SAVE THE COSMOS, GET THE GIRL, BE A ROBOT WITH A SUPERIORITY COMPLEX DISCOVER STRANGE NEW LIFE AND MEET OR EAT IT. WELCOME TO: GALACTIC FLEET!
Okay, since the John is Possessed game didn’t end up gaining traction, let’s do a game of Laser’s and Feelings. It’s a one-page space rpg by John Harper. We’ll keep it fast and loose, and base this one the tone of Galaxy Quest/Star Trek/The Orville etc.
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Choose a Style for Your Character: Alien, Android, Dangerous, Heroic, Hot Shot, Intrepid or Savy.
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Choose a Role for Your Character: Doctor, Envoy, Explorer, Engineer, Pilot, Scientist, or Soldier.
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Choose Your Number, from 2 to 5: A high number means you’re better at LASERS (Technology; Science; Cold rationality; calm, precise action). A low number means you’re better at FEELINGS (Intuition; Diplomacy; Seduction; wild, passionate action).
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Give Your Character a Cool Space Name Like Dirk Fark-hopper or Something:
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In Your Inventory: You have consortium uniform (with built-in vac-suit for space walks) a SUPER-SWEET-space-phone-communicator-thing (with built in translator), a variable-beam phase pistol (set to stun, of course…usually).
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Pick a character Goal: Become Captain, Meet New Aliens, Shoot Bad Guys, Find New Worlds, Solve Weird Space Mysteries, Prove Yourself, or Keep Being Awesome.
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You have a ship: The Technicolor Nebulae, it’s Well-Armed, with a Cloaking Device, only it has Horrible Circuit-Breakers.
STORY:
ALIEN BRAIN WORMS WANT TO EMPOWER THEIR GIANT DEATH RAY WHICH WILL DESTROY AN ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM!!!
I’m a Dangerous Soldier skilled with Lasers, name’s Jank McPlasma, I’m here to Solve Weird Space Mysteries and chew quantuum bubblegum, and I’m all out of quantuum bubble gum. Let’s blast some mysteries!
if anyone has quantuum bubble gum, I’ll sit those rounds out tho. I really like that shit.
Haha, there might be some one ship…but I wonder how quantum bubblegum would effect a person?.. Also, made a post about the game, just general info. When I get the chance I’ll be setting the first scene. I don’t know if Lemmy has notifications that can be enabled for new posts in an entire thread, but if not, keep an eye on this space from time to time ;)
First scene is up ;)
Savvy Engineer (3) Danzer “Greese-Doctor Danz” Daedaloid, the Engineer, decided to apply for the Galactic Fleet in an attempt to find new worlds and discover new technology. Though if he had known the condition of The Technicolor Nebulae beforehand, he might have considered differently.
Fantastic! I just made a post, so take a look at that. Also, keep your eyes peeled for the first game post, if you haven’t responded directly to a post you might not get a notification for the game. I don’t know if Lemmy has a way to enable notifications for individual postings themselves, so just be sure to check intermittently.
First scene is up ;)
Hi I’m Kidd Cannon, a hot shot pilot (4) itching to shoot some bad guys. Those Brain Worms won’t know what hit them!
Excellent! Kidd Cannon made me think Mega Man :D You don’t wear blue and have a giant arm Cannon, do you?
Well there was this flitter accident in which in lost my arm, but they didn’t want to give me an arm cannon, something something against some oath to do no harm
so it’s just this bionic arm.
Ooh, dig it. Well, Kidd, I made a general info post, so take a look at that, and be sure to keep an eye out for the first scene soon. Not sure if Lemmy has notifications for new posts on threads if the post isn’t directly to you, so just keep your eyes peeled.
First scene is up ;)
According to the game sheet: lasers is roll under and feelings is roll over. But in the first scene post you reversed that. I’m going to assume you made a mistake.
Ah yes, thanks for the heads up, corrected ;)
I’m a little bit stuck on how my character can respond to the second scene, so I’ll wait a bit to see what the other players do.
ALIEN BRAIN WORMS WANT TO POWER THEIR GIANT DEATH RAY WHICH WILL DESTROY AN ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM!!!
In the remote system of Arcturros 7 madness has ravaged Galactic Fleet’s flagship, The Technicolor Nebula, as a routine mission reaches a fever pitch of dire stakes!
The Captain, one Benjamin T. Darcy, once the most valiant man in Galactic Fleet, has been taken over by a ruthless ALIEN MIND WORM, hellbent on utilizing the ship’s reality-bending dwarf-star drive, to annihilate an entire solar system. Namely: OURS!
[THE BRIDGE](Scene 1)
The four of you have been called to the bridge by the captain.
For the last week the captain has behaved erratically.
As you stand before him, he has now declared that, "I, Qazix Aqturi, am now in control of this ship, and all will bow down now before the Uzixxi Empire! Once I find the first officer of this ship, together we will use our overrides to turn this ship into a amplifier for our ultimate weapon!
He quickly flees the bridge, shoots the command console as he does, and directs three obviously worm infested redshirts to stand guard over the four of you. Their glazed-over eyes regard you with imminent threat, weapons held at ready…
The smoldering console has rendered your communicators temporarily useless, as evidenced by the sputtering, interiment crackles over yours comms.
Between the four of you and the three brain-drained redshirts, lies the Captain’s and first officer’s control station, and in front of that, the long boomerang of a desk that resides the controls for the helmsman and the support crew.
The four of you stand between these, which could be used as cover in a pinch.
Until the command console is repaired the comms will not work. And you have no way until then of warning the first officer…
The first officer was last seen in engineering, if the captain…er Qazix gets to him, Qazix will be able to override the ship’s drive core with the first officer’s key, and complete his nefarious plan.
Sections of the ship can be sealed off, but will only temporarily halt the Captain’s advance.
The ship’s circuit breakers are horrible, but could be used to your advantage…if one has the skill and the enemy is in a particular area, they just as easily might fry you too…
The Laser’s and Feelings sheet linked above has a map of the ship, engineering is the last light blue half-circle in the middle of the back of the ship, this is Qazix’ destination.
Don’t worry about using a roller to show me what you roll, it just slows things down. I’ll trust you guys, if you cheat the gods will know…
Use whatever way you want to roll a d6 and just tell me what mechanic you use (lasers/feelings) followed by what, if any bonuses you should get (+1 for expert/ +1 for prepared) and what your final roll is. I’ll narrate your success/failure from there.
Lasers is roll under your number, and feelings you roll over your number. If you think you should automatically succeed, state why you should and I’ll make a judgement whether or not you can.
Get creative, screw around, maybe I’ll kick you a bonus for something silly, like I dunno, chewing quantum bubblegum which renders you a quantum phantom temporarily able to see hidden locations in the ship from quantum spacetime, or you do something that brings you closer to your goals…have fun and be wacky, who knows how it might help you?
(Part of me wants to run after the Captain immediately, trusting the rest of the crew to handle an even fight against the worms, but I’m not clear if that’s possible, and it might be seen as Un-Heroic. So…)
Cory Hammer glances after the fleeing, possessed captain for a moment before focusing his attention on the involuntarily mutinous redshirts blocking his way. “Donovan, you’re about to regret turning down all my offers to spar!” Cory, never one for crass gunplay unless strictly necessary, crosses the short distance in a blink, aiming a powerful overhead strike at the worm-thrall!
As a soldier, I’m an expert in punching aliens. I’m also going to claim preparedness on the grounds that both 1) Cory loves to meet new aliens and 2) He is always prepared to “drop the Hammer!” That’s a Feelings, so >4: 3, 5, 4. So if you accept the 3d6 that’s a regular success with lazer feelings. If you reject my preparedness to drop the hammer (never! never doubt my preparedness to drop the hammer!) then it’s a minor success without lazers.
After you shield your eyes from Danzer’s phaser discharge, you notice one of the redshirts is obviously blinded. You take a flying leap over the Captain’s chair and pummel the man in the middle attending to the blinded crew mate, he’s a slight man, and his form goes limp as you bring your fist in a devastating blow across his forehead, bringing him down to the ground HARD.
Each time a scene is resolved, I’ll make a new scene post to keep things clean and coherent. Each scene will be numbered for ease of tracking them. I’ve made a new scene post, so respond to that post with your new action. Once more, if you want to respond to your teammates, respond to their individual posts, but for your action in the scene (even if related to what you and your teammates decide) respond to the scene post. This keep things manageable for me, and for you guys too ;)
Okay, internet issue seems to mostly be resolved at home, but either way I can post in town throughout the week if I need to. Second scene is up and ready for actions ;)
Kidd looks at one of the red shirts. “Maxwell?! Oh man, he owed me money!” Kidd takes out his pistol, still set to stun, crouches behind one of the seats on the bridge and tries to shoot at the red shirt formerly known as Maxwell to try and stun him.
I’m an expert at shooting but I wasn’t prepared for this stand off. I rolled a 2 and a 5.
I think this is feelings? I’m laser 4. So it’s a small success?You shield your eyes from Danzer’s phaser discharge, and notice one of the redshirts is noticeably dazed after you reopen your eyes. Your comrade Hammer leaps over the Captain’s chair in a blue, and brings a furious fist down up on the middle crew mate, crumpling him to the ground. Meanwhile, the redshirt on the right is distracted from the ordeal, not noticing you when you take your shot. Not ready to take the shot, you take aim unsteadily and shoot wide of the man’s torso, hitting him in the shoulder, due to your haste, the phaser overloads momentarily, causing you to drop your phaser on the floor. The man’s eyes narrow at you as he runs towards the back of the Captain’s chair, he jumps over while firing his phaser at you…
Each time a scene is resolved, I’ll make a new scene post to keep things clean and coherent. Each scene will be numbered for ease of tracking them. I’ve made a new scene post, so respond to that post with your new action. Once more, if you want to respond to your teammates, respond to their individual posts, but for your action in the scene (even if related to what you and your teammates decide) respond to the scene post. This keep things manageable for me, and for you guys too ;)
Okay, internet issue seems to mostly be resolved at home, but either way I can post in town throughout the week if I need to. Second scene is up and ready for actions ;)
Danzer, handling the revelation that his crewmates are being manipulated by alien mind worms well enough, audibly yelps when ‘Captain Darcy’ shoots the console.
“I just fixed that one yesterday!”
He reaches for his modified phaser (he disabled any lethal settings because that’s just not right) and flips it from his usual STUN to a setting with a handwritten label that says STUNNING. He calls this his flare gun, a misnomer, he knows. Really it’s just an overcharged camera flash.
“EYES!” He shouts to everyone as he tries to flashbang the redshirts with his own eyes closed.
Not prepared for this at all, but knowing how obnoxious it’s going to be, I’ll say 2d6 with lasers = 2, 6. So 1 success with his number: 3.
After ‘firing’, he then shouts, “GO! NOW!”
If you’re still around scene 3 is going up. I apologize for the delays, my Internet has been down for the past two weeks (the drawback of living in the mountains, despite many perks). But feel free to jump back in if you’re able ;)
Unprepared, and with your eyes closed tight, your shot goes wide of the three infected crew mates. However, one of them can’t help but fixate his gaze on your phaser’s discharge and becomes the only of the three to be completely blinded.
Each time a scene is resolved, I’ll make a new scene post to keep things clean and coherent. Each scene will be numbered for ease of tracking them. I’ve made a new scene post, so respond to that post with your new action. Once more, if you want to respond to your teammates, respond to their individual posts, but for your action in the scene (even if related to what you and your teammates decide) respond to the scene post. This keep things manageable for me, and for you guys too ;)
Okay, internet issue seems to mostly be resolved at home, but either way I can post in town throughout the week if I need to. Second scene is up and ready for actions ;)
Okay, that’s it for available player spots. As for the game, I’ll make one post per scene, additional scenes will respond to that post (to keep things clean and coherent, since Lemmy format isn’t ideal for PbP). If you’re responding to someone respond directly to their last post, if you’re making an action in regards to the scene respond to the scene post. Scenes will always be bolded, so as to differentiate it from regular posts. You’ll all have to bear with me this weekend too, since I’ve been having issues with my Internet at home (on a wifi hotspot in town right now) so we might be a bit slow to get going fully.
I rolled for everything and got:
Heroic Soldier named Cory Hammer (Number = 4) who wants to Meet New Aliens (presumably to kill, save, or bang; surely his favorite version of the 3 things game).
When Cory heard that a special team was being put together aboard the new stealth warship Technicolor Nebulae, he knew it was time to bring down the Hammer on those death ray loving brain worm freaks and requested transfer to serve with the legendary Captain Darcy.
Looks good. I hadn’t named the Captain yet. I’ll roll with that. I was thinking maybe someone might volunteer themselves for the job, but then again I’d hate for anyone to feel bossed around by another player lol. So Cpt. Darcy it is. I’ll make him a raving lunatic with a tenuous grasp on reality (kidding…or am I?).
Oh haha, I was just going along with what was in the default scenario in the oner for the Captain’s name. I should have considered that you might customize it since you changed the ship name too!
Oh nice, I hadn’t even noticed that! Well, Darcy it is now lol
First scene is up ;)
Made a post with some general info about the game, keep a look out for the first scene post. I told the others I don’t know if you can set notifications for a thread itself, even if it’s not for a post you’ve made, so if not, just keep a lookout. Running into some internets issues at my place, but hope to have something up later this afternoon.
[Bridge] (Scene 2)
Danzer’s phaser blinds the redshirt on the left, causing him to become dazed. Hammer incapacitates the middle crewman with a flying fist that comes down across the man’s forehead and Kidd shoots his phaser at the redshirt on the right, wounding him in the shoulder, but bring the man’s ire upon him, the man leaps over the Captain’s chair, firing his phaser at Kidd…
Heads up, due to my internet issues at home, I may not be able to respond this weekend (at library wifi right now). I live on a mountain and the bus doesn’t go into town on Sunday’s, so if not able I will reply on Monday sometime ;)
(Sorry for the delay, busy weekend\start of week!)
Blinking the residual flash from his eyes (“Good thing my back was turned!” he thinks) Cory locks onto the dazed crewman. Hammer swings around behind him, grabbing him in a secure hold, and attempts to use him as a human shield against the entrenched crewman (to protect Kidd and keep the dazed one incapacitated.)
I think wrastlin’ with worm heads in still in my Soldier wheelhouse, but deep in a melee with phasers flying around, I feel under prepared. So 2d6, Feelings again (>4): 5, 6. Woohoo, the wizard dice are rolling good! Standard success, no flair.
Hammer yells to his crewmates, “I can finish these mutinous mutants off, go after the Captain and slow him down!”
You quickly spin around the tall blond redshirt, fastening his arms to his side. The man tries to wrench free, but you’ve outmatched him with your superior strength and skill. Below you, in front of the Captain’s chair, Kidd rolls out of the way of the short, bearded man’s lunge. The man lands on one knee, in obvious pain, but unholsters his phaser and attempts to shoot at the fleeing Kidd.
Sorry for the delays, the Internet is still out at my place and I haven’t been able to make it to town for the past week. I’ll try to have something up hopefully today, but might be tomorrow depending on how errands go this afternoon.
Scene 3 is up now ;)
Kidd sees the danger he is and dives out of the way, leaving his phaser on the ground. This seems to be a lasers roll, I’m well trained in combat, and that includes evasion, so I’d say I’m skilled in that, I rolled a 1 and a 3.
I’ll try to reach the destroyed console to see if I can fix it in the next round.
Sorry for the delays, the Internet is still out at my place and I haven’t been able to make it to town for the past week. I’ll try to have something up hopefully today, but might be tomorrow depending on how errands go this afternoon.
Scene 3 is up! ;)
You deftly roll out of the way and the redshirt slams to the floor on one knee, grunting in pain from the impact. He grabs his phaser, giving up on his attempt to melee, and fires at you from his hip…
[Bridge] (Scene 3)
After a heart-pumping series of melees, Kidd is under the sights of the short bearded crewmate’s phaser after rolling to avoid the man’s wild lunge.
Hammer has grabbed the dazed tall blonde crew mate and subdued him with a skillful pin, holding him unable to move.
Danzer has stayed back, calculating his next move.
From the Ship’s Intercom: “The Captain has entered security and munitions…”
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