September 13th, 2009 (06:04 pm)
I've played a whole bunch of games this week.
Panty Explosion at Kumoricon: This was our first game at Kumoricon last weekend. Since I hadn't done any prep and didn't have the right kind of dice I decided to run a severely simplified version of the game, even more so then I usually do. It was chaotic and complicated (as con games of PE always are), but we had some really, really fun scenes with a group of players who (aside from ben and Alexis) were completely unfamiliar with the game. 9 players by the way. Goals included "Humiliate my rival", ""Steal my sisters boy friend", "Confess my love to the Class president" (who was the one who was trying to steal her sisters boyfreind), "bake a cake for the woman I have a crush on" (the older sister of the class president) and "Beat Dragon Quest VIII".
Maid RPG at Kumoricon: Ben ran a fantasy themed Maid game where I was an assassin Maid bent on killing my 11 year old master. The game featured a dancing invasion from pacifist alien hell, an all out brawl to deliver the masters breakfast and an attack by a towering monster. Lots of fun.
Yeld at Kumoricon: Nick ran a sarcastic and snarky game of Yeld for 6 heroes (we were turning people away constantly). I started with an Oathbreaker, gave that character away to a new player, rolled a freelancer, gave that character away, rolled a Black Mage, gave that character away, then ended up taking the Black Mage anyway when that player had to leave early.
Bliss Stage at Kumoricon: Alexis ran the last game that we did at Kumoricon. I only participated in a single scene in the game, but it was nice and emotional, and I felt really good about it. everyone at the table and in the room (there were about 15 of us) were completely exhausted by this point, but this game was a great end to a great con.
S/lay W/Me: This is Ron Edwards new sleazy 70's fantasy game. Two players (Ben and I) sit down to tell the story of a lone hero who faces off against a terrible monster and a sexy love interest. In the first half I played a nameless wanderer searching for a lost friend, with a trusty horse and a strange mechanical weapon. Ben played the skin stealing monster and the vulnerable and mysterious young woman from a destroyed underground civilization. In the second game Ben played the theif looking for treasure that would grant him great power. I played a towering monster that guarded his treasure, and a prostitute who wanted the power for herself. I totally failed to bring sex, sexiness and eroticism of any kind into my half of the game, and as a result i feel like we had a weaker session then we should have. but this was a lot of fun. I'll be playing agian soon.
Yeld again: Another session of our weekly Yeld game. Only 2 more to go! Woody was in charge of this one, and we had a nice time exploring Boulder Town and the Chef's Day festival, learning the secret of the Boulder Town Cheese Cake, participating in a play that detailed the origins of the festival, then challenging Dragul himself in a courtroom battle!
The Hydra at Go Play SE PDX #24: Michael and I sat down for a quick 2 player game before the rest of the crowd arrived for our maid game. The Hydra is a a game about a relationship, and Michael and I decided to play a self destructive mother and daughter. the game started out deadly serious, and then veered into the strange, but remained enjoyable throughout. Next time I'd like to try it for something a little more light- hearted or adventurey.
Maid RPG at Go Play SE PDX #24: I ran Maid for Nevita, Kim, Michael and Joel. I played the Master, a 12 year old mummy named Mummy-kun. The maids included an alien magician, a boyish maid looking for revenge, a double sexy nymphomaniac and a knife weilding orphan. The mansion was a pyramid, full of grave robbers, dancing crocodiles, Egyptian death gods and unionized scarab beetles. We traveld to 17th century France to find a Walmart, and instead found the double sexy nymphomaniacs secret fiance, a mummy named Mummy-sama who was secretly Mummy-Kun's long lost father. The final battle involved an alien invasion, betrayle, a lucky knife throw and Mummy-Kun becoming a real boy! Of course, everything was back to normal the next day!
Marvel Superheroes at Go Play SE PDX #24: Joel insisted on running old school Marvel Superheroes, and Nick, Tracy, David and I ended up humoring him. the results were unexpected. Joel did a fantastic job running the game, but aside from the great character cards we all agreed that we could have gotten better results with capes, kind dice or PTA. We did a fantastic Four story, with David playing johnny as a super hot headed and saracastic teen who was understandably protective of his sister (In hindsight, Johnny was probably the only reasonable character in the game). Tracy played Sue, torn between her commitment to her increasingly dismissive husband and the super sexy Prince Namor. Nick played Namor, all confidence, sexiness and thrusting crotch. Namor came barging in to the Baxter Building with a serious complaint about Reed's experiments, only to get sidetracked by his ongoing seduction of Sue. I played Reed as a self obsessed, super conceited and socially awkward genius scientist, who sees his friends and wife as little more then interesting pets and his former college rooom mate Victor Von Doom as a friend of slightly lesser intellect who needed to be humored. I realized very quickly that i was actually playing reed as if he were the master in a Maid game, and that seemed to fit just right! The game ended with reed asking Sue for a seperation after offering to clone her for Namor in exchange to drilling access in Atlantis.The game ended with Sue, working with lawyer Jennifer Rogers (also known as She Hulk) to seize the assets and leadership of the team (and quickly learning the team was in horrible debt), Namor being fired from the team be Reed and then immediately re-hired by Sue, Johnny leaving to join the Avengers, then the X-Men, then Alpha Flight, then Spider-man's Amazing Friends, and Reed leaving to hang out with Doom. Good stuff, and one of the funniest games I've ever played. Nick and David were especially fantastic.
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