Firefly-ish

Series 1, Fate

Season 1: 8/1/17 - 12/28/17. Marko and Clint.

Season 2: 1/10/18 - 5/20/19. Marko, Clint, and Poe. 

Season 3: 7/1/19 - 10/10/19. Clint, Poe, Ronaldo/Augustus, Lake. 

Season 4: 11/21/19 - 12/21/19 Floyd, Nathan (deceased) 

Season 5: 3/15/24 - 4/25/24 Riley (Dan, pilot, infected), Nil (Matt, mechanic), Bob (Bob, muscle), Spike (Andy, Stictch), Jet Drake (Brent, mystic)

Series 2 Reboot, Scum & Villainy

A Firefly-esque game. Living on the edge of the 'verse, trying to make a livin best ya can, not always on the right side of the law. Firefly Setting Rules

Making a Character: 

Also, know the answer to these two questions:

• • What was the circumstances of you joining the crew?

  • What did you character do during the Unification War? Which side was he on?

Regular Characters

Floyd Moseby (Andy): Ship mechanic, couch surfer (Repair, Operate, little bit of healing & hacking)

Clint: (Brent) Shotgun toter, brawler, softie at heart. 

Victor Spike: Taunt, hacking, theivery, smart ass. 

Other Notable Peeps

On the Destrier:

Captain Roscoe: The Captain of the Destrier. A man that is getting too old for this shit. He usually has Clint and Marko do all the work, but might appear out of the background for an adventure. 

Ronaldo Montecarlo: Ronaldo and his true love Jasmine Chyrium were rescued from the renaissance-copying planet Vega 9. They both are spoiled rich kids running away from their wealthy parents and excited to be on such a glorious adventure. Ronaldo was a bit of a useless fop when first met, but maybe he's grown up a bit at this point?

Jasmine Chyrium: Ronaldo's true love. Jasmine has some minor telepathic abilities (maybe a stunt - Can read a person's hidden thoughts on a Will contest, but must take a Consequence. Or maybe once per session?). 

Ma Miller: Kindly but tough mother of Maggie Miller from Season 3, Episode 4. Alliance is after Maggie, so Ma is not safe.

Other Crew: The Destrier has plenty of other un-named, un-met crew. Feel free to invent any you like as a guest character.  

Others

Poe: (Will) Pilot from the bad part of the planet, Emotionally Contagious, Fast & Fun beats Slow & Steady, Former ganger, Uuuummmm… sure it’s legal.... -- Pilot, ship mechanic, pistol expert

Marko: (Andy) Professional con-man tasting freedom. They're out to get me. Must balance the Scales. Who is that Guy - He looks nondescript. Always has something up his sleeve. -- Face, Con man. Retired to Endeavor to help at the orphanage with Sherpard Rust

Mr Bumbles: A rascally cat missing a tail. Former ship mascot, now with Marko

Fat Al: Blackmarket fence, mobster, finder in a little of everything going on. While Fat Al has frequently hired the Destrier for jobs, he's also tried to collect the bounty on them offered by Overseer Fung. Office in on Space Station Zed. 

Delores Falcon: An crooked Blue Sun executive. Was working with the Destrier, but when they ruined Gator for her the PCs became her mortal enemy. 

Overseer Tommy Fung (DECEASED): The man Blue Sun put in charge of this quandrant. The Destrier has caused him many problems and he'd like nothing more than to capture them and see them hung. 

The World at Large

Some of the notable people, places, or things in the world. 

Destrier: The name of the ship you're on. The Destrier is capable of on-planet as well as off-planet travel in addition to lots of hiding places. It has a short-range transport with an anti-grav beam for snagging various things. 

Blue Sun: The huge, multiplanet conglomerate, corporation. Kinda creepy and background at this point. 

Outpost: A planet on the far edge of things. Three factions are involved in most things - Aspis Consortium (miners), Ma Rainey's Gang (homey criminal empire), and the Zebulons (religious fanatics colonizing a planet). 

Firefly Lingo: Boat or Ship (refers to spacecraft), Shiny (Cool, Good), Goram (god damn), Rut/Rutting (fuck). General pronunciation

Rule Changes

Savage Worlds Houserules

Firefly Slang Benny: Once per session, drop some Firefly slang or Chinese into your roleplay for a benny. 

Extra Wound Max: Extras can do at max, after soaking, 3 wounds. 

Episodes to Date

Season 1

Episode 1: On their way to Fat Al for a job, the Destrier is intercepted by Overseer Fung. The Destrier has a hard landing on a nearby planet. Clint & Marko have a hazardous journey to a nearby fungus farm where a long-crashed ship has the part they need to escape. Overseer Fung is questioning the farmers and the two put a stop to that. 

Episode 2: Fat Al hires them to steal a trove of Rarium from a mining planet. Overseer Fung arrives at the space station and the Destrier has to leave quickly. At the mining camp, Clint and Marko have to dispatch a second group of thieves that Fat Al had previously hired. 

Episode 3: Fat Al apologizes for the second group and offers the Destrier a second job delivering the Rarium to it's buyer. On Vega 9, they learn that the Rarium is being used in a foul medical procedure to increase the latent telepathic abilities of the young Jasmine Chyrium. Clint and Marko don't take kindly to that (and think a telepath would be a great addition to the crew). They rescue her lover Ronaldo Montecarlo, fake their suicides, and escape Vega 9 before their angry families can arrest them. 

Episode 4: The crew has grown tired of Al's double-dealings and decides to strike out on their own - and be a thorn in Al's side as much as possible. They go to a Blue Sun capital planet and hijack some of Al's cargo. They meet up with Delores Falcon, a Blue Sun executive that has worked with Fat Al before but is looking to strike out on her own. 

Episode 5: Delores tells the crew that Fat Al is very, very interested in a high stakes poker game. The crew decides they want in as well. They go to meet Salandra Sash - vid actress and former lover of both Fat Al and Marko in hopes she can identify some high-price item of Al's they can steal to get into the tournament. They get embroiled in an adventure when a villain kidnaps Sandra in revenge for the actions of her ancestors. 

Episode 6: From Sandra's intel, they steal a painting of Al's which gets them into the poker tournament. Hijinks ensure, they can't win the poker tournament but when masked rebels attack the tournament they seize the opportunity to steal the prizes for themselves. One of those, a large, mysterious ore known as the Aqualite, they sell to Delores Falcon which allows her to oust a competitor and install her lackey on the mining planet of Gator. 

Episode 7: Delores loses the Aqualite to thieves and suggests the crew go steal it back. The crew figures out that it is resistance fighters on Gator that stole the Aqualite - the same people who attacked the casino. They learn that the Aqualite is actually a power source for a massive portal. They aid the resistance in activating the portal thus flooding Gator as it once was in the distant past making the planet worthless to Blue Sun. Overseer Fong is killed when he tries to stop them and Delores Falcon is now extremely angry with the crew of the Destrier. 

Episode 8: The players find themselves delivering tractor parts to the Greenbelt on the outskirts of the sector. They stumble into a scheme involving Xanthi - a sort of space whale - attacking the farming asteroids. Director Hazalon has modified the research of the xenobiologist Kera Beloon (an ex-Marco flame and potential mother to Marco's son) to get the Xanthi to attack so that he can buy up the farms to grow a special bio-plastic. 

Season 2

Episode 1: The Destrier picks up some passengers including a brother/sister wanting to return to their mining site on Cobalt Fault. The brother snaps along the way and kills a Zebulon before being put down by Poe. Doc finds that the brother had some sort of brain fungus. On Cobalt Fault, they find that a subset of the miners have brutally killed the other miners. The first apperance of Reavers.

Episode 2: Fat Al contacts the Destrier to perform a train robbery. When the players discover they've stolen much needed medical supplies, they give them back to Al's chagrin. First encounter with Reavers.

Episode 3: A flashback to Clint and Poe's first meeting. Clint is sent to pickup some medical contraband from a doctor when Poe's gang tries to steal it. 

Episode 4: A flashback to Marko and Poe meeting. They are sent to bring in a guy that crossed Fat Al. They pose as ice machine repairmen, hilarity ensures though they do eventually get their man. 

Episode 5: Hired by a former miner to highjack a mining shipment thus ruining the current mine owner and allowing miner to buy the mine. 

Season 3

Start of Thrilling Heroic published adventures

Episode 1: Hired to discreetly take Lilliana Fairchild to her wedding-of-the-millennium. Players learn that she doesn't want to get married and that her father has captured her true love. Her wedding planner turns out to be a spy that tries to abduct her but the players foil that (faking the death of the wedding planner, agreeing to set her free after Lilliana is delivered for a fat paycheck). Lilliana is delivered safely to the wedding site. Crew though can't bring themselves to sacrifice a sweet payday to help Lilliana and she is married off to the uncouth arms dealer Templeton Colt Steele. 

Episode 2: An old army buddy of Clint's - Shepard Rust - needs some help at his orphanage. Players get pulled into a speedboat race against the less than honorable Mayor "Buzzard" Lake. They win the race when Poe jumps the boat over a chain blocking the finish line. Not happy with being shown up, Buzzard and his goons come to the orphanage for a shootout, but he loses badly when Poe knocks Buzzard into a motorcycle sidecar and then launches him back out of it. Marko and Mr Bumbles decide to stay behind at the orphanage to help the kids. 

Episode 3: Crew is hired to steal an unknown crate from Club Olympus on Persephone and deliver to an unknown buyer. The buyer, a Trade Alliance buyer in Serenity Valley named Vigor, is being watched by Col Wu of the Alliance. They strike a deal with Vigor to deliver some indentured servants and with the Colonel to double-cross Vigor and let the Colonel know where Vigor's hideout is. Things get complicated when an old war buddy, Monty, shows up at the exchange hoping to rescue his new bride - Daisy. They storm Vigor's base, rescue Daisy and some others, and turn Vigor over to the Colonel. 

Episode 4: Maggie Miller, an old pal of Poe's from the Unification War, is being hunted by the Alliance for her war activities. The crew helps Maggie get her stash of credits from an abandoned mine, recover her ship hidden in an old lover's junk yard, and bust her Ma out of the hospital. All while avoiding the Alliance officer after her and the bounty hunter wanting to bring her in (who Augustus murders). 

Season 4

Episode 1: The crew travels to the industrial planet of Wayland to deliver wine to the crimelord Jantha. On delivery, they are ambushed by rival crimelord Agatha Ashe's gang. Janta pays the crew to track down and bring Ashe to him. They succeed, but wanderlust archaelogist Nathan Condrad dies during the shootout. On delivery, Pix - Jantha's right-hand man - reveals himself to be secretly working with Ash and frees the crimelord. 

Episode 2: Hired & paid in advance to take dogs to Eagle Eye Sarafina on Whitefall, trouble ensues when Floyd diagnoses the dog with a fatal malady. Thinking they would be in heaps of trouble if they delivered the dog like that, they instead deliver them to Sarafina's nemesis, Governor Patience. Patience though has an simmering resentment for JJ and tries to impound the Destrier. They flee Whitefall, escaping Patience' fighter, and arrive in Athens running on fumes. 

Episode 3: Flashback. Hank and Clint rescue a brown coat operative, Todd Wilkinson, from an alliance jail during the battle for New Moscow on Meadow in the Georgia system. Todd takes them to the Chui family, alliance merchants but secretive browncoat sympathizers, so that he can get the info to Freedom's Glory - an Independent ship. Zan Chui betrays them though, believing that the browncoasts can no longer win the war. Hank and Clint escape via grenades and right crosses.

Episode 4: Admiral Roland Sharpe hires the crew to help break into an Alliance scrapping yard on Bellerphon's moon Pegasus so that he can steal his former command ship Freedom's Glory. Sharp and his men get the ship and fly off into the black. 

Episode 5: Hired by Qan Chui (who we meet in episode 3), to steal a Ming vase from her ex-husband's Earth-That-Was exhibit. Asante Okoro throws a small complication, but they manage to steal the vase, Babe Ruth's ball cap, a brick from the Great Wall of China, and a couple other items. The items are successfully fenced through Fat Al and the crew is wealthier than they have ever been. 

Season 5

Episode 1 & 2: The crew is headed to the independent mining asteroid T-1337 when they are shot down by the alliance! It appears the alliance has faked a terrorist attack on the mining outpost to take it over. The PCs discover a group of miners and a strange doctor hiding out from the alliance. These end up being a mind-controlling aliend and her blob accomplices. They dispatch them, break into the alliance base to steal a part for the ship, and escape into the black. Troubling though, it appears that Riley is infected by one of the aliend parasites. 

Episode 2: The PCs learn that Dr Johnson was an alien artifact smuggler. Hoping to find a cure for Riley, they investigate this group. Hijinks ensure, but they learn that Dr Johnson's ship, the Condor, was outfitted with a new transponder code. They blackmail an alliance officer to get the tracking info for this ship. 

Episode 3: They track the Condor to the poor mining moon of Wallaby. There they find that the sheriff has been mind controlled. Checking a farm house of the last location of Dr Johnson, they run into muscle Luna Vasquez who is now half-alien herself. They witness the Doctor's gruesome experiments in the basement. Checking the sheriff's datapad, they learn that Dr Johnson left here for asteroid T-1337. 

Episode 4: Scanning T-1337 they find the Condor. They defeat a bunch of blobs protecting it, get the location where the Condor likely found the aliens, and evade the Alliance. 

Episode 5: Arriving at the ancient alien site, they battle some humans that had been taken over by blobs. In the alien structure, they find the remnants of a fight between two alliance civiliazations. Unending waves of blobs attack and the players have to retreat. With some research, they figure out how to work the alien weapons of what must have been the blob/mindflayer enemies. Using these they get deep underground and find the huge alien brain that runs all the blobs and mindflyers. Detonators, heavy guns, and other weapons finally bring the thing down.