Hey Guys! So...This Adventure we segway into is an actual Adventure from the TMNT RPG and Adventure that I've learned has a really interesting history, it wasn't in the first edition of the rulebook, I could explain it, but I think I'll copyand paste the Cracked article on it verbatim because it's hilarious
"In the first edition of the game, characters that underwent trauma had to roll dice on a neurosis table to find out what long-term mental damage had been inflicted. This could be something cartoonish like suddenly being afraid of animals (presumably, they'd just start screaming whenever they looked at their own hands), or something slightly more disturbing like becoming sexually attracted to corpses. We think we missed that episode; was it before or after Mikey battled the pizza toppings that came to life? And, yes, homosexuality was lumped in there with stuff like pedophilia and dead-people-buggering, as a gentle reminder that the past was a shithole. At least they specified that a gay character could turn heterosexual if they had a traumatic brush with death, possibly caused by a laser. Don't let the religious right know that! As most players (we hope) were more interested in anthropomorphic martial artist animal action than dealing with Raphael becoming a sexual exhibitionist, there was some fan outcry. The game's publisher removed the mental illness chart from later editions ... only to replace it with something even darker. The updated version included a detailed scenario where a group of farm animals get radioactive cattle feed and mutate. So, do the turtles need to beat them in a tractor race? Not exactly. The animals, led by Ferd The Bull, take a hundred schoolchildren hostage and threaten to kill a child every hour unless their demands are met. Was this game used to train FBI negotiators?"
So while the idea of the Boys in a tractor race with some Mutant farm animals is hilarious -I don't think Cracked gets that it's not supposed to be the TMNT fighting the bad guys it's the players OC Mutants-This scenario is the obvious one to use given that our heroes are looking for a Mutant Goat.
As Emerald clung tightly to Leo's shell as they began their serch, She felt the frosty New York wind on her face and her tail felt like it was floating on the breeze as Leo lumped between skysrapers, Emerald's felt her blood race a bit everytime they were jumping in between two buildings and Emerald saw how far she had to fall, but never once did Leo lose balance or falter, as she watched the beautiful lights of the City, she slowly forgot about her purpose, what she was looking for in the first place, her mind meandered thinking romantic thoughts, It was at that point she started losing her grip.
"Whoa!" Leo said as he stopped and moved to catch her "Emerald are you all right?"
"Yeah." Emerald said "My hands were starting to feel frostbitten..."
"Man," Leo said "This cold is really doing a number on you, we better warm you up quick."
Leo slowly lowered himself down a fire escape and down in the alley below was a vent in the pavement, great plumes of steam was rising from it.
As Emerald slowly warmed up, she felt a greater liking for Leo then ever before.
As the rest of Leo's brothers followed Don said "This is getting us nowhere! We at least need some inkling of where to look for this Goat!"
Don remembered what Emerald had said about 'Character Creation' and how they determed everything about their Mutant Forms by random dice rolls
Don approached Emerald, "Think Emerald!" He said "When your sister created her 'Chracter' d you know anything that could give us info on where to look."
Emerald thought back to character creation "Well..." She said "Sue's character was created by...Deliberate Experimentatiation, where mine was created by..." And she was quoting the book verbatim here "...Accidential encounter to some strange stuff."
"Deliberate...Experimentation?" Mikey said he was already not liking where this was going, were they going to have to break this Goat out of a Lab? A Lab like Bishop's or Stockman's?"
Just then the screech of police cruisers broke everyone's train of thought, the Turtles moved to hide but with the steam covering them and the Cops focusing soley on the road in front of them, hey were in no danger, at least five police cruiser sped past.
The Turtles and Emerald slowly exited the alley and stood in from of an electronics shop where in the window at least a dozen TVs were stacked on each other playing the local news.
"What the shell was that about?" Raph asked
As if an cue, the truth was revealed to them via breaking news
"This just in!" Said the Anchor "The terrorists who have taken hostage an entire schoolhouse on Rural Route 5 are now coming out to be interviewed.
"Holy shell!" Mikey exclaimed
"Terrorists taking a schoolhouse hostage?!" Don exclaimed "When...When did this happen?!"
The News cut to the scene where a young female reporter was standing at the scoolhouse in Upstate New York.
"This is Delia Johnson on the scene." Said the Reporter "One of the terroists calling himself 'The Liberator' has demanded that no one approach the building, the power and telephone lines remain intact, and that food is to be delivered to the front door he has also demanded there is to be a LIVE news confrence with cameras at 6:00...I think he's coming."
Out of the school house along with six terrified school children was a massive Mutant Bull!
The Turtles and Emerald gaped, they had never seen anything like this before!
All the reporters got their microphones at the ready.
"Shell." Raph said "You think the Goat we're looking for is involved with these Jokers?!"
"Raph!" Leo snapped "We need to hear what's being said!"
The Mutant Bull spoke in a very slow, plodding, bovine voice, it was at times hard to understand what he was saying, but the Turtles and Emerald were able to make out for 6, 000, 000 Dollars, Two Helicoptors with pilots and transport to a remote Northern location, ifdemands were not met they would start killing chilren at 8 Am the next morning, a child will be killed every hour until demands are met.
At that point the Mutant Bull went back in the schoolhouse with six of his hostages.
More police cruisers rushed by and the Turtles and Emerald had to duck back into the alley.
Emerald turned to Raph "Do you really think my sister is with these terrorists?" She asked
"It's our best lead so far." Don said
"Even if she isn't..." Leo said "I think...I think we have to do something about this. This is being done by our fellow Mutants."
"We don't have much time." Don said "If we want to get to Rural Route 5 before the killing starts, we better hurry."
Tune in next chapter for the thrilling conclustion!