Post by richjones on Feb 16, 2010 18:05:48 GMT 1
Old McDonald had a … space ship!
Mac heard a shrieking sound in the distance, not that that was so unusual as mating wolves were always pretty noisy … but this sound was different. Initially he presumed it was a passing truck’s cam belt going but it was getting louder and louder. Joey the dog wasn’t impressed and if dogs weren’t in theory capable of hiding under the sofa, then Joey was doing his damndest to prove the theory wrong!
Shrieks gave way to one almighty crash and then scrapes … followed by silence. Mac pushed himself out of his chair and whistled Joey to follow, who reluctantly followed his master to the door. As the door widened the dust hit Mac’s face, the smell of hot metal and a new sight in what was, until 30 seconds ago his veggie garden!
Mac believed in UFOs he’d seen them often enough in the night sky, now there was a crashed one sitting about 20m away from him, in bits and somewhat smoking. Now farmer he might be, simple he was not … considering it was unlikely that ‘anything’ would have survived the crash he could see in front of him he considered it a big money making opportunity. Things had been slightly lean lately and people were always making thousands from selling ‘exclusives’ to newspapers; why should he be any different.
Thus started the chain of events that has resulted in the present predicament:
1/ Mac phoned the Daily Reporter News Desk and told them what happened. Now as the paper often reported anything from ‘Hitler found alive and living on the dark side of the moon’ to ‘Obama is really an alien millionaire’ they were always up for quirky stories and their newest ‘crossover’ TV/Newspaper reporter was bored and causing hassle in the office about what type of marg she wanted on her baguette the news manager wasted little time assigning them the ‘crackpot’ if only to get ‘Mai Stewart’ out of the damn office!
2/ UNAOT (United Nations Alien Observation Unit) had been tracking the UFO for about 4 hours as it hurled across US air space. A close call with a passing airliner was soon passed off ‘officially’ as a rogue re-entering satellite but then the UFO had suddenly sped up (so much so the squadron of fighters that had been tailing it had reported seeing a burst of light, some smoke and then had lost it) and then disappeared off the screen. The most likely explanation, backed up by satellite shots is that the UFO had in fact crashed. Luckily it appeared to have come down in some farmland 12miles short of the local small town. An emergency response team and armoured recovery vehicle had been dispatched as quickly as possible, for all anyone knew at present there might be flesh eating Aliens running rampant!
3/ ‘Hacker Jo’ (absolute genius with computers, pants at thinking up a nickname) of the Z-Boyz had been listening in to what was going on via the UNAOT ‘secure’ network (if anyone from UNAOT is reading … next time make more secure checks on who you actually pay to set up your networks!) and the news flying around on the newspaper cell phone network. A double opportunity seemed to be presenting itself … firstly there could be all sorts of useful things from the crashed ‘whatever’ and secondly kidnapping the news team and forcing them to put out the gangs propaganda (they wanted the state to secede from the old US of A and set up a state based … well to be honest around surfing, skating and the odd plantation of ‘weed’). If the UNOAT squad turned up for a bit of a rumble … then all the better!
So just at the point when Mai Stewart was suggesting to Mac that he had visited by aliens in the past and this could have been just bad parking on their point … the Z-Boyz were arriving on the scene in their ‘Hummer’ and the UNOAT squad rumbled into the equation with in their troop carrier!
Interesting times indeed …
The news crew consists of Mai Stewart (the reporter Q5, C1), Olly (the VT operator Q4, C1) and Ram (the minder, well there could be some loony people out there Q5, C2 with pistol), they have a Passenger car for transport. At the start of every round of player turns both players roll a d6 and the winning player activates the crew that turn … they ‘activate’ last. On a draw the crew are stupefied for that action (and will only ‘react’ to combat).
The two other forces are player generated but for vehicles use the stats below, also give the ‘gang’ 2 x LAW (RPG) :
Armoured Humvee but with no LMG
For the specialised troop carrier use stats for a Post WWII light tank.
Scenario rules:
The UNOAT forces win by driving off the gang and securing the area. The Gang win by driving off the UNOAT forces and looting the crash site.
The game is won by the normal scenario rule mechanics as in the book, extra VP can be gained by ‘whisking’ Mai and Olly off …
OPTIONAL – not for the faint hearted (or serious game)
Is that an alien I see before me?
While everyone is trying to either kill or capture every one else a nasty surprise arises from the wreckage. The two surviving aliens are very hungry and very pissed off! At the start of every player’s activation they roll a d6 – on a 6 the aliens crawl out the of the wreckage. They activate trying for 3 actions on every player ‘turnover’ (when the player rolls two failures) and are controlled by the failing player, they must try and engage and ‘eat’.
Q3, C2
Mac heard a shrieking sound in the distance, not that that was so unusual as mating wolves were always pretty noisy … but this sound was different. Initially he presumed it was a passing truck’s cam belt going but it was getting louder and louder. Joey the dog wasn’t impressed and if dogs weren’t in theory capable of hiding under the sofa, then Joey was doing his damndest to prove the theory wrong!
Shrieks gave way to one almighty crash and then scrapes … followed by silence. Mac pushed himself out of his chair and whistled Joey to follow, who reluctantly followed his master to the door. As the door widened the dust hit Mac’s face, the smell of hot metal and a new sight in what was, until 30 seconds ago his veggie garden!
Mac believed in UFOs he’d seen them often enough in the night sky, now there was a crashed one sitting about 20m away from him, in bits and somewhat smoking. Now farmer he might be, simple he was not … considering it was unlikely that ‘anything’ would have survived the crash he could see in front of him he considered it a big money making opportunity. Things had been slightly lean lately and people were always making thousands from selling ‘exclusives’ to newspapers; why should he be any different.
Thus started the chain of events that has resulted in the present predicament:
1/ Mac phoned the Daily Reporter News Desk and told them what happened. Now as the paper often reported anything from ‘Hitler found alive and living on the dark side of the moon’ to ‘Obama is really an alien millionaire’ they were always up for quirky stories and their newest ‘crossover’ TV/Newspaper reporter was bored and causing hassle in the office about what type of marg she wanted on her baguette the news manager wasted little time assigning them the ‘crackpot’ if only to get ‘Mai Stewart’ out of the damn office!
2/ UNAOT (United Nations Alien Observation Unit) had been tracking the UFO for about 4 hours as it hurled across US air space. A close call with a passing airliner was soon passed off ‘officially’ as a rogue re-entering satellite but then the UFO had suddenly sped up (so much so the squadron of fighters that had been tailing it had reported seeing a burst of light, some smoke and then had lost it) and then disappeared off the screen. The most likely explanation, backed up by satellite shots is that the UFO had in fact crashed. Luckily it appeared to have come down in some farmland 12miles short of the local small town. An emergency response team and armoured recovery vehicle had been dispatched as quickly as possible, for all anyone knew at present there might be flesh eating Aliens running rampant!
3/ ‘Hacker Jo’ (absolute genius with computers, pants at thinking up a nickname) of the Z-Boyz had been listening in to what was going on via the UNAOT ‘secure’ network (if anyone from UNAOT is reading … next time make more secure checks on who you actually pay to set up your networks!) and the news flying around on the newspaper cell phone network. A double opportunity seemed to be presenting itself … firstly there could be all sorts of useful things from the crashed ‘whatever’ and secondly kidnapping the news team and forcing them to put out the gangs propaganda (they wanted the state to secede from the old US of A and set up a state based … well to be honest around surfing, skating and the odd plantation of ‘weed’). If the UNOAT squad turned up for a bit of a rumble … then all the better!
So just at the point when Mai Stewart was suggesting to Mac that he had visited by aliens in the past and this could have been just bad parking on their point … the Z-Boyz were arriving on the scene in their ‘Hummer’ and the UNOAT squad rumbled into the equation with in their troop carrier!
Interesting times indeed …
The news crew consists of Mai Stewart (the reporter Q5, C1), Olly (the VT operator Q4, C1) and Ram (the minder, well there could be some loony people out there Q5, C2 with pistol), they have a Passenger car for transport. At the start of every round of player turns both players roll a d6 and the winning player activates the crew that turn … they ‘activate’ last. On a draw the crew are stupefied for that action (and will only ‘react’ to combat).
The two other forces are player generated but for vehicles use the stats below, also give the ‘gang’ 2 x LAW (RPG) :
Armoured Humvee but with no LMG
For the specialised troop carrier use stats for a Post WWII light tank.
Scenario rules:
The UNOAT forces win by driving off the gang and securing the area. The Gang win by driving off the UNOAT forces and looting the crash site.
The game is won by the normal scenario rule mechanics as in the book, extra VP can be gained by ‘whisking’ Mai and Olly off …
OPTIONAL – not for the faint hearted (or serious game)
Is that an alien I see before me?
While everyone is trying to either kill or capture every one else a nasty surprise arises from the wreckage. The two surviving aliens are very hungry and very pissed off! At the start of every player’s activation they roll a d6 – on a 6 the aliens crawl out the of the wreckage. They activate trying for 3 actions on every player ‘turnover’ (when the player rolls two failures) and are controlled by the failing player, they must try and engage and ‘eat’.
Q3, C2
