Greeting and Salutations Fellow Travellers!
The list has been curiously devoid of traffic lately, so I thought I'd contribute some
detritus to break the monotony of the days toils.
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The cast of characters: The Captain and some of the crew of "Sed's Determination"
Capt. Sedhgherr "Sed", Vargr merchant (Broker-4, Trader-2), owner of 200 ton far trader
"Sed's Determination".
Leo Kernquey, 1st officer, ex-scout, pilot/navigator, smoker of "El Ropo" cigars,
needs to get directions to the shower, as he doesn't use it often
enough to remember it's location (slight exagerration).
Speaker to Furballs, Kzin chief gunner (Gunnery-2), former "ambassador" to Vargr space,
a runt among Kzinti ("only" 7' tall, 205kg), slightly mellower
than most. Favorite drink: Old Frothing Slosh (that stale, pale
ale with the foam on the bottom).
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Although primarily a merchant campaign, the crew of the Determination tend to involve themselves
in high-risk situations, so they tend to pack as much firepower as they can get away with.
Recent activities include foiling an assassination attempt on the life of an Imperial Minister
of Trade by a vargr terrorist group we call the "Planet Busters". Unfortunately, the "Busters"
know who we are, and are not pleased with us. We were originally going to be their "fall guys"
in the attempt, so they kidnapped us and planned to take us to another system to hold us for a
few weeks until their plans came to fruition. Then we'd be set up as the culprits.
Well, we got out of that by successfully taking over their ship (300-tons, mostly engines if
you follow my meaning), when Leo managed to kayo a guard with a bar of hard soap while on the
way back to our cell from the lavatory. Of course, it helped that Leo is second only to Speaker
in the muscle department. The rest of us were confused as to how he managed to use the soap bar
as a weapon, especially as he's had so little experience with it in it's intended use. He then
broke the rest of us out, and we had a spirited firefight with the crew resulting in several
severe injuries (to us and them), and one shredded captain (for them). I used my AP pistol, a
kind of mini grenade launcher, patterned after the AP Pistols in CJ Cherryh's "Chanur" series.
In the campaign, it's a weapon of vargr invention, and can't be found outside of vargr space.
Anyway, he got rather severely perforated, along with a few bulkheads.
Once we got back to our original planet, we only had to deal with the "Bugs" (Imperial Naval
Security, or INSec) "INSec, Eliminating subversive elements since 847". Those guys. Lucky
for us we had accumulated overwhelming evidence of our innocence. That way it only took us
two weeks to be cleared of all charges related to the (now pirated) ship we were in when they
stopped us. The real pisser of it all was that we couldn't hang around to get our reward for
helping to foil the assassination and recovering the kidnappers ship. There's over 1MCr waiting
for us back there, but there's also over 200 members of the terrorists on the same planet who
are waiting for our greed to get the better of us. Ah well, plot 'n plan, and find a way.
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Anyway, are there any list members with experience playing vargr characters? I'd like some
ideas on how to flesh out Cap'n Sed. Personality quirks, likes and dislikes, whatever. I've
gotten the GDW Vargr supplement, but it pretty much concentrates on total vargr campaigns,
not one where the campaign is mostly human with the occasional vargr.
Later postings will probably contain less verbosity, I just got bored. Sorry.
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Bob Moynihan ([email removed]) | "Um, Leo? Why are ALL the stars on
Apollo Computer Inc. | THAT side of the ship?"
[address removed] | - Capt. Sedhgherr's nightmare
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