See You Space Cowboy

[foproy]

do you have room for the salarian?

[tfwfh]

Sev just needs gear and related things.  For instance I don't know what we're doing about a ship.  Handling it as a holding was mentioned, but I don't know what that means in practice since Spycraft doesn't have holdings.

I think either of the Big Score options for gear will work fine for this.  Cash n Carry works a little better if we're completely on our own, whereas Stockpile works better if we are going to have occasional support from an established organization.

And of course we still don't know what our current relationship to each other is.

@foproy.  We do seem to have space, but I personally would like to get moving on this, so maybe you could settle on a concept and get to the background, stats, and contacts parts.

Unrelated: I had forgotten just how much I hate skills in 2.0.  They really are a nightmare.

[foproy]

i am going with the madma... er i mean wheelman concept.

[LordKruelos]

i am going with the madma... er i mean wheelman concept.

Roll with it. It's not like I'm going to have you dodging turbolaser blasts in whatever poor sod's stolen spacebarge you steal or anything...

Actually, I very well might make you dodge turbolasers.

[foproy]

i actually have a plan in case of such an emergency.

[foproy]

zanes commanders from the stg that he watched to many vids as a child, those who flew with him said otherwise. he seemed to glean a certain talent from watching them and many maneuvers he attempted were taken straight from these sources. it was this style of flying that got him discharged from the group, despite being one of the best young pilots they had. up until a few months ago he was running a decent "import export business till he lost a cargo for an influential turian now he is hiding on omega.

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quick and dirty if anyone can improve please go for it.

[tfwfh]

It's been more than a week since Mr. A or nfactor said anything.  Maybe we should just start and let the stragglers catch up when they can?

[LordKruelos]

Am I correct that these are the concepts we've got so far? I only see 2 of these on Wiki pages (so Foproy and Glimmerat probably need to finish statting up)

MilitiaJim
Lyssa T’vres

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Daughter of a trio of eccentric matrons, even by the standards of Ilium, Lyssa grew up with her mothers and many sisters. At the insistance of her mothers she studied dancing, her biotic powers, and small arms.  Early in her maidenhood she found herself growing more and more interested in technological systems.  Virtual reality and VIs occupied her for a while, but she longer for better opponents.  Eventually she moved on to security systems.  These proved to be much more interesting and challenging.

She, and three of her sisters, formed a repossession corporation that specialized in recovering hovercars, then expanded to small shuttles.  After several years of reposession success, the sisters began to accept contracts to retrieve stolen vehicles.  It was one of these retrieval jobs that went badly wrong and found the three surviving sisters "exiled" from Ilium.

Foproy
Zane

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zanes commanders from the stg that he watched to many vids as a child, those who flew with him said otherwise. he seemed to glean a certain talent from watching them and many maneuvers he attempted were taken straight from these sources. it was this style of flying that got him discharged from the group, despite being one of the best young pilots they had. up until a few months ago he was running a decent "import export business till he lost a cargo for an influential turian now he is hiding on omega.

TFWFH
Sev'Teema nar Veysa

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Like most Quarians, Sev grew up on the Migrant Fleet.  Unlike most Quarians, she moved around a lot within the fleet.  Her father is a very ambitious man and was often being promoted by the Admiralty to captain more and more prestigious ships.  He currently commands Ember, a frigate captured after a pirate raid.  Even as Sev was being moved around from ship to ship, her family pushed her aggressively in her studies.  The result is that she didn't have any close friends growing up, but did grow fond of the several ship's VIs she met.  She began to focus on AIs in her studies and eventually became frustrated with what she sees as the fleet's blind and irrational fear that's holding the Quarians back from actually understanding the Geth.  Eventually she was simply forbidden from continuing her studies any further.  Fed up, she left for her pilgrimage soon after.

Since leaving the fleet, she's been looking for a way to further her studies regarding AI, but she hasn't had much success.  The Citadel is nearly as restrictive of AI research as the migrant fleet, and the terminus systems aren't exactly a bastion of higher learning.  She's been in contact with some members of an AI advocacy group (I know they exists, but I can't find any named ones), but is hesitant to meet with them because if that were to be known it might be enough to result in her exile from the fleet and she would like to go back eventually.

glimmerrat`
Yuri Kravchenko

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A former Earth Alliance marine, Yuri was implanted with an L2 series bioamp at age 17, making him one of the first generation of human biotics. After training for several years on Gagarin Station, he was transferred to active military duty. At age 26 he was caught up in what later became known as the Skylian Blitz. The things he saw and the injuries he suffered put an effective end to his military career. His L2 bioamp almost killed him on three separate occasions during the engagement, and the neural damage was extensive; he lost control of his biotic abilities, and forgot almost everything he had learned.

Now, he's a miserable bastard stalking the corridors of Omega. The shrapnel in his right knee causes him no end of grief, and the malfunctioning bioamp implant means that he's always in the market for illegal prescription painkillers. He's old before his years, and looks at least a decade older than he actually is. He drinks, he smokes, he cusses constantly, and he has no career to speak of. He'll turn his hand to almost anything that'll pay the rent, as long as it doesn't involve working for the Alliance. The back-stabbing bastards stiffed him out of his war pension and left him to die once already. He won't let them do the same again.

[tfwfh]

Looks right to me.

[MilitiaJim]

It's been more than a week since Mr. A or nfactor said anything.  Maybe we should just start and let the stragglers catch up when they can?

I'm adding more stuff, and changing the tale a bit, to Lyssa's contact being the turian running the kitchen near the elcor and batarian shops.  Oh, and incendiary ammunition.   

[LordKruelos]

Honestly, I'd really wanted to the PCs to do the heavy lifting in terms of figuring out who they work for/owe a favor to, but it seems like that's not happening. Similarly, I'd hoped the PCs would figure out how (or if) they had a ship, but 11 days later or so, that also doesn't seem to be happening.

Given the circumstances and in the interest in moving forward with the game, here's what I'm going to do --

This weekend, likely Saturday AM (EST), I'll post the first IC turn (in a new thread of course) setting the opening scenario In Media Res and fast-forwarding through the "here's the job" scene -- I will give each PC the chance to declare and narrate a downtime skill check handled via a Flashback to represent their off-screen preparation for the job.

I will try and reskim The Big Score to give some better guidance in terms of gear -- again, I'd really love advice from glimmerrat in terms of how he'd envision gear to work best within the Mass Craft paradigm, but at this point I'm leaning toward the Stockpile option for pure ease of use, even though I recognize that Cash n' Carry better replicates the 'seedy underworld' approach.

Next week will be a lot of business travel for me, I may be able to post on Monday, highly unlikely that I'll be able to make any additional major posting until Thursday/Friday

[MilitiaJim]

Honestly, I'd really wanted to the PCs to do the heavy lifting in terms of figuring out who they work for/owe a favor to, but it seems like that's not happening. Similarly, I'd hoped the PCs would figure out how (or if) they had a ship, but 11 days later or so, that also doesn't seem to be happening.

I don't think anyone has enough rep for more than a beat up, stripped down shuttle?

I think it would be at least 10 Reputation to buy a shuttle with no FTL capability?

[foproy]

you could count each of our living quarters as all adding up to a ship. we serve on a ship that has ftl capabilities.

[MilitiaJim]

Reputation is given out as mission rewards, so we could together have enough from prior adventures to have a small ship.

We could also be crewing a smaller freighter, extra crew for more dangerous territory/more valuable cargo.

[LordKruelos]

Reputation is given out as mission rewards, so we could together have enough from prior adventures to have a small ship.

We could also be crewing a smaller freighter, extra crew for more dangerous territory/more valuable cargo.

At this point, I'm planning on having you infiltrate/hijack a ship as part of the mission. So less of a concern.