We gamed last night, our 2nd session. It was a blast. I had such fun, I tried my hand at doing a journal/log to compliment Judd's AP. Judd liked what I did and asked my log to be the starting point for the AP, but I'm including his contribution too. We keep a google doc with all of us having access to add things as we want. It is a very cool game aid.
Librarian's Journal: Sun Washington (Judd's librarian NPC and Judd wrote her journal entry)
Note: If you have somehow broken the encryption on this journal, you are breaking Archive Law. This is the private journal of an Archive-trained fully bonded Librarian and is thus classified. The journal's purpose is for the librarian's own reflection and critique on hir data-collecting techniques.
Archive Date: Jule 21, 3245 Astronaut's Descent
The Valiance Corporation's latest retrieval team has arrived to take the company's latest data key back to Vestal. This team, on board a New Ovid-made scout class slipstream-capable ship, is different than other data retrieval teams. Their research patterns are different and team is made up of a mix of corporate administrators and former military personnel that must make for tense travels among the stars.
The Libertine is a handsome ship with a free-clone captain who reminds me of my own husband when I first met him, so confident concerning what he was told he was bred to do and so unsure of everything else. The crew was very excited to have the services of a Librarian and made good use of the Archive's vast data. They have access at a high level, as the Valiance Corporation is a major sponsor, our security teams all wield custom-altered V.A. weapons.
My first duty was to discover what was the nature of the clones they had in their ship's cargo hold. Apparently, the ship's engineer, Anton Kilkenny, had won them in a card game in a Lodi oxygen mine. The clones turned out to be a lost cadre of special operations soldiers, bred in the highest quality factory-cathedrals of New Ovid.
The squad's specialty was drifting at a satellite or a ship in orbit, making magnetic contact and then wreaking havoc. The Andrews series of clones are legendary. The Libertine had a full compliment of 30 in a state of the art stasis container attached to their ship.
Engineer Log: Lodi Archive docking (I wrote this part)
I think these logs are total waste of time. But to keep our corporate masters happy with the idea we actually read their memos and they read ours, here is my sad attempt.
One heat sink got stuck and would not rotating. Banging on the coupling seemed to do the trick.
Besides that, the Libertine is running very good for a 40+ year old ship.
Upon docking at Archive, met up with Safron Delaney, who is joining our intrepid crew. He is a decent guy for a suit. Picked up some Data Key for Valiance Arms.
VA payed for remarkable amount of access to The Archive. Capt Carter spent his time researching some Clone myths. Rojas helped me look into a decent place to unload the clones I won in that card game awhile back. They are still on ice. Good cargo parameters, their drain on ship's power resources are well within reasonable tolerances.
Researched clones missing manifest, try to figure out what they were grown for. Didn't find much, probably because it is New Ovid black market clones. Not much for the recording and such, these marketeers.
{out of character and for those who read these APs: This is a flat out lie. Clones turned out to be SpecOps, super troopers, spliced with wolf DNA to generate pack hierarchies. They were sold (or kept on ice and recently sold) some 20 years ago by Admiral Zafreet as the war was winding down and he went AWOL into "the Ink". Not only he sold clones, he sold off his "black fleet" over the years. Substantial amounts of mothballed military tech he had dibs on. Our research revealed that Zafreet sits on the board of Valiance Arms and lives a comfortable retired life. He recently sold a military scout ship to VA... that ship turned out to be none other than our very own Libertine. After virtual interaction with the head clone, Col. Jubeska Andrews, they aren't too happy about being sold down the river.
Jubeska requested placement into civilian life on Vestal, the home system of Valiance Arms. We all were a bit squicked about New Ovid SpecOps clones running around Vestal, probably trying to kill Zafreet. Rojas went behind my back and programmed himself to be the Alpha pack leader of the Star Wolves. He admitted his mistake and that is when Carter decided to take them to Binghamton. The thought of keeping them and having our own private army did occur to us... but just doesn't seem right. I did end up changing one of my Aspects to "Heart of Gold" }
I think Capt Carter has decided to wake the clones up on Scranton or somewhere in the Binghamton system, so they can have their own lives and freedom and get them outta our hair. I have no problem with that. I don't feel good making money on the souls of folks, even manufactured folks. You corporate sharks probably think I'm weak for not making a financial killing on this windfall. To that, I can only say; I'm not a suit.
{The game was a lot of fun, very philosophical as we totally debated for most of the short evening on what to do with these clones. Anthony's Safron dug into our pasts using his best skill, science. He totally outrolled my Alertness, but I struggled for a bit as most of my secrets are social... he then suggested that "have I left DNA anywhere" and I got to thinking "maybe I have a kid somewhere out there?" And that clinched it. Anton has a 14 year old daughter named Andrea, who is looking for her dad and submitted a DNA report to match. Her mom, Talia Sackett, is/was a hard scrabble prospector/frontierwoman on Scranton and we had a brief affair 15 years ago. Anton doesn't know...so it didn't go into my engineer log, Saffron does and is going to try and find my daughter when we go to Binghamton system. Very cool. I'm considering swapping a Stunt out and taking Andrea so the Libertine might get a 'cabin girl' and I get a relationship with a spunky frontier adolescent... tie an Aspect on Andrea and knowing Judd, she will be a SERIOUS FATE pt generator.}