I have posted a new request for players.

We'll see how that goes!

In the game I've moved things up to where you are at the hatch the attackers used.

Tony

Hello all.

I'm very excited to join such a long running and stable group. Being the newcomer I'm going to do my best to avoid stepping on any toes. I hope to have his first in character post up sometime soon.

We are just finalizing a few details like equipment behind the scenes at the moment.

Udam is one of the "locals", and it looks like he will suffer from a language barrier at first. I hope that this will not detract from his interactions with all of you while he tries to adapt.

Thanks for having me.

In reply to Udam (msg # 881):

As you can see, I'm getting a new player read-in. He'll likely be joining you at the vent.

Thanks!

Tony

In reply to Udam (msg # 881):

Welcome Udam, it will make for interesting RPing

In reply to Angus McStubbin (msg # 883):

Udam will start out at your location.

Thanks for everyone's patience!

Thanks,

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 884):

Looks like we have a couple more players joining. Hooray!

A word on names for the locals: I think I made my RTJ text confusing. "Sky Raiders" is the modern tern for the minor Human race known as the "Loeskalth", thought to have been eradicated by the Vilani in the early days of the Zira Sirku. The village of dissidents call themselves that of course, but their own sect is the True Believers. (Much like the Pilgrims would still self-identify as English to a degree.) The confusion is mine, I should have clarified earlier. Sorry!

Thanks,

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 885):

We are getting the other two Barbarian characters set up now.

Thanks for your patience!

Thanks

In reply to GM (msg # 886):

OK! All characters are live.

And you can communicate mutually using... mumble mumble... translators.

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 887):

I should run this like a dungeon crawl!

"You enter a 20x20' room. There is a door on the far wall and a wooden table with a grotesque terra-cotta idol sitting on it to the right."

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 888):

You can reach the far door by going left around the shaft, or right. As well, if you keep below the level of the balcony you'll stay out of sight, more or less. If you don't indicate which route you take I'll randomly decide (should it become important).

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 889):

Sorry Linus! My bad!

No worries. I was being so sneaky I think even the GM didn't notice I was there :)

I swear I meant to have Linus peer through the door first! Don't worry, if something attacks I'll make sure it goes after Linus first, if that makes you feel better?

Thanks,

Tony

It's quite alright, Tony.

The intention was that nobody would notice me. I count it an unmitigated success when even the GM fails to do so :)

In reply to Linus Spruance (msg # 893):

Did anyone take the items salvaged from the pool? Have a look and let me know if anything was kept or it all was left there.

Thanks!

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 894):

Angus will keep it all, relics, maybe the researchers would be interested.

In reply to Angus McStubbin (msg # 895):

Sounds good!

If the other players are going to post, now is the time.

Tony

Shukhunaar's match is still lit! It's just hissing because that is what I imagine it would be like. Sorry for any confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWSZjwP042I

Tony
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:02, Fri 17 Dec 2021.

In reply to GM (msg # 897):

So do you guys want to return and laser-weld the hatch shut?

Still leaving the control room and maps accessible?

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 898):

That's my vote

I ran this game many years ago in the day. Pretty fun. I’d run it again in a heart beat.

So, new here, don’t have a clue where we are in the game.

We just rescued someone from an unfriendly tribe, and are now deciding whether to weld the door shut to stop them coming back this way. I'm playing a local tribes member, so have no idea what this "welding" business is.

Which topic to start posting in?

In reply to Dr. Talia McKenzie (msg # 902):

My next post will provide some context to allow for posting.

The immediate goal of the current thread has been achieved: the tunnels used by the raiders to attack Shukhunaar's village has been sealed off.

Overall, we are playing through Fate of the Sky Raiders. The Sky Raiders' ancient home has been discovered but it is not a planet, it is a vast asteroid starship. It is disabled and has been floating through the void between the worlds of Far Frontiers sector for five thousand years. All this while the Fifth Frontier War rages two sectors to trailing in the Spinward Marches.

A scientific expedition from the Institute of Interstellar Studies on Alzenar in the League of Suns embarked on the hired research cruiser Inquisitor. Using information gained in the previous adventures (Legend of the Sky Raiders and Trail of the Sky Raiders) they intercepted the ancestral home/mothership as it floated through deep space. (It's still moving and within the decade will enter space claimed by the Zhodani Consulate but that's beyond the scope of our adventure.) But what appeared to be pirates infiltrated and hijacked the Inquisitor, stranding the expedition on the surface of the mothership. Later escapees from the Inquisitor confirmed this was no mutiny but a takeover by a wealthy billionaire/private art collector/criminal with no scruples about breaking the law: Eneri Kalamanaru. The mutineers took the ship back to presumably RV with Kalamanaru and a mercenary force to reveal the location of the Sky Raider mothership. Then presumably they will return to occupy it (or parts of it) in force and begin looting it of its many treasures. The expedition figures it has about 2-4 weeks before that happens.

In the mean time, the expedition entered the asteroid, traveled down a massive transit shaft (one of many that span the length and width of the asteroid) and entered an agriculture module. There they contacted descendants of the Sky Raiders still surviving in the ship: Skukhunaar's people. They are a breakaway sect from one of the two main factions, a theocracy that worships their ancestors (the Sky Raiders). The other large faction is brutal and warlike. The expedition has located a factory module that, once repaired, could provide spare parts to repair a ship or at least non-functional modules.

Angus' story is worth telling as well. Unlike Talia, he was not part of the expedition. Instead, he was on a Seeker mining ship with a partner when a Zhodani task force Jumped into the system they were at and attempted to board them. They misjumped into deep space and as a hail-Mary tried to transit via sublight speed to the nearest system while they slept in low berths. They apparently never made it as Angus woke up alone in Shukhunaar's village in the Ag module with no idea how he got there from (presumably) a docking bay somewhere on the surface. When the expedition found his low berth being used as an altar (in the "Temple of the Sleeping Man") and woke him they found he'd been in stasis for 20 years. The war he'd fled was the Fourth Frontier War, not the current Fifth! Shukhunaar's tribe in their wanderings to find a home after splitting from the theocracy had found the docking bay, and him inside his ship, and then brought him with them until they finally settled the Ag module some ten years ago.

The expedition founded a base camp in some control and quarters decks "below" the surface of the ag module (which looks like a huge hollow 12-sided die with the inner surfaces covered with lush vegetation and an artificial "sun" in the middle). The leader, Lorain Messandi, has called a staff meeting.

Tony

In reply to GM (msg # 903):

Talia and Shukhunaar can help themselves to whatever gear is reasonable. Shukhunaar can use all firearms without penalty.

Please post your gear selection in the "Ship's Locker" thread.

Tony