Every Time at a Table May, 2019

It didn't look like it was going to happen. JerryTel and JayUSB both had other plans. Silly things like tending to family obligations and flying to Scotland for work-- tshaw. Still, a second right before I hit the "Cancel" button in the event interface, I realized I really wanted to play. So I wrestled through my memory thinking of potential friends that have played in Wobble sessions before, I threw in some that might be interested. The process went something like this:
"They just had kid number 2." "She's prolly a sock-puppet." "He's on WiFi at a coffee shop." "That's their date night." "Dental surgery." "She's actually having to make money these days." "In jail." "He needs miniatures to LARP." "Owes me money." "I owe him money." "She's Canadian." "They're bored of me."
It was that last one, that I held up on. So I asked the ICONS- in-Hiatus group, of Wylie Coyote, Peryton, and Curtis. Well, Wylie was indeed bored of me. His lie was something mumble, mumble, dying ppl, having surgery, or having to work; I dunno I stopped listening after "I can't make it...". But the other two, I enticed with promise of a Saturday afternoon cocktail session of a game. I mean the game is called WOBBLE and I've never been a subtle person. The game was just what the doctor ordered.

Pery has a certain Character that she actually loves to play named Daisy Adair. An actress from the Mu Universe where WWII, Mu Apple-2 per CAMIDA (The Canadian/Multinational Inter-dimensional Agency)nomenclature, is just now starting. One of the last queens of the Transatlantic Accent, the speech style that diminished as Americans would start to like Westerns over Melodramas in Yank cinemas. Not that Mz Adair is around much to watch the speech patterns of her world change. She's been busy dealing with multidimensional spider-demons, a couple pyramid-heads, and the atomic bombing of Baltimore Maryland (on "Nixon World," Mu Apple-3, so probably not that bad). More importantly the PC is a "pilot of anything" and Robin sticks to her Transatlantic accent throughout the play session.

 Curtis developed Rudolpho Viggo where we randomly determined, using a few lists from the Wobble source book but I should really formalize into a new chart and lists, is from Earth Prime, Mu Gamma-2. The Great War was indeed the war to end all wars, at least the big ones, and by 2019 people are on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system. Three major power blocs, the Russian-European Union (the RE-Union), the American States (The Americas), and the Pacific Bloc (the East) are the major players. The South African nation is wholly controlled by the Primrose Corporation, known for its weird and exploratory science. Professor Viggo from Rome works for Primrose's Time Travel Department in Cape City (stretching from Cape Town to Durban).

I started out the adventure with a cut-away detailing Daisy's dilemma since the nuking of Baltimore and the start of this adventure. The group she was with, Beckett's "Man-Witch" (the guy that nuked Baltimore), Kal's "Lieutenant Canada," and JerryTel's first Wobble PC (Um Gary Experience?) wobbled away from Nixon World authorities in the wobble-capable ship The Albatross into a part of the Tau Verse. Here they attacked by by Radio-Apes and beings that fly around in modular ships that are honeycomb-shaped. All three of the other characters were captured in a sticky web repelling unseen boarders and pulled onto a honeycomb ship. Too many other honeycombed ships were attacking the Albatross so our Pilot-of-Anything had to emergency wobble, breaking written rules, but hey she is a PILOT, to Earth-Prime. And she just happened to show up right around the east side of Cape City.

The Primrose security division, Nimrod Inc.,  went into red alert mode as fast as one would think. Hover-jets were scrambled while all experimental "time portals" were unplugged and extra goon-platoons placed around them, while the Corporates decided who should handle making contact. While the fighters made "controlled contact" with Mz. Adair to land in a certain spot of be blasted to bits, it was decided that Professor Viggo would be the man to blame, err supervisor on this one. There was a quick scene where Daisy is hustled out of ship by goons in isolation suits (cool ones because this place is the future) and given an Earpiece Translator, which took Rudolpho a way long time, but I had fun making up future South African and how American English would sound to a world where New York and Hollywood weren't a big deal when telling each of the players what they heard after the other tried to communicate. The two Characters noticed that they got on well despite language barriers.

Viggo had to have a meeting with his Supervisor, (Primrose Corp) Pay-Grade 11, Stephen Ballinger, and the boss of both of them, Pay-Grade 20, Tilde Swinton. No really, the person that is an actress in our world. Mz. Swinton was dressed in an overcoat and a scarf that fans of Dr. Who from our universe would recognize. The deep probing of the Albatross revealed only mid-1950s technology according to Earth Prime standards, yet its axiomatic tachyons indicated some sort of temporal shift. Curtis's professor would venture that the intruder was from alternate Earth, not from the past or future. This was actually impossible according to current Earth Prime theory, though there have been two other security-shrouded cases such as this on record in the States and the RE-Union.  Perhaps the Corporation may garner more information by accompanying the "wobbler" for a time, suggested our protagonist.

Earth Prime being the best and worst of Earths, the Primrose Corp mindset is not one of doubting its own employees hired to use their big brains. Stephen Ballinger would suggest himself and a couple other researchers, all of whom were of a reactionary, militant political leaning known as "The Gray-Shirts." Director Swinton would stick with Professor Rudolpho Viggo and her "nephew," (that means ex-boyfriend) Pay-Grade 7 Charles Jade. Viggo, being Pay Grade 10, would be in-charge of the mission.

What followed next was a rescue mission trying to back to Gary Experience, Lieutenant Canada, and Man-Witch. Professor Viggo would start upgrading the Albatross and its AI program, named "Laggy." The primitive nature of these trans-dimensional travelers would astound him. Meanwhile, Daisy would mostly get into awkward moments trying to sneak peaks of Charlie Jade in the shower. They would find a cluster of the honeycomb ships arranged into what had to be a crescent moon. Using the upgraded sensors, they would identify three human sensor signatures and about 16,000 other ones. Only two of the humans were close to each other.

Daisy Adair would show her piloting abilities as she maneuvered the Albatross  towards the honeycomb where the two human life signs were coming from, with very few of the other honeycombs detecting it. The surprise raid would be responded to quickly but not before they could pull Lieutenant Canada and the Man-Witch (Adair would curse at their luck) from some goopy silk-like mucus and carry them towards the ship. Becket's Character, now an NPC, would fight free and slip into "the infernal realms" but only half-voluntary .Honeycomb ships were breaking free and attacking like angry bees, maybe wasps, and shooting as carefully as they could at the invading wobble-ship.

Dasiy Adair, Professor Rudolpho V., Charlie Jade, and Lt. Canada would wobble away from the intense laser fire.
Our heroes would accelerate away (unable to wobble because of rules constraints and plot convenience) and hide in a nearby asteroid-filled region.