They're fabulous!
Best STRAWBERRY EVER!

A couple of teasers until the postman comes Rudy:

Best strawberry ever...

Quote from: nikharwood on 06 March 2011, 08:59:27 AM
A couple of teasers until the postman comes Rudy:

Best strawberry ever...

Its too much.  I can't cope with the overwhelming lovely...

I can see how I come to love Kaylee at least! 

The nude dude's hiney was a surprise as well, but with a plus: the Mrs. always complains about not enough male nudity on TV, and she's always happy to see a nice pair of firm stud buttocks 

Just the best shot ever!
You used to be able to download wallpaper of it from her own website too... Not checked for a while...  

Damn I really wantt o watch Serenity now, but my daughter is playing Mario Cart on the Wii!!

send her to bed, or other parental thing 

When we last left our heroic crew, they were holed up in Mr Hunt's ranch house after spotting a body at around 200 yards.
This wee we started off with the plan to go out in the dark and see who the body belonged to.
Alice dragged a table up against the window and set up his high powered rifle and the captain bravely stepped out into the dark. Toad was asked to sort through the bills of sale and money in the cellar and shepherd Bell was asked to get all of her medical equipment ready, get water on the boil etc.

As the captain moved out into the darkness Alice spotted a large shape in some bushes. He radioed this info to the captain who also spotted the shape. He took the safety off his shotgun but kept on going

he got to the body and tried to ascertain who it was, the Green of the image intensifier goggles made this difficult, but it did look like the late Mr Hunt. As the captain was searching the pockets the large animal made it's move. With an angry roar it leapt forwards. Alice fired and hit true, but the round made no impact. The captain made a tactical withdrawal towards Alice who kept firing and doing absolutely no damage at all. The huge animal kept coming, to within range of the captain's shotgun which was put to good use, but again no damage. Eventually the giant bear fell 9 yards away from the captain, who then made his way back into the house for some fried chicken, coffee and a change of underwear. Mr Hunt had been part eaten, it looked like one of his own dogs had got him, but whether he had been cut, or shot like the others would have to wait until morning.

At about an hour before sunrise Alice noticed a vehicle using infra red headlights approaching from the rear. I turned just at maximum range of his night vision goggles. Basically if he hadn't been ex-military then he would never have noticed. This was some form of covert insertion. Everyone readied themselves for an assault. A few minutes later, they were asked to lay down their arms and come out eith their hands up. The captain pointed out that there were some big dogs out there. A voice calmly replied that they new that and they had the situation under control. The shepherd went out to negotiate and was fired upon, either they all came out or nobody came out.
Toad came up from the cellar and looked around the cabin and set to work making a compressed air mortar that fired tin cans filled with ground pepper. (well he does have the MacGyver edge)

Nobody thought to look out the front windows for quite a while, luckily they spotted the insurgents as they moved forwards.

Alice carefully took aim and his high powered compressed air weapon spat and down went his target with no sound at all. Two casualties later the bad guys realised something was amiss and the remaining 13 opened fire. Luckily the house had strong shutters and a barred door so no one was hurt. Eventually however, the numbers attacking meant that the gunfight got to close range. The pepper mortar was used and worked perfectly, however it seemed to do no damage. Rifles and shotguns were poked through the damaged shutters and characters were hit at point blank range, however with numerous bennies still held all wounds were soaked.
The remaining few attackers made a fighting withdrawal. And were very quickly cut down. Shepherd bell having just had her bible shot lost her temper and belted one of the bad guys with a shovel full of hot coals.
Toad yanked open the door and gave chase after the remaining baddy. He was just rounding the corner of the barn when he heard snarling and a horrendous scream. He turned the corner and fired at the huge dog ripping the man to shreds. The dog looked up, blood dripping from its snout and charged. Toad fired a couple more times but did no damage. Just as the dog was about to make its final leap, the shepherd arrived with her shovel and set about the dog.
Toad fired and shook the dog, the shepherd wound herself up and let rip. With a mighty swing the shovel struck the dog full under the chin, snapping it's mighty neck.
They all locked themselves into the house again and reloaded. Sure enough they noticed another vehicle at the extreme range of the night vision equipment. Something seemed to come out of the back, something big on four legs.  Another search of the dog cages showed a ladder into a loft with a large speaker and something akin to a cd player. They switched it on and it seemed like nothing happened apart from the needle on the machine flickering wildly. Moments later a howling was heard, getting closer and closer. Within minutes the huge dog had returned to its cage and was locked in from the switches in the loft.
The dog was despatched and as sunlight arrived they searched the bodies, each of the attackers was wearing or carrying a grotesque mask, which in the dark would look just like something like a reaver would look like.

As they got back to the Jo Lyn they found footprints  all around the ship. A quick search found a grenade attached to a block of plastic explosives inserted in the engine intake. Anyone trying to take off with it in situ would have led to a catastrophic explosion.

Next week they get to meet a reaver

Top-notch M - great episode 

Cheers Nik.
I need a large, rotund colonel Saunders for the captain, might have to look at the ACW selection for him (he ended up beig an arab gentleman on Monday night

Another great episode Maenoferren! Things are hotting up!

Thanks for keeping us along for the ride

Cheers,

Kev

Over the weekend I didn't get a lot of stuff done coz I just watched the entire firefly series and to top it off the Serenity movie.  Absolutely brilliant stuff, talk about a revelation, I've enjoyed it tremenduously.  Not to mention the four hot ladies that star the show, excellent stuff!  I'm a believer now 

I can see how that would be great fun to create some games in, be it in a rpg fashion or just some frantic reaver skirmishing!

Thanks for the tip guys!

Quote from: Maenoferren on 11 March 2011, 12:16:24 AM
Cheers Nik.
I need a large, rotund colonel Saunders for the captain, ...(he ended up being an arab gentleman on Monday night

Better call him Kaliph Saun-Dir then 
Seriously, I'm liking the idea of setting up a bit of game in this universe more by the minute.  Are there any specific sourcebooks available?  Spaceships, planets, Alliance info, independent civilisations, etc?  What do you use for reavers?  Maybe we need to start a new thread here 

Great isn't it, all this talk about it has led to me really wanting to see it again, so...
I watched the first 7 episodes whilst doing teh ironing yesterday! Yes that was a GORAM pile of ironing, but at the end I felt like I worked in Janes's Town!

Glad you are enjoying it guys...got more to write up from last weeks game.
Reavers - they are a myth, the boogeyman to scare kids 
in terms of reference materials:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_i_1?rh=k%3Afirefly%2Ci%3Astripbooks&keywords=firefly&ie=UTF8&qid=1300750578
some ideas here
various maps online I got some good free ones, but can't remember where from...blew them up to A3 for the players.
Ships - I use the following:
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=19929&it=1 this is the players ship (the Jo-Lyn) I bought about 5 different sets for different craft.

Basically I make up the storyline as I go along... I have the RPG book and a set of adventures which I probably wont use, as knowing what my players are like they will do something so wierd that it will change totally They will meet the crew of Serenity somewhere and somehow   I keep watching the series especially when I head to the mainland.

The storyliine is sort of set for the next few sessions. I know what I want them to do, whether they will do it is anyones guess. But if all else fails a distress beacon will be heard, or armed gunmen will appear if things are getting a bit slow Oh and they are about to lose just about all of their hard earned money, can have them rich enough to avoid having to take the jobs I want them too

Quote from: Maenoferren on 21 March 2011, 11:55:44 PM
Ships - I use the following:
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=19929&it=1 this is the players ship (the Jo-Lyn) I bought about 5 different sets for different craft.

I can recommend these too, great value - especially if you can print them at work

Cheers,

Kev

I found some goodies yesterday night, including film scripts for serenity, the original and the XL version where Wash lives, the script for a new movie, the map of the verse, the verse in numbers, a maniacal attempt at putting the firefly universe in numbers - very impressive and some firefly comic books in avi format, desktops...

I can't seem to relocate the link though, I'll have to check this evening on my home PC'S history.  I think it's all bona fide, site says it came of the cantstopthesignal.com site, which now loads universal pictures, so it seems official enough.

Also found a site with ships and stuff.  What rules does everyone use to play this?  Flying Lead?  I know there is another ruleset that works well for this mix of sci-fi and hack and slay, but I forgot the name, it's kind of a western book cover...

GZG do a 'glowworm' space ship, I have one painted for our Starship game we wrote (Wargames Unlimited) a few years back. I'll have to see if I can dig out the photo..
Yep, there she is...


Ohh that's a really bad photo, the paintjob looks alright in real life!

Yup, that looks close enough    What scale is that?

It's listed under cargo, think they're 1:2400, or not in this case! Think the boys were just having fun...

I eventually managed to write up the last game 
Heading back into town the crew radioed ahead and got the sheriff and mayor to organise a burial detail, which were standing by when the Jo Lyn landed. The evidence that they had collected was taken into town and showed to them.
The crew and passengers returned to the Hunt Ranch and set about burying the rather large number of dead. One body, was, however missing. Michael Hunt's body was gone. A search of the surrounding area showed that some form of vehicle had been present and had headed up into the hills. The crew left the burial detail and followed the tracks. They eventually came to a scorched area where some form of craft had taken off. This trail had evidently gone cold.

When they returned to the cabin they returned inside and noticed a letter on the mantle, a quick read showed that Mr Hunt's brother Robert would be arriving in the future. A quick chat with the Mayor told them that he thought he remembered Michael Hunt sending a telegram to a relation in the South, but couldn't rightly remember if it was a brother. 15 bodies and 6 huge dogs was taking a lot of burying, so the mayor asked the crew if they would return to Dry Gulch and bring back a mechanised digger.

The captain and Toad headed back across the lake and located the vehicle in question, as they were loading it aboard the ship a clerk from the rail road arrived to say that a Mr Hunt was asking the direction of his brother's ranch. The captain kindly offered to fly him across but also felt the need to give him the bad news and all the gory details. Evidently Michael Hunt and Robert hunt were twins, because this man looked the spitting image of his now deceased and missing brother.

On the flight across the captain ordered Toad to 'keep Mr Hunt company'. This didn’t please Toad as he had already stripped the brakes off the caterpillar digger and by time they landed he somehow forgot to put them back together again. 10 minutes later they arrived back at the Ranch and the New Mr Hunt was able to see the devastation caused  by the attack and to view the dead bodies and massive dogs, he seemed to find viewing the corpses distasteful.
The shepherd had a nice chat to him, offering her condolences etc. although the crew believed that this Mr Hunt was in fact the Mr Hunt from before they couldn’t find any chink in his story, demeanour or trip him up in any way shape or form â€" (if only the had wondered how the letter seemed to appear  after they had left the ranch as they had searched it thoroughly for clues  the night before )
Anyway they all headed back to town to return the townsfolk back to their abodes. They  had already decided to do a wide sweep of radio signals and as they lifted off they heard a strange, demonic voice ordering them to do it!.. they headed back to the ranch and unloaded the diggers and using triangulation located the source of the signal. It was coming from a long valley up in the mountains.
As they landed in the valley on the other side of the ridge from the large fire spotted a few nights before they got their night vision gear out and loaded up the mule. Toad carried the portable device to track the radio signal and sure enough it seemed to be emanating from a cave. Toad took the portable device, a weapon and night vision goggles and investigated. He found evidence of habitation a very crude bed, evidence of animals being eaten and a well hidden speaker from which the message was coming. Evidently whoever slept in that bed, was getting a subliminal (or maybe not so subliminal) message, on inspection of the equipment Toad realised that it was automatic, and on a timer. Some poor soul was being brain washed, but who and why? He investigated further into the cave and found a narrow passage heading straight into the mountain. A brief radio exchange and the crew figured that if they followed it they would find a way under the mountain to the valley opposite, where the fire was. As toad made his way back the other pressed further up the valley and there in front of them was a mountain of brushwood and other inflammable things. At the edge of the night vision range a figure appeared, hunched over, almost on all fours like an animal. The captain ordered Alice to shoot him in the leg and make sure he couldn't escape, seconds later the captain switched on the main beam headlights on the mule and Alice took the shot. With a tortured scream the figure dropped and the mule leapt forwards.

Whoever it was was in one hell of a mess, his face was just a mass of scar tissue, as if someone had tried to rip his own face off. The figured that the pathetic wretch was no other than the James boy, the one who had gone missing the day before the murders started. This was no Reaver, this was some poor dumb kid who had been brainwashed into thinking he was a Reaver. The fire was deliberate, ( a quick scan of the other messages found various ones, such as everything must burn, etc) this poor kid was a scapegoat, the fire was meant to attract attention and he, the 'Reaver' was going to be found and prosecuted â€" aka hung. They were dealing with a very sick mind, but as Toad had been with them at all times, they figured it must have been another sick mind!

The bundled the poor lad onto the mule, heavily sedated and clutching tightly to the shepherd and headed back to the ship and town. A quick explanation to the sheriff and mayor about all of their findings  and then to bed.
The next morning they decided that they had achieved everything that they could in this locale, and had to consider finding the missing wife who had fled to Athens. The captain (pockets laden with credits from the Hunt ranch) asked the Mayor about a reward for saving the place. They were given a reward in cattle The mayor did ask that they settle up with the widow Jones before they left. Strangely Alice volunteered for the task, he had decided he might get payment in kind.
Asking shyly that as the widow hadn't had a man to help her with all those things that a good woman needed a man for, he was amazed to find himself being taken up to her boudoir, only to find that the widow needed a man all right and that was to fix that damned shutter, oh and while he was offering manly things he might as well cut lumber for the wood shed, as well as draw water and repair the drains poor Alice left the credits for the board and lodgings and staggered back to the ship. With half a dozen prime head of beef the crew blasted off and headed towards the for want of a better word â€" star port to try and track down the missing woman.