Basil Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Late 1890s to 1900' date=' I think. When was the Paris Exposition?[/quote'] Opened May 6, 1889. Helpful Factoids 'R' Us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! More Western Hero than Pulp Era' date=' but the classic Western [b']is[/b] pulp. Ruroni Kenshin: It is ten years after the end of the Civil War, in a western territory on the verge of becoming a state. Schoolmarm Miss Katie is both furious and worried about a series of murders around the town committed by someone calling himself "the Fastdraw Kid" and using some of her father's patented shooting techniques. So Miss Katie straps on iron herself and goes looking for this sidewinder. What she finds instead is a mild-mannered redhead with a curious scar on his cheek, who seems dedicated to peace. Naturally, this redhead is in fact the real Fastdraw Kid, Ken Fireton. He was a top gun for the Union during the War, but he's sickened by the lives he's taken, and has vowed never to kill again. Ken locates the false Fastdraw Kid and ruins his hands. Ken claims to be a drifter, but hangs around to help keep the school running. He's soon joined by Sam, who used to be the drummer boy for a unit of Confederate irregulars before they were framed for the massacre of a village and shot down like dogs. Ken also takes one of Katie's unrulier pupils under his wing, and has a standoffish relationship with Meg, the weird lady doctor. Naturally, no shootist can ever fully retire, and Ken is constantly plagued by young punks wanting to prove their mettle, and old enemies who have scores to settle or want to start the Civil War all over again. Duly repped. Modeling Ken will be difficult if you want to get the true kenshin mystique, as it will be hard to rig the Colt equivalent of a sword with the blade mounted backwards which had the game effect of turning the blade into a NORMAl atack rather than a killing one, since move that would normally strike with the edge now struck with the blunt back -- something theoretically impossible with bullets even today, much less with 1868 technology). One of the principal features of the campaign will be Ken's battle with his own demons -- the things that drove him to be a near-perfect killing machine during the war are still there, under the surface, waiting to be triggered. And should they emerge, there will be blood. Much blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Auntie Mame: Little Patrick Dennis thought the realtive on whom he's been foisted was a free spirit -- but he doesn't know the half of it. Little does he realize that he has now become the ward of Mame Kildare -- two-fisted adventuress! -- and that he'll need to open new windows every day just to survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Duly repped. Modeling Ken will be difficult if you want to get the true kenshin mystique, as it will be hard to rig the Colt equivalent of a sword with the blade mounted backwards which had the game effect of turning the blade into a NORMAl atack rather than a killing one, since move that would normally strike with the edge now struck with the blunt back -- something theoretically impossible with bullets even today, much less with 1868 technology). One of the principal features of the campaign will be Ken's battle with his own demons -- the things that drove him to be a near-perfect killing machine during the war are still there, under the surface, waiting to be triggered. And should they emerge, there will be blood. Much blood. Hmm... sounds like one could combine this with some sort of variant of Trigun, where the gunfighter is so good his attacks are defined as STR and DEX Drains instead of straight RKAs. Basically, our hero is able to shoot people in the exact spot needed to make them drop their gun and/or curl up on the ground, out of the fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgrandjean Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Re Kenshin: ...Or the easy way is that he has +8 Penalty skill levels to call hit location and he only targets the opponents gun or hands... Sound familiar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Ghosts of Mars: A group of Marshals (and probably a guide or two just to mix things up) have been dispatched to pick up Jim "Desolation" Williams from the Mining town of Shining Canyon and bring him back to Denver for trial. They stumble onto a scene of edritch horror as body-stealing spirits had been freed the night before and laid waste to all those who had not been taken over. The spirits were from a group of corrupted Native Americans tricked by a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know. These corrupted ones had been defeated by a combination of (untainted) tribes around them and sealed into a cave hundreds of years before with a mystic symbol-laden rock over the entrance. The Miners encountered the cave, rich with silver, and removed the rock in order to get deeper into the cave. After its removal, the spirits of the corrupt ones began to take over the bodies of the miners, killing them indiscrimnately and moving on to other bodies in the camp. Inside the jail is Desolation, as well as a few drunks, prostitutes and the local administrator of the mining company (they were protected by the fact that metals, like iron and silver, sap the disembodied spirits of their energy. As a twist: iron does a good job of containment, but silver kills them). As the party kills off the spirit-dominated townsfolk, they start to notice that some of the NPCs in their party fall prey to bodily takeover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! 28 Days Later - scientists researching Dr. Jekyll's process in order to create more powerful soldiers for the Western Front have an unfortunate accident...and soon London descends into a true "Hyde Park"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Has this one been done? Dune: The father of one of the PCs, His Grace Leto Atredies Duke of Caladan, has recently been named to the Chairmanship of CHOAM (Cobalt-Hastings Oil, Amalamated), and has been moved to the "Home Office" in the Middle East. There, the former head of Operations, now Nazi sympathizer, Vlad 'the Baron' Harkonnen, laid a trap that killed Duke Atredies and left the PC son a renegade, hunted by Harkonnen's crazed Nephews and their Nazi allies in the desert. Eventually, they find themselves among the local natives that call the young Atredies "Mouse" and keep babbling about some local dish called "Kwisatz Haderach"... Will the PCs manage to stage a raid on the Nazi pumping stations? Can they destroy the CHOAM HQ, now secured as a bunker loaded with Nazis? will they discover why some of the deep desert fields have been destroyed by some sort of large burrowing creature? And why everyone has blue eyes? The Petrol must flow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! LOL. That's a great one, Publius. I might change a few of the names here and there, but the idea is solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Thanks, I do not know how you could get the Worms in on it, but I tried. The spice is kind of like oil, both are natural resources, both are used for transportation, blah blah of course oil can be found in a number of locations and the Spice Melange cannot, but meh it isn't supposed to be identical, just close. Actually, wasn't one of the Nazi's problems in WWII getting gasoline? Maybe their stoodge Vlad was supplying it to them from secret caches he had been diverting material to over the last few years, a good place for the PCs to strike and a good reason for him to panic and kill the Old Duke when he was poised to take over (and poossibly find out about it). Maybe the burrowing device is a steam-punkish mole-driller by some other concern... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Yes, IIRC Nazi Germany definitely had fuel problems; I've read some analyses arguing that if Hitler had had the sense to invade the Near East instead of Russia, Germany could have won the war, or at least made it last a lot longer. I guess the sandworms have to come in as some sort of long-buried monster unleashed by petrogeologists or something. Who knows what might be lurking in the sands of the Rub 'al Khali? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! You can never go wrong replacing monsters from movies with Dinosaurs or Martians - or even Nazi Mutant Experiments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Berserk: The man known only as "Guts" was born from a corpse, and has been a mercenary soldier since he could walk. Only recently, however, has he found some sense of belonging and purpose. Guts has joined Hawk Company, an elite mercenary group led by the charismatic Captain Griffith, in their contract with the embattled South American country of Tierra Medi. Griffith has big plans, including seducing the daughter of El Presidente. But the wealthy families and regular military don't much like these mercenaries, and plot against them. Worse, the good luck talisman Captain Griffith wears is actually the product of blackest magic, and Things Man Was Not Meant To Know have taken an interest in him. Can Guts save his friends? Can Guts even save himself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Don't you mean "born for the corps" rather than "born from a corpse"? What always puzzled me about Berserk is Guts' survival. You know he does right at the beginning, and I think there are flashes now and then of the one eyed Guts post-bad-stuff. But at the end of the series, they never explain how he survived what appeared to be inescapable death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Don't you mean "born for the corps" rather than "born from a corpse"? I mean what I said. It's kind of a plot point in the manga. What always puzzled me about Berserk is Guts' survival. You know he does right at the beginning, and I think there are flashes now and then of the one eyed Guts post-bad-stuff. But at the end of the series, they never explain how he survived what appeared to be inescapable death. It'll be in the manga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I'd rather have it as "his mother died in childbirth" which is far less ambiguous. Unless it is different in the manga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I'd rather have it as "his mother died in childbirth" which is far less ambiguous. Unless it is different in the manga. Yes. It wasn't the childbirth that killed her. The manga truly earns its "mature audiences" warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I picked up volume 1, read it, and then tossed it. Not for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Just got a weird idea: "Task Force Azumanga". Six talented young girls with amusing and alarming personailty quirks bash evil under the guidance of their constantly-quarreling mentors Yukari and Nyamo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmlessTigerMan Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Goonies: The Dead End Kids have found the treasure map of infamous pirate One-Eyed Willie. In secret caverns deep beneath Manhattan lie untold riches, protected by intricate booby traps. They are hounded at every turn by the mob. Or it could be the Little Rascals and the caverns could be under Santa Monica. Fast and the Furious: A gang of hooligans is tearing up the city in their souped-up Model A coupes, all hopped up on the Reefer and that infernal Jazz music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I guess the sandworms have to come in as some sort of long-buried monster unleashed by petrogeologists or something. Who knows what might be lurking in the sands of the Rub 'al Khali? Obviously it would be the same underground critters we first saw in Tremors... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! A GAME OF THRONES Issue One: A Song of Ice & Fire Lord Edward Stark, best friend and Privy Councilor to the King, uncovers a plot to overthrow the House of Windsor when he learns that the Queen......... ah, nevermind. jg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Fast and the Furious: A gang of hooligans is tearing up the city in their souped-up Model A coupes' date=' all hopped up on the Reefer and that infernal Jazz music![/quote'] HA! I loved that! Repped. Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentor Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Goonies: The Dead End Kids have found the treasure map of infamous pirate One-Eyed Willie. In secret caverns deep beneath Manhattan lie untold riches, protected by intricate booby traps. They are hounded at every turn by the mob. Or it could be the Little Rascals and the caverns could be under Santa Monica. Fast and the Furious: A gang of hooligans is tearing up the city in their souped-up Model A coupes, all hopped up on the Reefer and that infernal Jazz music! Repped for using the Dead End Kids. Absolutely excellent in period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenrisUlf Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I guess the sandworms have to come in as some sort of long-buried monster unleashed by petrogeologists or something. Who knows what might be lurking in the sands of the Rub 'al Khali? Well, they could help explain the collapse of the lost city of Ubar. Lovecraftian horrors and the Atlantis of the sands! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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