Stories From The Table

[cyberpaladin85]

I feel compelled to tell you guys about the Robotech game I was playing in back at Origins 2004. So, here's what happened:

The other players and I were part of the resistance against the Invid Invasion. The adventure begins as we all were in a town hall with it's citizens debating what was happening with their crops, which were dying. We had heard of a scientist who could hold the key to solving this mystery and possible destroy the Invid as well. So waht do we do? We set of in search of the scientist.

On our way to the scientist, we encounter a group of three Invid scouts; we decided to engage them. The highlights of the battle involved me getting the killing blow on two of them, the missile launcher of one of the other players malfunctioning and damaging us all, and and Invid exloding right over us, spilling green goop all over us. With the battle over, we soon arrived at the scientists house.

But it seemed that we weren't the first ones there! It appeared that the Invid took him hostage, and we had to rescue him. We followed the trail to a small town who's crops were totally destroyed somehow by a blight. The towns inhabitants just screemed "Invid Sympathizers." I alreted the other players to this fact outside of actual gameplay. So, what do we all end up doing? Go to the communal showers; all of us; at once.

Well, we all fell for the trap. So, we all brainstormed what to do. Being the strongest character in the bunch, and with help from thge other strong characters, we ripped off some of the pipes from the sink to use as a club and tried to shmash our way into the ventalation system. Unfortunately, that didn't work, as behind the first screen the next screen was bolted on.

If that wasn't bad enough, sleeping gas started to pour into the area. I must thank one of the other players for coming up with the idea of wrapping a towel around our faces to filter out the gas. Think that we all were unconscious, an town inhabitant, an old lady with a knife, came into to room.

Unfortunately, I have to go do a few errands now, so I'll have to finish what happened when I get back later today.

[cyberpaladin85]

Okay, I'm back now. Here's more of what happened:

Fortunately for us, the lights were out, so the old lady couldn't see us until we tried to disarm her. She swung at someone with the knife and ...missed. I swung my chunk of pipe at the knife and roll a ...natural 20. She was disarmed! We restrained her and asked her why the town was doing this to us; she cussed at us. What happened next was something that the Game Master didn't plan for (he forgot to give us alignments). One of the players asked me for the pipe; I gave it to him. He asked the old lady one more time about the shower incident; she cussed at us some more. The players response? "Hey grandma ...WHAM!!! Fortunately, I had first aid, and prevented her from dying.

Next, we went to get our stuff back. We saw our team vehicle surrounded by some Invid Scouts. One of our players had a psychological fear of Invid, and panicked. The Invid noticed this, and followed him, leaving the rest of us to get our stuff. The we attempted to rescue him. Out of the game, the player left to go to the bathroom. This ended up saving his character, because the guy with the missiles fumbled his roll again, and if the player was there, his character would have been killed in the explosion. As we fought the Invid that had captured his character, it flew away to an Invid hive. We persued.

Went we were at the Invid hive, one of the players with the only mecha-like vehicle activated the protoculture reactor; big mistake. This seriously angered the Invid an they attacked. We were surrounded when a person came up to us an questioned us. The other players were wondering why a human was helping the Invid, when I said "I don't think she's human." Sure enough, when the only attack that hurt her damaged her, she bleed a little green.

We were all taken prisoner (I was knocked unconscious when I tried to shoot her). But then the scientist showed up in the prison and freed us ...or so we thought. It turns out that he was the source of the blight! For some reason, he led us to the Invid Hive Brain. As the other characters were talking to the Invid leader who capturedus, I snuck to the brain; others followed. We attack the brain with our bare hands. We would not have destroyed the brain if not for the fact that the stupid Invid opened fire on us when we were on the brain! In short, our characters died, the evil scientist died, the Invid leader died, and so did all the other Invid in the hive when the brain was blown to bits.

Best role-playing game session I was ever in.

[Nik Vecto]

She bled green? Ahhh! A Vulcan!
I've always wanted to do a roleplay like that before.... With the Dungeon Master, the dice, and everything.... Sounds fun!