Silly Superhero Game... THIS EVENING!

[Pbartender]

Meanwhile, in The City...

A horrific electric-glowing ferret somehow got loose amongst the cages of test subjects at the Marshmallow Peep Research Institute. Contained within small cages and now bathed in exceptionally bright light, the test subjects reacted with their usual fear response and only natural defense... Swelling to an enormous size. Unable to escape the menace of the electric-glowing ferret, hundreds of peeps expanded to ten times their normal size, bursting both the cages and the building. Now, a horde of terrified marshmallow peeps is rampaging throught the city chased by a horrific electric-glowing ferret.

All our heroes know, for the moment, is that the laboratories of the MPRI were destroyed laboratory in an explosion of gooey-charred marshallowy sweetness.


This is a quick one-shot superhero game using the Risus system. I'm basing it off The Tick cartoons and comic books... It's meant to be a bit silly and goofy, and bit of a spoof on superheroes in general. I've got 9 hours to come up with an adventure, and this is the basic plotline.

What else can go wrong, as the players chase down an electric ferret chasing down a herd of marshmallow peeps?

 

[Piratecat]

Lord help them if anyone uses heat or flame powers against the Peeps!

 

[paradox42]

You could have Ghostbuster parodies show up and crack jokes about marshmallows (among other things). I'd expect something like that in an issue of the Tick, if this plot was used. They'd likely get in the way of the supers at first, or accidentally blast them with their Positron guns, but they could potentially become helpers for the heroes after the initial encounter.

 

[Piratecat]

The 2nd rate hero "The Ferret" might show up, furious that someone else has stolen his name. And you definitely need bespectacled scientists from the Peep Research Institute... and they should have clipboards.

 

[Berandor]

It's a race against time before the sun goes up – because if a ferret can turn these peeps to ten times their size, what will sunlight do?

It's the day of the annual boy scout meeting – maybe there's even "The Boy Scout", a brave but underaged hero – as their nightmares come to life, and seemingly all the marshmallows ever roasted over a fire cross the path of the parade.

As for the scientists, they could stop and ask the heroes for special treatment. "Could you attack with acid, now? We'd really like to see what that would do."

People can either bounce off a peep's rubbery skin (and be hurt) or be engulfed by sugary goodness.

Don Cheapo, the owner of the biggest supermarket chain in the region, tries to capture one or two peeps for cheap food production.

Thanks to the electric ferret, the traffic and street lights go wild, their pulsing lights in turn frightening the peeps and steering them who-knows-where, perhaps even spreading them into different groups. This can also be a way for the heroes to steer the peeps, by providing lights where they shan't go.

 

[Pbartender]

And you definitely need bespectacled scientists from the Peep Research Institute... and they should have clipboards.

As for the scientists, they could stop and ask the heroes for special treatment. "Could you attack with acid, now? We'd really like to see what that would do."

As someone who works at a government laboratory... That one's definitely going in.

"Hrm... That one melted a lot faster than our previous simulations predicted. Hey Johnny, get a core sample of this peep for analysis would you? And where'd that intern go with my hot cocoa? Hot cocoa... Say, Tick..."