share your apoc world stories

hey all just finished my 3rd session of apocalypse world and i wanted to share some of the awesome characters that have sprung and and hear from you all as to some of the great characters that have made their way into your games

here is goes,

1.Frog the Faceless - frog is 6 1/2 feet of gangly crazy. he wears an old gas mask (that the player actually wears the whole session. how cool!!) and fights as a small gang with his machete. he refers to his mask as Missy and we've pieced together so far that she was someone important to him in his past but not much more about him. he abhors stealing but will sever a dead man's hand to get the ring he has. he keeps the whole hand and trades it all as barter. last session he attacked some raiders and chose to frighten and inflict terrible harm. as the man starts screaming at his now open stomach guts hanging out Frog begins to scream with him mimicking what he says. awesome.

2. Oliver the Savyhead. Oliver is the "normal" one of the group (strange i know) she has a greenhouse and refuses to open her brain to the psychic maelstrom after seeing the botched rolls of several other characters. she has recently shown a bit of a love interest for our Driver

3. Jag the Driver. Jag has a tank that is his baby and his first session ruined it by crashing into a rock to save a fellow member who he has bad history with. kind of our white knight. this last session was the first time he made any rolls in one of his cars to add their power etc (take away their stuff). he recently opened his brain along with our skinner to get a glimpse of the future. they saw a zeppelin that noone has ever seen before and assumed it was aliens. they began to scream and shout about aliens and cause a seen. still waiting to see him brake out of his shell a little. he definitely has the hots for Oliver.

4. Lavender the Skinner - Lavender is as sophisticated as a garbage picker can be with his busted out top hat and broken monocle. he has a soft spot for puppies and recently spent his two "choose a move from another playbook" to take moves from the "boy and his dog" book that is on the forums. his dog speaks to his telepathically and i had him roll +weird to see how strong the connection is he rolls a 5 and it's decided that the telepathic link is one way from the dog to him. and it's never filtered and always on. needless to say it's been fun playing the dog and the other character's responses to his one sided verbal conversations with his dog. also he is paranoid that the aliens will come for them all.

5. Doc the angel - doc joined us this session and has been the first to screw over any of the other players to save his own ass. he rolled 7-9's on a few acting under fire rolls and was given the choice to take damage himself or let someone else take it. every time he chose to fuck over the pc's. finally after saving our Savyhead from near death he attends to our Brainer who had deep brain scanned him earlier and botches several heal rolls to make it all worse. he's acting under fire and has another hard choice: heal the brainer and let him into his head again or let him die. it takes a minute and he chooses to let him die. Epic

6. Pity the Brainer - Pity wears a gimp mask with the eyes zipped shut and a shiny leather bondage version of the pinhead jacket from hellraiser. he has no compassion and it weird as fuck and funny as hell. he and frog has begun to grow close when they opened their brains together to the Psychic maelstrom. he requests that he is allowed to make one last weird roll before he dies to access the psychic maelstrom one last time. frog joins him and the two walk down a long black hallway towards a green-black swirling vortex of psychic maelstrom. as they walk pity regains his strength and they reach the end as pity stands tall. they share a very touching moment where we see the soft side of the Faceless. they finish their talk as pity walks into the maelstrom. very cool. best moment of all three sessions so far.

well that's the cast (six players seems like a lot but they all seem to be enjoy themselves). i'd love to hear some of the characters you all have had pop up in your games.

Remmun-

Welcome! Your best bet if you're really curious about everyone else's games is to sit back with a snack and a beverage and bust open any of the threads that start with: AP, as those are all of out Actual Play posts. Not everyone does them exactly the same way (some people list moves, dome don't, some post their love letters, etc...), but I guarantee you'll see something cool you wouldn't have thought of on your own in every single one of them. There's enough content to keep you busy for several weeks (and give you lots of awesome MC ideas)if you flip back through the archives.

-Jim C.

ok will do. wasn't sure what ap meant but i will definitely give it a good look over. i've really enjoyed being the MC so far. I've DMed for DnD before and this is nothing like it. at first i felt lost but i'm starting to get the hang of it. Vincent wrote a great game. it's been a blast.

thanks for the warm reception to the forums hoping to get more involved with the online community and it's nice to get a warm welcome :)

I'm playing the Duke.  Gunlugger.  I'm playing him as a grim feudal lord of the post apocalypse, with delusions of nobility.  The sight of his death mask is feared throughout ruined Detroit. 

The game I'm playing in, our characters seem to be as villain protagonists.  Specifically, the Duke participated in cannibalism (cooked up by Dr. Sundown the Brainer), broke the hand of a trader-envoy who wanted to marry his daughter, ripped apart a child gang, and raped a woman in the Hardholder's market.  (Understandably, the latter incident got our MC a bit squeamish)

We're really pulling out the stops to make our characters vile, reflecting the world that they live in - products of their environment.  Not something we planned, or normally play.    Wanting to start focusing on what makes the character somewhat decent and relatable. 

Also, a note:  there's a feeling of unrestrained freedom in playing the Duke, which is both fun and scary.   Looking forward to what happens in our next game. 

Dr. Sundown, the Brainer mentioned above, has been an interesting character for me to play. Deep Brain Scan and Puppet strings have been incredibly effective and very chilling. With my first advance I took Oftener Right, because that move is just fantastic when interacting with the other two players.  Aren't Dr. Sundown's advice and suggestions just so... reasonable? 

Dressed in surgical scrubs, complete with mask, he runs the local clinic with his adopted family.  He was originally purchased as an infant with the intent of harvesting him for parts, but he's convinced his Foster Father otherwise.

Dr. Sundown loves everyone.  He wants to get to know people, learn about them, plumb their depths and uncover their deepest, dirtiest secrets, so that he can cure them.  He wants nothing more than to treat the minds of all around him until they are shiny happy people holding hands. And in doing so, Dr. Sundown just knows they'll love him back. They won't have a choice.

Dr. Sundown is the creepiest brainer yet. Sounds like he and Duke maybe deserve each other.

Also, they both sound fun to play :) How many sessions in are you?