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PRELIMINARY 2.

Posted by The GMFor group 0
The GM
GM, 34 posts
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 00:56
  • msg #1

PRELIMINARY 2


I hadn't expected to do this in more than one thread, but since some people aren't done with the first one yet...

If you aren't, go do that one too!

Next, though: each player should describe how something went horribly wrong for their character in the past. They may add this (as a phrase) as an Experience to their character sheet. (See the Example of Play post for an example...) It is assumed the characters have been working together for some time, and this helps facilitate that bond.
Smith
player, 13 posts
Disgruntled Human!
Who, me? Just sabotaging?
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 16:55
  • msg #2

PRELIMINARY 2

As a promising engineering student on the precipice of graduation, Smith had survived the trials and tribulations that culminated in the Corporate Placement Fair. It wasn't much more than a scaled up, glorified science fair from the days of old but it meant the world (and sometimes beyond) to the graduates, plotting a course for the rest of their lives.

Smith's humble table consisted of nothing more than a thin electronic tablet displaying computer code he had laboriously written which made anything using an electronic servo or actuator 1% more more power efficient, something anyone well versed in his field would hail as an impressive achievement. Unfortunately he sat idly the entirety of the fair as he watched the corporate suits flock to the loud and flashy presentations of his peers. They promised unprecedented advertisement targeting, clandestine company espionage tools, and marketing software claiming to rake in zillions in profits. Smith knew his colleagues were full of hot air, and that their claims were entirely hypothetical without any programing or a lick of actual coding to back them up. Their answers to the inquiries of their prospective employers were chock full of buzzwords and catchy phrases that hardly made sense. This was outrageous! He watched as MaxiCorp, MonoCorp and Opaque Technologies scooped up the most average of student grads and recruited incompetent young engineers right on the spot. As the last remaining available body, he was offered an off-world intern position by loathsome MegaCorp.

After the event, Smith caught up with a robotics classmate asking how such a sham could possibly have unfolded, lamenting the months of time and effort he had poured into his real, working power efficiency matrix. The other student just shrugged in return,

"Everyone knows what the suits want to hear, you just have to Fake It 'Til You Make It."

Though Smith remained a hardworking engineer, dedicated to his craft, something died inside him that day when the business world showed him a skill more powerful than any textbook or professor could.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:22, Sat 31 July 2021.
The GM
GM, 37 posts
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 16:59
  • msg #3

Re: PRELIMINARY 2

Smith:
"Smith..." the elder engineer stood mouth agape, watching the situation run its inevitable course . . .</b>


Erm... in a phrase, what lesson did Smith learn from this experience...?
Smith
player, 16 posts
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 17:07
  • [deleted]
  • msg #4

PRELIMINARY 2

This message was deleted by the player at 17:58, Fri 30 July 2021.
Chukk'Chee
player, 15 posts
Scav Mayhem-Maker!
With nunchuks!
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 17:25
  • msg #5

Re: PRELIMINARY 2

The battle versus MegaCorp's jackbooted thugs was over. Bodies lay everywhere, including a few teammates that Chukk had actually started to like. In anger, he gave the nearest guard an extra kick.

"Did you check the bodies?" asked the squad leader, an Aqua female nicknamed 'Bubbles'.

"They're all dead," Chukk insisted. "Trust me."

"Check the bodies," Bubbles insisted right back.

"They're dead," Chukk repeated. "I'm very efficient."

"For Glug's sake, Chukk'Chee, check the blorking bodies!"

"Fine," Chukk grumbled. He went back to the nearest thug and rolled him onto his back. His eyes were glassy and his tongue lolled out of the corner of his mouth.

"Dead," he announced.

"What's that bulge under his coat?"

"He's just glad to see you."

"Chee!"

"Oh, for the love of—!" Chukk threw open the dead guard's coat.

The timer read 00:03.

...

They'd survived, but barely. Chukk and Bubbles had made it out of the bomb's kill radius, but would both be out of commission for weeks. He was a cartoonish mass of bandages. Bubbles, one bed over, was no better.

"What have we learned, Chee?" Bubbles asked him at least once a day while they recuperated.

His answer was always the same.

"Check the damn bodies."

Elern
player, 6 posts
Err was this guy not
a human when he join
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 22:18
  • msg #6

Re: PRELIMINARY 2

The plan was simple and it had at first worked.  The four of them had to attack a small storage room.  Taking out the two guards.  The Scav demolition expert was setting up the charges to destroy the stores.  Elern and the two other humans with him  was to hold down the reinforcements long enough for the Scav to do his job.

They set themselves up behind some metal drums.  Elern had used his skills to make an area ahead of them dark.  Hard for anybody else to see though.  It was close to a turning in the corridor.  Anybody entering the corridor could not see beyond this point.  Elern directed the two humans weapons taking down anybody that came round the corner.  Or even looked round it.  The MegaCorp, Inc. troops where pinned down nicely.

That was until one of MegaCorp, Inc. troops had got really angry and had a stupid idea.
She backed up the first corridor.  Dropped all her gear but her gun.  Then she had ran full pelt down the first corridor, round the corner and full pelt into the darkness elern had created.

Elern was a little surprise to see someone running full pelt round the cornor and so was a little slow directing the first humans gun on her.  But still he was quick enough for the human to take her out.
The gun jammed. Elern quickly directed the second human's gun.  It too jammed.

The three of them looked at each other as the lady came screening though the blackened area.  The first human drew a pistol and fired downing the lady as she now came into sight.  However it was to late now as the other MegaCorp, Inc. troops came round the corner realizing she had got though.

All that was left was for the three of them to run back and out the tunnel they come in.  Taking the Scav demolition expert with them.  The four of them had escaped but the charges had not gone off.

The mission had failed.
Once they had all got back in a safe area Elern had turn to one of the humans with a questioning look.
The human looked back and shrugged his shoulders.
Sometimes stupid works.  He said.
Elern thought for a moment.  Then answered.  I will have to remember that.
The GM
GM, 42 posts
Fri 30 Jul 2021
at 22:45
  • msg #7

Re: PRELIMINARY 2

Elern:
The plan was simple and it had at first worked.  The four of them had to attack a small storage room.  Taking out the two guards.  The Scav demolition expert was setting up the charges to destroy the stores.  Elern and the two other humans with him  was to hold down the reinforcements long enough for the Scav to do his job.

They set themselves up behind some metal drums.  Elern had used his skills to make an area ahead of them dark.  Hard for anybody else to see though.  It was close to a turning in the corridor.  Anybody entering the corridor could not see beyond this point.  Elern directed the two humans weapons taking down anybody that came round the corner.  Or even looked round it.  The MegaCorp, Inc. troops where pinned down nicely.

That was until one of MegaCorp, Inc. troops had got really angry and had a stupid idea.
She backed up the first corridor.  Dropped all her gear but her gun.  Then she had ran full pelt down the first corridor, round the corner and full pelt into the darkness elern had created.

Elern was a little surprise to see someone running full pelt round the cornor and so was a little slow directing the first humans gun on her.  But still he was quick enough for the human to take her out.
The gun jammed. Elern quickly directed the second human's gun.  It too jammed.

The three of them looked at each other as the lady came screening though the blackened area.  The first human drew a pistol and fired downing the lady as she now came into sight.  However it was to late now as the other MegaCorp, Inc. troops came round the corner realizing she had got though.

All that was left was for the three of them to run back and out the tunnel they come in.  Taking the Scav demolition expert with them.  The four of them had escaped but the charges had not gone off.

The mission had failed.
Once they had all got back in a safe area Elern had turn to one of the humans with a questioning look.
The human looked back and shrugged his shoulders.
Sometimes stupid works.  He said.
Elern thought for a moment.  Then answered.  I will have to remember that.


Yeah, I'm okay with Sometimes stupid works. Write it on your character sheet...
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