ACN ‘04: Nine Princes in High School

In Slot 2 at Ambercon North 2004, I played in Jack Gulick’s Nine Princes in High School using the Teenagers From Outer Space (TFOS) game system.

The premise (from Jack):
Well, you could choose to play one of the “cool kids”. You know who I mean. Corwin or Eric, always fighting over which would be a better student council president or prom king or whatever their fight is this week. Floramel, the unquestioned ruler of the school’s social scene. Benedict, upperclassman captain of the school’s championship fencing team. Random, the shadowy rebel who never quite leaves behind enough evidence to get expelled. The whole bunch.

Or you could be one of countless other students. Amber High attracts all kinds, even a few transferred from cross-town rival Community Hyper-Advanced Objective School, a strange experimental school where all the frighteningly brainy and really weird kids in town go. Which isn’t to say there aren’t plenty of weird kids at Amber High.

I can’t remember all the characters, but I do remember that I had fun playing Benedict. One of his powers was that he was irresistibly cute to CHAOS girls, and he spent most of the game hanging out with the Dara character.

There was Stewie from The Family Guy, a tall skinny version of Hellboy, Julian the Hall Monitor, Caine the school pirate, Eric the acting student council president, and delinquent Deirdre.

We had to use dice. Giant foam dice. Eventually we rescused Principal Oberon from CHAOS and destroyed their mascot. Caine won the award for most-poorly-timed betrayal.