Showing posts with label 7TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 7TV. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 April 2014

7Tv game at the Club - 10th May 2011

After the Department X raid on their Slough branch, United Radionics have relocated to a run down industrial estate in Bracknell, where it is believed has been left some interesting clues to plans made during the Korean War for a new form of Sonic Weapon. Department X arrive by some fluke at the same time and so followed a "gather" mission (see 7Tv rulebook). Each building contains a clue counter each of varying value.

DX are joined in this special edition by the cast of Police series "Beat". UR have joined forces with the mysterious Guru who runs the SHIVA organisation.

DI Skelton's favourite snitch "King Tut" Tuttle is deployed in an Infiltration role, hoping to make the most of his saboteur and repair abilities.

A crazy camera angle shows Pandora King and Hugo Solomon finding a clue.

The Guru played by Roget De Lago leads his fanatical SHIVA cultists.

Genral Gordon's troops form line in a strangely dated manouver.

Head of UR in the UK, Lancelot Cray with his favourite Femdroid, his bodyguard Lionel and a stray technician make for the largest building.

With much tyre-screeching - it's the Rozzers, led by the intrepid WPC Cathy Black (once she has finished the tea).

The heroes of "The Beat" make their guest appearence. Slumming it in a Ford Escort this week.


Battle is well and truly joined as Pandora takes down a Cultist leader and battles against one of the Guru's Thuggee bodyguards. Solomon sees stars after an amazing one followed by a re-roll of, you guessed it, a one leaves him confused by the Guru's mental powers just in time for his ward the lovely but deadly Kali to cause him a wound with her poisoned knife.

A star is almost born as PC Extra hurls himself out of the back of the van, which has itself just done a handbrake turn, and into combat with a nameless minion. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, that would be another one rolled! Good effort nonetheless.

The confused Solomon is clobbered well and truly by the lethal Kali who takes full advantage of the befuddled but well dressed agent. Pandora fells another Cultist but another Thugge is on the way.

A fierce exchange of fire with Femdroids thins out the General's troops. Perhaps line in the open was not the best idea. The General is himself only saved by his superior toughness.

How did we get here? Pandora uses a teleportation gadget to transfer herself an the two Thuggees she is fighting into a building where DI Skelton's surving cast members are holed up after clearing it of minions and frigtening off the Man in the Lead Suit with a fierce one liner about his parentage. The Thuggees are felled by a swift roundhouse from Pandora.

The game came to a close as the 10pm watershed approached. Victory to the forces of naughtiness as they found by far the most clue counters. Although, the good guys lost a lot of constables and soldiers early on, none of the casts got to the morale test stage so it was a close run fight.

Figures from the usual suspects, Crooked Dice, Killerbgames, Copplestone and Artizan. Cultists are from Pulp figures as were Kali and a couple of the technicians. The Thuggees are Tong from Brigade Games in the USA.

The buildings are gift boxes. Lids have been spray painted with fleck spray. The walls are done using Model Builder software again from the US, printed and pritt sticked (stucked?) onto the sides of the boxes.

Saturday, 26 October 2013

"Death Rayce" - Another Exciting Episode of 7Tv with Dept X

7TV – Another exciting adventure with Department X
Episode 4 – “Death Rayce”
Previously...
Through a cunning ruse known only to him, International playboy and top Dept X agent Doctor Hugo Solomon and his team of X commandos have been captured by the villainous Lancelot Cray, head of United Radionics. The team are being held in Cray’s Slough UR Depot. Cray  has constructed a Death Ray with which he intends to hold the world to ransom.
General Jaffa (despotic Eton educated dictator of the People’s Republic of Orangina) is bringing with him a Tangerinium crystal which is the final component for the Death Ray. In exchange Cray has promised to give Jaffa two of the Femdroids which he has stolen from Ulysses Argo.
The Prologue...
During his 2 day captivity, Hugo has managed to train a pigeon to take a message to Dept X HQ giving them his team’s location. General Horatio Gordon alerts Agent Pandora King who, taking a job in the UR typing pool, gets herself assigned to the Slough depot.
Gordon sets an ambush to prevent Jaffa getting through to the depot and hopes that he will see King and Solomon again.
Meanwhile camera cuts to a close up of the heavily bejewelled index finger of Lancelot Cray as it first caresses and then stabs down on the countdown button.
Roll Title Sequence...
The Countdown
As long as there are two boffins in contact with computer banks in the UR warehouse, they can make invent rolls from turn one onwards to get the Death Ray warmed up. When the total gets to 21, all that will be required is the installation of the crystal. This requires the figure with the crystal to spend two actions at the control panel in the UR warehouse. It then takes a further action to fire the Death Ray to demonstrate it’s effectiveness.
Around the UR depot are various control boxes. These are vital to the arming of the laser. If they are taken out of action then each invent roll will be at -1 per damaged control panel. If the target of 21 has been reached the -1s come off of the total meaning that invent rolls will need to continue. Control panels are Def3 and can be shot or smashed by melee attack.
The Femdroids
Cray has two Femdroids for General Jaffa. They start the game in unused and deactivated condition. They do not generate activation counters. It takes a boffin 2 actions to activate a Femdroid. In order to hand them over to Jaffa, a boffin must spend 2 actions adjusting them to Jaffa’s command. Jaffa and Cray get more VPs if the Femdroids are not used.
The Metalnaut
Jaffa’s Metalnaut starts in an deactivated state. If activated before being repaired (2 boffin actions) it will be Uncontrolled. It can be repaired by one of Cray’s Boffins making a 4+ Repair roll.
Ending the Game
The game ends when one side is defeated in the usual manner.

Sleepy Slough


Cray's United Radionics Depot

Slough - Entertainment Capital of the UK

Solomon and his team in the cells. Now where is that inept guard?

Pandora looks down at the hive of activity and bides her time.

Cray (and Fluffy the cat) supervise the warming up of the Death Ray array - hurray! Jaffa's Femdroids await collection. Cray's personal Femdroid (Flossy) is ready to defend her master.

Aha - there's that inept guard. Solomon and the comandos escape their cells and try to locate their weapons which have helpfully been stored nearby. Who puts doors on the front and back walls of their cells?

Gordon and his team lie in wait for Jaffa's convoy.

Caltrops away! The X agents try to bottle up the convoy between Arkwrights Hardware and the road works. 
Great idea but Landrovers make great hedge clearing vehicles.

Colonel Outs-Pann leaps out of the lead Landrover with some of his mercenaries and engages the soldiers at close range.

With no regard to the Slough in Bloom competion being judged later in the day, the Borough Gardens are further ruined by Jaffa's Jag as it follows the Landrover causing freinds and foes alike to dive out of the way.

Solomon makes short work of the first few minions who get in his way

After some vicious close combat and small arms exchanges, Jaffa's convoy breaks throgh and heads towards the UR Depot where Cray's scientists have finished readying the Death Ray array (hurray). They just need the Tangerinium crystal.

Solomon is joined by one of the Commandos but they are now taking heavy fire. Down below one of the commandos is knocked out cold by a UR minion.


Gordon singlehandedly takes on the the last vehicle in the convoy.


Big Tam Frazer is in a spot of bother but coolly fights his way to Gordon's side.

Pandora King reveals herself in the UR control room and makes a bee-line for Cray who engages his jet pack and bravely shoots out to meet Jaffa.

Where'd he go?

Pandora consoles herself by laying waste to some tecnhicians. Those minions at the doors will be next.

Pandora floors two minions but a desperate technician activates one of Jaffa's femdroids and along with Flossy catches the high kicking heroine in a crossfire of nipple cannon.

Jaffa and Panther look on as the Tangerinium crystal is loaded into the Death Ray array (hurray). The Death ray is fired and the United Nation must pay one hundred gegillion pounds or cities will be laid waste.

Tune in for the next excting installment.