PLAYING HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

 

As I mentioned before, we played Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Friday night. It's not an actual game in itself, of course, but what Chris the GM chose to run using the Powered by the Apocalypse playset. It was a fun game, with a great set of role-players at the table. Sadly, because of my hearing loss and the ambient noise in the room, I only managed to hear 50% of what was going on in our game.

I played Marvin the Paranoid Android and truly channeled the depressed side of my bipolar disorder. My rejoinder to everything was "you organics are going to get us all killed!" and "we're all going to die!" (And dammit, as if the organic players weren't just out to prove my point for me!)

As with most games at a con, I decided from time-to-time elected to be an agent of chaos to keep the story moving into new territory. I try to do it in character, though. We had a moment when we were about to activate the improbability drive to travel to the Greater Magellanic Cloud and when I threw my bucket of water on it to short it out! Instead, we travelled all the way back to before the Big Bang! Much hilarity ensued.

As for the ruleset, I'm glad we played. I realized partway through that Usagi Yojimbo is powered by the Apocalypse. So it gave me a chance to see how it actually plays out as a ruleset. I'd kickstarted the game on the strength of the graphic novel tie-in and its Japanese theme.

Very cool!