Pulp Alley: Mob Scene

[ragsthetiger]

It's flying robots vs. kung fu monks vs. a skaven warband from some other game universe, so it can only be a Pulp Alley action report.  Here's a link to Whomever1's account of his own manic scenario: http://imgur.com/gallery/RSd35/new
Check it out.
 
rags

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Looks like a great game, marvellous story!

[whomever1]

 Thanks for the compliment. I was trying to think of various equivalents to perilium in different games and stories--does anyone have any suggestions? Warhammer has warpstone, there's a video game called Torchlight where the mystical material is ember. Shadows of Brimstone's thing is dark stone. The Superman myth has kryptonite--not too similar except I think it comes in various flavors. Final Fantasy has materia (or immateria in the Kingdom of Loathing). And the philosopher's stone, I suppose. Anything else?

[ragsthetiger]

A bit of a stretch, but radium fulfilled a similar McGuffin role in a number of old pulp offerings, like Gene Autry's immortal Phantom Empire serial.  And of course, Rocky & Bullwinkle had upsidaisium.
 
rags

[d phipps]

Fantastic! THANKS for posting! 

Yup, perilium is inspired by the strange crystals/ores from various old serials, such as the mysterious ore used to power a death-ray in Great Alaskan Mystery.

[pistolpete]

marvel has the tesserac and adamantium; james cameron avatar has unobtainium (worst fake name ever IMHO).

[Matt]

Rags, great report, thanks for sharing!

Question.  Looks like you were using a 3' X 3' gaming mat.  What kind of mat are you using?  I'm comtemplating buying something better than my 'big green piece of fabric'.

Matt

[ragsthetiger]

Matt: 
The gaming mat is a 1 square meter vinyl and rubber-backed mat from Micro Art Studio.  It's part of a line of terrain products they make for the Wolsung steampunk skirmish game.
rags