SGA 2005 Archive

The following games took place in 2005:

Bureau 13

Game System

Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic

Pitch

Seattle, the Emerald City, a city of a thousand stories, stories about life and death, and sometimes, what happens after you die. That's my beat, I'm Seth Green, I'm the editor for the alternative newspaper The Fremont Low Tide Review. I'm also the publisher and head reporter as well. I wear many hats in this job.

So here I am, trying to get this week's issue to bed when Susie, my "administrative assistant", AKA receptionist, knocked on my door. "Seth, this just came in," she said, waving a manilla envelope.

"Fed Ex?" I asked, taking the proffered envelope. It had the Low Tide's address and the word Private stamped on it.

"Bicycle messenger," she replied. "He wouldn't say who sent it." She hovered a bit, curious as to what was in the envelope.

"Susie," I said, looking for my letter opener, "don't you have some advertisers to call up and demand payments from?"

She looked sheepish and said, "Yes boss." She only called me "boss" as a way to reprimand me.

When the door closed, I pushed a button and locked it. I set down my letter opener and turned around to my work space behind my desk. I pulled out my ID card and swiped it over a nondescript portion of the workspace. The top rolled back and the document scanner rose up.

I picked up the pair of sunglasses nestled in their holder, charging. I put them on and looked at the envelope and picked up Kirilian scanner. Swiping the envelope with the scanner, spectral images glowed along portions of the brown paper. Someone not of this world sent this to me. Well, not of the living world anyway. I was friends with many a dead person. I didn't know who sent this, as ghosts tended not to sign things.

I popped it into the doc scanner and ran the ultrasound scanner. Inside the envelope were four cardboard rectangles. Tickets by the looks of them. And a small square piece of paper.

Nothing evil or dark came up from scanner or my sunglasses, so I pulled the envelope from the scanner and carefully opened the envelope, then dumped the contents onto the workspace top.

Four tickets for something called "Doctor Dan's Den of Darkness Freakshow" and the paper square was blank.

Great. The tickets were for tonight, and I knew who to invite along with my girlfriend Katherine. Plato and Stefano. Two members of Team Fremont.

Who are we? We work for the most secret government agency you have never heard of:

We are agents of Bureau 13, and we Stalk the Night Fantastic...

Game Master

John Reiher

Players

3

Characters

Seth Green

Plato Ferris

Stefano Renault

Date

February 24 & March 3, 2005

Technical Notes

Recaps

Seth Green, Plato Ferris, and

Stefano Renault discovered a large, magical bear from the land of Faerie at Dr Dan's Den of Darkness Freakshow near Southcenter. They made a deal with the White Witch of Fremont to help send "Antoine" the bear back to Faerie. Only now, it seems that trouble is a brewing in Southcenter, and starts with T and that rhymes with "B" and that stands for bear...

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The Cold Heart of Distant Stars

Game System

G.A.M.E.

Pitch

G.A.M.E. Trailer

[Opening: a pure white room with a brunette woman in a silver jumpsuit walking towards the camera. She smiles ...]

Woman: Welcome to 2246 ..

[and unzips her jumpsuit and then opens her chest, revealing a screen showing a slowly revolving green planet with a grey steel spaceship ]

Woman: A universe of limitless frontiers ...

[the camera suddenly zooms into the screen and then around the spaceship which then blasts off ]

Woman: technological miracles ...

[cut shot to a darkened couch with a blue and white helmet. A man is lying down on the couch talking to another man in a lab suit.]

Standing Man: You're going to be experiencing virtual flying experiences. From your autonomic reactions we can extrapolate your ultimate flightsuit and our manufacturing-on-demand facilities can have it ready when you wake up.

Woman: and endless opportunities.

[cut shot to asteroids covered with domes growing plantlife. The camera slowly flies over the domes and connecting tunnels.]

Woman: But no matter how far humans go, they bring with them ...

[Suddenly zoom into one of the domes. A few hundred men are at a rally with a spotlight on one of them]

Woman: hatred ...

Man in Spotlight: The White Race will be oppressed no longer! [crowd roars]

[cut to an blond woman and a man kissing on a balcony.]

Woman: greed ...

Blond Woman: You'll do anything for me?

[cut to a dark interrogation room. A man is tied to a chair. Standing above him is an Asian man holding a pair of pliers next to his face.]

Woman: and violence.

Asian Man: Time for Dr. Picasso, plastic surgeon.

Woman: It all happens here ...

[cut shot to a man in his 50's in a black suit with a white stripe down the middle]

Man: Welcome to Poisonside.

[zoom out of the screen to see the woman narrator again. She flicks a switch and her chest picture and the trailer picture blank out simultaneously]

G.A.M.E.: The Cold Heart of Distant Stars

Adapted from "Red Harvest" by Dashell Hammett.

Soundtrack by Bebop & Destruction and King Crimson.

Game Master

Ed Freeman

Players

Characters

Max Braeber, a grunt working for the Confederated Planets Investigative Agency (John Reiher, first game, and Erik, 2nd game)

Jackson (Laura)

Date

January 27 & February 3, 2005

Technical Notes

Background and sample characters

Recaps

Player Thoughts

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Mutants in Seattle

Game System

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Palladium)

Pitch

Will the terror bears be tamed? Will master Yoshi recover compeletely from his ordeal? Who are these bad humans? Where are they? Will our heros find them? Do they really want to?

Game Master

Laura Mortensen

Players

2

Characters

Date

January 10, 2005

Technical Notes

Recaps

Player Thoughts

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