pawsplay
Hero
Guvmint Cheez Posse
A one sesssion Hero System game. The characters were powerful mutants situated in South Dallas, where several of my players grew up. They named their gang the Guvmint Cheez Posse after their childhood gang (in turn, named after the generic, ginormous blocks of yellow American cheese distributed as part of food programs). The characters consisted of Manteca (literaly, "butter," a term for fatness), the speedster; a young guy who basically put all of his points into telekinesis; his older sister, a nonpowered gang banger with an affinity for huffing paint and who carried a crowbar, with which she was indescribably deadly, and who could fly into a rage at any time if her younger brother were threatened or attacked; and Whitey, the token white guy, a pyrokinetic with regeneration powers. The premise: against extraordinarily long odds, they happen to manifest mutant powers as teenagers, becoming a superpowered gang of social debris. I sent a drive by from another gang after them, whom they all killed. They fled the police, and eventually decided to visit a William's Chicken (a south Dallas fixture). The surly cashier insults the telekinetic; when he threatens the cashier, the cashier calls the police. In a rage, his sister attacks the cashier. Chaos ensues. The cashier gets his head stuck into the chicken fryer. They burn the place to the ground. The police catch up with them. They start killing the police, before the SWAT teams shows up and starts dropping them one by one. Manteca falls prey to tear gas, then gets flash grenaded and finally sniped. The telekinetic gets sniped, after squashing a half dozen shooters under cars. His sister, dodging gun fire, dives into the police and starts tearing them limb from limb with her crowbar, before being shot to death by a shotgun. Whitey blows up a few cars and buildings, then decides to escape as everyone else goes down. While he's fleeing, however, his regeneration power proves to be of little use as he is hit bad with a sniper shot to the skull.
The End.
A one sesssion Hero System game. The characters were powerful mutants situated in South Dallas, where several of my players grew up. They named their gang the Guvmint Cheez Posse after their childhood gang (in turn, named after the generic, ginormous blocks of yellow American cheese distributed as part of food programs). The characters consisted of Manteca (literaly, "butter," a term for fatness), the speedster; a young guy who basically put all of his points into telekinesis; his older sister, a nonpowered gang banger with an affinity for huffing paint and who carried a crowbar, with which she was indescribably deadly, and who could fly into a rage at any time if her younger brother were threatened or attacked; and Whitey, the token white guy, a pyrokinetic with regeneration powers. The premise: against extraordinarily long odds, they happen to manifest mutant powers as teenagers, becoming a superpowered gang of social debris. I sent a drive by from another gang after them, whom they all killed. They fled the police, and eventually decided to visit a William's Chicken (a south Dallas fixture). The surly cashier insults the telekinetic; when he threatens the cashier, the cashier calls the police. In a rage, his sister attacks the cashier. Chaos ensues. The cashier gets his head stuck into the chicken fryer. They burn the place to the ground. The police catch up with them. They start killing the police, before the SWAT teams shows up and starts dropping them one by one. Manteca falls prey to tear gas, then gets flash grenaded and finally sniped. The telekinetic gets sniped, after squashing a half dozen shooters under cars. His sister, dodging gun fire, dives into the police and starts tearing them limb from limb with her crowbar, before being shot to death by a shotgun. Whitey blows up a few cars and buildings, then decides to escape as everyone else goes down. While he's fleeing, however, his regeneration power proves to be of little use as he is hit bad with a sniper shot to the skull.
The End.
