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<blockquote data-quote="Petrosian" data-source="post: 566640" data-attributes="member: 1149">In the first session of a run, my ships engineer (traveller) was not having a very good time of things and when the i finally told the Gm i wanted to look up a number in the phone book he promptly asked me to &quot;roll for it.&quot; Staring jaw a gape, i promtly tossed a die and failed. My engineer is unable to successfully use a phone book.I promptly sat down and decided to wait. 14 minutes real time later, the NPCs showed up to offer us the help we needed in exhcnage for...So a short time and the silliest sham of a negotiation i have ever seen, later, we are ready to take off.So the ship's pilot/captain tells the Gm... ok so we are pretty much ready then so we take off and head to the planet they told us to go to and...&quot;The Gm interrupts and for the next 5 minutes we get the monolog of how the authorities and such deal with our illegal takeoff... &quot;you did not say you were requesting clearance to depart the starport. You did not say you we filing the usual forms. You did not say...&quot;This was a &quot;vote with your feet&quot; moment. I think only one player showed for the second session (not me of course.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Petrosian, post: 566640, member: 1149"] In the first session of a run, my ships engineer (traveller) was not having a very good time of things and when the i finally told the Gm i wanted to look up a number in the phone book he promptly asked me to "roll for it." Staring jaw a gape, i promtly tossed a die and failed. My engineer is unable to successfully use a phone book. I promptly sat down and decided to wait. 14 minutes real time later, the NPCs showed up to offer us the help we needed in exhcnage for... So a short time and the silliest sham of a negotiation i have ever seen, later, we are ready to take off. So the ship's pilot/captain tells the Gm... ok so we are pretty much ready then so we take off and head to the planet they told us to go to and..." The Gm interrupts and for the next 5 minutes we get the monolog of how the authorities and such deal with our illegal takeoff... "you did not say you were requesting clearance to depart the starport. You did not say you we filing the usual forms. You did not say..." This was a "vote with your feet" moment. I think only one player showed for the second session (not me of course.) [/QUOTE]

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