line was said. Perfect timing and exasperated tone after Liam barely calmed Mr. Chrysler down.

Reading this, I need to give my play-by-play guy a name, if only to show how much I'm basically doing Not-Mike Tenay.

But yeah, I probably couldn't do that session justice. It was the most fun I've had in an RPG in a while, but even longer since I had fun in the wacky world of wrestling. Not that I'd trust any of us to be actual wrestling writers due to the number of near deaths that occurred in the card.

If there's a GWF, I'm in. Every comedy needs a straight man, and part of me still wants to see if there's actually a way to describe a technical wrestling showcase that isn't just move-calling or spot-calling.

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.

thelazyblank posted:

As the player of the participant of that hardcore match (the opponent was an NPC), was it the kendo stick spot or the semi-botched chair-to-spine flying spike stomp
The kendo spot preluded the comments "I'm gonna be sick" and "this isn't a match as much as a snuff film", but the puking started after the injury spot.

Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Mar 6, 2015

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011
The Bombing of Balmora; Or How I Learned to Stop Caring and Just Love the Explosions.

I ran an episodic Edge of the Empire campaign for a good while, the group was split into two sort of teams, a team of Smugglers and a pair of Bounty Hunters. Typically the two groups would interact in the form of the Bounty Hunters covering for the Smugglers in combat, or the Smugglers talking the Bounty Hunters into getting better pay.

Our Heroes: I don’t remember their names (mostly)

A Mandalorian; A charming and collected Mandalorian bounty hunter, using his bounty hunting to try and recruit people for his fledgling Mandalorian clan. Partnered with the Clone Commando to purchase a patrol craft with which they travel the stars. He is secretly force sensitive, which manifests in uncontrolled occasional bouts of telekinetics and strong personal charm.
A Clone Commando; A former Clone Commando and Imperial Loyalist who was slated for decommissioning (read: killed), only for a rag-tag team of doctors to save him. A Mandalorian clan helped him escape, only for him to ignore the Mandalorians and strike out on his own. As far as the Clone Commando knows, the doctors that saved him were killed in a rebel attack, giving him a grudge against the Rebellion.
A Smuggler; An Arkanian pilot and smuggler who had trouble keeping his cool under pressure. He usually came up the grand designs the Smugglers would get into and then see them collapse before his eyes. Made poor choices a lot.
Threll Dell, A Politician; A former planetary Senator who was run off of his home planet of Narl by an angry torch and pitchfork mob. He escaped via the bounty hunter’s ship. At one point he found a whip, and spent the rest of the campaign cracking that whip poorly. The only time he wasn’t whipping thing was when he was in “politician savant” mode and talked the party out of certain death.
“Crunchy,” A Wookiee; Threll Dell’s personal Wookiee-servant. A simple man who liked to rip dudes heads off and had the greatest wish in life to have a harpoon gun to bring people closer to him. He was the non-Bounty Hunter muscle for Threll Dell and the Smuggler.

This story takes place on Balmora, where Team Smuggler had stored their Stolen Space Yacht in what amounted to an open-air storage facility. The Bounty Hunter’s patrol craft is landed at the spaceport and they take an air-speeder to the storage space. Now, the party was “gifted” this yacht by a Human police commissioner on Nal Hutta, who was being offered it as a bribe by the ruling Hutts. He was not going to let the Hutts hold it over him, since he was in charge of a city build into a landed Victory-Class Star Destroyer, which wasn’t Huttese in origin. So he lets the party “steal” the yacht from him so the Smugglers have something bigger than a two man patrol boat to fly, and the Bounty Hunters aren’t stuff half a dozen people into a small craft.

The problem was, Team Smuggler never really did anything about the ship being stolen, they skirted around the Outer Rim and into places where the law was weak (like the day trip they had to Kessel to meet Threll Dell’s old chief of staff) and were based out of the Alderaan System, which wasn’t really a cultural hotspot during the period the game was set (It took place days after the destruction of the First Death Star) so they never really noticed they were riding around in stolen property. The end result was that the Balmora authorities, along with some shadowy Metal Gear Solid Imperial Officials, had set up a sting operation to catch the owners of the stolen yacht red-handed and “take them off the streets.” The entire party was walking into a trap.

So, the air-speeder arrives, and the party hit the lockup containing the ship, where the NPC mechanic looked at it. Team Smuggler hadn’t taken the ship straight to the asteroid base they were operating out of because they flubbed some rolls (The Smuggler might have gotten a despair) and were convinced the tracking beacon the MGS Imperials bolted to the floor of the cargo hold was connected to something structural and they didn’t want to risk damaging the yacht. The mechanic calls them idiots and gets to work removing the tracking device so they can get on with their day when the police arrive. And by arrive, I mean the police carpet-bomb the air-speeder and the lockup before sending in a battalion of surplus battle droids. Combat begins.

The Mandalorian, caught outside during the fighting, uses his turn to bolt across the street and ducks into the nearest open lockup, leading him into a room like the hanger the yacht is in, but with three Rodians, some crates, and a T-16 cargo sky-hopper. The Rodians get spooked almost immediately, being that they are smuggling weapons and the police are here, and open fire on the Mandalorian. The Mandalorian spends the combat in a protracted gunfight with three Rodian toughs.

The Commando, who had been expecting an ambush of some sort, was perched up on a catwalk overlooking the main floor of the lock-up. When the bombing started the catwalk shook, and as the droids attacked the garage door, a second wave of bombing caused the Commando’s catwalk to collapse. The Commando, thinking quickly, gets a triumph on his balance check to prevent him from getting hurt from the collapsing catwalk. The player doesn’t think of anything for the triumph, so it turns out that he calmly walked down the collapsing stairs up to the catwalk to the door leading to the fire-escape. The Commando would spend the rest of the encounter on the partial destroyed roof to the lock-up, firing shots at the droids.

The Smuggler and Threll Dell (The Wookiee couldn’t make the game) were in the ship with the NPC mechanic, who was removing the tracking beacon. Sensors indicate that a second transport was going to land, so Threll Dell gets on the comm., turns on the external communications array, and insults the hell out of the police in the second transport, who happen to be human police. He rolls so well that they police transports doesn’t land and instead just leaves the scene. That is how wicked the burn was.

So, after the police leave, the yacht and the Commando finish off the remaining droids while the Mandalorian plays competitive hide-and-seek with the last of the Rodians, everyone prepares to ship out. With one problem, there is still that air-wing circling the lockup, and they are likely to not take kindly to the party leaving the area. So, the Commando hops in the back of the T-16 sky-hopper with blaster rifle in hand, and the Mandalorian gets behind the controls, and they plan on running interference for the relatively unarmed yacht.

Of course, as the Mandalorian gets the T-16 off the ground they realize that the T-16 still has a box containing smuggled arms on a winch. This gives the T-16 essentially a wrecking ball as it flies out of the lockup and into the air, before the Mandalorian can find the button on the console (in Rodese) to reel in the weapons. So, while the Mandalorian is flying the T-16, the Commando is in the back shooting at the air-speeders the police are using to interdict the area. The T-16 shooting at them is enough to get the heat off of the yacht and allow the Smugglers to escape, but it does mean that six air-speeders are chasing down one T-16 sky-hopper, unarmed save a pissed off Clone Commando firing a blaster rifle. The Commando manages to catch a pair of the air-speeders by shooting one of the speeders causing it to crash into the other, and then into the storage facility below, causing untold amounts of property damage.

However, tragedy strikes as the lead air-speeder gets a clear shot at the T-16, hitting the sky-hopper straight in the navigational fin. I give the Mandalorian and the Commando one shot, an incredibly difficult pilot check to try and direct the uncontrollable T-16 at their waiting ship and landing pad. The Mandalorian succeeds, the Commando manages to hold on, and the T-16 crashes into the adjacent (but empty) landing pad, screeches across the entire pad, and ends up lightly dinking the patrol boat the Bounty Hunters use for their job. They decide to keep the T-16 to see what the mechanic can do with it, and fly off, having framed those dead Rodians for most of the property damage caused by the running gunfight across Balmora.


Next time I get time I’ll write about the time the Party was hired to stop a bank robbery, and then basically leveled the bank.

But:

Golden Bee posted:

Wrestling RPG

This is loving awesome.

karmicknight fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Feb 10, 2015

The Bee
Nov 25, 2012

Making his way to the ring . . .
from Deep in the Jungle . . .

The Big Monkey!

The Crotch posted:

Can Ayla vs Ganondorf finally happen?

Here's hoping! Of course, if someone gets a good enough Break Kayfabe roll it might be over before it starts. How can the crowd take THE dark LORD seriously when it turns out some drunk like Link routinely takes him down in shoot fights?

SpookyLizard
Feb 17, 2009

karmicknight posted:

Next time I get time I’ll write about the time the Party was hired to stop a bank robbery, and then basically leveled the bank.

The important question, though, is if they stopped the robbery.

Ablative
Nov 9, 2012

Someone is getting this as an avatar. I don't know who, but it's gonna happen.

SpookyLizard posted:

The important question, though, is if they stopped the robbery.

Well, if there's nothing left to rob...

Foolster41
Aug 2, 2013

"It's a non-speaking role"

karmicknight posted:

Next time I get time I’ll write about the time the Party was hired to stop a bank robbery, and then basically leveled the bank.

Thanks guys for showing how Mr. Incredible and Frozone could have messed up worse. :P

copperpauper
Oct 1, 2012

Flexible, Conductive, and Really, Really Poor.

karmicknight posted:

A Smuggler; An Arkanian pilot and smuggler who had trouble keeping his cool under pressure. He usually came up the grand designs the Smugglers would get into and then see them collapse before his eyes. Made poor choices a lot.

Oh, I see how it is. I almost get the party killed 7 times, and all of a sudden, I make "poor choices". At least none of my characters got all their fingers broken by a texan pirate.

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers

copperpauper posted:

I almost get the party killed 7 times, and all of a sudden, I make "poor choices".

I'd like to talk for a second about Devlin Swift. Devlin is the bastard child of The Steward: the archetypical butler, incredibly dapper and polite. Devlin is not like his dad. Devlin is fantasy Sid Vicious, but without the charm and wit.


Having started his adventuring career by turning up on the doorstep bearing a note from his mam ("I don't want the horrid gobshite anymore, he's your problem now"), he's managed to:
- Bite the nose off The Necromancer. Twice. And so become a ranking officer in Army, the Heroes Afterlife (despite not being dead yet).
- Turn up to a board meeting in hell, as a shareholder, wearing nothing but a purple funfur tophat with "the 0.1%" on it in diamante.
- Moon the gods of the Wild Fae Jungle through a magic mirror, get a wild hunt declared on him, then strangle one of said fertility gods with his belt chain.
- Perform amateur dentistry on the moon after the party picked a fight with the sky.
- And, most importantly, obtain a baby Smilebeast (pet of the cannibal halflings, six legs, hypnotic eyes, lizard, can shoot it's teeth) to be a mount. And named it Arsehole.

Poor choices aren't just a trait anymore, they're a character. His only redeeming feature is his low pool of hitpoints.

Lorak
Apr 7, 2009

Well, there goes the Hall of Fame...

petrol blue posted:

- Perform amateur dentistry on the moon after the party picked a fight with the sky.
Trying to determine for this ambiguity if the moon was the patient or the location of the amateur surgery.

petrol blue
Feb 9, 2013

sugar and spice
and
ethanol slammers
Yes.

Captain Bravo
Feb 16, 2011

An Emergency Shitpost
has been deployed...

...but experts warn it is
just a drop in the ocean.
Have you seen that thing's teeth?

SpookyLizard
Feb 17, 2009

Ablative posted:

Well, if there's nothing left to rob...

Exactly my point. Unless there was "do not destroy our bank" clause.

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011

SpookyLizard posted:

The important question, though, is if they stopped the robbery.

They received their pay at the end of the day, and that is all that matters.

copperpauper
Oct 1, 2012

Flexible, Conductive, and Really, Really Poor.
Did we ever take a mission that somehow didn't almost ruin our lives? I'm having a hard time thinking of one. We kinda blew at our job.

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011

copperpauper posted:

Did we ever take a mission that somehow didn't almost ruin our lives? I'm having a hard time thinking of one. We kinda blew at our job.

"Good Jobs"
- The day trip to Kessel was largely unmitigated success, you guys made money and established a business there.
- The Apple Slavery Store job was fine, aside from debating what the goal was in the middle of the job.
- The Bounty Hunters were competent when they were just taking down minor criminals
- The Wheel survived an encounter with Team Smuggler unscathed, and you guys accomplished your goal of hiring a mechanic for your Yacht.

"How Did They Not Die?"
- Going to Jabba's Palace to admit to killing his cousin was a fantastic comedy of errors.
- Getting Arrested by the Tatooine police was also pretty hilarious.
- There was that one time the Bounty Hunters burnt down a bar, and then took down an entire sky scraper on Nar Shadda because they were hired to kill a spy.
- The first session, where the Bounty Hunters learned that your current employer had a bounty out on his head, and decided to collect without really making it that clear.
- Filling your Alderaanian Asteroid Base with numerous random people, including various slaves and that professor guy that the Hutt wanted.

Pretty even in terms of being competent and doing stupid things for little to no reason, so a successful group in my estimation.

copperpauper
Oct 1, 2012

Flexible, Conductive, and Really, Really Poor.
God, I forgot about the apple slave thing.

Iceclaw
Nov 4, 2009

Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.
Steve Jobo the Hutt?

SpiritOfLenin
Apr 29, 2013

be happy :3


Today in Dark Heresy our group of acolytes had the Best Plan (TM) for how to get rid of a heretic who wanted to kill us while maintaining our cover on a cruise to an auction. We decided to poison his food at dinner... with Frenzon. And then, when he would go all psycho and attack us, we could just claim self defense, perfect plan!

...Except that we hosed up the poisoning, he noticed, threw the food on the floor and started yelling, and we had to 'covertly' inject the Frenzon into him after which the heretic and his cultists did attack us. Plan success! Except for the small fact that we started pinning most of the bad guys and kept shooting at them while they were cowering behind cover making us look like psychopaths, our melee dude murdered two with a poisoned knife him coming looking out like an elite killer, our Arbite shot the heretic with flaming bolt pistol ammo - which caused the heretic to burst into crows, after which the Arbite kept shooting at them with flaming bolt pistol ammo, eventually killing them, and my party face character, after combat, calmly sat down and finished his meal after a failed insanity roll. Hard to claim self defense after how brutally we killed them. The ship's captain told us to stay in our cabins for the rest of the trip because "By the Emperor what the hell is wrong with you lunatics?!"

We are heading to an auction that is probably filled with quite monstrous heretics, renegades, criminals and bad people in general, and we have a reputation as a bunch of murderous psychopaths. I'm sure we'll fit right in, even if our standard MO of being super subtle sneaky guys is kind of out of the picture now.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Yep, you should just attend the auction as members of a death cult.

SpookyLizard
Feb 17, 2009

SpiritOfLenin posted:

Today in Dark Heresy our group of acolytes had the Best Plan (TM) for how to get rid of a heretic who wanted to kill us while maintaining our cover on a cruise to an auction. We decided to poison his food at dinner... with Frenzon. And then, when he would go all psycho and attack us, we could just claim self defense, perfect plan!

...Except that we hosed up the poisoning, he noticed, threw the food on the floor and started yelling, and we had to 'covertly' inject the Frenzon into him after which the heretic and his cultists did attack us. Plan success! Except for the small fact that we started pinning most of the bad guys and kept shooting at them while they were cowering behind cover making us look like psychopaths, our melee dude murdered two with a poisoned knife him coming looking out like an elite killer, our Arbite shot the heretic with flaming bolt pistol ammo - which caused the heretic to burst into crows, after which the Arbite kept shooting at them with flaming bolt pistol ammo, eventually killing them, and my party face character, after combat, calmly sat down and finished his meal after a failed insanity roll. Hard to claim self defense after how brutally we killed them. The ship's captain told us to stay in our cabins for the rest of the trip because "By the Emperor what the hell is wrong with you lunatics?!"

We are heading to an auction that is probably filled with quite monstrous heretics, renegades, criminals and bad people in general, and we have a reputation as a bunch of murderous psychopaths. I'm sure we'll fit right in, even if our standard MO of being super subtle sneaky guys is kind of out of the picture now.

But now it's protected. They'll never suspect you guys of sneakily doing anything now.

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JustJeff88
Jan 15, 2008

I AM
CONSISTENTLY
ANNOYING
...
JUST TERRIBLE


THIS BADGE OF SHAME IS WORTH 0.45 DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCES

:dogout:
of SA-Mart forever

Captain Bravo posted:

Have you seen that thing's teeth?



Convenient timing on this, given what's coming out tomorrow.

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