DM_Pyroman's Campaign: Firefly - Tales From the Black

Game Master Risen Fate

After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system and hundreds of new Earths were terraformed and colonized. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.

PbP rules

• I'm expecting "fairly" regular posts, but this isn't meant to be a struggle. Probably 1-3 posts per week (unless we have a particularly good time where everyone happens to be online all at once.

• By creating your character as I have listed in the discussion thread, all of your applicable stats will be visible in your character title. To look up aspects (if I need to) i'll just look at your character bio.

• Because this is a PbP, encounters will be a little different than you're used to, and I will doctor some of the flow of things after everyone has posted what they are attempting to do in a situation.

• Since this is Fate Accelerated, I know that there are some stunts that are "per game session." In our IRL sessions, I ruled that these would refresh at long-rests planetside, and they will continue to do so.
  

OK, here's the list of character stuffs for all of you guys playing. I'll post it out below.

Alrighty, here's some general information to make sure that each of you has your important stats near your character name, to help to make sure everything is visible (or at least, some of the important stuff is,)

1) Put your high concept in the spot where it says: Gender

2) Where it says: Race, put your Approaches
-Careful --> Crfl
-Clever --> Clvr
-Flashy --> Flsh
-Forceful --> Frce
-Quick --> Qick
-Sneaky --> Snky

3) Fill in the rest of your Aspects, Trouble, and any Stunts you may have in your characters "About You" section.

4) This PbP forum uses an easy system of simple text formatting. If you need help formatting, check out the following, or click the "How to Format Your Text" *show* box under where you would post. For a quick breakdown, keep reading.

Ok... So I want to figure out how we all met. I vaguely remember when Rob, Nick, Dave and I were all hanging out and this started up that I was the first crew member picked up because Dave had no idea how to fly a ship. We were on a planet that we were both trying to get off off for our reasons.
Nick saved Dave in a bar fight if I remember correctly.

Yup. Old John saved his ass.

Hey guys, so far so good in the game! Everything seems to be mostly working, with only a few hiccups. We've ironed out most of the problems already, but I've got some notes on things that will be changing after "The Great Hog Caper!" for you to look over. If you've got questions, either text me about it, or post a comment in the discussion for it.

Otherwise, I've been having fun and hope everyone else has too. Also, post back to Darius about how you all got on board the ship and met.

Ok, on to the notes:

Kachada Backstory:

2506 (Age 22) - 2511: With a small ship, I ran guns for the Alliance, more a transport ship than anything, but it paid real well, so why the hell not. Occasionally ran small jobs for the browncoats, but they didn’t pay nearly as well. Eventually war died down and I got to live on Bellerophon as a reward for my service

2512: (Age 28) Duranta Foxglove, a beautiful demon. Showed me a whole new world. Blah blah blah stuff happened, yeah whatever who cares

2512 - 2514: Tales from Kachada, tell you about it when you damn well need to know.

Cinematic Version:

2514: (Age 30) Steve marriage disintegrated rapidly. When Duranta tired of her latest play thing, she felt no need to keep up the charade. All of the presents stopped within days, and within weeks, Steve was sleeping in the mansion sized guest house. By the end of the month, Kachada had taken to sleeping on his ship. It was really the only thing that made him feel comfortable.

One morning upon trying to reenter his estate, he found his access had been revoked. Upon realizing that her tired ex-lover had finally shown his face, Duranta wanted to make sure that Steve realized he was no longer wanted. She had her guards set fire to guest house he had been staying in, along with all of his belongs. She had one of her men announce that his accounts had been closed. She even had her guards bring Steve’s dog to the front gates, so that he could stare into his dog’s eyes once last time before a guard put a bullet in its head. The guards then rushed through gates and made sure that Kachada knew he was no longer welcome. Beaten and bruised, Kachada limped backed to his ship, yet found that guards had locked down the entrance to the ship and were standing by. Driven out of everything that his life had become, Steve could not handle his last refuge, the only thing he cared about in the Verse being taken from him, he flew into a rage. Through incompetent force, and sheer luck, Kachada was able to take down the guards standing between him and the only fragment of sanity that he could think to hold on, he broke onto The Noble Save. As he reached the cockpit and powered up the ship, a transmission comes through the coms.

“No one defies me, Steve,” Kachada shudders as the voice the he has recently come to despise cuts through his ship, “You should know that. One way or another, I will get what is mine. I will grant you this one small condolence. If you return to port, I will let you live, not on Bellerophon of course, but you will be alive. No one gets mercy from me, you should know that. But I will grant you this one small kindness if you return my ship.”

“NO, THIS IS MY SHIP!” Kachada cries as he cuts the coms and breaks atmo.

Steve’s Version (slurred while drunkenly sobbing):

That b@@$~ burned all my stuff, killed my dog, tried to kill me, and tried to take my ship. And I didn’t do nothin’ to her! NOTHIN’! But I says to her, I says, “B+~!*, it’s my ship!” Then Pachooooooooo! I took off, hopefully never to see that awful harlot again.

Then some s%%~ happened, I met a cocky young pilot, an old drunk, a sneaky bastard, and whatever the hell Marsh is. And here we are today.

(I am assuming we are going same Firefly timeline) 2517: (Age 33) Getting kidnapped by pig haters

Derp

Testing.