ADVENTURE!: Tales from Planet Zero

...... calling planet zero ......
...... calling planet zero ......
..... come in planet zero ....
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When the very existance of the human race is at peril,
When planets cry out for heroes, you stalwart few step forward to blast into oblivion!

THRILL at the daring-do of adventure!
AWE in the face of the great galactic spanse!
SHRILL with terror from evil abundant!

For one world is not enough for ROCKETMEN and RULERS!
Yet one world will change everything.
The zero quotient ... a planet called Uuuurthhh...
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STAND STAIGHT
ROCKET JOCKEIES
IT'S ZERO HOUR!

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Welcome to the wiki for "TALES FROM PLANET ZERO", a pulp-action, tabletop role playing campaign featuring the Atomic Pulp of Sci-Fi Action thrillers, played with White Wolf Game Studios' Adventure! game. This wiki is designed to serve as a "series bible" and resource for the players and GM, to help keep better track of everything that appears in game. Anyone is free to edit the wiki and add to our game.

CAMPAIGN CONNECTIONS

• EPISODE GUIDE: This is the spot for game session recaps. Tales from Planet Zero is in the traditional style of comic book classics science fiction comic strip. You might imagine our tales were originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on August 31, 1934. Created to compete with Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Tales from Planet Zero Serial Campaign is broken into Story Arcs set in the mold of the classic comic strips that ran in syndication across thousands of newspapers every week.
  • Episode Guide - Arc 0: Herein we see what brought our daring heroes and heroine together... A strange messege for each of the stalwarts left in the past... Each uncovered within a year of one another. Each just preceding our hero's emergence into the public spotlight of their careers!!
  • Episode Guide - Arc 1:  ???
  • Episode Guide - Arc 2:  ???
  • Episode Guide - Arc 3:  ???
  • Episode Guide - Arc 4:  ???

• YAHOO DISCUSSION BOARD: American Gods Yahoo Group: For planning game gatherings and general group chit chat.
• 1956: A timeline of major events for the year the campaign begins

CASTING CALL

Herein lies the various characters of our tales, from the main cast to the mooks and minions of mention.

TWO-FISTED HEROES

• Intrepid Explorers (zero): The main cast of The Tales from Planet Zero; the player characters
  • Maxwell Marshall: The hard nosed actor known for the role of a lifetime - the Masked Marshall TV Hour, the last line of defence for the common man! (as amazingly acted by Sammy)
  • "Bubblegun" Robinson: The American Icon of sports, from gridiron to baseball diamond his - [insert Bubblegum Squad name]! (as magnificiently manned by Cat)
  • Lucy Lester: The spirit of the air, making news and history at the same time she's a barnstormer in her - [insert plane model here]! (as perilously played by Dede)
  • Doctor Allen Kessler: The square-jawed professor, with a laundry list of Theories and Inventions. Some men know everything - he knows more! (as poignantly portrayed by Jason)
    • Zero's Private Journals: The personal journal of each explorer, filled with private musings on their fellow travellers, the villains they face and the discoveries they make.

DASTARDLY VILLAINS

• The Usual Suspects (zero): They say you learn the measure of a man by looking at his enemies. Collected here are some of the vilest rogues ever to walk the earth, and some of the noblest too - but all have crossed swords with our daring heroes.

DOLLS, FELLAS, JANES and PALOOKAS

• Bit Players (zero): The characters who've touched our heroes' lives. This page describes their family and friends, as well as the dozens of people who've walked into and out of their sight in countless smaller ways.

AGENTS OF CHANGE

Here we look at the various organizations of note in our dramatic presentations.

• The Lazarus Trust (zero): An old explorer's society, the Trust employs our heroes and is the common glue that binds them together.
• C.H.I.M.P.: The Soviet Intelligence Para-Military Unit created jointly by KGB and the Soviet Space Program.

EXOTIC PLACES

Where have our heroes been? Where do the villains lurk? This is your guide to the locals of our stories.

EARTH AND THE SOL SYSTEM

• Wallops Flight Facility: Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia is the research and launch facility for all modern US space ventures.

WEIRD SCIENCE

ARTIFACTS

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MODERN DESIGNS

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FUTURISTIC CREATIONS

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RESOURCES

• What else can I Wiki? Wikipedia
• What is a RPG? RPG Wiki
• What is a GM? Game Master

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