Leif's DISCONTINUED GURPS Traveller Game -- IC01

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil -- in the "High Passage" Bar

Ok, between the two of you, assuming Kaira is going to be um 'generous' with the views of her cleavage and both of you are talking-up the high performace capabilities of the Zax, you can get 125% of standard fares from all of the passengers, with little difficulty. Happy now?

 

[Scotley]

With some difficulty, Spider tears his eyes away from Kaira and begins a computer search for menus and shopping lists to provide adequate premium food for the passengers. He fears the usual Zax fare of booze, energy drinks and junk food isn't going to cut it if they were to function as a passenger liner.

 

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil -- in the "High Passage" Bar

[sblock=Lou]When Jimmy is making arrangements for the cargo, the broker that he has plied with reasonably copious amounts of his special 'elixir' pulls him aside and says, "I really shouldn't be doing this, but if you'll bring the rest of your crew back here in about two hours, I'll clue you in on a little secret."[/sblock]

 

[Lou]

James "Jimmy" Beam LIII

Jimmy nods to the broker. Making his way back to Spider he whispers to him, "We need to meet the shipping broker back here in two hours. There may be a problem with one of the cargo loads."

 

[Leif]

OOC: If no one has any pressing needs, can we jump ahead two hours to the meeting?

[sblock=Lou, OOC]BTW, Jimmy, this broker whom you met is called Slim. You assume it's a nickname given in cruel jest, considering his portly girth.[/sblock]

 

[Insight]

OOC: If no one has any pressing needs, can we jump ahead two hours to the meeting?

[sblock=Lou, OOC]BTW, Jimmy, this broker whom you met is called Slim. You assume it's a nickname given in cruel jest, considering his portly girth.[/sblock]

OOC: Is Kaira going to this secret meeting? If so, she'll be "packing" let me know if I need to make Holdout rolls or anything!

 

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil -- in the "High Passage" Bar

OOC: Is Kaira going to this secret meeting? If so, she'll be "packing" let me know if I need to make Holdout rolls or anything!

OOC: Up to you (or to her, I should say). The meeting will take place in the "High Passage." Holdout rolls are probably not necessary. Management doesn't necessarily frown on customers with "heat," as long as they don't flaunt it too much and buy a drink or three.

 

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil -- in the "High Passage" Bar

The Travellers gather at the "High Passage" bar again, Zoe, Kaira, Spider, and Gruffle join Jimmy at his table, where there is also a rather portly Imperial fellow.

"Hello, um, all, call me 'Slim,'" he says, inspecting the racial variety of the crew of the Zax with some slight amusement. "I understand that you're looking for cargo, and, since I feel like I owe Jimmy here a debt of gratitude for his generosity with this exquisite potion he has, I wanted to let you in on a little secret. You may have heard that Inthe has been blessed with a great degree of mineral wealth, in particular, gemstones. Now you can get cargoes of gemstones from virtually any reputable broker, such as myself *ahem*, but if you're willing to look a little harder you can find deals that are much, much sweeter. Have you been down to our southern continent, to the other Starport? I thought not. Down at Szeewochen DownPort South there are um, shall we say, other opportunities. You see, the southernmost continent is where the vast majority of Inthe's Croubeks are to be found. What's a Croubek, you ask? I'm glad you asked me that! Croubeks are, well, they're pretty nasty creatures, really. They look like big (6 feet across) crabs made of coal studded with bright gems, and they have a maw filled with crystal daggers of teeth. The Croubeks secrete a substance that helps them to burrow through the planet's rock at a phenomenally fast pace, and as they're burrowing along, they sweep up the best gems from the deepest parts of Inthe that conventional mining just can't reach. Why do they do this? Don't know, really, I'm happy to say, but they do, and they accumulate large quantities of these gemstones and hoard them in their nests. It's faily easy to spot a Croubek nest - they're just shallow caves in the ice, pretty easy to spot, actually. Now, if you were to go down near Szeewochen Downport and hunt up a good Croubek nest, you could scoop up a hold full of good quality gemstones with just a bit of elbow grease to get them loaded. No charge, if you keep it on the downlow and don't hang around unreasonably long after you get them loaded. So, unless you have any questions, I'll impose upon Jimmy here for another glass of his elixir!" Slim thereupon produces a 1.75 liter "glass" and holds it out to Jimmy expectantly. "Oh, and I'd also appreciate a small finder's fee for this, nothing too extravagant since I'm dropping this on you cold and all -- shall we say CR500, and the 'potion,' and we'll call it even?"

 

[Shayuri]

Zoe rubs her chin skeptically. "So you're suggesting that instead of us paying for gems, we should go raid the nests of giant, coal and gem-crusted crabs who burrow through rock for them? They sound pretty dangerous to me. And raw, uncut gems aren't worth as much anyway. Just how hard can we expect this to be?"

 

[Leif]

Inthe/Glisten en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil -- in the "High Passage" Bar

Slim says, "Well, I wouldn't exactly call it a morning stroll to get the newspaper, but you look like a fit lot. Not like me, I'm sorry to say. But, I would recommend that you take along a slug-thrower with a good power charge."