twist hit. Following a Star Wars parody where characters tried to bring furniture back to the Millenium Falcon, there were team-colored wicker chairs on the field. Whichever team brought them back first would be able to choose their spawn side. The mission started immediately. I ran to staging, yelling for my team to throw on their goggles and get the chairs. My XO was still in sandals, but we still ran out for the surprise pre-game mission. The Rebels won and chose the far spawn for day 1, making sure we had to take the long walk on day 2.
All plans work perfectly until you have to run them. I sent a force up the middle to control the main path of the Rebel spawn. I sent a smaller force south to the Yeti woods to cover a back escape path. Almost immediately, I had players respawning from the woods. I sent a squad with radios to find out what happened. Enter twist # 2: SAS Yeti Squad. The Yetis, home fielders and constant award winners, were the third faction, controlled by Zac. Most terrifying of all was the Mandalorian, a hulking Yeti wearing metal armor and tied to another player by a rope. He was invincible. The only way to defeat him was to shoot his partner, who had a 6-foot shield. I thought about pulling resources off the
Yetis and sending them to dig in on a slapstick( which wouldn’ t be scored for an hour), but our first prop mission was to retrieve a piece of a lightsaber from the west end of the woods— the far side, past the Yetis, with the only alternate path running past enemy spawn. Thanks, Zac.
Somehow, we got the prop and I moved forces to the slapstick and to the north side of the field, where Angel’ s troops were starting to swing towards our base. The ref dropped Saturday’ s fanboy mission: there was a locked prop in Urban with a 4-digit code, we had to guess just by being a George Lucas fan, then retrieve the prop.
After a few more missions to the far corners of the galaxy to retrieve our lightsaber pieces, finding ourselves face to face with more Rebels and Yetis, my Sith apprentice( Ted Lundy) and I went to see the producer to activate his force powers. The powers were engraved on a chain of wooden tags, one power per tag. To use a power, the tag was pulled from the chain and given to a ref. Losing the chain on the field meant a loss of all powers. This limited the powers, made it clear when one was being used, and gave the Jedi / Sith an easy way to see how
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