Message from discussion Hilarious adventuring experiences

From: Allan Goodall <all...@kodak.com>
Subject: Re: Hilarious adventuring experiences
Date: 1996/10/10
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The funniest campaign I've ever run is my current CthulhuPunk game. One 
prize moment happened earlier this year. The year is 2049 and the 
characters are: Johnny Jihad (years ago he starred in two Web sitcoms
based on the 2010 Arab-Israeli war: Hogan's Hebrews, and Iman Knows
Best), Jerry Wylde (star of _Wylde Kingdom_ where Jerry seeks out 
endangered species and eradicates them! Violently! On film! Johnny
Jihad was -- briefly -- Wylde's "Jim"), Franklin from the Bank (covert
loans officer), Esther Starr (psychic to the stars), J.C. Doyle (medical
student turned hacker), Findley (Doyle's butler), and Carl Bolivar (rare
antiquities fence).

The players are trying to break into a Sigma 9 site, a secure data 
entry and retrieval site, by way of an ancient (and long forgotten) part
of the London sewer system. In their first run through the sewers the 
players meet Bert, Ernie, and Kermit, three ex-SAS members who were gassed
by halucinogens during the Third Balkan War. They are now "nostalgics" 
worshipping old stuff, and are (not surprisingly) dressed like the muppets
of the same name (only with guns!). The group decides to bribe these guys
so that they can travel through this part of the sewer safely. Franklin's 
player asks me if the bank had recovered the estate of the late Jim
Henson. I make a roll and say, "yes, the bank has the estate."  A quick
call later and Franklin has secured some "assets" as bribes. 

The next evening, the group descend into the sewers with two crates, one
containing the Snufflupagus costume and the other containing the Big Bird
costume. Johnny Jihad secured the Sweetums costume for himself. So here we
have three golf carts slipping through the London sewer system, with Sweetums
in the lead cart armed with a submachine gun (Jihad wore his combat armour
underneath) on the way to delivering the Snuffleupagus and Big Bird to 
Bert, Ernie and Kermit.



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