Night of the Perseids
It'd been a good long weekend of hiking, fishing, camping and sitting around the fire, talking well into the night. The serious drinking started with lunch yesterday. Luckily it was a big meal with plenty of leftovers as everyone was too drunk to cook dinner, so drunk that it was a miracle that everyone made it into their tents before passing out for the night.
None of them saw the lights of the Perseid the meteor cloud that this year, its normally spectacular display combined with unusual solar activity, sent brilliant multi-hued lights over the whole worlds sky. Aurora Terralis, the lights of the world, it had been billed as. Millions, if not billions made the time to see this once-in-a-dozen-lifetimes spectacle.
The brightest city lights, nor the thickest cloud cover prevented the shifting lights from being seen by those below. Yet whilst the eyes of the globe were watching, and four friends lay in a drunken stupor, something else felt the light. Something felt the light, and awoke. Around the globe, it awoke, and it was hungry.
With the lethargy that accompanies a legendary hangover, four friends finished off their supplies, broke camp and began the return trip to civilisation.
A single session game for 4 or 5 players, loosely using the Cyberpunk 2020 rules.
| Adult Content: | MA (violence, gore) |
| Characterisation: | 4 (real people, bad places) |
| Genre Knowledge: | 2 (who needs numbers) |
| Rules Knowledge: | 1 |
| Seriousness: | 5 (its bad, very bad) |