20 hours to the Boston area ENWorld Gameday

[maverick_weirdo]

One of the sites I frequent (as some of you know) is EN World. It is an RPG site, focusing primarily (but not exclusively) on D20 games. They have existed in one form or another for 7 years now. (and I have been visiting it for 7 years now.) Their current "claim to fame" is that they are the organizers of the Official GEN CON Award ceremony ("The ENnies", by the way voting for this year's "ENnies" is currently open, and will be open until July 30th).

However that's not my topic for the day. Another great part of EN World is the Gamedays. Gamdays are "mini-cons" for ENWorlders (and friends) to get together for several 1-shot games. There have been gamedays in Chicago, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, Maryland, and luckily for me Massachusetts. We have roughly 50 ENWorlders who make up the regular Boston Area Gameday (usually only about half that number are available for a given event).

Somehow EN World Gamedays has attracted many really great DM's. I have played in some of the most memorable sessions at gamedays. In fact I am only aware of 1 time where a lame DM ran a game at a gameday (and I promise to do better next time).

The reason I am going on about this, is that the next EN World Boston Area Gameday is LESS THAN 20 HOURS AWAY.

I'll be playing:
"Neptune Adventure" (System : Alternity)
"Underoo Avengers" a team of 8 year old superheros (System: BASH)
A Serenity 'verse adventure (System: Cinematic Unisystem)
And a yet to be named D&D 3.5 game

Some of the other games going on are:
All Flesh Must Be Eaten
Discworld Game (System: Gurps)
Feng Shui (no not interior decorating)
End of the World Timeshare (System: Fudge)
Paranoia
Robotech
Shadowrun

It is a two day event, so don't expect to hear much from me till Monday

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I had played a different Underoo Avengers Adventure last October (when the gameday was held at my house.) This was my second time playing Jared Dorf. Both times I have felt there was no point in playing an outcast, unless you have a super-secret-crush on the cute girl. So in Jared’s eyes Jillian can do no wrong. In the last game I was able to find moments to turn to Lily (the bully) and say things like “Doesn’t Jillian come up with the Best ideas?”

This time Jani (the treekiller, don't ask) played Lily (the Bully),
Queenie who came from New York State (with her husband, and her 2 year old daughter) played Jillian (the Dreamer)
And someone I never met before, whose name I forget, did a great job playing Poindexter (the Nerd)

The game starts with MEGALAMAN zooming down from the sky to ask for our help (this is how all these adventures start).

I must admit I ended up grand-standing the game (although no-one actually complained)

In the Big Final Battle we were fighting some henchmen when Lily opened the gates to the “Big Boss’s Battleroom”. When that happened, the two gun turrets turned to point at the only hero near the center of the room, Jillian, who was currently fighting a henchman. The henchman and the two gun turrets all did damage to Jillian. Her hit point total went from 100 to 16 in one round, and the gun turrets would get to shoot again before her next move.

There was only 1 character with a move before the gun turrets, Jared. He could get to the henchman and probably take him out before he hurt Jillian, but there was no way he could get to either of the gun turrets, and if even one of them hit her she was a goner. The only thing he could do was to get the gun turrets to shoot at him instead of Jillian. On his character sheet it also mentions Jared’s weakness (all superheros have a weakness). He is very shy; if he is ever the center of attention he looses ALL HIS SUPER POWERS. It was a tough decision. Jared cried out “NOOOOO, YOU CAN’T DO THAT TO JILLY” and started beating the henchman with his bare fists, doing no real damage. This was not the Super-Secret-Ninja-Strike. The DM was surprised that I wasn’t doing the strike, till I explained. After I explained, Lily (Jani) started singing “Jilly & Jared sitting in the tree, K~I~S~S~I~N~G”

The henchman attacked me and missed (he rolled really badly). The first gun turret aimed at me and hit (bringing me down to 60 hit points. Okay. I admit, Jared was at full hit points and was sure he could survive a whole round as a target.)

Then the second gun turret ignored me and shot Jillian for 25 damage. The DM then handed Jillian a “Get out of death free” card. All she had to do to have her character com back, with 50 hit points, was make up a “MEGALAMAN theme song”, then sing it for us. It turned out that this was a major challenge for Queenie (she is a bit shy about her singing) but she did it.

Now that Jillian was alright, Jared got his second action. He ran at the gun turret which shot Jillian, jumped acrobatically and took out the operator with the Super-Secret-Ninja-Strike

Queenie did so well with the MEGALAMAN song that the DM let her bring her character back anywhere on the board. She chose an unoccupied gun turret. She shot down the other turret operator. The next round Jared pointed the gun turret at the “Big Evil Bad Guy Boss” shot at him twice, hit him both times, and both times his shield absorbed all the damage. Jillian shot at BEBGB his shield absorbed all the damage.

Jillian called out “What will we do?”
Jared called back “We’ll have to both shoot him at the same time, so we can do more damage than his shield can handle.”
Jillian then said “You think of the best ideas Jared.”
Jared started to blush, till Lily called out “Have you asked her out yet Jared?”
Poindexter started talking technobabble which confused the BEBGB.
Jared somehow resisted pointing the gun turret at Lily, and together Jared and Jillian hit the alien causing over 40 points of damage to get past his shield.
After a couple of rounds of combined attacks, the battle was won.