{"id":3352,"date":"2018-04-24T02:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2018-04-24T02:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:44:59","slug":"gurps-traveller-the-new-deal-session-4-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"GURPS: Traveller, &#8220;The New Deal&#8221; Session 4.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/travellerbanner.jpg?w=600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1Ktgi2xxIc\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"PCs\">\n<legend><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Spinward_Star,_LLP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spinward Star, LLP<\/a><\/legend>\n<ul>\n<li>GM: Rigil Kent<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Aris_Jelnan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aris Jelnan<\/a> (Andricus)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Edrasii_Bkar%E2%80%99hen\">Edrasii \u201cEddy\u201d Bkar\u2019hen<\/a> (Ronnke)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Ella_Stanbridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ella Stanbridge<\/a> (Melissa)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Ertrane_Buckner\">Ertrane \u201cBuck\u201d Buckner<\/a> (Herodian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Henri_Haank_Makruus\">Henri Haank Makrus<\/a> (Gigermann)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Sae_Rraetheg\">Sae Rraetheg<\/a> (CommJunkee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n<h3>The Count\u2019s Gambit, Part Two<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dirtside on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Porozlo\">Porozlo<\/a>, the crew are dismissed from <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Count_Para_Anjiliac\">Count Para\u2019s<\/a> presence, having agreed to go to Quopist to retrieve his son.<\/li>\n<li>The count\u2019s aide-de-camp, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Vago_Gejalli\">Vago Gejalli<\/a>, converses with the crew and reveals he is authorized to offer 200K for this mission. Recognizing that they have insufficient numbers to properly crew and maintain the Miss Adventure, the crew convince him to pay for additional personnel in the form of the <em>Aimless Pilgrim<\/em> crew still on Porozlo.<\/li>\n<li>Once upon Nemso Orbital, the crew split up to accomplish different tasks. During this, Eddy is jumped by muscle for the \u201cmerchant\u201d he owes a Debt to and is thoroughly roughed up. Only the intervention of a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Gerhard_Kansii\">helpful stranger<\/a> stops this.<\/li>\n<li>Once the medical supplies are loaded aboard the <em>Miss Adventure<\/em>, the crew depart the following day. They Jump to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Tureded\">Tureded<\/a>, refuel, then continue on to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Quopist\">Quopist<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Immediately upon arrival, they are engaged by a vargr corsair waiting to ambush them despite the sheer impossibility of such an action. These are the Dzarukh, an enemy of both Ella and Sae. Quick shots are exchanged with the corsair hammering the <em>Miss Adventure<\/em>. Ella orders a stand-down and agrees to allow the vargr to board&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>But the crew is waiting for the vargr boarding teams. In seconds, five of the vargr are dead, including the commander, and the rest are in retreat while the crew press their advantage and move to counter-board&#8230;<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>GM Notes:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I <em>thoroughly<\/em> screwed up the space battle at the beginning. It was terrible.<\/li>\n<li>The vargr\u2019s tactics were kind of terrible for the boarding action. I\u2019d originally intended on them being smarter and more aggressive, but then Haank\u2019s player called for a Tactics check which resulted in him beating me by 2 &#8211; he made it by 1, I failed by 1 &#8211; so I decided the vargr were bored and not expecting real resistance so when they started taking fire, they panicked. Next week, we\u2019re going to start with the counter-boarding action&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m retrofitting the Star Wars d20 adventure module, \u201cTempest Feud\u201d for this although I\u2019m definitely making some tweaks and adjustments to fit better.<\/li>\n<li>Since we\u2019re livestreaming our games every Saturdays (6:00PM Eastern) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/theronnke\">Ronnke\u2019s Twitch<\/a> channel and then later uploading the stream on the YouTube channel, we\u2019ve decided to dial back on the extensiveness of the recap to just the overall outline..<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--Precis - Twelfth episode of the fourth \u201cseason\u201d for our ongoing GURPS: Traveller campaign. The crew head to Quopist at the behest of Count Para of Porozlo where they run afoul of waiting vargr ambushers... --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinward Star, LLP GM: Rigil Kent Aris Jelnan (Andricus) Edrasii \u201cEddy\u201d Bkar\u2019hen (Ronnke) Ella Stanbridge (Melissa) Ertrane \u201cBuck\u201d Buckner (Herodian) Henri Haank Makrus (Gigermann) Sae Rraetheg (CommJunkee) The Count\u2019s Gambit, Part Two Dirtside on Porozlo, the crew are dismissed from Count Para\u2019s presence, having agreed to go to Quopist to retrieve his son. 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