Scenic nsburg

Credits

Written by John Peters (john_p_peters@yahoo.ca)

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The playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by

Bully Pulpit Games.

This playset is copyright 2017 by John Peters. This is version 1.0,

last updated September 9, 2017.
Fiasco is copyright 2009 by Jason Morningstar. All rights reserved.
Qwerpline is copyright 2015-2017 by LoadingReadyRun. Used
without permission. Please don't send the Girl Scouts after me.

For more information of about Fiasco or to download other

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The Score
Setting in brief
Welcome to scenic nsburg, your everyday small town where the
citizens are crazy, the traditions are bizarre, and every night the
raccoons grow ever more bold and ravenous. The hosts at QWRP
FM may be sane, but everyone else has a tenuous grasp of reality at
best, and are determined to make their mark on Therpston County.

Television Night
WKRP in Cincinnati, Northern Exposure, Parks and Recreation

Designer Notes
nsburg as a setting is not as violent or dark as your usual Fiasco
fare. I highly recommend using the Soft Tilt and Soft Aftermath
rules found in the Fiasco Companion. That said, if sending
someone like Richter through the woodchipper is your idea of a
good time, then by all means, use the default rules.
Before playing, decide as a group if you want to play or include
characters from the show, or instead use only original characters.
Many of the Details (especially Locations and Objects) reference
specific moments from the show, but don't feel constrained by what
"canonically" happened, and feel free to creatively reinterpret what
you pick.
This playset is untested and I'm in dire need of feedback (I've got
friends who like Fiasco, and friends who like LRR, but the
intersection of those two sets is empty). If you've played a session,
or if you see something that could be improved, contact me at
john_p_peters@yahoo.ca. Thanks, and enjoy!
Relationships...
1 Family
1 Cousins
2 Father/Mother-in-law and son/daughter-in-law
3 Young couple, newly in love
4 Old couple, long out of love
5 Host and out-of-county relative
6 Related, but you don't know it

2 Acquaintances
1 Long-standing grudge
2 Canvassing for conflicting causes
3 Competing for Brown Tuesday bargains
4 Swapped houses in the biquarterly Property Lottery
5 Commute together on the Secret Pipesmen's Culvert Taxis
6 Used to be in Berg Scouts together

3 Civil
1 Bureaucrat and disgruntled citizen
2 Candidates for the same position
3 Both volunteer for nsburg Crime Stallers
4 Members of the nsburg Arts Council
5 Volunteer firefighter and for-profit firefighter
6 Members of the municipal planning department
4 Members of the same organization
1 The Secret Pipesmen
2 nsburders Brown Thrum Conservation Society
3 nsburg Primal Scream Therapy Men's Choir
4 Sigma Theta Naka Sorority and Dojo
5 nsburg OmniUnion
6 Tenth Consolidated Church

5 Work
1 Permanent employee and intern
2 Huckster and potential customer
3 Neighboring stalls at the Harvest Festival
4 Rival entrepreneurs
5 In the family business together
6 Helicopter pilot and lowly ground dweller

6 Recreation
1 Sideball coach and former sideball coach
2 Runners in the nsburg marathon
3 Fan and dancer in Mary O'Flahrety's Lairy Disparity
4 Both part of The Midnight Sun (a prog-rock band)
5 Judge and entrant in the Pykrete Carving Contest
6 Amateur actors in a community theatre production

...in Scenic nsburg

Needs...
1 To improve nsburg
1 ...by educating the populace
2 ...with your bold ideas for a capital works project
3 ...with your considerate acts of charity
4 ...with your sublime artwork
5 ...by uniting everyone behind a single cause
6 ...the way you want, and damn everyone else

2 To get out
1 ...of a crushing debt (monetary or otherwise)
2 ...of an obligation
3 ...of this terrible job
4 ...of a relationship gone sour
5 ...from under their thumb
6 ...of this town and away from its crazy inhabitants

3 To get even
1 ...with the Girl Scouts and their extortion racket
2 ...with your athletic rivals
3 ...with those idiots on city council
4 ...with all those who've always ignored your advice
5 ...with your neighbor, for all the crap they do
6 ...with those jerks at QWRP for not taking you seriously
4 To get rich
1 ...from your deal with the Town Hall (either one)
2 ...with your homegrown business
3 ...off your new invention
4 ...by risking it all
5 ...with a plan that couldn't possibly fail
6 ...before these rubes figure out what's really going on

5 To get nsburg-famous
1 ...for your predictions of imminent doom
2 ...by doing what they all said couldn't be done
3 ...in your moment of athletic glory
4 ...for your latest historical findings
5 ...by asking the hard-hitting questions
6 ...for your latest and greatest prank

6 To find happiness
1 ...in your new job
2 ...at the expense of others
3 ...in your hobby
4 ...by pursuing a romantic liaison
5 ...by proving your superiority
6 ...in something not entirely legal

...in Scenic nsburg

Locations...
1 Downtown
1 The town hall (municipal building)
2 The "town hall" (pool hall)
3 The QWRP radio station
4 nsburg Community Pool
5 nsburg Recycling Center
6 Little Belgium

2 Points of Interest
1 nsburg Historical Rum Tunnels and Car Wash
2 Frampton Downs Nature Park
3 Schloooooooooooooooop Tubes Family Fun Water Park
4 The Infinite Crab Legs Experience
5 Raster Heights Sideball Oval
6 The Murder Hallway (nsburg's new meditation hallway)

3 Residential
1 QWRP's studio closet
2 The Highway 3 Spite House
3 A run-down house in East Sump Acres
4 A four bedroom house in Raster Heights
5 Rusty Spline's Retirement Home
6 The Baskerville Mystery Mansion
4 Commercial
1 Raymond's Talc Barn
2 Johnny Jensen's All-You-Can-Eat Technically Meat Buffet
3 Nattering Pines Shopping Mall
4 Dee's Discount Pet Shop
5 The Novel Hovel
6 Dragon's Landing Gaming & Comics

5 Seasonal
1 The Shaughnessy River II
2 nsburg Harvest Festival
3 Bumper Crops' Farms' Corn Maze
4 nsburg Community Ice Rink (not for ice fishing)
5 The March Marchness Parade-Off
6 The Running of the Nsberries

6 Therpston County
1 Old Wives' Peak
2 Jewelsburg Motor Oval
3 University of Chuffield
4 Old Blowey, the Therpston blowhole
5 Camp Melanoma (on the shores of Lake Indian Name)
6 Lair of the Dogeman (nsburg's famous cryptid)

...in Scenic nsburg

Objects...
1 Traditional
1 The annual Secret Pipesmen's time capsule
2 Old Country peach jam (made with imported centipedes)
3 City council's ceremonial blunderbuss
4 A turduccoon (raccoon inside a duck inside a turkey)
5 The Fourth Quarter tree (doused in kerosene)
6 nsburg Community Theater's rat costume

2 Everyday
1 Swamp Leg ointment
2 The QWRP mobile broadcast van
3 A package of nsburg Girl Scouts cookies
4 A library book on Catalan
5 A Berg Scouts merit badge
6 A sideball draft card

3 Dangerous
1 A kiddie pool just filled with loose razorblades
2 The Sun Funnel, or "Sunnel" (solar-based heat beam)
3 A durian
4 A full serving of Sri Lankan Weeping Curry
5 A sample of Sprontium-13 (newly discovered element)
6 A Nepalese Snake Vise (plant banned in 205 countries)
4 Valuable
1 Foreknowledge of this week's lotto numbers
2 The tiara of the nsburg Harvest Festival's Turnip Princess
3 A bag full of cash (only legal tender in Therpston County)
4 An out-of-print book ("Hit the back door, Tugger Nutts!")
5 An overlooked property deed
6 A scratch-n-sniff lottery ticket

5 Not-so-valuable
1 A bottle of organic perfume ("Vanilla Muskrat")
2 A handmade dream catcher
3 A prize-winning radish (about a foot long)
4 "Jesus Cristo" (20-foot tall corn husk statue)
5 A macram nightgown
6 "Serfs Up! the Game of Human Ownership" (board game)

6 Just Plain Weird

1 A turd kettle (used in the production of biofuels)
2 A sculpture made out of organic cabbage
3 Login credentials for Twich account "theshamegranny"
4 An unpublished poem by nsburg's Poet Laureate
5 A power loom (possibly sentient, undoubtedly hostile)
6 Backwards Coffee ("Did you know a Keurig can bleed?")

...in Scenic nsburg

A Scenic nsburg
Insta-Setup
Relationships in your setting
For three players...
- Acquaintances: Competing for Brown Tuesday bargains
- Civil: Members of the municipal planning department
- Members of the same organization: The Secret Pipesmen
For four players, add...
- Family: Cousins
For five players, add...
- Work: Huckster and potential customer

Needs in your setting

For three players...
- To find happiness: At the expense of others
For four and five players, add...
- To get rich: With a plan that couldn't possibly fail

Objects in your setting

For three or four players...
- Valuable: An overlooked property deed
For five players, add...
- Everyday: A Berg Scouts merit badge

Locations in your setting

For three, four, or five players...
- Commercial: Nattering Pines Shopping Mall