The End Of The World RPG (Part 2)

Description

Part 2 of our first One Shot of 2019: a special zombie-themed runthrough of The End of the World RPG by Fantasy Flight Games. Note: Alex and Ben are away for these first two episodes because they both had children over the break (!!!). Instead, this episode features Victoria Zerbst and Jenna Owen from Freudian Nip AND MAYBE ANOTHER LAST MINUTE SPECIAL GUEST.

## Synopsis

The Friends, Victoria Zerbst and Jenna Owen are on their way to the Sydney Tower. They pull the baby seats out of Simon Greiner's car to load it with pharmaceuticals and drive through to the Tower, with Edan riding shotgun (literally poking his head through the sunroof with holding a shotgun). Meanwhile, Victoria puts Paw Paw ointment on her wounded bottom, inflicting an *Overshared* trauma on Hing in the process. As they near central Sydney the abandoned traffic becomes denser, and the Friends ditch the car, using Simon's pram to store the pharma supplies and Hing's go bag.

As they do, they encounter two civilians kneeling on the ground with two cops standing over them, one of them wielding a shotgun. Simon and Edan approach by placing the shotgun inside the pram, with the barrels pointed outward, and pretending it's a baby. They ask for help, and the cops explain that the men tried to break into the sporting goods store; as they explain this, Simon fires the shotgun at point blank range, tearing the first cop apart. The second cop lifts up one of the arrested men and tries to use him as a human shield while pulling out a pistol. Victoria and Jenna attempt to perform a comedy rap to calm the cops down, and succeed at the cost of some discomfort.

The Friends rush through the mall into Sydney Tower 360 dining, finding everything deserted except for the obsessed celebrity chef and Tom Walker, who is sitting at a table nursing a salad and 2 G&Ts. Hing tries to identify if Tom could be infected, and while he does not appear to be, Edan is showing signs of his eyes becoming bloodshot and his temperature increasing. Hing convinces Edan to enter the walk-in freezer and then Victoria locks him inside. Uncomfortable at leaving Edan to die of hypothermia, Simon goes to speak to him and Edan convinces him to release him and then, if they are afraid of him being infected, tie him up instead. Edan crawls out of the freezer, seriously damaged, but Hing decides to bait him into a garbage bag using a pan of prawns.

Suddenly, the Friends suddenly hear that the elevator leading to the restaurant has activated; a group of zombies arrive. Victoria and Jenna attempt to placate them by singing *Hit The Road, Jack.* The zombies are unbothered, but the noise attracts a passing search helicopter; the Friends rush for the roof and rescue, but Simon is clawed by a zombie as they come out from the elevator. Hing throws a Molotov Cocktail at the zombies as he leaves, and Jenna throws her hammer at Simon, believing him to be infected. After Jenna announces that Simon's age means that he should sacrifice himself so younger people can survive, Simon lurches forward and bites her, insisting that if they are infected they will be able to find a cure once rescued. The Friends are rescued, taking the risk of the two infected Friends passing the plague out of the city, while Edan is torn apart by zombies in a sack with some prawn shells.

## People

### Dragon Friends

* Simon Greiner
* Michael Hing
* Edan Lacey

### Guest PCs

* Victoria Zerbst
* Jenna Owen
* Tom Walker

## Themes, tropes and running jokes

* Baffling Reference for our International Listeners: the Friends discuss their route to the Tower in terms of actual streets in Sydney, and to "driving into the Sydney CBD" (Central Business District)
* The actual route the Dragon Friends took

## Quotes

* "Hi Guys. Welcome to this live improvised traffic simulator game, where you can experience in person what it's like to drive from Redfern in Sydney South to (gasp) the CBD!"
* "I don't want to be held responsible for killing a cop if this is a fake apocalypse."
* "I don't mean to get too poltiical but given these are two white people engaging with the police I think they should get some extra dice as well."

## Table Talk

* "Don't look at me and say 'should we rap?' because the answer will be no."
* "You've given yourself a 5 for Dexterity and you've given yourself the negative feature *Has A Podcast*." "That's a negative feature for both mental and social."
* "But it's also offset by the other negative feature, *Two Years At Ecole Philippe Gaulier*." "Which is the clown school you went to." "How much money did you spend to get into that clown school?" "I don't like to get into that. But if you want to add another separate mental negative feature about the money I spent.."
* "You have things in this bum bag you haven't added... So I would add a 36% charged Android phone with a data usage alert and a notification from the popular app TikTok that simply says 'Good evening Timmywalks, stop being so pretty.'"