I got together with some friends today and we wound up playing an impromptu session of Mutant Future. They had never played it (or any P.A. RPG for that matter) before and after looking through my books wanted to give it a try (I think it was the Spider Goats that convinced them). We only had a couple of hours to play, all of us having family stuff to do, but in that short time they got their characters made up, gear bought and while they were buying gear, I randomly rolled up the mutie monster for the evening's encounter. (Bless you Metamorphica!) and they overcame the beast, it was a jam-packed fun couple of hours!
Anyways here's the session log!
Mutant Future Session 1
Merticulous the Many-Minded – Pure Strain Human with
Multiple Personality Disorder, at last count it was eight distinct
personalities, but who is counting, and
Lichenesandra the Mutant Plant-Rattlesnake hybrid continued on the old roadway
of the Bygones, not sure what the future would bring. They hoped to make it to the town of JymsWard
within the next several days, but Merticulous was already realizing the maps his
enclave's elders had let him study were old and outdated. Who knew what might
lie between the duo and their destination.
Lichenesandra's two guard dogs; Oscar (green furred) and Cookie (blue
furred) ran about sniffing the air for trouble. Merticulous still wasn't too
sure about his new companion, that whole Fragrant Attraction thing she had going
on still had him a bit apprehensive, it was how they had met, not to mention
she was a snake…well a plant snake an apparently poisonous plant snake!..Anyways
she did smell amazing when she wanted too. She? he guessed the snake-plant was
a she, she acted like one anyways and while he was thinking about it, he'd
never actually seen her mouth move when she spoke to him? Her words just came
into his head..weird…putting his thoughts on to other matters, he scanned the
horizon looking for trouble, adjusting his chainmail armor, was it always this
hot out on the road? While holding the old shotgun in what he hoped was an
intimidating looking pose.
Lichenesandra was
quite pleased with herself she had a new follower…er umm traveling companion,
she had lured him too her with her perfumed scent ability but had decided he'd
make a better companion than a meal, after all he had arms and hands and such
and had that big gun-thing of the ancients, although she wasn't sure he was
very good with it, he seemed at times to be uncertain how to even carry the
thing. She didn't think the human would
be suitable for horizontal gene transfer, but to be honest so far she hadn't
found anyone(thing) she thought would be suitable…oh well her dream of creating
an army of lichen-snake children could wait, at least for now.
Near dusk on the
third day of the duo traveling together they spotted smoke up ahead, they
discovered a campsite, and spied a lone figure staggering towards them, a
humanoid in obvious distress, bloody with his left arm missing and by all the
blood spurting out it was quite clearly a very recent loss. Approaching the figure, clearly a mutant by
his blue-green skin and three eyes, he gasped out concern for someone else…a
warning what? Then he died. The duo quickly
looted him of his pocket of coins, but left his bloodied studded leather armor
and empty sword sheath. Lichenesandra
quickly rattled her tail to trigger her echolocation ability to see what was
around, both of her dogs growled at the growing shadows at the sun set. Merticulous looked about and clutched his
shotgun tightly.
The plant-snake got a
brief hit on her echolocation behind a nearby boulder just off the road
something big had moved, big and fast and then it was gone…not from walking out
of the range of her ability just…gone! She telepathically told this to her human
companion, he looked concerned, something dangerous was out there, dangerous
and quite possibly hungry! The dogs growled even louder.
Easing into the
ruins, Lichenesandra panicked she detected the thing out there again and it was
moving fast from shadowy rock to rock, she activated her Fragrant Allure
ability, problem is whatever was out there resisted her Alluring scent,
Merticulous and the guard dogs weren't so lucky. They quickly surrounded her in
a doting, protective position. A badly
wounded mutant human staggered in from the campsite, near death it was only the
alluring smell of her that gave him the strength to move. Then out of the shadows a large coal black
feline attacked the bloody newcomer, and dragged him into the darkness, his
screams were cut short. Not being what
she intended at all she shut off the Fragrance ability. Merticulous was annoyed… he didn't like the
way his new companion was able to exert her influence over him. The dogs seemed more concerned with whatever
was out there than anything else. He
climbed up on top of a nearby boulder and Lichenesandra did the same, she ordered
the dogs to stay, they instead ran around the base of the boulder in circles,
that is until a large black tiger appeared at the base of the boulder and
ripped Oscar to shreds! Lichenesandra
screamed (well hissed actually), she fired off a poisoned thorn from her
rattler it missed, Merticulous let out a boom with his shotgun, he missed but
it spooked the hell out of the Shadow Tiger, it disappeared into the darkness,
but in its wake a glowing red sphere appeared at the base of the boulder,
Cookie growled at the red sphere as it slowly started to rise. Lichenesandra detected the tiger nearby via
her echolocation, telling Merticulous where it was he lit and tossed a torch in
that direction. He saw it shy away from
the torchlight. Lichenesandra then
activated her bioluminescent power to the highest range she could, illuminating
the boulder they were on in eerie light. The red sphere was getting closer to
them, they could feel heat coming from it.
The Shadow Tiger somehow moved behind another boulder into deeper
darkness. Lichenesandra fired off another thorn and missed, she was down to her
last two for the day. Merticulous tossed
a torch over in that direction but it bounced off a rock and missed his
intended spot. Realizing the red sphere
couldn't mean anything good, Merticulous quickly got to the opposite side of
the boulder. Just then the sphere exploded in a fireball-like explosion. Cookie
was barbecued!, Merticulous was unscathed shielded by the rock and
Lichenesandra took some nasty burn damage. The Shadow Tiger was preparing to
make its move, but so was Lichenesandra moving to a better position she fired
off another thorn, this time hitting its mark, the beast was badly injured her
poison clearly didn't agree with the beast, that with her bioluminescence
ability and Merticulous' clever use of torches and noisy shotgun caused the
beast to flee into the darkness to live to fight another day.
They climbed down and searched the wrecked campsite. All of
the bodies were equipped very similarly; perhaps they were part of a militia or
something?
Treasure Gained:
A poor quality map of the area JymsWard is marked on it
along with the apparently nearby village of Pontotoc Ridge. Course there's that drawing of a big scorpion
between the two communities. Duct tape,
broken shotgun (useful for spare parts), wineskin of rotgut whiskey, rations,
studded leather armor, machete (1d6 damage), 6 shotgun shells. 50 gold coins.
They both had a great time and so did I, afterwards I had to ask myself, why has it been so long since I've played Mutant Future, heck this blog was basically founded on a bunch of Mutant Future posts, I know part of it was finding players, most folks around here prefer Fantasy, but I think after today I won't have a problem getting some players for it, they definitely want to play it again!
Books Used for this session:
Mutant Future, The Metamorphica
Shadow Blast Tiger
No. Enc. : 1(1d3)
Alignment : Neutral
Movement : 150'(50)
Armor Class : 6
Hit Dice : 6
Attacks : 3 (2 claws, 1 bite) + rake*
Damage : 1d6/1d6/2d6 *Rake: if the bite
attack is successful, the shadow blast tiger can make two rake attacks with its
hind legs. Each attack gains an additional +3 bonus to hit and inflicts 1d4+2
damage.
Save : F4
Morale : 9
Hoard Class: VI
Mutations: Featureless Face (can use senses normally but has
no visible eyes or nose), Shadow Walk (the mutant may step into one patch of
darkness and step out of another (60' range), Exploding Sphere (can create a
small hot exploding sphere that can be moved up to 30' away, the blast has a
40' radius (6d6 damage) and the mutant can delay the blast for 5 rds., useable
2x per day), Light Sensitivity (full daylight blinds the mutant, but it can see
normally in dim lighting, attacking bright campfires or similar cause it to be
-2 to attacks)
(Extremely stealthy like a natural tiger, in dark shadowy
surroundings they surprise opponents with a roll result of 1-4 on 1d6.)
The Shadow Blast Tiger is a fearsome shadowy mutant beast of
the ruins, usually found in warm climates but at times can be found in
unexpected places looking for prey. They
are most active at dusk or sometimes very early dawn (if a cave is nearby) they
sleep during the day in dark ruins and caves. They are usually solitary, but
sometimes a mated pair with a young cub will be encountered. While not intelligent enough to always make
the most of their Exploding Sphere mutation, they are cunning beasts and will
use it to soften up targets or to cover their retreat should things turn
against them.
