If we're out of power find some cables to hook up the car/ATVs.
Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:55 am
TheKebbit
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:24 pm Posts: 3939 Location: NORTH
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
>Council of where? A potential war is something of personal interest, and perhaps the Marines could see action intervening in a planetary conflict.
Sun Jun 25, 2017 4:32 am
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Hm. 3? 3 Food? No, that might not be enough. Go for 5 for now. I'm not a big girl, 5 will be enough. Jerky, beans, fruit will do for now. And some noodles, the tricky devils. (5 meals worth)
Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:14 am
TheMysticDreamer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:04 am Posts: 241
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
CHARACTERS ACTIONS
Judith: Ah looting. The most delightful after-battle routine. You frisk the bodies of the 2 dead bandits. Intelligence + Roll of 5 = 7 + 5 Using their rags, you tie it all into a knapsack onto the crowbar.
Kyr: You unlock your ship with the GalTram and set it off lockdown mode. The ship seems mostly okay, but the jump fuel tank was punctured and requires both a repair and refueling. However, the ship is still usable for short distances, mainly within the system.
Jakob: You investigate the news article. The Royal Council, the democratic branch of the Dorwin Empire, has had a proposal put forth by the Majority party, the DPF (Dorwin Protection Front), the conservative monarchist party. The LDC (Liberal Dorwin Coalition), the Opposition has strongly dissented with this, and with an even split of representatives, the king's 25 votes will most likely swing the chamber of 100. The Sunetland is a large piece of land that over the last 300-400 years, has slowly been increasing in population of an ethnic group called the Vechis, currently under Dorwin protection, and the local Vechi government has been pushing for the liberation or integration of the area for quite some time. Only currently, with the economy mostly repired, land integrated, and the semi-allies of the Bunok making gains in their war do the Dorwinions feel like this is a good idea.
Arica: 5 meals of food. You buy 3 packs of instant ramen along with water heater packets, 2 cans of beans, 3 cans of generic fruit, and 2 packs of jerky, along with the notepad and a decent-sized canteen for 25GC.
Judith Trovare (CaveCricket48)
Name: Judith Trovare
Race: Human
Backstory: Born with a cataract in her right eye, Trovare spent the first few years of her life half-blind until her lower class family managed to scrap enough money together to have her right eye fixed at a shady medical clinic in the crime-rampant isolated space station where she lived. While this was successful in removing the cataract, it left her right eye with a distorted eye lens, requiring a heavy optical correctional lens so she could see properly. Despite her less than stellar vision, she has a high attention to detail almost to a fault, making her adept in engineering weapons and instruments.
Description: A somewhat-short, lithe female in her early 20s. Short brown hair, brown eyes, and pale skin from a lack of natural light. She wears a pair of metal round-framed glasses that only have a single lens, which is for her right eye.
Abilities: Critical Eye - Hold still and analyze. Temporarily decrease Agility by 2 and increase Perception by 4. Steady Hand - Nimble fingers find a place tinkering with delicate machinery or pulling the trigger on the perfect shot. Increase success for fine tasks by 3.
Contacts: Kark Hopkins - Brown-haired, light-skinned, lanky and roughly shaven. Fellow engineer, often works with Judith to get large builds together and occasionally a competitor on black-market arms dealing. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
Charles "Charlie" Harrison - Judith's loyal customer that works as a part-time bodyguard. Short dark hair, slightly tanned skin. Tall and strong, but not exactly a walking mass of muscle. He's decent with a gun, but often misses critical shots.
Tabi Konai - Long black hair, dark skin, small frame. Infamous for blowing up government buildings. She has a knack for electronics, be it remote-controlled detonators or rigging up a basic computer from scrap electronics. On good terms with Judith, the two often trading equipment/materials and information or working on a coop project.
John Freemaneth - Average height, short hair, athletic build. Pretty sure that's not his real name, but he can't remember ♥♥♥♥ ever since he got smacked in the head with a brick in an alley fight. Judith throws weapons and equipment at him, points him at a job that needs taking care of, and he more or less gets it done, only asking for new toys in return.
Backstory: A vanguard colonist and military vacuum repair worker attached to a far outpost of human civilization. Serving aboard the heavy polar-orbit station CMS3920 - a monolith of steel towed from system to system in the belly of super-battleships that drove back the dark frontier - Stennard served three 6-year terms firing exploration crawlers and terraforming packages from his orbital home down into unknown worlds. Nurturing and defending fledgling colonies was not without its dangers, as savage pirates and rivals to humanity assailed the CMS with everything they had to kill its crew and loot the planets.
The attack that led to Stennard's honorable discharge from the navy left him bleeding and marooned for 170 days in the guts of the CMS, left behind in the chaos after the evacuation shuttles took away all his colleagues. Trapped in the station's corpse with a burnt radio transmitter, he nearly lost his mind. When late-coming salvage crews cut open the wreck expecting to find valuable equipment, they found only an emaciated man.
Returning home to a failed marriage, an Earth family that forgot him and a pension not enough to support his medical debts, he has returned to space to find friendship and make his fortune.
Description: Swarthy, shaven skull, scars and lines in the features. Dark eyes which are noticeably sunken in; Stennard shows heavy signs of wear. His shattered chest cavity is partially supported with a mesh of biocompatible plastics - Stennard's breathing is deep and slow, and he chews blue wads of painkilling gum to forget that he is no longer the man he used to be. His disposition is warm, though he has good excuse to be cynical. He is only glad to be alive, to see the stars for some time longer.
Abilities: Will Through Pain - Stennard's hardened system means that for purposes of pain calculation, his dice total is multiplied by 7 rather than 10 in the final step that determines whether he has been stunned by trauma. Null-G Control/Exobody - Intimately familiar with the mechanics of spacesuits, manipulator arms and hard orbital maneuvers performed with shuttles and manned maneuvering units. Excellent working knowledge of life support and orbit-keeping functions of space stations.
Contacts: Rackham Modular Orbital Systems: a firm specializing in all things related to space hab assembly and commercial exploitation of planetary orbit. Architects of the standardized power, life support and data linkage protocols used in civilian stations throughout human space. Its executives are willing to cut Stennard unusual deals, knowing that he is qualified to deliver on their investments.
Major Conrad Devlin: commanding officer of the CMS, a war hero and expert pilot who continues burning pirates out on the frontier in a stealthed frigate which has become notorious for bringing just death to ruthless warlords. Assisted Stennard in evacuating the station during its dying descent. Never forgave himself for accidentally leaving Stennard behind.
Dr. Genevieve Martel: an ecosystem engineer of some renown, responsible for developing the Martel Optimized Phototroph biosphere that is used for famine relief on backwater worlds. Aboard the CMS during its final moments - Stennard saved her life.
Janna: favorite childhood friend. A mathematical prodigy who studied the mysteries of FTL travel in a prestigious Lunar university while Stennard was drafted into the frontier corps. Separated physically, but never forgotten by each other.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram (Connected to Eriborth Network)
Inventory: 9840 GalCreds Room Key (Capital Suite) Major Devlin's Recommendation
Kyr(maart3n)
Name: Kyr
Race: Twea'd: Bipedal lanky humanoids with 4 long arms. Extremely dextrous but physically frail.
Stats: Strength 2 Agility 4 Perception 4 Speed 3 + 2 Intelligence 4 + 1 Charisma 2 + 3 Will 2 Tetrabrachius: Can manipulate four things at once
Skills: Slick Willy: Can talk himself out of almost every situation. +2 to Charisma, +4 if being interrogated. Split vision: No/lower penalty to aiming at multiple things at once.
Associates: "Nico": A clone bred to be a fighter pilot turned aerospacecraft salesman. Nico can provide and modify anything that flies. Jonah Silverton: Arms Dealer Mike Re: Fence "Fox's legacy": Heavily modified Gaunt-class gunship. Two seat cockpit layout swapped for a single seat with an extra stick on either side to control the ball turrets on the sides of the fuselage. Forward turret swapped for gun array. Room for 6 passengers and 40 cubic meters of cargo. (think B25-H with some 40k fire raptor mixed in.)
Inventory: 7430 GalCreds 96 Rounds 00 Buckshot 3 12 Round 10.5mm Magazines (12/12) (0/12) 120 Rounds 10.5mm Standard Green Sedan Keys
5/8 P, 6 S -37% Effectiveness
Arica(TorrentHKU)
Name: "Celsius" Arica
Race: Human
Backstory: A bit of a mystery. 3 years ago, a pale girl in a ripped jumpsuit shows up in a battered pod on a no name station in the middle of nowhere, and then through pantomime and a bit of writing, manages to get food, clothes, and travel to a central hub station. From there, she's gone on to make something of a name for herself with an unusual set of innate magical abilities, wordlessly taking all sorts of small time mercenary work to make ends meet. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks she's doing. Whether it's by choice or inability, no one she's met can claim to have heard her speak. Since then, she's found two more people with similar magic to her own, though none are willing to share anything about their background. Her nickname "Celsius" is thought to come from both her skill with thermal magic, and her general behavior as an "Ice Queen".
Description: A strikingly beautiful young woman, probably in her mid twenties, with pale skin, a thin frame, and long silvery hair down to her waist. Constantly has an expressionless or vacant look on her face. Never seems to show emotion, never talks.
Abilities: Ice Queen - Her thermal magic allows her to rapidly cool and even freeze things within several feet of her. Works especially well on water, easily forming ice shards. Frozen - Even in tremendous stress or danger, Arica never loses her cool. Resistant to panic or intimidation.
Contacts: "Salamander" Om - An older human man, at least 60 years old. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to fire. Has great skill with his flames, though not much power. A skilled machinist and welder.
"Behemoth" Shorwick - A middle aged man, probably about 30, built like a bear. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to metal. Can powerfully manipulate metal, tearing panels off walls and warping it with only his force of will. Likes to make improvised armor from the floor and then charge into enemies during mercenary work.
Hecate Shorish - Young woman similar age to Arica. Dark skin and hair, energetic and proud. Shuttle pilot, always willing to fly Arica if she's nearby, or really needs it. Met on a mercenary job, became friends after Arica's abilities prevented the shuttle she was driving from meltdown while redlining it to flee from pursuers.
Catalina Hendricks - 44 year old woman, owns a successful exotic pet business that sells to stations all across the galaxy. Met Arica while touring one of the retail outlets for her business. Arica entered one the store with an armful of stray cats, hoping to find someone to care for them. Knows a surprising number of people in high places with exotic pets.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
Inventory: 9855 GalCreds Room Key (Double Bed) Map 2 Cans of Beans 3 Cans of Generic Fruit 2 Packs of Beef Jerky Notepad w/ Pen Canteen
Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:31 pm
CaveCricket48
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm Posts: 13143 Location: Here
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Reload all of the magazines (including the ones in the guns), flip those safeties on. Return the hatchet to the car.
Follow Kyr or whatever.
Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:37 pm
maart3n
Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:04 pm Posts: 1545
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
"Let's get the car and those ATV's into the cargo hold and fly back to town."
Make sure to properly tie the car down before flying to town and finding a good landing spot, preferably with a refuelling station and some tools.
Tue Jun 27, 2017 2:37 am
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> ALRIGHT TIME TO ADVENTURE TO THE CLIFFS
Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:10 am
TheKebbit
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:24 pm Posts: 3939 Location: NORTH
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
>Fascinating. It really makes you wonder how they manage to balance semidemocracy with a world of late medieval tech. >>Put down the transmitter and get ready for bed. >>>Dream of home and the Moon.
Tue Jun 27, 2017 4:21 am
TheMysticDreamer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:04 am Posts: 241
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
CHARACTERS ACTIONS
Judith: You load all of the guns and turn the safeties on.After that, you help Kyr get the cars and ATVs into his ship, before hopping into one of the seats in the rear.
Kyr: After loading all of the vehicles into the craft, you look on the map for a place to land in the town. The outskirts are pretty clear, but there's no refueling station nearby except for one in the capital, Vinra, and one in another town, a bit further, called Jonsvir. So, where do you head?
Jakob: You close your GalTram and lie down on your bed, and quickly fall asleep. Your dreams are filled with old friends, and the planets, swirling around you. Anything else?
Arica: Hike, hike, hike. You walk for a decent while, before you see a large man, sitting on a stump. what do you do?
Judith Trovare (CaveCricket48)
Name: Judith Trovare
Race: Human
Backstory: Born with a cataract in her right eye, Trovare spent the first few years of her life half-blind until her lower class family managed to scrap enough money together to have her right eye fixed at a shady medical clinic in the crime-rampant isolated space station where she lived. While this was successful in removing the cataract, it left her right eye with a distorted eye lens, requiring a heavy optical correctional lens so she could see properly. Despite her less than stellar vision, she has a high attention to detail almost to a fault, making her adept in engineering weapons and instruments.
Description: A somewhat-short, lithe female in her early 20s. Short brown hair, brown eyes, and pale skin from a lack of natural light. She wears a pair of metal round-framed glasses that only have a single lens, which is for her right eye.
Abilities: Critical Eye - Hold still and analyze. Temporarily decrease Agility by 2 and increase Perception by 4. Steady Hand - Nimble fingers find a place tinkering with delicate machinery or pulling the trigger on the perfect shot. Increase success for fine tasks by 3.
Contacts: Kark Hopkins - Brown-haired, light-skinned, lanky and roughly shaven. Fellow engineer, often works with Judith to get large builds together and occasionally a competitor on black-market arms dealing. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
Charles "Charlie" Harrison - Judith's loyal customer that works as a part-time bodyguard. Short dark hair, slightly tanned skin. Tall and strong, but not exactly a walking mass of muscle. He's decent with a gun, but often misses critical shots.
Tabi Konai - Long black hair, dark skin, small frame. Infamous for blowing up government buildings. She has a knack for electronics, be it remote-controlled detonators or rigging up a basic computer from scrap electronics. On good terms with Judith, the two often trading equipment/materials and information or working on a coop project.
John Freemaneth - Average height, short hair, athletic build. Pretty sure that's not his real name, but he can't remember ♥♥♥♥ ever since he got smacked in the head with a brick in an alley fight. Judith throws weapons and equipment at him, points him at a job that needs taking care of, and he more or less gets it done, only asking for new toys in return.
Backstory: A vanguard colonist and military vacuum repair worker attached to a far outpost of human civilization. Serving aboard the heavy polar-orbit station CMS3920 - a monolith of steel towed from system to system in the belly of super-battleships that drove back the dark frontier - Stennard served three 6-year terms firing exploration crawlers and terraforming packages from his orbital home down into unknown worlds. Nurturing and defending fledgling colonies was not without its dangers, as savage pirates and rivals to humanity assailed the CMS with everything they had to kill its crew and loot the planets.
The attack that led to Stennard's honorable discharge from the navy left him bleeding and marooned for 170 days in the guts of the CMS, left behind in the chaos after the evacuation shuttles took away all his colleagues. Trapped in the station's corpse with a burnt radio transmitter, he nearly lost his mind. When late-coming salvage crews cut open the wreck expecting to find valuable equipment, they found only an emaciated man.
Returning home to a failed marriage, an Earth family that forgot him and a pension not enough to support his medical debts, he has returned to space to find friendship and make his fortune.
Description: Swarthy, shaven skull, scars and lines in the features. Dark eyes which are noticeably sunken in; Stennard shows heavy signs of wear. His shattered chest cavity is partially supported with a mesh of biocompatible plastics - Stennard's breathing is deep and slow, and he chews blue wads of painkilling gum to forget that he is no longer the man he used to be. His disposition is warm, though he has good excuse to be cynical. He is only glad to be alive, to see the stars for some time longer.
Abilities: Will Through Pain - Stennard's hardened system means that for purposes of pain calculation, his dice total is multiplied by 7 rather than 10 in the final step that determines whether he has been stunned by trauma. Null-G Control/Exobody - Intimately familiar with the mechanics of spacesuits, manipulator arms and hard orbital maneuvers performed with shuttles and manned maneuvering units. Excellent working knowledge of life support and orbit-keeping functions of space stations.
Contacts: Rackham Modular Orbital Systems: a firm specializing in all things related to space hab assembly and commercial exploitation of planetary orbit. Architects of the standardized power, life support and data linkage protocols used in civilian stations throughout human space. Its executives are willing to cut Stennard unusual deals, knowing that he is qualified to deliver on their investments.
Major Conrad Devlin: commanding officer of the CMS, a war hero and expert pilot who continues burning pirates out on the frontier in a stealthed frigate which has become notorious for bringing just death to ruthless warlords. Assisted Stennard in evacuating the station during its dying descent. Never forgave himself for accidentally leaving Stennard behind.
Dr. Genevieve Martel: an ecosystem engineer of some renown, responsible for developing the Martel Optimized Phototroph biosphere that is used for famine relief on backwater worlds. Aboard the CMS during its final moments - Stennard saved her life.
Janna: favorite childhood friend. A mathematical prodigy who studied the mysteries of FTL travel in a prestigious Lunar university while Stennard was drafted into the frontier corps. Separated physically, but never forgotten by each other.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram (Connected to Eriborth Network)
Inventory: 9840 GalCreds Room Key (Capital Suite) Major Devlin's Recommendation
Kyr(maart3n)
Name: Kyr
Race: Twea'd: Bipedal lanky humanoids with 4 long arms. Extremely dextrous but physically frail.
Stats: Strength 2 Agility 4 Perception 4 Speed 3 + 2 Intelligence 4 + 1 Charisma 2 + 3 Will 2 Tetrabrachius: Can manipulate four things at once
Skills: Slick Willy: Can talk himself out of almost every situation. +2 to Charisma, +4 if being interrogated. Split vision: No/lower penalty to aiming at multiple things at once.
Associates: "Nico": A clone bred to be a fighter pilot turned aerospacecraft salesman. Nico can provide and modify anything that flies. Jonah Silverton: Arms Dealer Mike Re: Fence "Fox's legacy": Heavily modified Gaunt-class gunship. Two seat cockpit layout swapped for a single seat with an extra stick on either side to control the ball turrets on the sides of the fuselage. Forward turret swapped for gun array. Room for 6 passengers and 40 cubic meters of cargo. (think B25-H with some 40k fire raptor mixed in.)
Inventory: 7430 GalCreds 96 Rounds 00 Buckshot 3 12 Round 10.5mm Magazines (12/12) (0/12) 120 Rounds 10.5mm Standard Green Sedan Keys
5/8 P, 6 S -37% Effectiveness
Arica(TorrentHKU)
Name: "Celsius" Arica
Race: Human
Backstory: A bit of a mystery. 3 years ago, a pale girl in a ripped jumpsuit shows up in a battered pod on a no name station in the middle of nowhere, and then through pantomime and a bit of writing, manages to get food, clothes, and travel to a central hub station. From there, she's gone on to make something of a name for herself with an unusual set of innate magical abilities, wordlessly taking all sorts of small time mercenary work to make ends meet. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks she's doing. Whether it's by choice or inability, no one she's met can claim to have heard her speak. Since then, she's found two more people with similar magic to her own, though none are willing to share anything about their background. Her nickname "Celsius" is thought to come from both her skill with thermal magic, and her general behavior as an "Ice Queen".
Description: A strikingly beautiful young woman, probably in her mid twenties, with pale skin, a thin frame, and long silvery hair down to her waist. Constantly has an expressionless or vacant look on her face. Never seems to show emotion, never talks.
Abilities: Ice Queen - Her thermal magic allows her to rapidly cool and even freeze things within several feet of her. Works especially well on water, easily forming ice shards. Frozen - Even in tremendous stress or danger, Arica never loses her cool. Resistant to panic or intimidation.
Contacts: "Salamander" Om - An older human man, at least 60 years old. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to fire. Has great skill with his flames, though not much power. A skilled machinist and welder.
"Behemoth" Shorwick - A middle aged man, probably about 30, built like a bear. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to metal. Can powerfully manipulate metal, tearing panels off walls and warping it with only his force of will. Likes to make improvised armor from the floor and then charge into enemies during mercenary work.
Hecate Shorish - Young woman similar age to Arica. Dark skin and hair, energetic and proud. Shuttle pilot, always willing to fly Arica if she's nearby, or really needs it. Met on a mercenary job, became friends after Arica's abilities prevented the shuttle she was driving from meltdown while redlining it to flee from pursuers.
Catalina Hendricks - 44 year old woman, owns a successful exotic pet business that sells to stations all across the galaxy. Met Arica while touring one of the retail outlets for her business. Arica entered one the store with an armful of stray cats, hoping to find someone to care for them. Knows a surprising number of people in high places with exotic pets.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
Inventory: 9855 GalCreds Room Key (Double Bed) Map 2 Cans of Beans 3 Cans of Generic Fruit 2 Packs of Beef Jerky Notepad w/ Pen Canteen
Fox's Legacy
Cargo: 2 ATVs Green Sedan
Last edited by TheMysticDreamer on Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:14 am, edited 1 time in total.
Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:04 pm
maart3n
Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:04 pm Posts: 1545
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
"Can I have my pistol back?" Check fuel levels to see if we can make a quick hop back to town to maybe pick up our fellow shipbreakees, if not fly to the refuelling station first.
Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:07 pm
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
I don't think you updated mine.
Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:38 am
CaveCricket48
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm Posts: 13143 Location: Here
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Give Kyr his pistol back. Keep one of the bandit pistols on my person for readiness. Also flip those safeties on.
Wed Jun 28, 2017 2:30 am
TheMysticDreamer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:04 am Posts: 241
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
HKU: Sorry, fixed.
Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:15 am
TheKebbit
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:24 pm Posts: 3939 Location: NORTH
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
>Where is my son? My son, James, I hope he is growing up well. I will never see him again. She sees no reason to put him in contact with his vanished father.
>Where is Janna? I need to see her again. It's been so long.
>The dreamer sinks deeper.
Wed Jun 28, 2017 6:47 pm
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
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