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=Savage Lorax=
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; Game System
: [http://www.peginc.com/Games/Savage%20Worlds/Savage%20Worlds.htm Savage Worlds]
; Pitch
: In the land of the Lorax<br>Where the Truffula grows<br>Sits the greedy old Once-ler<br>And his band of fellows

: His business is the Thneed<br>A right ridiculous thing<br>It makes him so wealthy<br>He's nigh near a king!

: But the Thneeds are a problem<br>For the Truffula woods<br>Because they waste all the Truffula tufts<br>For the sake of consumer goods!

: But that's not all<br>The old Once-ler perpetrates<br>No, he's a right robber baron<br>Who's put us in dire straits!

: He catches the Swomee-Swans<br>And bakes them with honey<br>He skins the brown Bar-ba-loots<br>And tans their hides for money

: He fries up the Humming-fish<br>And serves them will dill<br>There is no creature, that for a few coins<br>He will not cheerfully kill

: He chops down the trees<br>The woods he will exhaust<br>Until the landscape becomes<br>A de-Truffula'd holocaust

: Will you do something about it?<br>Will you fight for our cause?<br>Will you help the Lorax<br>Undo Once-ler's faux pas?

: Will you help stop his factories?<br>Will you help stop his axes?<br>Will you gum up his operations<br>Tap his whisper-ma-phone? Read his faxes?

: Make no delay!<br>Now you've heard the pitch!<br>Turn right at Weehawken!<br>Sharp left at North Nitch!

: Together we can stop him!<br>We must act today!<br>For if we don't, my friends<br>The Lorax will be lifted away!

: And then it will be too late.

: ...

: I've been playing around with the Savage Worlds book (Thanks Ed & Sophie), and I'd like make a Savage Worlds Lorax game, for two nights in January, if anyone's up to it.

: '''The setting:'''

: Truffula Woods near the headquarters of Once-ler, Inc. Old Once-ler is busy chopping down Truffula Trees for their tufts to make the latest consumer product fad: The Thneed. "You need a Thneed"

: '''The problem:'''

: Between the industrial smog, the toxic sludge and cutting down the trees, he's killing off the critters that live there: Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swommee Swans, and Humming Fish.  And to make matters worse, he's catching the critters, skinning and cooking them, and selling them for profit!

: '''The solution:'''

: The Lorax, who speaks for the trees (for the trees have no tongues), is taking matters into his own hands.  He's recruiting a band of brave heroes to go toe-to-stocking with Once-ler and his cronies, and put an end to his nefarious practices once and for all!

; Game Master
: Mark Walters
; Players
: 8
; Characters
: Cara Pace - Yertle (Laura)
: Marvin MacMalapert - Star-bellied-sneech (Ed)
: Frolicia Fay O'Friskle - Brown Bar-ba-loot (Sophie)
: Sam I Am - Who (Taylor)
: Pequod Picaroon the Pirate - Humming Fish (Kevin) (first episode)
: Fokker McScud - Swomee Swan (Cain)
: Cindy Lou Who - Who (Meg)
: Son-celer - Once-ler traitor (John Reiher)
; Date
: January 22 & 29, 2007
; Technical Notes
: Players will be able to choose a race to play, either Bar-ba-loot, Humming Fish, Swommee Swan, Star-Bellied-Sneech, Who, or Yertle.
; Recaps
==Part 1==
: [[User:Shosuro Kando|Shosuro Kando]]:
: Marvin MacMalapert, bastard for hire<br>Got a note from the Lorax - he answered by wire<br>The note was quite simple, it said "Please meet me<br>Quite near to the stump of a truffula tree."

: Marvin spit grickle grass out of his gob<br>But thinking about it, he needed a job<br>His rent had would come due soon, and business was slow<br>And provisions of Barbaloot whiskey were low!

: So Marvin set off for his stump rendezvous<br>at the edge of the forest where trees were now few<br>He got to the place, but then squinted to see<br>The whole of a Seussian thug company!

: The psychotic Yertle known as Cara Pace<br>Who's Moseymotiller lost many a race<br>And sweet Cindy Lou Who, a killer at heart<br>With ornament-fu, she took people apart!

: There was Fokker McScud, who's razor sharp beak<br>Unspeakable mayhem and havoc would wreak<br>Little Frolicia Fay O' Friskle with darts<br>Could poison her enemies, then stop their hearts.

: And Piquod Picaroon, a pirate so cruel<br>He killed off his crew with tyrannical rule<br>The serial killer who was called Sam-I-Am<br>Who ate all his victims, with green eggs and ham

: And puffing a bong by a truffula tree<br>The worstest of all by a factor of three<br>There was Sonceler Onceler, who's wicked machines<br>Would torture his victims, then rip out their spleens!

: "Holy shit!" exclaimed Marvin, as dread filled his guts<br>"I thought I was hardcase, but these guys are nuts!<br>The lorax is crazy to hire this crew<br>I think he's been huffing some trufflula glue!"

: But prior to Marvin just dumping the lot<br>The Lorax appeared on his specified spot<br>His pug ugly mug wrinkled into a frown<br>And he told how the Oncelers were cutting trees down

: The Lorax explained that he spoke for the trees<br>(And Marvin, aghast, covered up with a sneeze)<br>The trees wanted killers, the Lorax then said<br>To bust a fat cap in the Onceler's dumb head!

: Marvin (who'd been planning to get himself gone)<br>Realized he was stuck cuz the hit was now on!<br>If he tried to leave now, he knew for a fact<br>This mob of stone killers would just have him whacked.

: He turned to the Lorax to ask about pay<br>And discovered the lard ass had faded away<br>Apparently thinking his crew'd do the thing<br>Without even getting a taste of some bling!

: His snubulous popper he loaded with care<br>Then climbed up a Truffula tree that was there<br>If he made a false move he was sure he was dead<br>So he drank himself into a stupor instead.

: The very next morning the carnage was started<br>before the last dew of the night time departed<br>The Truffula choppers arrived to chop trees<br>but were killed by the group with the greatest of ease

: The Oncelers died screaming, and some tried to flee<br>Their luck it was bad, their escape not to be.<br>Mangled or stabbed, strangled, poisoned or shot<br>The group spared not one of the Oncelery lot.

: A few drove away with mechanical speed<br>And called out the watch to take care of their need.<br>The watch sent out Oncelers with badges of tin<br>And butterfly nets to catch criminals in.

: Meanwhile Sonceler Onceler had taken the gear<br>The Oncelers were using the forest to clear<br>And had mashed it all up to create a new thingy<br>A mechanical Onceler eviscera-dinghy!

: The cops then approached with their nets held up high<br>And almost at once they all started to die.<br>Just one Onceler was spared, the rest napped in dirt<br>Not one of the murderous party was hurt.

: Marvin MacMalapert went through it all<br>Discovered he isn't a bastard at all<br>He thought of himself as cold-hearted and mean<br>He'll have nightmares for years now, from all that he's seen.

: And though he has never been truly devout<br>He prays to Doc Seuss now to just get him out!

: Because these guys are CRAZY!
: &nbsp;
: [[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]: Cindy Lou Who, Pequod Picaroon the Humming Fish, Marvin MacMalapert the Star-Bellied Sneech, Sam I Am the Who, Cara Pace the Yertle, Fokker McScud the Swomee Swan, Frolicia Fay O'Friskle the Brown Bar-ba-loot, and Son-celer the Once-ler traitor came to the Super Secret Ecoterrorist Camp to fight the Once-ler deforesting the land.  They were about to give up when finally, just as the sun was setting, the Lorax appeared on a stump, with a mighty "Gazompf!"

: He looked around and seeing no mighty army but a rag-tag band of idealists, loafers or mercenaries, frowned.  Since they did not have an army, he said, they would have to spy on the enemy and use cunning tactics.  They must go find out what the Once-lers' weaknesses were!  Then he disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared.  It was dark, so Fokker and Pequod's effort to scout were fruitless. 

: It was during Cindy Lou Who's watch that a rumbling sound was heard to the north.  Frolicia recognized it as the sound of the big machines that destroyed the truffula tree forests!  The eight ecoterrorists went to look for the source of the noise.  Sneaking over the last hill, they saw the axiswhatsis, a whirling circular machine whose twirling axes chomped on truffula tree trunks as they spun. 

: Marvin took aim and winged the Once-ler piloting the mechanical monster; Cara charged in her moseymotiller, and Sam I Am swung form a truffula tree into the Once-ler's turret.  Then there was the contraption built by Son-celer Once-ler to battle the axiswhatsis &mdash; it was a thing or terror and truffula trunks!

: At Pequod's suggestion -- he had seen similar contraptions on whalers, he said -- little Frolicia snuck under the axiswhatsis and climbed aboard through a hatch.  She blew a poisoned dart at the Once-ler and he collapsed!  The ecoterrrorists seized control of the axiswhatsis.  Pequod was able to pilot the machine, if gingerly. 

: While they were discussing whether to sneak in or destroy the equipment, they spotted another rumble.  Fokker, Marvin and Sam went to scout, and found another machine, a loggamajammer picking up truffula tufts felled by the axiswhatsis.  They charged it!  Cara, with passengers Cindy and Son-celer, rushed in behind.  They brutally killed the Once-ler pilot. 

: As they were commandeering the second machine, they suddenly realized that three more loggamajammers were coming over the hill!  But Cindy Lou Who got on the radio and completely confused the Once-lers, assuring them that everything was fine.  Once the other loggamajammers were gone, the team decided to destroy the captured loggamajammers and continue toward the Once-ler HQ with the axiswhatsis and Cara's moseymotiller.

: They met with six large Once-lers armed with butterfly nets (scary, huh?); the Once-ler tried to capture a prisoners.  The ensuing carnage was frightful.  Cindy Lou Who and Fokker McScud, in particular, dealt death to numerous Once-lers.  One managed to escape, but one was captured and interrogated by Fokker (covered in the blood of the other Once-lers.)  The prisoner said that after receiving a confusing message, the Once-lers had suspected an ecoterrorist attack and were trying to gain intelligence of enemy activity by capturing one of the Lorax's allies.

: Sneaking and learning things and cunning tactics? So much for that idea.  Hey there, diddle diddle, straight up through the middle.

* '''Some of the best quotes:'''
** "You're not Sam, you're [[Wikipedia:Son of Sam|Son of Sam]]!"  &mdash; Marvin/Edmund to Sam/Taylor.
** "He's a pilot fish!" &mdash; Marvin/Edmund and Frolicia/Sophie, when Pequod took control of the axiswhatsis.
** "I will serve you green eggs and ham!"  &mdash; Sam/Taylor
** "You're a mean one!" &mdash; Cindy/Meg, smashing a Once-ler to smithereens with her Christmas ornament.


==Part Deuss==

: [[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]: An army of Once-lers and loggamajammers was approaching!  While Sonce-ler was setting their own loggamajammer (damaged) and axiswhatsis on rudimentary auto-pilot and sending them against the Once-lers, the rest of the ecoterrorists hopped onto Cara Pace's moseymotiller (except Pequod who remembered he was a fish and needed water.)  Sonce-ler caught up with them after jumping off. 

: They took a circuitous route to the Once-ler headquarters, figuring they would be almost deserted, and parked in the Once-ler of the Month spot.  They walked into a large factory where truffula trees were being stripped, the fruit discarded into poisonous waste, and the tufts were turned into thneeds.  At the far end was a control pane; that looked like a big pipe organ.  Next to it was a big red button labelled "Do not push".

: While Sam was alertly watching for an ambush, Marvin decided that everyone does indeed need a thneed and equipped himself with a thneed fedora and trenchcoat.  Frolicia was salvaging still-edible (for a Brown Barbaloot) truffula fruit.  Cindy Lou, Fokker and Sonce-ler raced to press the big red button labelled "Do not push". 

: All sorts of alarms went off!  The floor split open from the door to the control panel; Sam, Cindy Lou, Sonce-ler, and Cara started falling toward a chute!  Fokker simply flew off.  Cindy Lou was nimble enough to jump away.  Sonce-ler held on to the control panel, and Cara barely caught the edge of the receding floor, suspended above the chute and yelling for help.  Sam used his springulous slapper to hang from the ceiling above the chute. 

: Cindy Lou and Marvin began throwing bins of thneed down the chute, and this cause a faint cry for help to ring.  While Frolicia was trying to help Cara up, Fokker pressed the button again! the floor trap shut quickly, sending Cara bouncing and landing on her back.  But Sam was suspended from the ceiling in the chute under the now-closed floor!  Sonce-ler pressed the button a third time to re-open the trap, and Marvin resumed throwing bins of thneed.  Sam made a thneed rope and threw it to the prisoner at the bottom of the chute, who turned out to be Thing Two.  Both Sam and Thing Two were now hanging from the ceiling above the chute, so Fokker flew over to grab the thneed rope and pull them to the side. 

: Sam questioned Thing Two, a painful process.  He learned that the Cat in the Hat had been captured by the Once-lers while trying to negotiate, and was kept under the Lurker tower.  Sonce-ler started playing with the controls.  The place became dangerous as machines went crazy and smoke rose, so everyone else fled. 

: They went to the Lurker tower and climbed to the top, where they found a well-appointed office.  After scaring the secretary and making her fall down the stairs, Marvin and Cindy Lou hit the fine gricklegrass cigars in the humidor.  On the desk they found the plans for a war machine, as well as a forged letter addressed to the president of Here (also known as There) and incriminating the nation of There (who called themselves Here) as trying to start a war.

: There were many portraits of famous Once-lers; behind the portrait of Sponce-ler Once-ler, Sam found a secret button.  He pressed it and a secret door was revealed.  They found the Cat in the Hat, chained to the wall, very thing and mangy-looking.  Frolicia unlocked his manacles and Cindy Lou got herself swallowed up by the Hat.

: Sonce-ler's efforts had set the thneed factory on fire, so they all ran back to the Truffula Woods.  The Lorax talked to the Cat in the Hat, examined the evidence retrieved by the ecoterrorists, and announced that he would next send the team to the Hierarch of There (or Here) to inform him of the deception.

* '''Some of the best quotes:'''
** "It's Fokker's Pendulum."  - Frolicia/Sophie.
** Cindy Lou/Meg: "I thought the Cart in the Hat was an infamous crime lord?"<br>Sam/Taylor: "Cindy Lou Who, you've watched too much 'Law and Order'!"<br>Marvin/Edmund: "No, she's right.  The cat is responsible for the entire mystal creth distribution network in the area."

; Player Thoughts
* [[User:Mechante Anemone|Mechante Anemone]]: 
** Mark did an awesome Seuss job.
** The minis Johnzo had made for the Savage Lorax game were absolutely fantastic.  I think they really added a lot.
** John Reiher built his war machine contraption at the table, using a stack of chopsticks as truffula tree trunks.  It was really neat.
** As Marvin MacMalapert, Edmund had to speak in whupass rhymes throughout the game -- and he did.
** We're so bloodthirsty, Dr. Seuss must be crying.
; Additional GM Thoughts
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