Monday, August 11, 2025

#RPGaDay2025 - Day 11 - Flavour

Day 11 of #RPGaDay give us a very British "Flavour"

I haven't been attached to the mainstream demographic for RPGs in decades, yet I'm still conservative enough not to fully embrace the new and edgy gams. 

I'd rather spend my time setting up oddities like Bo'non'as and Oopsa.

Oopsa
It started completely on a whim.  Our Star Wars d6  group had crash landed on the moon Volturnus, orbiting Dathomir, they had encountered a number of sentient races, and when they met the monkey-like Kurabanda and learned of an apparent human outpost with advanced technology beyond the treehouses and spears they were encountering.  

The PCs snuck into the compound, ultimately got discovered, but did managed to steal a vehicle to go to a actual pirate/bandit town, which starfaring capabilities.  

It would be great to leave the session at that, but I had decided to go back to the Kurabana guides they had just left outside the compound.

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Meanwhile, back at the pirate outpost.
With a roar, the hovertruck lifted out of the building and flew off into the sky.

Bo'Non'as and Oopsa, the Kurabanda guides, were still hiding in the scrub with the Loper steeds.
"Do you think those guys are coming back for us?"

"I don't think so. Do you think their steeds are good eatin'?"

"They probably won't miss one..."


Leading the Lopers over the hill, they slayed one, made a fire and attempted to roast over a makeshift pit.

Settling down to dinner, Oopsa spied four figures coming over the hill.

Not one was the super-hairy over-sized Kurabanda.

It seemed like he was replaced by some creature with red gloaming eyes and a large space-gun. It began firing wildly at them.

The two Kurabanda did the best thing they could, mounting the other Loper and zig-zagging through the scrubland, partly to avoid the blaster fire, partly because they had trouble controlling the beast.

Eventually the blaster fire stopped and the pushed the beast until they reached the tree-line to their forest.

Getting back to the village, Oopsa inquired how they were going to explain everything.

Bo'Non'as was stone faced, raising a single finger towards his friend.

"We tell no one."
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I introduced the Kurabanda as playable characters the next time we had no-shows for the normal game.  The concept started simple: drama with the treetop dwelling monkey-men... until the Gods of the Apocalypse showed up, one by one.  

While the PCs sent a distress call that was received by an Imperial Star Destroyer, the surviving pirates from the first outpost turned tail the first sign of the vessel in the atmosphere and ventured into the Kurabanda forest. 

The guy with shock gloves was obviously the god of lightning, the Transdosian was the red-eye god.  

Bo'non'as
In reality the motley crew the Kurabanda mistook for gods were probably perfect for extra for an episode of the The Book of Boba Fett, but it was a matter of right time, right place.    We did try some fun with Kurabanda Jedi a thousand years in the past, but we couldn't capture the lightning in a bottle twice.  

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