humor

so i see myself as a fairly decent and well mannered person, but i do have the tendency  to laugh at things of a childish nature, when i read this i laughed so hard the my ulcer caused me to spit up a Little blood so be warned…. and ohh by the way i have a stomach ulcer, so suck…

how to survive future prison…

so I’m working on a game where your a convict on a prison space ship… the game mechanic is based on Russian roulette with cap guns… to the dollar store!

the magical land of yeld

so last Saturday i ran a game of the magical land of yeld, one of Jake’s little projects. Jake did i write up on the session for his blog so naturally i stole it and put it on mine.

here it is. enjoy:

My Sat group got back together for the second session of our Magical Land of Yeld game. The first session had our characters discovering the door to Yeld and taking our first steps into that mysterious land. This time the rotating GM duties fell n Nick, and I was freed to really play my character Murial. Gabe joined us as well with his new character Marvin. Marvin is an older kid who is just starting to notice girls. Gabe choose Murial as marvins best friend.

Gabe/Marvin, 12 year old Bully
April/Jesse, 12 year old Tom Boy
Jake/Murial, 11 year old Brat
Travis/Heather 8 year old Princess
Nick/Dino, 6 year old Know it All
Woody/Ralph, 5 year old Liar

Last week we had decided that we wanted a Moderate adventure, giving the GM 30-40 dice to lay with. We choose the title “The burnt Forest of the Wolf King”.

The game started at Jesse and Heathers house, with the girls joined by Murial, Ralph and Dino. The kids all sat watching The Lone Ranger. Murial and Heather complained that the show was boring, and Murial announced that she wanted to go back through the door and explore for awhile. She left to get her “supply kit” from her house, running into her friend Marvin on the way back.

In the house Jesse and Heathers parents had sent Ralph and Dino home and put their daughters to bed (early!). laying in bed, Heather heard a strange animalish sound coming from the crawl space that led to the hidden attic and the magical door. Scared, she called to her sister for help. As she does, the head of a wolf emerges from the crawl space.

Murial tells Marvin that she wants to show him something secret. As they head back to Jesses house they run into Ralph and Dino, and find out that the girls have been put to bed early. Sneaking around the back of the house, Marvin and Murial start throwing rocks at the girls windows. Jesse opens her window, and Murial throws her a rope from her supply kit. The friends climb up the rope just as Heather starts screaming.

The friends rush into Heathers room to see the wolf has emerged from the crawl space. Everyone but Marvin has seen the wolf before, so only he is suprised when it speaks. The wolf tells the friends that they’ve been summoned by the Wolf King and must come right away. After some arguement, the friends aggreed to return through the door and meet th Wolf King.

On the other side of the door the friends found that the field and forest had been badly burned. The wolf told them that the fire was caused by the torches they left behind after they fought the goblin. The Goblins body was still there, and when Jesse searches it she finds a Goblin Knife (+1 Fast dice). There was no sign of Huck’s body, which we had left behind after the fight with the goblin.

Th wolf led us through the burnt foret to a small village where children and wolves both lived.We were told that the children were wolf children, and that when they were older they would change into wolves. The Wolf King, an 8 foot tall wolf, greeted us and offered to answer our questions. We asked s many as we could think of, but we found the answers to be vauge and unhelpful. The Wolf King had never heard of New Jersey, and couldn’t tell us where we were in relation to it. He did not know how the door worked, although he told us we were not the first people to step through it. he explained that we could understand his speech because we were children. All children could understand the speech of animals. 

After our questions were answered, the Wolf King made his demand. The Wolf King said that we were responsible for burning down his forest, and that we must make amends. We tried to protest, saying that it was the gOblins fault. The Wolf KIng explained that Goblins were neutral and could not be held accountable, so it was indeed our fault. WE would have to travel to see the new Tree Prince and bring him a vial of river water. This would be an offering on behalf of the wolf tribe to the new Tree Prince. The Wolf King explained that the tree Prince was a person from our own world. Once the Tree Prince agreed to regrow the forest we could return home.

After a huge amount of complaining and argueing we set our on our way. Two wolves accompanied us, and with their help we were able to travel at wolf speed. We would first have to travel to the river, then through the Spider forest and Bird forest to reach the Tree Prince. The journey to the Spider forest took much of the day, and once we arrived the wolves warned us that we had to be quiet and polite, because the spiders were not their allies. As we walked through the dark forest we saw scurrying shapes in the trees. A child (who the wolves identified as a spider child) lept down from the branches to speak with us, before returning to join it’s enormous, one-eyed spider mother.

Eventually w came to a river, and we had to climb up into the trees and continue along the spiders avenue-like pathway of branches and webbing. The spiders and their children mostly ignored us or gave us curious glances, but eventually two of the children stopped us and demanded that we pay a toll in order to go further. they wanted coins, which we did not have. One of them wore a bow accross his back and had a knife in his belt. As Jesse and Marvin argued with him Woody rolled Smart dice to have Ralph steal the knife. Nick opposed the roll with his Adventure dice, but it wasn’t enough, and Ralph was able to take the knife as his own. Ralph offered to trade the spider children the knife back instead of a toll, but this just made them mad, and a fight broke out. Ralph pushed the child with the bow out of the tree, and he fell and hit the ground below. Murial and Dino ran along the pathway to the far side of the river, butbut before the others could join them the spider child who Ralph had pushed called for it’s parent. A giant spider lifted the child onto it’s back and came after the children. The child drew his bow and shot at Jesse. April rolled Fast dice to get out of the way, but she failed, and Jesse lost a Tough dice as the Arrow struck her in the shoulder. 

Marvin fought off the spider as the rest of the friends joined Murial and Dino on the other side of the river. As the spider chased them, ralph turned and stabbed at the child riding it. Woody rolled Fast dice to hit the Child, and Nick (having already created the spider child using the Monster Formula) rolled Fast Dice to avoid. the child wasn’t fast enough, so Woody rolled Strong dice against the childs Tough dice to see if Ralph did damage. Ralphs attack hurt the child, costing him his only tough dice. Woody got to narrate the scene, and described how Ralph stepped forward and stabbed the spider child in the throat with the childs own knife! 

The spider howeled in grif over her dead child, as other spiders started to chase us. We ran to the edge of the spider forest and into the bird forest, where the spiders had to stop chasing us. After some negotiation the birds agreed to give us shelter and escort us through their forest to the Tree Prince. Because we traveled under the protection of the birds we were forced to travel at bird pace instead of wolf pace. Birds walk slow.

The birds forest gave way to praire, and a great tree looked before us. This was the home of the tree prince, and the pathway that led into the tree itself was guarded by giant elk. We were met by a badger who led us into the tree and up  a winding set of stairs. Below us we heard a crash at the door, and saw the giant Spider King crash through the entrance way and start to climb the stairs, demanding an audience with the Prince. Elks blocked hi path, but he tried to fight hi sway through.

As we entered the Princes throne room we were suprised to see Huck, alive and well and sitting on the throne. The badger explained to us that the new Tree Prince had just recently taken the Throne. We talked to Huck, who was very much alive, and just as much a jerk as ever. He didn’t seem to rememebr being stabbed by the goblin. He also didn’t seem to be very clear on his duties as the Tree Prince, but was enjoying the royal treatment and didn’t want to go home. We tried to explain what had happened and that we needed his help to get home. That the wolves wanted us to ask him to regrow their forest. At first Huck refused, and Marvin tried to rough him up. An Elk stepped in and knocked Marvin aside. While Marvin distracted the elk, Murial and Heather bet Huck that he couldn’t even regrow the forest if he wanted to. Huck fell for the trick, and moments later the friends felt a small earthquake that Huck claimed cmae from the regrown forest. Giant birds were arranged to transport the friends back to the wolf village. But just as the friends were about to leave the the Spider King burst in to the Princes hall and demanded an audience, accusing the friends of killing a spider child. The friends immideatly claimed it wasn’t their fault,a nd that the wolves had made them travel through the spider forest and not protected them from the spider children bully or told them what to do. The Spider King raged and declared war on the wolf tribe, then stormed off back to his own forest.

The children flew on birds back to the wolf village, where they found the forest had indeed been regrown. The Wolf King, having heard news of the war, expressed his diapointment in the friends and asked them to leave his forest. The friends returned through the door, having been gone for almost a day and a half.

So, that was our seacond session. Because we choose an average adventure we recieved 3 Reward dice. these were distributed to Murial, Jesse and Marvin. I spent Murials die to acquire the Run Special die. During the game I had decided that Murial was on the track team and could run nearly as fast a s wolf anyway. I also think that Murial is a bit of a coward, so Run should go well with her other Special die, escape.

During the game I tried to use Murials Cook Special die to create Berry Pies, Sushi and other mechaniclly beneficial food items. Each time I failed the roll! This was definetly a case of bad luck, but I’m eager to try again. My vision of Murial as a coward chef will come true somehow!

Travis will be running the next session. I can’t wait!

can story games be art?

so this is an interesting. Jake’s seems to have had allot of feed back from the question. here’s the link

death,drugs and poke’mon

so I’ve been working on a game about well. Pokemon. the system I’ve created i like and the story isn’t the best I’ve come up with but it works. i haven’t decided on a name yet.. it about taking drugs and hallucinating Pokemon, then fight with them. help!

the crossroads of power rangers

so I’m playing a crossroads of eternity game right now with my group and we are playing students of a special school that are given super suits, each one controls a different element(fire, water, earth, air). are missions is to test these suits out and see if they work… hehe, so the first thing are group did was cause shit. we refused the suits and then tried to burn down the school, of-course Gabe, our GM wouldn’t let that happen, so now we wonder around causing trouble…it may not sound like it but its allot of fun.

sleeping city stuff

so i think i have found a simple and clean mechanical system for sleeping city, its gone through some crazy changes in the last couple weeks. i’ll throw down a playtest version as soon as i get a decent draft.

sleeping city problems

so i like both ideas i have for sleeping city but i don’t know which to use. im thinkingof a way to put  both together that would work well… will see how it turns out

paprika

so i just picked up the soundtrack to paprika! fanfuckingtastic! i recommend it!

sleeping city is a lie

soo yeah last night i had an amazing idea and I’m going to switch my original idea about sleeping city to something more… original I’ll tell you about it later