Author: Lexi Trépanier

Hey folks! I’m currently in the midst of planning an Apocalypse World movie night as to prepare my group for an upcoming Apocalypse World game.

The event will consist of two movies, I’m looking for a gonzo/light hearted movie and a darker one, and am looking for suggestions.

How do you like your apocalypse? Where do you find inspiration for the mood and tone you give you your game of Apocalypse World? What’s the visual you go for in your games? Does it change often?

I haven’t had the opportunity to run the game myself, played a few times. My time will come I’m sure. I know I have an healthy love of gonzo and genre-mashing. Luckily, this game lends itself well to both.

Had my first game of Monsterhearts on Saturday! It was a one-shot, I was MC. Here’s a small summary.

PCs:

– Brad, the queen, Prom king and quarterback. He was organizing the party and had the biggest crush on Chad, a new member of the football team and a candidate for Quarterback once Brad left for college.

– Ira, the Fae, who had been adopted by a minister. His adopted parents were growing increasingly suspicious of his origin.

– Mary, the Chosen, who hangs with Aegis and Jessica, a pair of violent avenging angels, and Hans, a nerdy friend-zoned kid who helps out on reserach (and spent most of the session asking around for her)

– Cain, the Infernal, a slave to The Fallen, a creature without a name, a mocking demon. Cain joined the cult of Targashax in hopes to dislodge the Fallen as “the thing who has his soul”.

The game was set at the beach of Blackwater Lake, near Brad’s family’s cottage. It started kind of badly as Cain didn’t manage to get beer by himself (and required the help of Brad), and Mary got jumped by a cultist of Targashax, the Devourer, on a hiking trail nearby.

Some guy named Dwayne, a fellow cultist of the devourer came up to Cain and told him that tonight, both a Friday the 13th and a full moon, was the night. He had to shed the blood of a man and of a woman before midnight. He decided to follow Ira when he brought Mary to the caves near the beach for some alone time.

Brad followed Cain, called him a perv, there was an exchange of conditions and they both ended up half-leaving.The fae made the chosen promise not to hurt our infernal, in her cultist cleansing. Mary and Ira talked for a bit, had sex, were interrupted by a cultist in the shadow. The cultist tried to stab Ira in the chest but Mary deflected the knife. Cain rushed out of nowhere and tried to tackle down the cultist, rolled an 8. He would’ve run directly into the cultist’s wicked knife, but he got some help from The Fallen, who quickly got rid of the knife for him.

The cultist was revealed to be one of their highschool teachers, Mr. Greer. He hit his head on a rock and died on the spot. Ira tried to calm down Cain, who promised the fae to do “Anything you want” if he left the him in the cave alone with Mary.

While that happened, things started getting out of control outside of the cave, Brad was trying (badly) to keep his cool. Cultists were killing kids left and right. He managed to gather some of the kids back in the family cottage and armed them with his dad’s gun collection.

The session ended with both Mary and Cain failing to keep their promise to Ira, going down to 3 Harm while fighting each other, and both dying to the wrath of the scorned fae when he went Darkest. Ira collapsed the cave on himself, Mary and Cain. They never found Ira’s body.

Targashax was summoned, everyone died, except Brad, who lived by distracting the demon by feeding it Sabrina, his beard and prom queen.

Essentially, all I could ask from a Monsterhearts one-shot. I really have to play a longer campaign of this game, it’s way too awesome.

Anyone here ever played In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas? It’s an old French RPG published by Asmodée. Steve Jackson made a significantly less funny American version named In Nomine.

I’ve been thinking of drafting a AW hack for it.

I’m running a Monsterhearts one-shot this Saturday. I’m very much looking forward to it.

This is the introduction I’m giving every player as part of a Love Letter :

Tonight is the night you become free. Free from High School. You’ve gone through a lot in the last few years, but tonight you move on. Maybe you’re off to college, maybe not. In any case, there’s a big party at Blackwater Lake right after Prom. This is your last chance. Your last chance to get laid, your last chance to get even, your last chance to save the world. It’s going to be a hell of a night.

I have all of the playbooks and have been having much fun writing Love letters for all of them, but I’m kind of stumped for the Angel and the Serpentine and wondered if you guys could help me out.

Oh, and the infernal is getting the booze, the Hollow was told to get some drugs and the Witch wasn’t invited at all. I’m sharing this to prevent repetition.

Anyone looking for a player for a G+ Hangout game of either Apocalypse World or Monsterhearts? My local crew have been really busy and I haven’t gotten the chance to do much gaming lately.

I’m in the eastern time zone.