Adventure
6: The Return of Gennan Var, or
Unusual Imperial Protocol
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb
Overview: Forgetting to take his anti-stupid
pills that morning, Michael sets us up on a run where, after being
caught for hauling near-contraband, an Imperial officer accompanies
us to make sure of the cargo's destination. Why this happened,
we'll never know. Anyhoo, after making the dropoff, Torill is
ambushed by the cyborged- and pissed- Gennan Var. He barely makes
an escape, and destroys Var's ship in an above-planet battle.
Interesting
Moments: Gennan Var walked dramatically
out of the shadows, clicking his metal fingers.
Quotes: "Oh no, Hendyker, I'm not
working for Ganis...." -Gennan Var
Adventure
7: The Eye of Malduran, or Jedi
Schmedi
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb
Overview: While on a cargo run, Torill
and Tu'ebb are confronted by a man named Durei, who claims Prennin
is a criminal with evil, nasty plans for a Force-sensitive object
in his possesion called the Eye of Malduran. Believing every word,
the two follow Durei's suggestion and purloin the Eye from Prennin's
collection. However, after handing the artifact over to Durei,
they find that he is in fact a fake. They track him down, and
find he is a Dark Jedi about to use the Eye's power for his own
slimy, maladjusted purposes. Torill and Tu'ebb, pissed that the
guy jilted them, kill him and make off with his lightsaber. Yipee.
Interesting
Moments: Tu'ebb uses the late Durei's
stolen lightsaber to cut down a few of his cronies in the escape.
-The dudes met at Exovar's Emporium with Prenin afterward. This
came from one of our new sourcebooks, Wretched Hives of Scum and
Villany. Tu'ebb donated the lightsaber to Exovar's collection.
Quotes: "Feh, Jedi Schmedi."
-Torill,
after defeating Durei
Adventure
8: Ramses Comes Thundering In, or
Something's Fishy Here
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb, Ramses, Seenine
Overview: This adventure marked Warren's
entrance into our campaign. Having to make a contact in Wildwater
city, on Mon Calamari, the two meet up via Prennin with Ramses
3000, killer assasination droid esquire. For protection, Prennin
says. Whatever. While Seenine and Ramses make the contact, Torill
and Tu'ebb enjoy a nice sushi dinner at Fathoms, a restaurant.
However, their dinner is rudely interuppted by an insane Quarren
and his small army of malcontents as they storm the restaraunt,
blasters ready. The pair manage to make it away and meet up with
the droids, who blast their way through. Arming themselves with
some appropriated grenades, they take off after the leader. He
steals a sub, and an "Abyss"-esque sub chase ensues.
However, Ramses, on the outside of our hero's sub, plants an AP
mine on the enemy's hatch, causing it to implode and ending his
insane little romp right were it started.
Interesting
moments: The grenades Torill took weren't
used up til "Dusk Falls."
Quotes: ::Pointing upward frantically::
-Ramses
Adventure
9: Femme Fatale, or Whatever Sinks
Your Boat
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb, Ramses, Seenine
Overview: While at a cantina, the group
is approached by a beautiful woman named Darrina Makessa, who
asks for transport to a nearby system. Torill, struck by her beauty,
accepts. En route, Darrina corners him, saying how she's fallen
in love with him. She kisses him and he falls asleep, drugged.
She proceeds to incapacitate the rest of the crew. They wake up
in the brig of Ganis the Hutt's yacht, soon to be confronted by
their former, angry boss. However, they break free and split up,
to take out the tractor beam and get to the ship (sound familiar?).
While Ramses and Seenine secure the engineering, Torill and Tu'ebb
are confronted by Darrina in the hangar bay. A fight ensues, which
Darrina almost wins until the two droid's indirect assistance
of killing the lights. The group escapes Ganis' cripped yacht
as it plunges out of orbit into the planet's atmosphere.
Interesting
moments: As Darrina is confused by the
lights going out, Torill kicks her legs out from under her and
makes a run for it.
Quotes: "Can we just assume this
stuff happened?" -Michael, of the exchange between Darrina
and Torill on the 'Tan
"Ah, she wasn't my type anyway." -Torill, of Darrina
Adventure
10: Prismal's
Vengeance, or An Awry Adventure
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb, Ramses, Zolar
Overview: About this point in the campaign,
Warren decides he needs to play another character. He therefore
creates Zolar, the, uh..... generic dude. He's supposed to be
a bounty hunter, but he's a kind of smuggler dude (at least at
this point). But anyhoo, now the adventure group is kinda set
up. As for the adventure, Prenin introduces Zolar as a new partner
for the group. He then sends them on a shipping run to a forgotten
planet. However, on the way, they are ambushed by pirates. This
was where the adventure went wrong. The gamemaster was expecting
them to be captured, and then have to escape with the help of
that pirate dude they met in "Hijacked." However, Michael
underestimated the crew's skill, and they avoided the few Uglies
he sent against them. Michael, then desperate, tries to have the
pirates, led by their leader Prismal, appear at the character's
hangar bay to extract vengeance on the characters. However, the
crew blast the lacking-in-numbers pirates and blast off before
reinforcements arrive. Overall though, the adventure was a 2-encounter
suck adventure, an omen of what was about to happen.
Interesting
Moments: Zolar sets an explosion of fuel
off to delay the pirates.
-While flying away, Torill, feeling frivolous, releases their
cargo over a local college football game, the college to whom
the cargo was meant for.
Quotes: "That was way too easy."
-Sean
Adventure
11: Turnabout Intruder, or Ramses
Can't Drive
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb, Ramses, Zolar
Overview: Without any job, the group is
approached by a woman who wants transport to the Magasa system.
You'd think they would learn after their last encounter like that,
but with Torill making the deal... anyhoo, she had to pick something
up on another planet first. After dropping her off, Torill, always
looking for the score, accompanies her. However, the two are ambushed
by Darinna. He manages to escape, however, and makes it away after
a car chase. Determined to keep the contract, he takes her to
Magasa, to a conference of diplomats of the sector. After failing
to shoo him away, she sets up a gun position on the roof. It turns
out she was an assasin, there to kill one of the diplomats. However,
a four-way standoff occurs between him when he refuses to let
her, her partner who is actually an undercover detective, and
Darrina, who shows up at the last minute. Torill manages to distract
them long enough to make a shooting exit, and leaves determined
not to let that happen to him again...
Interesting
Moments: Ramses, receiving a distress
call from Torill, steals a speeder and ends up smashing it into
a wall at all-out speed, nearly demolishing himself. Both Ramses
and Zolar are out for most of the rest of the adventure, as Zolar
had to retrieve his partner's bits and pieces.
-Torill palms a grenade, while talking to keep Darinna busy.
Quotes: "Hello again, Torill...."
-Darinna
"Ramses? What happened to Ramses?" -Torill
Adventure
12: Stranded, or A Bug's Life
Characters
Involved:
Torill, Tu'ebb, Ramses,
Zolar
Overview: This was the first canned adventure
in the adventure journal. It was meant for Rebs (as were most
of the adventures), but it was heavily skewed for our purposes.
Prennin, after several shipping runs, asked us to accompany a
friend of his on a trip, for "protection" purposes.
This friend happened to be the xenopsychologist Dr. Nardah, who
was studying the Karrans, a primitive race of anteater-like people.
While there, an Imperial shuttle went down nearby, and when the
crew went to help any survivors, the Karrans reacted violently,
killing Dr. Nardah. The ship which we borrowed- the 'Tan was in
drydock- was also disabled by insects the Karrans controlled.
With the haughty Imperial governer they rescued and Dr. Nardah's
assistant, the crew had to trek overland to an Imperial garrison
that had a ship. Once there, they had to get through a battle
at the Imperial base when the Karrans attacked it with the help
of their insect friends. They managed to steal a ship and escape,
leaving the battle behind.
Interesting
moments: Having to get down a 1000-foot
sheer cliff, the crew had to design some crude gliders to get
down.
-Early on in the adventure, Ramses was seriously damaged by a
Karran warrior. Lacking the tools to repair him, the rest of the
crew had to drag his heavy ass all over the Karran plains and
down the cliff. It wasn't fun.
-While the ship was powering up to escape, a huge Karran mantis
attacked. Torill, mirroring Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, ran
out and distracted it with a flare. Of course, that meant it was
interested in him...
Quotes: "Bugs. Why does it always
have to be bugs?" -Torill
Adventure
13: The Relic, or Confusion
Characters
Involved: All
Overview: The second canned adventure in
the adventure book. This adventure wasn't the most fun we had,
mainly because it was hacked to pieces to pertain to our characters.
Anyhoo, Prennin asks the crew to find an object, supposedly Force-sensitive,
for some reason or another. They proceed to go blinking all over
creation looking for it, and finally run into a trade-off between
a disreputable pirate and, surprise surprise, Durei from Adventure
7, The Eye of Malduran. They kill Durei, nab the Relic, and ride
off into the sunset.
Interesting
moments: There was a well-done, cool shootout
at the palace of a pirate lord.
Durei, with hatred twisting his face, ignited his lightsaber and
charged Torill... but was promptly beaned between the eyes with
a blaster shot from Ramses.
-In perhaps the most relevant interesting moment of the campaign
(and, ironically enough, the one we forgot when first writing
this :P), the 'Tan is chased by Tie Interceptors. Tu'ebb makes
an on-the-fly engine modification (soon to be known as the S.O.B.)
which pushes them ahead... until the Interceptors catch up. Torill
pulls a hard brake, and the fighters shoot past him... and come
back...
Quotes: (Sarcastically) "Gee, thanks
Ramses." -Torill,
after Ramses killed Durei with one shot
-"Huh? What? What's goin on? I don't understand." -Sean, at many
points throughout the adventure
Adventure
15: Trouble in Paradise, or A Three
Hour Tour
Characters
Involved: Torill, Tu'ebb
Overview: Torill and Tu'ebb, with credits
up the wazoo, decide to blow some of it by vacationing at the
Ace of Sabers casino and resort. Upon arriving, they immediately
settle in, Torill to a game of Sabbac and Tu'ebb to a game of
Virtual Rancor Hunting. After enjoying himself immensely, Torill
also sets out on a tour into the lush forest, the only other passenger
being the Shivasten buisnessman, Mal Biron and a noble. However,
upon arriving, the guides turn into attempted assasins, wounding
the noble. Torill and Mal manage to drive them off, and make their
way back to civilization with the injured man, avoiding their
traps.
Interesting
Moments: In a bit of irony, a few considerably
drunk patrons of Torill's Sabbac game begin a round of taunting,
calling fellow player Kalend Thora a "Sunnie" (as in,
Black Sun Operative).
-Tu'ebb tries his hand at Virtual Rancor Hunting on Easy mode,
only to kill rancors left and right. Then, he turns it to hard
and gets torn to virtual shreds.
-Torill has a talkative encouter with a blue-haired dancer girl,
his only reward being a red hand-shaped mark on his face. This
is the first, but definetly not last, encounter with the now legendary
"Blue Haired Girl".
Notes: The "Blue Haired Girl,"
for you otakus out there, is modeled after Sailor Mercury, from
Sailor Moon.