Category: World Wide Wrestling RPG: Discussion

Last few sessions on World Wide Wrestling…

So, we had a session that was just me, Shari (Nikki), Tim (Gryla), Brendan (El Presidente) and Rebecca (Dark Twilight).  Doc (The Prince) couldn’t make it, and Amelia (Sharknado) and James (Scorpio) are expected to be absent more likely than not.

Since we had a smaller group, one of the things that got brought up was having some behind the mask, off camera, scenes that involve the wrestler as person instead of persona.  Tim was really excited about exploring this and felt the game needed more of it.

We had:

A scene where El Presidente’s doctor tells him he needs to retire, and stop wrestling.

A scene where Nikki is bandaging herself up after her injuries, and Dark Diva is totally nice and caring and supportive and then Draco gives her a bag full of Oxycotin.

A scene where Gryla meets with his little sister from Iceland, who wants him to come home.  But since he won’t, she decides to join the show as Ice Princess.

The longest such scene was Bright Twilight clubbing with some of her fans and getting completely in over her head.  I cobbled together basically an act under fire move for this situation, since there really wasn’t any mechanical support.  A too-drunk wrestling fan noticed her and really wanted to fight her.  On a 7-9 on her roll to deal with it I offered her the choice to kick his ass and throw him through a glass table, or have Johnny Saturn show up and intervene; she chose the intervention.

With Doc missing, we didn’t want to do the Deportation Match, so we had a couple of matches against NTC: El Presidente against mountain man Grizzly Bob, where Bob got wrapped up in a Mexican flag and then got the tar beat out of him.

Bright Twilight got “educated” by the Professor on his School of Hard Knocks segment, but she beat the Professor with his own Board of Education to turn the tables.  (The Professor is totally Terry Crews in a tear away grey tweed suit, wearing spectacles and smoking a pipe as he enters the ring.)

Nikki had a match against Rock Lobster, she cut promo to add the stipulation that it was fought in two feet of warm “butter.”  Nuff said.

Gryla got to joyously beat down Eric Thorrson.

A couple of opportunities were made for promos and vignettes.  Twilight/Annabelle had a “locker room” scene where Annabelle said she had a lot of respect for Twilight, but wasn’t going to go easy on her.

I have in my notes that there was an Unholy Alliance vs. 3 Faces match.  I don’t remember if that happened, or was swerved, or what.

(Also had on my notes that Nikki was going to get booked in a match against Twilight to strip her of #1 contender status, but that didn’t happen.  Maybe Nikki botched her finisher in the 3v3 match, leading to an Unholy Alliance victory and Johnny Saturn having more faith in Bright Twilight?  Geez, this was like a month ago.)

The championship match was Bright Twilight vs. Miami Annabelle.  I had Annabelle booked to win, but told Rebecca it was her choice if she wanted to use her heel move.  It’s the Freestyle Championship, so anything goes.

El Presidente was announcing in character, explaining how horrible both wrestlers were and that he would do it better.  Eventually, he couldn’t take it any more!  He needed to get down there and show them how it was done.  El Presidente did a Run In against Bright Twilight (allowing her to win, but by DQ, letting Annabelle keep her belt, right?)  But then, he activated his heel move, and picked up the Belt- citing an obscure league rule that in a freestyle match, any belt placed on the ground is in play.  (I ruled he could totally steal the title, but I wasn’t giving him an advance for it.)