It's a TRAP!
Jan. 10th, 2003 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothTonight was Lance's Traveller game, where everything was rigged to blow up. Half the night was spent not getting the GM's hint, half the night was spent rules lawyering, and the other half was spent killing people. What fun!
The first stages of the plan went reasonably well. The two outside guards were killed, and Coocoo teleported into the cutter's cockpit. They hadn't planned on it taking three minutes to warm up the cutter, or on the cutter's door being locked only with a keypad, allowing the soldier inside the cutter to come at Coocoo with a pistol. He didn't succeed, though.
While checking the other modules, Spot and Joker were attacked suddenly by another pair of soldiers, who'd silently and stealthily ridden the old, clunky elevator up 200 yards over the course of several minutes. Joker killed them, then Spot shot through the elevator cable bringing the next pair of guards up, and they fell to messy deaths.
While looking down the shaft, Spot and Joker spotted a massive alien warship -- obviously the wreck the archaeologists had been excavating before the pirates arrived. There were also a pair of fighters slowly swinging into position on hydraulic lifts (which Joker shot to bits from a distance, making the fighters useless) and a LOT of people running around working with various equipment.
At that point, the main bad guy contacted AKI incorporated on the public comm channel and notified them that both the cutter and the power module at the top of the shaft were rigged to blow -- and since both ran on nuclear power, they'd blow *big*. He offered to make a truce, since he was trapped at the bottom, to let them live if they let him escape in the cutter.
Since the cutter was to be AKI inc.'s primary payment for the mission, that wasn't acceptable. Coocoo tried to hook up to the power module, planning to drop it down the shaft to convince the enemy leader to shut off the bombs, but his inept piloting instead ruined both the cutter and the fusion module.
So AKI accepted the evil leader's deal, but instead of the pirates, up came a little robot, which complained about the state of the cutter and insisted it be put back in a state which AKI was in no position to put it back in, lacking the ability to make massive starship repairs in two minutes.
At that point, the archaeologist who'd hired them volunteered that he could probably rig the remaining elevator for a quick combat drop, and so with 2 minutes left before doomsday, Coocoo, Spot, and Joker plummeted to certain doom!
Or, well, maybe not. Covering their descent with a volley of grenades, they managed to take cover and kill most of the enemies waiting for them before running for the ship, which Joker noticed was obviously preparing for takeoff -- although it was clearly much too small to fit through the shaft. It turned out that there was a hidden exit tunnel down which the pirate leader had always been planning to escape -- the runaway fusion reactions had never been disarmable, and he'd just been stalling for time.
But AKI was on the ship now, and they quickly killed the rest of his goons, and then put a gun to his head and told him to surrender. So Mr. Pirate teleported to the escape ship and tried to get away. It didn't work, since the main ship was faster and better armed, and he was eventually mind-raped by Coocoo and put in the deep freeze along with his accomplice. The rest of the hostages were freed, the person who'd hired them was rescued (he'd flown off in the escape pod he'd brought AKI to Osiris in, but it was damaged in the blast), and the freighter that escaped... was gone, out of range of the sensors. Doh.
But then the ship contacted Coocoo telepathically, and in return for being hooked back up to its body and hired on as a member of AKI, used its advanced systems to locate the freighter, which was overtaken and forced to surrender. Joker and one of the archaeologists transferred over to it as a prize crew.
Halfway back, they almost ran into what was presumably another pirate ship responding to the freighter's distress call, but the alien warship's sensors were superior and they evaded it. Back in Trias orbit, they were detained by the military, and the frieghter was impounded as evidence. As the alien warship was sentient (or so the party argued) it was allowed to land.
On the ground, Whitmore offered to not contest their ownership/adoption of the sentient alien warship so long as they accepted that help as payment in full and agreed to take employment with him as independant contractors. Not having much choice (or any real reason not to want a steady contract from such a wealthy individual) AKI accepted.
last session next session
The first stages of the plan went reasonably well. The two outside guards were killed, and Coocoo teleported into the cutter's cockpit. They hadn't planned on it taking three minutes to warm up the cutter, or on the cutter's door being locked only with a keypad, allowing the soldier inside the cutter to come at Coocoo with a pistol. He didn't succeed, though.
While checking the other modules, Spot and Joker were attacked suddenly by another pair of soldiers, who'd silently and stealthily ridden the old, clunky elevator up 200 yards over the course of several minutes. Joker killed them, then Spot shot through the elevator cable bringing the next pair of guards up, and they fell to messy deaths.
While looking down the shaft, Spot and Joker spotted a massive alien warship -- obviously the wreck the archaeologists had been excavating before the pirates arrived. There were also a pair of fighters slowly swinging into position on hydraulic lifts (which Joker shot to bits from a distance, making the fighters useless) and a LOT of people running around working with various equipment.
At that point, the main bad guy contacted AKI incorporated on the public comm channel and notified them that both the cutter and the power module at the top of the shaft were rigged to blow -- and since both ran on nuclear power, they'd blow *big*. He offered to make a truce, since he was trapped at the bottom, to let them live if they let him escape in the cutter.
Since the cutter was to be AKI inc.'s primary payment for the mission, that wasn't acceptable. Coocoo tried to hook up to the power module, planning to drop it down the shaft to convince the enemy leader to shut off the bombs, but his inept piloting instead ruined both the cutter and the fusion module.
So AKI accepted the evil leader's deal, but instead of the pirates, up came a little robot, which complained about the state of the cutter and insisted it be put back in a state which AKI was in no position to put it back in, lacking the ability to make massive starship repairs in two minutes.
At that point, the archaeologist who'd hired them volunteered that he could probably rig the remaining elevator for a quick combat drop, and so with 2 minutes left before doomsday, Coocoo, Spot, and Joker plummeted to certain doom!
Or, well, maybe not. Covering their descent with a volley of grenades, they managed to take cover and kill most of the enemies waiting for them before running for the ship, which Joker noticed was obviously preparing for takeoff -- although it was clearly much too small to fit through the shaft. It turned out that there was a hidden exit tunnel down which the pirate leader had always been planning to escape -- the runaway fusion reactions had never been disarmable, and he'd just been stalling for time.
But AKI was on the ship now, and they quickly killed the rest of his goons, and then put a gun to his head and told him to surrender. So Mr. Pirate teleported to the escape ship and tried to get away. It didn't work, since the main ship was faster and better armed, and he was eventually mind-raped by Coocoo and put in the deep freeze along with his accomplice. The rest of the hostages were freed, the person who'd hired them was rescued (he'd flown off in the escape pod he'd brought AKI to Osiris in, but it was damaged in the blast), and the freighter that escaped... was gone, out of range of the sensors. Doh.
But then the ship contacted Coocoo telepathically, and in return for being hooked back up to its body and hired on as a member of AKI, used its advanced systems to locate the freighter, which was overtaken and forced to surrender. Joker and one of the archaeologists transferred over to it as a prize crew.
Halfway back, they almost ran into what was presumably another pirate ship responding to the freighter's distress call, but the alien warship's sensors were superior and they evaded it. Back in Trias orbit, they were detained by the military, and the frieghter was impounded as evidence. As the alien warship was sentient (or so the party argued) it was allowed to land.
On the ground, Whitmore offered to not contest their ownership/adoption of the sentient alien warship so long as they accepted that help as payment in full and agreed to take employment with him as independant contractors. Not having much choice (or any real reason not to want a steady contract from such a wealthy individual) AKI accepted.
last session next session
