The first adventure
Well...actually it was the second adventure with this party, but it was the first adventure with terror.
The situation was like this. There are new members in the party (new characters, not new players), so there should happen something to introduce them.
The goup was not present completely. There were only Wayne, Philipp, Rudolpho and Xiao-shi-Toù (I don't know where the first name ends) present.
Philipp and Xiao-shi-Toù know each other and decided to buy a car. They decided to take a hovercar with 2 small lasers (custom).
Outside the shop you see your wonderful new hovercar. The hidden lasers are retracted and the paint is newly polished.
Isn't it wonderful?
I drive.
Why can't I drive?
I'm the better driver. (to me:) I get into the car and start it.
Wait for me!
You two drive through the streets of Solaris, when suddenly another car ignores the traffic-lights and shoots out of the street to your right!
I try to evade him!
You manage to perform a T-Stop and your car stops less than a meter from the other car which also stopped.
You notice that you have caused a chaos around you.
We get out and talk to the driver.
O.K. Wait a minute.
Wayne, you are in a park and are doing...-
I'm camping. I have bought a few cans of beans, whisky, and a "Solaris Playboy"
So you're eating, drinking, and "reading" when you hear brakes and cars crashing into each other.
Cool. Car crash. I go there.
Rudolpho, you're wandering aimless through the streets. What is on your agenda for today?
I try to find a job.
You walk to the next public phone and call a (I read his character description) bodyguard agency???
Yup. Do they have a job for me?
Not so fast. After your first try you find yourself listening to the please-wait-music. It looks as if this may take a while.
Philipp, you and Xiao-etc. are talking to the driver. He is aware that he caused the accident and proposes to call the police.
Good idea. I go to the next public phone and call the police.
You see one down the street. When you get there you see that it is occupied by another guy.
I knock at the window and shout: "Please finish this call. I have to call the police!"
No.
(Pause)
No? I hammer at the window and scream: "GET OUT!"
Hey, there's no reason for this use of brute force. I get out and walk to the accident.
I call the police.
Wayne and Rudolpho, you two arrive at the accident. You see two men discussing. They seem to be the drivers who caused this mess.
One of the cars in the middle of the street seems to be very new while the other ones are quite old.
Hmmm... A new car... Is it locked?
You don't dare...!
Shut up, voice in my head. Is it locked?
Ummm... No...
Are the keys in there?
No!
Hmmm... Roll against "Mental" (Philipps roll fails). Yes, the keys are in the car.
(VERY big grin) Cooooool...
(out-time, Xiao-etc. tries to turn Philipp inside-out)
I start the car and accelerate.
I yell: "Thief! My car! Get him! Burn him!"
Car chase! I steal another car and follow him!
Brilliant! I do the same!
(Everybody looks at Xiao-etc. (I'll call him XST))
Oh no. I call the police.
Your fault. I drive down the road.
Bad luck. There's a road block at the end of the road.
I stop and turn. Then I accelerate again.
I stop my car and get out.
You're standing half-way between Wayne and the accident.
Good.
I make a Bootlegger (the 180-degrees-spin). Just for the effect.
I draw my... ummm... Auto-Pistol and fire at the accelerating car.
NO!!! MY CAR!!! Wait a minute. That thing is bullet-proof.
Cooooooool...
Oh-oh.
Wayne, you see the bullets bounce off the armor plates of your car.
MY car!
Whatever.
Then I draw... my Shredder!
What do you want with a Heavy Needler?
Testing if your airskirt is bullet-proof, too...
Oh-oh.
(Rudolpho hits the airskirt which explodes, letting the hovercar skid over the pavement)
(out-time, XST tries to strangle Rudolpho)
Wayne, you sit inside the car. The noise of the car skidding over the pavement is almost unbearable.
My poor car!
MY CAR! NOT YOUR CAR!
I push all of the buttons!
The lights come to life, the windshield wipers are activated and the laser pop up.
I try to find to "Fire" button.
In your drunken state, you can't find it.
Stupid car. I draw my Shotgun and blast the controls.
Doh!
Finally, the car stops. Everything wents dead silent.
I take some of the cops with me and open the door.
When he opens the door, I shoot out!
You're fighting a lost battle. There are to many cops and finally one throws a teargas grenade into the car.
I go down fighting!
SHUT UP!
XST, the driver of the car from the accident comes to you and just says: "I'm not going to pay that damage..."
And that concludes the first contact of the 1st Solaris Strikers...
Talking of absolute destruction:
The party got the assignment to raid a poorly defensed planet (Scnenario 2). They defeated the enemy Mechs without taking too much damage, then they went into the city (with their Mechs) to find a Locust which exited the battlefield. There weren't any people in the streets and Rudolpho found himself in the center of some exploding cars and so jumped out of danger. Then I sent one person with a rifle. This should show that the people will try everything to show their unwillingness to cooperation. However, this poor guy ran across the street and fired his rifle. Before Rudolpho could react, he ran into a building. Rudolpho got quite angry that someone fired something at him so he fired EVERYTHING into this inhabited building!
But I think "our" criminal way started when Rudolpho and Wayne robbed this weapons store on Solaris VII...
I will tell this partially like I have it in my mind, so tell me if I'm wrong. I used the colors shown above to mark direct speech. My color - the gamemaster - is normal black.
We want some weapons. Hey Wayne, you're coming, too?
Sure.
In the store:
I want something that can be hold in one hand. No rifles.
You've come to the right place, guys. How much do you want to "invest"?
Well...300 C-Bills?
300? That's not much. I thought that if you'd spend more...
Then what?
He holds up a blazer pistol (Yes I know that was VERY stupid).
What about this? But since you are too poor what about...
(Rudolpho talks to Wayne. Wayne tells him what damage a blazer pistol can do)
Thanks, we will think about it... (they exit the shop) Hey Wayne! Let's rob this place!
Great idea! Hey! (to me) We go to the supermarket and buy masks, trenchcoats and big sport bags. Then we visit this store again...
They enter the store (Rudolpho flips the shield in the window to "closed") and hold up their pumpguns. The owner jumps away, gets the blazer pistol and catches "some" shots from Waynes pumpgun. They get the blazer pistol and some Microgrenades when I let the police arrive. Wayne lets their traces disappear by throwing a grenade into the ammo depot which lets the house block "disappear", too. Meanwhile, our two criminals try to go through a small alley until they get to a wall. Wayne climbs over it, but Rudolpho isn't so lucky. Wayne wants to get a car to ram down the wall and has some VERY strange arguements...
Hey! Taxi!
A taxi stops and opens a door.
I need your help and I need it fast.
What's so important? There's been a huge explosion! Everybody wants to see it!
Oh. That. But I really...
Hey what's in the bag? Why are you wearing such strange clothes?
Oh. I'm...I'm...I'm a pole-vaulter.
The taxi driver gets suspicious and quickly drives away.
Damn. Hey! Taxi!
Here we go again... Another taxi stops.
I draw my gun, hold it into that taxi and say "Get out."
He gets out and starts to run away.
Damn. I shoot him in the back. No witnesses.
Damn. The driver dies.
Dies? From one shot?
Yes.
I get into the taxi and drive it into the alley to ram down the wall.
They got away because I didn't want to throw the two into jail for 20 years because I didn't want to create new characters during an adventure.
