Tuesday, November 8, 2011

A short note!

BTW, the Haiku Pineapple Company, their athletic field taken over for internees, the prisoners at the Lahaina police station - all were actually there in the real world. The actual prisoners, of course, were not real - though one of them was indeed a Shinto priest. The Coconut Grove was actually located in Boston, and was destroyed in a huge, deadly fire, but the name fit, so I put it in Honolulu. :D

-clash
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  1. bouletNovember 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM

    Wacky one shot?

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  2. clash bowleyNovember 9, 2011 at 6:28 PM

    Nope - a discussion of some of the elements of the Saturday session of IHW: Pigboats detailed in the last post from Sunday.

    When I told the Skipper's player (Ryan AKA Klaxon) that the Japanese professor and his daughter had been swept up after Pearl Harbor the week before and shipped off to Maui, I only knew that there were detention camps on Maui, so when Klax announced that he was going to go to Maui - and got himself orders to investigate the detainees there due to his fluent knowledge of Japanese - I knew I had to prep.

    Instead of making things up out of whole cloth, I researched the camps on the web. There was an account of a Shinto Priest who had been detained in a place called the Haiku detention camp, so I looked that up. There was also mention of five detainees held in the Lahaina police station.

    I put these ingredients together with my knowledge of the aquifers underlying the cap rock in the islands - which are used to water the dry sides, as almost all the rain comes in from one direction on the tradewinds, leaving each island wet on one side and dry on the other - and the NPCs and what they had been up to formed itself.

    The others actually expected the skipper to use the orders as some kind of ruse to rescue the Professor and girl. No one but the Skipper actually was prepared to look for actual spies. It was awesome when the other players suddenly realized the Skiper was really onto something. It galvanized them. Lamarr's player couldn't sit still during the final questioning.

    And it was all from doing a little research.

    -clash

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  3. bouletNovember 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM

    This game sounds like a blast Clash!

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  4. clash bowleyNovember 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    It has been! Ihave been having a great time as GM, and the guys have really been enjoying their officers. :D

    -clash

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