"V" Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! This one would have to be the latest in a line of adventures featuring the same heroes to work: Heroic leader of Pulp adventure team sends his loyal Action Squad out to do battle against sinister invaders from the North. While coordinating the action back at his headquarters he falls in love with the beautiful wife of one of his top agents, and against his better judgement starts an affair with her. When the inevitable bombshell hits and the woman tells him she is pregnant, he makes a dreadful decision and telegrams the leader of his Action Squad to mount a direct assault on the Sinister Invader's fortress - and arrange for the woman's husband to be killed in the battle. He thinks he's got away with it, but the team Mystic suddenly receives a psychic vision showing the plotting of the murder and the reason behind it. He now knows that both his leader and the Action Squad commander are conspirators in a cold blooded killing for the worst of reasons... what does he do & will anyone believe him? (the source is the Second Book of Samuel in the Bible, with heroic King David being the man behind the murder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"V" Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Amazing _____'s Million Dollar Challenge A welathy stage magician spends much of his career openly debunking psychic impostors and other frauds and in fact goes so far as to offer a million dollar prize to any individual who can conclusively prove the existence of supernatural powers. Many come forward, all are debunked and ridiculed, no one wins the prize. But here's the stinger... the Amazing Magician is in fact merely the human form of a hideous extra dimensional creature who is the vanguard of an invading force of hideous extra dimensional creatures who while impervious to most normal weapons are vulnerable to psionic attack. His challenge is designed to draw genuine psychics out into the open where they can be quietly neutralised. Anyone showing any genuine ability is quietly killed and then replaced with a shapeshifted warrior in the Amazing Creature's demonic service. Our heroes could be the relatives of a suitably... altered... psionic victim who uncover the plot and must face not only the demonic being and his minions, but also the power of his media influence that labels them as cranks and crackpots. Can they expose the truth before the International Sceptics Conference of 1936, coincidentally being held in a hotel on a massive ley-line nexus on the very day the portal between the worlds is to be ripped apart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"V" Posted June 3, 2006 Report Share Posted June 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Charlie's Angels 1920. Celebrated New York socialite Charles "Charlie" Charlesworth is only moderately dismayed to hear of the death of his aged Great Aunt from England, and a tiny legacy makes little difference to his life - all except for one item, an elaborately carved Tibetan ornament which he uses as a paperweight. Imagine his surprise one day when, polishing the paperweight, he finds himself suddenly joined by a trio of glamorous young women, in the height of 1870s' raciest fashions, and almost entirely transparent (the gals, not the fashions)! Ghostly Great Aunt Millicent was quite a stunner fifty years ago, and her two spectral bosom-buddies Felicity and Prudence were not far behind. In life they were debutante adventuresses and crime fighters... and now Charlie finds himself in need of their regular advice and inspiration as he takes on the Mob, sinister Oriental gangs, bolsheviks, nihilists and more. All he has to do is talk to his paperweight and the Angels come running... or more accurately gliding gracefully with just the hint of a wiggle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Millionaire A mysterious and very eccentric rich man sends his agents (the PCs), across America to deliver $10,000 cashier's checks to people chosen seemingly at random. They have orders to observe what the recepients do with the money, but never to interfere...yeah, like that rule's not going to be broken by the end of the game. Naturally, most of the recepients have some sort of situation they need the money for, or soon get into trouble because of their new funds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Hell Girl: Has someone done you wrong so severely that it's totally destroyed your life? Rumor has it there is a phone number you can call. Tell the receptionist who did you wrong and they will be damned, and dragged into the Pit kicking and screaming. The price? You are going to be damned as well. But what is eternal torment compared to the sweetest and cruelest of vengances? You will make the call, won't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Miles Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Anti-Nazi German citizen Sigfried Falken steals the top-secret, two-man autogyro "Luftwolfe", and along with his mechanic Dominico Santorini (formerly of Fascist Italy) fly the stolen autogyro against the Third Reich. Any guesses?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Anti-Nazi German citizen Sigfried Falken steals the top-secret, two-man autogyro "Luftwolfe", and along with his mechanic Dominico Santorini (formerly of Fascist Italy) fly the stolen autogyro against the Third Reich. Any guesses?... Airwolf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The last one reminded me of this : "A pilot is sent on a dangerous mission to the heart of Nazi Germany to steal their new, potentially war winning, aircraft" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The last one reminded me of this : "A pilot is sent on a dangerous mission to the heart of Nazi Germany to steal their new' date=' potentially war winning, aircraft"[/quote'] Sounds like Firefox. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Yep "Firefox" it was ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The sequel would obviously be "War winning plane shot down and sunk in a lake. Can the Allies beat the Germans to it?" CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted June 26, 2006 Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! And since I doubt there'd be much in thought-computing back in WWII... "You must type in German." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted June 26, 2006 Report Share Posted June 26, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Don't want to review all the pages, so sorry if it's a repeat: Super Troopers - a band of misfit State Police in danger of being shut down has to deal with competition from local police and a murderous liquor-smuggling ring moving product through the area. SPOILER BELOW!******* --- most of the local cops are corrupt and are working with the bootleggers (movie is set in Vermont, but if interested in historical accuracy, may want to do elsewhere, as Vermont's not set up until after prohibition - Connecticut's for example, set up in 1903...and rode around in trains at the start.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted June 27, 2006 Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! One Hundred Monsters: A greedy real estate developer and a crooked judge have joined forces to foreclose on a tenement house and the small church behind it so they can raze them and put up a brothel. There's also been a sudden rise in what appear to be ghostly apparitions in the neighborhood. Can the undercover G-Man expose the villains before they succeed in their wicked plans? Or will the developer's thuggish henchmen despoil the churchyard first, waking the restless dead? (In the "realistic" version, the apparent ghosts are actually the tenement denizens playing tricks in hopes of frightening away the developer.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Tomie: This one requires the player characters to create or have access to a semi-automated national crime file. While testing the new system, someone notices that the name "Tammy" comes up much more often than is probable in connection with murder cases. There have been nearly a dozen murders of women named "Tammy" in the last decade, scattered around the country. And the descriptions of the victims are all almost identical, particularly the small mole under the left eye. Moreover, another dozen or so cases have a "Tammy" listed as a suspect or missing witness, and again the descriptions match. Obviously, something very strange is going on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverhawk Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Tomie: This one requires the player characters to create or have access to a semi-automated national crime file. While testing the new system, someone notices that the name "Tammy" comes up much more often than is probable in connection with murder cases. There have been nearly a dozen murders of women named "Tammy" in the last decade, scattered around the country. And the descriptions of the victims are all almost identical, particularly the small mole under the left eye. Moreover, another dozen or so cases have a "Tammy" listed as a suspect or missing witness, and again the descriptions match. Obviously, something very strange is going on here. What a great idea for a crime campaign that isn't just chasing bootleggers, bank robbers, or just plain criminals. Just a small possible modification. With a big enough state, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California come to mind, you could have enough reports come in that could be gone through manually without overloading and still have enough suspected linked crimes to run with. Additionally, there would be enough area to have to search without being overwhelming. Even so I like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Santa Claus is Comin' To Town: Years ago, the gentle toymaker Claus was brutally roughed up and kicked out of town by the tyrannical Gauleiter, Burgomeister Meisterburger, for attempting to rescue local children from the Burgomeister's iron mines. Forced to travel, Claus went far, far to the north, accidentally discovering the last survivors of ancient Thule. Now armed with their forgotten magics, married to a beautiful-but-deadly Thulean witch, and accompanied by his brave companions, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Santa Claus is coming back to town. TO MAKE THEM PAY. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Organized crime is running out of control in the USA and President Coolidge has decided to go for a drastic CURE. Heroic Great War veteran turned policeman Remo Williams is framed by the Mob and sentenced to death. Spirited away from the gas chamber, Remo is trained in the lethal mysteries of the Orient by a wizened Korean sadist named Chiun. First stage of training complete, Remo is targeted on corrupt US Defence contractors who are bribing Senators, selling defective arms and supplying good weapons to a bunch of Reds who plan on overthrowing the US Government. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Remington Steele isn't much of a stretch, its already a PI television show. The main characters are a (former?) con-man who has taken over the role of a private detective, and the actual female detective who is forced to hide behind the masculine identity of Remington Steele because of the chauvenism in the detective business. First season had a second male detective and secretary who was familar with the night life. The second season switched out the supporting cast for a single secretary with a penchant for accounting. Also, while not used for much in the show, there is the ever present limo driver. Its set up perfectly for a modern pulp adventure using the movies of the past, or it can be thrown back to the pulp era with the same cast and motivations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Phantom of the Opera: It's September 1940, and the Nazis have just conquered France. An official of the Propaganda Ministry has taken over operations of the Opera Populaire, one of the premiere opera venues in all of Europe, unaware that the theatre was partly designed by a brilliant and disfigured architect-musician known only as Erik who included a massive set of catacombs in which he hid himself away from a scornful world, only emerging to take the seats on Box Five that are reserved for him. He had previously assauged his lonilieness by training a budding singer and secretly guiding her career. But when the Ministry official tries to have her arrested for refusing to accept his advances and she flees to the catacombs, Erik discovers the true horror of what is happening, and the benevolent Opera Ghost transforms himself into the deadly Phantom of the Opera in hopes of doing some small part in driving the Nazis out of his theatre -- and his country.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deucex Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Airship Troopers: using Derigeables A group of Brit Commandos perform hit and run raids across africa and the middle east terrifying Italian and Nazi troops with their steam powered Dreadnought suits culminating in a raid to capture the Desert Fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Tundra is a Harsh Mistress: "Populist" Huey Long won the 1936 Presidential Election, and has managed to impose a uniquely American -- and uniquely ivicious -- form of facism on the country. The Terriroty of Alaska has been transformed into a penal colony, with criminals and dissidents alike sent to the northwern wastes to never be heard from again. But the Kingfish has made a fatal mistake: among those he has sent north are gifted sceitnists and technicians. with their aid, the prisoners of Alaska are going to save America from itself -- or destroy it in the attempt.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deucex Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Vampire Lestat: Clarinetist Rick Lestat and his accompanist Louie lay down the the jazz in his nightclub, Rick's Place, in Morraco until the queen of the undead shows up, drawn by the sweet sounds wanting him to secretly rule the Third Riche with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Vampire Hunter D: A mysterious mercenary, cursed with immortality and the need to drink human blood yet blessed with not havign some of the vulnerabilities of the traditional vampire -- a man who is neither alive, dead or undead -- seeks the power that will free him from his fate, only to discover that it lies in the darkest heart of the Third Reich in the blood of a being like himself -- the Mistress of the Reich, Eva Braun herself.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deucex Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Clockwork Man: After crashing an experimental rocket plane, Army Aircorps Pilot Cpt. Steve Austin has an arm and both legs replaced with Highly advanced mechanical limbs. The downside is, he has to wind them up occasionally. The replacement parts cost a whopping 60 thousand dollars! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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