GM S's "Ridgerock Rescue" [1-4] (Inactive)

Game Master Chris Marsh

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Hey everyone! Kishmo here, bringing Jupitus, my "huh, I wonder if heavyweight skirmisher operatives work?" test case character. He's a lot of fun to play so far, and I enjoy chewing the scenery with the Priest theme.
Jupitus is capable in nearly any Starship Combat role (except Science Officer) but he's best at Chief Mate or Magic Officer. Usually I'll let everyone pick what they're best at, and then fill in the gaps. Oh, and, he has access to a Gorgon :D

Thanks for running for us!

I am playing Skiratrisk, my shirren survivalist soldier!

Just need Gorf and we'll begin!

I'm here, need to get Gorf leveled up real quick (I should have that done this evening).

If this makes no sense, I apologize... but Jupitus? Jupiter switched to a -us 2nd declension noun?

Yup, that's the name! If you ask him, Jupitus says his parents named him that because of visions of some far-away gas giant they divined during his incubation, and named him after that gas giant that reminded them of their home's shepherd, Liavara.

...but if you ask me, as a player, it's because trox are big and have a commanding presence, so I wanted a name that also sounded big and impressive, too (and maybe kinda sorta also after British B-List comedian, Phil Jupitus.)

Skiratrisk can be pilot with +10, engineer with +7, or gunner with +7.

Zynn is good at Melee, but he cannot compete with those scores. Perhaps a science officer with computers +5. Maybe Captain with Diplomacy +13, Bluff +8, or Intimidate +8.

This being a Gorgon Run™, I'm going to suggest we want out best and brightest (i.e. the highest Dex characters, with ranks in Piloting) shooting things, to take advantage of the ship's destructive output. So it might be best to do something like:
Gunners: Gorf & Skiratrisk
Pilot/flex to Sci or Eng if needed: Jupitus
Captain/flex to Sci or Eng if needed: Zynn

But that's if we want to min/max the crap out of it, which, meh. I'm fine with people just doing whatever :)

...this does make me wish I had the Starship boon to get a Skittermander to help out on this character, though.

Hey everyone, something came up today and I can't get to my system until tomorrow afternoon. Sorry!

Ha ha, it's so weird to fight NPCs that we created for a different adventure.

What adventure were they created for? Are these recurring npcs? Well, I guess not recurring any longer.

Ha ha, it's so weird to fight NPCs that we created for a different adventure.

Must be a bit surreal, yeah! Luckily they aren't exactly likeable NPCs; I imagine this would be harder if it was, like, a beloved ally NPC like Ziggy or something :)

They first appeared in 5-13 Finding the Forgotten! I haven't played all the adventures between that one and this one, so I'm not sure if they show up elsewhere.

Aw man. I'm sorry I didn't make better use of their personalities to do them justice! :-(

Oh, no, that's fine; they're all jerks!

If we use Jupitus's proposed configuration from earlier (Captain Zinn, Pilot Jupitus, Gunners Gorf and Skiratrisk), then Ongie slots in nicely as Science/Engineering! Maybe we have Ongie starts as Science Officer and do a scan, then switch to Engineering?

They first appeared in 5-13 Finding the Forgotten! I haven't played all the adventures between that one and this one, so I'm not sure if they show up elsewhere.

I think I've experience just about all of the "meta" season 6 plot, and FWIW I haven't seen them come up anywhere before here.

If we use Jupitus's proposed configuration from earlier (Captain Zinn, Pilot Jupitus, Gunners Gorf and Skiratrisk), then Ongie slots in nicely as Science/Engineering! Maybe we have Ongie starts as Science Officer and do a scan, then switch to Engineering?

Sounds good to me! If we start taking hits, then we can have Ongie try for the shield regeneration.

Sounds good to me as well. The role of captain definitely works for Zynn.

Sorry for slow posting everyone. I'll be slow for the next 24 hours or so too (hosting state bigwigs and they require...handling.)

Truthfully, this is the first time Jupitus has gotten to bring the Gorgon out of drydock, and I was kinda excited to see how it does!

So far, it's making me think that "the biggest cannons in the galaxy mean nothing if you don't have the floating ICM +Xs to actually hit things" :D

Luckily, we have the toughness to wait until we roll well - and I get the feeling that we only need a small number of hits to land!

It was great playing with Jupitus!

CHRONICLES!

It's been a while since I last added a con game partway through. I'll figure that out and then offer up a table. Meanwhile, confirm that your chronicles are good to go!

Chronicle looks good on my side - thanks for running!! This was a fun romp with a great GM and great group - thanks, everyone! And, nice to play with authors to get their take on seeing previously-introduced NPCs return to be horribly killed lol

I just added Unearthing Ulumbia to the OutPost games as a FCFS table!

I'll close this thread down tonight. Thanks again everyone!