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old skool dressup

The spaceman was my favorite. Jetpacks made from 2-liter bottles: BRILLIANT.

costume quest 2

We are huge fans of Costume Quest in this household, and were so stoked for Costume Quest 2. So very, very stoked.

plunder

No worries, Buggs. I know from the excitement of new countries to plunder.

dreambugg

Hands up if you are hearing (a) “SAAY-GAAAAA” and/or (b) the chiming sound that happens when you get the coins.

Also, no disrespect to Mr Bugg, but I never liked Tails.

guns a-blazin’

I’m not sure what archetype Mr Bugg is playing here, with both the Barrett sniper rifle and a grenade launcher, but I’m sure he’s going to have loads of fun with it, from a safe distance. Mrs Bugg, on the other hand, looks ready for some close combat. She’ll gut yer as soon as look at yer, chummer.

massively multi-bugg

Oh, Buggs! The things that are in store for you! Sometimes I miss those heady days.

be careful not to shoot your horse

We started playing this game in large part because of listening to Wil Wheaton describe playing it during a panel at Phoenix Comicon lo these many years ago. He specifically mentioned accidentally shooting his horse, and how horrifying it was, and all I could think was, dude, it’s a horse, it’s pretty big, you’d think it’d be easy to miss. Well, no. It is horrifyingly easy to shoot your horse. WTF, Rockstar Games. WTF.

I am therefore glad that Mr and Mrs Bugg appear to be confining their activities to roping and practicing their quickdraw.

donkey bugg

One of the greats!

Not a patch on Tempest, mind you, but right up there.

skillin’

Not gonna lie: Tradeskills were some of my favorite parts of Everquest I and II, as well as Skyrim. Makin’ shit is awesome, and I understand the buggs’ love for it.

elder scrolls

We haven’t played that much Skyrim lately, but boy, did we enjoy it when we did.

pacbugg

OK, yes, Mr Bugg as Pac-Bugg is pretty adorable. But may I please direct your attention to Mrs Bugg, who is WEARING A SHEET, arms poking through wee armholes in her sheet, and running away like whoa.

If that doesn’t make you smile, you may want to check with a doctor, in case you are DEAD INSIDE.

sixth bugg world

So Loki and I have loved Shadow~~run~~bug for lo these many years, and I think this is about when Shadowrun Returns came out? We backed the Kickstarter and everything, and when it finally released we were beside ourselves.

And once again, Mr Bugg just saw “MAGIC” and ran to the Hogwarts closet, while Mrs Bugg read a little further, saw cyberware and bioware and lost her shit completely. She now has nearly zero essence, but gods help you if she doesn’t roll badly during initiative, because you will be dead. Well, probably. Was that crimson schmear you? Bummer.

zelda

I never played that one. Sacrilege, I know.

Transcript:

Mr and Mrs Bugg are blocky 8-bit characters: Mr Bugg is holding a sword and a shield, while Mrs Bugg is wearing a long dress and a crown.

The text reads: “Febuggary 21, 1986: The Legend of Zelda is released.”

the banker always cheats

I wonder what the pieces look like in MonopoBug? I bet that instead of the plain old boot, top hat and race car, they all have antennae. Or they’re all weaponry.

I think those are reasonable assumptions based on my observation of bugg life.

Transcript:

We view Mr and Mrs Bugg from above, lying on the floor around a board game. It is square (although perspective is making it look rectangular) and is banded by blocks that represent streets like St. Bugg Place and Buggtucky Avenue, along with the Bugg and O Railroad, Bugg Line, the Electric Bugg and Waterbugg Works. It is impossible to tell from the drawing who is cheating.

The text reads: “Novembug 6, 1935 : Parker Buggers acquires the patent for the board game MonopoBug.”

sbo

It was actually just a preview, but it was still pretty exciting.

Transcript:

Mr Bugg is a mage, holding a staff with a knob on the end in one hand and a ball of mana, ready to throw, in the other. Mrs Bugg is some kind of whackass street samurai, with a machine pistol and sword, ready to inflict damage on someone, dammit.

The text reads: “The alpha release of Shadowbugg Online is out … what will the buggs liberate first?”

tradeskillin’

I love how the Buggs just default to creating things. With hammers and torches.

Transcript:

Mr and Mrs Bugg are working on their tradeskills: Mr Bugg is wearing welding goggles and wielding some manner of welding torch, welding something to something else. Behind him stands a tank of some form of gas. Oxygen? Acetylene? Plasma? Who knows. What we do know is that his tongue is out in concentration, so he is clearly working hard, as is Mrs Bugg, who is standing before a forge, holding something on the anvil with her left hand, while her right hand clutches a huge hammer, preparatory to beating the shit out of the thing in her left hand. Skillin’ is in the process of happening.

The text reads: “Bugust 22, 2013: Nothing happened in Bugdom … so the buggs decided to work on side projects.”

shadowbugg

I could not agree more, buggs!

Transcript:

Mr Bugg is the mage this time — or possibly a shaman; could that be a city spirit he’s summoning? — holding what looks to be a Fichetti Needler light pistol, because as we all know, magic-users put, like, no points into weaponry. Mrs Bugg, on the other hand, has gone the whole hog in the way of weaponry, and is sporting some wicked-long bone spurs in addition to her heavy machine gun. In the background, a decker crouches next to a data terminal, fiber-optic cables snaking from the datajack in his temple to the data port in the wall, as well as to his cyberdeck. A run is clearly in progress, and going well, to judge from everyone’s expressions. In my experience, this is when you get dumped in the drek.

Ahem.

The text reads: “ShadowBugg FTW!”

hoi, chummer

From the looks of it, I’d say Mr Bugg is playing the street samurai, while Mrs Bugg is rocking the wage-mage thing.

Transcript:

Mr Bugg is brandishing a machine pistol and a curved sword, while Mrs Bugg manipulates mana and waves a handgun of some description.

The text reads: “Bugly 29, 2013: The Buggs finally take a break from playing Shadowbugg Returns.”

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