Theme music in keeping with the
70s-trip space opera aesthetic.
Learning New Skills
Automatic 0-level
skills. Characters are assumed to have 0-level skill
(no modifier) in Vacc Suit, Air/Raft, ATV, Steward, a single gun
skill of their choice, and a single blade skill of their choice.
Experience.
After every session, any surviving character can opt to make a check
to acquire a 0-level skill. If there was none directly used in the
adventure roll 2d6, on a roll of 10+ (+1 if INT or EDU over 9+) the
character can pick any skill. The player can add +4 to the check if
rolling for a specific skill in an unranked skill that he/she used in
the adventure (actual success/failure is irrelevant). Example:
Mongo X decided to try and rewire the ship's console in the adventure
(for God knows what reason). He opts to try and take Elec-0 as a
skill and adds 4 to his dice roll.
Advanced Skills.
Skills from Books 4 and 5 can be learned at 0-level for a training
cost of 10,000 CR. This includes: Interrogation, Hunting, Survival,
Ship Tactics, Zero G combat, Demolition, Air Vehicle, Water Vehicle,
and Prospecting. Composite gun skills from Book 4 can be learned at
0-level for 50,000 CR such as Combat Rifleman, Pistols, Lasers
(includes blasters), and Zero-G. Composite melee weapons skills can
be taken at 30,000 CR: small blades, blunt weapons, long blades, and
polearms.
Cerebral Implants
and Neurostimulators. Learn a skill-1 of your choice for
100,000 CR. The procedure can only be used twice lest your brain
explode.
Nonstandard Weapons
Snub Pistol (as
per Book 4: Merc). CR 300. Can shoot fatal (3D) or stun rounds (20 CR
for a clip of 6). Usable in vaccum.
Web Grenade. CR
200. Produces a 10-foot diameter sticky web lasts for 1d6 hours at
the point of impact.
Setting Info
Bolo.
Your
employee-owned, "post-work" exploration coop. All large-scale "capital investments" (ie the ship, office and hangar) are owned collectively by the bolo.
Individual crew members get equal shares of the session's profits.
Known
Players. Beyond
your bolo, there are a number of local factions or individuals who
are interested in your findings beyond the Weird:
1. The Spacers Guild
2. Sekifran the Solicitor. Eccentric collector of
antiques and curios. High-powered big-shot trial lawyer who's
trademark signature is his striped ascots.
3. Three-Eyed Jac. Local underworld boss. Doesn't have a
third eye.
4. The Hermetic College of Nova Marlankh. Offworld
university interested in findings.
5. Outpost Nine Rada. The local planetary government.
6. Hydra Corp. A conglom, large family-owned industrial
“fiefdoms”, based off-world but with a branch “holdfort” in
Outpost Nine
Base
Rate for Exploration
Preliminary report 20,000
CR (planetary scan, observation of sentient life, preliminary survey
of other system bodies)
Surface survey 60,000 CR
(week of surface exploration, full UPP plus additional information)
Full survey 200,000 CR
(three weeks of surface, geological reports, etc.)
Local Cantonment Planets
Outpost Nine C446353-9
Non-Industrial
Your little windswept,
hard-times home.
Jump 2 Away:
Nova Marlankh B5658A8-B
G
Terra-formed world ruled
by the loving yet firm hand of the Indomitable Overlord.
Kugelworld C546525-9
Non-Industrial G
Little peaceful backwater
planet founded by pioneers-bolos during the Autonome Upheaval.
Vesworld D450213-4 (B)
Non-Industrial G
Desert world wholly owned
by the Vesworld Corp, an entertainment conglom that has recreated an
“Old West sim” planet complete with life sentence
prisoner-actors.
bolo? As in bolo'bolo by P.M.? Do they speak Asa'pili?
ReplyDeleteYep the one and the same.
DeleteGood to see you again in these parts. People ask me about you and HSE all the time.
Awesome that you are referencing bolo'bolo. Will you be adding funky glyphs to the Space Cantons too? :)
DeleteSorry, but every time I see "bolo" in a science-fiction context, I think about one of these.
ReplyDeleteYES - I love The Sword! The whole Warp Riders album is amazing science-fantasy inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI've been digging the first few albums of Pink Floyd of late. One of my favorite space tunes vibed songs there-in is Astronomy Domine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-2lg5fpQ4
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