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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:40 am    Post subject: Shadows of a Blaster Reply with quote

Hello all! I decided to dust off my books the other day and start up a new campaign over at my college now. Yes, the D6 system is still striving with enjoyment with 2 brand new players, possibly 3, 2 females and a male player. And tonight we started the first real session with 2 of the players, after teaching them the rules after the past few days, and it went over well, so when I have more time, I’m going to list in detail what happened, but here is a quick introduction to the characters.

Tras Wichno (Male PC) - The trigger happy, Human bounty hunter flying all around the galaxy with a small group of fellow bounty hunters. Lead by a man named Jaynor, he finds himself way over his head from time to time.

Ma’lenna (Female PC) - The Ruthles Twilek, Cyborged Space pirate, who fearlessly barrels head first into action with her “to good for a pirate” heart.

...And soon to be female jedi character...

I introduced with this small opening, setting the scene with a quick 5 second made concept to go along with the timeline we all decided to play in.

Star Wars
Shadows of a Blaster

The leaders of the Republic senate on Coruscant
are all tense and anxious as the thought of war
seems to be immenent, as Senator Palpatine
makes the decision to create a great army for
the Republic.

The Jedi Council takes a backseat as they
watch in dismay of the turn of events, as
they’re hands are full of dilemas and tremors
in the force, sending what few Jedi’s are
trained out in the universe to assist and solve
the galaxies problems.

But our story begins with two young space pirates
sitting alone in there ship, lieing in wait for
the next attack.....
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, gonna repost the top alittle bit right here, cause now I want to introduce all of the characters with more detail than what I've done previously on the little time I had that night.

Tras Wichno (Male PC) - The trigger happy, Human bounty hunter flying all around the galaxy with a small group of fellow bounty hunters. He has dark browned, dread locked hair that settles right below his collar, set with a muscular build with green eyes and chin only goatee. Lead by a man named Jaynor, he finds himself way over his head from time to time.

Ma’lenna (Female PC) - The Ruthles Twilek, Cyborged Space pirate, who fearlessly barrels head first into action with her “to good for a pirate” heart. With her pale gray skin, and penetrating green eyes, she relies on only her blaster in this futile time.

Airess Jolayna (Female PC) - The kind hearted, quick witted Jedi Apprentice to the great Bothan master, Rel Dorvinian. She has: full glossy lips, long thick wavey brown/auburn hair, flirty green eyes with long black eyelashes (she bats them...she wrote all this, please dont hate me) creamy, parcelan texture skin and a curvy, shapely, thick body.

Quick Note: As I sat here typing this out, I just noticed, that even though I sat down and made the character sheets with the players and seperate times and on seperate days, they have all Managed to have green eyes...

Anyway, I am going to write out the first session we had the other night after I do a quick solo mission to introduce Airess to the storyline sometime this week, I'm also planning on posting all the bounty hunter information and NPC information that the characters have come in contact with or know about up to this point, and I will try and consistantly update to keep everyone to to track with this storyline. I have strived hard, studied countless of the rulebooks, and have come up with an interesting storyline to say the least, and I do hope that with the information that I write out about the campaign I've made can be used as inspiration to any other of you Great GM's.

Until my next post which will include alot, I promise, May the force be with you...or for my players at least Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shadows of a Blaster - Uneasy Alliances- Part I

Our scene opens up with Airess(PC) on Dantooine, at her masters small hut training and enjoying the beautiful day in complete isolation as she has been in for the last decade. After awhile her Master, Brel, Returned and her and him ensued in a friendly lightsabre fight, than soon after informed her that he has finally convinced the Council that she has been chosen worthy of her first solo assignment. Entrusting her with her first lightsabre, he bids her farewell, for he was summoned away, and she starts off and embarks on a brande new horizon.

Meanwhile, lieing in wait in a Nova-Drive light frieghter, for an oncoming vessel on the outskirts of Kay’dorian space, are two space pirates, Ma’lanna (PC) and her only trusted friend in the galaxy, Riek Duvoor, a truely faithful sullustan. After a long wait and sensor spanning, a Stock Barloz-Class Corellian frieghter blips on the screen. Without second notice than fly the ship straight in, taking out there shield generator and than firing down there hull making small penetrating breaches all along the aft side. Without delay, they began boarding procedures, ran on the ship, and gunned down 3 men lieing in wait. But before they could celebrate, a man with Deep green, customized mandalorian armor turned the corner, killing Riek, and than capturing Ma’lanna with two web grenades.
As the Twi’lek hit the floor, a man with shoulder length dreadlocks, lieing in wait in a Ghtroc 720 light frieghter, the Justifier. Sitting with Dren in the cockpit, Tras answers his commlink to find out that his leader, Jaynor, just nabbed them up two more bounties.

(GM Note, the pirate character still hates me for that, but keep readin, she hates me more for what I do later.)

While the Ship lunges down to the surface, Airess boards the vessel of which will be sending her to Kay’dora.

(Now all the characters are on there way to Kay’dora, It’s a Monarchy Planet, double mooned, and very fertile. I’d post more info but no players go out of there way to find out about the planet...)

At this point, I made a nice cutscene showing a Rodian in the basement of a huge building hooking up a box of some sort up to a wall he was hunched infront of, with blinking symbols on the front.

Aieress on the ship notices a girl in a black tight leather outfit and shoulder length dark brown hair with blue eyeliner and blue lipstick. Than her ship lands, and she gets lead to the palace where Lord Janis awaited her.

When the Bounty hunters ship lands, Ma’lenna is taken away by officials and lead into a holding cell at the basement of the bounty hunters guild, across from a woman with tight black leather outfit, and shoulder length dark brown hair, blue eyeliner and blue lipstick.. Jaynor says he needed to attend a meeting away from the group, and Dren decided to stay onboard. Tras decided to take in the sights. After awhile of driving he went to the cantina to see a crazed Ewok downing shot glasses as the bartended seemed to be pretrified because of it, but than he just decided he’d rather go to the bounty hunters guild hall in the center of town and downloads all of the recent bounties (see post below for list of bounties).

Cutscene to Jaynor meeting with the High monarch leader, Lord Janis Bendavian. As Jaynor gets conned out of his payment, than gets escorted from the building, passing Airess who was waiting in the waiting room. Seconds later she was being presented by a highly doubtful Janis, but than interrupted as a major corporate figure bursted into the room and completly went off on Janis for the loss of his stocks and company’s finances due to the recent threats and acts of aggression from an unnamed source. Janis than informs Airess that he is concerned about the safety of his city of Keldosis (the name of the capitol that the other players never found out...) And that he would like her to investigate some problems comeing from one of the two shield generator plants on the east side of the city tomorrow. Until than, to enjoy the city. Than..

As Ma’lenna waited patiently, she introduced herself to the girl and found out her name was Lena Darkstarr, than moments later, Lena pulled out what seemed like a hairpin from her hair, and attached it to the holding cells, advising Malanna to stand back. As..

Tras than made his way outside in the center of town to enjoy the sourroundings and look for another taxi as he suddenly..

A huge company Building from the UNEX corporation across from the central palace in the middle of the city blew sky high, as the whole building and debris of fire rained down below, completly descimating the side of the palace. People ran frantically through the streets as all the traffic seemed to pile up everywhere. The militia immediatly was trying to assess the situation, but to no avail

at that moment Lena and Ma’lenna blasted out of jail and beat a guard down and escaped through the carnage into the streets.

Tras seeing Jaynor, ran over and tripped infront of him (Tras told me to include that he did fumble a roll when he wasnt looking, and that he flipped over sideways to not hit jaynor...thats for you Tras)
Than soon after followed Jaynor back to the starport, just to find out that all ships have been grounded under mitary Lockdown of the whole city, and the energy shield has gone up around the entire cities permiter, not allowing anyone to come or go untill the culprits are found.
Also, they noticed that on a newscasting heading into the starport, Jaynor, Ma’lanna, and Lena are all suspects in the bombing and have warrants and bounties out immediatly. (Tape of Jaynor threatening Janis played, and tape of Ma’lanna and Lena breaking out of prison played)

Airess, being witness to the explosions, gets her instructions, her gear and heads to the streets, as the entire central area of the city becomes military locked down, as checkpoints and hover tanks seem to begin filling the streets in that area.

Ma’lanna making her way back to the bounty hunters ship, planned on getting her equipment back and leaving the planet behind her, but to her dismay, she WALKED RIGHT UP INTO THE SHIP whjile the bounty hunters were all having a meeting. Jaynor seeing oppurtunity, and out of sheer anger from not getting his money, throws a metal wristband on her good arm, before she could react. Than informs her that he requires her to work for him, to pay off the 20,000 credits he was robbed out of, or that wristband will detonate. Which has an equivalent to a frag grenade explosion. Reluctantly, she decides to join.(I was running out of ideas to be honest getting them together, had the oppurtunity, but wrong motive, aww well, bomb on the wrist works 2 ) Tras than brings to everyones attention that he found 2 bounties that could be leads to the real culprit, so they could get Jaynors name clean and get off this planet quick. One was a Rodian, and the other was an Ewok he saw earlier. They than split up, Jaynor heads out to get some information about the Rodian, while Ma’lanna, Tras, and Dren head over to the cantina Tras saw the ewok in.
(Also, Jaynor instructs Tras, if the twi’lek so much as blinks in a wrong way, shoot her)

This is where it got interesting to say the least.

As they enter, the bar is still empty other than the one bartender, and the ewok downing more shot glasses. Tras tries to talk to the bartender, Ma’lanna watches the door, but Dren (this is just an NPC I made to show characters what not to do...they got the hint later) walked straight up to the ewok. After a few words, the ewok flipped off the barstool, lunging two daggers at Dren, planting one deep in his shoulder, than lobbed a frag grenade behind the bar. The players tried to hit the ewok, but he was to fast, as the ewok pulled out a blaster pistol and blasted a hole into drens chest, rendering him incapacitated. The frag grenade exploded as the left side of the bar went up in flames, vaporizing the bartender, as shards of wood flew everywhere, (all players fumbled rolls except for the ewok...) As a piece of wood flew straight threw the back of Tras’s left leg, and a piece threw Ma’lannas good arm. Than the ewok got crazier in his drunken rage and pulled out a thermal detonator from his pouch on his back and arming it. Tras finally landed a hit but unfortunatly it made the ewok lose grip on the thermal and it rolled right next to Drens body. The ewok exclaimed at that point, “I wasn’t serious” As Tras dove for it, the second he grasped the thermal, the Ewok laid a shot into him, rendering him incapacitaded as well, throwing the grenade up into the air, as it rolled along the still standing part of the bar and about a foot away from the flames. Ma’lanna and the Ewok had a moment of silence as they both suddenly bolted for the thermal. Taking a shot into the ewok, she just barely grabbed the bomb before the flames consumed it, and than dove off the cantina continueing the firefight with the Ewok, eventually making him retreat. Grabbing Tras’s medkits, she brought him back to consciousness, as they both scurried out of the cantina, holding Dren’s body, and barreled down a side alley, with sirens in the distance and fire shooting out the windows.

Meanwhile, Airess saw the local militia drive right past her, so she decided to follow, and off in the distance, she saw a cantina ablaze, exploding out into the street. So she ran over to it, thinking she could save someone.

To there dismay, nearly at the end of the alley, a 12 foot fence blocked them, with a dumpster leanign up next to it. Finally using a medkit on Dren, he had a bright idea to unlatch 2 frags and throw them up against the fence, and than shoot them with his blaster. The PC’s ducked behind a dumpster, followed by BOOM! The fence laid about in shambles as the players and Dren ran and found a vacant speeder at the end of the alley. After alittle bickering, Tras jumped behind the seat, and drove srtaight into oncoming traffic, up on a sidewalk, nearly hitting an old lady, and broke 2 roadsigns, before getting the hang of driving. Than, without paying attention, after three turns and nearly wrecking multiple times, they notice a militia cruiser behind them, ordering them to pull over. With a heroic roll, and seconds to think, Dren lobbed his last frag grenade out the window, making the militia speeder a figment of there imagination in a loud, vibrant explosion.

After getting in contact with Jaynor, they make there way to the slums of the city, and find an abandoned warehouse where they can lay low for awhile. Finding some old rags etc., they made makeshift bandaids for there bleeding as the medkits started to wear off.

At this time, Airess found out she had a hotel room paid for by Janis while the Palace is being repaired. So she slept the night.

Jaynor, getting information from an Ithorian friend, “obtains” a speeder and picks up Tras, Ma’lanna, and Dren, and takes them to his contacts house around the corner. They than get informed that the Rodian source they believe may be the real culprit has a location outside of the city, but the only way to get out now is to lower the shield barrier. And the only way to do that is to have both Battery plants be turned off from there cores at the same time, which would only give them a 5 minute gap to get out of the city. Upon getting back, the ithorian and his associate who turned out to be Lena again, give the players and NPC’s a roof for the night. End session one

So what do you think? Thats how I started the campaign, and yes, I know they have a lot over there heads now, blowing up a cantina, killing militia officials with a grenade, resisting arrest. But for them all being first time players, and me being alittle bit rusty, they all loved it and can’t wait to enjoy the next session. Again, I appologuze for not going into detail about the planet, but my players look on these boards all the time, and I don’t wanna give them any freebees. But other than that, please leave any thoughts or comments, or anything you guys would have done differently, Im really wanting suggestions Because I feel I am really rusty still after so long of playing.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This post I’m going to put down some Bounty’s me and a friend GM came up with. Some of them were a joke just for the players to laugh at, others were to trick the players into going after the wrong bounty’s, and one was just for fun in memory of KageRyu’s game that I participated in. The very best game I ever will have played.
Also note that there not perfect, me and the other GM just gave basic information and short backgrounds, than spent awhile make each characters stats and equipment, for what made sense to who.

Bounty #1
Wanted-DEAD
Name: Durgokal Fell
Species: Gammorean
Age:39 Sex: Male Ht: 5'9 Wt: 380
Background: Comes from Tattooine, ex. Jabba the Hutt guard. Went into exile from Jabba the Hutt for excessive brutality on Bib Fortuna. (Had a bad day and punched Bib in the face.) Than decided to make a new life for himself and decided to burn his house down, not realizing his family was inside, killing them.
Last Seen: Kay’dora
Issued By: Jabba the Hutt
Reward: 4,500 credits

Bounty #2
Wanted-DEAD or ALIVE
Name: Grelek Davan
Species: Rodian
Age: 27 Sex: Male Ht: 6'5 Wt: 140
Background: Ex Agent for the Unex Corporation of which he ran technical supply help all over the building until falsely fired. Than bombed the building on a Kaydorian Holiday killing only one man. None injured.
Last Seen: Kay’dora
Issued By: Military of Kay’dora
Bounty: 1,500 credits

(Ok this next one in all honesty was supposed to be a joke like the first bounty. I had no intention of the PC’s actually finding this character. At the beginning of the session I decided to roll a random die with a different building within the city where he’d be. Turned out he would be in the cantina all day, and that’s how it started)

Wanted-DEAD
Name: Wegga Metlo
Species: Ewok
Sex: Male Age: 32 Ht: 2'4 Wt: 41
Background: Stabbing a Mon Calamari in the head with a spear. Than escaped Alderraan officials upon heading to trial by biting there hands off. Than broke into a lowline military base, and shot down 3 cargo ships. Suspect is to be considered Highly Dangerous, Aprehend at own risk.
Last Seen: Kay’dora
Issued By: Alderaan Militia
Reward: 10,000 credits

Wanted-ALIVE
Name: Rakoriaa
Species: Wookie
Age: 35 Ht: 7'9 Wt:???(1-1000) Sex: Female
Background: Killed many people at underground Sabacc game. Than murdered 5 police officials. Resisted Arrest. Accomplish to transport illegal weapons for an intergalactic black market arms dealer. Distribution of narcotics and illegal substances. Grande Ship Robbery. Arsen to variety of Governement Buildings.
Last Seen: Naboo
Issued By: Jabba the Hutt
Bounty: 7,500
(Hehe this is the joke one from the old campaign, had to throw It in, Kageryu is a genious for the Kubaz in my opinion still)

Wanted-DEAD
Name: ???
Species: Kubaz
Age: ?? Ht. ?? Wt. ?? Sex Male
Background: Attempted assasination of a Jedi diplomat, human smuggler, Male duroz, and a attempt of assasination on Alakai Doozhan, high official of Verinon.
Last seen: Verinon
Issued by: Militia of Verinon
Bounty: 5,000
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heya all, this next post I’m making is to keep everyone and my players up to date on all the NPC’s that are within the story so they can keep it fresh in there head. I used a lot of pictures from SWAG to associate with these as well. Those artists really gave me a lot of inspiration while writing out these characters. So I’ve decided to make links to each picture I used to give a vague detail. I know the pictures weren’t originally for my game, but the customized pictures really go along way for the fun of my group. And I will be updating this post as I introduce more NPC’s into the game, hoping that it might give all you other gamers and GM’s some inspiration as well into your own characters.

Npc s introduced thus far:
Bounty Hunting Group (PC Bounty hunter is apart of)

Jaynor Kor’enthis: Leader of the Bounty hunters group
Dren Terrik: The pilot and shoot first, ask later bounty hunter that usually gets the squad in over there head.
IK-73: Bounty hunter protocol droid who seems to have a problem with everyone (First session, was no where to be found, But Tras knows him).

Regal Lord Janis Bendavian: High Monarch Ruler of the Planet Kay’dora residing in the palace in the middle of Keldosis, main city and capital of Kay’dora

Jaynor’s Contacts on Kaydora:
Garriin Treemof: Ithorian contact that Jaynor relies on on the planet of Kay’dora. First aided the group with medkits and a roof over there head in the end of the first session.
Lena Darkstar: The human female who broke out of the containment cell with the PC Ma’lanna, to later find out she works for Garriin.

Riek Duvoor: Sullustan first mate who died at the hands of Jaynor within the PC’s first mission. (Hehe, yes I wrote up an antire stat sheet just to let him die within the first 20 minutes...)

Wegga Metlo: Crazed Ewok who had a bounty on his head and Tras (BH PC) thought would be a lead in getting information about there supposed framing.

The Rodian Arsonist: the cutscened Rodian who the Players know he blew up the building, but the PC’s have no clue.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good job, Drevon. It's good to know that your group is having fun.

And don't worry about using those pictures from SWAG. You are doing with them what we intended them to do. Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool than, I thank you for the go ahead cause I really didnt want to offend anyone, Heres a couple of links under the description that I’m giving to the players for each picture, hope you like :

Jaynor Kor’enthis - http://www.swagonline.net/view.php?photo_id=42&screen=0&action=&keyword=mandalor&date=&type=search

Dren Terrik - http://www.swagonline.net/view.php?photo_id=2448&screen=0&action=&keyword=mandalor&date=&type=search

IK-73 - http://www.swagonline.net/view.php?photo_id=61&screen=0&action=&keyword=droid&date=&type=search

Regal Lord Janis Bendavian - http://www.swagonline.net/view.php?photo_id=636&screen=2&action=search&keyword=scoundrel&date=&type=search

Lena Darkstar - http://www.swagonline.net/view.php?photo_id=935&screen=1&action=search&keyword=scoundrel&date=&type=search

Bah, and I forgot to mention the Jedi Master above, My appologies
Rel Dorvinian - http://www.swagonline.net/view.php?photo_id=1121&screen=15&action=search&keyword=&date=&type=search
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, this week, I'm writing and planning out the next session to its entirety, to have absolutly no railroading and be able to allow the players alot more freedom now that they have a basic assumption of the rules. The objective is for them to them and the NPCs with them to break into two seperate shield battery plants that generates the power to keep up the cities shields. They have to down the shields somehow and make it outside of the city to find the real culprit, any ideas on how to go about this? I have some ideas myself, but I need alot more feedback on this idea than just what I have alone. Mind you, that both generators have to be offline at the same time which allows the players a 5 minute gap of power failure of hence the shields go back online after the backup generators go into effect. The PCs got thast information at the end of last session and the Jedi got an analysis of all the info on the plants. So please, any thoughts?
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