Third Session Report - Paranoia XP Mister Bubbles (SPOILER ALERT)** I'm posting more in this group than I would in others because it's kind of a quiet niche group and I figure the content is good for it, or at least not harmful.**
Had our third Mister Bubbles session this week.
First and
Second session reports are linked.
This one was short but wild.
- The players already had their SHOOTERS episode characters picked. As soon as the session started they were off to investigate the Scrubot murder!
- You may recall from my last post (if I wrote this down, I don't remember) that they bought an Emergency Alarm and a Petbot from the IR Market. So naturally I started the session with Youtube videos blasting from a portable speaker, the sound of an endless alarm, and a yapping puppy. The players had to scramble around to figure out how to fix those problems which they finally did by throwing away the alarm and reprogramming the petbot.
- More importantly though, at the same time, I called in my special guest GM's helper. Yes I happen to have in my house a mischevious nine year old boy. While the players worked on stopping the horrifying youtube video sounds and tried to make headway on their mission to investigate the murder and the scrubots, my son walked around the table randomly throwing paper at the players and saying "Boop. You've got mail!" And let me tell you, we used a lot of paper.
- In that section of the game, the Scrubot is supposed to attack the players once spam starts coming from their own email addresses. Well, I could have just told them that happens, but where's the fun in that? So instead I passed them all notes that said "SPAM EMAIL - throw this at another player - earn one perversity point". They fell for it immediately, throwing paper back and forth at each other and immediately triggering the bot attack. (I was careful to time this just before the player playing Jennifer was about to successfully re-program the bot. Can't have that!)
- When the Scrubot attacked, I went around the table to ask them what they wanted to do.
Jennifer - was trying to reprogram the bot so she got the worst of the damage.
Ginger the team leader - tried to shoot the bot and succeeded sending its head flying up in the air Peter - tried to shoot the bot and missed because the head wasn't there so hit Jennifer in the eye, instead Gunther tried to use his vomiting power - which is on the character sheet - and missed because the head flew up in the air. He vomited in Jennifer's face, blinding her in one eye.
The scrubot - broke both of Jennifer's arms Hunter - read his emails. (He doesn't like Jennifer)
- After the fight Gunther tried to first aid Jennifer, but failed his roll so he accidentally ripped her arm off. While the troubleshooters debated euthenizing Jennifer (completely forgetting about how for Gunther they called a med team to fix his legs for some reason), Jennifer had the courtesy to bleed out and die.
I described her clone replacement scene in very grisly terms. A big tube comes down and kind of chops her into pieces while sucking up the chunks.
- Finally, the las thing that happened in the short session - Ginger's clone appeared!
You may recall that in session 1 all the troubleshooters died from Grenades. Twice. Well in one of those times, Ginger asked if she could regenerate. I said no at the time. But through the session I had Player Ginger be watched, then stalked, then hunted and finally attacked by a fully regenerated earlier Ginger clone trying to get her life back.
That combat had two players each try to shoot a Ginger, the Gingers try to shoot each other, and Hunter staying out of it saying "meh this will resolve itself". It did as both Gingers killed each other, were sort of dragged away in a grisly way by clone disposal trucks and a new Ginger appeared!
Next week they are off to R&D! I'd appreciate any suggestions for better and more terrifying R&D equipment than the ones in Mister Bubbles. Thanks!
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