Episode 8: Nerfs

Played: SundCon 2014
GM: Ejnar
Players and Characters:
XP: 15

Summary

Obligations where rolled and “criminal” comes up. Nawara Secura a former aid to a senator on Coruscant with a criminal background charged of conspiring against the Empire. The crew of the starship Elusion lands on a remote outerrim planet to pickup a load of nerfs (cowlike animal) from the local nerffarmer X. The farm has been suffering from attacks on their nerfs by a pack of mountain lions that recently started hunting in the area. The nerfherd is scattered and the crews’ first task is to drive the nerfs back to the farm riding eopie. Since most of the crew is complete strangers to animals as well as survival situations they struggle with their task. They get ambushed by two mountain lions as they are driving a heard back to the farm but manage to survive the attack. In total they manage to get forty of the fifty nerfs back to the farm and tries to con the farmer in to selling them cheap to them (despair). The farmer calls their bluff and knows very well what the nerfs are worth, he even gets so mad that they are forced to pay full price and pay for the lost animals. They load the nerfs in the ship and it’s a stinking and loud cargo they are hauling. They set course to a planet with a bustling cattle market in hope of making a good profit on their nerfs. They negotiate with a farmer over the price to rent a pen to put the nerfs in while they find a buyer (despair). They get a name of a farmer that might be interested but the despair also sets the obligation in motion. Soon after part of the group leave to find the potential buyer. Buzz, left on the ship cleaning up after the nerfs, notices an out of place man in a suite talking to the farmer. The farmer points at their ship and of in the direction that Nawara Secura went. Buzz and his team follows the mysterious man but are noticed. They take cover on the other side of the street as a herd of cattle on its way to the market passes. They notice that the man picks up a communication device and Buzz springs to action, jumping up on the back of the cattle passing by and jumping from back to back and finally launches towards the man. They end up on the ground wrestling. Raxxos Nem, toydarian ganster, rushes in to help Buzz. Threatening the now apparent Imperial agent to leave his crewmate alone (despair). The agent recognizes Raxxos as another wanted criminal! They see two squads of Imperial stormtroopers rushing against them and they have to run. Blasters firing, fleeing they make for the ship. A stray blaster bolt hit a tank that explodes and the second floor of a building collapses and rubble fills the street enough to delay the stormtrooper squads. They manage to lift off with imperial blasterfire bouncing of their starship hull. Leaving most of the nerfs and any potential of profit. This adventure originally had an end where they were going to negotiate against two different potential buyers with further complications. But since the despairs where rolled quite frequently I decided that the obligation would kick in really bad for them. This resulted in their flight from the empire and also the loss of the cargo.