Post by evreaux on Dec 18, 2007 17:25:21 GMT -6
For a change of pace, I recently ran my group through a one shot of Gamma World 1E.
They woke up from a soothing darkness by hearing an alarm bell and being thrust out of tubes onto a cold floor, naked, with amnesia, and confronted by a horrid monstrosity in front of them. The rest of the session was them trying to survive long enough to figure out who they were and why they were apparently deep in a ruined underground complex. Several wound up mutated via contact with hyperfast zombies and a mutant gorilla (since it was a one shot and I was going for atmosphere, I made the mutations happen almost immediately, instead of resulting from gradual exposures). Great, great fun for a lark.
(If anyone is interested, the story was that they were part of a team of marines and scientists who were squirreled away underground with a supply depot, a huge supply of raw organic materials, and a cloning facility. It was called the Phoenix Contingency, and was intended to be able to "reboot" humanity after the nuclear holocausts were over. Of course, their guardians were killed, so they wound up in suspended animation for 300 years, were only revived because something breached the actual chamber they were in, and found themselves the only survivors--since the complex had been breached, looted, partially destroyed, used for lairs, used for experiments, worshipped as holy, etc., by countless things over the centuries.)
Anyway, nothing special. Just saw the forum and thought I'd share. ;-)
They woke up from a soothing darkness by hearing an alarm bell and being thrust out of tubes onto a cold floor, naked, with amnesia, and confronted by a horrid monstrosity in front of them. The rest of the session was them trying to survive long enough to figure out who they were and why they were apparently deep in a ruined underground complex. Several wound up mutated via contact with hyperfast zombies and a mutant gorilla (since it was a one shot and I was going for atmosphere, I made the mutations happen almost immediately, instead of resulting from gradual exposures). Great, great fun for a lark.
(If anyone is interested, the story was that they were part of a team of marines and scientists who were squirreled away underground with a supply depot, a huge supply of raw organic materials, and a cloning facility. It was called the Phoenix Contingency, and was intended to be able to "reboot" humanity after the nuclear holocausts were over. Of course, their guardians were killed, so they wound up in suspended animation for 300 years, were only revived because something breached the actual chamber they were in, and found themselves the only survivors--since the complex had been breached, looted, partially destroyed, used for lairs, used for experiments, worshipped as holy, etc., by countless things over the centuries.)
Anyway, nothing special. Just saw the forum and thought I'd share. ;-)
