GURPS: Vampires' Revenge
This was the convention Josh and I did while the superintendent was trying to get our apartment back in livable condition, and neither he nor we knew for sure whether he'd be told to put on a vacate order.
My first game was a late night GURPS game, Vampire's Revenge. The premise was that the old style vampires were going to destroy the new emo-goth sparkly vampires of Twilight and similar works. Thus, our characters had infiltrated the local high school, removing the teachers they were replacing. No one played Carmilla or Varney.
- GM: Kevin Mears
- Me: Ruthven (Polidori) -- Literature
- Timothy Hulse: Dracula -- Gym
- ???: Kurt Barlow (Salem's Lot) -- History of Religion
- ???, but he was very good: Count Orlock (Nosferatu) -- Cafeteria
- ???: Schorzery (Kolchak) -- B. O. (I have no idea what that stood for)
This would probably have been a better game if it wasn't a pure hate-stompfest, but as it was, it was a fine guilty pleasure. Everyone was good, but especially the guy playing Count Orlock. Orlock never spoke, as he was from the silent movie, and all of his scenes were in black and white. He communicated in writing.
The vampires were hanging out in a blood bar at the start of the game.
Someone: We are vampires. Not Sparklies.
Someone: (to silent Orlock): I couldn't have put it better myself.
Orlock: <snapsnap> points to glass.
Vlad (about Renfield): He didn't sparkle. He ate bugs. This was a good thing.
Vlad (once they had a plan): I will be gym teacher.
Various Orlock quotes:
His suggestion about where to kill people: <PROM>
I love texting.
When asked why he was applying for the cafeteria job: ECONEMY
And later: I'M NOT PICKY
GM (describing an androgynous vampire delightedly going off to do a teacher's bidding): It. Bloody. Skips.
Sparkly vampire: Oh God!
Schorzery (I think): God, trust me, will not help you right now. Shutting the hell up will -- at least, it will help me. (later, after proceeding to kill the other vampire) Does it ever shut up? Does it at least fight back?
GM: Eventually.
Schorzery: I've had a human child that did more damage!
Sparkly vampire in biology class: Oh my God, you want me to cut a frog???
Ultimately, after destroying all the sparkling vampires, the old school vampires killed the horrific queen, who was either Stephanie Meyers or Anne Rice, I think the latter. She was an undead skeletal figure who kept typing what was going on all around her even as the PCs were killing her. Like I said, a guilty pleasure, but not very deep.
