The Death of Liberty Campaign

[Whill]

[DougRed4]

Thank you, all! I appreciate the warm welcome!

Whill, you now appear to be truly the Supreme Chancellor here now! Congrats!
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[DougRed4]

So now I'm finally thinking of kicking things up again, even though it's been a year and a half since our last game. Here's what happened during that last session:

Episode V
Now well into Year 34 (1 BBY)

THE COMING STORM

After a number of incidents in which their facilities and operations have been sabotaged or disrupted, the Galactic Empire has taken notice of a small band of outlaws and heroes. The powerful Empire has devoted significant resources to eliminating this group, but to date has been unsuccessful.

To keep their many enemies at bay, these adventurers have rotated and changed personnel and starships, and have allied themselves with the Alliance to Restore the Republic, which grows more organized by the day. The Rebellion has grown to trust them, and some of the party have officially joined their cause.

Reflecting this loyalty, the team is now welcomed at Base One, the secret Rebel headquarters located in the Massassi temple on the moon Yavin 4. But the Empire is more determined than ever to find all who oppose them, to swiftly crush them without mercy…

Part 1: Mon Cala

The Starbound Misfit destroys two attacking pirate ships when it arrives in the Yavin system. The Rebels aboard decide to show mercy to a damaged third vessel, but Bishop blows it away anyway as they depart. Arriving at Base One, they observe Rebels refurbishing the Massassi Temple ruins that now serve as the secret base of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Rebels Shan, Zebron, and Wald (the group’s new Rodian ally) strategize with Commanders Evram Lajaie and Vanden Willard and Captain Micha “Howl” Evon. Meanwhile, Chief of Alliance Intelligence Airen Cracken and his second in command, General Davits Draven, meet with Bishop, Bell, and Void, and discuss working with their division, which operates more in the shadows. Each group then gives a mission to their new agents on Mon Cala, and the party flies there. Though the Empire occupies the Outer Rim planet and maintains a Star Destroyer in orbit, the group easily makes it down to New Coral City. They overhear a Mon Calamari woman being accosted by a pair of stormtroopers in an alley, and swiftly slay them both and take most of their gear. They make their way to an aquatic, underwater complex, where they unload their newly acquired weapons and armor to Ishi Tib fence Jund Voon in his jewelry shop Wave Works. They then head to Fathoms restaurant, where they touch base with its owner, gambler Baydo Chasdy, who is secretly a Rebel agent. After renting a submersible and traveling to a remote atoll, they clandestinely meet with Mon Calamari operatives Ragab and Ibnir and Quarren Vuhlg. They are surprised, however, when a squad of stormtroopers with a KX security droid come ashore out of a vehicle and attempt to break things up. The adventurers swiftly cut down the troopers, but are forced to flee when two AT-AT walkers arrive!
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[DougRed4]

We played again last Saturday. The players had a great time and are eager to play again, though my goal is to try to do 3-4 times a year.

Here's the recap:

As the group journeys through a tunnel of coral reef underwater, their submersible is snagged by the tentacles of a gigantic krakana more than twice its size! They fire missiles at the great beast, causing it to release its hold and allowing them to escape. Returning to the docks of New Coral City by hiding in the shadow of a large fishing trawler, they nearly sneak past a squad of shadow troopers waiting in ambush. Battle is joined, and the heroes, joined by the unexpected arrival of Fixer, decimate the Imperial troops, forcing many of them to flee. Bishop takes multiple suits of their black armor. Blasting out of the spaceport in the Starbound Misfit, they find that there are now two Star Destroyers in orbit, but Zebron utilizes the Force to make a risky jump to hyperspace! Later, in the Crimson Candle on Galidraan, the adventurers relax by playing sabacc.
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[DougRed4]

Sad that we only got two games in this year, but I'm hopeful we will pick up the pace a bit next year.

Here's the recap of our game on Saturday:

Part 2: The Mecetti File

Along with old Rebel ally Dex Tiree and Kaminoan medic Roan Se, the group departs Galidraan. As they are leaving the system, they are intercepted by the Skipray Blastboat Spiteful, who realize that their operator’s license is a forgery and demand that they surrender. After initially racing past the smaller gunship, they stand down and allow the Imperial starship to dock with them. A pair of officers comes aboard and are swiftly taken out, and the heroes enter the enemy vessel and slaughter two more Imperial troops there. Aboard the Starbound Misfit, Roan Se reveals that he is more than just a medic, as he wields a lightsaber and uses the Force to heal one of the injured soldiers. Commandeering the Blastboat, the adventurers take their stolen craft back to the Rebellion on Yavin IV. Desperately low on stocks of bacta, the Rebels ask them to undertake a mission to find some via an outlaw smuggler on Lamuir IV. Fixer, Zebron, Bell, Wald, Se, and Bishop fly to the Tapani Sector, where the Star Destroyer Gauntlet orbits the planet but allow them to pass. As they explore the docking bays looking for their contact’s ship, a female voice directs them to Bay 10, where they stumble upon a group of thugs holding a man at gunpoint. They dispatch all seven of the criminals in a hail of blaster fire and rescue the man, then take off with him before security arrives.
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[DougRed4]

I'm trying to make sure I run SW quarterly, and we've lost (or are losing) some players, so I'm getting a game in this coming Friday.

Sadly, two of my players have passed away in the last half year, and another is moving soon to Hawaii. I'll be down to just four other players after he moves in a couple of weeks.
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[Whill]

I'm sorry for your loss.
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[DougRed4]

Thank you, sir. I really appreciate that.

I'm doing a fun memorial for the (now four) players we've lost over the years at our annual small local convention. It will be a supers game, where folks can 'rep' some of the old players' PCs in a fantasy/fairy tale story (I didn't want these PCs to have their final appearance in canon be with somebody else controlling them). I'm hoping that it will work out well.
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[DougRed4]

We had a new player at the last minute, so my son helped him make a character, and he played a battle droid that belongs to my son's PC. I retconned that he had been along with them on the trip, but that both characters (my son's Barabel and his new battle droid) were just now joining the PCs as they departed the spaceport. Repeating a bit of what came before, I'll leave a gap to reflect the part we just played:

Fixer, Zebron, Bell, Wald, Se, Bishop, and his new battle droid ZD-15 fly to the Tapani Sector, where the Star Destroyer Gauntlet orbits the planet but allow them to pass. As they explore the docking bays looking for their contact’s ship, a female voice directs them to Bay 10, where they stumble upon a group of thugs holding a man at gunpoint. They dispatch all seven of the criminals in a hail of blaster fire and rescue the victim, then take off with him before security arrives.

Realizing that the man they rescued, merchant Coros Telari, is not the man they seek, they flee into the city of Carborl. Fixer and Zebron separate and hide as Spaceport Security locks down the spaceport. The others make their way towards an open market, where they are ambushed by bounty hunter Tirog and seven other mercenaries. After an intense battle, they take down the powerful Wookiee Krrekkastiyakk and Tirog surrenders, agreeing to give up their weaponry and armor. The adventurers then assist their defeated foes, moving away from the area to avoid law enforcement.
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[Whill]

Sounds fun.
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[DougRed4]

The players had a blast again as we continued our game. I changed the title of Part 2 to Lamuir IV (above).

Part 3: The Mecetti File
Continuing to evade security forces, the group meets back up with Zebron and Fixer, and Se and Fixer then escort Telari to safety. The rest make their way to seedy establishments around the city, where at each they are given new names at other locales. After a few hours of being stonewalled, the party begins using intimidation instead of bribing contacts. Finally losing patience, Wald executes human hostel manager Japhod Ngaric in the offices of Frrlin, a Mrlssti commercial investigator. Frrlin then gives them the comlink frequency of their skittish smuggler target, Trel Modetto, who reluctantly agrees to meet the adventurers at the Hungry Herglic diner. As they begin talking to some patrons inside, a group of ten thugs (from House Mecetti) eliminate the pair they are talking to and then shoot at them! The two sides exchange blaster fire, with Bishop beginning to become overwhelmed as the enemy surrounds him just outside the entrance. Suddenly a woman and a half-dozen of her allies ambush the Mecetti attackers and help the team eliminate all but one, whom they take with them as they flee the area. The woman introduces herself as Janna Pallask of House Pelagia and confesses that she was the one who routed them to Docking Bay 10, to rescue “Telari” (actually a Pelagia undercover operative). She agrees to help them clear their name if they will help retrieve a file hidden aboard “Telari’s” vessel.
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[DougRed4]

It didn't really make it into the write-up, but I should note that the "merchant" they rescued was so impressed with the mercy they showed the bounty hunters that tried to kill them (helping them escape authorities alongside the heroes, and letting them live in exchange for their weapons and armor) that he promised them possible future aid, if they later use his name in the right circumstances.

Later on, they found that he wasn't actually a merchant at all, but an undercover operative from House Pelagia (who rescued them, and who they now have a loose alliance with).

That said, one PC (who has been there since the start of the campaign) was utterly shocked when the Rodian flat-out smoked a civilian contact in frustration (in our game, the Rodian fired first!). At the end of the session, the player explained that it totally reminded him of (in real life) being shuffled around (and having to hold) when you're trying to get through on the phone to somebody at customer service and getting nowhere.
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[DougRed4]

I like to make a pic of the adversaries my characters face, if possible. Otherwise, I might show them an image on my phone, or use some of the cool cards WEG made at times (like I have for the Tapani Sector right now).

Here's an image of the aliens that will be ambushing the PCs (they are some of the powerful friends of Frrlin that were hired as retaliation for the execution they did in his office).

https://us.zonerama.com/DougsPics1/Photo/1000050758/1002004592
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[DougRed4]

I'd love to just post the image thumbnails here, but I've spent hours trying to figure out how and can't pull it off. I've got accounts with Photobucket and Dropbox, but both accounts are over the limit (they want you to pay big bucks). I've tried and tried repeatedly with PostImages, but every single time it doesn't recognize my password (even on my phone, which saves it) and it wants me to repeatedly log in with a long string of letters and numbers (I've entered them half a dozen times). The free account I just set up at Zonerama works, but it shows a link, rather than a thumbnail.

This is a rough look at what the ambush scene should look like:

https://us.zonerama.com/DougsPics1/Photo/1000050758/1002004591

The Talz will be quite a bit further away (than the pic shows).
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