Our first MSHRPG
Issue #1 “Convention Gone Wild” starts off with our not-a-hero yet characters
arriving at a large Comic Book Convention, in an unnamed town, that oddly
enough never gets referred to by name during any actual scenes. Yet, most
comic fans inherently know where the soon to be heroes are, and what kind of
Nerd/Geek lunacy too expect during a large gathering of comic book aficionados.
Al and Simon arrived separately and met up in the main foyer
while waiting for the doors to open for the convention floor. Our
ex-military and current teacher Al, hit it off with Simon, our meek and timid
grocery store general manager, over small talk concerning comics and heroes.
A quickly growing crowd was gather around our heroes, all eagerly awaiting
to charge the convention! It was during this time when a middle aged man,
dressed up in costume as a Satyr, walked up next to Al and Simon, and engaged
them in conversation. As they casually check out the “weirdo” dressed up
in “goat costume” they noticed he was very excited about getting into the hall
and talking to someone in the vendor area.
As the doors opened to the main hall the heroes were caught up
in the excitement as much as the other convention goers. They quickly
moved across the floor and were amazed with all the displays and booths filled
with a cornucopia a nerdom! They moved from booth to booth and aisle to
aisle and eventually found themselves near the back corner of the convention
hall when they were approached by Darkness, You know the big demon looking guy
played by Tim Curry in Legend (1985). He approached our
heroes and demanded they tell him where the horns of the unicorns are hidden!
They walked away from the large and very convincing Legend cosplay, talking about how
committed that guy was to the role. Then a fight broke out between
Darkness and what appeared to a Darth Maul cosplayer with an amazingly real
looking double-bladed light saber. The fight quickly escalated until
Darth Maul executed a sweeping light saber strike and separated Darkness from
the bottoms of his legs.
Darth Maul then approached the duo and demanded to know where to
find the Jedi! The two looked around dumbfounded as the hall erupted in
chaos, as all the cosplayers were turning into real versions of the characters
of which they were dressed.
[At this time, I would like to take quick break in the
description of the events of the game and acknowledge that I have stolen this
idea from the Author Marion Harmon who wrote about similar events in his most
recent novel: Team-Ups
and Crossovers (Wearing the
Cape Book 6). Shhhh, don’t tell my players! Also, big thanks to Mr.
Harmon for such an awesome idea! Back to the action…]
Simon, who had come to the convention dressed as Iron Man in his
self-crafted suit of armor then also changed into the “real” Iron Man.
Catching Darth Maul by surprise with a quick Uni-beam to the face, put Maul out
of commission. Iron Man then launched himself into the air and went to
save the other convention attendees from harm, leaving Al standing next to the
bathroom with very realistic looking light saber at his feet.
It was at this point that Art3mis from Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ran up to Al and
said that she needed his help stopping the individual responsible for this
fiasco before anyone else got hurt. So Al, who had been looking for a
moment like this his whole life, snatch up the light saber and told Art3mis to
lead on! Art3mis then promptly lead Al into the men’s restroom just a
short 30” away. With only a small amount incredulity Al followed her into
the restroom and ignited his red double bladed light saber.
Meanwhile, Iron Man (aka Simon) was flying around the convention
center doing away with as many villains as possible, while trying to rescue the
civilians, when he is ambushed and knocked from the sky by Thanos. He
rolled to a stop near the very same bathroom that Al had just entered.
Simon returned to his senses, as his armor (now normal plastic again) began to
fall off of him, damaged from his ambush and fall. At least he managed to
stop Cthulhu from devouring the eastern side of the convention hall.
Simon heard several shouts and yells from the bathroom and moved to
investigate, especially since one of them sounded a lot like Al.
What had confronted Al and Art3mis was our friendly neighborhood
Satyr clutching a gnarled looking branch. He was talking to himself in
hushed tones as purple light pulsed from himself and the staff.
“No, I am in charge! I am the Locus!” he bellowed as the
purple pulse grew in magnitude before he continued to mumble and argue with
himself. Art3mis and Al then moved to the end of the bathroom and
attempted to talk him down, but he didn’t even react to their questions.
Finally Al told Art3mis they need to get the staff away from him, only to be
interrupted by the Reverse Flash zooming into the bathroom in a blur of Yellow
and red lighting. He was quickly stopped by Al’s light saber igniting and
leaving a damaged and poorly made Reverse Flash costume on a very confused
looking teenager.
When Al turned back to Mr. Locus/Satyr, he saw Art3mis thrown
across the bathroom and into the glass mirrors above the sink. Turning to
face The Locus he swung his light saber but as it struck the glowing branch it
returned to an aluminum prop that only looked like Darth Maul’s light
saber. Simon then slowly entered the bathroom and saw the commotion and a
nearly naked teenage Reverse Flash quickly backing away from the glowing staff
and The Locus.
Simon looked at Al and they both charged The Locus. Simon
went for his legs while Al’s flying tackle took him down and back into the
bathroom stall. As the three fell to the floor in a tangled heap, the
purple glow cut out. The unconscious Art3mis transformed into a normal
looking young woman with a decently constructed but damaged Art3mis costume.
Al scooped up the now inert staff and turned to Simon and
quickly exited the bathroom, after making sure that normal Art3mis wasn’t hurt
badly and The Locus was still unconscious. They quickly exited the convention
center avoiding the confused and beaten up convention goers, police, and who
looked to be the FBI arriving. They returned to Al’s hotel room on the 10th
This is where the first issue ended. We will pick up with
Issue # 2, next time!
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