Last Wednesday, December 31st, the HAWKs (Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers) gathered for their annual New year's Eve gaming extravaganza. This event, where the club members meet new Year's Eve afternoon and play games until the New Year strikes, has been hosted for the past several years by HAWK's member Buck Surdu and his wife Candy. We gathered at 3:00 PM this year, and began the festivities with a Pulp themed GASLIGHT game called "Duke Morrison Saves Christmas!" Duke Morrison is Buck's perennial Pulp hero, and appears in most all his games set in that era. He is usually given such heroic stats, that the mention of his name is often followed by the villainous catchphrase, "I hate that guy!" from anyone who has played on the "Bad Guy" side opposite him.
The set up for this scenario, which took place in the sleepy town of Granville, Illinois (a town from Buck's childhood that he also often uses as the setting for his Pulp games), was that evil Venusians had shot down Santa's sleigh as it flew over the town. The sleigh had crashed on the edge of town spilling it's load of gifts across the town as it went down. Hearing Santa's "Mayday!" as his sled went down, our hero Duke Morrison ("'We hate that guy!"), has flown his trusty plane, "Anything But a 20!", to a park outside of town to give Santa and his gifts a ride and saving Christmas for millions of Boys and Girls across the globe. He has brought along his pals "Wrench" Webb and "Boats" Morgan, and some of their Army and Navy buddies to help out,
Meanwhile, the evil Venusians have also landed their spacecraft in the park, and are setting out to steal Santa's sleigh and its magic flight technology (their evil plan all along). Coincidentally, Nazi agents and Fifth Columnists had also arrived in the town to kidnap Santa as he made his rounds to learn his magical mass-production secrets. They are quick to take advantage of Santa's current misfortune. And lastly, local opportunistic scum and villainy see all the loot being scattered across town from Santa's crashing sleigh, and set about to gather as many of the fallen presents as possible.
For the full report, and more pictures, see my blog:
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