BadgeQuest - Cookie Selling Goes Dark

The Stat Sheet

• Adventure: Mrs. Mayfield's Secret
• System: BadgeQuest
• GM: Jess
• Player Count: 4
• My Role: Player (Maddie)
• Troop Number: Troop 613
• Cookie Boxes Sold: 15 (crushed it)

The TL;DR

• Had a normal day but then suddenly our troop mate, Emily, was missing
• Met a creepy, shady guy (bounty hunter) that we blackmailed for info
• Discovered a wolf pack of old ladies and crashed their cabin party
• Creepy bounty hunter vs. Werewolf Ladies + Kid Scouts showdown
• We ran off and saved the wolf ladies because girl power
• And STILL sold more cookies than Troop #666. What a bunch of losers.

The System

The game took place in the 90s which was nostalgic for the group as a whole. The way kids interact, especially a group of girls, was fun and relaxing even though we were hunting werewolves. Very camp, very whimsy. The system uses days, broken into a morning and evening segment, to move time forward.

The Brief

Dear Diary,

You won't believe what happened this week. Monday was a normal day of cookie selling. We went to visit Lily, the owner of the magic shop in town. Tuesday, I wanted to apologize to Emily's grandma for running through her flowerbed, but we found a bloody, murder scene with fur and a knocked over wagon with cookies on the ground. We called the cops and took a bunch of evidence to solve this mystery ourselves, mainly a picture of four women in town (they're all old). Later that night, some of us snuck out and found a crime scene where Emily was dead in the park.

Wednesday we had to skip school and figure out what was going on, so we went right to the source. The library. Nothing useful in the books, but the librarian helped us figure out who all the old ladies in the picture were. We went to go interview them, but they were all out of town. Turns out, they got some cabin up at the lake. Some of our troop ran into a creepy bounter hunter that called himself Ricky Jones (obviously a lie) and wanted to come with us to kill the werewolves. Oh yeah, he told us the old ladies were a pack of werewolves. HOW COOL IS THAT?!??!

Once we had a plan in place, we spent the evening selling cookies. We can't let our numbers drop just because we're saving the town. Thursday morning, we have Nathan (someone's sibling) drive us up to the cabin (we can't drive duh). The were-ladies tell us one of them can't get out of their werewolf form. We chant some weird latin mumbo jumbo to make the lady human again.

Then, the bounty hunters showed up. I threw firecrackers at the door. They dropped a gun, and I got it!! Then I shot it!! Only warning shots, because I am responsible. We fled the cabin in a jeep and made it back to town. Of course, we had to sell even more cookies afterwards. It was a lot. Anyway, I'm gonna go play games with Jazz. ttyl.

The Takeaways

Pros:

• Loved the camp and whimsy
• Easy to create a character
• Level up system is earning badges which is a neat thematic milestone system
• Fun restraints in playing as kids (don't have access to the same things)

Cons:

• Wanted a little bit more in the way of skills/special abilities with my character