GAMMA WORLD: Dec 2, 2011 ReCap

Hey GAMMAS!

I had a GREAT time last night.  While it can be said that I am a cruel game master (I love hearing the screams of anguish from PCs infested with alien embryos, for example), I try to also be fair.

After reviewing the alien embryo rules, it appears the proto-alien scuttler only bursts from its host if that host dies from the acid and physical ongoing damage.  This is why the Alien Scuttlers stop attacking once the embryo has been implanted.  Therefore, when Motango laid down the burst of flesh-shredding radiation, he may not have hurt any of the Alien Scuttlers, but he did tear the flesh off the townie writhing in pain.

As the flesh shredded off the poor lad, everyone could see the alien creature which had almost completely taken on his form beneath his skin, before it too was ripped away into oblivion by the radioactive blast.

The Dude can now see the tendrils of the beast within him spreading through his body, as the skin beneath his arms and chest ripples with unnatural undulations.  How much longer before his body is cast aside like the caterpillar’s cocoon, so an alien bent on destruction can emerge from his lifeless husk?  Would it not be better for his companions to kill him now, before he suffers that ignoble fate?!  Food for thought.

As for game mechanics, we are starting Round 3 of this fight.  I believe the Tokeless is currently neither stunned nor gestating.  The Dude is no longer stunned, but is still infested.  He will take 15 acid and physical damage at the start of his turn.  One of the Aliens has been destroyed, another is bloodied and the last two look completely unscathed.

Anything else we want to record?  I know we will not be playing again until January, so I wanted to get some notes down.

pieces of The Dude littered around the zocalo,
Andy