[YBA!] Keth the space pirate launches his carreer

[Jeph]

Get Keth's background HERE.

Keth
Experience: 0
Natural Hits: 1
--Total: 1
Powers: None
Yen: 1

Items: Tribaralled Blaster (+1 to Trident attacks), Energy Sword (+1 to Sword attacks)

Keth manuever's his light spaceship to the side of the bulkier one. By the quality of the hull, it should be a good trove. He leans back, rests his feet on the control counter, and presses the button that will activate the boarding drill.

 

[Jeph]

Keth wonders why NOTHING IS HAPPENING!

heeeeer, GM, GM, GM!

 

[Jeph]

Anyone? YBA Sci-Fi space pirate GM? It may require some liberal interpretation of items (note the tri-barreled blaster), but it's just cool!

 

[Kalanyr]

There aren't a lot of YBA DM's around, and most of us actually run a single campaign we have prepared. I run Little Peace Town, Wicht runs Wicht's Lair and Sollir runs a weird little House of Horror. Darkwolf ran some YBA for a while but hasn't for a long time as far as I know. Rathan is already DMing for Moth.

Also your distinct lack of hits may scare off some DMs, its very easy for you to drop, at first level you are probably better of with a +1 Hits item of some kind, than a +1 item, otherwise its quiet probably you get knocked out before one of your moves comes up.

 

[Jeph]

You're first point I was not aware of, but I did consider the second. I considered getting a +1 hits item for a long time, but didn't fore a sole reason: that would make Keth exactly the same as every other beginning YBA character. Just thought I'd try to introduce something different; if a lightly armored space pirate doesn't pick up, that's fine with me, altought I really would like to play him.

 

[Sabaron]

I'll take a crack at GMing this, if ya like.

The hum of the drill reverberates through your ship steadily, as though a demon were beating a massive steel drum. Your trained ear recognizes this as layered armor, normally only found on warships. Either this is a *very* rich cargo ship, or...

A heavily armed and armored soldier, wearing the uniform of the Syvashkan Imperium walks in through the breach.

In his thick Syvashkan accent, he states: "I am Officer Vloyonii ov ze Syvashkan Militia. You are under arrest for attempted piracy. Resist and you vill be terminated."

Officer Vloyonii
CR:1
Hits:2
Item: Syvashkan Militia Armor (+1 hit)
Yen Factor: 1

 

[Jeph]

hey, thanks Sabaron!

"Uuuh . . . " Keth pauses. "you see, I didn't mean to break into your ship, the ship did it on auto pilot, honest!" Keth lies. "I was held captive on a pirate ship, and I needed to escape, and I managed to launch the shuttle craft, but it just didn't seep to respond to my controlls!" Keth gets out and gestures to the Officer. "Try it for yourself! It is operating on it's own!"

If he get's in, I'll use a remote device to slam the shuttle doors shut and lock them with an encrypted key. How does this kind of thing work? I gen a move, and if it's strong enough I accomplish the task, right?

The dagger appears atop the peaks; quells the cut of the stone!

 

[Sabaron]

The door slams shut, trapping the officer on the other side and gaining you precious seconds. You can hear him calling for a drill crew from the other side of the door.

 

[Jeph]

"--Expletive Deleted--!" Keth curses, hearing the call for a drill crew. He debates doing something radical with himself that might get him stranded on the ship . . . "It was a good jammer," he mournfully admits as he presses the button marked 'AutoDestruct.' He runs down the ship corridor, waiting for the blast that will nock him off his feet. "Guess I'll just have to nab another one on my way out," he thinks.

 

[Sabaron]

As your mass converter overloads, you start sprinting toward your escape craft. Gen a move to escape before the explosion catches you.