The Drunk and The Ugly

Following yet another week in the hospital, the kids start making their way to the Florida Everglades.  Cash has started to get tight, though, and the kids have to make a stop in Summerset Valley and spend the end of their cash on a Super 8 room in the meantime.  Following a few weird antics, the kids head to sleep, only to be awakened by a knock from a mysterious stranger.  He doesn’t have much t...

ONIX MAN STRIKES AGAIN, BRAD GARRISON GANG RUNNING RAMPANT Even in the midst of his reign of terror, the terrorist known only to the public as The Onix Man broke his cover and, with the assistance of a few accomplices, laid waste to a Gainsboro City Pokemon Center, bringing the damage total somewhere near $30 million.  There are also eyewitness reports of him leaving the scene following a full-sca...

Everett, Daniel, and the Monsters are finally nearing the end of their journey, guided by Robbie Drake, when they come up against a quite unexpected obstacle. Max, Talia, and Charlie are released from their stay in the Coolrat Funtime Chill-out Zone, and begin looking at options for escape. All kinds of chaos breaks out in the barracks (mostly nerd-bashing). Adventure, madness, and epic samurai du...

It’s 7AM on a Friday, and the kids are ready to get down. George has ostracized himself to the roof and his shiny new guitar, hoping that Condor will return. Scott and Emma have been growing closer as Emma recoups from her night of terror. The media circus outside of the Halfway Home has begun, drawn in by crazed reports of aliens and UFOs and the very real murder investigation. What’s on the agen...

On the park surface, Daniel, Prince Bos, and Everette have reunited and start to make a game plan to attack the heart of Sucrose Park and attempt to find / free their friends.  After a veritable gauntlet of challenges, they run into an old friend much sooner than they expected. Meanwhile, in the secret level, Charlie is released from the Coolrat Funtime Chillout Zone (TM) and is escorted along wit...

The campers had a run in with some weird kids last night.  Were they children?  They looked like children.  In any case, the scheduled hiking trip today turned up a weird little site in the middle of the campgrounds.  When one of the campers stayed there too long, she felt like she was being watched.  What’s going on here? PLAYERS Sam – Molly Weits.  Nerdy little girl with some artisti...

The kids of Leytley Creek elementary are off on an expedition to LaFey National Park, a nature preserve 50 or so miles from the city of Troy.  After a long drive, the kids jump off the bus and get ready for some wilderness adventure.  It’s strange, though: the birds are silent, and there’s nothing to catch in the lake.  Worst of all, the groundskeeper has gone missing.  Oh well, he&#82...

Alt Title: “Spider Queen and the Quest for a Better Watch” It’s been a few days since that fateful night and things are still busy falling apart. The police investigation unearthed Jingles from the basement and drew out Ty Soren from his room. The pool of blood triggered some deep instincts inside of Manny and sent him into a rage. Emma’s turned into a distressed dame and has been usin...

Max and Charlie awaken in a barren concrete room and are greeted by a robotic nurse which goes by the name of Ratchet.  She answers their questions (and ignores their attempts at wit), and informs them they will be given a new life of perfect happiness.  After an extremely brief survey, she gives Charlie a cowboy costume and Max a ninja costume, and proceeds to take them to their new home. On the...

Catman has been arrested for gross amounts of property damage to Gainsboro city roads and infrastructure.  The police were, however, willing to cut him a break if he could bring Brad Garrison, a local troublemaker and gang leader, back to the station.  Catman and the team joined together and (unfortunately) were defeated utterly by Brad’s overwhelming Pokemon force. In the chaos following th...

Following the grace of Daniel saving BattleTonia from certain Battlemageddon, the kids awaken in the convention hall with some very confused and excited Japanese BattlePet players.  They manage to escape in the confusion and continue on their way to Sucrose Park, making a late-night stop at a small town hotel.  Following much hijinks (and attempted monster cannibalism?), the kids get to Sucrose Pa...

The kids at Mrs. Frieda’s can’t seem to do anything right. Plans go awry, monsters get called out, buildings get scaled, and now the cops are all over the building. Then, they had a dream featuring the one and only Elder Dane. Simply put, things got real . The kids are awakened in the middle of the night by police officers. The investigation has begun. As they’ll quickly discover, there are severa...

Following recovery time for Daniel in the Sunny Vale hospital (after he and everyone else got beaten up by the Sentai Rangers), the kids move on with the Road Trip to their next destination:  Sucrose Park in Las Vegas, NV.  On their way up, the kids find a hitchhiking kid holding only an aluminum briefcase and a sign saying “RENO OR BUST.” After Donny picks the kid up, they find out that he’...

Things are falling apart at the seams in Crescent Hill, Pennsylvania. Gang or ghost, something is responsible for this chaos. After their horrible encounter in Room 6, Newman and Crawford are beginning the investigation in earnest. What lies in store for them?  The answers are rooted in events hundreds of years ago, and are more awful than they could ever imagine. PLAYERS Charlie – Officer L...

The kids managed to reunite Zoltron and the Sentai Rangers, but the meeting was not as sweet as they had hoped:  Zoltron was furious at the Rangers’ significant lack of effort to rescue him, and the Rangers became enraged at Zoltron’s lack of gratitude.  Zoltron and the Rangers split up and decided they all knew what was good for themselves. This did not, however, solve the problem tha...

Once again, the kids royally screwed things up on a Sunday.  After another service by a familiar missionary, the kids decided to meet up with him in the skate park to “talk.”  Apparently “talk” now means “steal a dude’s guitar and cheese it.”  The kids managed to get away, but they haven’t gotten the guitar back to the halfway house yet. In the cours...

The kids have found out that their monsters will be sacrificed as tribute to some kind of ultimate monster.  Their only lead on the case was pulled through a black hole into another plane of existence.  Fortunately, the kids stumbled across five bizarre and unique postcards from their recent contact Jack Blackguard alluding to various machinations of the cult. One of the postcards mentions Sunny V...

Two small town cops are called onto the scene of a strange burglary.  A wealthy old woman was the victim of a home invasion, but strangely not a lot of value was stolen.  Just one safe was opened and a set of antique knives taken.  The only thing remaining in the safe?  A single rusty stroke. PLAYERS Charlie – Officer Lewis Newman.  30s with a handlebar mustache.  Always wears shades in the...

School’s out for kids at Casimir Polaski Junior High in the city of San Frandiago, CA!  As the kids are leaving school and getting ready for summer, they receive some bizarre messages scrawled on the walls of their school.  While discussing various summer plans at the local Dairy Queen (apparently unfazed by the bizarre graffiti) the kids contacted by Jack Blackguard, a mysterious young boy...

So, Sunday has rolled around again in the halfway home.  The kids are awakened again for more boring Sunday service, though following their experiences in the last week, they are eager to see who’s going to give the lesson.  Much to their surprise, they hear a familiar guitar being tuned up downstairs.  Elder Dane is, in fact, back. After the very unusual service, George hits Elder Dane with...

Picture in your mind a far off time ago:  Before the AP Site,  the Podcast, and even back before this group existed.  Way, way back in December of 2010, Sean and I were playing Minecraft together, and he told me that he was interested in playing Monsters and Other Childish things.  At the time, I was running the Road Trip campaign for my friends nearby, and I had written a few side scenarios that...

The best and most popular viking metal duo “The Brothers McCraw” is marching their way across Europe, bringing music and/or violence to all of the countries therein.  Like any self-respecting metal band, they do an extended tour in Scandinavia.  However, a terrible storm creeps up on their ferry, forcing them to port at Dybis, a small and fairly rural island off the coast of Sweden.  T...

It’s late July at the halfway house, which is about the same as any time in the summer, except for the forgotten fact that Emma Vaerbond will soon be thirteen.  Mrs. Frieda’s not really one for ceremony, and Emma’s never been exactly vocal about the special day, especially since her “special friend” always likes to celebrate the occasion in his own way.  This year is...

Having solved the crises in Limeria Village, Joey, Catman, and Jackie resolve to go their separate ways.  Well, at least Joey hoped that he and Catman would split up.  Unfortunately, it appears that they were both headed north, so Joey (regrettably) decides to hitch a ride with Catman to the next town. Meanwhile, Isaac Collins, a fresh new trainer from Dunkelrot has made his way to Gainsboro City,...

So, the kids screwed up yesterday.  They went to go see a movie that Mrs. Frieda specifically forbid and were spotted by. . . someone.  When they had to hoof it, though, George decided the best way to escape was to call his giant firebird and fly back to the house.  In any case, Frieda knew that they went to that movie, and found a suitable punishment:  Helping out at the local LDS Church. During...