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From: goldman (Matt Goldman)
Message-Id: [email removed]
Subject: Re: Traveller's Aid Society
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 4:09:16 CDT
Cc: goldman
In-Reply-To: [email removed]; from "[email removed]" at May 17, 89 10:26 am
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> I have a basic question. How do you people play the Traveller's Aid Society?
> Things like:
> How do you handle day-to-day TAS functioning?
Players don't get to know that information. TAS just happens.
> Do members get free lodging at a TAS hostel, or do they pay?
That depends on what part of the galaxy they are currently in, and the
mood of the referee...
> Are non-members allowed to pay for a room?
Depends upon how full the hotel is, who they are with, how much they
appear to be worth, and the mood of the referee.
> Every planet cannot have a TAS office- what are your criteria for TAS office
> placement?
Even though every planet is not able to have a TAS office, there are
many native hotel chains which will give substansial discounts to TAS
members. Again, this depends on the mood of the referee.
> Anybody have a good layout of a TAS hostel? Perhaps the one on Regina? (If
> so, would some kind soul post/mail me a copy?)
The last N groups to visit my layout of a hostel (sometimes part of TAS,
sometimes not) have refered to it by many names; TAS hostle, Hotel
California, The Mall, and Hotel of Death, just to name a few. I don't yet
have the floor plans in machine readable form but if you send me your
address I send you photocopies.
> What kind of political involvement to you allow the TAS, if any?
In the multiverse that I like to romp in, the TAS has very strange
politics. Very few of my players have discovered that the TAS is run by
some *very* old humans. No one has yet figured out exactly what the TAS's
goals are.
> What kind of services, besides picking up passages, do you offer to players?
That depends on where the office is located, what the players ask for, what
the NPC's ask for, how much money the players appear to have, and the mood
of the referee.
> For 1 *Million* credits, shouldn't a member have a room-for-life at his 'home'
> hostel?
Yeah, but it is probably located in a very boring section of the galaxy.
> In short, what *about* the TAS? Any and all discussion appreciated.
1) The TAS is not an Imperial run organization.
2) The goals of the TAS are as of yet unknown.
3) The TAS has access to a great deal of capital.
4) The TAS has a great deal of political power. (Old boys network)
5) The TAS is beyond the reach of laws.
(What, you won't do what we say? No problem. We'll list you
planet as an amber travel zone. That will cut back the honest
tourists and attract the player character terrorists...)
I hope that's good for starters.
-Matt (aka Damion Biggs, aka Mike Weston, aka Winston
North, aka Otto M. Bond, aka Cmdr Thorndike, and
many others...)
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