episode 2

New characters

Donovan Randall Whitcombe III

A lanky 19 year old with an unruly shock of blonde hair and sideburns that aren't growing out as quickly or as fully as he'd like them to. Quick with a smile, but it doesn't always extend to his eyes. Suited up in a pilot's gear, ready to take off at a moment's notice.

Donovan grew up in his father's shadow, listening to his grieving mother's tales of his heroism as a aetheric fighter pilot during the Sidereal War. His squadron was escorting the H.M.S Fulminata, the first Dreadnought-class cruiser to roll off the line, on its first mission offworld. Shortly after escaping orbit and beginning its voyage, crew members aboard the H.M.S. Corvus, a destroyer returning via a nearby route, saw the Fulminata and its escorts vanish in a gigantic burst of phlogiston.

Raised on those stories, Donovan's head was perpetually aimed at the skies above. With his mother's passing, and his younger siblings in the care of his aunt and uncle, he finally has the freedom to pursue his dream of following in his father's footsteps

High Concept: Natural Born Pilot

Trouble: In shadow of Daddy - War Hero's Name To Live Up To

Head in the clouds

Impulsive

Dive right into the danger zone

Good: Quick

Fair: Careful, Clever

Average: Flashy, Sneaky

Mediocre: Forceful

Stunts

Because I am suited up and ready to go, I get a +2 when I Quickly overcome obstacles using a vehicle

Because I am a natural born pilot, I get a +2 to cleverly evade with vehicles

Because my father was the hero of the Sidereal war, once per session I can call upon one of my daddy's war buddies to help me out

Scene1 Introductions

How is Donovan is related to group?

How did Carl first meet Jack?

If already with ship go back and relive Retroactive first encounter possibly based around Donavan's early attempts at Fulminata fact finding using information broker Mama Nygopa

Aspects - Show me da money. You playing wit big fish. Mamma never gonna get her restaurant with cheapskates like you.

Hook for Jack - got a pickup for Junos sector (Carl) Mama - You gonna need something better than your auto pilot to get where this package is going.

Zone

  • Commercial way; Busy; Crowded

  • Back Street; Low traffic; Detritus

  • Non-descript Kiosk smelling of gumbo; Privacy screen; Easily moved if needed

Mama Nygopa (information broker who would rather be cooking) Trouble - soft spot for underdogs. Aspects - Mama always finds a way, Always come back to mama, That's my best offer. Careful 4, clever 3, sneaky 3. Stunts - I can get you to what you want but you may not like the cost. +2 to carefully arranging meetings overcome obstacles

+cooking, connections -leaving her kitchen

Scene 2

Space travel through cluttered asteroid belt

Low on Cash; Low on steam

Cargo is beginning to buzz ominously; Highly volatile

Need a good fence

Safe/Nearby is low opportunity

Risky push luck to make it to big metropolis

    • Current location

    • Nearby Sector

      • Trade satellite 521 (quicky mart, high prices, low selection)

      • Choice of : Detour (costs fuel) or asteroid belt difficulty 3

    • Far Sector

      • Choice of : Detour (costs fuel) or traverse space debris difficulty 4

    • New Utopia by Megacorp

      • Contact Clyde in customs can get you to through

      • Mama Nygopa

Scene 3

Landing bay on New Utopia Prime a Transubsidiary Holding LLC

Expected aspects - Clyde gets you through customs no questions asked (old); Not to many questions (false)

Getty van hoffsen - Anal retentive customs official

Definitely not your contact

Loves asking questions about minutea

Not bribe-able

Bureaucrazy

Forms forms form

+paperwork, processes. -big picture

Clyde

Former contact now custodian

Demoted due to "irregularities in paperwork"

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

+graft. -finances

Accident on launch pad, child in danger

Zone

  • Inside ship :

    • Hot boiler room difficulty 1

    • Connects to Public space yard

  • Public SpaceDock Floor :

    • Secure diff 2

    • Guards - Forceful, Careful, - Slow

    • Connects to Ship, Storage, Customs

  • Storage :

    • Employee only difficulty 3

    • Connects public and private spacedocs

  • Private spaceyard

    • Private jets only

    • High security (careful diff 4)

    • Connects to storage and carpark (Careful 4)

  • Customs : (careful skill difficulty 2)

    • Papers please

    • Connects public spacedock and Waiting platform

  • Waiting platform :

    • Exhibit on robotics and Sidereal war

    • Connects Customs and Carpark

  • Carpark

    • Move along

    • Connects Waiting platform and Private spaceport (authorized vehicles only)

Scene 3.5

Hospital Burn Unit

Donovan gets treated for burns incurred on launch pad

Carl the clown gets sent in to cheer up kids in the Chemo ward.

Its one kids birthday. He is stage 4 leukemia.

Scene 4

Meeting with Mama Nygopa

Cajun chef and goods/information broker

Aspects - Delicious food; Information on Robotics; Information on Fulminata

Mama aspects - Mama always finds a way, Always come back to mama; Owner of manas place serving delicious Cajun food

+cooking, connections -leaving her kitchen

Zone

  • Busy thoroughfare

    • Connects tp alleyway

  • Trash clogged alleyway

    • Connects to Trendy market and busy thoroughfare

  • Trendy outdoor marketplace,

    • Lots of people and bots, Hulking brute, monocled gentlemen,

    • Connects to alleyway, Lucky dragon, store and , mama's place

  • Lucky Dragon Chinese restaurant (sketchy, illegal gambling hall in back room),

    • Connects to Trendy market, Backroom connects to alleyway through one way door.

  • All night convenience store

      • Sundry goods

      • Connects to market

  • Mamas place

    • Connects to Trendy market

Scene 5

Mugging in progress

Same location in alleyway contact is now surrounded by 4 robotic thugs, hulking brute, and monacled gentleman.

Aspects in play : Homeless vagrants, Diners, Several steam powered thugs (Big, tough, dumb Stress - 1), Mysterious man with monocle (Shadowy figure, Slippery bastard, Brains behind the brawn), Gamblers (Sneaky, Furtive), Immenent Police raid, Uncooperative victim (Closemouthed, Shady) Hulking brute named Franz (Closed mouthed, I get things done, If only I had acted quicker),

Lord Victor Bernard Heimlich (CEO of Heimlich Inc, the worlds largest military/industrial producer) Trouble (Ada lovelace’s creations are a threat) - Clever 5, Sneaky 4, Careful 4, Quick 3, Flashy 3, Forceful 3 Aspects - Shady background, Brains behind the brawn, Slippery bastard) OOO Stunts Cleverly create advantages to allow excape, Carefully defend against attack on home turf. Flashyily overcome aspects created by protagonists.

Franz Deventry (Patsy for Benard) Trouble - I will do anything for Ada. Aspects - I get thfeels no pain, I can not fail her, feels no pain Powerful 3, Sneaky 2, Quick 2, Flashy 1, Clever 1, Careful 0. Stunts - I have an army of steam minons, I powerfully overcome obstacles with my brute strength, My g, my powerful physique defend me against physical attacks.dgets sneakily defend me in combat, my powerful physique defend me against physical attacks.