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Sword Worlds Saga, Part VI

...and we picked up the game again this week after a seven month hiatus. The Boy wants to bring his friends over next weekend to play too...

Sword World Saga Session 5 10/12/2014

The landing on Hofud was quick, there was only an overnight hour turnaround as Captain Chris Lawson aboard Dace refueled, and picked up passengers and mail, and rapidly departed making for Beater. Zenton shut off Zender, and made time playing cards and games on Dace as it jetted out to a safe jump point.

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Sword Worlds Saga Session 6 10/15/2014

landing on Beater 685686AB Zenton reactivated Zender and noting the planetary restrictions on firearms concealed a body pistol inside of Zender. Zenton and Zender then disembarked from the Dace and went looking for someone who could tell them more about Mercenaries,

They met Bob the Hunter, and his son Young Billy (age 12) at the local Gunshop on Beater Prime. Bob the Hunter likes using laser rifles. Billy just had a hunting knife though. Bob talked Zenton into going hunting in the wilderness just North of Beater Prime, and they set off on foot into the wilderness.

They came across an enormous three-eyed flying white bear like creature with a set of wicked looking horns, and they all tried to bag it, but it flew off and got away. So they camped overnight outdoors underneath the blood red dwarf sun... Zender then remembered that the Starship Dace would likely depart first thing in the morning, and hurried off to catch his ride, but alas, was too late for the Dace had departed promptly for Joyuese first thing in the morning.

Zenton then immediately booked the first passage offworld going to Joyeuse. being down to just 3,000 or so credits, Zenton had to book a Low Passage for this trip, and then spent an extra 330 credits on a hotel and food, while waiting the three days for the Merchant Space Liner to depart.

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We took an intermission and watched the cryogenic sleep wake-up sequence in the movie Alien and in Alien 2 so the boy would have a good idea of what actually happens in low passage while on board a starship. I debated whether to include the opening sequence for Pitch Black, but decided against it, as the cryogenic sleepers dying was only a secondary effect of that awesome spectacular starship crash at the beginning of that movie, and I thought the crash would just distract him from the normal cryogenic survival routine.

Zenton woke up successfully on Joyeuse, at Joyeuse Starport had a big breakfast, fired up Zender, and went over to the Dace which was docked within sight of them, then he picked up his ATV. Zenton promptly went into town after that, found a clothing store that specialized in Mercenary outfits, bought a mercenary outfit, and was directed to the Offices of the 94th Greenwatch Mercenary Regiment Headquarters, where he was told a certain Captain Chris Potter was looking for new recruits to join a Vargyr combat division that had dropped onto Emerald a couple months before.

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was signed on aboard the Black Star, a 1,000 ton Mercenary Cruiser, as an Engineers Mate, with the understanding he would allow the regiment to use him as a driver (and his ATV, of course, as a troop transport, when they weren't in space.)

We ended this session here. Even aboard a Jump3 Cruiser, it is still going to take Zender seven Jumps and Seven weeks before anyone aboard this Mercenary Cruiser will even be able to see any Vargyr or Zhodani invasion force, or landing sites in Imperium space...

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I think I'm going to do up a six-page mercenary contract on legal-sized paper of course, and include a bunch of cash forfeiture clauses, and of course whole sections and maybe even whole pages in fine 8 point font print just for kicks... We'll' see if the boy will sign it, just so he can go shoot some Imperials.

Setting up for the Traveller Session in the Man-Cave
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If you think you see the deck plans for a sleek, shiney, deadly new 800 Ton Fighter Carrier, you did'nt, that was just your imagination


Quickie Sketch of that Wicked Horned Flying White Bear Hunted on Beater.
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New Planetary maps for Joyeuse (left) and Beater (right) done up just for the game this week. Joyeuse, the Subsector capitol is a rich green agricultural world with hot deserts at the poles.
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The Black Star jumped to Hrunting in the Sword Worlds Confederacy where it landed and Zenton Mars, and Zender the Robot were granted a 3 day shore leave while the Mercenary Transport was serviced and fully provisioned for battle.

Zenton first made arrangements for receiving his final 50,000 Cr for eliminating a mercenary Captain (Which he failed to do, He left Durendal before infiltrating the Mercenary camp there.... This is probably going to come back on him, just not at the moment.)

Zenton smuggled weapons in Zender planetside in a system where firearms are outlawed, and they drove the ATV around Tanold City looking for a military vehicle shop. Zenton finally found a wilderness outfitter that was looking to buy and sell vehicles, and Zenton sold the ATV.

Landon joined our game here rolling up Corgon Faveller, an ex-Navy guy that is a skilled gunner as well as a highly competent Small Craft Pilot, with a Ship's Boat II skill.

Corgon signed on as a Boatswain and Gunner on the Black Star. Of course, Corgon met Zenton, after Zenton returned. Zenton found out it was in his contract to serve as an ATV driver, and it was expected that he would bring his ATV, so he had to go back into Tanold City, buy back the ATV, and he used some of the extra cash he received from his failed mercenary ticket to buy a new pintle-mounted autocannon for the ATV with five full magazines of HE/APDS/Incendiary ammo.

After two days the ship departed Hrunting and made an uneventful jump to Vilis the Imperium subsector capitol for the Vilis subsector. This is where we ended the session, right when the jump was made....
 
...and prepped for some Saturday Traveller gaming tomorrow. Have some guests coming over to join the game we have been running, so broke out one of the convention tables, and painted up som more planets... The Gas Giants came out really well!

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Top job.

Hope the Boy's thoroughly enjoying himself!

Nice to see some Ravenstar miniatures on someone else's table too.
 
Looks like a very good set up indeed. I trust that the moderators have been impressed as well. Work like what you are doing shows that Traveller is still a very much alive game, and is just what is needed to bring new gamers into the fold.
 
That planetary model set-up is AWESOME!!! How cool to be able to visualize a solar system instead of looking at circles on a 2D sheet.
 
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