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Wednesday 30 May 2018

The Adventures of Becky - The Good Samaritan

The story so far:-

Becky received a letter from her dead father in the The Red Jade Buddha and she received more information including her fathers journal relating to a mysterious Red Jade Buddha in and The Mean Streets of Penrith, she and her friends had bad dealings with a gang of bikers led by Boris a bald headed thug, who stole this information from them in The Midnight Callers and then they retrieved it from Boris at his hotel in Boris and the Swan in Inverness, they discovered there was more information in the last chapter The Lost Information where they met up with suave sophisticated Sam Fernando another crook and now we are on with the latest exciting but very short adventure in the UK before going foreign.

If you click on Becky or the Red Jade Buddha on the right it will show you all the previous stories.


The Good Samaritan

The girls and Becky have now read the information that her father has left along with the stuff that they had liberated from Count Sparrk and so have a good idea of where to go next in the search for the Red Jade Buddha. They have decided that they should try and recover the idol, thinking that the trail to it might also throw some light on to what's happened to Becky’s father, how did he die and where.

Having made contact with the rest of her friends they are all going to meet up at Heathrow airport and set off on the first leg of their journey that will eventually lead to South East Asia. They will fly to Calcutta, drive down to the coast to a small sea port where they will board a commercial sea plane headed for Changoon, a melting pot for all the scum of SE Asia.
There they plan to meet with up with a pilot who operates a small private float-plane company and they also hope to recruit a guide for the rest of the trek into unchartered territory. This small float-plane and it’s mysterious pilot will fly them up river, flying over and bypassing the rapids and waterfalls on the Raffinika river into the heart of Cambodia where the trail really starts.
(Unless I can do a deal with Nickle and Dime Studio's and rent their river boat :) )

That is all in the future - hopefully, and meanwhile the girls have to get to the airport, there are evil forces at large who will try and stop them at all costs.

The road to Heathrow passes through some glorious countryside in the South of England, well bits of hardboard, lichen and old Christmas trees with a bit of horsehair thrown in.

Overview of the board, the girls will be driving down from the north (top) and exiting of the west (left) side of the board. The bad guys will set up a road block. This is intended to be a simple break through scenario.

The bad boys appear to have some inside information which is why they are ready and waiting to lay the ambush.

A white Range Rover, with no number plate. Looks very suspicious.

Becky has 1D6 of her friends including herself and threw 2. So just her and Susan Gunn, who was less than useful in Inverness having drunk too much whisky the night before, mind you if I remember, they all had too much whisky the night before.
They are driving down from Susan’s home in Gloucestershire to Heathrow to meet up with the rest of the girls before flying to India.

They are almost on the left so they must still be in England.

So the Range Rover appears to have had an accident and Fat Willie is lying unconscious on the road. Could this be a trap? Is that Tank hiding behind the wall, of course it’s a trap.

The bad blokes in ambush, there are also 1d6 of them, each armed with improvised weapons, clubs, tyre irons etc. Their task is to stop the girls from getting to the airport, they will break bones to achieve this, but aim to maim and injure rather than kill. This is England you know - the land of cricket and knife crime.

Bad roll for the Bikers only 2 of them, I guess the others were delayed in hospital. It will make for an even and short game.

The girls round the corner and see the “accident”, fail their Brains test and believe it is an accident, how dumb can they get, they start to slow down.

Isn’t that guy wearing biker duds, hummm. Maybe it’s a trap Susan mutters but Becky who was driving had decided that there is no way past the Range Rover and pulls to a halt.

It might be a real accident so they stop and get out to help. The Good Samaritan.

Tank rushes through the hedge straight at Becky, he's taking no chances with these deceptively demure girls this time and has armed himself with a sledge hammer shaft.

Becky ducks under the wild swing and hits him hard in the throat, agghhh. She hits him again, harder and he shudders and his fake tan turns white, then she hits him again, harder still and he falls with a loud thud OOF.

Fat Willie jumps to his feet, ha I was only bluffing he sneers at Susan.

Well I never would have guessed she sneers back.

Fat Willie attacks Susan with a base ball bat. This gives him 5D6 and she has 3D6 to fight back with. He fails all 5 dice and she hits with 2 of the 3 dice, not his day. With his Constitution of 2 this is enough to put him to sleep and down he goes.

These bikers are proving no match for the girls in fisticuffs even when they are armed with clubs and such like, things might have to get serious.

With the sun shining down Becky and Susan take the weapons, move the car and drive off with the ignition key leaving Willie and Tank without a ride. They head off to the airport at Heathrow to meet with the rest of the gang and then on to who knows what further adventures.

To be continued ……….

If you are still here - thanks for reading and let me know you passed this way in the comments.
Cheers

33 comments:

  1. Cool little skirmish to link the adventures John, was fun to read it being based in my neck of the woods Gloucestershire. The bikers seem quite weak compared to the ones I've known, but it could have been a party night the night before which might explain it ! LOL

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    1. Hi Dave, this is intended to be a series of scenes as in a movie, they are all planned out and if the girls fail in a game/scene the script writer just has to insert another scene, or more than one to get them back on track.
      Usually for character generation I roll average dice for each of their attributes, which sometimes mean that a characteristic looks inappropriate for the model, eg a weak biker with a constitution of 2. At one point I went back through them to alter anomalies but realised that it eliminated many of the things that made the character what they were, so I scrubbed the idea. Hope that makes sense.
      The only ones where I deliberately altered a random die roll was with Becky and 2 of her friends because I knew they had to get thorough about 12 games and still be in the final one. It doesn't mean they will make it but there had to be a better chance for them.

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    2. All makes sense John, as in movies one lone hero can do impossible tasks ( Commando for example) doesn't take away from the enjoyment of watching it unfold

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    3. I think it should get harder for them but hopefully not too difficult or I will have to find new actresses for the later scenes and that will bugger up the continuity girls efforts.

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  2. Excellent! It just goes to show that a trained martial artist (artiste?) will usually get the better of a brawler ;-)
    I just hope for their sake that Tank and Fat Willie are better at hot wiring cars than they are at fighting GIRLS! Only joking, I hope they have a long walk home to give them time to think about a career change :-)

    Lovely little AAR John, I love seeing these little scenarios that a campaign produces actually played out, and your terrain set up is inspirational as ever.

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    1. Cheers Greg - just a small vignette game that was as usual with these tremendous fun to fight but not a lot to write about.
      I notice you have a follower Stephen Gilbert, I wonder if he is the guy who wrote one of my all time favourite series of games about Carlotta Wynne. I copied them into word and have them on file but I'll see if I have the link, you will enjoy them I'm sure, they have the feel of the Blade Runner Detective games we talked about.

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  3. Once again, I thoroughly enjoyed that and was cheering for the girls from start to finish. I think the morale of the story is, don't mess with Becky and her friends.
    PS. Fantastic scenery that captures the flavour of the English countryside.

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    1. Hi Bryan - you are so fickle, usually you cheer for the bad guys vampires, werewolves etc, but as soon as you see a pretty figure you cheer for the good guys. ;-) I can't understand it myself. :)

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    2. What can I say, John, I am fickle, but a pretty girl will always get my attention. :-)

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    3. I think you are a bad man Bryan.

      Hopefully the next game I post will get your attention if pretty girls do it. Although I think it might need splitting into chunks, I have over 100 photos, - it was a bit of a mammoth in the end.

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  4. It might be just hardboard horsehair & what else it was you said to you John but to my it was wonderful little piece of the English countryside :) the N&D studio's are more then will to lone out the riverboat but the shipping might make your studio go belly up :)

    So the girls are off to India next, I can't wait to see your take on that lovely country John :) another great chapter in the tale, well done but you might need to find some new goons the ones in this story so far are making the 3 Stooges look able lol

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    1. Hi Frank - India is just a transit destination if all goes well. I've never been and so my interpretation of the country will be all my own. :0

      Fat Willie had a spectacularly bad dice roll or he would have given a better account of himself, at least that's what he said from his hospital bed.

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    2. I've never been to India, that sounds like a cop out to me John have you never seen a Bollywood movie ? lots of colour & pretty girls Bryan will love it :)

      As I'm still making jungle terrain at the moment John I can't wait to see your take on it, if its as good as your normal stuff I'll most likely want to bin mine :(

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    3. Of course it's a cop out. The India bit is some industrial area by the sea, concrete buildings and an Italian customs officer. I hope you're not expecting trees, they come in Cambodia, if Becky gets there.
      I've been going to make this jungle for 3 years now, so I'm not expecting too much from myself. A bit of fish tank foilage should see it right.

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  5. How can't you fail to cheer on a villain called `Fat Willie'. I nearly spluttered my coffee.

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    1. Hi Phil the last time I was in Cornwall, many years ago there were a small chain of surf shops called either Fat Willie or Big Willie, I don't remember which and that's where the name came from, it sort of seemed appropriate.

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  6. Well in the first scene I could actually imagine the birds singing and flying around the trees. When the bikers got clobbered I could actually see the birds singing and flying around their heads. A nice short sharp engagement with a ton of fun.

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    1. Cheers, thanks for the imagery, some one does a murder of rooks or crows, I can't remember which, I wonder if I painted them as songbirds I could use them as OOF counters. :)

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  7. Another great report, excellent scenery that looks the part. I was rooting for the girls; even though it seemed the odds were stacked against them they really showed their mettle this time.

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    1. Thanks Fitz for the remarks on the scenery, I played this game quite a while ago and when I came to post it I thought it looked a little weak, most of my Becky games have had the photos redone because I'm putting them up on the blog for others to see and not just for my personal record.
      You can always tell the old photos because there is no black background.
      Cheers

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  8. Thoroughly enjoyable romp through the English countryside John, superb board as always

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    1. Thanks dGG, England's quite easy to do - just think of rain and greenery. :-)The story is off to the jungle and I don't have much for that, it should get me off my bottom and making stuff again.

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  9. So much to enjoy in so short a scenario.
    Becky and Susan know how to dish it out, whilst Tank and Willie are turning into pantomime henchman, I'm sure all their mates are sniggering at them now.

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    1. Hi Joe - I think you are being a bit hard on the guys, sometimes the dice just don't roll your way. Admittedly this isn't the first time this has happened, but I think they will remain in England, at least for a while.

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  10. AWESOME!!! Bad girls go everywhere! ;O)

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    1. Or should I've said "anywhere"? :O)

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    2. Hi there Eduardo, they can go anywhere they like. :)

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    3. Looking forward to see their next destination! :O)

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  11. And talking about your hunters and dinosaurs, you probably are already aware of this:

    PALAEO DIET FIRESIDE TALES
    http://www.lulu.com/shop/nic-wright/palaeo-diet-fireside-tales/paperback/product-23671339.html

    ;O)

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    1. No I've not seen this, thanks for the link.

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    2. Waiting for the rules for hunting WEREWOLVES! :O)

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  12. That was fast and fun. I'm already looking forward to the next chapter.

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    1. I'm just writing it, it's taking longer than I thought it would. :)

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