Saturday Night Live

We played more Gaslands last night, and decided to run the Saturday Night Live scenario, which we'd not ever done before. Once again we limited the game to 30 Cans and 1-3 vehicles only.

We ended up with five players. Two ran Scarlett Annie vehicles, both with rams. We had one Highway Patrol pair, a Rutherford gun-machine and I ran an elegant Miyazaki hover-car.

In Saturday Night Live the players are looking to rack up Audience Votes, either through their sponsor's particular mechanism or via randomly-determined, and ever-changing spot-prizes which involve declaring particular types of attacks, selecting particular templates or being in a particular state or position. This scenario is all about entertaining the mob.

We set up a relatively open arena.

Here's my car. It's a performance car with tracks and a smoke-dropper, plus a couple of nifty Miyazaki traits.

Jason's Highway Patrol. 

I didn't keep a details log of events. We destroyed each other, respawned and came back in to be destroyed again. Each team aimed to please the crowd in the ways that worked best for them; the Scarlett vehicles rammed to get in-contact wrecks, Highway Patrol designated enemy vehicles as their target and waited for them to die, Rutherford shot at things and I just danced around being elegant.

A near-miss collision. I was able to swerve in order to avoid the Scarlett Freeway Fighter.

I was less fortunate here - I got destroyed by the other Scarlett vehicle.

More collisions ...

... and some chasing around in the centre.

A chain of collisions.

In the end, the Highway Patrol destroyed (or saw destroyed) three 'bogeys, and picked up a few points elsewhere and romped home to a fairly easy win.

This was an entertaining scenario I'd like to try again, since it isn't always simply about either racing or destroying each other. My hover-car was fun to use, although I never got to use the smoke.