Zandra Morrows

Act 1 for the adventure (assuming they go that route but we all know players and plans!) assumes a trip on the fancy King Richard, a huge luxury liner. Must be very luxurious as a regular stateroom runs Cr50,000! It of course includes meals, room upkeep, Cr1000 in chips for gambling and access to the entertainment systems. But the big cost is the live entertainment - your trip has 3 daily entertainment by some of the biggest name in the systems! The high-end room start at Cr150,000. Interestingly that is where the target of the 1st leg of this journey will be residing.

I've printed up the entire promenade deck as well as the main deck as that is where the action will be taking place. Printed on tabloid-sized paper makes it even larger than the original deck plans (which I only have the digital version of. It is on the Apocrypha vol 1 CD, well worth the cost for Traveller collectors!)

Security is of course tight on the ship, and it is escorted by at least 2 well-armed support vessels (hey, I can break out some appropriate minis for the ships. Now to figure out which two will work. I know the various shuttles are good as there will be shuttle trips).

I expect session 0 to have most of the time generating characters, giving the group the background of this particular adventure. I'll try loosening up a bit: I gave one of the Fantasy Trip players a magic ring that enhanced his DX as he never hit a single thing. Still need to work out the potential downside (his father thinks werewolf). As that was a pretty big hit with him, we'll see if I can be more heroic for the players. Just because I like a gritty sort of realistic game does not mean everyone else does!

And too late now (and way too much work), I thought we could also use the ship from Disney's Black Hole movie as the Big Wreck. Now that is one HUGE ship! As it is, the one here is big enough, especially as I run a small ship Traveller universe.

I'll have to come up with some playbills for the cruise. Over on Another Traveller blog, he had some Travellerized versions of classic movies. I may borrow those.