Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm Posts: 13144 Location: Here
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Hunker down. Load all my magazines, then load one into the gun. Chamber a round. Safety off.
Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:27 am
maart3n
Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:04 pm Posts: 1545
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
Load the shotgun and 2 pistol mags. Hold shotgun in lower arms and the pistol in right upper hand. Walk up to the looters and send a warning shot near the guy on the cockpit. "You have 5 seconds to get off my ship before I activate the autoturrets and have them take care of you for me.
5..."
Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:46 pm
TheKebbit
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:24 pm Posts: 3939 Location: NORTH
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
"Is the underfueled ship that fired off the distress signal going to land on the Grevet Coast as well?"
Wed Jun 14, 2017 7:50 pm
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Hm. Not as good as I used to be able to do. Oh well. Put the ice back in the pitcher to melt, sit down and think. The desert is terrible. Where else can I go?
Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:24 am
TheMysticDreamer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:04 am Posts: 241
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
CHARACTERS ACTIONS
Judith, Kyr: Both of you load your guns and magazines, while you watch the man on the roof yell at the other 2, and the other 2 hooded men grab crowbars from the ATV trunks. Judith chambers a round and looks down while Kyr jogs down to the looters. The 2 looters with crowbars put them down and pull out semi-auto handguns. Kyr fires at the man on the plane, getting him to hop down and draw. Kyr: "You have 5 seconds to get off my ship before I activate the autoturrets and have them take care of you for me. ------ 5..."
Jakob: Jakob: "Is the underfueled ship that fired off the distress signal going to land on the Grevet Coast as well?" Secretary: "No, it's landing at the capital. If you're going though, the next bus leaves in the morning, and be careful. The only ones that land here are the Feds, the pirate coven, and the Rifters, and it's not the Feds."
Arica: Other places to go, huh. Well, there's the forest to the north, the desert to the south, the cliffs to the northwest, and farmland to the east. For specifics, you'd need a map.
Judith Trovare (CaveCricket48)
Name: Judith Trovare
Race: Human
Backstory: Born with a cataract in her right eye, Trovare spent the first few years of her life half-blind until her lower class family managed to scrap enough money together to have her right eye fixed at a shady medical clinic in the crime-rampant isolated space station where she lived. While this was successful in removing the cataract, it left her right eye with a distorted eye lens, requiring a heavy optical correctional lens so she could see properly. Despite her less than stellar vision, she has a high attention to detail almost to a fault, making her adept in engineering weapons and instruments.
Description: A somewhat-short, lithe female in her early 20s. Short brown hair, brown eyes, and pale skin from a lack of natural light. She wears a pair of metal round-framed glasses that only have a single lens, which is for her right eye.
Abilities: Critical Eye - Hold still and analyze. Temporarily decrease Agility by 2 and increase Perception by 4. Steady Hand - Nimble fingers find a place tinkering with delicate machinery or pulling the trigger on the perfect shot. Increase success for fine tasks by 3.
Contacts: Kark Hopkins - Brown-haired, light-skinned, lanky and roughly shaven. Fellow engineer, often works with Judith to get large builds together and occasionally a competitor on black-market arms dealing. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
Charles "Charlie" Harrison - Judith's loyal customer that works as a part-time bodyguard. Short dark hair, slightly tanned skin. Tall and strong, but not exactly a walking mass of muscle. He's decent with a gun, but often misses critical shots.
Tabi Konai - Long black hair, dark skin, small frame. Infamous for blowing up government buildings. She has a knack for electronics, be it remote-controlled detonators or rigging up a basic computer from scrap electronics. On good terms with Judith, the two often trading equipment/materials and information or working on a coop project.
John Freemaneth - Average height, short hair, athletic build. Pretty sure that's not his real name, but he can't remember ♥♥♥♥ ever since he got smacked in the head with a brick in an alley fight. Judith throws weapons and equipment at him, points him at a job that needs taking care of, and he more or less gets it done, only asking for new toys in return.
Backstory: A vanguard colonist and military vacuum repair worker attached to a far outpost of human civilization. Serving aboard the heavy polar-orbit station CMS3920 - a monolith of steel towed from system to system in the belly of super-battleships that drove back the dark frontier - Stennard served three 6-year terms firing exploration crawlers and terraforming packages from his orbital home down into unknown worlds. Nurturing and defending fledgling colonies was not without its dangers, as savage pirates and rivals to humanity assailed the CMS with everything they had to kill its crew and loot the planets.
The attack that led to Stennard's honorable discharge from the navy left him bleeding and marooned for 170 days in the guts of the CMS, left behind in the chaos after the evacuation shuttles took away all his colleagues. Trapped in the station's corpse with a burnt radio transmitter, he nearly lost his mind. When late-coming salvage crews cut open the wreck expecting to find valuable equipment, they found only an emaciated man.
Returning home to a failed marriage, an Earth family that forgot him and a pension not enough to support his medical debts, he has returned to space to find friendship and make his fortune.
Description: Swarthy, shaven skull, scars and lines in the features. Dark eyes which are noticeably sunken in; Stennard shows heavy signs of wear. His shattered chest cavity is partially supported with a mesh of biocompatible plastics - Stennard's breathing is deep and slow, and he chews blue wads of painkilling gum to forget that he is no longer the man he used to be. His disposition is warm, though he has good excuse to be cynical. He is only glad to be alive, to see the stars for some time longer.
Abilities: Will Through Pain - Stennard's hardened system means that for purposes of pain calculation, his dice total is multiplied by 7 rather than 10 in the final step that determines whether he has been stunned by trauma. Null-G Control/Exobody - Intimately familiar with the mechanics of spacesuits, manipulator arms and hard orbital maneuvers performed with shuttles and manned maneuvering units. Excellent working knowledge of life support and orbit-keeping functions of space stations.
Contacts: Rackham Modular Orbital Systems: a firm specializing in all things related to space hab assembly and commercial exploitation of planetary orbit. Architects of the standardized power, life support and data linkage protocols used in civilian stations throughout human space. Its executives are willing to cut Stennard unusual deals, knowing that he is qualified to deliver on their investments.
Major Conrad Devlin: commanding officer of the CMS, a war hero and expert pilot who continues burning pirates out on the frontier in a stealthed frigate which has become notorious for bringing just death to ruthless warlords. Assisted Stennard in evacuating the station during its dying descent. Never forgave himself for accidentally leaving Stennard behind.
Dr. Genevieve Martel: an ecosystem engineer of some renown, responsible for developing the Martel Optimized Phototroph biosphere that is used for famine relief on backwater worlds. Aboard the CMS during its final moments - Stennard saved her life.
Janna: favorite childhood friend. A mathematical prodigy who studied the mysteries of FTL travel in a prestigious Lunar university while Stennard was drafted into the frontier corps. Separated physically, but never forgotten by each other.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
Inventory: 9840 GalCreds Room Key (Capital Suite)
Kyr(maart3n)
Name: Kyr
Race: Twea'd: Bipedal lanky humanoids with 4 long arms. Extremely dextrous but physically frail.
Stats: Strength 2 Agility 4 Perception 4 Speed 3 + 2 Intelligence 4 + 1 Charisma 2 + 3 Will 2 Tetrabrachius: Can manipulate four things at once
Skills: Slick Willy: Can talk himself out of almost every situation. +2 to Charisma, +4 if being interrogated. Split vision: No/lower penalty to aiming at multiple things at once.
Associates: "Nico": A clone bred to be a fighter pilot turned aerospacecraft salesman. Nico can provide and modify anything that flies. Jonah Silverton: Arms Dealer Mike Re: Fence "Fox's legacy": Heavily modified Gaunt-class gunship. Two seat cockpit layout swapped for a single seat with an extra stick on either side to control the ball turrets on the sides of the fuselage. Forward turret swapped for gun array. Room for 6 passengers and 40 cubic meters of cargo. (think B25-H with some 40k fire raptor mixed in.)
Inventory: 7430 GalCreds 98 Rounds 00 Buckshot 3 12 Round 10.5mm Magazines (12/12) (0/12) 120 Rounds 10.5mm Standard Green Sedan Keys
Arica(TorrentHKU)
Name: "Celsius" Arica
Race: Human
Backstory: A bit of a mystery. 3 years ago, a pale girl in a ripped jumpsuit shows up in a battered pod on a no name station in the middle of nowhere, and then through pantomime and a bit of writing, manages to get food, clothes, and travel to a central hub station. From there, she's gone on to make something of a name for herself with an unusual set of innate magical abilities, wordlessly taking all sorts of small time mercenary work to make ends meet. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks she's doing. Whether it's by choice or inability, no one she's met can claim to have heard her speak. Since then, she's found two more people with similar magic to her own, though none are willing to share anything about their background. Her nickname "Celsius" is thought to come from both her skill with thermal magic, and her general behavior as an "Ice Queen".
Description: A strikingly beautiful young woman, probably in her mid twenties, with pale skin, a thin frame, and long silvery hair down to her waist. Constantly has an expressionless or vacant look on her face. Never seems to show emotion, never talks.
Abilities: Ice Queen - Her thermal magic allows her to rapidly cool and even freeze things within several feet of her. Works especially well on water, easily forming ice shards. Frozen - Even in tremendous stress or danger, Arica never loses her cool. Resistant to panic or intimidation.
Contacts: "Salamander" Om - An older human man, at least 60 years old. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to fire. Has great skill with his flames, though not much power. A skilled machinist and welder.
"Behemoth" Shorwick - A middle aged man, probably about 30, built like a bear. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to metal. Can powerfully manipulate metal, tearing panels off walls and warping it with only his force of will. Likes to make improvised armor from the floor and then charge into enemies during mercenary work.
Hecate Shorish - Young woman similar age to Arica. Dark skin and hair, energetic and proud. Shuttle pilot, always willing to fly Arica if she's nearby, or really needs it. Met on a mercenary job, became friends after Arica's abilities prevented the shuttle she was driving from meltdown while redlining it to flee from pursuers.
Catalina Hendricks - 44 year old woman, owns a successful exotic pet business that sells to stations all across the galaxy. Met Arica while touring one of the retail outlets for her business. Arica entered one the store with an armful of stray cats, hoping to find someone to care for them. Knows a surprising number of people in high places with exotic pets.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm Posts: 13144 Location: Here
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Get in range, Steady Hand. If some of the bandits seem to be complying with Kyr's order, open fire on the bandit last to comply. Else, open fire on the closest bandit.
If my first target goes down, shoot at another target, prioritizing a bandit that seems to be taking action.
Last edited by CaveCricket48 on Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:16 am
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> Cliffs could be interesting. I need a map. I wonder if the barkeep has a map.
Thu Jun 15, 2017 5:10 am
maart3n
Joined: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:04 pm Posts: 1545
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
"Fox's Legacy, arm turrets, load HE shells, Aegis protocol." Aim shotgun at nearest bandit and keep pistol pointed at cockpit bandit.
4.... Now let's hope the ship still has power.
Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:37 am
TheMysticDreamer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:04 am Posts: 241
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
CHARACTERS ACTIONS
Judith, Kyr: Kyr: "Fox's Legacy, arm turrets, load HE shells, Aegis protocol." FsL "Lockdown in progress. Authorization required." Well that isn't good. As Kyr point your guns, the bandits aim at him, steadying their aim. As they do this however, Judith fires at the closest bandit to her, 2. 1 Roll + Perception + 2 (Surprise) + 3 (Steady Hand) vs 1 Roll + Speed + 1 (Desert Bandit) 1 + 7 + 2 + 3 = 13 vs 3 + 2 + 1 = 6 Judith's hand shakes, but she manages to aim accurately and hit the bandit square in the chest. -5 Health 6/11 P, 12/12 S Pain: 4416253551 = 36/6 = 6 X 10 = 60 6/11*100 = 45% + 20 (Major Wound) = 65% The bandit takes a bullet to the chest, and falls over, clutching. -45% Combat Strength The other 2 bandits take cover behind the FsL before Judith can get another shot off. Negotiations end. Combat begins!
Jakob: ...
Arica: You go downstairs to look for the barkeep, but he's not there. Instead, a old boy, around 15 years old, is behind the bar, organizing the glasses. Boy: "Can I help you?"
Judith Trovare (CaveCricket48)
Name: Judith Trovare
Race: Human
Backstory: Born with a cataract in her right eye, Trovare spent the first few years of her life half-blind until her lower class family managed to scrap enough money together to have her right eye fixed at a shady medical clinic in the crime-rampant isolated space station where she lived. While this was successful in removing the cataract, it left her right eye with a distorted eye lens, requiring a heavy optical correctional lens so she could see properly. Despite her less than stellar vision, she has a high attention to detail almost to a fault, making her adept in engineering weapons and instruments.
Description: A somewhat-short, lithe female in her early 20s. Short brown hair, brown eyes, and pale skin from a lack of natural light. She wears a pair of metal round-framed glasses that only have a single lens, which is for her right eye.
Abilities: Critical Eye - Hold still and analyze. Temporarily decrease Agility by 2 and increase Perception by 4. Steady Hand - Nimble fingers find a place tinkering with delicate machinery or pulling the trigger on the perfect shot. Increase success for fine tasks by 3.
Contacts: Kark Hopkins - Brown-haired, light-skinned, lanky and roughly shaven. Fellow engineer, often works with Judith to get large builds together and occasionally a competitor on black-market arms dealing. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
Charles "Charlie" Harrison - Judith's loyal customer that works as a part-time bodyguard. Short dark hair, slightly tanned skin. Tall and strong, but not exactly a walking mass of muscle. He's decent with a gun, but often misses critical shots.
Tabi Konai - Long black hair, dark skin, small frame. Infamous for blowing up government buildings. She has a knack for electronics, be it remote-controlled detonators or rigging up a basic computer from scrap electronics. On good terms with Judith, the two often trading equipment/materials and information or working on a coop project.
John Freemaneth - Average height, short hair, athletic build. Pretty sure that's not his real name, but he can't remember ♥♥♥♥ ever since he got smacked in the head with a brick in an alley fight. Judith throws weapons and equipment at him, points him at a job that needs taking care of, and he more or less gets it done, only asking for new toys in return.
Backstory: A vanguard colonist and military vacuum repair worker attached to a far outpost of human civilization. Serving aboard the heavy polar-orbit station CMS3920 - a monolith of steel towed from system to system in the belly of super-battleships that drove back the dark frontier - Stennard served three 6-year terms firing exploration crawlers and terraforming packages from his orbital home down into unknown worlds. Nurturing and defending fledgling colonies was not without its dangers, as savage pirates and rivals to humanity assailed the CMS with everything they had to kill its crew and loot the planets.
The attack that led to Stennard's honorable discharge from the navy left him bleeding and marooned for 170 days in the guts of the CMS, left behind in the chaos after the evacuation shuttles took away all his colleagues. Trapped in the station's corpse with a burnt radio transmitter, he nearly lost his mind. When late-coming salvage crews cut open the wreck expecting to find valuable equipment, they found only an emaciated man.
Returning home to a failed marriage, an Earth family that forgot him and a pension not enough to support his medical debts, he has returned to space to find friendship and make his fortune.
Description: Swarthy, shaven skull, scars and lines in the features. Dark eyes which are noticeably sunken in; Stennard shows heavy signs of wear. His shattered chest cavity is partially supported with a mesh of biocompatible plastics - Stennard's breathing is deep and slow, and he chews blue wads of painkilling gum to forget that he is no longer the man he used to be. His disposition is warm, though he has good excuse to be cynical. He is only glad to be alive, to see the stars for some time longer.
Abilities: Will Through Pain - Stennard's hardened system means that for purposes of pain calculation, his dice total is multiplied by 7 rather than 10 in the final step that determines whether he has been stunned by trauma. Null-G Control/Exobody - Intimately familiar with the mechanics of spacesuits, manipulator arms and hard orbital maneuvers performed with shuttles and manned maneuvering units. Excellent working knowledge of life support and orbit-keeping functions of space stations.
Contacts: Rackham Modular Orbital Systems: a firm specializing in all things related to space hab assembly and commercial exploitation of planetary orbit. Architects of the standardized power, life support and data linkage protocols used in civilian stations throughout human space. Its executives are willing to cut Stennard unusual deals, knowing that he is qualified to deliver on their investments.
Major Conrad Devlin: commanding officer of the CMS, a war hero and expert pilot who continues burning pirates out on the frontier in a stealthed frigate which has become notorious for bringing just death to ruthless warlords. Assisted Stennard in evacuating the station during its dying descent. Never forgave himself for accidentally leaving Stennard behind.
Dr. Genevieve Martel: an ecosystem engineer of some renown, responsible for developing the Martel Optimized Phototroph biosphere that is used for famine relief on backwater worlds. Aboard the CMS during its final moments - Stennard saved her life.
Janna: favorite childhood friend. A mathematical prodigy who studied the mysteries of FTL travel in a prestigious Lunar university while Stennard was drafted into the frontier corps. Separated physically, but never forgotten by each other.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
Inventory: 9840 GalCreds Room Key (Capital Suite)
Kyr(maart3n)
Name: Kyr
Race: Twea'd: Bipedal lanky humanoids with 4 long arms. Extremely dextrous but physically frail.
Stats: Strength 2 Agility 4 Perception 4 Speed 3 + 2 Intelligence 4 + 1 Charisma 2 + 3 Will 2 Tetrabrachius: Can manipulate four things at once
Skills: Slick Willy: Can talk himself out of almost every situation. +2 to Charisma, +4 if being interrogated. Split vision: No/lower penalty to aiming at multiple things at once.
Associates: "Nico": A clone bred to be a fighter pilot turned aerospacecraft salesman. Nico can provide and modify anything that flies. Jonah Silverton: Arms Dealer Mike Re: Fence "Fox's legacy": Heavily modified Gaunt-class gunship. Two seat cockpit layout swapped for a single seat with an extra stick on either side to control the ball turrets on the sides of the fuselage. Forward turret swapped for gun array. Room for 6 passengers and 40 cubic meters of cargo. (think B25-H with some 40k fire raptor mixed in.)
Inventory: 7430 GalCreds 98 Rounds 00 Buckshot 3 12 Round 10.5mm Magazines (12/12) (0/12) 120 Rounds 10.5mm Standard Green Sedan Keys
Arica(TorrentHKU)
Name: "Celsius" Arica
Race: Human
Backstory: A bit of a mystery. 3 years ago, a pale girl in a ripped jumpsuit shows up in a battered pod on a no name station in the middle of nowhere, and then through pantomime and a bit of writing, manages to get food, clothes, and travel to a central hub station. From there, she's gone on to make something of a name for herself with an unusual set of innate magical abilities, wordlessly taking all sorts of small time mercenary work to make ends meet. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks she's doing. Whether it's by choice or inability, no one she's met can claim to have heard her speak. Since then, she's found two more people with similar magic to her own, though none are willing to share anything about their background. Her nickname "Celsius" is thought to come from both her skill with thermal magic, and her general behavior as an "Ice Queen".
Description: A strikingly beautiful young woman, probably in her mid twenties, with pale skin, a thin frame, and long silvery hair down to her waist. Constantly has an expressionless or vacant look on her face. Never seems to show emotion, never talks.
Abilities: Ice Queen - Her thermal magic allows her to rapidly cool and even freeze things within several feet of her. Works especially well on water, easily forming ice shards. Frozen - Even in tremendous stress or danger, Arica never loses her cool. Resistant to panic or intimidation.
Contacts: "Salamander" Om - An older human man, at least 60 years old. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to fire. Has great skill with his flames, though not much power. A skilled machinist and welder.
"Behemoth" Shorwick - A middle aged man, probably about 30, built like a bear. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to metal. Can powerfully manipulate metal, tearing panels off walls and warping it with only his force of will. Likes to make improvised armor from the floor and then charge into enemies during mercenary work.
Hecate Shorish - Young woman similar age to Arica. Dark skin and hair, energetic and proud. Shuttle pilot, always willing to fly Arica if she's nearby, or really needs it. Met on a mercenary job, became friends after Arica's abilities prevented the shuttle she was driving from meltdown while redlining it to flee from pursuers.
Catalina Hendricks - 44 year old woman, owns a successful exotic pet business that sells to stations all across the galaxy. Met Arica while touring one of the retail outlets for her business. Arica entered one the store with an armful of stray cats, hoping to find someone to care for them. Knows a surprising number of people in high places with exotic pets.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
"Last chance, throw down your guns and I'll let you leave." Walk up to downed bandit. If any of his buddies do anything but surrendering; shoot him in the balls. Be ready to shotgun blast whatever pokes out of cover.
Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:36 pm
TheKebbit
Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:24 pm Posts: 3939 Location: NORTH
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
"Got it - thank you for your help." >Return to my room at the inn, since night fell a long time ago. Is there any way I could use my GalTram to get through to Major Devlin? Assuming he's on leave and not in deep space.
Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:04 am
CaveCricket48
Joined: Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:52 pm Posts: 13144 Location: Here
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> While Kyr gets closer to the dropship, keep my distance and slowly circle around in the direction is back is pointing. If it's not facing left or right, circle around in the opposite direction that the bandits went.
Fire at first bandit that is visible.
Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:27 am
TorrentHKU
Loose Canon
Joined: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:07 pm Posts: 2992 Location: --------------->
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
> ... I have no idea how to mime a map. Write down "Map?" on something and show him.
Sat Jun 17, 2017 1:39 am
TheMysticDreamer
Joined: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:04 am Posts: 241
Re: RTD Galactic Reboot!
CHARACTERS ACTIONS
Judith, Kyr: Initiative: Judith: 4 + 3 = 7 Kyr: 5 + 2 = 7 Bandit 1: 2 + 5 = 7 Bandit 2: STUNNED Bandit 3: 2 + 6 = 8 3 peeks around the back of the plane and fires at Kyr, before ducking back into cover. 1 Roll + Perception vs 1 Roll + Speed - 1 (Preoccupied) 2 + 4 = 6 vs 5 + 4 = 1 = 8 And misses. Judith circles behind Kyr, and manages to loose a shot at the bandit. 1 Roll + Perception vs 1 Roll + Speed + 4 (High Cover) + 1 (Desert Bandit) 3 + 7 = 10 vs 5 + 2 + 4 + 1 = 12 The shot whistles past the bandit's cheek. Kyr shoots the downed bandit. Perception + 1 Roll >= 6 to hit, 9 to hit right area. 4 + 4 = 8 In the stomach, doing another 5 damage. 1/11 P = Bleeding Out Meanwhile, 1 step out of cover, aims, and fires 2 shots. 2 Roll + Perception vs 1 Roll + Speed + 1 (2 Shots) 4 + 1 + 4 = 9 vs + 5 + 2 + 1 = 8 One whizzes by, embedding itself into the sand, but the other one flies straight into Kyr's leg, doing 3 damage. 5/8 P, 6 S -37% Effectiveness Pain: 2 1 1 2 6 4 6 3 1 2 = 28* 1 2/3 = 45 > 37 However, he manages to withstand the pain, and fires at the bandit out of cover. 1 Roll + Perception + 3 (Buckshot) vs 1 Roll + Speed + 1 (Desert Bandit) 6 + 4 + 3 = 13 vs 3 + 2 + 1 = 6 Critical Roll: 2 The 00 buck flies right into the bandit's face, sending an explosion of blood out as he is knocked backwards, dead.
Jakob: Jakob: "Got it - thank you for your help." Secretary: "No problem." You head home. (You are caught up time-wise with everyone else) As you head into the bar, you see Arica writing something down a piece of paper. You return to your room, and sit down in one of the chairs. After fiddling with your GalTram for a few minutes, you find a localized link. After activating it, you are connected to the local network. However, it seems quite limited, with only functions for pay-from-distance and better call service than local bouncing in the form of a direct link to the local transmitter. Good enough though. You punch out a call, and after around 2 or 3 minutes, Major Devlin picks up. Devlin: "Jakob, how are you? I'm glad to hear that you're alive, after the Whish Oil disaster. Can you believe it? More than plenty of pods, and yet half of the hoiters stilled managed to get themselves killed."
Arica: There's a small notepad, probably for orders, on the table, along with a pen. You write down <MAP> on it, and hand it to the boy. He nods, and grabs a map from one of the shelves.
Judith Trovare (CaveCricket48)
Name: Judith Trovare
Race: Human
Backstory: Born with a cataract in her right eye, Trovare spent the first few years of her life half-blind until her lower class family managed to scrap enough money together to have her right eye fixed at a shady medical clinic in the crime-rampant isolated space station where she lived. While this was successful in removing the cataract, it left her right eye with a distorted eye lens, requiring a heavy optical correctional lens so she could see properly. Despite her less than stellar vision, she has a high attention to detail almost to a fault, making her adept in engineering weapons and instruments.
Description: A somewhat-short, lithe female in her early 20s. Short brown hair, brown eyes, and pale skin from a lack of natural light. She wears a pair of metal round-framed glasses that only have a single lens, which is for her right eye.
Abilities: Critical Eye - Hold still and analyze. Temporarily decrease Agility by 2 and increase Perception by 4. Steady Hand - Nimble fingers find a place tinkering with delicate machinery or pulling the trigger on the perfect shot. Increase success for fine tasks by 3.
Contacts: Kark Hopkins - Brown-haired, light-skinned, lanky and roughly shaven. Fellow engineer, often works with Judith to get large builds together and occasionally a competitor on black-market arms dealing. Nothing like a little healthy competition.
Charles "Charlie" Harrison - Judith's loyal customer that works as a part-time bodyguard. Short dark hair, slightly tanned skin. Tall and strong, but not exactly a walking mass of muscle. He's decent with a gun, but often misses critical shots.
Tabi Konai - Long black hair, dark skin, small frame. Infamous for blowing up government buildings. She has a knack for electronics, be it remote-controlled detonators or rigging up a basic computer from scrap electronics. On good terms with Judith, the two often trading equipment/materials and information or working on a coop project.
John Freemaneth - Average height, short hair, athletic build. Pretty sure that's not his real name, but he can't remember ♥♥♥♥ ever since he got smacked in the head with a brick in an alley fight. Judith throws weapons and equipment at him, points him at a job that needs taking care of, and he more or less gets it done, only asking for new toys in return.
Backstory: A vanguard colonist and military vacuum repair worker attached to a far outpost of human civilization. Serving aboard the heavy polar-orbit station CMS3920 - a monolith of steel towed from system to system in the belly of super-battleships that drove back the dark frontier - Stennard served three 6-year terms firing exploration crawlers and terraforming packages from his orbital home down into unknown worlds. Nurturing and defending fledgling colonies was not without its dangers, as savage pirates and rivals to humanity assailed the CMS with everything they had to kill its crew and loot the planets.
The attack that led to Stennard's honorable discharge from the navy left him bleeding and marooned for 170 days in the guts of the CMS, left behind in the chaos after the evacuation shuttles took away all his colleagues. Trapped in the station's corpse with a burnt radio transmitter, he nearly lost his mind. When late-coming salvage crews cut open the wreck expecting to find valuable equipment, they found only an emaciated man.
Returning home to a failed marriage, an Earth family that forgot him and a pension not enough to support his medical debts, he has returned to space to find friendship and make his fortune.
Description: Swarthy, shaven skull, scars and lines in the features. Dark eyes which are noticeably sunken in; Stennard shows heavy signs of wear. His shattered chest cavity is partially supported with a mesh of biocompatible plastics - Stennard's breathing is deep and slow, and he chews blue wads of painkilling gum to forget that he is no longer the man he used to be. His disposition is warm, though he has good excuse to be cynical. He is only glad to be alive, to see the stars for some time longer.
Abilities: Will Through Pain - Stennard's hardened system means that for purposes of pain calculation, his dice total is multiplied by 7 rather than 10 in the final step that determines whether he has been stunned by trauma. Null-G Control/Exobody - Intimately familiar with the mechanics of spacesuits, manipulator arms and hard orbital maneuvers performed with shuttles and manned maneuvering units. Excellent working knowledge of life support and orbit-keeping functions of space stations.
Contacts: Rackham Modular Orbital Systems: a firm specializing in all things related to space hab assembly and commercial exploitation of planetary orbit. Architects of the standardized power, life support and data linkage protocols used in civilian stations throughout human space. Its executives are willing to cut Stennard unusual deals, knowing that he is qualified to deliver on their investments.
Major Conrad Devlin: commanding officer of the CMS, a war hero and expert pilot who continues burning pirates out on the frontier in a stealthed frigate which has become notorious for bringing just death to ruthless warlords. Assisted Stennard in evacuating the station during its dying descent. Never forgave himself for accidentally leaving Stennard behind.
Dr. Genevieve Martel: an ecosystem engineer of some renown, responsible for developing the Martel Optimized Phototroph biosphere that is used for famine relief on backwater worlds. Aboard the CMS during its final moments - Stennard saved her life.
Janna: favorite childhood friend. A mathematical prodigy who studied the mysteries of FTL travel in a prestigious Lunar university while Stennard was drafted into the frontier corps. Separated physically, but never forgotten by each other.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram (Connected to Eriborth Network)
Inventory: 9840 GalCreds Room Key (Capital Suite)
Kyr(maart3n)
Name: Kyr
Race: Twea'd: Bipedal lanky humanoids with 4 long arms. Extremely dextrous but physically frail.
Stats: Strength 2 Agility 4 Perception 4 Speed 3 + 2 Intelligence 4 + 1 Charisma 2 + 3 Will 2 Tetrabrachius: Can manipulate four things at once
Skills: Slick Willy: Can talk himself out of almost every situation. +2 to Charisma, +4 if being interrogated. Split vision: No/lower penalty to aiming at multiple things at once.
Associates: "Nico": A clone bred to be a fighter pilot turned aerospacecraft salesman. Nico can provide and modify anything that flies. Jonah Silverton: Arms Dealer Mike Re: Fence "Fox's legacy": Heavily modified Gaunt-class gunship. Two seat cockpit layout swapped for a single seat with an extra stick on either side to control the ball turrets on the sides of the fuselage. Forward turret swapped for gun array. Room for 6 passengers and 40 cubic meters of cargo. (think B25-H with some 40k fire raptor mixed in.)
Inventory: 7430 GalCreds 98 Rounds 00 Buckshot 3 12 Round 10.5mm Magazines (12/12) (0/12) 120 Rounds 10.5mm Standard Green Sedan Keys
Arica(TorrentHKU)
Name: "Celsius" Arica
Race: Human
Backstory: A bit of a mystery. 3 years ago, a pale girl in a ripped jumpsuit shows up in a battered pod on a no name station in the middle of nowhere, and then through pantomime and a bit of writing, manages to get food, clothes, and travel to a central hub station. From there, she's gone on to make something of a name for herself with an unusual set of innate magical abilities, wordlessly taking all sorts of small time mercenary work to make ends meet. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks she's doing. Whether it's by choice or inability, no one she's met can claim to have heard her speak. Since then, she's found two more people with similar magic to her own, though none are willing to share anything about their background. Her nickname "Celsius" is thought to come from both her skill with thermal magic, and her general behavior as an "Ice Queen".
Description: A strikingly beautiful young woman, probably in her mid twenties, with pale skin, a thin frame, and long silvery hair down to her waist. Constantly has an expressionless or vacant look on her face. Never seems to show emotion, never talks.
Abilities: Ice Queen - Her thermal magic allows her to rapidly cool and even freeze things within several feet of her. Works especially well on water, easily forming ice shards. Frozen - Even in tremendous stress or danger, Arica never loses her cool. Resistant to panic or intimidation.
Contacts: "Salamander" Om - An older human man, at least 60 years old. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to fire. Has great skill with his flames, though not much power. A skilled machinist and welder.
"Behemoth" Shorwick - A middle aged man, probably about 30, built like a bear. Arica met him on her travels, seems to have similar powers relating to metal. Can powerfully manipulate metal, tearing panels off walls and warping it with only his force of will. Likes to make improvised armor from the floor and then charge into enemies during mercenary work.
Hecate Shorish - Young woman similar age to Arica. Dark skin and hair, energetic and proud. Shuttle pilot, always willing to fly Arica if she's nearby, or really needs it. Met on a mercenary job, became friends after Arica's abilities prevented the shuttle she was driving from meltdown while redlining it to flee from pursuers.
Catalina Hendricks - 44 year old woman, owns a successful exotic pet business that sells to stations all across the galaxy. Met Arica while touring one of the retail outlets for her business. Arica entered one the store with an armful of stray cats, hoping to find someone to care for them. Knows a surprising number of people in high places with exotic pets.
Equipped: G-Force Suit (+1 to momentum resist rolls) GalTram
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