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A Little Game about Little Heroes

Cat

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Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
“I Know I’m Dreaming” Introduction What You Need Making a Cat Character Step 1: The Traits Step 2: Names Step 3: Reputation Step 4: Lives Taking Risks Easy Moderate Hard Testing Fate Advantage Dice Scars Healing Fighting Fighting Other Cats Fighting Non-Cats Dodging Death Reputation Using Reputation LosingReputation Getting a New Reputation Lives Style Magic Magic Points The Bauble Curse Getting Wet No Tail Using Magic Fall on All Fours (Variable) Hide in Plain Sight (Variable) Sneak (Variable) Doorslip (Good) The Dinner Dance (Good) Dream Bite (Good) The Chase Your Tail Whammy Fighting Frenzy (Good) Storytelling 4

Writing/Layout/Design John Wick Wicked Editrix Annie Rush Special Thanks to JaredSorensen For helping me throw out the (litter) box. Extra Special Thanks to Cobb Still Who protects little heroes.

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Cat uses the Advantage System. http://www.wicked-dead.com/advantage

Cat: A Little Game about Little Heroes is © and ™ 2004 by John Wick. All rights reserved bythe Author, published here under permission. Any mention of trademark or copyrighted material is not a challenge to those marks. The stories, characters and situations in this book are entirely fictional. Except boggins. Those are real. Go give your cat a hug.

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Advanced Rules 17 17 Increasing Your Traits Legendary Traits 17 Experienced Cats 17 GM Advice17 Step #1: Writing Stories 17 Step #2: Telling Stories 18 Step #3: Running the Game 20 Storytelling in the Kingdom of Dreams 22 The Quality of Dreams 22 The Dreamer 22 22 Symbols and Absurdity Exaggeration 24 Time 24 Jumping, Flying and Other Amazing Acts of Physical Impossibility 24 Nightmares 24 Dreaming Rules 24 Cat Adventures 25 A New Secret Name 25 Rescuing the King of the Cats 26 Good Dogsand Bad Cats 26 Cross-Genre Cat 27 Natural Enemies 28 A Note on Traits 28 Dogs 28 Rats 29 Mean People 30 Boggins 30 The Green-Eyed Monster 31 The Man under the Bed 31 Ghosts 32 Heavies 32 The Shoulda Brothers 33 Fictional Facts & Factual Folklores 34 Last Words 42

I Know I’m Dreaming...
I know I’m dreaming. See, mummies usually don’t do their Wednesday wash at my laundromat. “You’re right,”says my cat, sitting beside me as I pile microwave dinners into the dryer. “You’re dreaming.” “How do you know?” I ask him, fumbling for quarters. “Because I’m dreaming, too.” He licks his chin and watches the dinners cooking in the dryer. The dryer buzzes and I pull out the tin plates filled with food. “So, why are you here?” He starts snacking on the Southern fried chicken. “It’s the only placeyou and I can really talk.” “We talk?” “Well, I talk all the time. Problem is, you don’t know how to listen.” He chews more chicken and I start with the cherry desert. “And you usually don’t remember when we’re done. Sometimes, things stick in that little brain of yours. The important things, at least.” “So you have something to tell me?” “Yup. A few things. But we don’t have a lot of time. Ittook me all night to find you, and it’s creeping up on dawn right quick.” I nod, and put the dinner back in the dryer. “Where are we off to?” “Anywhere. I just want to get away from those mummies. They give me the creeps.” *** My cat and me, we walked through a city full of zombies. Not the flesh-eating, drooling, rotting kind of zombies, but the “Where the heck am I?” kind of zombies. I ask, “Wheredid all these zombies come from?” “They’re you. Well, most of you. You know when you can’t remember your dreams?” He shrugs at the zombies. “That’s you.” I’m only briefly aware that my cat just shrugged, almost get around to asking how he shrugged when a beautiful brunette walks by and my head turns all the way around my neck. “That’s your problem,” my cat tells me. “You men can’t keep focused....