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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 4609970" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p><strong>Previously, on Salton City Needs Heroes...</strong></p><p><em>"Yes, ma'am. I know. We think it's a problem with the air conditioning system, we're having someone look into it. We'll send up some extra blankets for now. No, I don't know when it will be fixed."</em></p><p></p><p>Keiko yanked the heavy, ungainly handset of the motel phone away from her ear and glared at it in stark disbelief. She had a towel wrapped around her head and another around her body...big fluffy towels made for ridiculously oversized <em>gaijin.</em> She could wear this towel outside and not feel a tinge of embarassment; it was like a full size sarong on her. Unfortunately, while it protected her modesty, and soaked up water admirably, it was no defense against the waves of cold radiating from the wall behind the TV.</p><p></p><p>"You don't KNOW?" she demanded of the phone. "You don't know?! How can you stay in business, not knowing things like that? There is ICE on my WALL. I just got out of the shower and my hair started to freeze!" She paused, listening to it for a moment.</p><p></p><p>"Well...can I at least get another room?"</p><p></p><p>Pause.</p><p></p><p>Keiko scowled incredulously and opened her drapes enough to see out to the desolate vista beyond. "You're FULL?! This is the middle of nothing! There's NOTHING HERE! How can you be full?!"</p><p></p><p>She paused again, then pressed her face into her hand.</p><p></p><p>"I don't care about a refund, it's not even my money... No. No. Yes. I...don't know offhand, it's probably on the...yes. What about a...a..." She thumped her hand on her leg, trying to remember the word. "Heater! Space heater. Well I won't start a fire, I just want to...what? There is?"</p><p></p><p>Following the receptionist's instructions, Keiko pulled the curtains even more aside to reveal the air conditioner, which was off.</p><p></p><p>"Why would you have a heater in the air conditioner? Your motel is in the desert. No...fine. I'll try it. But if the air conditioner's not causing the ice...no, that's your problem. I don't care what's making it. Just make it stop. No. Make it stop. Yes, that's all."</p><p></p><p>For a second Keiko held the phone back as if about to hurl it at its base...then scowled and let go, merely dropping it. The handset however did not fall. Rather it floated gently to the cradle and lowered itself in. She reached down to flip the dial all the way over into the red, then turned it on high.</p><p></p><p>It had been a long, frustrating trip. Just ten minutes later Keiko was asleep...the towel on her head unraveling as she twisted and turned to let her long, glossy black hair spread out around her head in a dark cloud.</p><p></p><p><strong>And now, the conclusion...</strong></p><p></p><p>Keiko "Kitsune" Ishimura woke up with her toes freezing and her head baking. She also somehow seemed to have managed to tangle herself up in her towel as she slept, making an image that was sure to be a fetish somewhere on the internet. With a muttered curse she twisted around to put her feet near the heat and cool her head off as she disengaged from the towel.</p><p></p><p>Somehow she doubted ninjas had mornings like this.</p><p></p><p>She had to shower again, both to tame her hair, which had dried as she slept into a shape that no kind and loving God would ever inflict on one of His children, as well as to get the sweat off most of her head and upper body...not to mention the blood flowing again in her nigh-frostbitten shins and feet.</p><p></p><p>That done, Keiko picked an outfit. She dithered a bit over her costume, which might send the wrong message since she'd last worn it while robbing a museum, or something more normal. Skirt? Jeans? It was really too hot outside for a jacket...though she needed one in the room. Finally she settled on a pretty regular blue jeans and red-orange flamestriped short sleeved pullover shirt, with a yellow ribbon in her hair to add a feminine touch to an otherwise pretty gender-neutral ensemble. Little makeup, just to darken the lashes a bit...all set.</p><p></p><p>As Keiko crossed the lobby to head over to the diner, her mobile rang. The ringtone indicated it was her agent, and she held the sleek black lozenge up to her ear. <em>"Moshi."</em></p><p></p><p>The voice on the other side started to say something, then paused and said in Japanese, "You're supposed to say that twice." It was a deep, jovial voice, now fraught with melodramatic concern. Inazuma was a bit of a ham...probably from all the actors he dealt with.</p><p></p><p><em>"I'm a fox,"</em> Keiko replied nonchalantly. <em>"We can't repeat things."</em></p><p></p><p>The man who called himself 'lightning' burst into barrel-chested laughter. <em>"That's good! We can make that one of your things. Moshi. Hah! I love you, kid!"</em></p><p></p><p><em>"Well, you don't show it." </em>Her voice turned petulant. <em>"This motel is awful."</em></p><p></p><p><em>"Aww, hey, I'm sorry,"</em> Inazuma assured her. <em>"That was the studio, not me! I wanted you to have a trailer, but none of the others get one, and they couldn't make an exception. Laws. Pft."</em></p><p></p><p><em>"What kind of agent are you?!"</em></p><p></p><p><em>"Hey, I got you the job, right?"</em> he replied, rising to the challenge in her voice. <em>"And you should have a package at the front desk too. From your first sponsor! Remember to face the camera while you wear it, and SMILE Keiko! Don't be so gloomy! People remember and love a smiling face. That's what you need to show them. Hero smile!"</em></p><p></p><p>Keiko put her thumb over the smartphone's tiny little camera lens and poked her tongue out at it. Then she uncovered it and asked, <em>"Front desk? Alright. I have to wear it...how long?"</em></p><p></p><p><em>"Just ten minutes while you're camera. No more than that! That's all they paid for."</em></p><p></p><p><em>"Ten minutes! That's nothing!"</em></p><p></p><p><em>"It's just the beginning, Kitsune. It's just the beginning. If you perform well, big companies will line up to buy hours of airtime on you!"</em></p><p></p><p>She sighed, but couldn't help smiling. Hours would add up. Fast. <em>"They'd better. Okay, I have to go. I'll call you!"</em></p><p></p><p>Phone call over, Keiko went to the desk and asked for a package in her name. Got it. Opened it.</p><p></p><p>...after a moment she decided it could have been worse. A little.</p><p></p><p><u>Benny's Road House</u></p><p></p><p>And so a gorgeously cute Japanese girl sauntered into the bar, in a normal sort of outfit any university student or similar might wear...except for the oversized baseball cap on her head, sporting the clearly visible team logo of The Ultra-Typhoon Eaters...a Japanese team name inexpertly translated into English, with the kanji over the translation.</p><p></p><p>She surveyed the room...two of the men present seemed -particularly- huge to her. With a quick check of her watch, she went over to sit at one of the few seats still open at the bar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 4609970, member: 4936"] [b]Previously, on Salton City Needs Heroes...[/b] [I]"Yes, ma'am. I know. We think it's a problem with the air conditioning system, we're having someone look into it. We'll send up some extra blankets for now. No, I don't know when it will be fixed."[/I] Keiko yanked the heavy, ungainly handset of the motel phone away from her ear and glared at it in stark disbelief. She had a towel wrapped around her head and another around her body...big fluffy towels made for ridiculously oversized [i]gaijin.[/i] She could wear this towel outside and not feel a tinge of embarassment; it was like a full size sarong on her. Unfortunately, while it protected her modesty, and soaked up water admirably, it was no defense against the waves of cold radiating from the wall behind the TV. "You don't KNOW?" she demanded of the phone. "You don't know?! How can you stay in business, not knowing things like that? There is ICE on my WALL. I just got out of the shower and my hair started to freeze!" She paused, listening to it for a moment. "Well...can I at least get another room?" Pause. Keiko scowled incredulously and opened her drapes enough to see out to the desolate vista beyond. "You're FULL?! This is the middle of nothing! There's NOTHING HERE! How can you be full?!" She paused again, then pressed her face into her hand. "I don't care about a refund, it's not even my money... No. No. Yes. I...don't know offhand, it's probably on the...yes. What about a...a..." She thumped her hand on her leg, trying to remember the word. "Heater! Space heater. Well I won't start a fire, I just want to...what? There is?" Following the receptionist's instructions, Keiko pulled the curtains even more aside to reveal the air conditioner, which was off. "Why would you have a heater in the air conditioner? Your motel is in the desert. No...fine. I'll try it. But if the air conditioner's not causing the ice...no, that's your problem. I don't care what's making it. Just make it stop. No. Make it stop. Yes, that's all." For a second Keiko held the phone back as if about to hurl it at its base...then scowled and let go, merely dropping it. The handset however did not fall. Rather it floated gently to the cradle and lowered itself in. She reached down to flip the dial all the way over into the red, then turned it on high. It had been a long, frustrating trip. Just ten minutes later Keiko was asleep...the towel on her head unraveling as she twisted and turned to let her long, glossy black hair spread out around her head in a dark cloud. [b]And now, the conclusion...[/b] Keiko "Kitsune" Ishimura woke up with her toes freezing and her head baking. She also somehow seemed to have managed to tangle herself up in her towel as she slept, making an image that was sure to be a fetish somewhere on the internet. With a muttered curse she twisted around to put her feet near the heat and cool her head off as she disengaged from the towel. Somehow she doubted ninjas had mornings like this. She had to shower again, both to tame her hair, which had dried as she slept into a shape that no kind and loving God would ever inflict on one of His children, as well as to get the sweat off most of her head and upper body...not to mention the blood flowing again in her nigh-frostbitten shins and feet. That done, Keiko picked an outfit. She dithered a bit over her costume, which might send the wrong message since she'd last worn it while robbing a museum, or something more normal. Skirt? Jeans? It was really too hot outside for a jacket...though she needed one in the room. Finally she settled on a pretty regular blue jeans and red-orange flamestriped short sleeved pullover shirt, with a yellow ribbon in her hair to add a feminine touch to an otherwise pretty gender-neutral ensemble. Little makeup, just to darken the lashes a bit...all set. As Keiko crossed the lobby to head over to the diner, her mobile rang. The ringtone indicated it was her agent, and she held the sleek black lozenge up to her ear. [I]"Moshi."[/I] The voice on the other side started to say something, then paused and said in Japanese, "You're supposed to say that twice." It was a deep, jovial voice, now fraught with melodramatic concern. Inazuma was a bit of a ham...probably from all the actors he dealt with. [I]"I'm a fox,"[/I] Keiko replied nonchalantly. [I]"We can't repeat things."[/I] The man who called himself 'lightning' burst into barrel-chested laughter. [I]"That's good! We can make that one of your things. Moshi. Hah! I love you, kid!"[/I] [I]"Well, you don't show it." [/I]Her voice turned petulant. [I]"This motel is awful."[/I] [I]"Aww, hey, I'm sorry,"[/I] Inazuma assured her. [I]"That was the studio, not me! I wanted you to have a trailer, but none of the others get one, and they couldn't make an exception. Laws. Pft."[/I] [I]"What kind of agent are you?!"[/I] [I]"Hey, I got you the job, right?"[/I] he replied, rising to the challenge in her voice. [I]"And you should have a package at the front desk too. From your first sponsor! Remember to face the camera while you wear it, and SMILE Keiko! Don't be so gloomy! People remember and love a smiling face. That's what you need to show them. Hero smile!"[/I] Keiko put her thumb over the smartphone's tiny little camera lens and poked her tongue out at it. Then she uncovered it and asked, [I]"Front desk? Alright. I have to wear it...how long?"[/I] [I]"Just ten minutes while you're camera. No more than that! That's all they paid for."[/I] [I]"Ten minutes! That's nothing!"[/I] [I]"It's just the beginning, Kitsune. It's just the beginning. If you perform well, big companies will line up to buy hours of airtime on you!"[/I] She sighed, but couldn't help smiling. Hours would add up. Fast. [I]"They'd better. Okay, I have to go. I'll call you!"[/I] Phone call over, Keiko went to the desk and asked for a package in her name. Got it. Opened it. ...after a moment she decided it could have been worse. A little. [U]Benny's Road House[/U] And so a gorgeously cute Japanese girl sauntered into the bar, in a normal sort of outfit any university student or similar might wear...except for the oversized baseball cap on her head, sporting the clearly visible team logo of The Ultra-Typhoon Eaters...a Japanese team name inexpertly translated into English, with the kanji over the translation. She surveyed the room...two of the men present seemed -particularly- huge to her. With a quick check of her watch, she went over to sit at one of the few seats still open at the bar. [/QUOTE]
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