Deja Vu
Last night my Truth and Justice game came to an end. We’d played it for 19 months (from July 2005 until February 2007), with a 4 month break in the middle while I was in India. We had somewhere between 54 and 60 sessions in that time, with each averaging about 4 hours in length.
The game started with a scared girl who was a victim of life and the world, whose only friends were dolphins and a scatter brained old professor. She then became a neighborhood superhero, cleaned up crime on the streets, found her confidence, and had to deal with the issues that women who gain power and sexual identity in a media-blitz world have to face. From there she moved to a national then global level of power and influence, fighting ancient Egyptian sorcerers with the help of the sexy Darius the Great (known now as Sulieman the Magnificent), international crime cartels run by the Illuminati Immortals, Nazi cyborgs who were trying to nuke Greece, and something around 20 other major villains in plots going from dolphin brains in jars trying to melt the polar icecaps, to the PTS victims of a military mutant experiment trying to get vengeance on their abuser, to invasions of snake men from outerspace.
In the midst of all of this there was revenge, true love lost and found, sword fights, pirates, blowing up of major historical landmarks, ninjas, demon chicks, lost cities under the sea, ancient dolphin kings, race riots, friendship, betrayal, and sex.
The last arc of the story centered around DJ (Deja Vu, star of the show) finally using her precognitive powers to their full extent, and going all Professor X and trying to guide humanity to a better future than the destructive course it was currently on. After wars, murders, assassinations, alien invasions, a jihad in which DJ had to kill one of the men she respected most, and the mass uplift of humanity into post-humanity, the game ended with humanity breaking the cosmic egg, constructing a space elevator, and starting their millennia long exodus into the stars.
The final scene of the game was DJ looking down onto the cosmic egg of the earth, as whales flew by in space guiding humanity with their song, and the fist wave of men in their seed-like ships left from the top of the space elevator to begin the colonization of earth. With the color of prophecy in her eyes she said to the man she loved, with whom she was finally united and at peace for the first time in the series, “We will be well. In time, all will be well.”
It was a truly amazing game. T&J is a fun system, and one I highly recommend checking out. We did drift it towards the end, but its a system easy to drift, and the currency system of Hero Points helped us more than the dice in a lot of situations. Which for this very gestalty game was a real bonus.
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