DANG IT.

There's a pattern here, you know; I say "This is the campaign!" and then it don't work.

We're gonna start a Pathfinder game on a world where ship travel is vital (since I've had a long founded interest in ships), and the layers are rampant adventurers that have somehow acquired a small vessel and crew. What are they gonna do? Your guess is as good as mine! I have a few ideas in mind for locations, but I've decided to abandon any set story; instead, they'll be able to find and become a part of whatever story they want. As they explore, I'll build the world around them and decide what they can do. My only idea going in is a generic world map and a few good locations!

Here are the players' ideas so far for characters:

Nick: Playing a Kobold Rogue

Joel: Playing a Gnome Cleric

Robert: Playing a Human Monk (he had an Elf Wizard at first, but when we did a trial run he realized he didn't like the spell system too much, I think)

Crazy Stuff Happened

Well, we had another session, and some serious bantha poodoo hit the fan.

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Quigley and Trr'Chick received a mission from a golden dragon asking them to isolate a fungus creature that had landed on their world and could be a potential threat to the planet. One of her captains accompanied them to help out as well.

The adventure itself didn't get too much importance; the biggest thing was that during the mission Quigley and Trr'Chick got into such a bad conflict that they had to get their memories wiped so we could have a reason for them to not want to kill one another later on. Long story short, the captain turned out to be a traitor, though he was killed so it hardly mattered; the people he worked with couldn't get the fungus, and so just promised to return and cause trouble. The fungus escaped as it was sentient, and Quigley and Trr'Chick had a fight when Trr'Chick had a gun out around it. To make matters worse, Trr'Chick started lying about the situation, which caused him to become untrusted. In the end, the fungus escaped, so the had to burn half the forest to save the world; the PC's weren't involved in this, as their memories were wiped and they had to be retold of the whole ordeal.

They then had to negotiate with gaseous beings who wanted to land on the planet and build a space-railroad. Quigley started mimicking their accent, so he was shot and thrown into the brig. Also, there was a sentient cockroach queen that tried to take control of Trr'Chick; it failed, but Trr'Chick liked it anyways, so he gave them food. They then started riding rats and running around everywhere.

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Honestly, the entire adventure was a fiasco (although the blame is likely mine for an underplanned adventure). I am currently considering shifting the campaign to something more suitable to the players after taking a poll of what the majority of the players want to do.

No Game This Weekend

Sadly enough, no one could join this weekend. I've been planning, but I can't post that just yet; I plan to have my players read this when they miss the game so we can spend less time going over it next session.

Not Alone!

Well, somebody I don't rightly know did something involving this little blog (gave it what's called a +1, apparently). Finally, now I can reasonably say that there is a "you (singular)" at least!

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Carry on.

Lots of Stuff Happened.

Well, he had another game this weekend, so here's how it went:

The smaller ship needed refueling, losing the last of its power on the trip to the dark world. Deciding the colony also needed more supplies and control in general, Quigley Isstvan convinced the AI to call the nearby Dragon outpost to try and convince them to take over the colony. However, the negotiations went very poorly, and Taye was only just able to jump in and end the discussion. Isstvan was thrown in the brig by the AI since he had insulted her and been generally unpleasant, and he didn't get out until he was called to arms when the smaller ship was attacked by the Bush People (quick memo: The Plants are good, the Bushes are bad, the Trees are neutral, all of these being the different peoples of the world). They captured one of them who was wounded by the explosion but weren't able to fulfill negotiations, as he only screamed about killing everyone.

Next, there was the arrival of Sir Laurence Thornside and Thomas Millford, being delegates from the remnants of Isstvan's old world (The Skarilian Knights); Sir Thornside was particularly unpleasant, not liking Isstvan, but Millford was reasonable and conveyed that the Skarilian Knights planned to utilize this colony.

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At this point, Robert (Quigley Isstvan) left, and I went on with Taye.
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Taye had the droids build a couple of houses out of wood at the suggestion of Millford, and had to hold off an attack from the Bush People. There were some hostages taken, but that night loud noises and a dangerous proximity alert made Taye release them all into the forest; it turned out, however, that it was actually a pair of giant dinosaurs fighting off in the distance. The next day, Bunyip (the male Plant Person who lives at the colony, his wif being Krossa and his son being Lone) went out to gather meat from the dead dinosaur and a large amount of food was stored.

Millford also suggested bringing in some colonists, specifically twelve Losians that needed relocation. Losian look like long, thin creatures that I like to describe as an almost possum-like creature. There were two families--one of four and one of eight--and they took quickly to helping build homes and do any work necessary. Taye declared one to be leader of the Losians as well, and they settled down rather well.

Taye then received a letter saying to go to O7 Station using the Teleportation Nexus in the ship (they had mostly forgotten about it, really). Upon arriving, he found a slave port filled with Losians. He also learned from some weirdo standing nearby that they were bred to be servile and to reproduce quickly. Taye also met another of his kind and transferred memories with him, learning that he freed slaves. The other droid told him that he was likely meant to see the Losians slaves to get understanding of the Losian colonists in some way. That very night, the other droid also released many slaves, and Taye found one in his room the next morning. He took the elf (it was an elf, by the way) back with him to the colony, and the guy seemed to prefer the company of Sir Thornside.

Thornside also continuously said that he now controlled the military of the colony, and specified that this meant he'd control the militia and such and was basically the general. There was a lot of arguing on this point.

Taye tried to negotiate with the Bush People, but it went poorly and three droids died when they found a camp with five of them. They also responded to a distress call from a ship that crashed to the north; upon entering the behemoth of a wreckage they found more of the insectoid warriors (called Irkkkndids[pronounced ee-rik-ki-ki-nids]) from previously stalking around; they fought them off, then got to the blackroom where the survivors (a species called the Skrssk[pronounced skrissk], which are like big ants with more rounded and bodies) were. They were able to blow up a wall in the ship to escape the army of Irkkkndids within, but by doing so also released the bugs into the world.

Taye and party got back to the ship, and the Skrssk gave them some supplies as a thank you before using the Nexus to leave the planet.

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And so we left off. See you next week!

I'm Still Alive

Just wanted to make sure that was clear.

First Game 2.0!

First off, I'll give a recap of what Taye did (that's both his real and player name, in fact):

He met their employer, Virmalus, on the world of Fallis Physyria, in an abandoned city in the desert (lots of ins). He was given orders to repair a vessel on the planet Epsilon Sigma 71B and then await further orders.

He arrived in an abandoned ship overcome with vegetation. He rebooted a nearby droid, setting himself as it's commander below the AI system, and explored around for a bit before repairing the generator (and dealing with pesky rodents). He also learned from the droid that the ship had been overrun by moving plants before the power shut off. With the power back, however, he was rerouted to the AI system, and had to go through a brief reboot process. The AI, Cassandria, had no memory of her mission, but was able to look up databases on the subject and get a basic understanding of the situation.

By now, Taye had learned the objective of the vessel; it was sent to explore and research the planet after a previous colonization effort from another nation had failed miserably. This mission itself was considered a failure after the communication was lost, but the ship persisted in its efforts. The local population was known to be very violent plant people that hated outsiders, but the ship still planned to make friendly relations with them.

Taye then met a group of natives that had started living in the ship, and soon became friendly with them. A translation device was set up to subconsciously teach them English, and they were put at friendly terms (they were a father, mother, and son, as well as two sprouts for future children).

There ws then an encounter where a group of tree people (riding a tree no less) came up and warned Taye not to harm the forest; otherwise, it would mean open war between them. He (the leader of them) then warned Taye that while he would accept an amount of deforestation so long as they replanted what they took, there were others who held the forest more reverently and would likely attack them for no reason. At this point there became a distinction between Tree People (slow thinking and powerful), Plant People (peaceful like the ones living in the ship), and Bush People (the violent ones).

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At this point, we went on Google Hangouts and played with the other two players.

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Quigley Isstvan (the king) and Trr'chik (the alien) arrived on Fallis Physyria and received there orders from Virmalus (basically the same as Taye's). They had to deal with a brief misunderstanding upon first arriving, but things settled down and they got to meet the AI. They discussed what to do next, and after Quigley was shot down repeatedly on the point of flying off to destroy the plants nearby and going to war with the plants (despite the AI's direct orders otherwise), they decided to get a ship from a nearby Tallan station (the Tallans having owned the ship before it was abandoned) so they could go get supplies. Taye hacked the databases to say that they needed a ship, and one was sent promptly.

When the ship arrived, the pilot turned out to be a fourteen year old boy (they still don't know his name). They got him to take them to a nearby planet so they could start mining and found the planet to be very cold and dark but covered in iron. After an hour of mining, however, they were confronted by a group of insectoid warriors. Trr'chik, understanding their language, knew they were saying they planned to kill them.

They fought off the warriors and escaped to the ship again...

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... And we left off.

See you again soon!