Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Nerd Games |
Mary and Sue were staying over at their Cousin Jeremy's House one weekend, that Saturday Night a horrific storm started, the night was pitch black, they heard the sounds of trees falling and the power went out. So they lit candles and Mary who was into everything Goth decided to take some scented candles to her 'sleeping chamber' and try to commune with Ghosts. "Mary is weird." Said Sue "Sometimes weird is cool..." Said Jeremy as he arranged candles in a certain order. "What are you doing?" Asked Sue "I would like to play some RPGs if you would join me..." Said Jeremy "I'll pass." Said Sue "I'm not into nerd things." "I think you will join..." Said Jeremy slyly "I'm not..." Sue began to say "Because tonight's RPG is the TMNT RPG said Jeremy holding up the game book with a very distinctive turtle with a mask and Katanas on the cover. Sue was the biggest TMNT fan ever, she could not believe her eyes "The TMNT have an RPG?!" She exclaimed "And that's the original Comics Turtles when they all had red masks!" "Yeah." Said Jeremy "Back when the Comics were only four issues in, they commissioned Palladium to make some RPG and..." Hey what's that one?" Asked Sue motioning towards Jeremy's bag. seeing a different book with the TMNT fringing a dinosaur "Oh this..." Said Jeremy "This is the expansion book Transdimensional TMNT which expands for traveling time and space and gives STATs for becoming a Dinosaur Mutant and other Prehistoric..." Sue gasped "I can be a Mutant Dinosaur?" She squealed with delight "Well..." Said Jeremy "...I guess you could ...I was thinking you'd rather start off with a more mundane animal first..." "I want to be a Mutant Dinosaur! Said Sue "Well all right..." Said Jeremy, "Mutant Character Creation is supposed to be totally random, so I can't guarantee what you get..." Sue took the percentile dice and got an Animal from the Cretaceous Table "Roll the percentile dice again to said Animal you got." Said Jeremy Sue rolled the dice again "65." She said "You got...a Saurinoid." Said Jeremy "What's that." Jeremy showed her the illustration "It's a small, speedy, meat eating Dinosaur that was thought of as the smartest of all dinosaurs, these days we call them Troodons." "Oh...That's cool." Said Sue "First we got to build your character." Said Jeremy "That includes rolling your attributes and using Bio-E to mutate your character..." After the long process of building her character, Sue had dubbed her character 'Blood Claw' taken from the Cretaceous as an Egg she was treated very harshly by the scientists until she escaped 20,000 Dollars worth of cash and equipment, is currently on the run from the scientists and local law enforcement...It was amazing how wrapped up in this she was getting. With Jeremy as the 'Dungeon Master' guiding the way, she quickly got the hang of combat and interactions with NPCs Then, Jeremy said "You see standing before you...The Head Scientist, the one who took you from the Cretaceous in the first place...What do you do?" "I hit him with my warhammer!" Exclaimed Sue as she rolled the 20 sided die, it landed 1...Critical fail! "You..." Jeremy blushed "...You start hitting ON him!" At that point Sue and Jeremy both fell on the floor bursting into laughter |