FRPG - 60s Swinger Club

[sir_schwick]

Spoiler What is a FRPG? :

Free Role-Playing Game. I use the term Free because there are not specific objective, game-mechanics, or even authority. The basic ideas revolve around characters of your own choosing interacting with the chosen setting. Elaborate stories could emerge involving intrigue, violence, or even just a good dance contest. About the only rules that exist are that player controlled or referenced characters have some sovereignty of their own. You cannot force characters you do not control or originally referenced to do action against the originators will.

60s Swinger Club

Imagine the dance club in Austin Power's and you have the setting. It will even be in London for good measure. I will be the owner and proprietor of this particular establishment. Feel free to try your luck with the employees, but I may occasionally have to override to keep the business running. Anyway, who comes into this particular club you may ask? Well virtually any character that could or did exist in London in the 1960s. Biker gang members, morally upright Anglican ministers, swingers, dancers, hippies, parliament members and beatnicks. And what kind of business did they have? Any, including finding the man that slept with their wife, picking up socialites, or international espionage.


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Surprisingly one of the most happening pads in the Free Love era of London was in Soho. John Locke's Pad was situated with its front towards a seedy alleyway. Its inauspicious door was always guarded by two of endless supply of Rastafarians that its owner seemed to find at a whim. A great many of the clients had trouble communicating with any of the guards heavy Jamaican accents. These are the first that anyone entering John Locke's Pad would have to encounter.

 

[Neverwonagame3]

I like the idea, but not the setting.

IC:
Leander leaned against the wall. His own life was boring at the moment, so he decided to evesdrop on others and see what he would hear...

 

[Perfection]

..he heard The Jerkinator say, "that Leander guy is total screw-up, I hate the grimey dork"...

 

[Neverwonagame3]

Leander began to get angry. He knew he wouldn't win a physical fight, but he was a bureaucrat, and as far as he knew the Jerkinator was at his bank. Time to arrange for a few bounced cheques...

 

[sir_schwick]

Satish had been a bartender at John Locke's Pad since the days when it was a posh establishment for parliament types. She had quite a few interesting affairs in those more structured times. The affairs still continued, but the years and effects of aging were changing the particulars. With the free love generation came its own unique brand of womanizer. Even though finding a sexual partner merely involved opening ones mouth, Satish found those that were particularly brash and hurried in their treatment. Maybe it was the heavy Punjab accent that made the men mistake her for 'Fresh Off the Boat'. A decade in English speaking London could not cure her of the frequent mix of her native tongue into everyday dialog.

However this story really isn't about Satish, it is about the man she has been noticing. He was the typical young white-collar Englishman. Tentatively he settled against the wall; never getting too comfortable even though it was unlikely he would get up soon. Many of the more 'proper' raised young adults of the city came to the Pad to see what this 'hippie' thing was all about. Eagerly they enter assuming this was a den of constant sexual encounters and drug use. While those things were integral parts of John Locke's Pad, they weren't as obnoxiously presented as one would believe from the picture shows. So in they come, expecting to instantly find whatever 'nirvana' is described by the dope fiend. Most just sit back, not really understanding the things they thought they would find.

Satish of course could not leave the bar to engage in her own hunt. Instead she wondered if the bureaucratic wallflower would approach the bar. Of course many other suitors would likely enter before the night was over.

 

[Neverwonagame3]

Leander, eying the Jerkinator, frowned and left the bar. He didn't really like the idea of going here in the first place, and had reluctantly. Now he had something to do- revenge to get...

 

[kill fire]

Kasual noticed that the Jerkinator was in one of his moods again so he decided to stay clear of him...