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Author Topic: A Short Pulp Game (with beer)  (Read 2854 times)

Offline Wirelizard

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A Short Pulp Game (with beer)
« on: December 07, 2009, 09:34:02 AM »
Corey and I got together this evening to complain about the cold, drink beer, compare notes on the universe, drink beer, play a short game of 45A, and drink beer.

The infamous Red air pirate "Red" Lily has heard that well-known aviating hero Capt. MacGregor has, for reasons undisclosed, a supply of unobtainium secreted away upon his small, ramshackle family estate up in the Highlands. Some discreet nosing around revealed that the good Captain had moved several crates into the MacGregor family crypt sometime recently. Lily, accompanied only by a hired henchmen from Edinburgh's docks, crept onto the Captain's estate, stole his groundskeeper's prize Ford truck, broke into the family crypt, and therein discovered three crates of the rare and valuable unobtainium!

It would have gone flawlessly if the groundskeeper hadn't noticed his truck missing and gone to complain to Captain MacGregor...

Captain MacGregor was being visited by his redoubtable neice Violet Groves, herself a well-known reporter for the Mudchester Graundian. The two sent the groundskeeper into the village to summon the police, and headed off into the night to see what was taking place in the MacGregor family graveyard.

Lily and her flunky got two of the crates loaded before MacGregor and Violet arrived on the scene, but when Lily went to start the truck and her flunky went back for the third and final crate, MacGregor opened fire, hitting the flunky and driving him back, while Violet (who does not shrink from danger) lept into the cab of the truck to do battle with Lily.

MacGregor killed Lily's flunky with a pistol shot to the forehead, then ran after the accelerating truck. Under attack from both inside the cab and from the Captain on the running boards, Lily managed to maintain control as she tried to flee the estate! Captain MacGregor lost his grip on the running boards when Lily wrenched the truck through a turn, fell into a roadside bush and knocked himself unconsious, and took no further part in the evening's excitement.

Violet managed to wrench the truck's steering wheel away from Lily long enough to steer the truck into a stone wall and bring it to a halt, but Lily fought her off, reversed the lightly damaged truck off the wall, and roared out the main road to safety, while Violet was forced to leap from the cab into one of the MacGregor's ancestral topiaries to escape!

In the end, Lily has two-thirds of the Captain's unobtainium, the Captain has a severe headache and another grudge against a notorious air pirate he's run into before, and Violet has a fantastic story to run in the Graundian as soon as she can get to a telephone!

(she's not sure how to explain the presence of that much unobtainium in private hands, though... for that matter, why DOES a recently-retired airship captain have that much unobtainium, anyway?)

The beer was excellent, the action was short, invented on the fly using established characters, and it really is colder than it should be here. At least there's beer.

Offline Svennn

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Re: A Short Pulp Game (with beer)
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2009, 09:59:41 AM »
The beer was excellent, the action was short, invented on the fly using established characters, and it really is colder than it should be here. At least there's beer.

Cold beer - theres no other way ;D
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Re: A Short Pulp Game (with beer)
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2009, 12:08:16 PM »
Quote from: Svennn
Cold beer - theres no other way ;D

Sorry, Svenn, I have to disagree.
Lager should be cold (or preferably poured away). Decent beer should be served at room temperature.  :P

Any way, Wirelizard, it sounds like a good game. I suppose you were too busy holding the beer to be taking photos.
I don\'t know whether to be a good example or a horrible warning.

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Re: A Short Pulp Game (with beer)
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2009, 08:52:42 AM »
The beer was cool but not cold, as beer should be served. And it was good beer from a local microbrewery, so even the lager was decent, and the non-lager was very very good indeed.

I did get a few photos, most of which (as always) didn't turn out. Here's one that did:

Flickr link for larger version & notes.

Red Lily fends off MacGregor & Violet, while Hired Flunky #32 attempts to bring the last crate to the stolen truck.

The first game outing of my graveyard, and of my topiary (not visible in this picture). Corey got a few more photos, if they turned out maybe he'll post them too.
« Last Edit: December 08, 2009, 08:59:47 AM by Wirelizard »

 

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