The Death of Liberty Campaign

[DougRed4]

I changed the last line of the last adventure (showing when the reveal actually took place), so here's the summary for last Saturday's action (the first we'd played in over a month):

The group quickly escapes in their vessel, taking D0, an unconscious man, and two dead stormtroopers with them.

Part 3: Mar Barezz
After learning that their captive is ISB agent Mar Barezz, Loon takes the man’s clothes and ID and the group puts him in a cargo container, deciding to drop him off on a remote, backwater world. They make their way into the Lemmick system and the Safe Haven suddenly loses power. Ordo scrambles to cold-start the engines, but just as he brings the systems back online another wave hits, causing another loss of power. Zorace spies a hidden mine causing the ion pulses, and manages to damage it with blaster fire. Zebron works on repairs as Ordo blasts a hole in the hangar doors with one of the Y-wings, exiting the vessel just as another pulse hits. As they again recover both ships, the Skipray Blastboat Malefactor arrives, demanding that they stand down. Sunrider refuses to recognize the Empire’s authority, but as a Lt. Tomo boards their craft, Mar Barezz suddenly appears, convincing the other Imperials that he commands an undercover ISB operation. The placated Blastboat departs, and Loon reveals that he is actually Parax Void, a shape-shifting Clawdite who impersonated Barezz. The party opts to turn their prisoner over to the Rebellion. Ordo departs with Vig and C9 to take the Stardancer back to his family, and Sunrider senses a disturbance in the Force. Later, meeting with the Rebels, the others discover that Barezz is gone just as Ordo deposits the swapped out container holding the ISB spy into a star.
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Currently Running: Villains & Vigilantes (a 32-year-old campaign with multiple groups) and D6 Star Wars; mostly on hiatus are Adventures in Middle-earth and Delta Green

[DougRed4]

Looking back, I now see it was darn close to two months since we last played!
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Currently Running: Villains & Vigilantes (a 32-year-old campaign with multiple groups) and D6 Star Wars; mostly on hiatus are Adventures in Middle-earth and Delta Green

[DougRed4]

I should also note that none of the other players had any idea that Darkus Loon (a human who looked like Malcolm Reynolds from "Firefly") was actually a Clawdite named Parax Void.

It ended up being the perfect time to "blow his cover" and reveal it to his teammates, as it truly saved their bacon!
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Currently Running: Villains & Vigilantes (a 32-year-old campaign with multiple groups) and D6 Star Wars; mostly on hiatus are Adventures in Middle-earth and Delta Green

[garhkal]

[garhkal]

[Dromdarr_Alark]

Wow, gharkal. Way to shut down everything Dougred is doing. Remember, gaming is about storytelling, not rule following. He's allowed to do what he wants in his campaign.
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"I still wouldn't have a roll for it - but that's just how I roll."

[DougRed4]

[DougRed4]

[DougRed4]

BTW, I decided to award a Dark Side point to Dargin Ordo's player for what he did, being as it was not only harsh, but premeditated and willful (the Jedi even encouraged him not to go down that path).

The player was totally understanding, and knew he had it coming.
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Currently Running: Villains & Vigilantes (a 32-year-old campaign with multiple groups) and D6 Star Wars; mostly on hiatus are Adventures in Middle-earth and Delta Green

[garhkal]

[DougRed4]

I made the cold restarts take a couple of rounds (2-4), depending on their rolls. When they rolled well (in the 20's, say), I would have it happen quicker.

BTW, I checked on the Clawdite's skills, and he's got 3D in the Advanced Shapechanging skill, which adds to his 5D+1 in Con (Disguise).

I didn't put the character stats on there because it would be a lot of work, especially to keep them constantly maintained. Some (most?) of the character sheets are written out by hand, so it would require a lot of getting character sheets from my players (I have copies of them when they started), inputting a lot of info, then trying to keep it maintained/updated. Just more work than I'm keen on doing, especially being as I'm running about four/five games/campaigns right now.

Also, great idea on giving your other (uninvolved) players something to do. In a past session, when the party split up, I let the two players whose PCs weren't present play stormtroopers, just to keep them involved in the action.
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Currently Running: Villains & Vigilantes (a 32-year-old campaign with multiple groups) and D6 Star Wars; mostly on hiatus are Adventures in Middle-earth and Delta Green

[garhkal]

[garhkal]

Strange.. went through both main books (revised and base 2e), GG6, platts, crackens field guide and pirates and privateers.. NOT a one had info on cold starts and time it takes.
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[Tupteq]

[garhkal]

On the Yahoo group for our Sparks campaign, i asked if anyone in our council (or group as a whole) has seen anything official, which was a no.

And though it has been discussed, it was decided to allow the GM of the table to decide for cinematic purposes, rather than coming up with a rule.

Closest wrote out is what i had written to one of my modules where the ship's going through the ion/electrical field surrounding a planet causes damage and eventually shuts down a ship..