Adventures

The Korrati Incident

This was the first really big adventure I ran for my players as a Robotech Game Master in the summer of 1988 (following a couple of smaller scenarios and the "Ghost Ship" module, that this module is partially derived from). It's also partially derived from the novels, as at the time, I only had the first 10 novels plus the first 3-4 Sentinels novels, and had STILL not actually seen any episodes of the series itself, just the novels and comics.

It would end up being the foundation for 3 years of campaigning, 360,000 words of Fanfic, and further stories still being written. It was my intent to start events deviating from the original, but in the end things kept steering back. Eventually, I had my own Mary Sue that resulted from this adventure appear to me in a dream, as I struggled to come up with a resolution to the campaign (at that point, assaulting Reflex Point with two generations of PCs), and tell me what was going on, tying up all my loose plot ends in the dream that had accumulated over 3 play years/20 character years. That what was in the dream worked so well, and tied everything up, still scares me a little, and makes me wonder about the existence of Muses...

(Kira: Look up "muse" in the dictionary. Go on, page seven twenty-eight. Read it!
Sonny: Okay, all right. I'll read it.....
Sonny: [reading] "Any one of the nine sister goddesses in Greek mythology, presiding over song, and poetry, and the arts and do you believe me now, Sonny?" - Xanadu (1980))

I also adapted it into a convention scenario that I would run several times at Marcon and Gen Con in the 1990s. That is the version below (with a few edits - it could probably use a few more, but I'm doing this as a test run for doing the rest of my files)

The Pre-gens file consists of the original NPCs, the hand-out files (it took too long to read the script out, in practice). Of course, they are made for a slightly modified version of the original Robotech (not the abortion that is Shadow Chronicles, that does things to the Robotech timeline that normally you only see between non-consenting prison cellmates)

There are two sets of pictures: One is the ship as found on the moon, the other is the ship as refit by the Sentinels races (mostly the Haydonites, while the adventure pre-gen characters were being treated for hin exposure and being interrogated). Remember, of course, these are the original, 1E RPG and Novel Haydonites, not the gross abominations they were changed into for The Shadow Chronicles (which will NEVER be canon to me). Eventually I'll update the refit's stats and add them here.

Free Lunch

As in, "There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" (TANSTAAFL)

This was the third convention scenario I created to run at conventions. It was a little different from the others, in that it was more of a minis scenario than role-playing (though there was plenty of opportunity for RP in the process of setting up for the battle, in that the players had to make nice with the Zentraedi, work together on establishing defenses, and even (if they so chose) to go out to arms dealers and haggle over weaponry to arm the encampment).

This PDF is one I made back around 2012. I need to go through my run notes, and see if I can find the other pre-generated characters to add to it (including the brother of one of the characters from the Korra'ti adventure above).

Plot: A group of ASC misfits (some, for being insubordinate, others for being considered too friendly with the Zentraedi for their own good) are assigned to an agricultural station in Africa, where the climate shifts from Dolza and the Grand Cannon (including a bit of a axial pole shift towards Eurasia, caused by the Grand Cannon's acting as a planetary thruster - something unforeseen by Admiral Hayes and his UEDC) are starting to reverse the expansion of the Sahara that had been occurring from the end of the ice age until 2011. The catch: It's manned almost entirely by micronized Zentraedi, plus a few human civilian agronomists.

There's conflicting evidence coming in that either a local malcontent band or even the Neo-Soviets of the E.B.S.I.S. may attack the nominally-independent farm after harvest to steal the grain. While the E.B.S.I.S. seems unlikely, they have expanded into northern Africa going after the oil and potential new farmland as the climate there improves even as Siberia slips back toward ice age conditions. After all, it's a lot cheaper, and maybe even a little closer to their remaining cities, than the rapidly freezing tundra - and they need both food and petroleum products to reclaim the areas of Europe they claim.

The party's mission, therefore, is to protect the site against all comers. However, there's a bit more to the story than that. After all, what better way to get rid of dissidents, than to make them martyrs for YOUR cause, not theirs?