Sunday, January 26, 2020

Each and Every Time at a Table:

17 days into the Now-Future 20s
Jan 17th, Jack-n-Coke and Sea Shelly joined me for a bit ICONS RPG.  He bought ICONS a few months ago based off of Peryton's recommendations and has been wanting to play for sure. Jack has been on a Doctor Strange kick as of late, and since he was here for my Bowie Day Eve bash (7. Jan, Russian New Year's Eve btw), I felt I owed him.
Shelly's Doctor Philosphy
So Professor Hemm (me as the GM BS Player-Character, err NPC), Doctor Queer (Jack as Doctor Strange and "fuck you on the insinuations" he states), and Doctor Philosophy (Shelly as an already existing NPC that is becoming a Doctor Fate/Cain from House of Mystery mixed together NPC) went traipsing through the Townhouse of Terror's horror of rooms. As I was a player as well as the GM, the adventure was randomized using a deck of cards and a table that I wrote up while Shelly was fleshing out her character on a character sheet.
Doctor Queer. "Fuck off if you don't like it."

We stumbled into a Dimensional Shambler, that in the Scrapiverse is a very heavy opponent indeed, as whatever Lovecraftian author that penned the creature would have wanted it. We didn't lose the fight, Jack used his "Penned by Ditko" Quality to some surprising original magic crafting; still we ended up on the world of Shad. Closer to the Mayhem and Myth poles than any place Mechanical, imagine a chaotic and supernatural world. The fact that its sun is forever eclipsed by a jet black gas giant that it orbits, things are not just dark in these parts.
Things were very dark and hot, as the gas giant Kaddat "is an invisible sun, that gives its heat to everyone" said Dr Philosophy. We could see the purple, yellow, and green hues seeping through the fungal forest around us. Trying to get to their source, we ran into some "rad caps" (lizards/garden gnomes). Dr Queer wanted to "blast them into nihilism" but Philosophy couldn't allow that. So using her "Hips like Shakira" quality she retconned the other's attacks into a seductive dance that made Papa Rad Cap think that Queer was too hot to be attacked. By the way, Shelly and I both ruled that Jack using nihilism opened him up to Dr Philosophy's interference. The shirtless blue-skinned lizard-boy in white pants pointed out the correct path towards the city of Caddabra. The shirtless man gave Dr Queer his cell number as we left.
Finally we encountered my one planned villain of THE WARLOCK. The Warlock is any person among a group of AA attendees back in Beta City, that attains some major magical powers when the previous Warlock dies, see (Scraps of Magic issue #1-#4). The Warlock seeing his arch-nemesis Doctor Philosophy (See SoM issue #9), started to invoke his favor owed to him by Monkey. The trio was already being beaten down by the Warlock's dream-apostles, whimsical-powered napping members of the AA group, Jack knowing my, the GM's, high esteem of the Monkey King and his chaos turned to Hemm to shout, "TIME TO GO!"
So seizing the Merlin Helm off of Doctor Philosophy's head, an action that we agreed could be done earlier before play started, Professor Hemm pulled everyone back to the Townhouse of Terror back on First Earth. This was not before the Warlock threatened "Philosophy I am coming for you!"

Bowie Day gifting
On Jan 8th, Wobble: Transdimensional Roleplaying officially moved from the red ink into the fat stacks of spare cash moneys. Our company's distributors sent a load of beer and pizza cash into our Paypal account on my birthday. Wallah! Thank you guys. My turkey has become a golden goose, nothing but better from here.

Elvismas Eve Gatherings
Jan 7th, Peryton, Curtis, and Jack showed up for my sixth World a Week installment: The World that We Would Play. And with a DCC 5-sided, it's not really five sides, die roll the Star Track world of Chi Erridanni-7 . It was one of the best RPG sessions that I ever had as a GM, but I am sure that my players were only humoring me.
I did not fudge my roll as to the randomized setting that we would play in. So when the "Star Track" result popped up, it was like a birthday gift to myself. And when I rolled for the random plot, included on the original post, I was even happier because "Romulan skullduggery" is the easiest RPG trick in the book. Now I have shut up about my "not really cheating at dice" rolling skills for a while,  but I swear I was not thinking about it when I rolled either time.
Now while Peryton and Curtis rolled up their characters, Jack had his Andoran ready to go for earlier video chatting throughout the day about another project. So "the Trouble in Tellarite Territory" would become ship's doctor Dr Hus Kegar's prequel to his role as Captain aboard the USS Nightingale. Physicians can become warrior-generals as well dammit. The high on life, mostly, creation by all the players involved of the "half Ferengi-half-humn" known as a "Gnoman" in pre-STtNG space, was as fun as it was campy. But come on, we're dealing with styrofoam planets and bad costumes.
The Delf class Federation starship, the Atari, would end up reluctantly being captained by Curt playing gold coverall wearing Ming Ischmeal. Peryton would go on to play blue mini-skirted wearing but with sensible knee high boots science officer Alice Morgan, the XO. Jack would decide to wear Kirk's shirt-sleeve from STtMP. They'd have an uneasy dinner among the rude Tellarites and the less-friendly Gorn guests. And when the Gorns would be attacked by unseen assailants on their way home, the USS Atari would prevent a war by uncovering the culprits, a Romulan ship using its cloaking device, and then go on to defeat them in space battle.

Now if only Jack could get more time off of work. Both the scenarios here are one shots until the next time my buddy has a lot of time on his hands.


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