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Greetings, all

Hi everybody

Hi, everyone!

And g'day all!

I read those "Mad Scientists Club" books as a kid, oh so many years ago (and they weren't new when I read them!). That seems an entirely appropriate inspiration for this type of caper!

We are go!

He also has a piece of cheese....because...who doesn't love cheese?

A boy's gotta eat.

Damn right. Gotta have something to nibble?

When you say 'Wendy' do you mean 'Shirley'?

Yes.....of.course...cough....🫣

Meph, if you have no objection, I'm just going to add a compass to Max's list of possessions. Seems like something he would have.

No problem.

Mr Handy, I'm impressed by your close attention to period timelines. I was just thinking TNG, 1987 is a bit early but no, been on TV for a couple of months now.

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Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:18 am Mr Handy, I'm impressed by your close attention to period timelines. I was just thinking TNG, 1987 is a bit early but no, been on TV for a couple of months now.

Thank you! I know the history because I lived through it, and anything I don't remember, I can look up online.

I took my kids (now all grown up) to the Imperial War Museum in London a number of years ago, and there was an exhibition about events that happened in the UK. This included the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege which I’d watched live on TV as the SAS stormed the building.

Seeing it now portrayed as history some 30 years later made me stop and think. It can be a sobering moment when you realise what is considered history for some people actually occurred in your lifetime!

I work with a very buff older guy who was a Royal Marines Commando in the Falklands War. Later migrated, needless to say.

He pointed out that when he was a young marine, in the pubs around the RMC base would be these fit, tough, 60-something year old retirees, downing the pints. Those guys were the RMC WWII veterans!

And the gap between WWII and the Falklands is the same as the gap between the Falklands and now.

That is still making me ponder.

Mr. Handy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:06 am Thank you! I know the history because I lived through it, and anything I don't remember, I can look up online.

Me too but it seemed early. Just checking it seems TNG didn't air in the UK until 1990 which probably explains the discrepancy, I'd always thought of it as very early 1990s. Might also explain the frankly dodgy sexual politics.

Philulhu wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:27 am Seeing it now portrayed as history some 30 years later made me stop and think. It can be a sobering moment when you realise what is considered history for some people actually occurred in your lifetime!

Even worse when you get told what happened in some event you distinctly recall or might even have been involved in and it completely differs from your recollection. It's funny how an official version of history can be constructed after the fact.

Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:46 pm

Philulhu wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:27 am Seeing it now portrayed as history some 30 years later made me stop and think. It can be a sobering moment when you realise what is considered history for some people actually occurred in your lifetime!

Even worse when you get told what happened in some event you distinctly recall or might even have been involved in and it completely differs from your recollection. It's funny how an official version of history can be constructed after the fact.

Yeah. "History is written by the victors."

Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:41 pm

Mr. Handy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:06 am Thank you! I know the history because I lived through it, and anything I don't remember, I can look up online.

Me too but it seemed early. Just checking it seems TNG didn't air in the UK until 1990 which probably explains the discrepancy, I'd always thought of it as very early 1990s. Might also explain the frankly dodgy sexual politics.

The original series' sexual politics were even dodgier.

Snapper wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:57 am I work with a very buff older guy who was a Royal Marines Commando in the Falklands War. Later migrated, needless to say.

He pointed out that when he was a young marine, in the pubs around the RMC base would be these fit, tough, 60-something year old retirees, downing the pints. Those guys were the RMC WWII veterans!

And the gap between WWII and the Falklands is the same as the gap between the Falklands and now.

That is still making me ponder.

It's sad how there are so few WWII vets left today. Few people are around that actually remember, and we'll probably end up making the same mistakes from those days again rather than learn from them.

Philulhu wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:27 am I took my kids (now all grown up) to the Imperial War Museum in London a number of years ago, and there was an exhibition about events that happened in the UK. This included the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege which I’d watched live on TV as the SAS stormed the building.

Seeing it now portrayed as history some 30 years later made me stop and think. It can be a sobering moment when you realise what is considered history for some people actually occurred in your lifetime!

I visited the Imperial War Museum a few times during trips to London, and it was always worth seeing. I was around during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis, but I didn't hear about the details at the time, as I was too little. I do vaguely recall the ensuing oil embargo, with gas lines and odd days and even days (this sort of thing is coming back soon). We were very close to World War Three in 1983, and while I didn't hear about the precipitating events at the time, I could feel the fear of it in the air then. We're so much closer to it now.

My mum remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 (she was 21 at the time). She said she went to bed and not knowing whether she would be waking up in the morning

And yeah, it does feel closer again, with Ukraine and everything else going on. That caused me a few sleepless nights!

Philulhu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 1:04 pm And yeah, it does feel closer again, with Ukraine and everything else going on. That caused me a few sleepless nights!

I was running the new Twilight 2000 rules from Free League but using material from the 1st and 2nd editions when the war erupted in Ukraine. It was very odd playing what was essentially an 80s nostalgia game riffing on the Cold War suddenly coming slap bang into contemporary relevance.

I've known the war was coming since early 1999, and I'm surprised it hasn't (officially) started yet. I've had plenty of time to adjust to it, but it's quite something to see it actually happening now. It could get very hot as early as Friday. Still, I have a feeling of peace.

Here is a World War Three scenario I came up with in 2011. The timeline is broken by now of course, but it seems like similar things could easily happen.

When will you be running that?

Twilight 2000! I still find articles for it when I'm reading old White Dwarf mags (in digital format).

We played T2K many years ago and I remember it being a lot of fun. One of our party had an unfortunate incident with a prostitute, some gaffa tape, a grenade and his testicles…

Philulhu wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:57 am We played T2K many years ago and I remember it being a lot of fun. One of our party had an unfortunate incident with a prostitute, some gaffa tape, a grenade and his testicles…

Colour me intrigued .....

Our game fizzled out but I had much amusement when they stole a truck which was actually a tactical nuclear missile launcher. They were remarkably uninterested in what was inside the truck and completely baffled at the amount of radiation damage they were taking. I was trying to point them towards the Black Madonna scenario but they wouldn't pick up the bait so they ended up in Silesia and all the fun down there.

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BoyBlunder78 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:35 pm

Philulhu wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:57 am We played T2K many years ago and I remember it being a lot of fun. One of our party had an unfortunate incident with a prostitute, some gaffa tape, a grenade and his testicles…

Colour me intrigued .....

It’s not exactly PC (different times!) so I’ll PM you!

I've never had the pleasure of playing Twilight 2000, but I've heard of it, and it sounds awesome.

Philulhu wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 8:50 am When will you be running that?

Probably no time soon, unfortunately. The scenario isn't actually written. The only parts I wrote down are in the linked thread along with the background narrative of the war, and any other parts only exist in my head. We never actually made much progress in drafting those scenarios. One idea I remember was that I was going to name the section header detailing the Russian submarine and its crew "Mikhail's Navy" (Mikhail being the first name of the sub's skipper). Before I have time to rewrite it (and that timeline needs complete reworking) let alone run it, I'll want to get Zombie Apocalypse moving again. And revive Space Oddity. And run my published scenarios here (I did get to run The Thirteenth Bak'tun in person last December, and it went great).

There are some aspects of the TV show The Last Ship that look very similar to the events in the war.

Too many scenarios, too little time!

How many of our kids would have seen Evil Dead 2 do we think?

Darren may have seen it at Louis's on a pirate vhs.

Pretty sure Charlie’s seen it!

Harry might have seen it with Darren and Louis, though he prefers science fiction.

This scenario is making me constantly ask:

What would the Goonies do?

WWTGD?

Unexpectedly discover a fully functional 200+ year old pirate sailing ship in an underground lake in Unland...

"GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE!!!"

It’s definitely got that vibe!

Snapper wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 12:51 am This scenario is making me constantly ask:

What would the Goonies do?

WWTGD?

Unexpectedly discover a fully functional 200+ year old pirate sailing ship in an underground lake in Unland...

Well, there is a lake.

Two of them, even. But they're not underground.

Mr. Handy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:41 pm Two of them, even. But they're not underground.

Not the surface bit, sure...

Not that this is the most decisive factor, but Google Maps tells me the only ocean-like thing Indiana touches is Lake Michigan, and Northfield appears to be a long way from that even.

Which might argue against the likelihood of finding relic pirate ships in Northfield. On the other hand, those pirates were tricky...

Snapper wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:35 am Not that this is the most decisive factor, but Google Maps tells me the only ocean-like thing Indiana touches is Lake Michigan, and Northfield appears to be a long way from that even.

Which might argue against the likelihood of finding relic pirate ships in Northfield. On the other hand, those pirates were tricky...

Pah, always with the "facts", don't you know this is a post-truth era?

And those "alternative facts"!

Kudos on the creepy poster message. Wasn't sure what I was expecting when I took it down ha.

CrackheadC. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:24 pm Kudos on the creepy poster message. Wasn't sure what I was expecting when I took it down ha.

Sometimes you've just gotta go where the player goes!

Sorry Team, I think I misunderstood (or Max did anyway) the description of the tracks.

I believe the GM is saying that heading back out of the fun park, back the way our heroes came in, now appears to be obstructed by the roller coaster superstructure.

Put simply, we can't backtrack. Although that may have been an optical illusion created by the fog.

My bad. Perhaps we can assume that is the message Max was trying to explain, he just didn't explain it very well.

I would say it currently looks like the struts of the rollercoaster are blocking the path back. But obviously that's impossible. So he must have got confused, maybe turned about a bit in the fog. Certainly worth exploring if he wants.

Glitch in the matrix today. Got a letter from someone in the US. Their address? Northfield, Indiana.

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That's excellent!

Oh dear.........

Sorry that I haven't responded yet fellas. Had been following along, but between the Thanksgiving holiday and deer season starting (I am a butcher), I got a bit caught up.
Will have a full reply to the thread tomorrow after I finish deer processing.

Dirk was for trying to follow the tracks under the coaster for what it is worth.

Also, wow! Take that, Rudolph. Geez, I get squeamish moving dead possums that have climbed across the wrong power lines. Dressing deer...

You get used to cutting meat in a non-kitchen environment, but I agree it is weird at first. Deer processing is definitely blood money, it is profitable but you feel it in your body when you do it. We did 60 today and my wrist and back are killing me.

Funny you say that, I'd be much more squeamish about trying to knock an animal off a powerline. At least with deer processing I'm unlikely to accidentally kill myself! (Just unlikely)

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Fair enough!

Sorry for being late. Deer season just finished up (well the initial rifle season that I work). I'll have a post up when I get home from work.

Merry Xmas!

Happy yuletide

Happy Christmas all. What with work and the kids I've been a bit distracted but back on track with posting now.

Happy Christmas to you too

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and apologies for being gone so long. My niece caught RSV and Covid as well as getting scarletina, so I have been helping my brother take care of her. She's about a year and a half, but in spite of the cough and lack of appetite she's as energetic as always so that is good.

It’s never good when young kids are ill but hopefully she’ll be well again soon.

Wow, that's really bad luck, hope she's better soon. Take your time!

No worries, its good to see that she's on the mend, that's the main thing.

Yup, came over today to run roughshod over my kitchen and take out all my pots and pans

HNY from early on the date line!

Also, *LAUGH*, that sounds nice and healthy and normal.

Happy New year Year Folks!

Yep, definitely sounds like she's on the mend

Happy New Year to all. Hope we're enjoying our visit to Funland. Let me know any issues/things that could be improved with the game.

I'll be away next week so posting will be sporadic/non-existent.

After the last posts.....be good to.get our breathes.......

Mephistophilis wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:19 pm I'll be away next week so posting will be sporadic/non-existent.

No worries, hopefully going somewhere fun.

Snapper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:55 pm No worries, hopefully going somewhere fun.

Learning to ski. Been interesting so far.

Awesome!

I learnt some years ago in Japan as a then young(ish) adult. My home state in Australia doesn't get snow so had never even seen it before. And most Japanese people are proficient skiers by age 10! So I was falling a lot and surrounded by polite 7 year old experts, themselves on snow boards.

It's good fun once realise falling generally doesn't hurt and my latent acrophobia kind of kicked in when skiing down a slope feels a bit like falling down a slippery cliff...

My good fortune was my then boss in Japan had come with and was from the US State of Minnesota. Apparently, all Minnesotans are born with instructor grade skiing skills...

Heights are not my thing. I'd skied nearly 20yrs ago for a few days and it was okay but I didn't like the narrow runs. Now I'm feeling my age, don't mind a blue slope if it's wide but the narrow ones I feel out of control if I can't slow down! That it's all ice rather than powder doesn't help. Ah well, progressing slowly but getting a bit better.

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Keep meaning to put this somewhere easier to find.

Hi everyone, I'm currently in holiday and this is probaly the last Internet I can get for a week......soooo if I go missing for a while feel free to play as me....hopefully I'll be a able to ste...borrows someone's Internet....