Want to finish Cthulhu SF Campaign stuff I wrote and then will run my retro-clone edition in the setting I'm blogging about. Players realise they could all be awful characters because there are very few innocent people in the setting.
So we skipped a year as 6 weeks since most players were together at once. Since most of the worlds nazi villains escaped to mars on their Von Braun mars colony ships and died on arrival, villains had been slow. The old Department of Superhuman Affairs was dead and Sir Reginald had retired. The new org APIS Australian Paranormal Intelligence Service seemed more about power, salvaging black science and watching heroes for unheroic or communist activity.
Rather than face the Unheroic Affairs Committee all had quit their millitary jobs. Except for Ace who is a sort of mercenary working for governments and worthy causes.
Digger the super soldier had quit the millitary and became security director of Space Security Commission which operated a radio telescope, a supercomputer and a traditional observatory. Working with the director a good friend and Digger seems to make intuitive leaps about space stuff. Digger is fast, regenerates and is armoured with high attributes, combat skills and utility belt.
Stretcho the detective quit the spy business and started a nightclub run by sidekick Lavender Lass inher public ID. Stretcho ran his detective office from the club and when in private reverted to her true female form. She and Lavender Lass had been married by Venusian Amazons and had their honeymoon there in secret. When they help ladies flee deadbeat husbands they send some to Venus via saphic super science. Stretcho has a plastic stretchy body and is a super strong former spy and expert wrestler.
Blackjack the mystery man who knows all had never worked for the government and had grown his spy organisation of street contacts. Mostly focused on crime fighting with some occasional supernatural foes. Blackjack can turn into a living 2d shadow and is telepathic.
Ace of Aces had been fighting Mig15s in Korea in his new custom BAC Electric Lightning fighter and had also been performing rescues and trying out helicopters. Has been expanding airfield mobile island fleet. Also can fly, has super senses and regeneration.
Blakjack used his new aura sense stunt on the party and revealed Stretcho is part alien and Digger is alien and not like all the other government super soldiers. Ace was of course dropping test atom bombs to get his powers. Digger the character doesnt know anything about this.
We had another new player with Blackjack play on public holiday. Another mystery vigilante with super soldier stats and an advanced sf ray gun and gadgets.
I made players roll up two d100 tables one for crime and a weird mystery table.
So to start Stretch was investigating missing ARcheologists from a side with a burned crater nearby. On the way back from the lab with a ginger counter was chased by two cars. Blackjack had joined Digger escorting a v2 rocket to Woomera and miraculously saw Stretcho's car being chased on the underpass. He leaped out his car and his driver stayed with the convoy. He skillfully jumped from the overpass onto a pursuing car bonnet. He reached through the window and grabbed the wheel steering the car ap an embankment and the driver braked. A passenger shot hm in the face.
Blackjack tried same and landedon the road and tried to grab the car and got hit instead nut he was made of shadow at time. Stretcho got her lover Lavender Lass to stop the car and ran with super long legs to join the fight and reached into the car Digger attacked and plucked out the boss. The gang surrendered. Turns out their gang had been paid to stop Stretcho from returning to the archaeology camp.
On way back to camp some heard weird noises and Blackjack saw a light streak into the sun. Turns out the "scientists" from River City U were crackpots looking for Atlantean giants when really they were digging up an alien UFO wreck. They found the crater had been filled in with lots of documents missing and typewriter ribbons stolen. Radioactive footprints were around the site and the landfill was radioactive. Ace arrived in a primitive Sikorsky helicopter and searched from the air and found hole where the landfill came from also radioactive.
So also found two unconscious bodies of missing men. Stretcho used her bio healing powers from her plasmoid hybrid body and while Blackjack did first aid finding them cool and slow heartbeat, did an aurascan. Discovered they were some kind of alien psuedo lifeform replicants. He exposed this secret and told them to give up. They fell over dead and melted.
So the gang contacted various friends like a Strategic Wing Commander of the Air Force and some APIS agents and millitary and they also enquired about Blackjacks current case. Why he was consulted Digger for at his new job at the space centre. Apparently, genetically modified super locusts had been stolen. Blackjack also had an incident 200 pigeons in co-ordinated flight over him and a police sarge and covered them in shit. Something controlled them he didn't know what. Wondered if the super locusts were connected. There had also been ghost and UFO sightings around city and using past recordings at the space centre found the same force that replaced the scientists had been visiting the agricultural research station where the weaponised super insects had been developed. Party got paperwork from the Wing Commander to inspect the base security based on a possible leak. All in civies and Stretcho as a lady secretary.
Got through elaborate security and found the lab and the frozen bug vault armoury. They had a major and 4 security guards showing g them the lab. Got to see some educational films explaining Commies were weaponising insects so we have to do it do it to defend ourselves. The Ag Lab claimed to be working on pest control in giant domes. Originally Exotech corp plan was the footlong bugs would eat crops then fly into a protein refinery and added to food, saving millions in fuel, transport and farm machines. The millitary planned to steal enemy crops or defend against enemy bugs at first. There was a genetic switch to make them sterile so as not to breed out of control and another to make them deadly flesh-eating monsters with metallic chitten.
Turned out the major was an alien replicant. There was psionic static in area from the huge bug domes above the lab sub-levels on the surface. Blackjack failed to warn everyone so waited on the tour for the right time. That was when in the cryovault where the theft happened Ace saw a secret door and opened it revealing an alien comms room with a box of whiskey and Cuban Cigars and a nightclub matchbook. They rapidly took out the soldiers and Stretch impaled the major replicant with her arm and lifted him off the ground. Had a laser pistol also and an armband with symbols. Ace gutted the computer. They gang went up the lift shaft and set off an emergency evacuation alarm. Escaped using the Majors ID to open the gates and get back to their vehichle and comedicly huge piles of guns and utility belts they couldn't carry into the black lab under the bug domes.
They called their higher up millitary contacts and military evaced personnel on surface, The heroes saw a car trying to escape with three replicants and stopped them. Then the sound of Ace's Canberra Bomber crewed by his Island base team drowned out everything and dropped several tonnes of napalm on the base destroying all the bugs and burning into the lower levels. This was followed by his buddy flying is BAC Lightning fighter tired missiles opening the black lab superstructure to fire. After all this Ace had to go back to Korea to fight commies.
Party decided to investigate club affiliated with gang that was related to the pigeon shit incident where they were shat on arresting gang members. Sarge advising their plan of action whispered "the pigeons are watching us everywhere". Blackjack had detected a hive mind like the insect swarm ones. Party decided to infiltrate the club and try to capture the gang boss Bugsy North and find out about his alien and tech links.
They all dressed up and Stretch came in a glamourous evening dress and the rest in smart tuxedos and suits. Digger wasn't allowed in but they were very welcoming of Stretcho and Blackjack in his alter ego as a playboy philanthropist. Digger sneaked around the back and used hyperspeed to sneak in and grabbed a box and entered the bar. The others with free drinks met and could see a flight of stairs 30 foot up to an office overlooking the club dancefloor stage and casino. Briefly Blackjack caught odd glimpses of activity inside.
Blackjack tried to get thugs to let him meet the boss using his streetwise and savoir fair. Reading their minds they were looking for assassins and had extra guards pl7us the boss was awaiting his own assassin to arrive. The discussion broke down and Blackjack became a shadow and smacked them as they shot at him. Stretcho used her grotesque biohealing touch to save one mangled gangster, Digger ran upstairs super speed and looked through the window and saw boss, 4 goons and humanoid insect creature. The gang burst in and the boss tried to exith through a door and drew a laser pistol. The goons had tommyguns and a lewisgun.
Sadly due to terrible rolls, Digger tried an areas effect charge and missed and bounced off a wall and fell three stories to the club dancefloor. Blackjack tried a charge at the boss who evaded making Jack hit a wall and the boss got into the next room. Amazo smashed a hole in the club wall for patrons to escape. She reached to the office and grabbed the bug and dropped it to the lower floor and immobilised the bug on the floor. It tried sonic attacks while Stretch crushed the bug. Both were losing a few Health points a round so was slow. As they went to get the gangster boss two weird men in black with weird black designer glasses and hats walked through a wall. Blackjack charged them and felt he had slightly hurt the phantoms and then tried a mental attack which didn't harm one of the MIB. They reached inside the mob boss and he exploded in a shower of red. Digger came to help bash the bug monster held by Stretcho and the press got photos. The MIB walked through a wall leaving no trace.
Meeting up at the space centre with the various anti-alien allies they concluded these MIB may be real aliens and possibly only two of them making replicants and probably have a base in the city area and not commuting to space, With captured alien tech and past recordings they will be able to track it. Players want ray pistols which in most super games would be a problem. Ace is the only tech guy in the party and his more a gifted tinkerer-mechanic. Nobody knows how to reload the lasers.
Will be morphing ideas from the Dark Future RPG, 2000ad comics Vector13 and a Martian Manhuter series from 90s American Secrets. As ever ROM too and I used Dire Wraiths in a campaign for years as a player's personal enemy.
So we skipped a year as 6 weeks since most players were together at once. Since most of the worlds nazi villains escaped to mars on their Von Braun mars colony ships and died on arrival, villains had been slow. The old Department of Superhuman Affairs was dead and Sir Reginald had retired. The new org APIS Australian Paranormal Intelligence Service seemed more about power, salvaging black science and watching heroes for unheroic or communist activity.
Rather than face the Unheroic Affairs Committee all had quit their millitary jobs. Except for Ace who is a sort of mercenary working for governments and worthy causes.
Digger the super soldier had quit the millitary and became security director of Space Security Commission which operated a radio telescope, a supercomputer and a traditional observatory. Working with the director a good friend and Digger seems to make intuitive leaps about space stuff. Digger is fast, regenerates and is armoured with high attributes, combat skills and utility belt.
Stretcho the detective quit the spy business and started a nightclub run by sidekick Lavender Lass inher public ID. Stretcho ran his detective office from the club and when in private reverted to her true female form. She and Lavender Lass had been married by Venusian Amazons and had their honeymoon there in secret. When they help ladies flee deadbeat husbands they send some to Venus via saphic super science. Stretcho has a plastic stretchy body and is a super strong former spy and expert wrestler.
Blackjack the mystery man who knows all had never worked for the government and had grown his spy organisation of street contacts. Mostly focused on crime fighting with some occasional supernatural foes. Blackjack can turn into a living 2d shadow and is telepathic.
Ace of Aces had been fighting Mig15s in Korea in his new custom BAC Electric Lightning fighter and had also been performing rescues and trying out helicopters. Has been expanding airfield mobile island fleet. Also can fly, has super senses and regeneration.
Blakjack used his new aura sense stunt on the party and revealed Stretcho is part alien and Digger is alien and not like all the other government super soldiers. Ace was of course dropping test atom bombs to get his powers. Digger the character doesnt know anything about this.
We had another new player with Blackjack play on public holiday. Another mystery vigilante with super soldier stats and an advanced sf ray gun and gadgets.
I made players roll up two d100 tables one for crime and a weird mystery table.
So to start Stretch was investigating missing ARcheologists from a side with a burned crater nearby. On the way back from the lab with a ginger counter was chased by two cars. Blackjack had joined Digger escorting a v2 rocket to Woomera and miraculously saw Stretcho's car being chased on the underpass. He leaped out his car and his driver stayed with the convoy. He skillfully jumped from the overpass onto a pursuing car bonnet. He reached through the window and grabbed the wheel steering the car ap an embankment and the driver braked. A passenger shot hm in the face.
Blackjack tried same and landedon the road and tried to grab the car and got hit instead nut he was made of shadow at time. Stretcho got her lover Lavender Lass to stop the car and ran with super long legs to join the fight and reached into the car Digger attacked and plucked out the boss. The gang surrendered. Turns out their gang had been paid to stop Stretcho from returning to the archaeology camp.
On way back to camp some heard weird noises and Blackjack saw a light streak into the sun. Turns out the "scientists" from River City U were crackpots looking for Atlantean giants when really they were digging up an alien UFO wreck. They found the crater had been filled in with lots of documents missing and typewriter ribbons stolen. Radioactive footprints were around the site and the landfill was radioactive. Ace arrived in a primitive Sikorsky helicopter and searched from the air and found hole where the landfill came from also radioactive.
So also found two unconscious bodies of missing men. Stretcho used her bio healing powers from her plasmoid hybrid body and while Blackjack did first aid finding them cool and slow heartbeat, did an aurascan. Discovered they were some kind of alien psuedo lifeform replicants. He exposed this secret and told them to give up. They fell over dead and melted.
So the gang contacted various friends like a Strategic Wing Commander of the Air Force and some APIS agents and millitary and they also enquired about Blackjacks current case. Why he was consulted Digger for at his new job at the space centre. Apparently, genetically modified super locusts had been stolen. Blackjack also had an incident 200 pigeons in co-ordinated flight over him and a police sarge and covered them in shit. Something controlled them he didn't know what. Wondered if the super locusts were connected. There had also been ghost and UFO sightings around city and using past recordings at the space centre found the same force that replaced the scientists had been visiting the agricultural research station where the weaponised super insects had been developed. Party got paperwork from the Wing Commander to inspect the base security based on a possible leak. All in civies and Stretcho as a lady secretary.
Got through elaborate security and found the lab and the frozen bug vault armoury. They had a major and 4 security guards showing g them the lab. Got to see some educational films explaining Commies were weaponising insects so we have to do it do it to defend ourselves. The Ag Lab claimed to be working on pest control in giant domes. Originally Exotech corp plan was the footlong bugs would eat crops then fly into a protein refinery and added to food, saving millions in fuel, transport and farm machines. The millitary planned to steal enemy crops or defend against enemy bugs at first. There was a genetic switch to make them sterile so as not to breed out of control and another to make them deadly flesh-eating monsters with metallic chitten.
Turned out the major was an alien replicant. There was psionic static in area from the huge bug domes above the lab sub-levels on the surface. Blackjack failed to warn everyone so waited on the tour for the right time. That was when in the cryovault where the theft happened Ace saw a secret door and opened it revealing an alien comms room with a box of whiskey and Cuban Cigars and a nightclub matchbook. They rapidly took out the soldiers and Stretch impaled the major replicant with her arm and lifted him off the ground. Had a laser pistol also and an armband with symbols. Ace gutted the computer. They gang went up the lift shaft and set off an emergency evacuation alarm. Escaped using the Majors ID to open the gates and get back to their vehichle and comedicly huge piles of guns and utility belts they couldn't carry into the black lab under the bug domes.
They called their higher up millitary contacts and military evaced personnel on surface, The heroes saw a car trying to escape with three replicants and stopped them. Then the sound of Ace's Canberra Bomber crewed by his Island base team drowned out everything and dropped several tonnes of napalm on the base destroying all the bugs and burning into the lower levels. This was followed by his buddy flying is BAC Lightning fighter tired missiles opening the black lab superstructure to fire. After all this Ace had to go back to Korea to fight commies.
Party decided to investigate club affiliated with gang that was related to the pigeon shit incident where they were shat on arresting gang members. Sarge advising their plan of action whispered "the pigeons are watching us everywhere". Blackjack had detected a hive mind like the insect swarm ones. Party decided to infiltrate the club and try to capture the gang boss Bugsy North and find out about his alien and tech links.
They all dressed up and Stretch came in a glamourous evening dress and the rest in smart tuxedos and suits. Digger wasn't allowed in but they were very welcoming of Stretcho and Blackjack in his alter ego as a playboy philanthropist. Digger sneaked around the back and used hyperspeed to sneak in and grabbed a box and entered the bar. The others with free drinks met and could see a flight of stairs 30 foot up to an office overlooking the club dancefloor stage and casino. Briefly Blackjack caught odd glimpses of activity inside.
Blackjack tried to get thugs to let him meet the boss using his streetwise and savoir fair. Reading their minds they were looking for assassins and had extra guards pl7us the boss was awaiting his own assassin to arrive. The discussion broke down and Blackjack became a shadow and smacked them as they shot at him. Stretcho used her grotesque biohealing touch to save one mangled gangster, Digger ran upstairs super speed and looked through the window and saw boss, 4 goons and humanoid insect creature. The gang burst in and the boss tried to exith through a door and drew a laser pistol. The goons had tommyguns and a lewisgun.
Sadly due to terrible rolls, Digger tried an areas effect charge and missed and bounced off a wall and fell three stories to the club dancefloor. Blackjack tried a charge at the boss who evaded making Jack hit a wall and the boss got into the next room. Amazo smashed a hole in the club wall for patrons to escape. She reached to the office and grabbed the bug and dropped it to the lower floor and immobilised the bug on the floor. It tried sonic attacks while Stretch crushed the bug. Both were losing a few Health points a round so was slow. As they went to get the gangster boss two weird men in black with weird black designer glasses and hats walked through a wall. Blackjack charged them and felt he had slightly hurt the phantoms and then tried a mental attack which didn't harm one of the MIB. They reached inside the mob boss and he exploded in a shower of red. Digger came to help bash the bug monster held by Stretcho and the press got photos. The MIB walked through a wall leaving no trace.
Meeting up at the space centre with the various anti-alien allies they concluded these MIB may be real aliens and possibly only two of them making replicants and probably have a base in the city area and not commuting to space, With captured alien tech and past recordings they will be able to track it. Players want ray pistols which in most super games would be a problem. Ace is the only tech guy in the party and his more a gifted tinkerer-mechanic. Nobody knows how to reload the lasers.
Will be morphing ideas from the Dark Future RPG, 2000ad comics Vector13 and a Martian Manhuter series from 90s American Secrets. As ever ROM too and I used Dire Wraiths in a campaign for years as a player's personal enemy.
Now THAT'S an adventure!
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