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You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge
ALWAYS SINKING, NEVER SUNK
The Garbage Barge has been slogging up and down the coast for years, putting into port and accepting unwanted things in exchange for gas to keep the tugboats running. It is a towering, leaking wreck, and it’s your home. You are a wizard or a pirate radio operator or a raccoon or a barge worker, or maybe you raise goats in the listing high rise that’s been dumped on the stern. Things grow in the trash. Chemicals are leaching out of rusted barrels, growing legs, and setting off to seek their fortune. Beetles tell you their life stories, raccoons steal your pens. Something in a diving suit disappears into oil-slick bilge water in search of baroque pearls. A forest of rebar sings in the salt wind. Out past the gas lake, there’s a town on fire. It’s been like that as long as anyone can remember. They say that no matter how far into the trash you go, it keeps going.
The Garbage Barge has been slogging up and down the coast for years, putting into port and accepting unwanted things in exchange for gas to keep the tugboats running. It is a towering, leaking wreck, and it’s your home. You are a wizard or a pirate radio operator or a raccoon or a barge worker, or maybe you raise goats in the listing high rise that’s been dumped on the stern. Things grow in the trash. Chemicals are leaching out of rusted barrels, growing legs, and setting off to seek their fortune. Beetles tell you their life stories, raccoons steal your pens. Something in a diving suit disappears into oil-slick bilge water in search of baroque pearls. A forest of rebar sings in the salt wind. Out past the gas lake, there’s a town on fire. It’s been like that as long as anyone can remember. They say that no matter how far into the trash you go, it keeps going.
59 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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January 20, 2024
If you’re willing to do a little work building off the incredible prompts that the author has created here for this absolutely bonkers setting, I feel as though you have a very promising start to an incredibly unique and memorable role-playing experience for your players. Filled with humor and genius seedlings of gonzo pleasure, garbage barge promises a one of a kind experience - yet I know GMs like myself will struggle at times to connect the dots and fill in the blanks, perhaps wishing that there was a just a bit more systematic structure to suggest at the challenges of the game, and hold it all together. still – from a purely storytelling standpoint – you could do a lot worse than start off with such an incredibly unique and delightful setting. Excited to check out more of her work!
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