2011-03-06

reverancepavane: (Zim)
2011-03-06 09:17 pm
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we're on a one-way elevator to hell

The problem with collecting interesting role-playing games is that there are some that you really really want to play, but you know in your heart of hearts that there is no one else within a thousand kilometers or so that owns the game, let alone is willing to run it for you. [Save vs Despair or +1D2 Despair]

The source of the problem in this case is Abandon All Hope, a game set on a massive (ala Escape From New York) computer controlled (ala Paranoia) prison (ala The Shawshank Redemption) vessel (ala Leviathan) on the way to deliver convicts (ala Fortress 2) to found a new colony (ala Pandorum), that has accidentally fallen into a rift between the universes into one inhabited by demons (ala Event Horizon), which are attracted to the rich bounty of potential convict happy meals inside the ship (ala Alien and Alien 3). So you get to combine your standard horror and prison movie themes in one setting [including the possibility of those types of horror prison movies (ala Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS and Werewolf in a Women's Prison) if you so desire]. Plus some SF tropes, and your typical FPS game (ala Doom, Quake, System Shock, Half-Life, and Portal*) as well, of course.

I really want to play a dissident nuclear weapons engineer who was sentenced to transportation because his knowledge was considered dangerous (and immoral) to the New World Order. [Although the game does seem to be lacking "fissionable (1)" components in the scrounging table, so I suppose I'd better limit my abilities to be really good at jury-rigging (can we give up and simply call it McGyvering from now on) stuff.]

[* Mainly due to the presence of the happy fun Warden computer (ala Paranoia) that isn't at all reacting to the massive damage the ship has taken, the prisoners being outside their cells, and all those demons/aliens running around the ship. But whose to say anyway that the entry into the rift was an accident. Perhaps this is an experiment by the New Order, investigating the rift by using disposable people, with the computer monitoring the results (and planning to send a message buoy back). That would certainly account for taking all the expense for shipping the convicts off into space, rather than just using a bullet and a backhoe...]