The Hook
Gulped down by a bakunawa, your ship ends up in its stomach only to find a community already waiting to cannibalise your ship and take your supplies. Nobody who has tried to escape has ever managed and you have other, natural, parasites to compete with. Ones that see you as prey.
Suggested Systems
BRP, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Victoriana.
Nobody.
No, really, I don’t tend to synch up that well with other people creatively. I accomplish far more as an auteur, or given some instructions and left to get on with it. I think any collaboration or group effort would suffer in both quality and focus for it…
I have TRIED to work with other people to create games and the end result has either been an aborted project, or me finishing it by myself. This is pretty remarkable in and of itself, thanks to my mental health issues which can impact negatively on my capacity to work…
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This is a game for two players. Each player describes a superhero in broad, general terms such as ‘I dress up as a bat and punch people, with gadgets’. They then describe three key events from their character’s past.
For example:
My parents are dead, murdered in a mugging.
A superpowered drug addict broke my back.
I was born into wealth and privilege. I never wanted for anything.
Each player then takes it, in turn, to present the opposite hero with a heroic dilemma, such as a choice between saving the woman he loves, or a bus-load of nuns.
For example:
“I spend many nights praying for a just, benevolent god to bring back my parents, or to reveal who it was that murdered them. My prayers went unanswered. Fuck those nuns. Fuck them in their stupid arses.”
Using the engine of a flashback, that fits a key event, the player must describe something related to it, that informs their decision upon how to act. Play continues until both players have made three dilemma decisions, no key event may be used for a flashback more than once. This ramps up the challenge as play continues.
Postmortem Studios 