Cybergeneration: Game 1
Played our first game of Cybergeneration today.
The Characters: Two brothers. The younger one, a biker type (and some sort of mix of Chase from Runaways, Weevil from Veronica Mars, Scuzz from XET, and a few other sources) named Vic (or 'Hazard' among his gang), played by me, and another a Goth named Danny, played by my brother's gf.
Started off with the 'character creation' adventure, which we sort of breezed through because we'd read it before. Vic was exposed to the Carbon Plague and was changed into a Tinman (bones and limbs replaced with hexite, a metallic substance that can be reshaped, and also the ability to produce armor all over the body). His brother became a Wizard (constant mental connection to the net and producing programs by thought).
My character had to leave his bike behind before the adventure started, and so I've told everybody that every few minutes Vic's grumbling "I want my bike".
Anyway, after riding through the Change, and getting to a safe place, we were contacted by the Cyber Revolution to investigate the whereabouts of one of their members who disappeared. In order to get to her last known location, since we didn't have transportation, we decided to ride the bus.
On the bus was another Tinman who was a bit crazy and picked a fight with us. We fought him a little without much success before I got the idea of grabbing him and pushing him into the window, and then once he was dangling Vic's brother helped push him out all the way, so he fell on the ground and was shaking his fists at us while we made obscene gestures back at him through the window. "Hey, sometimes you just gotta throw a guy through a window."
So, we rode to the location of the missing person's apartment, only to find it had been sealed up by BuReloc (the Bureau of Relocation, which occasionally sweeps up undesireables into labour camps while they renovate their city block). We broke inside, but alerted the cops while looking for this person's apartment. So we quickly did a little searching around her apartment, scarfed on some of her leftover food (food's important. If we don't get enough food regularly, Danny loses his Wizard powers and Vic turns into an immobile metal statue) got a couple things of value. Then the cops started getting a little too close for comfort, so we headed for the upper level fire escape. There was a 10 foot jump to another building with a floor one level below, but we were a little worried of making the jump, until Vic remembered he had a grappling hook, and fired it at the other side, holding it steady so Danny could try and zipline across. Except, it didn't work, and the line fell off the other side, so Danny went swinging a little until Vic lowered him down into a dumpster. By this time the cops were on the level we just left, so Vic did a run and jump for the building on the other side and successfully hid there while the cops scoped out the window and saw nobody there. Then Vic lowered himself down to the alley and climbed into the dumpster too.
In the dumpster both characters hid, along with a Squat, a homeless kid (around 10 years old), who helped us hide by putting a layer of garbage up top. He also noticed that we had beers taken from the apartment, and asked about it, so Vic said, "Oh, what the hell, you helped us out, here, go nuts," and gave the 10 year old homeless kid a beer. But it was only Corona.
We hid there until the heat died down and then caught the bus home, and that's where we broke cause we were out of time. Was reasonably fun, although I had a headache through most of the game. Well, all of the game, but it was only very minor for the first part of it.
Memorable quotes:
"I like my kibble crunchy!" - Me, when choosing whether we wanted our kibble (nutritionally sound but unappetizing food that most of the poor live off) in little pellets or mixed with water into a gruel.
"You know, when they said 'revolution', I pictured more explosions and less riding on the bus." - Vic, after realizing that since his bike was impounded and the impound area is closed until the morning, that he'd have to ride the bus to get where he wants to go.
Oh, and I've been going a bit more nuts on the wiki front, feeling much more free to edit stuff that I see that's incorrect or incomplete, and added a new page of limited interest: The Clinic for Paranormal Research from DP7 and also added a fair bit of info to their Psi-Force page.
The Characters: Two brothers. The younger one, a biker type (and some sort of mix of Chase from Runaways, Weevil from Veronica Mars, Scuzz from XET, and a few other sources) named Vic (or 'Hazard' among his gang), played by me, and another a Goth named Danny, played by my brother's gf.
Started off with the 'character creation' adventure, which we sort of breezed through because we'd read it before. Vic was exposed to the Carbon Plague and was changed into a Tinman (bones and limbs replaced with hexite, a metallic substance that can be reshaped, and also the ability to produce armor all over the body). His brother became a Wizard (constant mental connection to the net and producing programs by thought).
My character had to leave his bike behind before the adventure started, and so I've told everybody that every few minutes Vic's grumbling "I want my bike".
Anyway, after riding through the Change, and getting to a safe place, we were contacted by the Cyber Revolution to investigate the whereabouts of one of their members who disappeared. In order to get to her last known location, since we didn't have transportation, we decided to ride the bus.
On the bus was another Tinman who was a bit crazy and picked a fight with us. We fought him a little without much success before I got the idea of grabbing him and pushing him into the window, and then once he was dangling Vic's brother helped push him out all the way, so he fell on the ground and was shaking his fists at us while we made obscene gestures back at him through the window. "Hey, sometimes you just gotta throw a guy through a window."
So, we rode to the location of the missing person's apartment, only to find it had been sealed up by BuReloc (the Bureau of Relocation, which occasionally sweeps up undesireables into labour camps while they renovate their city block). We broke inside, but alerted the cops while looking for this person's apartment. So we quickly did a little searching around her apartment, scarfed on some of her leftover food (food's important. If we don't get enough food regularly, Danny loses his Wizard powers and Vic turns into an immobile metal statue) got a couple things of value. Then the cops started getting a little too close for comfort, so we headed for the upper level fire escape. There was a 10 foot jump to another building with a floor one level below, but we were a little worried of making the jump, until Vic remembered he had a grappling hook, and fired it at the other side, holding it steady so Danny could try and zipline across. Except, it didn't work, and the line fell off the other side, so Danny went swinging a little until Vic lowered him down into a dumpster. By this time the cops were on the level we just left, so Vic did a run and jump for the building on the other side and successfully hid there while the cops scoped out the window and saw nobody there. Then Vic lowered himself down to the alley and climbed into the dumpster too.
In the dumpster both characters hid, along with a Squat, a homeless kid (around 10 years old), who helped us hide by putting a layer of garbage up top. He also noticed that we had beers taken from the apartment, and asked about it, so Vic said, "Oh, what the hell, you helped us out, here, go nuts," and gave the 10 year old homeless kid a beer. But it was only Corona.
We hid there until the heat died down and then caught the bus home, and that's where we broke cause we were out of time. Was reasonably fun, although I had a headache through most of the game. Well, all of the game, but it was only very minor for the first part of it.
Memorable quotes:
"I like my kibble crunchy!" - Me, when choosing whether we wanted our kibble (nutritionally sound but unappetizing food that most of the poor live off) in little pellets or mixed with water into a gruel.
"You know, when they said 'revolution', I pictured more explosions and less riding on the bus." - Vic, after realizing that since his bike was impounded and the impound area is closed until the morning, that he'd have to ride the bus to get where he wants to go.
Oh, and I've been going a bit more nuts on the wiki front, feeling much more free to edit stuff that I see that's incorrect or incomplete, and added a new page of limited interest: The Clinic for Paranormal Research from DP7 and also added a fair bit of info to their Psi-Force page.