Katy Goes to Bangor
Mid-August rolled around and, while the normal people were crisping themselves, a ragged crowd of the determinedly abnormal left their basements, attics, holes in the ground and, to be honest, quite nice houses and set off on the annual pilgrimage that is the HeroMeet at Bangor University.
I hitched a lift up with Andy Bascombe in his bigger, newer, shinier car which had much more room for wargaming stuff [cough ... Frostgrave … thanks Bob] and strangely less room for rear-seat passengers. Much gaming was to ensue but my tale today is about ‘7TV2’ by Crooked Dice which allows you to game out the dodgy TV programs of your dreams/nightmares/hallucinations (delete as appropriate).
So, without further ado, Bootlace Telly presents ‘Mega Ambulance vs Apetopus’ in which Katy and the crew encounter weird science being committed near their cosy holiday cottage and don’t leave well enough alone.
“Well, I say this countryside is very nice and relaxing.”
“There are some blokes in black suits and a giant octopus with the head of an ape in that field.”
“Or is it a giant ape with the body of an octopus?”
“Have you been at the gin again, boss?”
Ever up for an opportunity to ventilate something, Roddy and his men hurried up the road to investigate. Capt Mills sauntered over towards two ray-ban’d gents in a big black Ford POS to suggest they ‘Get orf his land’ and Vic rushed headlong into the nearest cornfield where she had seen a ‘thing.’
“Stupid filly’ll be the death of us!”
The MiB didn’t appreciate the Captain’s negotiating style and filled him with small holes as they drove past. Spade ran past Vic, busy recovering her ‘thing’, to flank the other MiB.
Roddy’s redshirts on the other flank discovered that the brain of a giant ape can make the body of a giant octopus move pretty swiftly. It can also wear 8 boxing gloves.
Katy rushed to the rescue enabling Bones to drag the wounded Roddy aboard; the other Redshirts were beyond help. Whilst she was angel-of-mercying, Katy was attacted by the foul creature and more than her paintwork was scratched so she beat a hasty retreat.
In the midfield Tools had spotted another ‘thing’ in the woods. Whilst going to investigate he was knocked down by a blaze of light that cut a tunnel through the wood. Spade followed up and grabbed the ‘thing’.
Katy, meanwhile, was rammed by the Ford POS which everyone had forgotten about (well, everyone on OUR side) and taken out of the game along with her two occupants.
As the final credits rolled, Spade engaged his jetpack and sped towards the last MiB who was attempting to recover the remaining ‘thing’ whilst the lovely Vic admired the cut of his shorts from the sidelines.
The game ended with my cast axed and three of the five objectives in the possession of the Men in Black for whatever sinister purpose. So, yet another victory for the nefarious Dr Bascombe and his Apetopus.
This game was played using the ‘Pulp’ countdown & gadget decks with a mix of ‘Pulp’ and original cast cards. If anyone is desperate enough to want to know the exact make up of my cast, it is laid out in tedious detail in a previous blog post:
https://wycombewarbandblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/7tv.html
Thanks, Andy, for the game and for several other games of 7TV and Gaslands, yes and Frostgrave over the weekend. Everything was actually pretty good so it was worth sharing the backseat with all my luggage and a box of dinosaurs (who kept looking at me and grinning …).
