Return of the RED MADNESS!

A few weeks ago, I promised you all chapters two and up of The New Know Nothings, my old 1970s Mage game, but then I caught Raiders of the Lost Ark on TV a few nights ago and that put me in mind of my old space pulp Adventure! game instead. (Also, I'm a little embarrassed by how much of the later Know Nothings sessions I stole from The Invisibles. How was I to know the trade paperbacks would find the audience the monthlies never did?)

So here, for your time-wasting pleasure, is an all-in-one summary of [Insert your PC's name here] versus the RED MADNESS!, a gleeful little Adventure! romp I played about a year-and-a-half ago with Jess, Jere, John, Michelle, and Susan. It was set in an alternate 1963— 1963 as it might have been imagined in the sci-fi rocket pulps of, say, 1936, but with bits of the real 1963 occasionally poking through. The two World Wars were replaced by the two Wars of the Worlds (Wells' original and Welles' 1938 remake), leaving a dying Mars occupied by Allied Forces, and a Cold War between Hitler's monstrous Reich and a Gernsbackian Astounding Age USA. (If all this really gets you going I can dig up the history / background I wrote for the world [Edit: I did!] -- basically it's your standard Tesla-tech versus bug-eyed monster extravaganza.)

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