Friday Night Serials: Crooked
Jun. 21st, 2008 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jasonandrewLast night was the first of our Friday Night Serials game. The idea is to have a variety of different games on a regular basis. Each of the players create a couple of different pitches and then run a 6 game session with a beginning, middle, and ending. You can read all about it here: http://fridaynightserials.wikidot.com/
The first game selected was Crooked. The year is 1974 and the name of the game is crime. You can read more about the setting here: http://fridaynightserials.wikidot.com/crooked-ones
Character Bio:
Weyland Mccready: Honor bound Cop
Weyland Mccready wanted to escape the poverty and the crime of his neighborhood. While the rest of his family joined the Irish mafia, he went to school and eventually the police academy. What he didn't realize was that the cops were just as corrupt as the gangs. Some of them were heavily involved in the underworld.
During a drug bust gone wrong, the vice squad robbed the Jamaican mob. When the dirty cops realized that there were witnesses, they started cleaning up the evidence. Mccready was willing to let the gangs kill each other, but not children or innocent bystanders. To stop the vice squad, he ended up shooting one of them and spend five years in hard prison for his trouble.
Now he lives on his mother’s couch and is stuck back in the neighborhood. No one wants to hire a felon and he really only has one set of job skills. Can he keep his cousin in check long enough to make some cash?
The game was very fun. I was a bit skeptical as I’ve never seen a crime game done well. Clay did an excellent job. Rob played my psychopathic cousin Blondie who lives in cargo container. Jim played a kung-fu Indian that has just returned disillusioned from Vietnam. It sounds weird, but it fit with the blaxploitation feel of the game.
We used the New World of Darkness Mortals system. The combats were easy and quick. Very impressive. I look forward to the next five games.
The first game selected was Crooked. The year is 1974 and the name of the game is crime. You can read more about the setting here: http://fridaynightserials.wikidot.com/crooked-ones
Character Bio:
Weyland Mccready: Honor bound Cop
Weyland Mccready wanted to escape the poverty and the crime of his neighborhood. While the rest of his family joined the Irish mafia, he went to school and eventually the police academy. What he didn't realize was that the cops were just as corrupt as the gangs. Some of them were heavily involved in the underworld.
During a drug bust gone wrong, the vice squad robbed the Jamaican mob. When the dirty cops realized that there were witnesses, they started cleaning up the evidence. Mccready was willing to let the gangs kill each other, but not children or innocent bystanders. To stop the vice squad, he ended up shooting one of them and spend five years in hard prison for his trouble.
Now he lives on his mother’s couch and is stuck back in the neighborhood. No one wants to hire a felon and he really only has one set of job skills. Can he keep his cousin in check long enough to make some cash?
The game was very fun. I was a bit skeptical as I’ve never seen a crime game done well. Clay did an excellent job. Rob played my psychopathic cousin Blondie who lives in cargo container. Jim played a kung-fu Indian that has just returned disillusioned from Vietnam. It sounds weird, but it fit with the blaxploitation feel of the game.
We used the New World of Darkness Mortals system. The combats were easy and quick. Very impressive. I look forward to the next five games.