GM: Orville
Players and Characters: Ace (Peter), Buzz (Thomas), Cinder (Jimmy) Hawk (Dalle), Tiny (Shuan)
XP: 10
Summary
The team´s light freighter is moving through hyperpspace. They are licking their wounds from the encounter with the empire last episode but the lack of medical equipment makes life tough for the wounded (especially Tiny with a critical wound that makes him take a strain for every action… ). During the trip they receive an emergency distress call.Encounter 1: Distress call
They drop out of hyperspace and make contact with a light freighter in distress called “The Stormcloud”. The captain, Darvon Bantels explains they have a malfunctioning hyperdrive and a very slow backup engine. They ask for assistance with repairs or help with hooking their towcable to another ship and ride piggyback to the nearest spaceport. They also state they are transporting grain for a port called Highgate amongst the blue planets ( mid rim, imperial influence in a more or less corporate sector). Jessica Hawk Hawkins rolls a triumph on her sensor roll so she finds out that the hyperdrive has been sabotaged. It isn´t a random malfunction. She keeps that to herself to start with. After docking the crew moves over to “The Stormcloud” and they are taken out to the cargobay to see the merchandise/cargo. The bountyhunter Cinder takes an interest of the passenger on the ship. They try to get something out of him, who he is and so on. They only get a name Arjen Dellis.
Ace and the captain agree on a 50/50 split on the earnings for selling grain on Highgate moving the carago to the Elusion needs to take place in a spaceport or at a dock. The cargo needs to be delivered within a week to make sure to get to the market that marks the beginning of the farming season on Highgate.
From the closest spaceport (Penscale on Tranos 3) it is a two day trip in hyperspace to Highgate and from that area in the black it was two days to the spaceport. While “The Stormcloud” uses it´s towcable shooter to attach to the Elusion Cinder and Hawk use the holonet to obtain information on the passenger on “The Stormcloud”. He appears to be wanted by the empire for rebellious acts on Wolastar (his real name is Tokar Caftarn). Bounty of 10 000 credits. Hawk, Cinder and Ace argue about trying to collect on the bounty on one hand and the other having issues with doing the empire a favour. Cinder and Ace vote for collecting on the bounty and Hawk protest. In secret she sends a text message to “The Stormcloud” that the passenger Arjen Dellis must stay hidden when they land or he will be attacked by bountyhunters.
Encounter 2: The Prince
While landing on Penscale spaceport the authority declares a fee of 50 credits per day for “parking” and a tax of 10% on all trades taking place. The same for all bounty collections. The corporate officer raises an eybrow at Cinder´s Bountyhunter badge but let´s the droid continue his trade despite him missing a restraining bolt or registered owner nearby. They are also required to renew their cargo hauling papers for a hundred credits.
When Cinder arrives to “The Stormcloud”, captain Dantels have hired several binary loadlifters that unload the grain containers. Cinder inquires the captain about the passenger and that he intends to claim the bounty. The captain rolls a deception check and succeds and convinces Cinder that the passenger is at the market in the town. He was actually hiding on “The Stormcloud” and moved out into the streets of the town shortly after.
The characters move into town where Hawk start to ask around for a doctor for Tiny. Ace goes to prowl the local establishments to try and make money at the gaming tables. (Only core rules were used for gaming rolls. Ace use deception). Ace rolled a success, triumph and despair and earned a lot of money but during the evening one of his opponents gets involved in a fight with attendants in the bar and the fight escalates, Cinder gets him out of the bar in one piece. However, before that Cinder walks round the small town to find his bounty and by rolling a triumph on his perception he saw the passenger buying a Grintha, a reptile like horse of common use on Penscale. Cinder attacks and shoots the man in the back as he tries to escape. He falls off the Grintha and Cinder beats him unconscious despite the fact he is shot with a hold out blaster as he approaches (Cinder has a soak of 7!!).Cinder brings his wounded prey to the local sheriff that takes in the bounty and calls a doctor to assist with the wounds of the injured soon to be inmate. Cinder leaves the scene and does not spot Hawk that has been watching the whole thing. She walks in to the sheriff’s office after the arrival of the doctor and his team of nurses. They start working on the patient and he seems to get better with the treatment. Jessica rolls five successes on her charm check with the dimwitted sheriff and get to check out the open cell with the new arrival in as the medical team leaves. She discreetly points to her blaster at her hip meaning for the “diatainee” to take it. He does just that and uses Jessica as hostage and threats to kill her if the sheriff doesn´t give up his weapon. He does and gets locked in the cell. Well out of there the rescued man thanks Jessica and kisses her cheek. He is the prince of :::: and led the rebellion on that world. Jessica learned that her brothers in the empire were leading the forces against this prince. As they part ways the prince moves towards “The Stormcloud” again and Jessica towards the bar.
Encounter 3 Cattle thieves
When Cinder arrived to the bar he discovered a hand written note asking for a bounty on cattle thief. After the barfight the team agree on talking to the woman (Frishara Vankar, overworked mother of one, a husband is a medical doctor) placing the bounty.
They meet her and she is the wife of a doctor and the mother of a four year old girl. The mother was beaten badly while trying to protect the cattle thieves (Leader. Zontho Skraffas (rival bountyhunter).Thugs Haggo (b pisotl), bearded human wearing a poncho and a hat, Duvrek (B pistol), lizard similar to a chamelion, Iqui (blaster rifle),afro human) take four of their grintars.
Frishara Vankar offers the team 250 credits, 2 units of spaceship fuel, one week of rations and free housing during their stay on Penscale. She also offers medical care from her husband. She shows the team a sensor they can use to track one of the grintars that had a tracking device under it´s skin. It appears to be out in the forest.
The team accepts and rents a couple of grintars and move out into the forest. While moving through the forest (the forest is damp, some small bogs nearby and so on...) they need to roll a resilience check with a difficulty of one with a black environmental modifier. If Cinder hadn´t made the check he would have become corrosion damaged, Hawk succeeded but Ace failed his check meaning he got lungworms. He got a black die on all checks until treated. They also failed their stealth check upon moving towards the encampment so all four bad guys were in cover during the firefight. It started at medium range and the bad guys in cover. It was still ok light so no more modifiers. The fight was kind of tough but the players shot down the opposition (three minions with balster pistols, shoddy and one minion thug with a shoddy blaster rifle and a rival bountyhunter. All from the core rule book). The cattle thievs tried to flee during the late part of the fight but were gunned down. When approaching the encampment they free a human woman who seemed to have been the bands prisoner and slave. She asks the team to take her with them and they accept. The loot they obtained was shoddy weapons, clothes, 150 credits, 2 litres of beer and a high quality bowler hat. They returned to the town with the stolen cattle and stayed with the family that had given them the contract. Both Tiny and Ace were treated by the doctor and are ready for the next adventure.
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