Subject: Re: On what to do during Jump
One of our PC ships was top-heavy with characters with computer skill.
Two of them have formed a VideoGames company (whose offices are the cabin
next to the engineering deck, with a branch office in the Captain's
Stateroom) for which they moonlight during jump and while the /s/l/e/a/z/e/
Trade Officer is selling more tangible goods on planets. The royalties
from Metal-Munching-Mice are begining to be substantial. The games tend
to be semi-autobiographical, recounting our run-ins with various
exobiological oddities and 1st Empire security robots -- as well as cross-
fertilizing the cultures and video-games of a hundred worlds.
In the Gazoid 8ight-Worlds universe (and Blacow's subsidiary The Scarp),
a "special effect" of Jump travel is group-hallucination from the collective
unconcious if you look out the viewports.
So the GM always tells us what hyperspace looks like this
time. Rumor has it that no one has ever lived to see the Coyote catch
the Road-Runner and tell about it; and that seeing these mythic characters
in hyperspace is a sure sign your jumper is sick.
Some PCs stock up on back issues of Astrogator Today, Space Bimbos, or
whatever at each port of call.
The ground-pounders on one ship built a still in one cabin to provide in-
flight entertainment.
A fairly even mix of sexes in the crew can provide fertile ground for
in-flight intra-party role-play. (one no-skill Corporal Good-Body has
seriously endangered his job by moving out of the cabin of the (female)
Head of Ground-poudners; he didn't realize he'd been hired *only* as
a boy-toy for Major Lollita. Lucky for him, we're too far beyond the
pale to dump him at next landfall, so she's stuck with a useless gunsel
on the payroll for a while. Meanwhile, she and her Sargeant Major are
busy training the raw-recruit Catperson-Sepoi we hired at a barberous
colony planet.)
If the PCs pick up pets on various planets, all sorts of things can
happen in between exciting events.
Need I continue?
WOuld the Gazoid one care to elaborate, if he's still on this mailing
list?
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/bill ricker/
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