“On a Red World Alone” began life as a Rules-As-Written LotFP game that takes place on a post apocalyptic martian colony. It has since evolved into an absolutely gonzo game with fully homebrew rules where the players run wild, and the referee refuses to quit.
Four hundred years before the game began, humans were doing a pretty good job colonizing mars. We built a megacity up there! It was inside a self-sustaining biodome, which everybody thought was pretty neat. Things were good. Then a fuckin’ meteor came from out of nowhere and killed everybody on earth. The whole planet is toast.
The biodome may be self sustaining, but the human spirit is not. The mars colony suffered a societal breakdown, and in the year 2516, they’ve been reduced to medieval levels of learning and social structure. Tribal warlords vie with one another for the dome’s limited territory. The players are members of a small neutral tribe known for producing ‘fixers.’ Folks who will take care of whatever you need taken care of. My players decided to name their tribe “The Fighting Mongooses.”
Below you will find session-by-session documentation for a years long campaign with a shifting cast of characters. It is weird and wild and well worth every moment of play.
January 2516 – A Cherished Chip
Session 1 – The Bonemeister Will Pay For Your Bones
Session 2 – Beware the gaze of The Head
Session 3 – Wolves in TechnoSheep’s Clothing
Session 4 – Enter The Hangman
February 2516 – A Test Task
Session 5 – Vertical Getaway Drivers
March 2516 – Procuring Practice for the Pilots
Session 6 – Fish, Plankton, Sea Greens, and Protein from the Sea
Session 7 – In Which the Referee is Too Tired to Run a Good Game
April 2516 – The Hangman’s Holy Hunk of Rock
Session 8 – Too Much Shit for a Hunk of Rock
Session 9 – Death of the Dick Nose’d Kid
Session 10 – God is More Powerful than Boners
May 2516 – Doing Drugs with the Devil
Session 11 – Eldritch Tentacles Emerge from her Anus
June 2516 – Life Support Labors
Session 12 – Beep Boop, Umquat is a Hero
Session 13 – In Which a Dead Wizard’s Underwear Prove Indispensable
Session 14 – A Collection of Baby Arms
Session 15 – Albert, May the Dice Be Ever in His Favor
Session 16 – Poop is Not Treasure
Session 17 – Construction, Quarrelsome Neighbors, and Garbage
July 2516 – Absconding with ASCII
Session 18 – When I Grow UP, I Want to be the Morality Police
Session 19 – Bubble Bobble Bullshit
Session 20 – Everything Patricia Pulling Warned Your Parents About
August 2516 – Duplicitous Demolition
Session 21 – Mostly Drunken Confessions
Session 22 – That Building was a Lightweight. Sad!
September 2516 – Visiting Vox’s Vault
Session 23 – Eleven Encounter Checks
Session 24 – Have Your Cake & Fuck It Too
Session 25 – The Bloodsoaked Warriors of Mars
October 2516 – Protecting Internet Property
Session 26 – Surrender Yourselves to the Breakfast Club
Session 27 – How Bobbert Stole the Show
Session 28 – Inexplicably Wagon-Sized Sewer Access
Session 29 – Madam, You Squeeze Too Boldly
Session 30 – Don’t Spend it All in One Place
November 2516 – Dirt Delivery
Session 31 – I’m Just a Water Bitch, Monsieur!
December 2516 – Hunting Howlers
Session 32 – Beef Ring
Session 33 – A Product of Post-Election Binge Drinking
Session 34 – Just Because a Pooltable Fits in a Room, Doesn’t Mean You Can Play Pool There
Session 35 – In Which the Party Unlocks a Bonus Genocide
Session 36 – How Can We Commit Genocide in a Way that is Profitable?
Session 37 – Shit Talking with Dragons
January 2517 – Managing Mongrel the Magician
Session 38 – Bubble Snek Makes a Sale
Session 39 – This Isn’t a Motel 6
Session 40 – Mongrel was a Pushover
Session 41 – Don Harper’s Day Off
February 2517 – Killing Korlom
Session 42 – Anti Magic Field. What Now, Bitch?
Session 43 – Korlom’s Curtain Call
March-April, 2517 – What Ever Happened to Galens Brook?
Session 44 – Decompression
Session 45 – The Crushing Embrace of the Wall-Worm
Session 46 – These Things Cause Space Cancer!
May 2517 – Jailbreak!
Session 47 – Operation: Fuck You Too
Session 48 – Akiovasha Wins a Falling Contest
June – September, 2517 – Whack-a-Mole
Session 49 – Almost Setting Dildo-Friend on Fire
Session 50 – Alright, We’re Officially Evil Now
Session 51 – Oh Good, Child Murder Averted
Session 52 – Alright, You Murder the Children
Session 53 – Surrender! There are Three Hundred Thousand of Us!
Session 54 – How Many Dicks Can A Gobbo Carry?
Session 55 – No Take-Backsies on Blood Writing
October, 2517 – Just The Amoral Guys
Session 56 – Passing Through the BDSM District
November, 2517 – Loose Ends
Session 57 – I’M GONNA KILL THAT BITCH
December, 2517 – Loose Robuts
Session 58 – In Which an Al Kohaulic is Murdered, then the Party Tries to Convince Themselves They Aren’t Really That Bad
Session 59 – All Rations are Lunchables
January-March, 2518 – Whups, We Fucked Our Friends
Session 60 – Androgynous Men are Hawt
Session 61 – Wherein Jesus Christ Fails a Save Versus Poison
Session 62 – Stealing is Better Than Buying
Session 63 – Somebody Poisoned the Water Hole!
Session 64 – Trashalanche
April – September, 2518 – Pump it!
Session 65 – Apparently They Used Their Sewers for Poop.
Session 66 – Every Time We Play We Miss Umquat.
Session 67 – We’ve Achieved A Lot With Orgies
Session 68 – A Cacophony of Bleats
Session 69 – Umquat Shows Up in a Lama Skin, Slaps Ronnina, and Makes a Bushcraft Check
Session 70 – We’re Not Paying Extra for Testicles
Session 71 – Interview with a Vampire
Session 72 – Does a 38 Hit You?
Session 73 – Oh, Hey, Mogmurch Has 18 Cha, and Always Has
Session 74 – Fuck, that 18 Charisma is Really Useful
Session 75 – If they don’t have names, it can’t be evil to kill them.
Session 76 – “I Will Eat the Soul of Jesus Christ”
October & November, 2518 – We’ve Never Visited the Lords of Light?
Session 77 – The Only Explanation Is That Spooky Must Be Hot
Session 78 – The Day Don Harper 9/11’d The Internet
Session 79 – Octopussy in the Elevator Shaft
Session 80 – One Lie Too Many
December, 2518 – We Should Probably Do Something About That Asteroid I Guess…
Session 81 – “Because Racism is Bad”
Session 82 – Seventy Nine Sessions in the Making
January, 2519 – Leaving the Dome
Session 83 – A Dense Field of Baby Skeletons
Session 84 – So Much Bullshit for a Stone Sphere
February, 2519 – We Don’t Know Jack
Session 85 – I Have a Table for That
Session 86 – Spent a Year Gettin’ Swole with my Girl Gang in the Forest
March 2519 – Reckless Reckless Robots
Session 87 – The Return of Robot Monster
Session 88 – Simpsons Did it
April 2519 – Making It Up To Umquat
Session 89 – A Slightly Off-Brand Version of Justice
Session 90 – Five Souls Ain’t Nothin’
May 2519 – Bringing Down the Anti-quat
Session 91 – Flurry of Fletching is Flung at Her
Session 92 – Losco Be Nimble, Losco Be Quick
Session 93 – Rock Hard Crust of Fossilized Shit
June 2519 – Now He Has 44 Dicks
Session 94 – Now I Have 44 Dicks
July 2519 – Getting Distracted
Session 95 – WE WANT POOL!
Session 96 – I owe you more than a pool. I owe you a sandwich.
Session 97 – Hopefully this doesn’t create continuity errors.
Session 98 – We didn’t get a pool, but we made friends with a robot!
August – September 2519 – This took NINE SESSIONS?!
Session 99 – The Orphans Can Wait!
Session 100 – Yup…That’s What We Did For the Big One-Oh-Oh
Session 101 – Queer Metal Sex Pop
Session 102 – Snap Back Crackerjack (The Fake Session)
Session 103 – The Plane of Eternal Ice Cream
October 2519 – Classic MBD.
Session 104 – The Vengeance of Mad Bill Danger
November – December 2519 – Nothing Will Ever Be The Same
Session 105 – Hair Doughnut Acquired
Session 106 – Jinny Beau, the Gun Ho
Session 107 – Rejecting Apostasy, Embracing Treason
A Note on ORWA Recaps After Session 107
January-June 2520
Session 108 – Kinky Shrimp Pigs
Session 109 – The Height of Too Muchery
Session 110 – And That’s From A Man Who Shits In A Tunnel
Session 111 – Ice Queen
Session 112 – Jinny Beau Solo
Session 113 – Umquat Showed Up
Session 114 – A Bunch of Fuck Rooms Is Not Where You Keep Your Treasure
Session 115 – Try Try Again
Session 116 – The Janice Situation
Session 117 – Recruiting ASCII
Session 118 – Remember When We Killed Team Gopher? Well…
Session 119 – “I Still Have Soap Now”
Session 120 – “Something is Eating the Babies!”
July – November 2520
Session 121 – Post Apocalyptic Ham-Wrapped Asparagus Dipped in Rocksalt Sweet Potatoes
Session 122 – Touring the Asparagus Farms
Session 123 – “Worst Case Scenario This Guy Wakes Up. Best Case? Muffins.”
Session 124 – “We Need To Teach these Guys Civics And Shit”
Session 125 – The Brain Plain
Session 126 – Fighting Mongoose Have A Stupid Way Of Life
Session 127 – Kumquat
Session 128 – It’s Like Squarespace For Pocket Dimensions
Session 129 – Doors Galores
December 2520
Session 130 – “It’s not about the hiding, it’s about the friends you don’t make along the way.”
January-February 2521
Session 131 – Thaaaaank YOU for turning ME on!
Session 132 – RADICAL FIRE SKULL
March-April 2521
Session 133 – In Which Roni Endorses Broken Window Theory
May 2521
Session 134 – Alea Iacta Est
Session 135 – “I’ll Get Some of my Butt Poops.”
June-December 2521
Session 136 – “Internet Connectivity Problems.”
Session 137 – “A Very Sad Little Emperor.”
Session 138 – Organizing Strike Teams
Session 139 – Let’s Just Climb Up Into The Hole!
Session 140 – God Doesn’t Answer
Session 141 – MOAR POWER!
Session 142 – The Mythic Underworld
Session 143 – Hell’s Ancient Battlefield
Session 144 – Touching Ghosts Feels…Gross
Session 145 – Today I Worship Larial of the Cool Waters, and to the best of my recollection have always been her dedicated servant.
Session 146 – Txting w/ Burns
Session 147 – We Interrupt This Program
Session 148 – The Madness Dome Interlude
January-March 2522
Session 149 – Specifically Defined Revenge
Session 150 – Attack of the Referee’s Miniatures
Session 151 – So THAT’S What the Snake Was For
Session 152 – “If you want a little more control over who comes in you…”
Session 153 – Crusher Shot Mr. Burns
May 2522
Session 154 – “Revenge of the Butt Poops”
Session 155 – “asdf”
ORWA has returned: Session 156 and Beyond – On a Red World Alone: Return to the Dome