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Player: [[user:RooK | RooK]]
  
 
Referee: [[user:DaveLittley | Dave]]
 
Referee: [[user:DaveLittley | Dave]]
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__TOC__
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==Setting: Some Random City Planet==
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You are a member of a largish Groten family that owns a sizable manufacturing / shipping business.  Your grandparents are the heads of the company and you have numerous siblings, cousins, etc.  You are a little bit of an oddball, as most in the family earn stages of leader as soon as they can.  Then they can participate in the wealth building apparatus that is the family’s obsession.  Nevertheless, you were supported in your interests, even though you’re sure many snickered at you behind your back.
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A few months ago, an elder brother warned that things were heating up with a rival company and to be careful.  He convinced you to get biologically altered to have a small hidden compartment in one of your legs and then given a blaster to store there.  You generally thought he was overreacting but accepted the weapon anyway.
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==Hostile Takeover==
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You’re in a café, working on your next mathematician stage when you get a predefined “BUGOUT!” signal on your comm.  Of all the codes the family has ready, you weren’t expecting this one.  It means a catastrophic event has happened to the family and you should flee until further communication is possible.
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Along with the code you get 1000 credits and a ticket on a shuttle that’s leaving the nearby spaceport in 23.9 minutes.  You estimate it will take about half that time to get there.  There’s also a brief message from your brother – “Hope you survive.  If you don’t get contacted again, avenge us.”
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A quick scan of news outlets finds reports of your main office building under attack.  Your company security seems to have been overwhelmed by a much larger force.
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You’re family-wiki seems to have been cut off.  And a Reptiloid with a rifle has just entered the café...
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Player: [[user:RooK | RooK]]
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Suddenly, being 2.6 meters tall and green, with no stages of combatant, feels like a tactical error.
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Clarifying question: what is the law enforcement type on this random city planet?  Is combat in public spaces generally ignored, or will it attract the attentions of a policing force?
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Answer: Unless it involves assault weapons, explosives, or an attack on government property/personnel, the police won't care.
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==Game Night 2020-07-29: The Great Escape==
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* Hacked Reptiloid's Gun and knocked out with a punch.
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** Disarmed
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* Snuck past hopper outside
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* Geared up.
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** Hopper intercept at equipment store
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** Ramming Speed!  Missed.
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** Security robot smashed hopper. 
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** Driver negotiated damages while his gun gets hacked.
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** Gun fixed, combat resumes, driver beheaded with a punch.
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** Original Reptiloid exits smashed hopper and tries to flee.
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*** Shot, and de-footed.
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* On way to spaceport, had to sneak past a couple of Trops
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* Trops follow to spaceport.
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** Schlager attacks, defeats one and convinces the other to stand down.
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* Vega-Lizard enters spaceport and seems to be looking.
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** Schlager recognizes the Lizard's toughness and flees aboard his ship.
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* Arrives at destination planet.
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** Sneaks past a Takolee.
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** Goes to a Cafe.
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** Hires Pablo - an Aggressor Trainer
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== Plot Infliction 001: Your death is inevitable==
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You've got about 15 minutes before Pablo gets there.  Going to do anything, or just enjoy your hot cocoa blood?
  
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==Introduction==
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Schläger is going to assume that he is still a target, and will first review an inventory of café denizens visible and assign them probabilities for being threats.  Then he'll upgrade the security protocols on all his gear to his person standards, especially the blaster.
  
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Having recently acquired a stage of [[Defender]] and thus less likely to be randomly killed by stray weapon’s fire, Mïrka Mentkabar decided it was time to leave the backwater armpit of a world he was on and explore the galaxy.  Having no credits to speak of, Mïrka decided to hitchhike in the cargo hold of a freighter leaving the system.  Hungry for adventure, he eagerly awaited visiting various city planets on the freighter’s route.
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Regular locates are in order.  He doesn't care if it makes him look paranoid; anyone with an iota of perception will see that on him anyway.
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Too bad it crashed before getting to one.
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==Game Night 001 - September 7, 2016 - Hailbots==
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==Game Night 2020-08-13: Master And Student==
  
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*Crashes on planet Archaeognatha after briefly discussing the feasibility of surviving such a crash with God.
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* Attacked by opportunistic humans.
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*Regains consciousness with a broken ankle and a Human looming over him.
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** One is a mentalist.
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*Human's name is George and was first on the scene of the crash.
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** Helped by Pablo
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*George applied a couple of patches and helped fix the ankle.
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** One killed, mentalist let go.
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**One of the patches looks homemade.
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* Spotted Takolee who was following him before.
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**George explains it's a type of stim patch, though eventually revealing it's more of a nanoscopic symbiont.
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** Followed Takolee who met up with a Groten and two Zygroten.
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***Gives extra five stam every stage earned.  Will eventually become sentient.
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** Fleeeee...
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***Mirka has the ability to kill it via his own nanoscopic fauna.
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** Being followed
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*George checks cockpit while Mirka checks cargo.
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* To a random bar.
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**Cargo turns out to be vegetables.  Many many vegetables.
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** Picked a fight with a Vega-Lizard.
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**Doesn't find the hidden compartment of gear and gemstones (kidding).
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** Vega-Lizard ripped his throat out with his teeth.
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**George returns with some items from the suicidal pilot and gives them to Mirka.
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** Rescued by Pablo.
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*After providing a crude map, George buggers off.
 
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*Mirka heads toward a village on the way to a major city.
 
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*Attacked by 'Hailbot'!
 
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**Beachball sized thing with numerous force beams / manipulated shields as limbs.
 
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**Hailbot is unarmed and just attacking hand to hand. Fast.
 
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**Mirka uses trees and gliding to his advantage.
 
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**After a few hits, Hailbot hides behind tree.  Two other hailbots inbound.
 
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**Bravely run away and hide!
 
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**Hailbots give up.
 
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*Continue to village.
 
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*Attracts attention of other hailbot.  This one armed and has a combatant stage.
 
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**Fight fight fight.
 
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**Hailbot defeated.
 
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***Force beams go off, hailbot falls and employs camouflage.  Dormant.
 
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***Camouflage less effective on beings that employ sonar - perfect roundness very noticeable.
 
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*Avoids more hailbots.
 
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*Encounters Trollian villagers.
 
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**Villagers threatening.  Extort weapon.
 
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*Changes route to bypass village and head directly to the city.  Another 20km away.
 
  
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==Plot Infliction 001 - Travel Montage==
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== Plot Infliction 002: You Talk Funny==
  
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The forest is starting to thin out a bit and you see grasslands up ahead.  You also spot what seem like ruins.
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Pablo: "Interesting.  I just got offered 1000 credits to kill you, or 200 to not defend you when that other crew gets here.  You must have really pissed someone off."
  
 
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Mentkabar regards the reduction in gliding supports with a grim annoyance and a renewed attention to passive sonar imagery.  Hopefully the native grass is tall enough to be sufficient cover for a being as small as a Mavvice.  Which, of course, works both ways.
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I'm assuming that the probability of Pablo taking either offer is low, considering that he even mentioned it, but Schläger is going to run the numbers anyway.  If it's higher than 10% probability, Schläger is going to ask directly to get better input.
  
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What do the ruins appear like? Rotting skyscrapers?  Pyramids?  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzAZAqBXrXs A diner?]
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Considering that a kilo-credit is an order of magnitude higher than the estimated cost of the local hit team hired to kill him, Schläger starts researching possible reasons for the jump in resources assigned. Did something change, or is it a simple escalation?  Or is it a complicated escalation, based on injured pride?
 
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==Game Night 002 - September 20, 2019 - To The City==
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==Game Night 2020-08-13: Down down dooby do down down==
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*Initially ignore ruins.
 
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*Loud <CRACK> from ruins attracts attention.
 
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*Groten using Hailbots as baseballs.  Three young people going and searching for them in the jungle after they land.
 
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**Warned that getting into city may be difficult without citizenship id.
 
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*Back through the grassland towards the city.
 
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*Hailbot Attack!
 
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**Long fight.
 
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**Hailbot attempts to disengage.  No such luck.
 
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*Petroch from the villiage watches, applauds, then flies away.
 
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*Finds a stand of trees to hide in.
 
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**Kills alien bear. 
 
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*To the city.
 
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*Ambushed by random jerk.  Mortal wound causes him to panic and bleed out.
 
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*Intercepted by guard.
 
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**Can't pay extortion.
 
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**Used as training practice for pet hail-bot.
 
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**Hail-bot disabled (barely).
 
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*Nearby homesteader offers shelter.
 
  
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==Game Night 003 - September 27, 2019 - Wage Slave==
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* Heading towards random bar.
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*Heals with homesteaders.  Eats soup.
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** Enemy combatants take transit to get there first.
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*Chats with symbiot.
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** Random fights along the way (training).
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**Names it Marcus.
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** Spot Vega-Lizard at bar from original planet via cameras
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**Marcus has instinctual unease about the hailbots.
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*** Has non-standard blast rifle.
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*Walks around the city looking for a way in.
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* Heading towards different bar.
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**Twenty meter walls.  Nothing obviously preventing someone from climbing.
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** Vega-Lizard and goons following.
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**Main entrances guarded.  People scanned as they go in.
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** At different bar, scary Mavvice suggests going down a level or two.
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**Other smaller entrances sealed.
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* Down to residential/mall level.
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*Small settlement outside the walls on the other side.
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** Vega-Lizard heading back to spaceport.
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*Hailed from someone in a shack.
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** Goons heading down to mall.
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**Not a radio in site.
 
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**Guy in the shack says he can get someone in the city for a fee.
 
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**50 credits.  Or 200 for dealing with someone trustworthy.
 
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**Can get jobs escorting non-combatants from the city.
 
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*Back to the settlement outside the city.  Finds a job posting board.
 
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*Hired by an Anurian named Gilford.
 
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**Wants to capture two hailbots for study.
 
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*Walking towards the jungle.
 
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**Blasts an attacking wolf like creature in the face.
 
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**Finds and defeats a zero-stage hailbot.
 
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*Closer to the jungle, encounters random dude.
 
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**Feeling threatened, Mirka attacks.
 
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**Dude defeated, disarmed, and let go.
 
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**Gilford claims blast rifle.
 
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*Into the jungle, the mighty jungle.
 
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**Find hailbot. 
 
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**Make that two hailbots.
 
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**One has a stage of striker.  Makes for a tough fight.
 
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**Gilford injures himself with the blast rifle.
 
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*After disabling both hailbots, a third hailbot with a rifle makes itself known.
 
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**Third hailbot actually speaks.  Takes one of the downed hailbots and leaves.
 
  
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==PLACEHOLDER - bunchagamenights==
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==Plot Infliction 003: Mall Rat==
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Yadda yadda yadda...
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Random thought: There is an awful lot of synergy between the lone gun-Mavvice and the Mandalorian.  I likes it.
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I forget: are the few cameras in the residential / mall level publicly accessible as well?  Or does it require a hack?  Or is a hack even possible?
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To Pablo: "So, for the inevitable encounter with these bounty hunters, which makes more sense training-wise - you as a turret, or you as a separate backup combatant?"  Using Pablo's reaction to augment Schläger's calculations of probability of success against the whole group simultaneously versus picking them them off one at a time.
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The tentative plan is to find a section of the mall with decent cover, that we can get to with sufficient time to either PWN the cameras or at least ensure that there's no nasty surprises.  Maybe find something to hack that could act as a booby trap or cover an escape.
 
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<hr>
 
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Revision as of 21:54, 25 August 2020

Setting: AIF

Player: RooK

Referee: Dave

Setting: Some Random City Planet

You are a member of a largish Groten family that owns a sizable manufacturing / shipping business. Your grandparents are the heads of the company and you have numerous siblings, cousins, etc. You are a little bit of an oddball, as most in the family earn stages of leader as soon as they can. Then they can participate in the wealth building apparatus that is the family’s obsession. Nevertheless, you were supported in your interests, even though you’re sure many snickered at you behind your back.

A few months ago, an elder brother warned that things were heating up with a rival company and to be careful. He convinced you to get biologically altered to have a small hidden compartment in one of your legs and then given a blaster to store there. You generally thought he was overreacting but accepted the weapon anyway.

Hostile Takeover

You’re in a café, working on your next mathematician stage when you get a predefined “BUGOUT!” signal on your comm. Of all the codes the family has ready, you weren’t expecting this one. It means a catastrophic event has happened to the family and you should flee until further communication is possible.

Along with the code you get 1000 credits and a ticket on a shuttle that’s leaving the nearby spaceport in 23.9 minutes. You estimate it will take about half that time to get there. There’s also a brief message from your brother – “Hope you survive. If you don’t get contacted again, avenge us.”

A quick scan of news outlets finds reports of your main office building under attack. Your company security seems to have been overwhelmed by a much larger force.

You’re family-wiki seems to have been cut off. And a Reptiloid with a rifle has just entered the café...

Suddenly, being 2.6 meters tall and green, with no stages of combatant, feels like a tactical error.

Clarifying question: what is the law enforcement type on this random city planet? Is combat in public spaces generally ignored, or will it attract the attentions of a policing force?

Answer: Unless it involves assault weapons, explosives, or an attack on government property/personnel, the police won't care.

Game Night 2020-07-29: The Great Escape

  • Hacked Reptiloid's Gun and knocked out with a punch.
    • Disarmed
  • Snuck past hopper outside
  • Geared up.
    • Hopper intercept at equipment store
    • Ramming Speed! Missed.
    • Security robot smashed hopper.
    • Driver negotiated damages while his gun gets hacked.
    • Gun fixed, combat resumes, driver beheaded with a punch.
    • Original Reptiloid exits smashed hopper and tries to flee.
      • Shot, and de-footed.
  • On way to spaceport, had to sneak past a couple of Trops
  • Trops follow to spaceport.
    • Schlager attacks, defeats one and convinces the other to stand down.
  • Vega-Lizard enters spaceport and seems to be looking.
    • Schlager recognizes the Lizard's toughness and flees aboard his ship.
  • Arrives at destination planet.
    • Sneaks past a Takolee.
    • Goes to a Cafe.
    • Hires Pablo - an Aggressor Trainer

Plot Infliction 001: Your death is inevitable

You've got about 15 minutes before Pablo gets there. Going to do anything, or just enjoy your hot cocoa blood?

Schläger is going to assume that he is still a target, and will first review an inventory of café denizens visible and assign them probabilities for being threats. Then he'll upgrade the security protocols on all his gear to his person standards, especially the blaster.

Regular locates are in order. He doesn't care if it makes him look paranoid; anyone with an iota of perception will see that on him anyway.

Game Night 2020-08-13: Master And Student

  • Attacked by opportunistic humans.
    • One is a mentalist.
    • Helped by Pablo
    • One killed, mentalist let go.
  • Spotted Takolee who was following him before.
    • Followed Takolee who met up with a Groten and two Zygroten.
    • Fleeeee...
    • Being followed
  • To a random bar.
    • Picked a fight with a Vega-Lizard.
    • Vega-Lizard ripped his throat out with his teeth.
    • Rescued by Pablo.

Plot Infliction 002: You Talk Funny

Pablo: "Interesting. I just got offered 1000 credits to kill you, or 200 to not defend you when that other crew gets here. You must have really pissed someone off."

I'm assuming that the probability of Pablo taking either offer is low, considering that he even mentioned it, but Schläger is going to run the numbers anyway. If it's higher than 10% probability, Schläger is going to ask directly to get better input.

Considering that a kilo-credit is an order of magnitude higher than the estimated cost of the local hit team hired to kill him, Schläger starts researching possible reasons for the jump in resources assigned. Did something change, or is it a simple escalation? Or is it a complicated escalation, based on injured pride?

Game Night 2020-08-13: Down down dooby do down down

  • Heading towards random bar.
    • Enemy combatants take transit to get there first.
    • Random fights along the way (training).
    • Spot Vega-Lizard at bar from original planet via cameras
      • Has non-standard blast rifle.
  • Heading towards different bar.
    • Vega-Lizard and goons following.
    • At different bar, scary Mavvice suggests going down a level or two.
  • Down to residential/mall level.
    • Vega-Lizard heading back to spaceport.
    • Goons heading down to mall.

Plot Infliction 003: Mall Rat

Yadda yadda yadda...

I forget: are the few cameras in the residential / mall level publicly accessible as well? Or does it require a hack? Or is a hack even possible?

To Pablo: "So, for the inevitable encounter with these bounty hunters, which makes more sense training-wise - you as a turret, or you as a separate backup combatant?" Using Pablo's reaction to augment Schläger's calculations of probability of success against the whole group simultaneously versus picking them them off one at a time.

The tentative plan is to find a section of the mall with decent cover, that we can get to with sufficient time to either PWN the cameras or at least ensure that there's no nasty surprises. Maybe find something to hack that could act as a booby trap or cover an escape.

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