Friday, July 15, 2011

Cold City Characters and their Draws 1/3

Rick Patton's draw, straight from the player: "Sent to "eliminate" former German scientist who was being wooed by Soviets and ambushed by patrol of undead German soldiers blocking way to scientist's hideout."

I'm honestly not sure if the player, Patrick brought the undead German soldiers in from the book or came up with the idea himself, but either way it's awesome. Presumably, if the scientist was being "wooed" by the Soviets, he pictured this occurring after the war, but I tried to make as many of these origins as possible actually occur during the war's final days. So, instead, we put the German scientist in the no man's land of the western front, building STs out of the remaining parts of fallen soldiers. No matter what I threw at him (and his team) Rick kept heading for his target. We pretty quickly came to a point where a roll seemed like a good idea. Does Rick kill the scientist, or does the scientist get away? Rick kills the scientist, gets overwhelmed by the STs and wakes up back at base a somewhat terrified hero.

Pham's draw involves women in a Viet Namese hospital and a monsterous breeding program headed by the Japanese. I didn't talk about lines and veils with anyone, but I had every intention of talking to Kim, the only other daddy in the group, about how he felt about child endangerment in the game. His draw made it pretty clear that he's okay with it, so six limbed monster babies died left and right. I tried to interject some situation by making one of the pregnant women a friend of Pham's missing sister, but if Pham agonized about what to do with her, I couldn't tell. She died in childbirth and it was up to Pham: does he kill the monster baby, or does it escape into the night to terrorize Viet Nam? He kills it, is what he does.

0 comments:

Post a Comment