PROLOGUE

The players are sent by Mad Old Granny Pootang to investigate Nuthatch, the Home for the Toonishly insane, situated somewhere Outside of Town. Once there, they are supposed to find The NECRO-COMICON before Twisted ‘Chuck’ Dexter has gained mastery of the Verbal Boggle Shtick.

A PLICK THOT

Mad Old Granny Pootang is a distant relative of one of the players and she summons the party to her apartment at the Home for Mad Old Codgers, with a dire warning!

She explains that while drinking her tea on Wednesday, after bridge and before elevenses, she happened to read her tealeaves and now believes her archrival, Twisted ‘Chuck’ Dexter, has discovered a rare copy of The NECRO-COMICON in the library at Nuthatch, the Home for the Toonishly insane.

It is now Saturday and it is imperative that the players get the book before Twisted ‘Chuck’ Dexter does and return it to the comparative safety of Mad Old Granny Pootangs’ knitting basket.

MEANWHILE…

Twisted ‘Chuck’ Dexter has already found, and begun to experiment with, The NECRO-COMICON. Having infiltrated the Home for the Toonishly insane while posing as a doctor, using his quick change/disguise shtick. He has inadvertently summoned three weird twisted beings and one weird twisted dimensional being, all of which are roaming Nuthatch happily boggling its residents, and is working on the final dreadful pun that will make him ‘All Powerful!!!’

SECRET 1:

Twisted ‘Chuck’ Dexter will gain the Verbal Boggle Shtick, at level 9 just as the players arrive at Nuthatch, home for the toonishly insane.

Verbal Boggle (5 pt. Shtick)

Verbal Boggle gives its recipient amazing vocal powers. With a successful shtick roll and a high-pitched scream, a boring lecture or some horribly profane swearing, any (or all) listeners within 40' will be Boggled! This has no effect on characters that are stone deaf or have plugged their ears.

SECRET 2:

The NECRO-COMICON is a book full of bad jokes, horrible puns and weird, twisted beings from another dimension. If a player guesses the punch line of a joke from the NECRO-COMICON they instantly gain a plot point. If a player guesses three punch lines a weird, twisted being will materialise. With research they may also be able to learn the Verbal Boggle Shtick, this will require the player to guess nine punch lines.

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