Session 1 - Season 0.
We begin in media res, with Van Loan holding onto the outside of his Cavorite sphere, headed for the stratosphere and "500 turbomiles due up." Can he get into the sphere? (flubbed DX check) Alas, no. Invocation of the Serendipity advantage brings a rescuer: Diana Eccles (not yet a Senshi, not yet a Sammie because they don't exist yet, not yet in command of the http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Surprise]Surprise because that ship hasn't been built yet). Diana takes him aboard her car and takes his ship in tow to the Silver Millennium base in the Sea of Serenity.
Our intrepid here discovers he's gained an accidental biomod, assuming the blue skin is anything to go by. He rather quickly comes to terms with that fact when Ms. Eccles shows him a photo of http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... mus_Riddle]somebody who got it worse. He decides he isn't going back to Earth.
Landing at the Silver Millennium base, he meets a few people, including the two who have ended up de facto leaders of the community: http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Serenity_I]Tanith Curtis and Beverly Hayakawa. They find him a closet-with-a-bed-and-TV to sleep in - "one of the larger rooms" - and something other than his jumpsuit to wear. He discovers he looks good in a tuxedo, top-hat, cape, and domino mask, even if it is a half-size too big. They also give him a new SIMM card for his phone. ("You can use the old one, but the roaming charges ...")
Once he's settled in (read: he copies down the address of his new apartment), he and Beverly go shopping. He's looking for some jeweler's tools and supplies, some fabric, and a sewing machine. She's looking for food for the colony/town for the next week. Bev flubs an Area Knowledge roll and thinks they can get all of that at http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Greenwood]Greenwood. While Bev goes grocery shopping, the man who has decided to call himself "Dr. Drakken" discovers there's no jewelry-materials supplier on Greenwood. Hephaestus has an office there, but they're blacksmiths, not silversmiths. He visits anyway, thinking of getting some hydroponics vats made for the Silver Millennium, and is not impressed by the chair-warmer behind the desk at that office. Drakken does find http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... _Executive]Ayanami & Abriel Fashion Executive, and convinces them to sell him a sewing machine, bolts of many different types of cloth, and some leather and other clothing materials.
Next stop is http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Stellvia]Stellvia. The trip is delayed because the Stellvia Annex is carrying out "weapons testing" in their path. (Nobody thinks to ask what sort of weapons. Neither is impressed by the "lack of fun" exhibited by weapons testing.) After docking, Drakken meets Yoriko, Sora, Kohran, and Noah (in that order). Drakken lets slip his birth name and Noah reveals something that isn't in the Fenwiki yet; as a result, Noah extends Drakken a line of credit (to the amazement of Yoriko and Kohran) and sells him some jeweler's tools, precious metals, and gems (the tools Kohran's old precision gear, the rest asteroid-mined) to be delivered in a week. Sora packs the two of them a box lunch for their trip to their next stop.
En route, Drakken makes a Weird Science roll and designs hydroponics tanks that are more efficient than the ones in use on Earth. (Bev's driving.) They discuss magical girls and the possibility of broadening the definition to include action-girls.
Third stop is http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Hephaestus]Hephaestus, where Drakken hits it off with WireGeek and Hermes, and plays fetch with one of http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=The_Boys]The Boys. Hermes quotes a price for the manufacture of the hydroponics tanks. Bev calls Tanith to ask for permission to spend that much of the Silver Millennium's money at once - they're living week-to-week. Tanith convinces Bev that they can't afford to buy the gear right now. Drakken convinces Bev that they can't afford to not buy the gear right now.
End session on a dilemma...
New Background Data for Fenspace:
Crystal Millennium Prime Minister Hayakawa now has a name and a bit of a back-story. Beverly Hayakawa is ethnically Japanese but culturally American; she grew up in San Francisco and does not speak Japanese. She knows enough about what's going on in Fenspace to know who to talk to - usually. Her close friends call her Bev. What anime she's seen has been broadcast on TV.
The "desperately-needed essential equipment" that Yayoi bought for the Senshi (which got her named Sailor Stellvia) is the hydroponics tanks that Drakken designed and Hephaestus is about to build.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
We begin in media res, with Van Loan holding onto the outside of his Cavorite sphere, headed for the stratosphere and "500 turbomiles due up." Can he get into the sphere? (flubbed DX check) Alas, no. Invocation of the Serendipity advantage brings a rescuer: Diana Eccles (not yet a Senshi, not yet a Sammie because they don't exist yet, not yet in command of the http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Surprise]Surprise because that ship hasn't been built yet). Diana takes him aboard her car and takes his ship in tow to the Silver Millennium base in the Sea of Serenity.
Our intrepid here discovers he's gained an accidental biomod, assuming the blue skin is anything to go by. He rather quickly comes to terms with that fact when Ms. Eccles shows him a photo of http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... mus_Riddle]somebody who got it worse. He decides he isn't going back to Earth.
Landing at the Silver Millennium base, he meets a few people, including the two who have ended up de facto leaders of the community: http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Serenity_I]Tanith Curtis and Beverly Hayakawa. They find him a closet-with-a-bed-and-TV to sleep in - "one of the larger rooms" - and something other than his jumpsuit to wear. He discovers he looks good in a tuxedo, top-hat, cape, and domino mask, even if it is a half-size too big. They also give him a new SIMM card for his phone. ("You can use the old one, but the roaming charges ...")
Once he's settled in (read: he copies down the address of his new apartment), he and Beverly go shopping. He's looking for some jeweler's tools and supplies, some fabric, and a sewing machine. She's looking for food for the colony/town for the next week. Bev flubs an Area Knowledge roll and thinks they can get all of that at http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Greenwood]Greenwood. While Bev goes grocery shopping, the man who has decided to call himself "Dr. Drakken" discovers there's no jewelry-materials supplier on Greenwood. Hephaestus has an office there, but they're blacksmiths, not silversmiths. He visits anyway, thinking of getting some hydroponics vats made for the Silver Millennium, and is not impressed by the chair-warmer behind the desk at that office. Drakken does find http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... _Executive]Ayanami & Abriel Fashion Executive, and convinces them to sell him a sewing machine, bolts of many different types of cloth, and some leather and other clothing materials.
Next stop is http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Stellvia]Stellvia. The trip is delayed because the Stellvia Annex is carrying out "weapons testing" in their path. (Nobody thinks to ask what sort of weapons. Neither is impressed by the "lack of fun" exhibited by weapons testing.) After docking, Drakken meets Yoriko, Sora, Kohran, and Noah (in that order). Drakken lets slip his birth name and Noah reveals something that isn't in the Fenwiki yet; as a result, Noah extends Drakken a line of credit (to the amazement of Yoriko and Kohran) and sells him some jeweler's tools, precious metals, and gems (the tools Kohran's old precision gear, the rest asteroid-mined) to be delivered in a week. Sora packs the two of them a box lunch for their trip to their next stop.
En route, Drakken makes a Weird Science roll and designs hydroponics tanks that are more efficient than the ones in use on Earth. (Bev's driving.) They discuss magical girls and the possibility of broadening the definition to include action-girls.
Third stop is http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Hephaestus]Hephaestus, where Drakken hits it off with WireGeek and Hermes, and plays fetch with one of http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=The_Boys]The Boys. Hermes quotes a price for the manufacture of the hydroponics tanks. Bev calls Tanith to ask for permission to spend that much of the Silver Millennium's money at once - they're living week-to-week. Tanith convinces Bev that they can't afford to buy the gear right now. Drakken convinces Bev that they can't afford to not buy the gear right now.
End session on a dilemma...
New Background Data for Fenspace:
Crystal Millennium Prime Minister Hayakawa now has a name and a bit of a back-story. Beverly Hayakawa is ethnically Japanese but culturally American; she grew up in San Francisco and does not speak Japanese. She knows enough about what's going on in Fenspace to know who to talk to - usually. Her close friends call her Bev. What anime she's seen has been broadcast on TV.
The "desperately-needed essential equipment" that Yayoi bought for the Senshi (which got her named Sailor Stellvia) is the hydroponics tanks that Drakken designed and Hephaestus is about to build.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012