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Player-characters
Viper - human lunatic girl who loves explosives.
Ripley - half human/half Xenomorph, literally split down the
middle. She also has extending claws on her nipples giving her a
‘nipple attack’ (don’t ask!)
Trish - human Bounty Hunter.
The Phenom - Warrior (based on the Undertaker from WWE)
Bossko B. - total lunatic Trandoshan pilot and Martial arts
master
X - Sith apprentice, looks like Vin Diesel.
Adventure history
The Time Bandits are a group of agents who work to protect the
time-line from time meddlers. They can show up in any era of the
Star Wars universe. They are also all a bit mad!
WWE Wrestling
At the time we played this all players were huge WWE fans so there
are quite a few wrestling references such as Chokelams and the silly
WORM move.
Viper
awoke, handcuffed to her bed, in Time Bandit HQ. Her head throbbed
from her alcohol experiments the previous night. Her body ached in
places that made her smile. For a few minutes she lay there with an
inane grin on her face. An image of a tall dark handsome man formed
in her dreams, a though that was shattered by the dread though, "Urgh!
I hope it wasn't the Phenom!"
Opening her eyes Viper found her room
booby-trapped. Strings criss-crossed her room. If she triggered the
wrong one the bomb would go off. Viper grinned and started pulling
strings until her room shuddered from the explosion, but it wasn't
in her room. Well it makes sense to blow up someone else's room.
Suddenly a new sensation hit the pink haired punk, "I have to pee."
Viper grabbed a vibro-saw from her bedside
table and freed herself from the handcuffs. She couldn't use her own
bathroom because of last weeks experiment involving the toilet and a
grenade. The Bath was out as it was being used to mix a new more
potent explosive. The sink was out too, Viper remembered the last
time she tried to pee in the sink, she fell off, hit her and missed
breakfast. It was the communal bathroom down the corridor then.
Viper was about to step off her bed when she
noticed something out of the normal. Was it the dirty clothes
scattered about the place? No. The hap-hazard way that explosives
with the marking 'Warning: Handle with Care' were precariously
balanced in the corner? No. It wasn't even her dirty knickers
hanging from her framed picture of the A-Bomb. The floor. The floor
was covered with newspaper, with a bulge her and there. Then it hit
her. Last night, in her drunken state she had mined her room!
"Damn!" Viper thought. With extreme care, and crossed legs, Viper
tip-toed towards the door. Click!!! "Oh f....!!!" Viper dived to the
door as one of the mines exploded.
Meanwhile, down the corridor, Jakk and Pollok, two petty thief's had
pulled their repulsor-car alongside an open window of the building
and climbed in.
"Are you sure this isn't the Time Bandits place?" asked Pollok.
"Sure," said Jakk, "That place is a couple of blocks over."
"Good," said Pollok looking about cautiously. "It's just that I've
heard a lot of strange things from them 'Bandits. I saw one of them
the other day, doing the shopping. Must have been eight feet tall,
blue skin, and a skull face. Very nasty."
"Relax. There'll be no trouble here," assured Jakk, then patting the
large gun in his hands replied, "besides, we have these."
Viper
picked herself up, her pink hair slightly singed.
"VIPER!" Screamed out a vicious voice. Viper looked down the
corridor to see the half human, half Xenomorph Ripley marching
towards her. "You blew up my room!" Viper just stood there legs
crossed in nothing but her undies and penguin nightshirt. Ripley
grabbed hold of Viper. "WELL!!!"
Viper looked up at Ripley and giggled, "I gotta' pee." Ripley
growled.
"Hey," said Viper shrugging off the alien, "It's not my fault. I
went drinking with Jake the Snake and Oliver Reed. I was pissed. I
meant to blow up the Phenom's room."
"The Phenom is in his castle in Purgatory."
"Yes, I know that now. But I didn't know that last night when I was
pissed," snapped back Viper. "Oh, and another thing."
"What?!"
"I really have gotta pee."
As the two argued Jakk and Pollok rounded the corner. Viper, ignored
them, but started in their direction, the direction of the bathroom,
with Ripley close behind.
"Blast 'em!" shouted Jakk. Pollok raised his gun but Viper was
already on top of him. Viper snatched the gun from the thief and hit
him hard in the face with the butt of the weapon. Pollok fell to the
ground with a thud. Jakk shot towards Ripley, but missed, a pink
sludge of bubble-gum hitting the wall behind her. Viper looked at
the weapon now in her hand, "Bubble-gum gun, cool." Viper broke into
a run towards the bathroom leaving Ripley to deal with Jakk. The
'Bandit was not so lucky, Jakk, with more luck than skill hit the
half alien woman pinning her to the wall in a mass of bubble-gum.
With gun in hand, panites around her ankles, Viper sat in the
cubicle relieved at last. She picked up a spray can to add to the
already much graffitied wall. "PheNom HAS A sMAll ..." suddenly the
cubicle door flung open, kicked in by Jakk.
"Do you mind?!" screamed Viper, "I am trying to PEE!" With that she
shot Jakk with bubble-gum gun she took from Pollok. Jakk was stuck
to the floor. Viper walked over to Jakk, did a little knickers-less
dance, then punched out the thief. Pulling up her undies Viper
freshened up.
"Viper is a loser!" called her reflection in the bathroom mirror.
"Piss off!"
Vipers
reflection continued to tease her by pulling face and bobbing out
her tongue. "Will you shut up?" said Viper.
"Make me," retorted her reflection clenching her fists and
shadow-boxing. "Oh, I am so bad. I'm gonna' hit you so hard your
children will be born bruised." Viper retaliated and the verbal
assault went on between Viper and her reflection for several
minutes. Eventually Viper lost her temper and punched the mirror.
Viper then realised she had punched into the mirror, it's surface
rippling as she did. Her reflection grabbed her by the wrist and
Viper met her own gaze. "Oh f......!!!" called Viper as she was
dragged into the mirror.
Ripley arrived, still sticky, in the bathroom several minutes alter
after freeing herself from the bubble-gum. "Where is she now?"
Ripley thought to herself.
"She's gone, loser, so why don't you?!" called out Ripley's
reflection. Ripley turned to the mirror. Unlike Viper, and Bossko,
Ripley knew that mirrors didn't talk. Ripley looked around, just in
case it was one of Bossko B's jokes, only to be continuously taunted
by her reflection. Already angered by being woken up by being blown
up, followed by getting covered in bubble-gum, Ripley simply turned
to smash the mirror. To Ripleys surprise she is sucked into another
world.
For Trish, it's party night. Arranged to meet up with Tanya and
Britney, Trish adds the finishing touches to her outfit when she
feels a cold breeze. Reacting as most Time Bandits would her first
reaction is to look around for Bossko B. or Viper. Then she spots
what appears to be snow under her wardrobe door. Sure that this is
no Bossko prank Trish opens the door to be hit by a cold wind. Trish
pulls aside her clothes only to see another hanger of clothes she
knows was not there before. Curious, Trish pulls aside these
clothes, then some more, and some more. Before she realises it Trish
has walked deep into her wardrobe and soon the clothes become bushes
and there is snow underfoot. Trish turns around to go back, but
there is no way back.
"Great," Trish mutters to herself, "I push through layers of coats
to get to Hoth and never picked one up."
Cold, lost and confused Trish soon hears a noise and sees a Taun
Taun driven sleigh. A dwarf drives the sleigh, and his mistress, a
regal looking woman sits behind him.
"Hi," calls Trish, "Can you help me please?"
"Help an old slapper like you?" said the dwarf, "Ya' can fook uff."
"Now, now," said the regal lady. "Do ignore my driver."
"Don't yer ignore me ya' bitch!" shouts the dwarf.
"I can can help you," the lady continues. "Unless, you serve...
him!"
"Who?" enquired Trish.
"The false king. The lion who would... no, I can say no more."
"Sorry?"
"She means Azlan," shouted the dwarf, "Ya' dumb fukkin' bint!"
The banter, and abusive language, continued for a few minutes before
the lady instructs her driver to drive on. The dwarf snatches the
reigns and the sleigh disappears into the snow blanketed forest.
Trish wanders the forest, growing ever colder. She hears a noise,
and steps and bumps into someone. Feeling behind her she feels a
thick fur, and as she turns she sees a giant lion standing upright.
"You are lost stranger," says the lion in a booming, roaring voice.
"Let me guess," said Trish, "you're this Azlan fellow."
"I am Azlan, King of Narnia."
Bewildered, Trish listens to Azlan, a large talking Lion, and
discovered that only by walking backwards around the magic tree
three times could she get home. So off she goes and finds the magic
tree. Trish tries to perform the apparent simple task of walking
backwards around the tree, but she keeps tripping, falling into the
snow. On her fifth attempt Trish notices the tree roots moving, and
deliberately tripping her. Trish shouts at the tree in frustration,
only for the tree to shout back, leading to a heated argument
between Trish and the tree! Trish eventually gives up and, in a
strop, decides to make a snowman.
"Gosh, thank you for that," said the Snowman to Trish's surprise.
"Huh?"
"Thank you," the Snowman said again. "You have no idea what it's
like being scattered all over the ground like that. If there is
anything I can do to return the favour?"
Trish thinks about this, then explains her predicament, and that she
needs to walk backwards around the tree. Frosty, yes that's the
snowman, agrees to help guide Trish. As Trish walks around the magic
tree for the third time a doorway opens. Bidding Frosty goodbye
Trish follows the stairs down.
Viper
landed on a large soft cushion in the middle of a large plush lawn.
Ripley landed hard on the ground next to her.
"Ow!" complained Ripley, "That hurt."
"I'm fine," smiled Viper getting up off her soft cushion. They were
in a garden, large and well kept. In the distance tall flowers could
be seen, and the opposite end a large well kept old house build of
wood. Viper instantly took off towards the house with Ripley close
behind.
"Hello," shouted Viper banging the door hard continuously. "Anybody
at home. Fee fi fo fum I've come to blow your house up. Helloooooo..."
Ripley tried the handle of the large ornate door. The door was not
locked and swung inwards. Viper barged past into the modest entrance
hall. Ripley cautiously, and Viper without a care, explored the
house. There appeared nothing out of the ordinary at first. A well
kept house. Then a few things started to stand out. The light
fittings were modern tech and a synth-plast stool stood in the
corner of the kitchen. There was an impressive hall, with a gold
trimmed mirror filling the one wall, and the clothes in the bedroom
were exotic. The clothes were bright colours, more like robes, and
had glittering emblems of moons and stars. Suddenly there was a
creek as a wardrobe door slowly opened and a figure stepped from it.
Viper launched herself at it and threw a punch to the face. Trish,
who was emerging from the wardrobe reeled from the blow.
"Arrgh!" Trish moaned, "Viper! It's me." Viper threw another punch
catching Trish across the jaw before Ripley could grab her.
"It's Trish," said Ripley to the struggling Viper.
"It might not be," said Viper squirming, "It might be a demon."
"It's me Viper," assured Trish.
"Yeah, well a demon would say that. They're sneaky."
"It's Trish," said Ripley. "I can smell her scent."
"What?" said Viper screwing up her face, "Urgh! You've been smelling
Trish? Perv." Ripley released her grip on Viper but still Trish
raised her arms in reflex. Bored of Trish, Viper went down to the
cellar.
The power generator was odd to say the least.
A glittering orb of light over a meter in diameter seemed to be
giving off the energy that powered the house. It was hot and the
Time Bandits though better than touching it. Viper was the first to
find the wine rack and immediately cracked open a bottle most
expensive wine she could find. There were several small store rooms
littered with junk. Then Viper found a room with four doors stacked
against each other leaning against a wall. Without reason Viper
opened the first door and was pleased at the warmth. Gazing through
Viper could see an endless desert with twin suns overhead. Odd,
thought Viper, and she closed the door. Leaning the door against
another wall she opened the next one only to be hit in the face with
a freezing gust of wind and snow.
An explosion rocked the ground, an AT-AT
neared and a Snowspeeder roared overhead with it's lasers exploding
through the air but hitting the Imperial walker with apparent no
effect. Viper looked around and could see several soldiers bearing
the insignia of the Rebel alliance, with several Imperial
Snowtroopers bearing down on them. Armed with only the Bubble-Gum
Gun Viper opened fire at the Imperials. Two Snowtroopers hit the
ground covered in pink bubble-gum giving the rebels time to react.
One of the Snowtroopers saw Viper, standing in what appeared to be a
wooden doorway. The trooper fired his blaster rifle but Viper
slammed shut the door just in time. "Damn that was cold," said Viper
who was still in her nightshirt. Undaunted. Viper opened the third
door. This door opened into a dimly lit room. Viper could see a dark
metal superstructure and could hear a deep rasping breath.
"Take your Jedi weapon," Viper heard an old cackling voice say. "I
am unarmed. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey
to the Dark side will be complete." Viper peered around a corner and
saw a tall man in black with a black mask, a smaller man also in
black with blond hair and an old man in robes in a large chair
before a viewport looking out into space. For a moment Viper started
to raise the Bubble-Gum Gun in her hand before she remembered the
words of Balthazaar, the Time Lord head of the Celestial
Intervention Agency, 'Interfere, and you will be held on charges of
Time Treason.' To interfere would be exactly in opposition to what
the Time Bandits stood for.
"You're just lucky Bossko's not here," shouted Viper as she slammed
the door. Aboard the Death Star the three men glanced across the
room, sure they had all heard a voice, before the blond haired one
reached out with the force and a lightsaber flew into his hands.
Back in the cellar Viper opened the forth door. Suddenly Viper was
blown out of the door as the door opened into the void of deep
space.
"HELP!!!" scream Viper as she hung on to the door frame with her
fingernails. Ripley open the door into the room and had to react
quickly herself, holding onto the door to the store room.
"What the hell have you done now?" growled Ripley.
"Just help me!"
Letting the alien in her take hold Ripley's concentrated, then,
tentacles shot out of her nipples wrapping themselves around Vipers
wrists. Ripley pulled Viper back through the door and slammed it
shut.
"You," scowled Ripley, "are a fucking disaster area!" Viper stood
there grinning inanely like a naughty schoolgirl before pushing past
Ripley and running back up the stairs.
It is a time of uncertainty. The Jedi have defeated the Sith at the
Battle of Ruusan, but unknown to them, on an uncharted planet in the
Mid Rim known as Mondeon to it's inhabitants, a thriving Sith Empire
shies away from the galaxy. The Sith Capital, a city built into the
side of a mountain range, is a labyrinth of bustling streets.
Alchemists and Sorcerers sell their wares from shops, while in a
secluded sanctum Lord Valderdarkk summons a servant, a warrior known
simply as X.
"You
will go to the town and collect a special item for me," ordered Lord
Valderdarkke. "A mirror. The owner of the antiques shop is expecting
you. Now go." X nodded and left immediately on his errand, it would
not be wise to dawdle when you have been commanded by one of the
most powerful Sith Lords in the galaxy. The streets were bustling
with activity. X was soon in the market district, traders selling
goods from fruit to enchanted weapons. X took a small passageway but
soon found himself lost.
X then encounters Vicious Vile and the white furred wookiee Darth
Crush.
GM note: I'm leaving the details of this scene out because it's
impossible without a huge stream of very strong language. Vicious
Vile & Darth Crush are basically Jay & Silent Bob.
So, after much verbal abuse X soon finds and enters the antiques
shop. The items on display vary from old bookcases to ancient Sith
lightsabers.
"This is what you have come for," says an old voice from the back of
the shop. The old shop keeper hobbles forward with the aid of a
walking stick and indicates the mirror, currently covered in a white
cloth. "Wait here, I'll go get the datapad for you to sign." With
that the old man totters off to the back of the shop.
X curious pulled back the cloth to see his own reflection in the
resplendent mirror.
"Now there's a sour faced son of a bitch," said his reflection.
"Huh?" was all X could muster.
"Ah, screw the theatrics," said his reflection. His reflection
reached out and grabbed X by the arm pulling him through the mirror.
The three Time Bandits exited the house, Viper now resplendent in
one of the glittery purple gowns she had found. Trish, Ripley
crossed the lawn following Viper. Viper frolicked across the lawn
towards the giant flowers. After a short argument with the giant
talking flowers Viper headed off down a yellow brick path through
the woodland. Soon the yellow brick road came to a crossroads where
Ripley heard a noise coming from the side of the road. In a small
clearing Ripley saw a rusty protocol droid.
"I.. can't ... move," said the droid in a remarkably undroid-like
voice. Picking up a small oil can from the side of the droid Ripley
loosened the droids limbs.
"What the hell has happened to me?!" said X. "I am not a droid."
X told his story to Ripley who then noticed Viper. Viper was behind
Trish taking an unusual amount of interest in her.
"What's going on?" said Trish spitting out some hay. Looking down at
herself Trish saw her body was now nothing more than stuffed hay,
her hair was straw.
"THIS
HAS GOT TO BE VIPERS FAULT!" boomed a powerful voice from down the
yellow brick road. Walking towards the group, dressed in a pantomime
lion outfit was the Time Bandit Lord of Darkness, The Phenom. Viper
fell about with laughter.
When the group had composed themselves they decided it best to try
and find a way out of this world.
"Come on then," called Viper, "let's follow, follow, follow..."
"Viper," said The Cowardly Phenom, "don't you dare say it."
"Follow..."
"Viper."
"The..."
"I'm warning you!"
"Yellow.."
"Don't say it."
"Brick..."
"Last chance."
"Road," grinned Viper as she danced ahead.
"Why does no one never listen to me?" asked The Cowardly Phenom. He
got no answer because no one was listening.
The party continued down the yellow path humming a familiar tune.
The Path got narrower, and all of a sudden the trees lashed out,
their branches like claws. Immediately the party retaliated, except
the cowardly Phenom who, despite himself, ran away crying. It didn't
take Ripley long to tear apart the trees and soon the journey
continued with the path opening into a clearing. The grass was
nearly cut, and in the middle of the clearing was a small fountain.
Thirsty, Trish took a sip of the water. Upon doing so she heard a
soft voice say, "Make a wish." Not sure if this was for real or not
Trish wished she was back to normal, and in an instant she was.
Trish told the others and Phenom and X were soon both back to
normal. then Viper took a sip of the fountain... make a wish. The
party looked at each other in despair as Viper uttered the words, "I
wish... Bossko was here."
Suddenly their was a puff of green smoke followed by evil cackling
laughter as the wicked witch Bossko appeared complete with broom and
pointed hat.
"I'll get you my pretties..." cackled Bossko, "and your little Jawa
too." A Jawa materialised, screamed "ootinni" and ran off into the
woods.
"Great. Just what we needed," sighed Trish. Fortunately for Trish
Bossko jumped onto his broomstick and flew off.
"Cool," said Viper, then ran off down the yellow brick road.
After walking for around ten minutes the party found the road
blocked by a high wall.
"Look at all you peasants down there," called a voice from atop the
wall. The party looked up and saw a plump fellow sat on the wall. He
looked down then dropped something. An egg. The egg exploded as it
hit the ground forcing the party to dive for cover. "Take that,
peasants," called humpty Dumpty from atop the wall.
Ripley simply drew her blaster and shot Humpty. Humpty fell from the
wall, breaking as he hit the ground.
"Cracking shot Rip," said Viper, "it was eggsellent."
Ripley glared at Viper.
"You really scrambled his brains."
"ENOUGH VIPER!" shouted Ripley.
Suddenly a doorway opened in the wall. Looking through the party
could see a long road leading up to a huge castle. There was a puff
of green smoke and wicked witch Bossko was back.
"cuz I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it, come on..." he was singing.
Ripley, Trish, Phenom and X ignored him and started towards the
castle. Viper started to dance to Bossko's singing.
Viper and Bossko soon caught up, with Bossko still singing, "...he
came into your apartment, left bloodstains, on the carpet, Annie..."
Soon the party stood before the giant castle doors, and after the
obligatory "Mine," from Viper claiming it as her own. A deep booming
voice called out, "Beware the Door of Doom!" Everyone shrugged as
the door opened like a drawbridge. Bossko, Viper, Ripley and X
managed to jump clear but Trish and Phenom were flattened by the
door. The squished Time Bandits, slightly dazed, managed to crawl
out from under the door to find Viper in a fit of giggles.
"This is all your doing!" shouted the Phenom.
"Yeah, so?" said Viper, "Mr. Oh I'm the dead man I'm so scary, not."
With that the Phenom grabbed Viper by the throat, heaved her into
the air and chokeslammed her to the ground.
"And that's what YOU get for messing with ME!" said the Phenom. He
was soon interrupted by a heavy mechanical breathing.
Turning
around the party saw they were all now faced with the Dark Lord of
the Sith, Darth Vader.
"Oh you again," said Viper getting up, "didn't I kick your ass last
time?!"
"You have trespassed in my lands," said the dark lord, "the penalty
is death." With that Darth Vader ignited his lightsaber and strode
towards the group.
The party got ready to fight, with their weapons suddenly appearing
from nowhere. Trish and X readied their blasters, Viper her mallet,
Phenom his fist and Ripley her nipples! Bossko was still singing
Smooth Criminal. And dancing.
The Melee began rapidly, X was soon taken down. Trish cursed as one
blaster failed, but it made no difference, Vader merely deflected
her shots with his lightsaber, and even his hand. Ripley and Viper
put up the best fight while Bossko just danced, and Vader succumbed
to several heavy blows. But it was not enough. The Dark Lord fought
harder. Viper managed to duck past Vader and throw his own cloak
over his head blinding him. The Dark Lord swung out his blade wildly
and caught Viper across her mid section and the pink bit was down.
Vader threw off his cloak and hurled his attackers backwards.
"BOSSKO!" yelled Ripley, "We could really do with your help about
now."
Bossko B. joined the fight using a lightsaber he had taken from
Anakin Skywalker in an alternate timeline. Bossko and Vader duelled
but neither pressed home an advantage. Bossko tucked the lightsaber
away knowing he stood a better chance without a weapon, and the
fight continued. Trish and Ripley rushed Vader knocking him off
balance. As the Dark Lord regained his composure he turned around
where the Phenom had been waiting, hand raised high. The Phenom
grabbed the dark lord by the throat, just as he had Viper moments
earlier, and lifted him high before hitting Darth Vader with the
Chokeslam! Vader lay dazed on his back on the floor when Bossko went
crazy.
Bossko hopped round in a circle while shouting, "W... O... R...
M...!" Bossko did three swan dives positioning himself by Vader, did
three double sideways chops before chopping Vader across the chest,
then doing a little moon walk singing, "so Anni are you okay, are
you okay Anni? So Anni are you okay, are you okay Anni?"
Vader was enraged by the attack. He got to his feet and the clash
between him and Bossko B. was a fierce one. Bossko got caught by the
lightsaber, but from nowhere jumped into a powerful spinning
roundhouse catching Vader across the side of the face. Vader
stumbled, before Ripley stepped up and lashed out taking down the
Sith Lord.

The land faded. X was now back in Mondeon City, while the rest were
now safely back at Time Bandit HQ standing in the womens washrooms.
Bossko turned to Phenom, "You're in the girls toilets. You're a
girl." Then he and Viper ran off down the corridor to try and cause
more trouble!
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