I ran
Honey Heist for a small group of friends tonight, and it went quite well!
HoneyCon was located in a lakeside wilderness retreat and run by a young teen girl, who promised all attendees a wonderful time and that they'd get to enjoy her daddy's special "Black Orchid Honey" at the end of the convention. Our bear party did some prep for their arrival by having their "Incompetent Grizzly Hacker" actually successfully hack the HoneyCon forums to spread some rumors of possible issues that may occur during the convention to put everyone on edge ahead of time.
Then they swam up in the lake to see the 5 cabins the convention was being held in, a couple docks, and a very bright pink boat. The "Slick Polar Muscle" bear carefully swam underneath it, lifted it a touch out of the water, and swam with it on its back to make it look like it was moving. As the armed guards checked on the boat, the "Retired Polar Face" convinced them that the convention organizer had asked him to move the boat to the other dock. This, however, was a distraction, as the grizzly swam up by the other dock and started looking in cabin windows to find honey. They found a group of people in bee suits spreading painted honey across their faces like face paint. The grizzly decided this was some great honey to try to run off with, and dove into the window. He was successful, but the entire room stopped and stared at him before screaming their heads off, attracting the guards from outside. The slowest guard was attacked by the Muscle, fainted, and the Face took over his uniform and his walkie-talkie.
A lot of shenanigans happened at this point in these two places, before the polar bears found a very bright pink cabin with what looked like a vault of some sort in the corner and a couple of guards. The Muscle linebacker'd the guards down and knocked them unconscious, but neither of them could open the vault. While this was happening, the Grizzly ran across the sleeping cabin, terrified the sleeping millenials by pounding on the door trying to get in, and then mauled the first one to leave the cabin. This got the attention of the father of the convention organizer, who left his cabin and found the nearest guard he could to determine what was going on. This guard, of course, was the Polar Bear wearing the guard outfit. The father saw through his disguise after lifting his hat off his head, slammed the door in the bear's face, and hit a panic room switch, causing the cabin to lower into the ground to safety. It's at this point that the rival gang of bears showed up, The Forebearers! Everyone descends on the pink cabin except the grizzly, who goes back to the bee suit cabin and just goes crazy, ripping off honey-covered faces and throwing them into a pot to devour the honey from later. Meanwhile, the muscle claws and claws at the vault, but can't open it, and this frustration eventually causes him to succumb to his feral nature right as The Forebearers enter the cabin, and he pounces on them, causing a huge fight outside the cabins, distracting The Forebearers from the cabin with the vault.
A large panda chewing on bamboo sneaks behind this into the cabin where the Face is still hiding, wearing his guard costume, which he realizes has a can of bear mace in it, but sadly it's empty. However, the panda doesn't know this! So he pretends to spray the mace and kicks some dirt in the panda's face, causing the panda to stumble around, bump into the wall, exposing a panel of several buttons behind a painting, and also knocking himself out as he falls. The Face yells for the Grizzly, who successfully hacks the panel to open the way down inside the vault. Inside the vault is the little girl who organized the convention, crying that everything's gone so wrong, and how the black honey was stupid anyway because her daddy didn't want her to have it, so she just gave it to the bears. The bears ascended the ladder out of the vault, meeting up with her father back in the cabin, who just wants to make sure that his girl is ok and hasn't eaten this black honey. The bears somehow convince him that she is, and he goes down into the vault. The bears, hearing sirens approaching up the main road, dive out of the cabin window and run over to the boat, which is back by the docks. They both climb in. The Face is exhausted, as he had retired once before, so he eats some of the Black Orchid honey for strength. At this same moment, the Grizzly starts the boat and realizes he wants all the honey for himself and he'll turn in his old friend to get it! So he boots the Face off the boat onto the docks and drives the boat off, leaving the Face, who is succumbing to the honey's magical effects and becoming a rebellious teenage goth as the police and animal control arrive at the camp.
It was
glorious
. Everyone had a great time, even those who were a bit nervous about a one-shot like this, since it's outside of their normal comfort zone. It ended about as well as a heist movie could end, and got everyone interested in doing more palate cleanser one-shots in the future(since this was an off week as our normal GM couldn't run this week). I would definitely recommend Honey Heist, and am probably going to back the writer on Patreon, since I definitely want to support things like this.