Emergent Game playtest at BARG #3 – Here’s Nikki Pugh’s account of the Emergent Game playtest in The Lamp Tavern the other week. It was a brilliant game, where we all gained soft, cuddly toy alter-egos whose characters we shaped to interact with everyone else’s, writing each other postcards and setting group tasks.
The undoubted star of the show was Nick Lockey’s bloodthirsty Milo, who took a nasty shine to Ben Whitehouse’s soft touch octopus George:
When we were set a group task of taking other characters on an outing, my trouble-making bird Bobbity couldn’t resist taking the pair of them to the local abbatoir. Milo had fun but George seemed a little on edge:
The most interesting task was set by Michael Grimes, who asked us to all swap characters. None of us could do it – I personally felt I’d injected far too much of myself into Bobbity to be able to. Also, there was a question over whether that might break the whole game – would the points we’d earned thus far go with our characters to our new owners?
However, although we didn’t want to part from them that didn’t mean we weren’t capable of hurting them. When Milo instructed us to give our characters a haircut, Bobbity got a little nick:
But that was nothing compared to the poor snail’s Van Gogh-style makeover:
