The Long Night Ends (A Traveller T20 Game) (Inactive)

Game Master mdt

Okay, we got escalated from call-centre to manager. Yey!

While I was tinkering up Ceres reply I realized that I was thinking of playing some cards as a show of faith but then I realized that I shouldn't be spilling our beans without consulting the rest of you : )

In short, I was planning on a quick jab to puncture the spy notion then move over to the more important stuff - sucking em dry for info :P

They seem to be well aware of our homeworld fakery or simply running a quick bluff. However, they are going to find out about that eventually anyhow, so I'm thinking of simply giving them some nuggets of truth right away.

Remember that ship that brought us the Martha MacTavish?

It carried a dire warning about something ominous that was lurking about. If our current hosts had any visit from the galaxy at whole, they would also have heard this. If not, which seems more likely, a picture of a slagged (retouched so that none of the stars appear) warship might nudge them in the right direction.

This should give us a good reason for lying about our origin - and keep doing so. ("This ship ran gauntlet trough a supernova to give us an early warning. Still wondering why we don't just hand out a map leading home to every insistent stranger?")

Now, this ominous threat also gives us a pretty good reason to ask them to reassure us that their 'Fateful' is simply marauding neighbours and nothing more. ("Yeah, you keep saying they are just thugs. But we can't be sure of that [hint: Give us proof/plot info!]. You might just be in league with them... And I rather fire my jump drive inside here then get caught by them!")

I also plan to compare this station to a doughnut and/or a merry-go-around :P

Thoughts?

Great memory. Good instincts. I support.

cheers

I like it. It seems like they was us to think that they have us by the short hairs (and in a way, they do), it just seems our M.O. to kind of screw playing it quiet.

So yeah, I say raise a ruckus, bring up the melted ship, and let tensions get high. Then, when the other guys start attacking, we can either make an escape, or join up for the betterment of everyone, just like TVTropes likes! : )

Mkay, then I will roll with it!

However, the hour is sorta late here, and I don't want to accidentally declare war just because my brain is more focused on my bed then my post. I shall get something up tomorrow asap!

(Also, I noted that mdt was sorta swamped today [form another pbp] so I think I can get away with a good nights sleep before slapping him with another post :P)

That said, if anyone can think of something to say or bring up (be it a nice formulation or another point) or anything, feel free to spash them up here : )

(And yeah, it would be sorta cool to pewpewpew a bit with our ship. Until the other guys pewpewpew back :P)

Shame the Her ladyship is not there, she would say,

Hehe,

GM I made this PC, His a professional seconded to the navy for this trip
He works at Utoxiter-lee industry's as their Biostatistic expert, Vic head of Space Drone RnD. He was on the ship overseeing the Drones.

Little combat skills but good with robotics and computers.

@Speech - it turned out a bit rambling, hopefully not too wordy!

@Data packs - Ceres will send over a picture of the SSS William retouched without the stars in the background (they can be used to identify us!) as well as a few readings and pictures from our expedition there. Radiation and a few pictures of cooked crewmembers and thin speckles of blood should do the trick. As for Them, Ceres will send whatever the Lost Colony Protocol sent us (pic)

@Next PC - I don't totally recall, but didn't we have rolled stats ?

And while we are on the topic, it would feel only proper if the Captain-stick wandered on to the next person : )

@Hacking - Do we think that perhaps our ship left them the video we got? To infect a ship heading to the main world and disperse at a moment of choice :P

Yep, if we're going the new PC + Old PC route, I'll roll up some new stats.

Are we satisfied with that or do we want to push our luck?

(A bit more solid proof would be nice ... I don't know, a picture?)

Ceres is a bit miffed she won't get to watch a real space battle, other then that she is mostly fine as it is : )

Yep, if we're going the new PC + Old PC route, I'll roll up some new stats.

I went with the old set of stats you rolled GM but I can change that easily when you do the new set.

Vathan is ready to spacewalk and blow the docking clamps.

On the other hand, the Imperial knows our Homeworld is one of three lost colonies. Do you want to join the Empire or fight it?

GM would it be OK if I have him with two Prosthetic Robotic legs.
Its why hes a Roboticist

Holt is also on line to handle whatever might be necessary.

And it is looking like the appropriate term might indeed be Clooster'Puck.

@mdt - did any sort of proof or anything accompany the latest broadcast ?

Random thought: Ceres feels that she is about two insults/demands away from being escalated directly to this Goddess of theirs ... :P

you know this is one of the be plo points I have seen for a long time, well done mdt, you really do have I think every hung here in suspense

Cool,

What will happen next,

Random thought: Ceres feels that she is about two insults/demands away from being escalated directly to this Goddess of theirs ... :P

With malice and aforethought, followed by extreme prejudice. :)

Slammed, post tonight.

No evidence was provided, just the woman's visage and the obvious transmission relay.

Had a think, GM what do you think of this PC build
Could you roll stats,
Idea is hes a Scout who never got to be one, until now
Just years of training in system, and this is his one big brake,
used a name from the Crew roster and built around that.

No evidence was provided, just the woman's visage and the obvious transmission relay.

Hmm.

@Crew - Should we trust her?

Honestly, I have a hard time seeing any (logical*) reason for them to actually lie to us and we might be able to coax some sort of image off our probes.

*Note: We don't have all the pieces, so ...

I saw we stay put but don't stand down. We should make it clear that we intend to stay neutral in any disputes between other human colonies, at least without all of the information (from both sides) as to the nature of the disputes.

We don't really lose anything by staying put (for now). And if they try anything funny we blow our way out.

Mkay. That is settled then!

We wait.

In the meanwhile, wanna try and see if you can use your techno-wizardy to get an image or reading from our probes : )?

The GM isn't posting until he get's a game post telling him what, if anything, people are doing. If nothing, that's fine. But need an official post. :)

The GM isn't posting until he get's a game post telling him what, if anything, people are doing. If nothing, that's fine. But need an official post. :)

Official post incoming!

You guys up for a visit? =)

Certainly not the most tactical choice perhaps, but it might be fun :)

Well, if we let them on our craft, we have a home field advantage, and might be able to take a captive if things go sour.

But if we go on their craft then we might get to see more of their technology level.

So, I guess this is a decision of safety vs. curiosity? Either is fine with me, honestly.

They've already visited us during their inspection. I'd prefer having hostages than being hostages if it comes to that.

Indeed, safety vs curiosity.

Now - it seems as if we are a bit split on the issue, should I just roll a dice =)?

1=Our ship
2=Station
3=Their ship

(On the other hand, no-one was mentioned the Station... Skip that one ?)

I'm not sure we should even consider the station. It has all of the bad things associated with meeting on their ship, with no real chance to gain new information.

Ok, so I'm going to assume that we're giving up our weapons.

But how forward do we want to be with them? Full disclosure, or evasive?

Hmm. I thought about it a little bit and I am not sure what is best.

Now, Ceres feel that giving up the location/route/name of our homeworld is a no-no ("Sorry, I am not authorized to give you that information!). However, everything else is pretty much in the open (perhaps we should shut up about the Mylthani for now).

So - confirm 'yeah we are a lost colony too'. A bit about the state of our world, a bit about what we can trade, a bit about declaration of friendship ect ect. Perhaps if there is something they want help with? If they want to send a diplomat.

Everything but 'here is a map to our home'.

If that made sense :P

Thoughts?

So, basically, a disclosure where we are honest about exactly what we can and cannot say.

Also, the warship that visited us didn't strike me as ancient. But, given the mission of 'nova-running', it might have been a surplus vessel that was sacrificed.

Is our host running a bluff perhaps ?

Concur

We should be wary of giving any kind of star charts. Our home is not that far from them, yet they never found it. So either they have limited warp capabilities or no real ability/desire to explore (and I didn't see any closed warp points along the way).

It didn't feel like the warp-point we entered trough was known to them, given that it was completely unguarded.

Perhaps they had more pressing issues to spend resources on (their b*&@%%~ crazy neighbours for once! Unless they lie, of course ...)?

Or simply didn't have time/energy to scan their entire system yet. We didn't have much to actually *do* on our homeworld, so all the resources could basically be allocated to this exploration phase.

Hmm.

I shall try and get a meaty post up by tonight : )

You entered from a closed warp point, meaning it wasn't detectable on this side.

You entered from a closed warp point, meaning it wasn't detectable on this side.

Ah, must have missed that when I went dredging through the warp descriptions. My bad. : /

I'm good with the time skip. Character creation will take me some time due to the infrequence of use.

I would greatly appreciate an abridged timeline going back sufficiently long enough to incorporate a new character's backstory. So much has happened, and I believe I've forgotten more than I remember.

I would also appreciate some forecast of skill usage in the future. I built vathan for personal combat, but his Forte only came into play about 5-10% of the game. Don't get me wrong. I still had fun but felt the character was too much of a spectator. Which was fine, because there was so much to spectate.

Maybe you could provide a description of the key roles or positions for the future mission that we can build characters towards.

Cheers

I'm with Vathan on this one.

I must confess, my mind is preoccupied with some mundane crap at the moment, so playing around with characters and reading delicious plot may be preferable to political roleplay right now : )

@Team - Did we settle for any of the time-skip lengths ?

I'm actually going to leave it up to you guys.

I'm assuming you'll want to continue with explorers (scout class opens up). If anyone wants to do mylthani, let me know, as I'll have to work them up as a species.

Last I knew you were all leaning toward the 8-10 year skip. Just need to know for sure.

I think explorers would be nice.

Or perhaps the 'proper' navy/army in a campaign against those obstructing fanatics. But I'm not sure how much *stuff* we can actually fit into that line, before we either go splat or succeed.

I *think* I will remain human : )

@To be sure - I am up for the 8-10 year skip

Squeee.

'More to come'?

I should make a nice cup of tea and find a blanket then :P

Thoughts :

I would think that Ceres might have been assigned as being in charge of the Scout Corps. Vathan makes sense, given his martial bent, as having been put in charge of the Forward Recon Marine Regiment, making him the senior marine officer outside Telthani (which would be in MWP08).

Holt would make most sense being in charge of R&D and the naval shipyards in Telthani.

Annarra is likely a representative on the Clan Council at this point.

Thoughts, alterations?

What sort of characters does everyone want?

I'm good with vathan's appointment. Even if he achieved more from luck and being a PC than skill.

As for new character concepts, where do you want to take the next story? More exploration?

If yes, I would enjoy the following concepts in no particular order:
* psychic
* medical officer
* first officer
* captain

Would you want the mission state sponsored? Or would you want to go corporate sponsored like the subplot of Aliens?

Are there any aliens available? What do the Mythani game mechanics look like?

If I stay human, I may want to link my next PC to Vathan. Maybe a bastard that he finally discovers.

Cheers

Thoughts :

I would think that Ceres might have been assigned as being in charge of the Scout Corps. Vathan makes sense, given his martial bent, as having been put in charge of the Forward Recon Marine Regiment, making him the senior marine officer outside Telthani (which would be in MWP08).

Holt would make most sense being in charge of R&D and the naval shipyards in Telthani.

Annarra is likely a representative on the Clan Council at this point.

Thoughts, alterations?

What sort of characters does everyone want?

Yes Aannra would have done all she could to bring about unification under the big agreement, a would council, / confedrucy would be her aim, out side of that them growth of the pyicopes, empathas being identified would be part her doing. Member of the Clan Council is a must.

I would like to stick with Zodany, like vathem I would like him liked to Aannra,
Was thinking it my be her son/nephew .
If vathem gos Mythani psy then thinking we all take a little psi stuff. A psi crew would be cool and we would be his collective

Son/nephew Utoxiter Lee would by Pycorpes trinned noble/Scout,
big into the new cybernetics .I also really like the idea of a precog poilot .

Mylthani up on the campaign page.

Lysandran are also an option, however, Lysandran have no PsiCorps, and very few psi's.

No other alien species yet (may come down the line).

Lysan is a Constitutional Monarchy, currently led by Empress Alsatia Aleskina Malteria Leskova the Third. The colony was originally settled by a mixture of Russian, European, and North American settlers. It started out as a Tax Haven for the rich, who set themselves up as royalty with titles. Over time, the titles became inherited and an actual monarchy resulted. Their language is a heavily modified version of Galactic, salted through with Russian, Yugoslavian, and English words. Their speech mannerisms are something of a cross between South Alabama and Vladistovian Russian.

Mission can be state sponsored, or private corp. Private corp will be heavily heavily overseen by the government though, considering the dangers out there.

I feel that state sponsored would probably be the most sensible. Also, it feels better. Can't really put my finger on why, but it does (probably due to how corporations is frequently portrayed in Sci Fi :P).

Also, I'm going to mention again that I would be happy to have the Captain hat rotate around, so to speak : )