Episode 3: Pirate's Booty
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMOjAYO3ifg&list=PLZkKcJGQQeNJPXJHmFBzXgigeUlubjERZ
So, when we last left off our players had killed a person on camera and now have a 100,000 credit bounty on their head. They fled to the Muscae system for sanctuary. In the 2 months it took to get there, they've been bored as hell. Most of them updated their skills and careers in the time...also we apparently have a 3D printer and "printed" some new gear. Whatever.
The Muscae system is mysterious to most of the universe. It's home to the venetians and their newly formed Space Butterfly religion (they worship a giant butterfly that hatched from a nearby ice giant). They separated from the rest of the universe after the galactic wars and now shun everyone except traders.
The team now live on the Orion Trading Station. It's the smallest station in the system and is mainly just for trade. They've been living in the hanger bay for a month and haven't made many friends. Because of the tight security and lack of trade, smuggling isn't a fruitful trade. They've been sitting on their hands for a while.
That is, until they get a call from Verner. He explains that the police found out that the team stole documents from Slugworth's office that probably tied the dead man to the Star Families. Because of that, the police are doubling their efforts. Bora has been looking through the documents but can't decipher the legal jargon.
However, Verner didn't call them to tell them that. He has a job for them. The Muscae system is home to the Psi-Corp and they are housing a cash cow of psychic relics. Verner knows that these relics are fetching a HUGE price on the black market. He got in contact with a corrupt Psi-cop that's willing to sell them the relics. At the mention of her being a psychic, Ruby gets an MP3 player and blasts music to make sure she can't read his mind...he also covers his head in tin foil. The group jumps at the chance to finally do something, especially Elieth when he hears it's a woman. He puts on his nice hat, ready for his date...I mean meeting!
Before they can leave, they're confronted by Dock Master Aurae.
Dock Master Aurae
"Your Rent is Late!"
The tough talking master of the space dock on the Orion Station. She manages all the incoming ships that enter the Muscae system. She's tough and doesn't like people being late.
Aurae asks Elieth for his rent which he quickly hands over. Aurae also asks them why they've been in the Muscae system for so long. They try to convince her that they're traders but she's unconvinced since she never sees them loading cargo. She asks them if they're criminals because she might want to hire them in exchange for rent. Despite that, they deny her and she leaves.
Ayen meeting them in the only bar in the system (the venetians banned alcohol). It's not that hard to spot her, as she's doing her best to not be seen...in a very loud and obvious way. Bora contacts her through his psychic powers and she agrees to meet with them.
Ayen
"Corrupt Psi-Cop"
She's working for Verner to supply him with psychic relics. Her reasons are shrouded in mystery.
Elieth tries to use his "charms" on her but she responds by almost breaking his hand. After that's settled, she reveals that something happened. They go back to the ship to discuss things in private and she reveals that she lost the relic. After she stole it, she hid it for the drop. Someone stole it. Luckily she knows who. Groups of pirates have been flooding into the system. Some of them managed to find the relic. When the crew wants to tell Verner, Ayen is shocked and immediately stops them. They ask her what's wrong but all she says is that this job is important.
Luckily, Ayen knows a snitch that will get them a meeting with the pirates. After an hour, she finds him...
Space Station Billy
"There's Gold in them there Space!"
Mental Status: Insane. Financial Status: Lost it all to a mule. Marital Status: Committed to his sandwich.
Billy leads them to the pirate's base after they pay him a hefty price. A sandwich. Before the meeting, they want to make sure Elieth looks like he actually has the cash to buy the relic. As of now, he looks like he will need a loan for lunch. They get him a suit. Elieth also wants some gun polish but meets up with a very forceful borian. He wants to sell Elieth some diamond gun polish. When Elieth refuses, he keeps going down in quality such as gold gun polish, silver gun polish and diamondium gun polish (the most beautiful substance in the universe). In the end, they decide that Bora and Vera acting as his bodyguards will look intimidating enough.
The pirates are hidden in the trading port on the Orion Station. Through bribes and secrecy, there's a large section of the trading port that's hidden for black market activity. The pirates are suspicious of the group. They're composed of a bunch of dwarves with laser axes. There's a few other grunts with guns in the room. The pirates want 600 thousand for the Starfire Wrath relic. They bring out a large stone shaped like a star. Elieth tries to bluff the pirates to get their trust but fails miserably. It's at that point where Bora and Vera jump into combat. They get access to the ambush round, along with Ruby who was listening in at the door.
Vera and Bora jump at the grunts pointing guns at them. With a slash of his psi-blade, one does down and Vera shoots another. Ruby jumps into the room and slashed through a grunts stomach before decapitating him. Elieth runs behind a table and kicks it over for cover.
Regular combat starts and the dwarfs rush towards our heroes. They're kept at bay for a while with some lucky shots thanks to Vera. One gets pissed and smashed the table where Elieth is hiding. Some of the other pirates have magic and try to shoot ice beams at Ruby but he just dodges them like a boss. Ruby them activates spin to win and cuts through a dwarfs gut and head. The dwarf is bleeding heavily and is clearly almost dead.
Sa'La is in a tight spot because she's stuck outside but does manage to buff Ruby using a spell. The dwarfs are wrecked by Vera and Bora but one does slip by and strikes Elieth, knocking him out. No one seems to notice...
One wizard tries to distract Ruby while the other runs out of the room. Ruby cuts down the wizard with ease and then finished off the dwarf. The other runs out the door and is face to face with Sa'La. Sa'La, equally surprised, stabs him with a poison spell, killing him instantly. Before rushing inside, she notices that there's a blinking light on his jacket.
The battle ends with Bora thrusting his psi-blade through one dwarf who curses the party before dying. Vera shoots another dwarf, her tries to warn the party of something but Vera just shoots his head off. The battle is over.
Ruby is now focused on finding a janitors closet to clean up the blood. Sa'La makes a pocket dimension to hide the bodies, the relic, and some crates they find. Before that, they notice the blinking light is attacked to a communicator with a few messages on it such as, "why did you activate your SOS?" or "What's going on?" They decide to book it before anyone finds out. Bora tries to send a message saying everything's fine but a new message pops up saying "we know who you are."
They leave but the large streets are empty and silent when before there was the oppressive environment of the possibility that you might die. They turn a corner and see a bunch of dead pirates. They turn around and find a felan that looks more like an android. She introduces herself as Yara Spalding.
Fleet Captain Yara Spalding
"One Man's Hero, Another's Worst Nightmare"
She's a powerful felan that modified her body beyond belief. Captain of a fleet of pirates that are all under her control. She has ambitions in the Muscae system.
She seems really happy to see the party. At first, she wanted to kill them and even chased them across space. But after finding how remote the Muscae system is, she decided that they did her a favor. She thanked them by killing the pirates that were about to kill them. Before she leaves they try to attack but in a flash she has her metal claws at Bora and Elieth's throats. She bids them goodbye.
They get back to the ship to find Ayen freaking out. Someone's killed a bunch of Star Marines and Psi-Cops and she thought it was them. The station's on lock down so they can't leave for now. They're fine and just wait it out for now.
Bora goes into the pocket dimension and looks through the crates. They have a bunch of weapons and drugs. Bora wants to sell them.
Ruby wants to look for bounties on the pirates they killed. The dwarves all have bounties. Before he lots off the Matrix, he gets a mysterious message. The address is complete gibberish. It says that Ruby has a package waiting, does he accept? He does and there's a package waiting to be picked up addressed to Ruby.
That's where we left off. I think the session went well. Sa'La's player was having trouble because he hadn't updated his entire spell lists to the updated document. Other then that, I think everyone had fun and combat ran smoothly. Thanks to the new OLD monster doc, I now know how to balance an encounter and this one felt better. I just need to up the difficulty for these guys. Muahahaha!
Not much else to say really.
Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMOjAYO3ifg&list=PLZkKcJGQQeNJPXJHmFBzXgigeUlubjERZ
So, when we last left off our players had killed a person on camera and now have a 100,000 credit bounty on their head. They fled to the Muscae system for sanctuary. In the 2 months it took to get there, they've been bored as hell. Most of them updated their skills and careers in the time...also we apparently have a 3D printer and "printed" some new gear. Whatever.
The Muscae system is mysterious to most of the universe. It's home to the venetians and their newly formed Space Butterfly religion (they worship a giant butterfly that hatched from a nearby ice giant). They separated from the rest of the universe after the galactic wars and now shun everyone except traders.
The team now live on the Orion Trading Station. It's the smallest station in the system and is mainly just for trade. They've been living in the hanger bay for a month and haven't made many friends. Because of the tight security and lack of trade, smuggling isn't a fruitful trade. They've been sitting on their hands for a while.
That is, until they get a call from Verner. He explains that the police found out that the team stole documents from Slugworth's office that probably tied the dead man to the Star Families. Because of that, the police are doubling their efforts. Bora has been looking through the documents but can't decipher the legal jargon.
However, Verner didn't call them to tell them that. He has a job for them. The Muscae system is home to the Psi-Corp and they are housing a cash cow of psychic relics. Verner knows that these relics are fetching a HUGE price on the black market. He got in contact with a corrupt Psi-cop that's willing to sell them the relics. At the mention of her being a psychic, Ruby gets an MP3 player and blasts music to make sure she can't read his mind...he also covers his head in tin foil. The group jumps at the chance to finally do something, especially Elieth when he hears it's a woman. He puts on his nice hat, ready for his date...I mean meeting!
Before they can leave, they're confronted by Dock Master Aurae.
Dock Master Aurae
"Your Rent is Late!"
The tough talking master of the space dock on the Orion Station. She manages all the incoming ships that enter the Muscae system. She's tough and doesn't like people being late.
Aurae asks Elieth for his rent which he quickly hands over. Aurae also asks them why they've been in the Muscae system for so long. They try to convince her that they're traders but she's unconvinced since she never sees them loading cargo. She asks them if they're criminals because she might want to hire them in exchange for rent. Despite that, they deny her and she leaves.
Ayen meeting them in the only bar in the system (the venetians banned alcohol). It's not that hard to spot her, as she's doing her best to not be seen...in a very loud and obvious way. Bora contacts her through his psychic powers and she agrees to meet with them.
Ayen
"Corrupt Psi-Cop"
She's working for Verner to supply him with psychic relics. Her reasons are shrouded in mystery.
Elieth tries to use his "charms" on her but she responds by almost breaking his hand. After that's settled, she reveals that something happened. They go back to the ship to discuss things in private and she reveals that she lost the relic. After she stole it, she hid it for the drop. Someone stole it. Luckily she knows who. Groups of pirates have been flooding into the system. Some of them managed to find the relic. When the crew wants to tell Verner, Ayen is shocked and immediately stops them. They ask her what's wrong but all she says is that this job is important.
Luckily, Ayen knows a snitch that will get them a meeting with the pirates. After an hour, she finds him...
Space Station Billy
"There's Gold in them there Space!"
Mental Status: Insane. Financial Status: Lost it all to a mule. Marital Status: Committed to his sandwich.
Billy leads them to the pirate's base after they pay him a hefty price. A sandwich. Before the meeting, they want to make sure Elieth looks like he actually has the cash to buy the relic. As of now, he looks like he will need a loan for lunch. They get him a suit. Elieth also wants some gun polish but meets up with a very forceful borian. He wants to sell Elieth some diamond gun polish. When Elieth refuses, he keeps going down in quality such as gold gun polish, silver gun polish and diamondium gun polish (the most beautiful substance in the universe). In the end, they decide that Bora and Vera acting as his bodyguards will look intimidating enough.
The pirates are hidden in the trading port on the Orion Station. Through bribes and secrecy, there's a large section of the trading port that's hidden for black market activity. The pirates are suspicious of the group. They're composed of a bunch of dwarves with laser axes. There's a few other grunts with guns in the room. The pirates want 600 thousand for the Starfire Wrath relic. They bring out a large stone shaped like a star. Elieth tries to bluff the pirates to get their trust but fails miserably. It's at that point where Bora and Vera jump into combat. They get access to the ambush round, along with Ruby who was listening in at the door.
Vera and Bora jump at the grunts pointing guns at them. With a slash of his psi-blade, one does down and Vera shoots another. Ruby jumps into the room and slashed through a grunts stomach before decapitating him. Elieth runs behind a table and kicks it over for cover.
Regular combat starts and the dwarfs rush towards our heroes. They're kept at bay for a while with some lucky shots thanks to Vera. One gets pissed and smashed the table where Elieth is hiding. Some of the other pirates have magic and try to shoot ice beams at Ruby but he just dodges them like a boss. Ruby them activates spin to win and cuts through a dwarfs gut and head. The dwarf is bleeding heavily and is clearly almost dead.
Sa'La is in a tight spot because she's stuck outside but does manage to buff Ruby using a spell. The dwarfs are wrecked by Vera and Bora but one does slip by and strikes Elieth, knocking him out. No one seems to notice...
One wizard tries to distract Ruby while the other runs out of the room. Ruby cuts down the wizard with ease and then finished off the dwarf. The other runs out the door and is face to face with Sa'La. Sa'La, equally surprised, stabs him with a poison spell, killing him instantly. Before rushing inside, she notices that there's a blinking light on his jacket.
The battle ends with Bora thrusting his psi-blade through one dwarf who curses the party before dying. Vera shoots another dwarf, her tries to warn the party of something but Vera just shoots his head off. The battle is over.
Ruby is now focused on finding a janitors closet to clean up the blood. Sa'La makes a pocket dimension to hide the bodies, the relic, and some crates they find. Before that, they notice the blinking light is attacked to a communicator with a few messages on it such as, "why did you activate your SOS?" or "What's going on?" They decide to book it before anyone finds out. Bora tries to send a message saying everything's fine but a new message pops up saying "we know who you are."
They leave but the large streets are empty and silent when before there was the oppressive environment of the possibility that you might die. They turn a corner and see a bunch of dead pirates. They turn around and find a felan that looks more like an android. She introduces herself as Yara Spalding.
Fleet Captain Yara Spalding
"One Man's Hero, Another's Worst Nightmare"
She's a powerful felan that modified her body beyond belief. Captain of a fleet of pirates that are all under her control. She has ambitions in the Muscae system.
She seems really happy to see the party. At first, she wanted to kill them and even chased them across space. But after finding how remote the Muscae system is, she decided that they did her a favor. She thanked them by killing the pirates that were about to kill them. Before she leaves they try to attack but in a flash she has her metal claws at Bora and Elieth's throats. She bids them goodbye.
They get back to the ship to find Ayen freaking out. Someone's killed a bunch of Star Marines and Psi-Cops and she thought it was them. The station's on lock down so they can't leave for now. They're fine and just wait it out for now.
Bora goes into the pocket dimension and looks through the crates. They have a bunch of weapons and drugs. Bora wants to sell them.
Ruby wants to look for bounties on the pirates they killed. The dwarves all have bounties. Before he lots off the Matrix, he gets a mysterious message. The address is complete gibberish. It says that Ruby has a package waiting, does he accept? He does and there's a package waiting to be picked up addressed to Ruby.
That's where we left off. I think the session went well. Sa'La's player was having trouble because he hadn't updated his entire spell lists to the updated document. Other then that, I think everyone had fun and combat ran smoothly. Thanks to the new OLD monster doc, I now know how to balance an encounter and this one felt better. I just need to up the difficulty for these guys. Muahahaha!
Not much else to say really.