GenCon 23 Prep: A Penguin I can live with

 

GenCon 2023
Red Bat
Gotham Major Crimes: Best Served Cold

The Penguin working with Intergang to clone Mr. Freeze in soldiers for the upcoming Arctic Circle markets.

The Penguin Quick 300, 13^th Level Digger
Oswald Cobblepot considers himself much maligned by mainstream society, as he calls it, because of his billionaire gone to, well, pot roots. He has worked his from a skilled art thief, to a thriving bounty hunter, finally becoming a successful boss in the Gotham City underworld. With his many legitimate appearing businesses, he has maintained a veneer of respectability. Because of this he even has been a mayor of the venerable city. While he is under several investigations by both state and federal authorities, only one indictment has been leveled against him and that has not yet been fully implemented.
PHYSICAL 25 HITS 150
MENTAL 35 BASH 65
CHARM 30 AIM 240
LUCK 40 DUCK 80
NERVE 200 PSYCH 75/70
Perks: Obscura, Big Ear, Nose, Jeweler’s Eye, Bundis, Fix-It, Ham Headed, Indomitable, Race Car Evil
Assets:
Penguin Umbrella Inc- Three small factories, hiring local workers and management from Gotham State University and Bludhaven Community Colleges, specializing in rainy day apparel, umbrellas, and fishing gear. Quick 1,400
Resources: Equipment, talent pool

Iceberg Club- A public nightclub for a night of dressing up and some live entertainment. Quick 700
Resources: High profile publicity, money laundering, locate future marks.

Flock Manpower Employment- Temporary Employment agency focusing on inner city neighborhoods with access to established companies in and around Gotham. Quick 900
Resources: Eyes and ears on major portions of local industry

Sub-Zero Association Hall- The backrooms of the Iceberg Club where a not really secret society of “made men” and “big wigs” hangs out. Quick 350
Resources: Powerful and corrupt connections, sex scandals in the making, neutral ground for criminal gangs to discuss things

Phoenix Stage- A riverside live music venue. Quick 200
Resources: Sex workers, drug distribution, and visibility with rock and roll stars

Arctic Automotive- An electric car research and development start-up. Quick -100 (officially)...

Full On RPG Season

 I really wish I was at VengerCon right now
Now according to InterTube standards dictated to us by WebNet Influences and Disurptors, I should be meh about attending a small RPG convention where a bunch of rightwing and Alt-right froggies, according to warring Twits and Gits, get together, but I really wanted to go this year. First off, while whole-hearted fascists as well neoLiberals are there, the folks are mostly dungeon crawling fanatics that really don't like deconstruction of roleplaying tropes into posters for 18-34 y/os, without real jobs so with too much time on their hands, looking for something to be crusading against-- its called ageism as well as loafing.
The fabricated Left/Right divide among RPG fandom, VengerCon hopefully is a success this year. Why? Because it represents the author-GM as a force in creation of RPGS. That is against the current flow of pointless reasons why some gamers should hate other gamers.  Maybe it's not so pointless as folks trying to avoid ever really having a job, keep trying to make table top role playing into a real industry right up there with magazine racks in coffee shops and inner city subdivision lawn care in returns. Those goals just won't pay off but good for those over-educated sorts that don't have to pay rent.
A bit more seriously, yet possibly more inaccurate, smaller designer-driven conventions are the wave of the future for the RPG communities. If you want to feel like you're a part of something, get to know your local RPG whack job. It pays off. You make friends and see their trends whether you agree with them or not.
The hotel where VengerCon is also has some decent lox and cream cheese on the breakfast menu.



That's like your opinion.
My ongoing Wobble mini-campaign has been halted when Peryton posted in OUR RPG group, "Do I get to play Hitler?" Probably someone, most likely within the membership of the PeryPubbers, Peryton Gamers at FacetuBe, "reported" this statement. She has been banned from video chat rooms for, like, a month. 
One of the PC options in my current storyline, Edmund Weissenstein, is a clone of Hitler. He was raised by two Jewish wobblers from Santa Monica, California wanting to stave off the whole 1940s of their universe by time traveling back to when Adolf Hitler was 16 and obtaining a sample of him to give birth to a properly raised Hitler. They then planned to come back to exact same moment in time and replace their Hitler for the real Hitler. Wobble being a game where time travel is a hoax, things did not work well for the Weissensteins. But Edmund clone-Hitler would become an accomplished wobbler trying to escape all the Nazi fetishism in the multiverse.
I mean, it's not like Hitler is not a part of popular culture, most of us hate him, already.  No but sneaky concern trolls have started pointing their attention away from Twit Wars towards FacetuBe groups. Even if this just FacetuBe's algorithm being proactive, this needs to stop.

Everytime at the Table: Downlow didn't work

All three out of the last three Midnight sessions for the Wobble were supposed to be rather private affairs. Well so much for that. Apparently Peryton Publishing still has some inexplicable appeal to its members showing up whenever they want. I'm not going to complain, it's nice to be appreciated.

So with Parts 2 & 3 of "The Trial of Alejandro" we've had Peryton show up because her and then Liam, The Boy. What can I say? It happens.

So as you might've read, the trial itself was interrupted by a pirate raid. Now these pirates were lead by Taximus Bizness, not the simple intrestellar pirates that Alejandro was hanging with before. Cyclon technologies on Inasfar are well beyond Earth's (most of them at least), but the akkebarik (goat-heads) having been transdimensionally trading, both legitimately and illegitimately for about two millennia. The Business, the pirates' group brand, had more than a few advantages. The ride for Professor Viago and Alejandro had arrived.

Seeing the trouble at the capitol palaces, Dasiy Adair figured she had better get their quickly. Luckily she was on one of Athena City's elevated paths leading directly to there. After a bit of jogging, she saw The Dodo  in the impound lot about a quarter mile away. She knew that she had to get there quickly as well. So she stole police car, err a hover speeder with the City Guard, to speed up her travels.

Meanwhile back in the court, the Boy wobbled in with a Character named Willem Walsh-Wallace (something about American MAGA Republicanism, I think. He tries to be shocking with his drunken libertine uncle). W-3 was a wobbling bounty hunter and Alejandro had a warrant out for him in some other locale, which we didn't determine. Him, Viago, and the target would go about wrestling for more than a few rounds before the police care with Daisy Adair, she can drive anything, smashed onto the scene. Boy that courtroom was getting a pounding.


When the court's baliffs started shooting at everyone not wearing a judges robe, all the PCs decided to get into the hijacked police cruiser. Daisy then started making a "bee line" towards the Dodo. Some Pi-Fighters flew in to try and stop them. A couple of NPCs got killed in the backseat. All in all, the PCs back to the Wobble Boat and took off-- that is regardless of whatever Taximus Bizness and his pirates where up to.

An Inasfar patrol ship showed up when the Dodo reached orbit, preparing for it Wobble. Daisy had to make some Saves before the boat was clear.

At the sequence's end, I left the craft twirling end over end until we resumed again.

A Pi-Fighter, but with wings