Lizard and Lunk

The continuing GURPS adventures of eight men who really should find better uses for their time.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

"Heave to and prepare to be- (zap, zap, zap)- Retreat!"

14 September 2006-

Having joined the Rebellion at last, our heroes spent a few quiet weeks (followed by a few very hectic hours) at Yavin IV before shipping out to Fakir sector to actually get a chance to take on the Empire. The first mission we drew was to establish contact with a primitive, backwater planet populated by savage, feudal-level lizardmen, in the hopes that they would allow the Rebellion to trade with them for food, basing rights, and other sundries.

On our way to their planet, we were jumped by a small pirate vessel claiming to be Rebel privateers, who we decided to let board rather than have them ventilate our ship to vacuum. When they proved to be pirates rather than fellow Rebels, though, we (meaning primarily eBill's bounty hunter and Kevin's tough native, but with an assist or two from Brian's doctor) proceded to blast the snot out of them. Within a couple of minutes, we boarded their ship, captured their remaining crew, and yes- seized the treasure chests (literally) from their hold. We're thinking that these might have been taken from the lizards' planet, and so might make a nice opening gift in our negotiations- along with the surviving pirates that took it from them in the first place, of course. After all, we're sure that the lizards' prisons are Geneva Convention compliant.

And if that doesn't work out, maybe we can handle the problem "old school," and make the pirates walk the plank. They can just hold their breaths through re-entry.

2 Comments:

Blogger B said...

One reason why I make Bruce write the Star Wars posts is that I have no memory for the names of the places we go or the people we meet -- Yavin IV, Fakir, et-nerdly-cetera.

The other is my pronounced sloth.

But today, we'll focus on the name thing.

6:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Works for me. This week, I've been getting updated in emails by Mike, since I wasn't there anyway.

Now SOMEBODY WRITE SOMETHING!

7:07 PM  

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