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    [Diaspora] Friday Night Science Fiction

    A letter home... My lady Min- By the time this letter finds you, I expect you to be settled in my home on Vestal. I do not know when I shall see you again, exactly, as not only is this team constantly sent on missions by Valiance, we consistently find trouble on our own and timeliness does...
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    [Diaspora] Friday Night Science Fiction

    I need to correct myself in regards to the previous sessions social combat - Min used Charm to place a free tag on me labeled "seduced", it was any attempts to use that tag later that amounted to being less than helpful for her. - JC
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    [Diaspora] Friday Night Science Fiction

    I want to expand on what Paka wrote about social combat. One of the nice things about it was that the players could work as a team, or not, and it could change in the course of the battle. Paul started out wanting a profit, while the others started over in anti-slavery. While we wound up not...
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    [Diaspora] Friday Night Science Fiction

    We actually were tossing around naming conventions at the beginning of system creation and one of the suggestions was Greek Myth, which was used to name many of the towns around here. As we began to get more of a feel of the systems, though, they sort of solidified in to the feel of some of the...
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    [Diaspora] Friday Night Science Fiction

    I see what you are saying. Ironically (maybe?) my character is the company man who's main objective in life seems to be making sure the bottom line comes out at a profit - think Paul Reiser's character from Aliens - so there may be some hard choices in there. We may pride ourselves on...
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    [Diaspora] Friday Night Science Fiction

    Hope I can see where you got the hope, I think, since the introduction to the manual posted seems to be an indicator of the corporate growth, but remember, those *are* "recruiting materials" so to speak. ;) At the table, the game... well, it isn't absent hope, but there's definitely some...
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