This is going to be really short, both on account of my having lost a good deal of the cards (oops) and having waited so long to do this write-up (don't assume internet access on trips, FYI). So. My bad on that.

Aug 23rd: Fiasco.

Players: Megan, Eddie, Sam, and Brian (I believe? Let me know if I missed anyone/spelled names incorrectly)

Playset: The Wild West

Characters:

PCs:

Da Wang, a Chinese opium dealer with a group of Native American bandits courtesy of -

Madame Dupin, the Native American woman who married Wang and brought most of her wandering tribe with her.

Jack "Dandy", an old, opium addicted gunslinger who's toting around a baby

and

The mayor of the small town we claimed as our play setting.



We started off with some really interesting stuff during the set-up, including a 'mail-order bride and spouse' and 'current spouses' relationships involving the SAME PC, and the involvement of a baby and a bandit's hide-out. As Fiasco games are wont to do, the entire thing led to shenanigans and gambit-colliding, including multiple people out to kill the sheriff of the town, hired assassinations, baby stealing, violent and backstabbing prostitutes with guns, a fake marriage with the exceptionably gullible mayor, and, in one memorable scene, the hiring of a group of racists to attack the Native American group, only to have them avoid harming the leader because he was ethnically Chinese. On the down-side, I don't recall anything being set on fire.

I think the game went well, though I also think it could have gone better and a lot of that was down to it being my first time facilitating anything. I've definitely learned a lot, and want to thank everyone for bearing with me as we muddled through the rules a bit!