Here are some highlights from Saturday at Gamicon Psi at the Iowa Memorial Union.
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Corridor Games on Demand display. It reads, "Do you like games? We can help!" |
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While at
Hamburg Inn No.2 Friday evening for dinner, we discussed Fiasco and it was more or less unanimous
decided that we would all be interested in trying the Fiasco playset
about time traveling through the life of one man, Sam Howard in All the
Damn Time. |
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Saturday morning, all the Sam Howards try to figure out what to do with themselves. Special thanks to Evan T. for facilitating the temporal continuity. |
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David MK GMs
his first official Psi*Run game for Jimmy S., Dan G.K., and Jeremy. The
Runners were a rogue metahuman project (crossing X-Men and the Fantastic
4). The Chasers were a sinister SHIELD-type organization. So many
amazing action scenes, including the destruction of the Chasers' flying
fortress, turning it into a flaming fireball which crashed into Beijing,
China. |
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David MK (the
Engineer) facilitated Our Last Best Hope for Tim (the Soldier), Kathleen (the Scientist), and Jimmy S. (the Doctor). We
played the Space Mission. Our Crisis was "A massive alien derelict is
on course to collide with Earth." |
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The crew of
Lola found a way to work together for the good of humanity, in spite of
threats from aliens mind control rays, a malfunctioning MIMIC, a
flesh-eating space-virus, and betrayal from within. |
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Unfortunately,
their brave efforts and noble sacrifices were not good enough as the
alien ship still managed to collide with the Earth, destroying all life
on it, leaving only the Soldier, the Doctor and a few red shirts in a
mostly finished shuttle to carry on the human race elsewhere. |
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Jimmy S. GMed tremulus for Dan G.K., Jacob, and Kathleen. |
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David facilitated The Quiet Year for Val and Jason D. The Community survived many threats through design and fortune, but we'll never know if they would have managed the Cult Crisis -- the Frost Shepherds arrived. |
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David MK GMed
his second game of Psi*Run for Lisa, Tasha, Jeff, and Dan C. It was
going to be a short game to help demonstrate how it worked. It ended up
being one of the most hilarious in-character
banter/drama/action/thriller sci-fi-esque games that lasted about six
hours, ending around 2 a.m. We laughed and we cried from laughing more.
There are so many phrases from this game that I cannot repeat in public. So many things wrong that my sanity was bent into an origami igloo where good thoughts went to sleep in a fetal position. The Runners began as innocent victims who changed into proactive
soldiers fighting against the madness and tyranny of evil in the world. |
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The Runners:
Lisa (played the Speedster), Tasha (played the Shapeshifter), Jeff
(played the Telekinetic), and Dan C. (played the Empathy Projector). |
We all had a great time with Psi*Run. I will never look at hot dogs or mercury the same way again.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the game and hope to see everyone back for Games on Demand again. :-)
DeleteAnd I will never look at my own butt-skin the same way. Thanks for running, and putting up with our late-night nonsense. I bought the game on Sunday, and I'm looking forward to putting my friends through similar adventures.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that the game made a good impression on you. Let me know how your games of Psi*Run go. Hope to see you at Games on Demand again!
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