Our first session had a lot of talk, few rolls, and lots of ideas but little action. First, we have our 4 characters:
- Jake Rockwell, ex-cop of Montca (native to the current world)
- Moses Cook, ex-pirate. Co-owner with Jake of O'leray's O'Lasers. We never asked about homeworld, and he may or may not be a citizen of the League of Independent Planets
- Tyrell Adanac, ex-Space Patrol. Citizen of the League, but not sure which home system he is from
- Pascal Esperan, ex-belter from Helfom. Has a claim in the Xyman system
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They divvied up the basic Traveller skill package, and the scene was introduced. They were all sitting in Concourse 17, which due to the shuttle accident 2 days ago, was empty of passengers and customers. While Jake and Moses are apparently cousins, Tyrell had just mustered out of the Space Patrol due to an injury (failed survival roll and we opted to not use the Iron Man rules) and Pascal was in transit to get to his claim but for some reason was stuck here.
The middle-aged gentleman from Oberlindes Lines shows up and makes the proposal: for Cr200,000 he needs info on the black globe fitting location and actual fuel tankage capacity of the old Kinunir Colonial Cruiser. Of which there happens to be one in the General Products yards that was supposed to have been scrapped but has not yet. Pascal bargained a bit and we managed to get that up to Cr240K and then he left, to come back the next day to see if they agreed to his plan. He did say that the server at the General Products terminal as well as the main office in Enris (capitol city a few hours away) would also have that information.
There was a lot of talk about breaking into the yards to get into the physical ship, getting forgers to fake the IDs as a General Products worker, even getting a job there. I had to try & steer them a bit to finding more information and research outside of talking amongst themselves. Plus I've added a lot of news feeds to help set up some of the possible rumors and info they need to move forward. Post 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
After a while, I broke it up by bringing in the professor who is rumor I, and also now a source for a job in a week or so. A regular at O'Leary's as he loves the greasy astroburger, he was doing some research on Xyman and Q'auntar and pre-human cultures that lived there. He mentioned the collapsed culture of Pax Stellar as well. He's been pushing the University for a research ship to visit Xyman and Q'auntar to further his thesis and will be needing a crew. Setting up 2 things here as Pascal probably wants to check out the claim he got when leaving the Swift Rock Group.
Tyrell heads back to the Explorer's Hostel at the edge of the port, where he has been staying the last couple of weeks. Leo, who has worked there for the last 1 years, does say that a lot of the wrenches for shipyards tend to hang out at the Purple Hootch, over on Line J, Intersection 15, Avenue Q.
Getting back with the others, they all go to the Hooch but come in at different times. Jake fails his streetwise roll so the regulars seem to notice that he may be a cop. Tyrell, good at carousing, makes small talk with the bartender and others. They do notice that many are still wearing their work coveralls, you cannot tell Imperial from League, and there are several shipyards on Montca. They do see some from General Products, and I did not make them roll, but will now let them know that they also see several of them have their ID patches on their work clothes.
At this point, we lost one player due to internet connections, so we closed off the session there. I am also using a Points In Space location for the Purple Hootch.
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