Shadows in the Light (OOC)

By Ryoden, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

You once heard it said "You can find anything you need on Couruscant, and find anything you want on Nar Shadda. The price changes, depending on location". The smugglers moon has always been a center of commerce. As the eons progressed that commerce shifted to the blacker sides of the market. The Hutts who controlled the moon never seemed to care about the morality of the business' only the profits. The empire came to power. A shining light of order and law, cleansing the chaos from the galaxy.

They tried shining that light into the gloom of Nar Shadda four years ago. You were there. You stood on the street looking up at the darkened sky. Just barely visible beyond the haze you saw the lines of turbolaser beams and the flashes from concussion missiles. The empire came to destroy the entire city moon. Burn the scum from the face of the galaxy. The scum responded. You knew some of the crews up there. The ones who fought to defend their home, their investment, their future. Seems like they won, despite the losses. After all, here you are, standing on Nar Shadda. The place is still as gloomy as ever, literally and figuratively.

Over the intervening years you've kept track of whats been going on with the wrecks from that battle. In typical order the empire came sweeping in after their "defeat". They must have made some sort of deal with the Hutts because before any locally based salvage crews could move in the whole battlefield was tractored out on to one of the smaller moons of Kiskua. Right next to where the local Imperial Task Force maintains its orbit. The official reason was to keep any "imperial technology" out of the hands of the civilian populous. Who knows that may even be the real reason. You've looked at the long range scans and, near as you can tell, all the obvious imperial wrecks have already been cleaned up, but none of the rest have. Seems a bunch of rusting smugglers vessels don’t look all that interesting to the deep pockets of the empire.

You know there is something worth your time out in that morass of twisted metal and irradiated scrap. And as luck would have it, some major dust up out in the Abrion sector has the empire hopping. The star destroyer and her escort ships all jumped out of the Y'Tub system less than an hour ago.

There are some others who you've talked to, brainstormed with them on how to access the wrecks. Seems they had the same idea, cause you're now meeting with them to figure out the details and go out there and get what you want.

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Our cast:

  • Ahrimon - Khaine - Bounty Hunter(Gadgeteer) - Combat/Mechanic
  • Mattimeo84 - Tox - Nictu Bounty Hunter Martial Artist - Combat focus
  • Imperial Stormtrooper - S'zish - Gand Explorer_Big-Game Hunter - Exploration/Combat
  • Darzil - Mrash Trandoshan Ace Pilot
  • TheShard - Black Worm - Selonian Guardian Warden
  • Weedles and Fries - Neelig - Ithorian Hired Gun Enforcer - Combat focus with some intimidation available
  • crookedcrown - Brin - Bothan Smuggler Thief
  • Hinklemar - Fzaexx (silent F, pronounced zakes), Falleen - Colonist Entrepreneur
Edited by Ryoden

Mud Pond Salvage documents

Stuff we've bought:
ECM-598 Medical Backpack (Casea)
Mechanical Dianoga (Khaine)(YT)
Slicer Gear
Canteen x6 (Tox)
Entrenching Tool x5 (1x Tox)
Emergency Repair Patch x4 (2x Khaine)
Fusion Lantern x6 (Tox)
Surveyor's Bag (Tox)
Field Rations x11 (2x Khaine)
Military Medpac
Repulsor Clamp

Zygerrian Gear
Neuronic Whip: (6) Rarity 6 - 750 cr (LoNH 104)
Padded Armor: (6) R1 - 500 cr (CRB) (1x Khaine)
SWE/2 Sonic Rifle: (1) R6 - 1,200 cr (FH 40)
Holdout Blaster: (1) R4 - 200cr (CRB)
Military Holdout Blaster Pistol (1) R5 - 500cr (DA 44) (1x Khaine)
Stun Grenade: (4) R4 - 75cr (CRB) (2x S'zish)

Extra Gear
Light Blaster Pistol

2500 in credit chips collected from the patrons and about 2000 in pieces of jewelry.
Lock-box from the desk. It jingles with credits but as the name implies it is locked.

Difficulty Chart
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Dice reference chart
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Edited by Ahrimon

If you want to do something from a third party source you need to run it by me first.

In case it was not clear in the intro. My thought for this campaign is that the group does not start off with their own ship. They are going out to try and get one.

Depending on what characters I get I will use some variation of the homestead rules from Far Horizons.

May I join this PbP? I had an idea for an Ithorian Enforcer named Neelig Caab.

Edited by Weedles and Fries

Sure @Weedles and Fries there is still room. Send me a completed character sheet in a pm and we can hash out the details for your character.

So far I have three players specifically interested in this story

@Weedles and Fries , @Ahrimon and @Hinklemar

I've also gotten interest from @Imperial Stormtrooper and @TheShard but no commitment to this story yet.

I am going to start once I have four players but will take up to six. Claim your spot now!

Edited by Ryoden

I'm comfortable crafting a character around any role, but my top ideas right now are a Human Hired Gun/Heavy on a hutt hit squad, Duros Explorer/Driver stranded on planet, Bothan Bounty Hunter/Skip Tracer independent private eye.

4 minutes ago, Hinklemar said:

I'm comfortable crafting a character around any role, but my top ideas right now are a Human Hired Gun/Heavy on a hutt hit squad, Duros Explorer/Driver stranded on planet, Bothan Bounty Hunter/Skip Tracer independent private eye.

Any of those would probably work just fine. Only Weedles has selected a character. That being an Ithorian Hired Gun / Enforcer.

Edited by Ryoden

Is there still room?

Yes there is

Just now, Mattimeo84 said:

Is there still room?

Awesome, I'd like to use my female Kadas'sa'Nikto named K'wad'randroom Tox. She prefers being called Tox. She is a Martial Artist who has had to make it on her own. She is looking to get off planet and try to find her mentor. She is looking for anything that she can sell to help her get a ship or a crew she can ride with.

I can send you her .xml file.

Edited by Mattimeo84

Since the other game died im going to suggest playing a younger Shard.

So here is the charecter sheet, if your doing eote onky careers it'l be as a outlaw tech instead of scientist.

http://swsheets.com/c/sx4njkumw-zyi--the-shard-

I'll fix skills this weekend, as it'll be a outlaw tech rather than scientist.

He escaped from a hutt's enslavement into the depths of the smuggler moon's bottom levels.

He works pick up hours at Shug Nix's space barn.

He's Omwati

16 minutes ago, Mattimeo84 said:

Awesome, I'd like to use my female Kadas'sa'Nikto named K'wad'randroom Tox. She prefers being called Tox. She is a Martial Artist who has had to make it on her own. She is looking to get off planet and try to find her mentor. She is looking for anything that she can sell to help her get a ship or a crew she can ride with.

I can send you her .xml file.

Sounds like a good character concept. Send me the sheet or just a breakdown of how you spent your starting XP. The website swsheets.com seems to also work.

19 minutes ago, TheShard said:

He escaped from a hutt's enslavement into the depths of the smuggler moon's bottom levels.

He works pick up hours at Shug Nix's space barn.

He's Omwati

Remind me what an Omwati is? (I just googled it)

So since you want to play a race that hasn't been released in an official source you are just using the racial characteristics of a Chiss. Is that right?

Edited by Ryoden

I now have character concepts from 5 of you.

Ithorian Hired Gun Enforcer

Human Bounty Hunter Gadgeteer

Omwati Technician Outlaw Tech

Nictu Bounty Hunter Martial Artist

Our fifth player, @Hinklemar gave me several but wanted to know the party composition before he chose one of his options.

Seeing as we are about to have 5 players and possibly a 6th let it be clear that starting obligation is set at 10. if you really feel the need to buy more obligation than that go for it. You can even buy more than 10 but it will be triggering throughout the story and your strain threshold will be effected if you trigger.

No chiss was randomly chosen before I knew you could type in the species on swsheets.com

I used 100xp 123222 free rank of computers or mechanical, and a bonus die to visual based perception checks

Omwat was used to "recruit" and "develop" engineers for. Tarkin's super weapon program. Omwati children were used as fodder in the program. They had technological and musical adept minds. They had feather like hair, blue skin and large eyes... Slight of build.

25 minutes ago, TheShard said:

No chiss was randomly chosen before I knew you could type in the species on swsheets.com

I used 100xp 123222 free rank of computers or mechanical, and a bonus die to visual based perception checks

Omwat was used to "recruit" and "develop" engineers for. Tarkin's super weapon program. Omwati children were used as fodder in the program. They had technological and musical adept minds. They had feather like hair, blue skin and large eyes... Slight of build.

I am fine if you re-skin an official race but I don't want you to make the stats for one up. If you could find one that you think fits, that would work best.

Edited by Ryoden

I'm still interested, I should be able to send you something soon, I was distracted by the Last Jedi panel stream.

Then that's six and I am closing recruitment.

Here is Khaine Soldarian, Human Bounty Hunter and Gadgeteer. Obsessed with technology Khaine became a bounty hunter in order to get access to technology and to have the freedom to play with some of the more fun toys. Unfortunately someone sabotaged his last job and Khaine barely got away with the clothes on his back. Now Khaine is staying one step ahead of the guild who wants the advance they gave him back.

http://swsheets.com/c/p4eqlzxtp-khaine-soldaria

Ok folks, I have a busy holiday weekend ahead of me so I don't expect to be able to start posting in full for this until Monday.

Since you wont be starting off with a ship I am going to have you all start off with a Homestead or Business as detailed out in the Far Horizons book. I can come up with something if you need me to, but it is supposed to be a part of your characters. So by all means start talking.

I know that a Homestead is sort of weird for Nar Shadda but you could easily translate that over to a specific neighborhood or something like that.

Some ground rules: I am going to be keeping track of your characters in my local copy of Oggdudes program. So make sure you post to me whenever you buy something or use XP.

I would like as much out of character discussion to take place in this thread. Questions about the scene should be here but actions and dialog will be in the forthcoming IC thread.

Try and post in this thread more than not. The PM system work well on this site but keeping track of everything will be easier on one thread.