Out in the desert, there's an ancient rune and a crashed alien spacecraft, slowly burning holes in reality itself.
The Background as Only the GM Knows It
Milt Grisley was an underground cartoonist who got his chance to sell out in the eighties. His Sleepy Beartm character went from counter-culture anti-hero to toyetic, afernoon cartoon pitch-man--and made Grisley rich in the process. Theme parks followed--the one outside of Las Vegas was the biggest, Once Grisley was well into Howard Hughes level eccentricity, he even had a futuristic, planned community built nearby. It was going to be a utopia in the desert run by a super-conputer and thoroughly Sleepy Bear-branded. Then the bombs dropped.
The super-computer has grown more self-aware over the centuries--and also crazier. It thinks it's the real Sleep Bear, now. Its public face is one of the old animatronic, amusement park bears. Somewhere along the way, a tribe of mutated ursoids found it (perhaps following the old signs emblazoned with Sleepy Beartm) and now worship it like a god, following the computer's every command no matter how ridiculous.
They bothered no one. They even allowed some humans to settle nearby. Everything was fine until the crash. A saucer full of Greys, sliding across dimensions, went down in the desert near the installation. Maybe it had something to do with a top secret military installation the government never officially acknowledged that was hidden near Bear Town, or maybe it was just a freak coincidence. Whatever the cause, crash it did, and its reality-shifting engines went critical, dumping their cosmomorphic fuel all over the landscape, turning everything weird...
So, hopefully the recastings are clear: Medved is the super-computer whose avatar is an animatronic cartoon bear. The Eld are Greys and their golden barge is a big saucer (don't worry about the different deckplans. It's weird on the inside.) The Weird is created by spaceship fuel. Ondrej is probably a mutant shark and cartoonish pirate, holed up in the pirate island in the middle of the brackish and radioactive artificial lake in the amusement park.
See, not so hard? I'll let you take it from there. Make your own adventure in the Mutants Dunes.
5 comments:
I would play that in a hot second. I'm still laughing (though a bit creeped out) by visions of animatronic Medved.
My only regret is that their aren't better animatronic cartoon bear pics on the internet.
This with some Qelong mixed in where the terrible Myrmidons are produced by a leaky engine part that downed on the other side of your map during atmosphere entry. This is a great idea and will make it into my next "fallout" game.
The Five Nights at Freddy's bears might be just what's needed for this:
http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/12/de/05/a2/7c/freddy_preview_featured.jpg
Bryan - Cool.
Allandaros - Ooh. That's almost too creepy.
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