The Drunk and The UglyEngine Heart Archives

Engine Heart is a game of machines in a post-human world, published by Viral Games. In the shortest terms, imagine Wall-E the RPG. You can download it for free from their website.

Engine Heart: The Tricentennial – Character Creation

By drunkandugly | Published March 29, 2011

Part 1 of 3 of a spontaneous game of Engine Heart by Viral Games. If you are unfamiliar with Engine Heart (and don’t want to click the link), the basic setting is robots in a post-human world.

In this session, we create the characters that we will take to DC to solve mysteries in the Smithsonian in the distant year of 2076.

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Engine Heart: The Tricentennial – Session 1

By drunkandugly | Published March 29, 2011

Following a duration of wandering through the wastes, looking for any human life, APA079X has finally made his way back to DC to get new orders from the FBI main office. He crosses the border into the District and is greeted with. . . flags? Why are there flags everywhere? What’s going on at the Smithsonian? Why won’t this drilling robot shut the hell up?

These stories and more in our first adventure through the District of Columbia on the 300th anniversary of America’s independence.

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Engine Heart: The Tricentennial – Session 2

By drunkandugly | Published April 15, 2011

Following a long line of investigation (and deputization), the robots have come to Smithsonian AI Director #7, who apparently has information regarding the Smithsonian’s plot to take “One of Everything.”

Hijinks and stories continue in this conclusion of Engine Heart: The Tricentennial.

PLAYERS

Matt: KLEEN-SCRP-2455 (“Squeegee-bot”/”Detective Bronson”): General purpose cleaning and window-washing robot
Sean: TERRA-DRILLER (“Drill-bot”/”Detective Bradley”): Subway maintenance and digging robot
Nate: APA079-X (“APOX”) – General-purpose android. Detective of Human and Synthetic Crimes.

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Engine Heart – In Transit

By drunkandugly | Published March 3, 2014

On a long road across America, a motley crew of apocalypse surviving robots are searching for the last remaining settlement of humans.

Their journey is tipped upside down upon the discovery of a set of tire tracks outside of an abandoned town.

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Engine Heart: Department of Corrections

By drunkandugly | Published September 4, 2015

Four specialty robots activate in a small room. Their tasks drive them. They will carry forward, and complete what they were designed to do. While they’re on the way, they’re in for a wild adventure.