Pulpy Goodness

[drcpunk]

kent_allard_jr ran a bang up pulp session of his Two Fisted Tales today. We pretty much all got our time in the limelight.

My PC, sticks, got to run around avoiding corrupt cops and hole up at his boss's home with a very interesting old man, touching off a police riot in the process, and earning kudos from both his editor (whom he still doesn't know referred to him as "my star reporter") and a mob boss, not to mention a stuffed giraffe from a co-worker. He wasn't involved at all in the big fight, but that seemed only fair.

mnemex's PC, who's running for mayor, got to make a rousing speech about taking back the city and to kick even more butt than before, as mnemex bought a roundhouse attack for her.

Theodore's PC did have to do a lot of dodging, but her giant grasshopper leaps remained impressive, and she did silence one guard before he could call an alert.

Beth's PC, a retired cop, got into a nasty, if non-violent, face off with the corrupt cops, who didn't understand the problem with taking the law into their own hands. This ended with a rare bit of profanity -- we usually keep to pulp level family show dialogue, regardless of the level of the action -- which served as her PC's two word declaration of war. And, her PC was the only one unwounded by the end.

Erik's PC got to hold the corrupt, wheelchair bound ex-policechief at swordpoint and later cut off the guy's hand. This was a kind of poetic justice, as the man had caused at least two people to have all of their fingers cut off. While the PC got badly wounded in by the ex-chief in the process, he stood over the wheelchair bound one-handed man, bleeding on him, and asking, "Do you still think I'm soft?"

And it's a 3-way race for mayor, and my PC still doesn't know who to vote for.