Last night’s game was a ton of fun, so I thought I’d share a slightly-expanded version of the bite-size AP I posted on Story Games. Our cast this evening was:

Geoffrey, rapscalion and ne’er do well (played by Emily)
Sergei, grumpy Russian tinkerer/silver fox (played by Shreyas)
Sean, grumpier pavement artist with his mind on his money (played by Vincent)
Bridget, straight-edge head knocker (played by Julia)

Bridget’s ex-boyfriend is in a bind, his parole officer is a dirty cop and trying to get him to blow up some construction in downtown Dublin, or get sent back to jail. He finds her at her favorite bar and begs for her help while her friends mock him. Meanwhile, Sergei accidentally gets into a fistfight with a huge dude because he’s chatting up the guy’s girlfriend, a super cute girl named Riley. After embarrassing the boyfriend, he asks for her number and they go out again. She falls hard for him; turns out she’s a spoiled rich girl and Sergei’s the only man who hasn’t tried to use her for her money.

Meanwhile, Sean and Geoffrey are working out the details of the plan to save Bridget’s ex: whether to horn in on the scam and make sure the ex doesn’t get caught, or use the dirty cop to send the mastermind (Dan Brennan, richest man in town) to jail. Geoffrey says, “Either we can stop a terrorist plot and look good, or we can do a terrorist plot and make a ton of money. It’s win-win.”

They go for a third option: blackmail Dan to exculpate Bridget’s ex. Problem: Sean accidentally said Bridget’s name in front of the kidnapped mogul. They take Dan out to the country and shoot him, then fill his pockets with rocks and dump his body in a cow pond.

Two days later, Riley calls Sergei in tears: her father’s missing and they say he skipped town, but he wouldn’t do that, he promised he’d never run out on her the way her mother did. Sergei takes this moment to awkwardly break up with her.

The team cleans up their messes with each other, and finishes a successful job: there’s a manhunt for the richest man in Dublin, his henchmen are crawling the city looking for them, and the local headline is HEIRESS HOSPITALIZED AFTER SUICIDE ATTEMPT; FATHER PRESUMED DEAD. But hey, at least they’ve got a million pounds to split between them.

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