Since I'm probably gonna be using him more than Ijin during the hand off to the Knives, I've made a character sheet for Jor'eth.

Jor'eth Arthrollas [+]

Character Sheet [+]

Jor'eth Arthrollas, the Speaker

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Alias: Jor'eth Arthrollas
Alternate Alias: Joe
Look:
Looks like this.

Heritage: Xeno
Background: Syndicate
Vice: Weird

Class XP Trigger: Address challenges with deception or influence.

Starting Ability: Xeno

Xeno Abilities: Di'mun [+]

0 stress: Use Command in place of Attune. Clear 1 stress by committing an act of betrayal or remaining within the presence of someone feeling misery for a prolonged period of time. Flight.

1 stress: Use Command in place of Scrap. Physically enter or leave the Way. (These abilities might cost 0 stress if their use aids in the fulfillment of a contract.) Create mystically binding contracts.

2 stress: Use Command in place of any other action. Allow a vehicle you are riding in to physically enter or leave the Way. Extract souls from living humans, xenos, Urbots, or anything else that has souls. (These abilities might cost 1 stress if their use aids in the fulfillment of a contract.)

Optional Rule: When you break a contract, actively choose to remain on a holy site or in the presence of a holy symbol, refuse a command from someone who knows your true name, or perform an act of kindness with no ulterior motive, take level 2 or level 3 harm (based on how badly you have broken the contract, how long you have chosen to remain on the site or near the symbol, how completely you have defied the command of the name knower, or how out of your way you have gone to be nice for no reason) called “Di'munic Weakness” and add a gambit to your crew’s gambit pool. This harm can only be removed by devouring a soul that has been extracted as part of an unbroken contract.

Special Abilities:

• Old Friends - Whenever you land in a new location, write down a friend you know there (under Influential Friends on your playbook sheet).

Insight [1]

Doctor
Hack
Rig
Study

Prowess [0]

Helm
Scramble
Scrap
Skulk

Resolve [3]

Attune
Command > > >
Consort > >
Sway > >

Trauma: 0/4
- N/A

Influential Friends:
Otto - [Friend] - a mysterious black marketeer and smuggler - Jor'eth visits him when laying low to dine and plot and play the biskit game with him.
Arryn - [Rival] - a Noble - Jor'eth betrayed them to a rival house to obtain the Cerberus.
Manda - a Counters Guild member - and Jor'eth's accountant.
Kerry - a doctor - Jor'eth owns her soul.
Je-zee - a diplomat - Jor'eth owns his soul.

Bio: No one completely knows the true story of Jor'eth's life in the Way for certain. He changes it with each retelling. The only thing that can be extrapolated being that he is fairly young by the standards of his species. Older Di'muns prefer to live mainly in the Way, content to wait for some particularly powerful mystic to summon them in hopes of striking some dread bargain. Details regarding his life out of the Way is much easier to come by though. Jor'eth Arthrollas first emerged from the Way approximately 27 years ago. Conspiring with an intergalactic man of mystery known as Otto, Jor'eth established himself as a free agent among the Syndicates of the Procyon underworld. His most recent enterprise is an off-licence bounty hunting service run out of the Cerberus, a ship he acquired after selling out a minor noble Jor'eth had worked with in the past.

Status Block [+]

Stress: [---------]
Harm:

Level 3:

Level 2:

Level 1:

Cred: 3/4
Stash: 5/40
Armor:
- Normal [X]
Load: Light (3/3)

• Fine clothes (1)
• Legitimate ID (0)
• Luxury item (2)
• Illicit drugs (0)
• Communicator (0)
• Restraints (0)
• Knockout drugs (0)
• Tiny tracers (0)

Whoa, let's back up a bit. I'm fine if y'all want to establish other characters as members of the crew that y'all can take over if your character is lost for whatever reason, but let's keep it to one active/statted character per person.

Does that mean we will only be able to switch between different characters when the active one becomes lost?

Does that mean we will only be able to switch between different characters when the active one becomes lost?

I'm going to say yes--at the very least, I'd strongly prefer it to be a major thing when people change characters, rather than switching them out per mission or to suit the situation.

May I inquire as to the reasoning behind this strong preference?

May I inquire as to the reasoning behind this strong preference?

A few reasons. First, it's just the convention in tabletop gaming, and what I'm used to--one person at the table, one character. Second, I'd prefer this to be a "small group" game; if everyone is allowed to have two or more active characters, that shoots us past the five-character limit I mentioned when we started. Third, for your character in particular, part of the reason I was comfortable okaying the Xeno ability was because of the balance of him not being able to do anything not directly related to sniping. The abilities are very powerful, but the conflict of him needing to rely on his teammates for everything else--or choose to break his own moral code and suffer the consequences--is interesting. But if you can just switch out to a different character then that's suddenly much less of a drawback--maybe not strictly from a character perspective, but definitely from a player perspective.

Alright. I see the logic. I'll stick with Ijin.

That's mission 1 complete! Next up is downtime; rules for downtime activities are on p184, and each character gets two per downtime. Once you think of which activities you want to do, let me know and we can figure out what parts of that will get played out.

I think im going to train (I'd like to get leaf on the wind) id also like to talk to the ur-bot we took from Cho with a view towards maybe doing something crafting related.

I think im going to train (I'd like to get leaf on the wind) id also like to talk to the ur-bot we took from Cho with a view towards maybe doing something crafting related.

So the training XP will go into your class track, correct? What kind of thing do you have in mind for the crafting?

Also, thank you for bringing up training, because I totally forgot about XP.



I'm happy to hear arguments about any of the above--and anyway, the rules say the final judgment call is with the players on this one.

You'll also need to figure out how you're dividing up the CRED from that last mission; I'll note that you have enough to split it evenly between yourselves and the crew stash.

Id like to try and create a parallel AI core in my ur bot so I can save the mind of of Cho's ur bot. That is why I wanted to talk to it first.

Id like to try and create a parallel AI core in my ur bot so I can save the mind of of Cho's ur bot. That is why I wanted to talk to it first.

Well, it looks like the sourcebook actually has rules for more or less this--page 288. Removing the AI core from an Ur-bot requires an Attune roll if you want it to keep its memories and personality, and then a Rig clock to install the core in a new body.

But the other thing I'll say--and we can play this out if you like--is that the Ur-bot you found with Cho is not going to agree to let you transplant its brain into another body for, well, various reasons, unless you hit it with something compelling.

@ctrlsaltdel Well my pitch is I want to save it from the brain wipe Joreth and the Guild of Engineers have planed

Ijin shall take 2 of the 5 CRED earned from this job. For downtime, he'll be laying low and working on his long-term project of hunting down Fimurdag. He'll also be getting in touch with Shod to buy a silencer for Finbl.

That's mission 1 complete! Next up is downtime; rules for downtime activities are on p184, and each character gets two per downtime. Once you think of which activities you want to do, let me know and we can figure out what parts of that will get played out.

Quintus wants to learn how to pilot in case Molly is too plastered, and he has the small inkling of becoming a ship captain. So I am training him in Helm, and he is learning via holovids.

He's also stressed so I am indulging in his Vice. Hopefully I am rolling for it correctly, rolling 1d6 for insight since it's his lowest attribute. I got 6

@POOHEAD189 'too plastered' is not a term Molly recognises.

@POOHEAD189 'too plastered' is not a term Molly recognises.

Hence Quintus learning!

Quintus: Molly are you drunk?
Molly: Don't worry I did a line of cocaine to sober up
Quintus: Got to put in some more time in the sim...

@ctrlsaltdel Well my pitch is I want to save it from the brain wipe Joreth and the Guild of Engineers have planed

Well, that's a good pitch. Hm--on the one hand RAW this doesn't really work, but on the other hand I think it sounds fun and interesting. How's this sound:

Using the rules for crafting ur-bots, it's going to be an Attune roll (Desperate, Standard) to successfully extract the Ur-bot's personality and memories intact. Assuming that goes well, I'll start an 4-segment clock. It'll tick after each mission; when it fills, your bot's core will reset, wiping both personalities. But--you'll be able to do a long-term project during downtime to roll to reduce the clock, and somewhere down the line you might find a way to resolve the situation permanently.

Assuming you do want to go ahead with that, I do have an important question. Presumably Molly is hiding this from Joreth--is she hiding it from the rest of the crew as well?

Ijin shall take 2 of the 5 CRED earned from this job. For downtime, he'll be laying low and working on his long-term project of hunting down Fimurdag. He'll also be getting in touch with Shod to buy a silencer for Finbl.

Assuming no one else objects, I have no issue with the CRED.

I suppose I should start a clock for Fimurdag; I'm inclined to make it 10 steps to keep things appropriately tense, since you could theoretically get 5 steps on a single roll. How exactly are you pursing the project? That determines what you need to roll.

Do you want to do the silencer as an "Acquire Assets" or a long-term project? Main difference is that the former is quick but temporary, while the latter takes longer but is potentially permanent.

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Quintus wants to learn how to pilot in case Molly is too plastered, and he has the small inkling of becoming a ship captain. So I am training him in Helm, and he is learning via holovids.

He's also stressed so I am indulging in his Vice. Hopefully I am rolling for it correctly, rolling 1d6 for insight since it's his lowest attribute. I got 6

Nice, mark 2 additional XP in Prowess track.

You did roll correctly, which is unfortunately because you marked only 3 stress, which means that on a 6 you Overindulge and have to choose one of the consequences below.

- Rash Action. Reduce your STASH by 4 or if you can’t (or won’t), the crew takes 2 debt.
- Big Talk. Brag about your exploits. The crew gains +2 HEAT in the current system.
- Lost. Your character vanishes for a few weeks. Play a different character until this one returns from their bender. When your character returns, they’ve also healed any harm they had.

For the Fimurdag project, Ijin will be rejoining the Gweldite hunting party for a time. With them, he'll do various sniping-related tasks as favors for various contacts in exchange for information on Fimurdag's last known location.

All in all, that would be three dice from Scrap and up to seven dice from involving the following contacts:

Stacey Weathers (Has the hottest leads.)
Hegsgud (Part of the hunting party.)
Jezri (He really does have the hookup.)
Finbl (Seeing plenty of use during sniping favors for information.)
Fimurdag (He's the one being hunted.)
Miimiin (Part of the hunting party.)
Ijin (Part of the hunting party.)

As for the silencer, I'll go ahead and make that a project as well. In between sniping favors, Ijin will find time to flick through various firearm catalogues and go shopping with his parents for a silencer among his contacts.

All in all, that would be two dice from Study and up to seven dice from involving the following contacts:

Arlox (They'd probably have some good recommendations.)
Ishi (Can't go wrong with asking a weapons dealer about weapon accessories.)
Jezri (He really does have the hookup.)
Finbl (This is what the silencer is for.)
Miimiin (An assassin would know a thing or two about finding good silencers.)
Ijin (An older, more experienced sniper would know a thing or two about finding good silencers.)
Shod (Can't go wrong with asking a weapons dealer about weapon accessories.)

@ctrlsaltdel Is there anything I can do to increase my attune roll (take stress ect). I dont like my chances with zero points in attune.