XXVc Notebook- The Curators: The Adventure Continues

So, the short, simple adventure I'm running is called, unofficially, The Curators as it deals with a group of academics that are attempting to counteract RAMs attempts at rewriting Earth history.

The lineup changed and now features Rad Randy and his fellow mutant and newfound friend Kim, a mutant traveller from the radioactive hell of eastern Europe. The tinker, who at press time still did not have either a name or a proper character sheet, accidentally stepped in front of an oncoming bus and that was that for him.

Rad and Kim made their way down the St. Lawrence river from Montreal, where they received their mission, to the rough and tumble org called Ottawa. Their celcomp in hand, they made their way into the surrounding sprawl to locate a possible untainted source of historical information.

On the way they avoid an encounter with a RAM patrol and their pet saluqi (q.v.) As the session comes to a close, the mongols (Terrans that work for the Han) are closing in quickly on our intrepid heroes.

And that's all for Friday's game.

XXVc Notebook- First Adventure & etcetera

So, I ran the "meet & greet" portion of my adventure "The Curators" for Dragonsfoot Lounge pals Ettin of Hexen and Vondan. Ettin is playing a Warrior named Rad Randy, a mutant (more about mutants later) with "neutron hair" and Dan is playing a Tinker Engineer whose name we don't know yet who has a "strong sexual attraction to cutesy-wootsie cartoon characters" (to paraphrase Robert Williams) and carries a "giant" wrench.

In brief, the two have been bid by a group known very informally as The Curators to venture forth from the Montreal arcology into deepest, darkest Ottawa, Ontario in search of artifacts of the past. Since Randy is the tour guide on this trek, he got to pick the mode of transportation there and so chose to take the St. Lawrence river via canoe.

...and that's as far as we got before my shitty internet connection dropped and left my dick in the dirt for a couple of hours.


Next we move on to Howard Chaykin's great 1980's comic American Flagg! and how it relates to XXVc. I'm just going to quote from the synopsis of the comic from Wikipedia. A surprising similarity reveals itself therein-

However, the exiled American government, its corporate backers, and a group of technicians in the defected Soviet lunar colony of Gagaringrad form the Plex: a giant, interplanetary union of corporate and government concerns that conduct commerce and govern the United States from its capital on Mars. Many population centers are grouped around massive, fortified arcologies called Plexmalls and the law is enforced by the Plexus Rangers, the absentee Plex's Earthside militia.

Not exactly the same, of course, but replace the Plex with RAM (the Russo-American Mercantile Corp.) and it parallels XXVc's set-up rather closely in parts. The Wiki article goes on to talk about how the Plex manipulates the poor schmucks of Earth through various means, almost all of which would work well in the game. At least a game set primarily in the arcologies.

As it's been a really long time since I read AF!, there may be other bits I'm overlooking. If I manage to find them in my collection, I'll give 'em a once-over and swipe to my heart's content.