From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
"Afterward, when we received our reward money and sold off all the salvaged weapons, it turned out that we had enough to buy an old bus and install a roof-mounted minigun turret with 360-degree rotation, and I knew then what life could be."
ReplyDeleteThat's an excellent story, thank you.
ReplyDeleteI need to know which editions he prefers before I can support his release, however.
ReplyDeleteParole Board: "You've made excellent progress here. Just one final question: how do you feel about Feats?"
ReplyDeletePrisoner: "I think they're a legitimate addition to the ruleset, allowing customization of builds that..."
Parole Board: "Parole denied."
/Dredd voice
ReplyDeleteMy favourite quotation: "He was beginning to understand that this wasn’t the relatively straightforward world of street-level dope dealing anymore; this was Dungeons and Dragons."
ReplyDeleteBack to After the Bomb, this guy's GM used the "Terror on Route 5" adventure from the main book in his AtB campaign, which totally works. Change the terrorist farm animals to Road Hogs. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me worried about the ego-destroying, crushing nature of prison. I mean when GURPS is a release... Also Minogangster is the best party member.
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