Story Time 4: The Tale of Total Prejudice · 2:14am Aug 8th, 2013
Back in the previous FOE game, J2 joined our tabletop group. Being a fan of MLP and a reader of FOE, and while new to tabletop, he was fairly excited to join our group. He had an excellent character concept.
Total Prejudice.
Total Prejudice believed that Earth Ponies were the superior master race of Equestria (he may or may not have had a swastika as a cutie mark, and it was mentioned that racism was “totally canon” in FOE). He was built like an ox and dumb as a brick.
I was tempted to simply tell him to try again and create a new character because his character would have trouble integrating into the player’s happy, diverse, good guy party, but I allowed him to play the character.
At the time, the PCs were investigating an old power station. I had Total Prejudice crawl up out of a sewer with a stake tied to his leg, his hooves his only weapons (he was an unarmed character). He was recently taken by slavers, but using his immense physical prowess he tore the stake they secured him to out of the ground and escaped down a sewer manhole.
He came out of the sewer in a locked room with only a terminal. After an unsuccessful attempt at hacking (no surprise) he bucks the pitiful contraption for refusing to yield to his hooves of equine superiority. It explodes a little, and wounds Total Prejudice mightily, but fortunately, due to his ten endurance, he’s still kicking.
The other PCs hear an explosion from the basement and go down to check it out. They open the door with the security skill, and encounter Total Prejudice.
“So, we see a pony covered in refuse, wounded, standing over a broken terminal, and looking like a Raider?”
The other Players, knowing out of character what Total Prejudice was, were trying to find a reason to kill him.
Total Prejudice sees healing potions on one of the ponies in the doorway. He knows he’s been a little exploded and is losing blood. He struggles to his feet and says, “Inferior Unicorn, I require your potions! Give them to me!”
I wish I could say that Total Prejudice was gunned down then and there, but due to a Karma system, the players realized that killing a pony without proof that he was a raider could result in a Karma loss. This means he gets to live for another 5 minutes.
They continue to explore the feral ghoul infested power station, bringing Total Prejudice along. Shortly, they convince Total Prejudice to use his superior physique and walk down a dangerous corridor first. He brazenly proceeds, and promptly gets swarmed by Feral Ghouls.
Due to a critically failed attack, he gets shot in the back by one of the characters trying to shoot a ghoul off him. While smashing ghouls, he bears down on the party in anger. Stryx Taleweaver finishes Total Prejudice with a revolver bullet to the head.
I commend J2 for sticking in character, apologize for him dying in his first session, and have him create a new character.
Man, I wish I could get into more RP groups. They're a pill to get together. Still, stuff like this makes it all worth it, I say. Reminds me of the time a party I was in wiped out dozens of innocents because we were fantasy noobs.
I still laugh about that one, which probably says something about me.
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You mean you didn't take fantasy racism 101 before "Axing some questions"?
And its good to see that somebody actually reads these.
1292790 Nope.
I does kinda make me think differently about protagonists who get all morose because they felt like shouldn't have killed when they didn't have any other option, though. I just sit there thinking, "Really, now, you think offing that one dude was bad? Me and my party once waltzed into a village and started murdering everything just because we assumed they were evil and didn't even ask for information. You ain't got nothin' on me when it comes to killing those you shouldn't have killed."