Lizard and Lunk

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

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

A Short Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...

31 August 2006

After the fanfare faded,
we were finally gaming again
in a universe that some of us know
as well or better than our own- the Star
Wars galaxy. Yes, after years of neglect, we
were returning to WEG's Star Wars RPG, one of
the most fun and playable games I've ever had the
pleasure of either playing or running. At last, we would
once again have the fun of blasting our way through hordes
of Stormtroopers while Wookiees roared and lightsabers thrummed.

OK. Sorry; I couldn't resist.

We started a new party for this campaign, since the old one was fairly unbalanced, with some characters having much more experience than others. This had led to some of our players feeling overshadowed, which was probably while we hadn't played Star Wars in so long. Our new party is a weird mix, with two minor Jedi, a crooked doctor, a thief, a Sullustan trader, and a bounty hunter (if the words "Jedi" and "Sullustan" are not meaningful parts of your vocabulary, this may not be the blog for you). If not for the fact that all of our characters want to join the Rebel Alliance and fight the Empire, we would probably not spend two seconds together. Oh, well.

Things started, as they often do, in a small cantina. Our Rebel recruiter contact was running late, and when a young Rodian (if "Rodian" doesn't mean much either, this is definitely the wrong blog for you) burst into the cantina, all heads turned to see what was going on. He made a clumsy drop pass to Bill's bounty hunter, who played it cool and didn't look in the bag. Inside were a bunch of comlinks, one of which was marked for emergency use, but their contents went unrevealed for a while longer.

About this time, a group of Stormtroopers moved into the cantina, announced their intentions to arrest the lot of us for treason, and the nearly inevitable firefight began. From all corners of the room, we opened up on the Stormtroopers, catching them in an impressive crossfire that looked good enough to have been planned that way. With blaster bolts flying everywhere, and more Stormtroopers piling in through the door, most of us decided that it was time to beat feet, although Michael's Sullustan chose this time to check his comlink messages (there were many "Can you hear me now?" - type jokes, as we all envisioned Michael's guy huddled down under the table trying to hear, with blaster bolts flying all around him; the message was to get out of the cantina before the troopers arrived).

Eventually, we all retreated out of the cantina, through holes cut in the wall (lightsabers are great for that) or through the back door. Now we're on the run, in a strange city, with only a Rodian boy for a guide. I'd say we're off to a good start!






3 Comments:

Blogger B said...

Offhand, I wouldn't know what a Rodian is, so I guess this is not the blog for me. Heck, I reached the age of 30 before realizing that "Wookiee" ends with a double "e".

Apparently Brucifer hasn't realized that yet at all. :-P

6:07 PM  
Blogger Brucifer said...

Greedo in Episode IV is a Rodian. Lando Calrissian's co-pilot in Episode VI is a Sullustan.

You're right on the Wookiee thing, though. I've seen that word a million times and never noticed. Go figure.

7:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

More! More! Besides, we can now brag about the nerdiness of gaming from THREE separate remote sites...

1:35 PM  

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