Genericon XVIII

GM: Uncle Don Ross
Date: January 29, 2005
Setting: RPI, Troy, NY

  • Cancer Bear
  • Ennui Bear
  • Grizzly Bear
  • Litigation Bear
  • Moonbeam Bear
  • Rusty Nail Bear
  • SchadenFreude Bear

The Introduction:

Two days ago, Cheer Bear decided that she her talents were being wasted on children when so many college students were unhappy. So she and Friend Bear went down to Troy, New York, to try and bring happiness to RPI.

They returned later that day, and all of the Care Bears went into conference for the rest of the night. The next morning, they all set off to Troy. They never returned. It is now two days later, and no one made breakfast. Something needs to be done before Grizzly Bear eats Litigation Bear, or Rusty Nail Bear beats the crap out of Moonbeam bear who just won't stop whining. Only SchadenFreude Bear seems to be happy with the current situation, since everyone is suffering, except for Ennui Bear, who just doesn't Care. Cancer Bear really does care, and he secretly believes he is only not allowed on the show because of his illness. So, he organized an expedition to Troy to find out what happened to the rest of the Bears.

The Adventure:

Two cloud cars were taken; one driven by Litigation Bear carrying Grizzly Bear, and the rest in the other driven by Ennui Bear. Arriving in Troy, the Bears saw that everyone was unhappy. They accosted the only happy person they could find, a drunken wino, who happily told them that he had seen 'other short furry guys' heading to RPI campus.

The Bears landed their cloud cars on top of the Science Center and entered through the roof access, stealing coats from a coat-rack and only freaking out a couple of students before they headed for the freshman dorms. At the dorms Litigation Bear learned from a very nervous RA that many students were dropping out lately, and that there had been some violence months ago but now all of the badly-behaved students were in a new club that helped the elderly, and there were flyers all over campus for it.

[This is the first in a long line of Litigation Bear claiming to be someone important and fast-talking the GM into giving up information. Care Bear stares are *not* supposed to work on the GM, are they?]

The others searched a few rooms and found two of them cleared out, with notes that said 'I can't take it any more, I quit, good bye'. In one room they found two guys who told them that they had seen more bears, and they had been taken to a party at "Dave's place". [I wanted to use the name of a real professor, but my brain failed thinking on my feet.] The cultists tried to invite Ennui Bear and SchadenFreude Bear to come to the party, too, but ran away when they saw Grizzly Bear and the others.

[The two primary methods of getting a door open: Grizzly Bear knocking the door off of its hinges, and SchadenFreude Bear using his stare: "Wouldn't it be a shame if they had left their front door unlocked! HA, HA!"]

Leaving the dorm, they went looking for flyers, but due to consistently bad die rolls ("HA, HA!"), they only found the top half of one. But, they naturally surmised that this club would be a fraternity thing, so they retired to a nearby liquor store to wait for some frat boys to show up.

[At this point, I decided it might as well be, since my idea of having a professor mastermind the whole thing was going to be a hard sell.]

The cultists they encountered at the dorms were in the liquor store, talking to the proprietor and two other cultists about the new threat. A fight ensured, in which Litigation Bear made off with a bottle of Chivas Regal, and most of the shelves came down in a chain reaction ("HA, HA!")

The bears took one prisoner and fled to a nearby abandoned gas station to question him [because, you know, that is *never* a bad idea]. They learned that something big was going on at a place called 'the Silo', and there was a fraternity house where they usually met, and then cultists started lobbing molotov cocktails through the windows. The Bears escaped out the back just before the place went BOOM, except for Rusty Nail Bear and Ennui Bear, who were in the basement fighting more cultists; they escaped down a tunnel which connected to the liquor store. There was another altercation at in the basement of the liquor store, in which a cultist was rusty-nail-gunned to the ceiling and Ennui Bear ate a big tin of popcorn.

The remaining ('surviving') Bears split up into two teams at this point...