Only if I can get his Dreamcast collection. That stuff's hard to find, you know, especially in good working order.

I'm from the UK in real life, but I spent a few weeks in Albuquerque several years ago. Never made it to Taos, though.

Couple of things I found while researching Melanie's arrival...

• Handy site for real-world weather: https://weatherspark.com/h/d/3...#Figures-Temperature
• New Mexico's pandemic status was labelled Turquoise (aka "We're running out of color names" :)), which meant few restrictions.

I've seen some crazy Transformer collections on Reddit! Maybe not worth 300k, but there are some serious collectors out there!

Here's a recent one I saw: https://www.reddit.com/r/trans..._maybe_transformers/

Edit: The person's Instgram post (though Instagram is still down right now): https://www.instagram.com/p/CU...m_medium=share_sheet

And this person apparently likes He-Man as well: https://www.instagram.com/p/CU...m_medium=share_sheet
This message was last edited by the player at 20:27, Mon 04 Oct 2021.

A copy of Super Mario 64 sold at auction for a million and a half USD a few months ago.

In reply to GM (msg # 19):

Yeah, I was thinking about how much things like vintage USS Flags go for (around $3,000). Pop culture collectibles can be worth quite a bit.

Add in collectables, one-offs, prototypes, signed merch... you can hit $300k pretty quick.

Certain collectables only, which is what Melanie's thinking. The silly money goes on incredibly rare finds: pristine, unopened, still-in-their-original-wrapper games, or special edition games that never had many copies. She may be pleasantly surprised, but she's cynical :)

Yeah, that's the big issue. Yes, the first issue of Superman's comic book is worth a lot. The ton of 'first issues' the comic book churned out for investors is worth somewhere between the value of it's paper and nothing.

Of course, Bernie is supposed to be an expert geek, so he's more likely to have good stuff. If he didn't open them.

Is anyone else having difficulty with their Aspects? Being a "normal person" I'm not sure what Rita should be able to DO or BE. What kind of things are you all choosing, if you don't mind sharing? Or is there some sort of suggestions list someone can point me to?

It’s my first FATE game, and I’m still trying to figure things out. I’m playing Caleb according to his interests and personality, things like being awkward around women and having a good memory. We’ll see how it goes. I imagine Rita has good acting skills, for instance, so she would be good at pretending to be people she isn’t.

It can be tough. What I found helpful is to try writing a whole phrase to describe what you think your character should be able to do, before coming up with a few words summery. It helps to make things clearer.

As for what Rita could do, you did mentioned she knew a 'witch', so it would make sense that she'd know a bit about 'real world' magical belief, like how a pentagram should be drawn and why, or even obscure systems like gematria. It doesn't mean you can cast spells, just that you know how people thought magic worked.

Generally speaking as fairly ordinary people it makes sense that your Aspects are primarily geared towards the kind of challenges your life consists of... and not the kind of thing you'll be doing in the more adventurous parts of the game.

However, "advancement" in Aspect Only Fate comes in the form of swapping out those "ordinary" mundane Aspects for those more suited to adventure.

You may ask, wouldn't that make living my normal life more difficult? Yeah, probably. Feel free to roleplay the contrasts. This is why I wanted everyone to have a life, to have family and friends and social groups, so you could dance that balance and see where you end up.

TL;DR: Don't worry if it seems like you don't have "adventure useful" Aspects just yet.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:39, Fri 08 Oct 2021.

Thanks for the advice, folks.

Just as an example, Rita, my character got into marketing after his acting career went nowhere. So he has the Motivation of A Man's Gotta Eat (because he knows what it's like to be a starving artist) and Smooth Talking Salesman (because he's spent a decade in marketing). The first would probably be used to locate food or other necessities, while the second would be for persuasion or fast-talking people.

In reply to David Richardson (msg # 29):

Or A Man’s Gotta Eat could motivate him to do something awful.

I have been reminded that there is a 4 player VS mode in Mario Kart 64. This doesn't change anything; you were in the karts as soon as somebody powered on the console.

Just realized I reserved 4 karts for 5 players... uh... whatever, there are 2 luigi karts. One's a Waluigi. They operate the same.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:14, Mon 11 Oct 2021.

I don't think Waluigi was invented until the 2000s, but whatever, let's just roll with it.

Feel free to note incongruities like this in character, too. :D

Obviously if you can come up with a weird plan other than what I'm having you roll for, do that instead. This isn't like the game, you're not constrained to kart operation, you can do whatever someone who found themselves inside a kart could physically do. It doesn't feel as restrictive as the game.

I mean realistically in a race on a set track there's only so many options, but that's what makes Mario Kart a good "first trip" - there's a pretty obvious course of action before you and limited questions about what you SHOULD be doing... but don't feel constrained by that. If you want to try and test the limits of what's going on, nothing is (currently) preventing you from doing so.

Gonna give David another day to post; I'll update over the weekend if he doesn't.

Apologies for the delay, work's been hectic.

No worries.

Only appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpv1h3d7DQA

If you guys search the vault you'll find basically all nerd/geek/cult classics going back to Universal monster movies. Bernie wasn't just into what was contemporary in the 90s. And he didn't stop watching the same kind of stuff after you lost touch.

In general you can expect to find virtually any games, movies, and tv seasons released up until the early 2000s - provided I'm familiar enough to come up with a scenario based on it.

So if you guys want to come up with a few possibilities (as a group and in-character) and present them to me, I'll pick whichever I feel like has the most potential.