{"id":2504,"date":"2016-02-07T05:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2016-05-26T04:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:57:37","slug":"gurps-traveller-the-new-deal-1shot-4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"GURPS Traveller, \u201cThe New Deal\u201d 1Shot.4a"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Duty Roster:<\/h3>\n

Edrasii \u201cEddy\u201d Bkar\u2019hen<\/a> (Ronnke)
\nElla Stanbridge<\/a> (Melissa)
\nErtrane \u201cBuck\u201d Buckner<\/a> (Herodian)
\nHenri Haank Makruus<\/a>
\nIbrahim \u201cAbe\u201d Nouri-Abbood<\/a> (Rigil Kent)
\nSam Turner<\/a> (Winston)
\nSae Rraetheg<\/a> (CommJunkee)<\/p>\n

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Rush Job, Part I<\/h3>\n

During the eleven days before the Adric Mason\u2019s arraignment hearing<\/a> the Crew had to spend sequestered on the sector-capitol mainworld of Rhylanor, Haank took the opportunity to complete his final testing for his Basic Hazardous Materials Handler Endorsement. He passed without incident; and while at the testing facility, he ran into an old acquaintance from his brokering days, who offered a rush job: 10dT of reactor fuel rods to be delivered to Fulacin in 20 days\u2014a tight schedule for two jumps\u2014for near-Express rates if delivered on time. Haank accepted the offer on behalf of the Crew, and afterward easily filled the rest of the hold with freight, and secured a full manifest of passengers bound for Porozlo, the best intermediate port-of-call on the run to Fulacin. With the courts\u2019 permission, Valerie Vaskor would go with them as a pro bono<\/em> passenger to her family home on Regina to wait for the trial. It was decided to remain on Rhylanor after the hearing for a couple more days, leaving the day after Holiday<\/acronym>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEddy\u201d<\/div>\n

The day after the hearing, the Crew was approached by an old friend of theirs from their days working for Neverfail Freight out of Bevey, Edrasii \u201cEddy\u201d Bkar\u2019hen; he had spotted them on video coverage of the hearing. He solicited an invitation to dinner, and after some catching up, he revealed what they suspected all along, that he needed passage off Rhylanor ASAP and had no cash to pay for it. Ella knew he was a hard worker, at least, and offered working passage; Eddy accepted, having brought what little he possessed with him to the restaurant, clearly expecting (hoping for?) an affirmative response. The day after Holiday, with Eddy as their new, temporary crewman, the Spinward Star<\/em> left Rhylanor Downs again<\/a> for Porozlo, wary of every wasted minute in their effort to beat their deadline.<\/p>\n

Once under way, the trip outsystem was fairly uneventful, save for a brief outage of the ship\u2019s artificial gravity, due to a bad relay, that resulted in one of the passengers vomiting profusely, unprepared for the sudden freefall conditions. Due to the proximity of the system\u2019s main star, it would take around twenty-four hours to reach the jump point. A few hours in, Haank got a comm from the mainworld, and afterward called everyone to a company meeting to give them the news that he had been invited to attend a celebrity golf outing on Porozlo, a once-in-a-lifetime experience that he would not pass up, and would take the better part of the twenty-four-hour layover they had planned for\u2014so he would be unavailable to see to the usual ship\u2019s business while ashore. The Crew were confident they could make up for his temporary loss; Sae would take over as loadmaster, and Eddy would find freight contracts as the de facto<\/em> ship\u2019s agent, while Abe would see to the acquisition of new passengers. About an hour out from the jump point, Sam received a routine traffic notice, and recognized the identity of the approaching ship as the CV Hellhound,<\/em> which belonged to well-known local bounty hunter, Maaq Mountain (he had seen a segment on the Big Shot Bounty Hunter Show<\/a> at a local bar). Eddy was eventually confronted with the news and reluctantly admitted to being the target, having indebted himself enough to justify a multi-system pursuit, though he swore he had done nothing \u201ctechnically\u201d wrong. Those that knew Eddy weren\u2019t exactly surprised; they promised to not<\/em> give him up at the first opportunity. The ship jumped out for Porozlo without further incident, and seven days later, broke out of jumpspace. The jump point was masked here as well, a 44 hour delay. Halfway there, the Crew detected the Hellhound<\/em> breaking out of jumpspace and accelerating quickly along a similar vector; Sam calculated its arrival to be only a few hours after their own. In Porozlo\u2019s orbital traffic, the Spinward Star<\/em> was given new vectors by OTC<\/acronym> to avoid collision debris over the downport control zone; Buck stepped in and talked the operator into letting them continue without the resulting delay at their own acknowledged risk.<\/p>\n

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It was evening when the Spinward Star<\/em> set down at the downport, and once the customs official finally<\/em> showed up to do his inspection, they were released to offload their passengers and freight. Haank immediately left and grabbed a taxi, bound for the hotel in Geeka where he would be staying for the tournament, taking Valerie with him so she could stretch her legs and get a bit of fresh air. During the unloading process, the Crew spotted a familiar ship some berths down from theirs, the CV Jesse Belle<\/a>,<\/em> which they knew to be captained by Ulysses Pitt, a former coworker at Neverfail Freight that Buck managed to get fired long ago, resulting in Pitt\u2019s tireless, neverending mission to make Buck\u2019s life miserable. Afterward:<\/p>\n