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In the final scenes, the heroes are inspired to come together by the most unlikely of characters. And then in the aftermath, most characters surprisingly get a good outcome. But in Fiasco, a good outcome often means just going back to the devil you know.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
A legitimate super villain threat emerges and captures one of our heroes, so this group better start getting their act together. Family bonds and jobs are restored, but cooperation, that may be asking a little too much.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
This episode is all about advancing our superpowers. A character seeks to learn to control their ability rather that be controlled by it, and others seek to add to their powers for their own benefits. But not everyone is successful, and there are some hilarious consequences.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
The action in this episode is “out of this world”! No, really, we’re talking meteors and alternate dimensions here. And when secrets are revealed, it is a living hell for 3 of the characters. Yes, literally, they ARE in Hell.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
Our “heroes” attempt to thwart a bank robbery and right some other wrongs that have gone on so far. But I guess they can’t all be heroes. Here are the tilt results Sex: True Love Is Not Nice, and Deception: A Secret Goes Public.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
Dark Star turns superhero detective and figures out a couple other secret identities. But his senses aren’t too keen as he forges the alliance that is beneficial to him, but not his “partner”. And then there are the frat boys… Let’s just say, what happens at the frat house, never stays at the frat house, which is quite unfortunate for one of our esteeming characters.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
Some characters desperately try to hide their secrets in this episode; but to no avail. Science has caught up with Kennedy and has pinned her as The Blue Scorpion. And Phase’s identity as Franklin is used against him by another one of our heroes. But certainly this will not come back to haunt him later!
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
Things get a little crazy in this episode of Fiasco. Characters display their powers for the first time with some fatal repercussions… or at least with some over the top stereotypical fraternity hijinks. This story is taking on the flavor of a college movie where no jokes are off limits.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
We introduce our character names, alter egos, and superpowers. In our first few scenes we get a couple origin stories and some player versus player conflicts already… in true fiasco fashion. Jeff chooses a black die and the table frames a ridiculous scene. Johnny gets a black die for his scene involving multiple dimensions, and Jeremy gets a white die and an early lead in Dillon’s feud with Kennedy.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin – Blain / Ro Sham Bro
Jeff – Dr. Thaddeus Bartholomew Reece
Jeremy – Dillon Davis / Dark Star
Johnny – Franklin / Phase
Jordan – Bryce Reece
Stephanie – Kennedy Kane / The Blue Scorpion
We’re polishing off the character creation phase in this episode, to include some interesting (or disturbing) origin stories, and taking all the loose ends and weaving them together to create a complicated conundrum of how all our characters are more closely connected than anyone realized. Ok, maybe we’re just pulling on a thread that will totally unravel the world as we know it. It’s a matter of perspective, and only time will tell.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin
Jeff
Jeremy
Johnny
Jordan
Stephanie
In this episode, we continue the hilarious hijinks of assigning Needs, Objects, and Locations to our characters. We also start to postulate how the combinations of these assignments and relationships could create some quite interesting scenes. Our characters start to take shape, but there is still more details to come in the next episode.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin
Jeff
Jeremy
Johnny
Jordan
Stephanie
Here’s another Throwback to one of our favorite games to play, Fiasco. We chose a superheroes play-set, and with our eccentric imaginations, and dark sense of humor, it’s sure to be a series of mishaps and blunders. In this episode, we set up our character relationships, and already we can tell that these characters may be super, but will fall short of being actual heroes.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin
Jeff
Jeremy
Johnny
Jordan
Stephanie
We play out the final 2 scenes and put a bow on this fiasco. The zombies play a huge role in the conclusion and aftermath. And in true fiasco fashion, there are tragic and unexpected endings.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
Our last zombie die is used when an attempt is made to gain some royal influence. Then, as another power play is thwarted, revenge is served, but not cold… piping hot!
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
Our tilt results form the Fiasco companion are Folly: An Unexpected Proposal, and Deception: The Mighty Fall Exceedingly Hard. Our scenes flash forward, flash back, reveal a long play deception, and bring some building tensions to a head.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
We wrap up Act 1 with a lot of fairy dust, zombie dice and secrets that come out at the most inopportune times.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
ZOMBIES! Yes! Zombie dice are finally introduced, and things really start heating up… in more ways than one. In the heat of the moment, Katia sparks the first “Zombie Tilt”, Desmond causes a flare up at the tavern, and Ashley’s source of fairy dust might have just gone up in flames… and we haven’t even gotten to Act 2 yet!
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
In episode 2 of Dragonslayers we see how Ashley gets duped into service the service of Fade, and the begin to weave the shady dealings that kicks off a quite complicated and underhanded power struggle. The stage is set for double crossing and backstabbing, as it should be in a game of Fiasco!
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
For our next Throwback Series, we go back to an old favorite, Fiasco, but with a twist. We picked up the Dragonslayers play set and plugged in the Living Dead add-on and the alternate tilt table and aftermath from the Fiasco Companion book. In this first episode, we kick it off with a couple flashback scenes to see how the characters’ relationships (if you can call them that) began.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Stephanie – Katia Greysky
Jeremy – Desmond Viskar
Carlin – Ashley
Jordan – Fade the Benevolent
Tim – Dreven Greysky
Things really get turned on their head in this final round of Act 2. And for the aftermath, there’s never really a “good” outcome. There’s just not-so-bad, bad, and “oh my…” You’ll just have to see how this one turns out.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Aaron – Larry Larson
Elizabeth – Maria Dos Santos
Jackie – “Junior”
Jeremy – David Larson
Jordan – Fred Aston
Here comes the tilt! Paranoia and Innocence are the themes Fred continues to unravel while David keeps his cool. But Larry and Maria are watching and pick up some pretty revealing clues… and Junior, her true colors start to show.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Aaron – Larry Larson
Elizabeth – Maria Dos Santos
Jackie – “Junior”
Jeremy – David Larson
Jordan – Fred Aston
It’s the second round of Act 1 of this Fiasco. There’s a lot of plotting and conspiring going on here, showing just how messed up this little town is. Even the Health Inspector reveals a dark streak. But the darkest of them all just could be the eight year old. But we’ll just have to wait and see how it turns out.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Aaron – Larry Larson
Elizabeth – Maria Dos Santos
Jackie – “Junior”
Jeremy – David Larson
Jordan – Fred Aston
It’s time for a new one-shot…and it’s back to one of our favorites, Fiasco! For the next four weeks, we’ll be in a small New Mexico town where there are sure to be a lot of shenanigans and hijinks in this “Breaking Bad” style play-set.
System: Fiasco
CAST:
Aaron – Larry Larson
Elizabeth – Maria Dos Santos
Jackie – “Junior”
Jeremy – David Larson
Jordan – Fred Aston
The Fiasco play through continues! This was originally recorded back in 2013, at the GAD-Con Convention.
After Thor’s unfortunate law enforcement encounter last episode, Michael Warner and Joy Campbell enjoy some weed together. Harold, her dealer, comes over with more weed. Harold tells Michael that he can provide him with both weed and weed killer.
Leroy has a flashback scene to the night when he broke his back. He finds a connection between Michael and Joy’s mother.
Joy negotiates a raise with her Chicken Hut manager, Harold, so she can buy a car. Shamus, the new employee, doesn’t make it past the training process.
Next episode: The Tilt!
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin as Harold Dinkins
Jeff as Dan Macchio
Jeremy as Leroy Jenkins
Johnny as Michael Warner
Jordan as Thor Grumbacher
Stephanie as Joy Campbell
The Fiasco play through continues! This was originally recorded back in 2013, at the GAD-Con Convention.
Carlin chooses a bad outcome for Harold, and the neighborhood watch is giving him a commendation for his prior “good” deeds. Thus making his life far more difficult. Dan catches Thor stealing. Thor visits his former boss, Michael, who gives him $50 to cause mischief at Leroy Jenkins’s house. The police get involved.
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
Carlin as Harold Dinkins
Jeff as Dan Macchio
Jeremy as Leroy Jenkins
Johnny as Michael Warner
Jordan as Thor Grumbacher
Stephanie as Joy Campbell
The Fiasco play through continues! This was originally recorded back in 2013, at the GAD-Con Convention.
To open this session, Johnny chooses a white die. This allows the rest of the group to create a scene with a positive outcome for Michael Warner. Hilarity ensues…
Game System: Fiasco
In this second episode of Fiasco: Home Invasion, we introduce the characters that have been created. We also start exploring the suburb of Poppleton Terrace. The first scene is between Harold Dinkins and Michael Warner as they discuss the war between Warner and Jenkins…
Game System: Fiasco
Cast:
As promised, here is the first episode of our Thursday throwback series! This time, we’re going back to 2013 to play a fun story-game, Fiasco from Bully Pulpit games. The name of the scenario is “Home Invasion.”
In this episode, we begin the process of developing our characters!
Game System: Fiaso
Cast:
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