New Campaign - All That Glitters

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Imperial Lord
November 3, 2007 - 6:33pm
Rather than port over Outer Reach, I am going to tuck that one away for now.  This is a new Level 1 Campaign, starting from scratch.


Episode 1:  "Routine Security"

 “Routine Security, Routine Security,” Arzagan growls as he leans back in his chair.  He lights a slim perfumed cigar with his long hairy fingers.  “Six months off Histran, some moonbase mining op.  Nice and quiet.  Standard rotation.  Walk around and look at walls, and come home with 5000 creds each after the shift.”

 FINALLY!  Your fleabag agent Arzagan has got something.  The Yazirian has come through.  You were really starting to miss your jobs – particularly the income – of your work in Streel’s Manufacturing department.  Your credit is shot and have been out of work for months, looking for a new life in the security business.  First finding agents, many of whom did not deliver on their promises, then spending your meagre savings on new training and what little equipment you could buy.  Then the excuses, “Not experienced enough...  Vehicles required...  Equipment required...”  Then the waiting, the waiting...

Right after this flush of happiness, then the feeling of dread.  A million-and-one questions fly through your head at the same time.  Where?  When?  How?  Why?  Who?  You almost wish Arzagan could just download all of it into your heads right now.

Arzagan can see the excitement in your eyes for your first assignment.  He smiles smugly and puffs away...  “You have no idea how hard I work for you guys.  When you are done with this joke of an assignment and collect your creds, you will want to double my 10% fee, which, of course, will automatically be deducted from your pay.  But let’s not harp on that...”  He grunts in satisfaction.

 “Tomorrow a ship leaves for Histran.  You need to be on it.  Once you get there the ship will change course to a mining moonbase in system.  Some place called Zeneb in the middle of a whole lot of nowhere.  Pretty big moon – several hundred crew in there.”

 “Don’t know too much of what they do – you know, dig up gold or something.  Whatever.  In any case, PGC likes guys with guns to watch their shiny gear and people, so that’s what you are going to do.  Has never been a problem at the base.  PGC has had the operation going for a couple years now, with no major accidents or fatalities.”

 “Mandatory six month rotation.  You are the rotatees.  I don’t know too much about the base, but my friend at PGC called and said that they had a rookie assignment and were willing to provide some equipment.  Just that you have to leave ASAP.  They will brief you and give you gear when you arrive in base.”

 “I have other clients, you know.  So I want you to know that you are on your own.  My only advice to you is to do what you are told and stay out of trouble.  I have some business I need to take care of on Minotaur.  But I’ll be checking my mail so message me if you need to, when you get access to subspace transmissions.  Again, the place is solid.  Nice and quiet.  Just the thing to get you started in this business.  My contact said there will be bonus opportunities as well.”

 “Any questions?”

 
First level characters, standard Four Races, standard equipment rules.  Buy what you can with what little you have.  I’ll rely on honesty for your ability rolls, but you have to take the bad with the good.  You may write any background that you want, but fold it into the fact that you are sick of working at the Manufacturing Center and want to start a new career.

We will play in chat here when it is ready, or OpenRPG, if possible.  While it's being developed, we can start on the character roll-ups.
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Imperial Lord's picture
Imperial Lord
July 6, 2008 - 10:36pm
Ok, unless there is another message specifically changing something or cancelling, our next session is:

Tuesday, July 8th
10 PM, Eastern Standard Time

Please make a note of it and arrive in the game room at that time.

Thank you,

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Corvus
July 7, 2008 - 6:32pm
I'll be there barring catastrophe.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan

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w00t (not verified)
July 7, 2008 - 8:01pm
I'll be there bringing catastrophe.

Foot in mouth

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TerlObar
July 7, 2008 - 8:27pm
Who knows maybe I'll even make it.
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Imperial Lord
July 8, 2008 - 9:50pm
And, once again, not enough players....

Shadow and Corvus...?

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Shadow Shack
July 9, 2008 - 12:22am
Oof, I don't get as much online time over the weekends and just now saw this. With a bit more notice, I'd have rescheduled tonight's dinner/movie date with the wife.

EDIT --- I started a new post for coordinating a play date to kick this game off: http://starfrontiers.us/node/3132
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Corvus
July 9, 2008 - 6:31am
I'm not going to be able to handle such a late start time, sorry.  I was informed last night at 9:55 PM that I had to be in bed now, because I had to be up incredibly early this morning, and I can easily foresee this kind of thing happening a lot in the future.  Life with an almost-three-year-old is... exciting.  Anyway, I'm going to have to drop out unless we can find some way to change the start time.  Sorry.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -- Carl Sagan

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TerlObar
July 9, 2008 - 6:56am
Ahh, the joys of family and playing across time zones.  And with Shadow Shack on Pacific Time, I'm not even the long lever arm Tongue out.  We're spread across all four US time zones.
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w00t (not verified)
July 14, 2008 - 6:01pm
Are we playing tomorrow TUE at 10PM EST?
Can you update the Gameroom to reflect the time?

ty and good hunting.

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Shadow Shack
July 15, 2008 - 10:08am
Game Room is updated, we're playing next Tuesday night @7:00 pacific/10:00 eastern
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Imperial Lord
July 15, 2008 - 10:58am
Correct, Shadow.  Thank you.

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Imperial Lord
July 21, 2008 - 7:30pm
WE ARE ON
WE ARE ON
WE ARE ON

DO NOT BE LAME


Thank you.

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Shadow Shack
July 28, 2008 - 4:20pm
I can't garauntee I'll be on for tomorrow. I'll make every effort, but I have a full plate scheduled. If I can get it all knocked out I'll make it in.
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TerlObar
July 28, 2008 - 4:26pm
I should be there.
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Imperial Lord
July 28, 2008 - 5:44pm
Ok, we are on - everyone do the best they can to show up...

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TerlObar
July 29, 2008 - 8:24pm
Shadow Shack and I were there.  Where was everyone else?  Our fearless leader Smile even managed to be absent.  Oh well, better luck next time.
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Imperial Lord
July 29, 2008 - 11:31pm
Is the "reply" here not working????


I posted two messages about the game being cancelled and they did not take!

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TerlObar
July 30, 2008 - 7:01am
If this shows up it worked for me.  That's okay, SS and I had a good chat and worked on our campaigns so we constructively used the time to play Star Frontiers anyway.
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Imperial Lord
August 11, 2008 - 6:00pm
Are we available for Tuesday, August 12th, 10PM EST?

Let me know...  Same time, same channel.

Post here...

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Shadow Shack
August 12, 2008 - 9:00pm
Ack...I wish I'd seen this sooner. Terl's out of town for a bit on vacation so at best it would have been us and maybe Woot. I beleive Terl will be back by the 16th if memory serves me.

Let's set a new date now and I'll send out the announcement.
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w00t (not verified)
August 13, 2008 - 6:39am
I was out an extra day on vacation.
I'm ready for Tue the 19th.

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TerlObar
August 16, 2008 - 11:07am
Yeah, sorry, I was in Yellowstone with the family.
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w00t (not verified)
August 18, 2008 - 6:37am
TerlObar wrote:
Yeah, sorry, I was in Yellowstone with the family.


stoner's. Innocent

Are we on for Aug 19th at 10PM EST?

KoTR is released tonight at Midnight. w00t!

plastic crack! Surprised

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Imperial Lord
August 18, 2008 - 10:12am
YES, we are on for tomorrow night.

Tues, 10PM, EST.

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Shadow Shack
August 18, 2008 - 2:40pm
I won't be able to make it, one of my subordinantes took an emergency medical leave for the week so I just picked up an extra night shift for Tuesday.
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TerlObar
August 18, 2008 - 3:29pm
DOH!  And FYI, starting in September Tuesdays are out for me as that is the night I'll be teaching the evening Physical Science 100 class at the University.
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w00t (not verified)
November 4, 2008 - 11:04pm
This has moved to it's own project here, All That Glitters