Every Time At a Table: Bog, Not Desert Planet

 

My setup 

 

1^st Hour- Develop Characters

Characters backgrounds. Some World drops.

Who gets the ship? Define the ship.

Who is the Hacker?

Who is the Spy?

2^nd Hour- Crew Up

Get the PCs together.

3^rd Hour- Catch ‘em

Set-up for session two.

 

The Session

Session 1:

1^st Hour- Develop Characters

Characters backgrounds. Some World drops.

Alezander Daku, Earth-born ACE, the Quick 75
Note: Earth-Born and playing it to the hilt. While a great pilot, he just doesn’t know how to handle love and money, his multi-hued boyfriends are just so damned hot. He is the Captain of the Arcadia.

Nextremi, SHARP “Rad”, the Quick 75
Note: Born on the Proxima Centauri colony of Radamanthus, hence her “Rad” classification. To escape the despotic government of the Dunsany Visionaries, she castaway on the Arcadia after one great party. She has since made herself useful as the ship’s troubleshooter, if not engineer.
She wears a pink jumpsuit emblazoned with a large maroon-colored number 37. She doesn’t comb her hair often.

Uri Keller-Afanti, Native PSYCHIC, the Quick 75
Note: No mere clone or product, Uri was conceived and developed by his progenitors. He is a citizen of Loom (the city above the city in City-Above-City). He’s just a little too sensitive for the cut-throat corporation politics between his Afanti kin and the other Houses. A sex scandal has placed him in the private sector. He’s become co-owner of The Arcadia and is determined to show his worth from there.

Who gets the ship? Define the ship.

Curtis and Jason both rolled the highest and therefore equally own the ship. Alezander is the acknowledged Captain. Uri insisted on Cuniform inscriptions on the outside of ship-- being from Bog and not Earth, Arcadia and Akkadian is the same thing in the PC’s reckoning.

Generic Manatee class ship

The Arcadia

A manatee class ship, designed more for transport than cargo hauling. Its Mechanical Intelligence is Sylvester and has a MENTAL Stat of 42 outside of managing the ships systems.

MASS 6
MAN 31
DEF 37 (31/6)
SPD 11
OFF 8 (A single mirco-flash antenna doubling as a laser cannon)
Efficiency 9
Range 3
Crew 4

Notes: Built for comfort, but also surviving combat dangers through defensive maneuvering more so than speed or impact absorption. When the vessel has to shift it will cause the PCs to lurch about despite its artificial gravity.

2^nd Hour- Crew Up

The PCs were hired by Ivanoa Deater-Keller-Af, LDS Outer Human Resources Afamt Corp, to investigate a helium harvester station orbiting Caesar that has gone off-line. She is actually Uri’s second cousin and throwing him some goodwill from the family.
The base pay for the mission is 1,5oo Zed.
Recovering the platform is 5K Zed upon the station coming online again.
1,ooo Zed for rescue/recovery of technician Norvak Aftam-Doog, nicknamed “Ango Fett.”

3^rd Hour- Catch ‘em

Getting out of Bog’s spaceport Logjam costed money. And then approaching Caesar costed even more moneys because of the Lukriig’s orbital station Aesir required fees, Locating the harvester platform wasn’t hard as it was leaving the helium reservation strata of the gas giant and moving into orbit-breaking vectors.
While getting there, a ship, a manatee-class modified for heavy combat, known as a Long Turtle ship in the jargon of Spacers in this setting, attacked them. Uri convinced a somewhat skeptical ‘Zander to avoid ship-to-ship combat and fly in close enough so that he could psychically attack their antagonists.
Amazing piloting, aside, the psychic attack went south, only affecting the pilot of the Arcadia. Jason rolled a Critical Failure. Still the sleestacks, err um Glorp Blort species 4 (because otherwise it would be copyright infringement), manning the other vessel’s cockpit were scared off.

With more piloting skills, ‘Zander landed the Arcadia onto the Harvester. The crew, armed with a single heavy-powered Pulsar weapon were able to hack their way past the front door…
(to be continued).