The time is Terra A.D.—Terra ‘After Disaster’—long in a future. Sometime in the past, a Great Disaster befell the world—perhaps a nuclear war, perhaps Ragnarok, perhaps the fall of Atlantis—and shattered its continents, its environments, its ecologies, and its civilisations. Now young members of the Tribe of the Cog prepare to undertake their Rite of Passage, to leave the village and return with artefacts of the Ancients to prove themselves adult members of the tribe.

The game is Mutant Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game – Triumph & Technology Won by Mutants & Magic published by Goodman Games (a full review can be found here). This is a roleplaying game of  barbarians and blasters, mutants and mayhem, AIs as gods, wetware as magic, and more, the scenario is ‘Assault on the Sky-High Tower’, the Zero Level funnel from the core book, the Game Master is Pookie, and our players are…

Dave – Beeker, Best, Number Four, Zed
Helen – Russert, Sly, Squee, Trance
Louise – Akilees, Bumps, Crampz, Squint
Mog – Cyclops, Darun, Fir, Flyman
Niamh – Alovera, Lizzy, Rosie, Spike