Originally Posted by Icelander
Dr. Alfred L. Lapointe, the UT Austin educated librarian aboard the Penemue, and his part-time assistant, Alice Talbot (PC), are both serious gamers, fantasy geeks and the sort of people who spend hours poring over obscure books in order to model an Abyssinian monopod in a game. They belong to different generations, with Dr. Lapointe being an undergraduate at UT Austin 1984-1988, while Alice was born around 1994* and therefore most likely an undergraduate at UC Berkley from 2012-2016, though I admit that the player hasn't chosen a birthdate yet and so the exact time she started college could vary by a year or so.
Because Alice is currently avoiding her parents and the closest thing to a family that Dr. Lapointe has are the owner and crew of the Penemue, they both spent Christmas on the yacht, with billionaire J.R. Kessler and a few of his most devoted staff.
Oh, and fellow PCs Edward Alvin Smith and Lucien Lacoste, both of whom have permanent quarters aboard the Penemue, for reasons that boil down to clinical paranoia and an obsessive devotion to the monster hunting work they plan to carry out while based on the yacht. Well, Lucien Lacoste actually went to visit his father and grandmother over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, as well as different family on Boxing Day, but the rest of Christmas vacation he was on the Penemue and he plans to spend New Year's on the yacht.
To make a long story short, Dr. Lapointe and Ms. Talbot have some kind of RPG campaign going. I'll go over the list of crew on the Penemue and find out whom else they've roped in to play with them, but they'll find someone. Suggestions for names, backgrounds and descriptions of hard-bitten former Coast Guard, Navy or other military SOF men who are also gamers are welcome.
And, because former NOPD detective Lucien Lacoste (PC) also turns out to have played D&D in high school, in between being a high school wrestling champion and considering a vocation as a Jesuit priest, they'll want him to join their gaming group and probably scheduled a game on the 27th of December, the day he was expected back to Galveston.
Now, what RPG should Dr. Lapointe and Ms. Talbot be playing and what should their campaign be about?
Remember, occult, esoteric and horrifying Wainscot urban fantasy, modern secret magic and tactical monster hunting is their daily life. They are not playing any kind of game where the themes include a serious treatment of the occult and esoteric in the modern day. That being said, the game might well include real mythological elements of some sort, as both of them are huge geeks of the Ken Hite school of eclectic reading, but they should not be set in the real world of today and, ideally, be one or more of fairly lighthearted, parodic, pulpish or set in a classic fantasy world.
What would be a good game for them to be playing?
And some themes or incidents of their campaign to drop into background descriptions?
*Shudder, the year my baby sister was born.
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