We have a new campaign going, where we are all a superhero family fending off Kaiju from Australia’s sunny shores! It’s using the Sentinel Comics RPG, based on the Sentinels of the Multiverse co-op card game (which we have also played a lot of.)
Collection 1: Kaiju Defense: Next Gen
First Session – “Fire on the Deep”
Giant sea serpents and pretty darn big fleas attack an oil rig of the Australian coast and need fending off! It’s hard yakka!
Second Session – “Scared Heart Hospital”
The fleas have infected everyone with chest-bursting fleas and we have to go flea stomping yet again, and end up fighting a giant mutated dog in a trailer park with many bogans looking on.
Third Session – “Between the Tasmanian Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”
The heroes have to go defend a supervillain transport barge from the attack of a giant mutated kaiju. You’d think the yobbos would be grateful, but of course not.
Fourth Session – “Melbourne Nights”
The Vegemite factory in Melbourne is at risk from not one but two kaiju! The heroes must overcome their greatest hurdle yet – getting to Melbourne from Sydney.
Fifth Session – “Basic Cthulhus and Catwomen”
The Dijkstra Museum of History in Sydney is threatened both by a giant sea kaiju called “Squidface” from without and from Ermine and the Gentleman (think Catwoman/Black Cat and Gentleman Ghost before he dies and becomes a ghost) inside. And our emo bro Nightwalker gets sucked into some bad dimension.
Sixth Session – “Advanced Cthulhus and Catwomen”
X-Celerate hooks up with villainess Ermine and gets to know her intimately and impregnates her. At the same time, the Nexus of the Void gets to know Nightwalker intimately and impregnates him. We rescue one of the two of them. Finally we go to a big spooky mansion to have it out with Cthulhu (aka the Herald of xxtz’Hulissh).
Collection 2: Atlantean Memories
Seventh Session – “We Come From A Land Down Under”
We travel from Australia to Argentina to earn our “international Kaiju hunter” certification from GLOBAL. There a giant hydra is molesting both the livestock and the gauchos. We fend it off with the help of El Genio (think El Santo), who is laid low in the process.
Eighth Session – “The Serpent and the Rainbow”
The heroes take on an Argentinian black site with a super-scientist in residence. Then things get really weird and we go deal with a bunch of gods of the Guarani people, including a set of challenges from Jasy Jatere and a wrestling match with Teju Jagua to get some juice from the infinita fruit to heal El Genio.
Ninth Session – “American Serpent”
The Heretic demands 300 billion pesos or else he’ll destroy the Los Caracoles Dam and flood a lot of San Juan. We defeat the hydra and head out to find the Heretic, who has taken refuge in a vineyard and winery. Little does he realize that we are Australian and drinking plonk is one of our superpowers!
Tenth Session – “Armenian Vodka”
We get our own rooms back at Kaiju Defence Inc. headquarters until we are interrupted by a host of giant tentacles. Then we go sit down for a lovely Mordengradian lunch with what turns out to be the deposed Baron Blade aka the Luminary aka Ivan Romanat! Well obviously we have to team up with him to go to Atlantis…
Eleventh Session – “The Inevitable Betrayal”
Baron Blade turns on us and sics Cthulhu on us. We try to look surprised. He bails after we grind his forces to cornmeal and smack Space Cthulhu around. Piece of piss.
Twelfth Session – “Reality Discontinuity”
The Abyssal freaks out and goes dark magic crazy. But we need to go to a super hero convention, Freedom Con! More chaos than usual ensues.
Collection 3: Kaiju World Tour
Thirteenth Session – “New Charleston Incursion”
The Abyssal is now The Umbral, sinking even deeper into dark magic depravity. We go pub crawling until we are interrupted with a call for help fighting kaiju off from New Charleston Island. If the Samoans can’t handle it, it must be bad! Sure enough, it’s basically Starship Troopers except most of us don’t have guns, or look good naked. And Yowie gets a death curse put on him for appropriating Aboriginal magic. Fair enough.
Fourteenth Session – “The Beginning of the Endlings”
We get to meet the Endlings, which is some Jack Kirby on crack shit. Yowie likes the Terminarch, Jansa Vi Dero, because she’s huge! We then go to catch a kaiju for her, but of course way more dangerous than a giant monster is some rich one percenter bastard.
Fifteenth Session – “The Dreamtime”
The Aboriginal sorcerer Merricumana refuses to lift the bone curse from Yowie, which means we have to venture into the Dreamtime to try to fix the problem! We go to Ayers Rock and smoke it up and sure enough we end up in the Dreamtime. We then have to intervene in various Very Symbolic Activities, hoping that we are intervening in a way that will help and not hurt. And then we get to fight dark versions of ourselves! Except for Umbral, who fights a jolly shining elf version of himself (I’m kidding).
Sixteenth Session – “Fear the Bunyip”
After enjoying some finger limes, we have to fight some weirdo carrying a giant black rock and protect a giant white rock who has two cute lil’ whale and koala pals. We are traumatized by having to fight the cute guys. We fight the Bunyip, the Yowie dies but is brought back to life by the Rainbow Serpent, and defeats the Bunyip with the help of his friends… We return successful to the waking world, to be confronted with a plague of spore-bearing pterodactyls.
Seventeenth Session – “What To Expect When You’re Expecting”
First we have to save Sydney from a rampaging Kangasaurus Rex (or, as we like to call it, “Tuesday”) when Golden Key’s daughter from the future comes back! She tells us we must fight the future and so we go to Zurich and fight a Tatzylwyrm and eat Strudel and look for magical instruments.
Eighteenth Session – “Sleepless in Seattle”
We have to join up with the Argent Adept, who Umbral hates, to fight Heretic, who we all hate, in Seattle, which we all also hate. A random environment generated dude, Stan the Battalion Mechanic, a gruff blue-collar maintenance man who keeps fixing the battle platform we’re trying to invate, becomes a favorite of ours during the fight so we recruit him once we win.
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