NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 3540806" data-attributes="member: 50821">Awesome! I love the routine - a classic! Reminded a bit of the cop always chasing Lupin in the Japanese anime Lupin the 3rd. lolA mention of Star Frontiers on another thread (or two) reminded me of another very strange campaign from about 12-15 years ago...First a little set up - Bored and unable to come up with a campaign idea after two or three of our regular ones ended, my buddy and I came up with a challenge for the group. Choose an older, out-of-print and/or not 'major' RPG and do a revamp of it. Victims...umm, I mean recipients of the treatment would then be run for the group by the GM who came up with it as one-shots. My entry was this...The Real Star FrontiersStar Frontiers with many modifications and houserules5 Human beings step out of their spacecraft and onto the station hosting a secret diplomatic meeting of the major alien species with which the Earth has contact. Conflict with the menace known as the Sathar is unavoidable and the fledgling alliance of the star-spanning nations must band together to fight for their lives. However, this is the first time any of the Humans had met the aliens up close and personal. Sure we'd watch holovids and newsfeeds. We practically grew up on holofilms and interface RPGs like the popular 'Star Frontiers' series. But it was all a ruse. It was all designed to prepare you for the day when Earth and the other worlds begin to truly interact on a regular basis. But nothing could prepare you...nothing...The first alien species Humanity encountered were the Chuda'wok. Discovered by astronaut and language specialist Muhammud Ali Yazir, these warmongering creatures became known popularly as Yazirians. An evolutionary nightmare of predatory perfection, the Yazirians are a cross between Bats, wolves and primates. Nocturnal and disliking bright light, they are easily offended and provoked, which resulted in dozens of small wars the general populace of Humanity never even knew about. Thousand died in 'accidents' as members of the 'Colonial Operations Corps'.Eventually the Chuda'wok introduced us to the Vrusk, or at least they called them the Vrusk. We found out too late that it was a bizarre pratical joke played on us by the Yazirians with their sick senses of humor (apparently they find fighting for beliefs worthwhile and unnessecary violence funny). Vrusk is a Chuda'wok word meaning 'Pest'. The insectiod creatures were not too happy with us for a good long time. We shoud've figured. With names like T'chik'ti'click and Klick'titi'iss they can't even say a word like Vrusk. We now know they're called the Shi'Ti'Chee.Next, oh boy...Dralasites. When I was a kid I had a Dralasite Action Figure. Squishy thing made of some kind of memory foam so you could put it into all kinds of shapes. The truth was...Dralasites are people. Humans. They catch a virus which works like some kind of hive mind intelligence and slowly, painfully transforms their soild flesh into this moldable, grayish stuff...smells aweful. These days every child is given a shot in grade school to protect against it but there are already hundreds of people who've caught Dralasites.This is all we've got against an enemy that comes straight out of a horror movie. Bennett, the team smart guy from the Mars Colonies...says it reminds him of 'Lovecraft', whatever that is. I ain't got no love for them, that's for sure. The Sathar. I can't even describe one. A..a...worm is the closest thing I can think of. Don't look them in the eyes. Double pupils like two dying flies floating in a pool of...-shudder-. Looks like the briefing is starting. Gotta go...</blockquote>

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