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.