Mary, Andrew, and Emily are sitting down for a session of Power Fudge. Mary is the game master (GM), while Andrew plays Tim the Enchanter, a wizard who focuses on fire magic, and Emily plays Agent Smith, a cybernetically enhanced secret agent.
Mary (Game Master): "Okay, if you remember from last session, a rash of violent murders had occurred; your investigations uncovered that a horrible demon had perpetrated the murders, and that a demonologist had summoned it. You tracked the demonologist down to a nice home in the south-east of the city, outside of which you're currently sitting in a dark car. The house is a nice, little suburban home with a white picket fence, manicured lawns, and closed blinds on the window. A small bicycle rests against the porch, and a football lies in the grass."
Andrew (Tim the Enchanter): "A bike and a football? Aww, that means there's probably kids inside."
Game Master: "That's a fair assumption. So what do you guys do?"
Emily (Agent Smith): "Is it a two story house, by chance?"
Game Master: "It is."
Agent Smith: "So, Tim, I could probably boost you onto the roof, so you could sneak in one of the upstairs windows…"
Tim the Enchanter: "Or, we could just go up to the door and knock. No need to go in guns blazing yet."
Agent Smith: "I mean, sure… but… there may be a demonologist in there. Or a demon. But ok, we'll go knock on the door."
Game Master: "Excellent! You both exit your car and walk up to the porch. One of you knocks on the door. A moment later, you hear the pitter patter of little feet inside, and the door swings open. A cute little girl with pigtails, in a cute little dress looks up at you and smiles. 'Hewwo,' she says in her cute little girl voice."
Agent Smith: "I take a step back. I don't like this."
Tim the Enchanter: "I look down at the little girl and smile back. 'Hi sweetie,' I say. 'Is your dad home? He asked us to come see him.'"
Game Master: "The cute little girl nods happily. 'He in da basement,' she says, 'I show you where it at."
Agent Smith: "Man, I don't like the feel of this."
Tim the Enchanter: "Me either, but I'll go ahead and walk into the house."
Agent Smith: "Sigh. Yeah, me too."
Game Master: "You both walk in, and the cute little girl hums a little ditty as she closes the door behind you. Suddenly, the humming changes a bit; it gets deeper in tenor and more growly."
Tim the Enchanter & Agent Smith: "I turn around."
Game Master: "The cute little girl is changing before your eyes. Her skin is darkening as she grows in size. Her clothes rip as she changes, leaving tatters of cloth wrapped around her monstrous form. Fangs sprout from her gaping maw, and her cute little hands become wickedly barbed talons. In the span of about 3 seconds, that cute little girl has become a rampaging demon! What do you do!?"
Agent Smith: "Holy crap! I take a couple of steps back and draw my gun."
Tim the Enchanter: "Oh no! We're inside a house! My fire magic is useless here, unless I want to burn the house down!"
Agent Smith: "You might consider that!"
Game Master: "Ok, we're going into combat now, Agent Smith and Tim the Enchanter against a monstrous demon in the living room of a suburban home! Let's do this…"
Continued…
