An entry for the Feb 2011 Ronnies. It’s a Wings of Desire kind of thing.
Ariel leaps from the steeple. Her gold dress, soaked. Her black hair swirling in the wind.
She disappears from view.
No body is ever found.
A single white feather drifts slowly down in the morning light and lands on the statue of Goethe.
A bell rings, almost beyond the range of human hearing.
A fun game about the funny old game of football.
Written in 24-hours to satisfy the needs of the Conpulsion charity auction bidders, UGTH is a hard-tackling game of diving and scoring. Whoooooof! He really hit that one.
1-1, we’re in the final minute of extra time.
Penalties await these two teams.
McNicol goes to take the corner, this is it, it’s now or never for Scotland.
Even the goalkeeper is up for the corner. The ball swings in…
GOALLLLLLL
The ‘keeper has scored. I don’t believe it. Scotland have won the World Cup with the last kick of the game.
Ron Robertson, the Scotland number 1 has won it!
Amazing!
3:16 is a SF game for the October ‘Ronnies’. It uses the terms ‘Cosmos’ and ‘Fight’. It is in the style of Aliens, Starship Troopers, WH4K, etc. and the players are all members of the doomed 3:16th Expeditionary Force sent from Terra to conquer the cosmos.
Vrakkkk-kkkk-kkkkk. Corporal Tollman?s Energy Cannon converted the group of huddling creatures into a cloud of swirling space dust. Vrakkkk-kkkk-kkkkk. Another group, and another, and another. The cannon?s gunnery computer was beeping into Tollman?s earphones at a rapid tempo. These little green bastards were getting murdered. The Kill Counter on top of the cannon increased by the millisecond. Impassively counting the carnage. The rhythmic beeping was trance-like and hypnotic.
Vra-wheeeeeeee. The energy beam sheared off, missing the target and detonating a pile of rocks instead. Suddenly, from all around little green men started to race closer and closer. Tollman?s mind flashed back to a time long before?
She was maybe 1 and they?d been playing The Game. In The Game you went into this really dark cave. All the other kids were already in there and they had sticks and stones. They poked, prodded, bashed and frightened you while you tried to make it to the back of the cave. You had to get there, overcoming your fear and panic, and grab some moss, slick and wet to touch, from the very furthermost cave wall. Then you had to run over the wet floor of the cave avoiding the tripping feet and thrown rocks to break out free into the light.
If you did that then they let you join their gang. It had taken Tollman five or six attempts to get to the back of that cave. But when she did she had learned not to panic or be frightened even when the unexpected happened. She was cool under pressure and had learnt to keep it simple. It was something that had served her well in the Force too.
Never panic, it?ll get you dead.
Back to the present Tollman lowered the cannon and swept a series of ravening beams of energy through the fast-approaching hordes. They fell into clouds of dust. Motes drifting intricately through the alien atmosphere of this hell-hole of a planet.
Vrakkkk-kkkk-kkkkk. The last little green bastard evaporated into a cloud of constituent atoms. The Kill Counter stopped at 97. The tip of the cannon was glowing white hot and the whine of the cooling fans was the only sound left.
Sergeant Brand looked over the top of the trench, ?Corporal, status??
?All Clear, Sergeant. A series of trenches ahead and then we?re done here. After that,? she paused, ?it?s not so clear.?
Brand nodded at the Lieutenant next to him in the trench. The first hurdle had been cleared.
Best Friends is a role-playing game about girlfriends and their petty hatreds. You all role-play girlfriends of each other and gameplay involves who you hate for being prettier than you, richer than you, etc.
So, what?s this book all about?
Well, it?s a role-playing game about being a girl.
Yeah, everyone plays a girl. If you?re not down with that then just put best friends back wherever you found it and walk away. No hard feelings, eh?
So, still here?
OK, it?s a game about being best friends and all the little hatreds that best friends have for each other. Oh, I know. You?re gonna say that y?all get along just peachy. Well, that?s fine too. No one said any of this was true.
But, between you and me: it probably is.
Anyway, you and some friends all play girlfriends and try to do stuff together while secretly hating each other. And getting little frissons of excitement out of getting one up on your best friends.
