Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Clone Wars Campaign Recap Extra: The Slow Fuse

During the course of our long-running Star Wars campaign, I've often found it useful to write short pieces of "fan fiction" to provide some additional background or connective tissue to tie things together using scenes that, due to the nature of gaming, wouldn't work well "on screen" during gaming itself. Sometimes my beautiful bride contributes as well, and I edit the pieces into something that can serve as "canon." Here's the first chronological story, which takes place shortly after the events of Recap # 30.

The Slow Fuse

Nestled into the silk lining of the jewelry case, the string of extremely expensive and rare Mon Calamari seed pearls glowed with a luster that was pleasing to the eye. They were a dark blue, the most exotic and difficult to find. Stefan Cassadine regarded them with pleasure – thinking again how fine they would look against his wife’s pale white throat. He considered himself a connoisseur of priceless things, and she was the prize jewel in his collection…

His thoughts having turned to Arresta, Stefan checked the ship’s chronometer and confirmed that it was on schedule to return to Coruscant within the next standard hour. Having been absent for several days, tracking down two of the free lance bounty hunters who had expressed an interest in collecting the large prize placed on his wife’s head, he was returning to retrieve her from her sanctuary in the Jedi temple.

Had anyone else been in the room, they would have noticed his handsome face darken suddenly, as though something in his thoughts disturbed him. He had disliked leaving Arresta in the care of the Jedi, but circumstances hadn’t allowed tremendous flexibility – and the opportunity to have Arresta rid herself of that annoying Padawan had been too good to pass up…

He had known from the first moment he had met Arresta, then a beautiful but naïve student, that he had found a rare prize. At more than twenty years her senior he had certainly bedded other women in his life – but he knew that he had never met another woman more likely to match him in brains and skill. She had required polishing, but he had taken pleasure in knowing that he was crafting what he had never been able to find…a woman worthy of helping him create a proper dynasty….

In his youth, he had spent time learning to break horses – and it was always the most spirited beasts that proved the most worth the effort – and Arresta was certainly spirited. He hadn’t expected her to return to Mongui when her father called, but upon reflection, he had actually been pleased at her decision. He had known that her father was far more manipulative than she had suspected and he fondly looked forward to the day when she would return to his side, a sadder but wiser woman…

Instead, to his chagrin, she had been spirited off of her home planet by a whelp of a Jedi, a Duros with a penchant for plastic surgery, and an old man with a mysterious past. It had taken months for his contacts to track them from Mongui to Bothawui and then to the Ansion system and back to Coruscant, and by then, the Jedi had lured her into his bed…

Realizing that his fists were clenched, Stefan forced himself calm and sat back in his chair. He glanced down at the wedding holo he kept prominently placed on his desk. It reminded him that whatever her previous indiscretions, that Arresta had come to her senses and had accepted his marriage proposal. And of course, he could not begrudge the existence of the child…

It might have surprised those who did not know him well, to learn that Stefan Cassadine saw no distinction between a child of his own biological heritage and the one that his wife now carried. To Stefan’s mind, no such distinction existed. Arresta belonged to him – therefore, her child too, was his. In some ways, he was grateful for the ill-fated romance between his bride and her ex-paramour. Without the impetus of an illegitimate pregnancy, he suspected it may have been far more difficult to tempt his beloved down the aisle.

“Boss….we’re coming into Coruscant now.” Xam’s voice sounded over the comm channel and Stefan pressed the switch that would allow him to respond. “Very good. Let me know when we’re in range of the Jedi temple…I want to check in with Arresta.”

“You got it boss! It’ll be good to see Mrs. C. again….” Xam signed off and left his employer alone with his thoughts.

Stefan rose and began to pace his quarters impatiently. It seemed he had been waiting too long for this. Arresta had quite the talent for placing herself in danger, a trait he might have found endearing if she had the sense to choose the right kind of danger – and the right venue. He was quite hopeful that by the time the child was born, that he would be able to convince her to take up the mantle of the guild again, creating, as it were, a complete family business…

That was the other reason he had reluctantly insisted that Arresta remain in the Jedi temple while he was away. There had been something… unsettling… in her demeanor whenever the subject of Tarn Tamarand had come up. He had decided that providing her the opportunity to resolve the matter was prudent. Let the boy learn now once and for all that he was unwelcome and he would be a pest no more…

Or, at least you’ll learn how trustworthy your Pet really is… He pushed down the small, internal voice.

The console beeped and he found that he now had an open signal that would provide him access to local Coruscant channels. Keying in the coordinates for the Jedi Temple, he found himself on the line with a keen-eyed young Padawan, distinguished by the braid in her brown hair.

“Good afternoon. My name is Stefan Cassadine. My wife has been residing within your temple for security reasons while I have been off-planet. Perhaps you could be so good as to connect me with her room?”

The smiling Padawan quickly accessed her records, but to someone as well-trained as Stefan it was easy to see her blanch at whatever it was she saw. He quickly found himself transferred to a more Senior Jedi, a full Knight by the looks of it. The fellow took his information and placed him on hold.

After a long ten minutes, Stefan was impatiently drumming his fingers against the arm of his chair, but he had managed to maintain his state of calm. Eventually, a young woman came on the screen and introduced herself as Tyree Coramon, the Judicial in charge of the investigation that Arresta had been assigned to help with. He felt the stirrings of concern. He had thought the investigation a harmless pursuit, something to keep his wife from getting bored and getting herself into more trouble, but perhaps he should have investigated more closely…

On the screen, the woman was rambling on and on about some kind of investigation and a temple lock-down, but she was far from getting to the point.

“Ms. Coramon, perhaps you could cut to the chase? Where exactly is my wife?”

She hesitated, but then hurried on - speaking in the quick tones of one who knew her response would not be received well.

“We…uh…we don’t know.”

“You don’t know? How is that possible? I was under the impression that my wife was part of your special investigative team.”

“She was…well, she was supposed to be. But really, she didn’t seem that interested in it, although I would have thought she would be, given her connection to one of the suspects, but then, I guess we cleared him and his disappearance was really a separate, Jedi matter…anyway, she and her friends took off – we assume to go looking for him.”

Stefan felt his senses still and something of his inner rage must have shown on his face, because the Judicial looked at him strangely.

“Just before the investigation started, a Padawan went missing from the temple. He was someone your wife seemed to know, a fellow called Tarn...” Stefan reached out and snapped off the comm link.

He stood up and up-ended his desk. Opening a channel to the bridge, he commanded Xam to get in touch with all of their intelligence operatives, with orders to locate Arresta immediately.

Only then did he notice the rare seed pearls, scattered across the floor, the strands of the necklace snapped when he had flung them to the floor. Surveying the damage, Stefan felt his anger rise and he snarled one word. “Tamarand…”

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Last Issue Special # 16: Black Goliath


SERIES: Black Goliath

DATE: 1976

THOSE RESPONSIBLE: Chris Claremont (writer); Archie Goodwin (editor)

CATEGORY: PARTIAL SURPRISE

Black Goliath was launched in 1975, "conceived and written" by Tony Isabella, but taken over by Chris Claremont as of issue # 2. Today I think new characters tend to rack up a lot more appearances as guest stars and in mini-series before being granted the prestige of a solo series, but things were maybe a little looser back then. The eponymous Black Goliath has the ability to grow up to 15 feet tall--in other words, he's a goliath who is um . . . black (subtlety sold separately). I actually like the alter ego of the hero better than the hero himself: Bill Foster is a noted bio-chemist with links to the Avengers and Tony Stark. Unfortunately, Big Bill got himself offed during Civil War a few years ago, and this series' five-issue run in the mid-70s was his only solo series glory.

Black Goliath is a pretty standard super hero title, as thefts of nuclear materials by the villainous Atom-Smasher (whose powers seem identical to those of the better-known Radioactive Man) are thwarted, bank robberies by the Stilt-Man are foiled, and a break-in by some guy named Vulcan is kiboshed. A supporting cast is introduced (comprised of Foster's co-workers) and a classic Claremont unresolved subplot stretches through several issues (something to do with a mysterious glowing box). The only surprising thing is that Foster has a one-night stand in issue 2, definitely a rarity for the time period.

The last issue sees Black Goliath sent through a portal to a distant planet, where he has to survive alien threats and cobble together the means to return himself home (we don't actually see him make the trip back, but since he appears later on Earth in future comics, we'll have to assume everything worked out okay). A text box on the letters page is pretty matter-of-fact:

"Like many another mag in their time, Bashful Bill Foster's is biting the dust for that most basic of reasons, namely poor sales. Though the letters indicated that there wer epeople out there who liked what GOLIATH was . . . they weren't enough to keep the book going in these days of ever-spiralling costs. Which is sad, but which are also the breaks of the game."

Friday, December 11, 2009

Torchwood: Greeks Bearing Gifts (S1,E7)


"After a while it gets . . . You hear too much. It changes how you see people."

Greeks Bearing Gifts, Season One, Episode Seven

("Toshiko is given an alien pendant which enables her to hear other people's thoughts.")

What I Liked

* A lot of nice quips, mostly about Owen's capabilities as a forensic investigator.

* Tosh and Mary's flirting--very sexy and well-written.

* The CGI for Mary's alien form--ethereal and beautiful.

* Gwen & Owen's playful banter--they really do seem like young lovers.

* Tosh's experience reading minds: Owen really is that sarcastic, Ianto is torn up over everything that's happened to him, Jack is unreadable, and Gwen is mostly thinking about Owen.

What I Didn't

* Having Mary turn out to be a completely evil alien who rips out human hearts is pretty cliched--you can have interesting character conflict without making things so black and white.

What I Stole From Wikipedia

* Mary's alien race are apparently called "Arcateenians" and appear again in an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures and the novel Something in the Water.

Commentary

By: Richard Stokes (Producer), Colin Teague (Director), Toby Whithouse (Writer)

Tone: Interesting, straight-forward explanation of creating the episode.

* The crew apparently stopped shooting one day to watch the end of the England game in the World Cup.

* The alien transportation device was apparently based on props used on Baywatch

Torchwood Declassified: "There's Something About Mary"

* Interviews with cast and crew about Tosh's personality and the desirability of mind-reading

* A brief review of how every lead character on the show had at least one same-sex kiss during Season One.

* A standard feature on the process of making the CGI alien.
Deleted Scenes
* Jack shows Tosh a Weevil and names it Janet (I've seen that name in other places, and could never figure out where it came from). He says that Janet was found burying the body of one of her dead children, but that he doesn't know if it was because of learned behavior or affection. "The first rule of aliens: always assume they bite."

Spell Games


Spell Games, the fourth book in T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason series is another solid, fast-paced read. The wrinkle for Felport's chief sorceror this time around is that her brother Jason, a notorious con man, has come to town looking for his next big score. Jason doesn't believe in magic, but he's heard enough about his sister to think Marla can help him in a long con against a gullible wanna-be wizard. Along the way, there's a mushroom-worshipping sorceror, the death of a major character, and some nice surprises.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Clone Wars Campaign: Recap # 30

This was the second session in the big City of Sand story-arc. There's not a lot of action (an inconclusive fist-fight between the Jedi and a Trandoshan; a bloodless space battle), but some excellent role-playing and plot-advancement kept the session fun.

The characters and plots from the Tempest Feud campaign book make their first appearance here (the Hutts, the missing Mika, the Bomu Vengeance pirates), and I was pretty happy with how their differing personalities turned out and how well they integrated into the gameplay as it was a big pain in the butt to convert their stats into Saga edition.

The character of Kronos makes an appearance here as well; he's portrayed as a strange, pudgy bald man with the apparent ability to foresee, at least to some degree, probabilities as to what will happen in the future. The idea for Kronos comes from an obscure Marvel Comics super-villain named Tick-Tock. Kronos' backstory and mystery look to be the subject of our next (real-time) story arc.

We also see another example of Daal thinking himself pretty slick in once again managing to avoid paying Jocasta--this is going to turn around and bite him big in a few sessions . . .


SESSION # 30

Nine months into the Clone Wars, a pair of massive explosions shake the gardens of the Jedi Temple. A trio of Senate investigators are found on the scene, but only one of them claims to remember what happened – and he tells a strange story indeed. As dawn breaks on Coruscant, the wounded investigators face a difficult day ahead: a mysterious assailant nowhere to be found, Padawan Tarn Tamarand still missing, and the receipt of a cryptic message from the fourth member of their team…

The gardens of the Jedi temple are in shambles. Daal Mordo claims that the group was attacked by the evil entity behind the recent string of murders – a strange being who describes himself as the Seventh of the Nine and who can disguise himself through the power of the Force. Daal explains the situation to his confused comrades: the Jedi Knight Atel Por’ten and the strange furry sniper called Doxen. They cannot remember what happened but Doxen uses his tracking skills to confirm through close examination of the ground that at least part of Daal’s story is true - a male was definitely standing in the shrubbery. He also notices that his comlink is missing, but cannot remember that he slipped it into the pocket of the attacker.

When Tyree Coramon arrives, she is somewhat suspicious of the story told by the Durosian, but the others convince her that something has indeed transpired. She confirms that the temple is now in temporary lockdown and sees that Sian Suan gets proper medical attention. She also informs them that they have performed a service for the Senate, as it seems that by scaring off the air car belonging to the terrorists the previous day, they caused a second group to become trapped, leading to their capture.

While Doxen continues to explore the temple, searching for signs of the escaped murderer and attempting to meet with senior Jedi officials, the others return to the command centre. There, Atel receives a visit from Jedi Master Horellius Creen who attempts to convince him that the item Tarn was carrying when he disappeared must be retrieved and that the mission is of vital importance. He suggests that Atel speak with a Hutt visiting Coruscant named Poparra, who was responsible for trying to sell the item on Nar Shadda. Creen provides contact information and instructs the young Jedi not to take Daal (who might be recognized from his earlier attempt to steal the item) or Doxen (who will be an object of mockery). However, Creen does suggest bringing Arresta, as "her last name alone may carry some weight."

Meanwhile, having left the Temple in the early hours of morning, Arresta reserves passage on an expensive private charter yacht bound for Alderaan in the hopes of tracking down Ycram Notwal, whom she suspects Tarn has gone to see. Just minutes before departure, however, she accepts a call from Daal. After the Durosian indicates he wants to help her find Tarn, she agrees to meet with him at the yacht in an Eastport launch bay. Taking a call from Atel, who indicates he also wishes to help her in her quest, she allows him to come and talk to her.

Together, Daal and Atel prepare to leave the temple. Outside on the steps, they see Carn Sokhol (the scarred Jedi veteran) in the distance, about to enter an airtaxi. Sokhol sees them and with a voice amplified through the Force calls out to Daal: "You played the game well, Stranger. I hope we'll have another chance to play again." Realizing that the Seventh of the Nine has been masquerading as Sokhol for weeks, Daal and Atel attempt to give chase. Unfortunately, the Force isn't with them, and the Sith's aircar is lost in the stream of traffic. Eventually, Metropol investigators track down the aircar, only to find its driver has committed "suicide" and there is no sign of "Carn Sokhol."

Arriving at an expensive luxury yacht, Daal and Atel find Arresta, who agrees to a separate audience with each of them. Daal confirms for the Princess that he is indeed, her old friend, Marpa Zalon, in disguise. Arresta agrees to continue to address him by his assumed name. Daal explains to Arresta that he owes a debt to herself and to Tarn for helping to get him acquitted during their trial. He wants to help her find the missing Padawan. Arresta is pleased that he will journey with her to Alderaan to find Ycram and hopefully pick up Tarn’s trail. She reminds Daal that Tarn is still carrying that strange lightsaber that he picked up in the anomaly – the one that most other people could never seem to see. The Princess claims that this is a rescue mission – Tarn is certain to get himself killed without help.

While Arresta goes to speak with Atel, the Durosian contacts Doxen and suggests that he come to the yacht to hear what the Princess has to say. He indicates that the information they have is relevant to the current investigation. In the yacht’s expensive central meeting area, Atel attempts to convince Princess Arresta that he should accompany her on this mission. Arresta is reluctant, but does admit that his skills might prove useful. However, she is clear that she does not trust the Jedi order and that she expects Atel to follow her commands – and that at the first sign of betrayal he’ll be enjoying a slow ride back to Coruscant in an escape pod. The Jedi Knight agrees and attempts to mollify the Princess by indicating that the Jedi order has many positive traits and that trying to find someone you love is something that he can identify with. Arresta is quick to protest that he shouldn’t presume to think that he understands her.

With that uneasy truce, the team meets with Doxen to try to convince him to join them. He expresses tentative interest – but must first assure himself that his Senatorial friend approves and that the Jedi temple is now secure. He returns and outlines a list of proposed security measure to Tyree Coromon who agrees to present them. Senator Orelus says that Doxen should follow his own best judgment in investigating the murders and Tarn's disappearance.

While Daal performs a computer search for information on Poparra the Hutt, Atel covers himself in grease and oil in order to gather some undercover information from local dock workers. Together, the two learn that Poparra runs a medium-sized criminal organization on Nar Shadda. The Hutt lord allegedly doesn't deal in slaves or spice and is known as relatively honest, as far as Hutt crimelords go. Poparra has two sons: Zonnos (the elder) and Mika (the younger). His majordomo is a clanless Hutt name Vago. Apparently, Poparra is on Coruscant in order to buy a freighter and a large batch of medicinal spice from his cousin, Ziro.

Atel and the increasingly impatient Arresta travel to the loading bay where Poparra's Ubrikkian yacht and new freighter (a Maka-Eekai L4000) are being prepared for launch. They see several Trandoshans loading creates aboard the freighter, while Vago (Poparra's majordomo) and his jade green protocol droid check the manifest. With some reluctance, Vago directs his droid to lead Atel and Arresta into the yacht's audience chamber. Inside, they witness Poparra arguing with his son Zonnos about whether the latter's retinue of Trandoshans are capable of rescuing Mika. As Atel looks on in confusion, Arresta speaks to Poparra in Huttese and offers to rescue Mika in exchange for information on where the item Tarn stole (the head of an MD-4 medical droid) was originally found. Zonnos interjects that the Jedi are mere tricksters and con men, leading Poparra to suggest a challenge between one of Zonnos' Trandoshans and Atel. The results of the fight are inconclusive, forcing Arresta to sweeten the deal by offering Poparra 10,000 credits in addition to rescuing Mika. Poparra is finally swayed, and tells them his majordomo will make all necessary arrangements.

The downside to this new arrangement is the time it will take for the “preparations” to be made. Returning to the yacht, Arresta chafes at the delay, smashing an expensive objet d’art to appease her anger. Atel’s attempts to soothe her temper are unsuccessful. To make good use of the waiting time, Arresta visits a nearby private clinic for a pre-natal check-up, receiving a clean bill of health for herself and her unborn baby.

Doxen and Daal spend their time obtaining an extensive array of supplies and weaponry. When they arrive to speak with Poparra’s henchman, they learn that a ship will be provided to them. They will travel into a quarantine zone, carrying the freight of medical grade spice, which they must also inject themselves with each day in order to inoculate themselves against the plague. Coordinates will be pre-programmed into the nav computer, and will lead them to the planet where the droid's head was found and where Mika was last seen. Arresta agrees to the terms with one condition – first the ship is programmed to travel to Alderaan with a 24 hour stop-over at that planet prior to commencing the next stage of the journey. Zonnos' Trandoshans finish the loading process and Poparra's yacht departs.

Minutes later, two members of the Sun Runners arrive outside the freighter and speak with Atel. The heavyset Kronos claims that in "18 of the next 19 potentialities" Daal departs Coruscant without paying Jocasta the promised sum of 17,750 credits. Atel tries to dissemble and distract them so Daal can hide inside the ship, but Kronos is undeterred. Doxen arrives on-scene and is told how Daal stole the money during a job and then promised to pay it back. As Daal begins the start-up sequence inside the ship's cockpit, Kronos warns that Jocasta's wrath "will be terrible indeed" and then departs. The freighter lifts off and enters hyperspace towards Alderaan. Doxen and Atel confront Daal, but the Durosian is unapologetic and states that Jocasta is a bloodthirsty pirate who doesn't deserve the money back.

Over the following days, Doxen talks to Arresta and gets some history on the so-called anomaly – a cylindrical vessel of unheard of size and composition that Arresta, Tarn and Daal once encountered. Inside that vessel, they encountered strange creatures, including the one calling himself the Seventh of the Nine. Time did not pass normally there and a strange prophecy referred to Marpa as the Stranger, 8P-MD-4 as the Automaton and Arresta as the Queen. Doxen questions the Princess regarding her relationship with the missing Tarn Tamarand but Arresta dodges the question. She claims a strong sense of loyalty to someone she was “close” to.

Atel again confronts Daal about his trustworthiness. Daal claims loyalty to Tarn, Arresta and the Jedi. He tells Atel to talk to the Princess about it if he needs more proof. Arresta defends Daal. “I trust him with my life and the life of my baby.” She also fills him in about the anomaly, and Atel seems mollified for the time being.

[A.G. 296]

Still in hyperspace and four days away from Alderaan, the ship begins to suffer strange power failures and then suddenly lurches out of hyperspace. Arresta stays in the pilot’s seat while the others investigate and discover crab droids that were secreted aboard the ship beginning to attack key systems. Within seconds, Doxen, Atel and Daal manage to destroy the droids. Daal starts works frantically to get the hyperspace drive up and running as a Rodian pirate vessel named the Bomu Vengeance pulls into view and orders the freighter to "Drop the spice or prepare to be boarded!" After a few seconds without receiving a reply, the Vengeance opens fire with ion and laser cannons. However, Arresta flies rings around the pirates and the freighter barely suffers a scratch. Meanwhile, Daal has fixed the sabotaged hyperdrive in record time. The pirates contact Arresta and marvel at her skill as a pilot, offering her the chance to join their crew. Anxious to continue her journey, Arresta smiles and activates the hyperdrive with one last parting comment. “Sorry boys, but you couldn’t afford me.”

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Jane Eyre & The Eyre Affair




One of the reasons for getting into the Worth Literary Classics books is to revisit many of the English novels of the time period that have merged in my mind into one great conglomeration of gothic manor houses, desolate moors, and moody male protagonists. On the cruise I re-read Jane Eyre so that I could then re-read Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair and understand it better.

Jane Eyre, of course, features orphaned governess Jane Eyre falling in love with the foul-tempered, mercurial Mr. Rochester only to learn to her horror that his wife, now a madwoman, is still alive and kept in the attic. There's some really nice creepy, gothic scenes in the book as Jane discovers what's really happening: in particular, waking up to discover Mr. Rochester's bed has been set on fire (with him in it) and waking up another night to see the crazed Bertha Rochester tearing apart her (Jane's) wedding veil. There's more Christian moralism in the book than I remember from my first time through, but it was still enjoyable.

The Eyre Affair is the first in a very off-beat series of books featuring a character named Thursday Next, who is a Literary Detective in an alternative 1985 where literary crimes are the subject of major criminal syndicates, the Crimean War is still going on, time-travel is problematic, and more. Someone has invented a device to change the content of books by altering the original manuscript, which leads Thursday to go into the plot of Jane Eyre in order to set things right. Having just read Jane Eyre, this one was a lot more enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the next in the series, Lost in a Good Book.

Fantasy Football Weeks 11-13

I came back from the cruise to learn that I split the two weeks of fantasy football. Week 11 was a 12 point loss, even though Ricky Williams came through with a whopping 30 points all by himself. Week 12 I kicked ass even though I scored fewer points, as my opponent's entire team only accounted for 38 points. This past weekend, I was happy to see late Sunday night that I had a 7 point lead over my opponent--only to realize he had three players set for the Packer/Raven Monday night, so I ended up getting killed 78-95.

That's the end of the regular season, and I finished with a 4-9 record (bad; but still better the Browns). I think the record is a combination of lack of skill (I scored the fewest points of any team in the division) and bad luck (I gave up more points than all but two other teams, something completely out of my control). Next up are the playoffs, and I'm in the "Consolation Ladder" where you play two "games", which last two weeks each. As the # 10 seed, my first game is against the # 9 seed.

A couple of players I have to get rid of are Mike Wallace and John Carlson--neither has been worth much of anything the past few weeks.

Week 11

SUN RUNNERS: 71 Points

Peyton Manning, Ind QB 11
Ricky Williams, Mia RB 30
Jonathan Stewart, Car RB 4
Mike Wallace, Pit WR 2
Chad Ochocinco, Cin WR 6
Jeremy Maclin, Phi WR 6
John Carlson, Sea TE 0
Steelers D/ST, Pit D/ST 6
David Akers, Phi K 6

LACONIA PUGGLES: 83 Points

Donovan McNabb, Phi QB 15
Chris Johnson, Ten RB 15
Joseph Addai, Ind RB 13
Brandon Jacobs, NYG RB 10
T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Sea WR 3
Roy E. Williams, Dal WR 0
Dallas Clark, Ind TE 6
Saints D/ST, NO D/ST 15
Stephen Gostkowski, NE K 6

WEEK 12

SUN RUNNERS: 68 Points
Peyton Manning, Ind QB 17
Ricky Williams, Mia RB 15
Jonathan Stewart, Car RB 3
Mike Wallace, Pit WR 0
Chad Ochocinco, Cin WR 3
Jeremy Maclin, Phi WR 6
John Carlson, Sea TE 1
Steelers D/ST, Pit D/ST9
David Akers, Phi K 14

TEAM CAMPMAN: 38 Points

Matt Schaub, Hou QB 13
Cedric Benson, Cin RB 0
Jason Snelling, Atl RB -2
Mike Sims-Walker, Jac WR 4
Larry Fitzgerald, Ari WR 3
Nate Burleson, Sea WR 4
Tony Gonzalez, Atl TE 8
Dolphins D/ST, Mia D/ST 4
Robbie Gould, Chi K 4

WEEK 13

SUN RUNNERS: 78 Points

Peyton Manning, Ind QB 14
Ricky Williams, Mia RB 7
Jonathan Stewart, Car RB 18
Mike Wallace, Pit WR 1
Chad Ochocinco, Cin WR 19
Jeremy Maclin, Phi WR 8
John Carlson, Sea TE 0
Steelers D/ST, Pit D/ST 2
David Akers, Phi K 9

LIQ STORE PORKCHOP: 95 Points

Philip Rivers, SD QB 22
Fred Jackson, Buf RB 5
Darren Sproles, SD RB 13
Greg Jennings, GB WR 7
Donald Driver, GB WR 7
Sidney Rice, Min WR 7
Vernon Davis, SF TE 17
Packers D/ST, GB D/ST 12
Ryan Longwell, Min K 5