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Fiasco - A Roleplaying/Storytelling Game

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Game and Watch Forever:
Okay, I deleted my previous post and modified my first post to run down the whole game and explain it as simply as possible. Look over it. If you're still on the fence, PM me and we'll talk. I'm going to post some videos of Wil Wheaton and others playing the game that might illustrate how fun it is way better than I describe it, so that may also help.

Hope to get a game going with a few of you!

de_la_Nae:
I'm definitely interested, but not certain I can commit at this time. Sorry. :/ I will be paying attention, though, and seeing if my schedule clears up enough in the near future.

Game and Watch Forever:
Posted videos of the game being played. It's watching them that got me interested, so hopefully the same happens to you. No need to watch the whole thing to get the idea, though I was certainly entertained enough to do so. Twice.

De la Nae, thanks for posting your interest at least! You bring up a good point I should probably touch a little on.

For anyone wondering how big of a time sink this will be: I don't expect this to be as big of a commitment as say... a play by forum game of D&D or something. There's no deadline in posting. Go at your own pace. The level of RP here isn't "1 post = 1 chapter of a novel" so no need to worry about that either. Post what's appropriate for the situation. Only time I would say not to bother is if you're always going to take a week plus to make a post. Or if you think you may start and then flake in the middle. Otherwise, I'm willing to work with anyone interested and hope anyone else posting interest will feel the same way.

Okay, I said enough... I think only thing I have left to address is if anyone posts questions or concerns. And if I get bored I'll post more about my first game... the story of a mayor running for re-election, his secretary looking for revenge, a pair of rivals, a closeted gay man, and a rooster named Cocky.

Game and Watch Forever:
All right, folks. We just finished a really good game of mafia. While we recover from all the backstabbing and deceit, some of us can still have some fun RPing with something different. I just need two people minimum for three, though I'd love for there to be four or five of us total. You know you want to! Especially those of you that posted for more information and then went into hiding. I see you there!  :police:

Game and Watch Forever:
All right, this will be my last post and then I'll let this die if nobody really wants to (and is available to) give it a try.

I said I wanted to post about my first game of this and I think this is as good a time as any. I don't remember it scene by scene, but I do remember the overall story and that's what I'll provide as an example of the sort of story you end up with. Our playset was "A Nice Southern Town."

First, of course, are the characters we ended up creating after everything was chosen:
(click to show/hide)Mayor Gump: The mayor of our tiny town that we chose to leave unnamed for some reason. Quite dim-witted. Sexist. Loved by the town. Not necessarily in that order. Up for re-election soon.

Drew: Closeted gay man. Ex-alcoholic. Had a one-night stand with the mayor. Not happy that he never heard back. Needs money.

Jed: Town prankster and had several records in the town's bar/pub games. His greatest feat was stealing Cocky, a rooster that served as the town's mascot. Got caught by Mayor Gump and shamed for it. Turned to alcohol. Now the town drunk. Makes Mayor Gump look like he's of average intelligence. Joined Alcoholics Anonymous and Drew is his sponsor.

Trixie (the Tricky Dixie): Considers herself Jed's rival. Ends up beating all his records (including a pissing contest!) after he succumbs to alcoholism. Has her sights on stealing Cocky for longer than he did and NOT getting caught.

Ms. Tate: Educated woman born and raised outside of the town. Thought she'd be able to jump start her career by running for mayor, but quickly found out that the town had a completely different viewpoint from her. Lost to Gump by a landslide and ended up being his secretary. Wants revenge on Gump and the town.

Act I:
(click to show/hide)The story begins in a private corner of the local watering hole. Ms. Tate meets with Drew. She had managed to piece together what had happened between Drew and Gump and wanted to use it to her advantage. She tried to convince Drew to blackmail the mayor. Drew was hesitant, but Tate managed to push the right buttons (he needed money and was still upset to be left hanging, after all). Drew accepted.

Not long after, Tate manages to run into Trixie. Her beating Jed's records was no secret so it wasn't hard for Tate to get Trixie on her side. Cocky was kept in a pen by city hall and Tate promised easy access.

Ms. Tate placed one more part of her plan into place by informing Gump he had a "3am meeting" at the church. Gump protested that that couldn't be right, but Tate managed to talk him into believing it. It wasn't hard, as it was clearly written in his planner, which she keeps organized.

This meeting, of course, was with Drew. Drew arrived at the church in time to catch Jed, his sponsee trying to break in to get the wine. Drew reminds Jed that alcohol is the devil's drink and temperence is the way to salvation. This manages to convince Jed to leave and Drew immediately realizes that the door had been open the whole time and Jed had assumed otherwise without even checking.

Soon enough, Gump meets with Drew. He's not happy to see who his meeting was with and Drew gives him a piece of his mind before revealing his plans to blackmail him. Gump says he has no proof and Drew replies that he just has to deliver his side of the story to the newspaper and it'll get printed. His reputation would be tarnished, true or not. (Gump's response: We had a paper?!) Gump reluctantly agrees to Drew's terms, but knows that paying him off would leave no money for his campaign.

While this is happening, Jed stops by city hall to begin his shift. Ever since he had stolen Cocky, it had been voted that the rooster would have two guards guarding him 24/7. A part of Jed's punishment, he and the mayor would have to cover a graveyard shift. With the mayor gone, however, it was only Jed.

Trixie arrives on the scene, sipping on a bottle of wine. She tries to convince Jed to get drunk with her, but Jed refuses, quoting things Drew had told him.Trixie leaves empty-handed.

Ms. Tate had a two-fold plan: 1) Drain the re-election campaign fund so that Gump would have nothing and 2) Have Cocky stolen under his watch to further establish hate and for the town to lose what it holds dearest. With the second part ruined, Tate had no choice but to admonish Trixie and take the rooster herself when nobody was looking. If you want something done right, you need to do it yourself, after all. She then tells Trixie to hold onto the bird.

Act II

(click to show/hide)The next morning, Trixie phones Ms. Tate and asks if she can come over. The secretary allows it and soon Trixie arrives with Cocky, unable to keep the bird from crowing. Ms. Tate attempts to knock the bird out in desperation, but in doing so ends up killing it! This was not according to plan. They quickly stuff the bird in the refrigerator and Tate kicks Trixie out so that she can figure out a way out of it.

The previous night (and the reason Tate had such an easy time with acquiring the bird) is that Gump enlisted Jed's help into getting into the church and taking the money from the alms box... money Gump needed if he was going to pay off Drew AND get his campaign going.

The next day both thefts have been discovered. People were clearly more dismayed at Cocky's disappearance and begged Gump to do something about it. Gump said he'd personally lead the search.

This leads to a flashback showing the debate that ocurred between Gump and Tate before election day. The moderator attempted to sound like he knew something about politics but gave up when he stumbled over the word "budget" and instead asked about how the football team was going to be improved and how Cocky was going to be kept safe.

Gump's answers involved steroids in the drinking water and 24/7 surveillance on a rooster of all things. Tate's answers involved practicing and developing natural talent and letting the rooster be to focus the funds on other things. The people booed her off the stage.

Back in the present, Tate visits Jed and winds up tricking him into giving her his car keys. A montage starts as she drives to a nearby farm to buy a live rooster. Though she knew not any rooster could replace Cocky. Cocky had special golden feathers and that was what proved that Cocky could bring good luck and grant wishes and do whatever else people thought the bird could do. So she goes to a hardware store in the nearest city, has them mix gold paint, and just when they get it the right shade, she plops the bird in the paint and runs off.

While she's gone, Jed reports the theft to Gump and the two decide to investigate Tate's home while she's gone. The door is locked and in a moment of glory, Jed is actually able to legitimately pick a lock (turns out he was only bad at picking unlocked doors...). After some digging around they find the body of Cocky in the fridge. They dare not disturb the corpse further and instead leave to inform the town before she got back. They form a mob, ready to deal with the rooster killer.

Drew hears what's going on and, feeling confused and possibly betrayed, runs ahead to Tate's place. He manages to arrive just moments after Tate gets back. Drew, now panicking that he's involved with the rooster killer, starts to give her a piece of his mind until he notices the new Cocky, walking around, looking mostly alive.

Tate quickly explains that she took Jed's car to look for Cocky and found him roughed up just outside of town. Drew buys this and agrees he would defend Tate. Drew leaves again to confront Jed, whom he thinks was tricked by Gump into believing Tate killed Cocky.

Drew arrives at Jed's place and lets himself into Jed's dinky house. The two argue over what they had seen of Cocky. Finally Jed in a moment of desperation accuses Tate of being a witch. Suddenly Drew stops arguing. The rebirth of Cocky... the fact that no matter how much he didn't want to blackmail the mayor, she still somehow convinced him to do it... the fact that she even knew about the fling to begin with... it all suddenly made sense! Ms. Tate was a witch! For all Drew knew, Tate had used magic to make him sleep with the mayor in the first place!

While everything was erupting into chaos, Trixie, feeling guilty, went into the church's confession booth and confessed her sin. She was forgiven after doing five "hail Cockies."

It wasn't long before the entire mob was ready to burn the "witch's" house down with her in it. Unfortunately, Drew's visit had served as a warning and Ms. Tate was able to get away in Jed's car. All the town had to burn was an empty house and two dead roosters (Cocky II had died of paint poisoning).

Aftermath:
(click to show/hide)Ms. Tate: After her failure and due to her lack of funds and experience, Ms. Tate had no choice but to run away to another small town, doomed to be the secretary of another idiotic mayor.

Drew: Drew had to live knowing that he was a pawn in Tate's plan the entire time and that even Jed saw her for who she really was. Eventually his fling with the mayor was found out and they were both ostracized.
 
Mayor Gump: Gump was not re-elected and would go down in history as the town's worst mayor. Since he was also ostracized, he saw nothing to do but to try to continue what he and Drew started. They at least took comfort in each other's loneliness.

Jed: In all the chaos of the burning, Jed left the area and went back to the now empty church. He shuts himself in, downs a great deal of wine, and discovers the priest manning the confession booth had been keeping a log of the confessions, including Trixie's latest one. He finally had something to hold over her...

Trixie: Not that the jorunal would do much good, since the revelation of one witch in town led to a witch hunt for others. Upon remembering that somehow a GIRL had defeated men in a pissing contest, it was decided that she was a witch and she was lynched.

And that was my first game of Fiasco! I left out a lot of wonderful little lines that had us cracking up and got us excited, but I couldn't include everything. I'll have to come back and edit it to make sure it makes total sense (as I'm too tired to do it now). Hopefully any of you who bothered reading it found it interesting and will want to play at some point, even if it's not now. I'm always up for it though, so unless I completely stop frequenting this forum (unlikely for the foreseeable future), feel free to necro this (I just won't be the one to do it).

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