Kids on Bikes

What is this?
"Kids on Bikes" is a Tabletop RPG (a storytelling game) designed to tell stories in the genre of Stranger Things, The Goonies, ET, and other great films! We built our own Small Town, created our characters together, and set the scene during our Session Zero, in preparation for our one-night adventure on Halloween 2020!

Cast

 * @mrhalfbit - GM
 * @SidecarStories - Jonathan "Jony Kicks" Nathaniel Fredrick
 * @mama_cass_ - Edith Wells
 * @Tuna_Sundae - Francis Muldoon
 * @mizz_frizzle - Stacey Abernathy

Alton, Oregon
It's the 80s. Small Town, USA. 3,000 people inhabit this corner of the coast, a corner that the recent wave of developers call "Up-and-Coming". Really, it's just another old town suffering at the hands of Baron Industries, the oil corporation responsible for the drilling platforms on the western horizon.

The old Cineplex attracted the most developer attention; they're turning it into a music venue. Nobody can agree what to call it, and everyone is trying to gain traction for THEIR name before the council vote comes up. The developers want to paste Mike Score's name all over it, bring in the out-of-towners.

But the town still aches from old wounds. 13 years ago, a freak accident (and many agree, it was certainly an accident) resulted in an enormous dynamite explosion near the building site of Mount Altmore. The explosion destroyed most of the unfinished destruction, along with the nearby dam. The ensuing flood claimed lives, livestock, and livelihoods, both in Alton and downriver. The surrounding forests, deprived of the reservoir, quickly went barren, and the town has been trying to clean up its water and its reputation ever since.

The Characters

 * Jonathan "Jony Kicks" Nathaniel Fredrick
 * "The Wannabe"
 * Age: 16
 * It's "Johnny" like Cash, not "Joni" like Mitchell. Say it right or don't say it. Jony just wants to get out of Alton and go where they're playing music, something new, something that will let him really thrash a drumset. As soon as he gets this old motorcycle built, he'll hit the road. He hates the music that Alton is famous for, but the rumor of the upcoming concert has produced a shocking change in his attitude - you'd never expect him to run for student president. Yet here he is, pasting up old newspapers repurposed as campaign posters. He doesn't care about the politics - in fact, he hates them - but the president gets a backstage pass to the rumored "Flock of Seagulls" show. If Jony can get that pass, just 10 minutes in front of a real band manager, real agents... That might be his ticket out.
 * Edith Wells
 * "The Reclusive Eccentric"
 * Age: 76
 * She used to be a Park Ranger, back in the day. She was close to retirement the day the dynamite went off 13 years ago, and although many consider her a hero for the lives she saved that day, she disagrees. Edith would just say it was part of the job, and she'd mean it. She doesn't get out as much as she used to, but she spends time with Francis arguing about conspiracy theories, and sometimes Jony will drop in to check on her. If she had her way, she'd be back out in the forests, tending to controlled burns, keeping people safe and keeping the woods wild. Because it IS wild out there...
 * Francis Muldoon
 * "The Conspiracy Theorist"
 * Age: 36
 * There ARE government spooks that visit the offshore drilling platforms, and they crawl all over Alton like ANTS if you don't keep an eye out for them! Francis proudly paid five dollars for the Singular Fortean Society to mail him a membership card, and he proudly sends them all his "journalistic works" - charting the movements of the agents infiltrating the city, tracking cryptids in the woods, and forecasting alien abductions. He's an avid hunter of all things weird, which has made him a bit of an outsider in Alton. Edith will follow him as far as talking ghosts on the porch, but Francis works his tireless surveillance solo. One of these days, it may turn up something REALLY big...
 * Stacey Abernathy
 * "The Popular Kid"
 * Age: 17
 * Squa Squad! GoooOOO SEAGULLS! Stacey is competitive, driven, and if she's honest, always desperate to prove it. Her parents are town bigshots, and with great privilege has come great expectations. In addition to her 6 other accolades from just this semester, she WILL be the president of Mike Score High School Student Council, and she'll take it by a LANDSLIDE. That's her mantra, anyway. She'll need to devise a new slogan after cheer practice. Her classmates may shudder to think what would happen if Stacey got hold of some REAL power, but for now they'll have to contend with her ruthless campaigning and relentless school spirit. SQUAAAA!