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Dredwulf60 Line Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:56 pm Post subject: The Revenant...sort of. |
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I'd been planning this adventure for quite a while. I got the seed of it while reading a book about the tales of the North American frontiersmen and their adventures exploring the wilderness while beset by wild and dangerous natives.
The players: All Mandalorians who are perpetually looking to use their skills to find paying work.
The set-up: A businessman has come to the planet (Nuralee) that is having a large economic downturn. (aka Space Detroit) to get cheap labor for his mining project.
A planet with a valuable crystalline mineral has recently been charted. He has obtained a mineral mining permit for it and wants to make back his money and some profit before the big mining corporations descend upon it and squeeze out all the small independents.
On his last expedition, he lost a lot of his miners to attacks by the primitive natives. A species I call the Eokwai; which are basically large, humanoid Deer-men.
The planet Makinak:
A cool, mostly forested world with some low mountains, bogs and rocky grasslands.
The amount of this crystalline mineral in the planet's mantle creates a static-laden field that shorts out repulsorlift engines. The planet's one landing facility is built like a permacrete fort. There is an interference tower there that creates an electromagnetic 'tunnel' allowing ships to land there with repulsor engines, but overland movement has to be done with legs, wheels or tracks.
The businessman has purchased a mobile mining and refining platform (a Sandcrawler in it's original, non-jawa-fied role).
The workers are housed and transported in 6 smaller tracked campers; (basically like the Chariot from the old Lost in Space TV show.)
The PCs are hired to act as protection for the expedition, which will leave the fort and travel about 1000km overland over several weeks to get to the businessman's dig site, then protect the site, then escort the whole operation back to the fort again.
The Eokwai:
Primitive and tribal, they have feared the offworlders when they first began to arrive. Now they have begun to raid and attack the caravans that move across their land. Their most dangerous weapon is the 'Tangihauk', the 'whip-disk.'
The use shards of the rare crystal, which has glass-like edges of mono-molecular sharpness. They wind them up with leather whips, almost yo-yo fashion. When they snap the whip, it releases the disk-like shard which humms and micro-vibrates in flight, acting like a natural vibro-weapon when it strikes, making these primitives fairly dangerous even to armored foes.
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The first half of this game I played last week.
The caravan came under an overwhelming attack by about 60 of these primitives. The thing that drove them back was one player using his jet pack to fly overhead and drop some of the mining charges down on the larger concentrations.
One of the players got overwhelmed, incapacitated and dragged away into the forest.
Although another PC went looking for him after the natives retreated, he had no success.
We ended the session for the night shortly after.
it occurred to me then how it resembled that Dicaprio movie 'The Revenant.'
After the game I had a chat with the player whose character was taken off. We've agreed to 'assume' he's dead...as far as the other players are concerned.
He'll take on an NPC to play in the meantime, but he knows that his character is not *really* dead. The plan is to have him return to the group at a future date with a tale of having been brought back to health by the tribe and learning their language and their ways.
It should be a cool return scene, which may lead to other adventures if they decide to go back and help the natives, particularly when the large mining corporations start to arrive. In the meantime the player is looking forward to having some fun with an NPC character who is much different than what he'd normally play; a cowardly, lazy labourer. Any CPs he earns as this character will count for a CP given to his out-of-play character while among the Eokwai. |
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Matthias777 Commodore
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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This looks like good fun, but I have to say...unless he nearly dies from winning a fight against a grizzly (or other physically superior apex predator), it's not The Revenant. _________________ Arek | Kage |
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Dredwulf60 Line Captain
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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The map at the end of the ambush.
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Naaman Vice Admiral
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 3:49 am Post subject: |
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I never saw the Revenant... but this soumds exactly like Avatar to me.... complete with the immersion into the native culture and then flipping on their employers...
Sounds fun. |
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Dredwulf60 Line Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Naaman wrote: | I never saw the Revenant... but this soumds exactly like Avatar to me.... complete with the immersion into the native culture and then flipping on their employers...
Sounds fun. |
Yeah...that part for sure. That wasn't planned ahead though...it just happened that way. Character got incapacitated and no one could get to him...so I figured they'd drag him away so there was no 'on-screen' death.
And as we know from hollyweird... If you don't see the body...
Also, as it turned out, the NPC labourer didn't leave the planet with them, so he's now playing the 2 droids they picked up from a wrecked crawler on their way back. One of which is the cooking droid mentioned in the cooking thread. |
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Naaman Vice Admiral
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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So they just left him for dead, huh? |
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Dredwulf60 Line Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Naaman wrote: | So they just left him for dead, huh? |
They were caught in a VERY bad situation. Getting totally overrun. By the time the other mando warriors were clear of their own imminent threats...they were gone into the woods like ghosts. They knew he had gone down due to their commlinks, (In game terms, he had taken mortal wound and was down and taking cumulative damage from bleeding out each round. He was technically dead, his survival is just a GM hand-waive for story purposes.)
but even still, they wanted to recover the body, but when they got clear and went to track down his body...there wasn't a trace left.
And the mission had priority; they had to press on or be overwhelmed with another wave.
It will be interesting if the 'lost' player comes back with forgiveness in his heart for his clansmen or with harsh recrimination.
In the attached image, you can see where he went down...he's the figure at the 11 o'clock position reference the explosion marker. |
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