May '94 - Medicine Hat College, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
With the snow finally melting and still a month to go before finals, it could only mean one thing:
Canadian Spring Break!
Bob Krebs: A college student in his third Sophomore year, Bob's a Liberal Arts major at Medicine Hat College with a minor in Art History Appreciation (he's failed the same class so many times, they gave him a minor in it). He enjoys listening to lumberjack grunge music, wearing lots of red flannel, looking for "the mara-who-juana" and hanging with his friends. Bob had started dating Jewel, but a relationship built upon the terror of watching random people getting devoured by an invisible entity was never meant to last. They recently broke up, but Jewel's cool enough to hang with the crew, eh...
Alan Jonas: A Junior at Medicine Hat College, studying Geography. He was an academic drop-out at the Royal Military College of Canada, known for academic guffaws and short, violent outbursts. Nowadays, he's relaxed a bit and can be found chilling with his friend, Bob and his recently ex-girlfriend, Jewel.
Jewel Fischer: Ex-girlfriend of Old Man Ralph, and recent ex-girlfriend of Alan. This Junior Canadian-English major still enjoys the company of her new friends, especially after her previous roommate was killed in a gunfight between Canadian Commandos and the Russian Pizza Mob.
The trio couldn't decided where to go for Spring Break: Quebec? Prince Edward Island? Gram Fishcher's house in western Calgary?
Finally, an American magazine and a toll-free number gave them a new world to explore.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
After working with a local travel agents, and bumming money off their parent's for "next semester's book prep," they backed their luggage full of flannel speedos, mooseskin condoms, and a bottle of ELK: for Men, and bummed a ride to Medicine Hat Airport, boarded the back of FedEx plane and headed to beautiful, scenic....
Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America.
The layover at Fargo International Airport was a few hours, and thanks to the security second only to Air Israel, the trio was allowed to walk right out of the airport, pass the International Museum of Snow Blowers, and end up at everyone's favorite establishment, The Vinyl Taco. After a great meal, and some shopping for "cheesy American clothes, they learned that Fargo was the destination of the fated flight of Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper on the "Day the Music Died", before returning to the airport, and getting on their own flight. Next destination: a layover in Denver, Colorado.
Once the plane was up, the first question to the players, "Which character has a good piloting skill?"
Response: "I have a high stealth. Can I fly a stealth fighter?"
Regardless of what happened to the pilot, Jewel was able to jump in and not only keep the plane aloft, but successfully land it at Denver International Airport.
The boys weren't too terrified of Jewel landing a plan to not notice the odd-Swastika looking layout of the runways, but Nazis were only the cool dressing villains of the Indiana Jones movies, and not a modern threat, so they didn't worry about it.
After that flight, not much phased the normally paranoid team.
Not the tent like construction.
Or the disturbing murals dotting the complex.
Or the demon bronco outside with the ominous stormclouds off in the distance.
Jewel tried to find a place for breakfast in the airport, Bob mumbled to himself a lot almost like a hallucination, and Alan tried to swap local souvenirs with locals for the "yeti hair" famed at Medicine Hat Regional Airport. Yeti hair was the response to the glut in beaver whiskers back in 1986. To avoid a crash in the commodity markets, local entrepreneurs bundled the excess together as "Yeti hair," and it was a runaway success.
As Jewel navigated through the terminal in search of a decent doughnut, screams could be heard from the luggage carousels. Large, demonic-looking creatures made out of stone were flying towards her, laying waste to the all the poor souls just trying to get to their Samsonite luggage.
Jewel grabbed one of the stanchions set up for the queue and started swinging. Alan scampered into the airport's Sam Goody hid in the Celine Dion collection.
And Bob... he went into a trance. While the other two dodged the attacks of the mythical beasts and the panicked travelers, Bob stood just outside the men's room, with a dazed look upon his face, but unaffected by the wholesale slaughter around him.
When he came to, he grabbed Jewel, dodged her swinging stanchion, and only said, "We need to go into the men's room. There's a hole in the third stall."
Running to Sam Goody to grab Alan, they found him fumbling over racks of cassette tapes, playing a dangerous game of tag with a gar "How did you discover the whole?"
"Oh, the CatPope told me..."
"Saywhatnow..."
Apparently, Bob's insanity-driven daze caught him face-to-face the the the holiest of felines, the CatPope.
The other two did not wish to argue, and when the third stall revealed a concealed hole in the wall, they made sure Bob went first.
Amazingly, no one died.
The hole led down in a vast constructed underground passage. Outside of an inordinate amount of pistachio shells, and an odd plaque stating,
Secondary Luggage Transportation System and Escape Tunnel, 1994, New World Airport Commission
They meandered unmolested to a door which opened to the correct terminal for their final flight.... and an in-terminal Waffle House.
Alan learned the Rocky Mountain Oysters are not seafood.
Compared to a gargoyle attack and Jewel needing to fly a plane nearly 800 miles and landing it safely, the actual week in Fort Lauderdale was rather tame.
Alan brought home a collection of coconut monkey banks.
Jewel got caught up in the misogynistic Spring Break by being forced to compete in, and win a chocolate pudding wrestling tournament.
But the most scandalous pics were from Bob, who won an all-men's chocolate pudding wrestling tournament... all while wearing his flannel speedo.
Keeper Notes: Yes, yes, Canadian Spring Break in May is a total joke. Apparently Pre-K to 12 schools have a week-long "March break", while Canadian colleges and universities have an equivalent "Reading Week"
While I expected the Canadian College Cthulhu game to devolve into some absurdity, it should be the straight shooter when compared to my Risus: Illuminati University (IOU) game. However, concept of the conspiracy-theorist's wet dream of the Denver Airport opening straddled the middle ground between the game. Sure, it didn't open for another nine months in the real world, but the 90's such ancient history, according to my kids.
And the CatPope? Another cross-over from the world of IOU. Hidden among my blog drafts behind the scenes, is my IOU Plot file, filled with over 70 ridiculous storylines and tropes peferct for IOU, but equally as perfect for a dude suffering hallucinations after suffering a SAN loss.
Can't wait for the next session, when we retroactively role-play Paul Rochon Jr, and his new friend, the talking fortune cookie, Ed.
With the snow finally melting and still a month to go before finals, it could only mean one thing:
Canadian Spring Break!
Bob Krebs: A college student in his third Sophomore year, Bob's a Liberal Arts major at Medicine Hat College with a minor in Art History Appreciation (he's failed the same class so many times, they gave him a minor in it). He enjoys listening to lumberjack grunge music, wearing lots of red flannel, looking for "the mara-who-juana" and hanging with his friends. Bob had started dating Jewel, but a relationship built upon the terror of watching random people getting devoured by an invisible entity was never meant to last. They recently broke up, but Jewel's cool enough to hang with the crew, eh...
Alan Jonas: A Junior at Medicine Hat College, studying Geography. He was an academic drop-out at the Royal Military College of Canada, known for academic guffaws and short, violent outbursts. Nowadays, he's relaxed a bit and can be found chilling with his friend, Bob and his recently ex-girlfriend, Jewel.
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| If she could only sing or play guitar... |
Finally, an American magazine and a toll-free number gave them a new world to explore.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
After working with a local travel agents, and bumming money off their parent's for "next semester's book prep," they backed their luggage full of flannel speedos, mooseskin condoms, and a bottle of ELK: for Men, and bummed a ride to Medicine Hat Airport, boarded the back of FedEx plane and headed to beautiful, scenic....
Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America.
The layover at Fargo International Airport was a few hours, and thanks to the security second only to Air Israel, the trio was allowed to walk right out of the airport, pass the International Museum of Snow Blowers, and end up at everyone's favorite establishment, The Vinyl Taco. After a great meal, and some shopping for "cheesy American clothes, they learned that Fargo was the destination of the fated flight of Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper on the "Day the Music Died", before returning to the airport, and getting on their own flight. Next destination: a layover in Denver, Colorado.
Once the plane was up, the first question to the players, "Which character has a good piloting skill?"
Response: "I have a high stealth. Can I fly a stealth fighter?"
Regardless of what happened to the pilot, Jewel was able to jump in and not only keep the plane aloft, but successfully land it at Denver International Airport.
The boys weren't too terrified of Jewel landing a plan to not notice the odd-Swastika looking layout of the runways, but Nazis were only the cool dressing villains of the Indiana Jones movies, and not a modern threat, so they didn't worry about it.
After that flight, not much phased the normally paranoid team.
Not the tent like construction.
Or the disturbing murals dotting the complex.
Or the demon bronco outside with the ominous stormclouds off in the distance.
Jewel tried to find a place for breakfast in the airport, Bob mumbled to himself a lot almost like a hallucination, and Alan tried to swap local souvenirs with locals for the "yeti hair" famed at Medicine Hat Regional Airport. Yeti hair was the response to the glut in beaver whiskers back in 1986. To avoid a crash in the commodity markets, local entrepreneurs bundled the excess together as "Yeti hair," and it was a runaway success.
As Jewel navigated through the terminal in search of a decent doughnut, screams could be heard from the luggage carousels. Large, demonic-looking creatures made out of stone were flying towards her, laying waste to the all the poor souls just trying to get to their Samsonite luggage.
Jewel grabbed one of the stanchions set up for the queue and started swinging. Alan scampered into the airport's Sam Goody hid in the Celine Dion collection.
And Bob... he went into a trance. While the other two dodged the attacks of the mythical beasts and the panicked travelers, Bob stood just outside the men's room, with a dazed look upon his face, but unaffected by the wholesale slaughter around him.
When he came to, he grabbed Jewel, dodged her swinging stanchion, and only said, "We need to go into the men's room. There's a hole in the third stall."
Running to Sam Goody to grab Alan, they found him fumbling over racks of cassette tapes, playing a dangerous game of tag with a gar "How did you discover the whole?"
"Oh, the CatPope told me..."
"Saywhatnow..."
Apparently, Bob's insanity-driven daze caught him face-to-face the the the holiest of felines, the CatPope.
The other two did not wish to argue, and when the third stall revealed a concealed hole in the wall, they made sure Bob went first.
Amazingly, no one died.
The hole led down in a vast constructed underground passage. Outside of an inordinate amount of pistachio shells, and an odd plaque stating,
Secondary Luggage Transportation System and Escape Tunnel, 1994, New World Airport Commission
They meandered unmolested to a door which opened to the correct terminal for their final flight.... and an in-terminal Waffle House.
Alan learned the Rocky Mountain Oysters are not seafood.
Compared to a gargoyle attack and Jewel needing to fly a plane nearly 800 miles and landing it safely, the actual week in Fort Lauderdale was rather tame.
Alan brought home a collection of coconut monkey banks.
Jewel got caught up in the misogynistic Spring Break by being forced to compete in, and win a chocolate pudding wrestling tournament.
But the most scandalous pics were from Bob, who won an all-men's chocolate pudding wrestling tournament... all while wearing his flannel speedo.
While I expected the Canadian College Cthulhu game to devolve into some absurdity, it should be the straight shooter when compared to my Risus: Illuminati University (IOU) game. However, concept of the conspiracy-theorist's wet dream of the Denver Airport opening straddled the middle ground between the game. Sure, it didn't open for another nine months in the real world, but the 90's such ancient history, according to my kids.
And the CatPope? Another cross-over from the world of IOU. Hidden among my blog drafts behind the scenes, is my IOU Plot file, filled with over 70 ridiculous storylines and tropes peferct for IOU, but equally as perfect for a dude suffering hallucinations after suffering a SAN loss.
Can't wait for the next session, when we retroactively role-play Paul Rochon Jr, and his new friend, the talking fortune cookie, Ed.
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