An End of an Era

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:11 pm

I'm only new to playing the game, kids. I've only been helping to design the look for nearly a decade.

MADMANMIKE · Unread post by **MADMANMIKE** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:18 pm

FluidicAztec wrote:Wow...sounds like an All Star group. I'm super jealous. I guess it's time to move to Michigan...

..Some Star maybe... :cry:

say652 · Unread post by **say652** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:49 pm

And mumah I greatly appreciate your artistic contributions. Now about that bunny armor.....are there stats for it??

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 6:09 pm

There sure are. Both Brandon and I need to to discuss more about how and if we're re-releasing them.

The Galactus Kid · Mon Jun 30, 2014 4:42 pm

This is going down tonight.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:36 pm

And my latest plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD shall plant it's first seeds...muwahahahahahahaha!

Dreamstreamer · Mon Jun 30, 2014 5:59 pm

I wish your plan all the luck of Pinky and the Brain!

Tiree · Unread post by **Tiree** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 6:58 pm

Dreamstreamer wrote:I wish your plan all the luck of Pinky and the Brain!

Which one of these two is the Brain?

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Mon Jun 30, 2014 7:22 pm

Brandon is definitely Pinky.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:27 am

First session begins. We're just a group, traveling along much like the crew of Serenity...but in Ohio...we see some smoke off of the road. We decide to check it out. We find the wreckage and remains of a group that was familiar to us. I get out of our "Tour Bus™" and look around. We find a corpse of a buffalo-rhino, but nothing else, so we start to salvage what we can from the wrecks. That's when we were attacked by a couple more buffalo-rhinos. I managed to take them both down. We are now at a traveling freak show, and that's where we shall pick up next week.

CaptKaruthors · Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:00 am

Sounds like a good start to a good story. I figured you'd all end up in a bar somewhere first. LOL. That's how most stories with beginner players start it seems. It's tradition.

Shawn Merrow · Unread post by **Shawn Merrow** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:18 am

mumah wrote:Wait...people think when making their characters?

Just try not to set your Glitter Boy on fire.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:05 am

CaptKaruthors wrote:Sounds like a good start to a good story. I figured you'd all end up in a bar somewhere first. LOL. That's how most stories with beginner players start it seems. It's tradition.

Again, neither Amy or I can be considered beginning players since we're both very familiar with Rifts and gaming.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:08 am

mumah wrote:
CaptKaruthors wrote:Sounds like a good start to a good story. I figured you'd all end up in a bar somewhere first. LOL. That's how most stories with beginner players start it seems. It's tradition.

Again, neither Amy or I can be considered beginning players since we're both very familiar with Rifts and gaming.

Shut it, noob.

Dreamstreamer · Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:50 am

mumah wrote:First session begins. We're just a group, traveling along much like the crew of Serenity...but in Ohio...we see some smoke off of the road. We decide to check it out. We find the wreckage and remains of a group that was familiar to us. I get out of our "Tour Bus™" and look around. We find a corpse of a buffalo-rhino, but nothing else, so we start to salvage what we can from the wrecks. That's when we were attacked by a couple more buffalo-rhinos. I managed to take them both down. We are now at a traveling freak show, and that's where we shall pick up next week.

This sounds awfully familiar...but in our game they were rhino-buffaloes, so probably totally different.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 01, 2014 10:53 am

Dreamstreamer wrote:
mumah wrote:First session begins. We're just a group, traveling along much like the crew of Serenity...but in Ohio...we see some smoke off of the road. We decide to check it out. We find the wreckage and remains of a group that was familiar to us. I get out of our "Tour Bus™" and look around. We find a corpse of a buffalo-rhino, but nothing else, so we start to salvage what we can from the wrecks. That's when we were attacked by a couple more buffalo-rhinos. I managed to take them both down. We are now at a traveling freak show, and that's where we shall pick up next week.

This sounds awfully familiar...but in our game they were rhino-buffaloes, so probably totally different.

It's a great place to start and a really good adventure. After this adventure, we're totally going off the rails.

Jorel · Unread post by **Jorel** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:00 am

keep to the rails...it is cheaper after all.

Dreamstreamer · Tue Jul 01, 2014 1:19 pm

The Galactus Kid wrote:It's a great place to start and a really good adventure.

I still have many fond memories of it. I liked the sequel, too.

The Galactus Kid wrote:After this adventure, we're totally going off the rails.

If they survive, that is...Mwuhahahah! (Or should it be Mumahahahah!)

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:35 am

Tonight's sessions began where we left off: at the freak show. Amy's operator and I are charged with finding a fence for all the loot we had acquired with the buffa-rhino encounter. Amy's doing most off the snooping because I'm fascinated by the exhibits. We find a guy, we negotiate a price, walk out of the tent when suddenly we're confronted by several....and three transformers blew in front of Brandon's house and Amy and I were suddenly alone in our chat window. We talked for about 45 minutes about our normal art crap and gave up on the game.

Tiree · Unread post by **Tiree** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:52 am

mumah wrote:Tonight's sessions began where we left off: at the freak show. Amy's operator and I are charged with finding a fence for all the loot we had acquired with the buffa-rhino encounter. Amy's doing most off the snooping because I'm fascinated by the exhibits. We find a guy, we negotiate a price, walk out of the tent when suddenly we're confronted by several....and three transformers blew in front of Brandon's house and Amy and I were suddenly alone in our chat window. We talked for about 45 minutes about our normal art crap and gave up on the game.

Which ones? Prowl, Brawn, Ratchet, Ironhide?

MADMANMIKE · Unread post by **MADMANMIKE** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:47 am

How did they do it? I mean, I guess per movie canon they can theoretically create any 'parts' they want, but does that metal have the sensations necessary for it to be worth the time?

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:28 am

mumah wrote:Tonight's sessions began where we left off: at the freak show. Amy's operator and I are charged with finding a fence for all the loot we had acquired with the buffa-rhino encounter. Amy's doing most off the snooping because I'm fascinated by the exhibits. We find a guy, we negotiate a price, walk out of the tent when suddenly we're confronted by several....and three transformers blew in front of Brandon's house and Amy and I were suddenly alone in our chat window. We talked for about 45 minutes about our normal art crap and gave up on the game.

Yeah. Sucks. Still don't have power and my neighborhood looks like a bomb went of. Since we were in the basement we really didn't know just how bad the storm was.

Jorel · Unread post by **Jorel** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:07 am

glad you and your family are safe

MADMANMIKE · Unread post by **MADMANMIKE** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 2:54 pm

Glad you guys are alright.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 08, 2014 4:40 pm

Thanks for the well-wishes everyone. Yeah, we're all fine. Hoping to have power sometime this evening, and TOTALLY looking forward to some real gaming next week.

cyber-yukongil v2.5 · Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:21 pm

mumah wrote:Tonight's sessions began where we left off: at the freak show. Amy's operator and I are charged with finding a fence for all the loot we had acquired with the buffa-rhino encounter. Amy's doing most off the snooping because I'm fascinated by the exhibits. We find a guy, we negotiate a price, walk out of the tent when suddenly we're confronted by several....and three transformers blew in front of Brandon's house and Amy and I were suddenly alone in our chat window. We talked for about 45 minutes about our normal art crap and gave up on the game.

wow, that bad huh? I know I've had to pull some crazy stuff to get out of running a game, but never have I sabotaged the power transformers to my neighborhood. That is crazy

The Ruiner · Unread post by **The Ruiner** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:47 pm

Tiree wrote:Which ones? Prowl, Brawn, Ratchet, Ironhide?

"It's Star Scream!!!!"

Grell · Unread post by **Grell** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:20 pm

The Ruiner wrote:
Tiree wrote:Which ones? Prowl, Brawn, Ratchet, Ironhide?

"It's Star Scream!!!!"

Yeah, power outages are ALWAYS the result of a null ray attack.

Shawn Merrow · Unread post by **Shawn Merrow** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 2:19 am

mumah wrote:Tonight's sessions began where we left off: at the freak show. Amy's operator and I are charged with finding a fence for all the loot we had acquired with the buffa-rhino encounter. Amy's doing most off the snooping because I'm fascinated by the exhibits. We find a guy, we negotiate a price, walk out of the tent when suddenly we're confronted by several....and three transformers blew in front of Brandon's house and Amy and I were suddenly alone in our chat window. We talked for about 45 minutes about our normal art crap and gave up on the game.

Dam you Michael Bay!

The Galactus Kid · Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:26 pm

cyber-yukongil v2.5 wrote:
mumah wrote:Tonight's sessions began where we left off: at the freak show. Amy's operator and I are charged with finding a fence for all the loot we had acquired with the buffa-rhino encounter. Amy's doing most off the snooping because I'm fascinated by the exhibits. We find a guy, we negotiate a price, walk out of the tent when suddenly we're confronted by several....and three transformers blew in front of Brandon's house and Amy and I were suddenly alone in our chat window. We talked for about 45 minutes about our normal art crap and gave up on the game.

wow, that bad huh? I know I've had to pull some crazy stuff to get out of running a game, but never have I sabotaged the power transformers to my neighborhood. That is crazy

SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:54 am

Tonight's session picked up right where we left off when Brandon's "power failure" (so-called) interrupted the game. With about 400 feet and a couple robots between us and our Tour Bus™ that held or weapons and my armor, we had to try to make our way there. The robots said something about "too many witnesses" and started killing the Freak Show Customers. Amy's Operator decided to rig a generator to explode and take a wide rout back to the Tour Bus™. I decided to take the direct route through the robots and to the Tour Bus™. When Amy beat me the van I was somewhat confused and called GM ginger shenanigans...) Then we had our first player fatality. Our Crazy in a jet pack screamed something about covering fire and flew over the robots and was promptly shot down. I managed to make it to my armor, went out and discovered I was only rolling half damage on my boom gun because I wrote that stat down wrong. But we destroyed the robots. Then comes a conversation from the crazed ancient robot from earlier. He was spouting some garbage about an ancient evil and treasure...

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:39 am

Yeah, the Crazy died in GLORIOUS fashion.

Jorel · Unread post by **Jorel** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:57 am

As it should be.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:02 am

I'm kinda jealous of that death, really. I've had players die epically. But then the GM will come up to me and say we'll rez him next session. And I'd be like "No way! That death was perfect!" Why waste a good ending for a good character?

Granted the crazy got all of 20 minutes of life since that player wasn't able to make the previous sessions, but he damn sure will be remembered.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:21 pm

mumah wrote:I'm kinda jealous of that death, really. I've had players die epically. But then the GM will come up to me and say we'll rez him next session. And I'd be like "No way! That death was perfect!" Why waste a good ending for a good character?

Granted the crazy got all of 20 minutes of life since that player wasn't able to make the previous sessions, but he damn sure will be remembered.

I'm sure that Michael will have just as awesome of a character concept with the next one.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:27 pm

Suddenly, I want him to be our Kenny.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:13 pm

mumah wrote:Suddenly, I want him to be our Kenny.

The dice will do as the dice will.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:22 pm

The Galactus Kid wrote:
mumah wrote:Suddenly, I want him to be our Kenny.

The dice will do as the dice will.

Yeah, but you could make an effort.

BookWyrm · Unread post by **BookWyrm** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:27 pm

It was if, suddenly, millions of pencils and pens, sighed in relief, and then fell silent.....

:lol:

ALAshbaugh · Unread post by **ALAshbaugh** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:31 am

The Galactus Kid wrote:Yeah, the Crazy died in GLORIOUS fashion.

Damn right he did. That was amazing. Beats my character losing a leg in our Dead Reign campaign way back when. And I have never witnessed a character die in their first play session.

The Galactus Kid · Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:26 am

ALAshbaugh wrote:
The Galactus Kid wrote:Yeah, the Crazy died in GLORIOUS fashion.

Damn right he did. That was amazing. Beats my character losing a leg in our Dead Reign campaign way back when. And I have never witnessed a character die in their first play session.

The owner of the pick-up truck is going to be pretty pissed.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:48 pm

I was once involved with a TPK in our first session. It was quite impressive.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:14 am

So crazy machine man leads us to our "treasure." Problem is we have to take out somebody first.....a giant brain in the middle of a computer complex surrounded by robots. So I shoot the brain and all hell breaks loose. There are robots streaming into the complex and onto us and it seems to be a hopeless fight...until I kill the brain. Then all the 'bots stop for a moment. We find our way down corridor, our Machine Man is squeelling with delight. We're led to what I can only assume is a Rift and through. And that's where we left off.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:40 am

You forgot the town of Finton where you waited in the tour bus.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:45 am

Yeah, but largely nothing happened there and it was just a distraction.

The Galactus Kid · Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:22 am

All kinds of stuff happened. Actually the party got most of the experience for the session from that encounter. I almost had Knox's character arrested (or worse) for effectively attacking the protector of the town, even though he thought that was a non-threatening action. You just don't go around Magic Netting stuff.

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:58 pm

That's what she said.

ALAshbaugh · Unread post by **ALAshbaugh** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:40 pm

I'm gonna miss my truck

mumah · Unread post by **mumah** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:30 am

ALAshbaugh wrote:I'm gonna miss my truck

Yeah. The loss of the Tour Bus™ so early was a travesty we will be hard pressed to forget. Unless it somehow travelled through the Rift with us like the beginning of Army of Darkness...

The Galactus Kid · Thu Jul 24, 2014 10:38 am

mumah wrote:
ALAshbaugh wrote:I'm gonna miss my truck

Yeah. The loss of the Tour Bus™ so early was a travesty we will be hard pressed to forget. Unless it somehow travelled through the Rift with us like the beginning of Army of Darkness...

It did not, but an enterprising group of scavengers should be able to get something before too long.