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| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "After filing back the successful report of the last mission back to Endeavor station, the |
| | EOV Memphis speeds across space exploring the so far unknown sector at the very edge of the |
| | Spinway. The crew is just doing business as usual. What do you think your explorers are |
| | currently doing?"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Oh that is easy, Graph is in his medical bay experimenting on horrible human diseases |
| | and how they react to tissues from the five allied races."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Yea, he would be doing something dangerous like that, remind me why we saved Graph |
| | from the Taak'Rhay militant splinter group last mission again?" He sighes.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Hey, Graph has done his part. Don't forget the times he has patched your explorers up |
| | man!" He smiles.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Point taken."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Winona</STRONG>: "Tam is running drills to increase response time against board actions based on |
| | previous... failures. Ahem." She looks at Bob.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Ok ok. Hannibal is in his cabin writing up a new revised manifesto for once he gets back |
| | to the Milky Way that will open everyone's eyes about the weaknesses of relying on I3s so |
| | much."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><EM>Everyone looks at Amy.</EM></P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Amy</STRONG>: "I don't know. Oh, Quinn is building a new power source for 4<SUP>th</SUP> gen. ISOtech. This can |
| | connect to his future endeavor for Obsessed Scholar right? That one is 'A peculiar invention'.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Sure Amy, awesome." She makes some notes regarding explorer actions for the future. |
| | "Bob, funny thing that Hannibal is writing about I3s, heh. Ok let me frame a scene."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "The EOV Memphis drops out of FTL without due cause in the wee hours of the morning. |
| | A communication channel opens, audio only, in the Captain's cabin. Hannibal looks up from his |
| | screen, the first page of his lastest manifesto as NOEL speaks."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Sally/<STRONG>NOEL</STRONG>: "Captain, it has come to my attention that I can no longer fulfill my duties as |
| | overseer aboard the Memphis. Consider this my notice of resignation, effective immediately."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Huh, can she do that? Wow, ok, that is all kinds of messed up. What happens to the ship |
| | in that case?"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Hard to tell right now, but it won't operate as well that is for sure. Several key systems |
| | need its management."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Amy</STRONG>: "Guys I need her for Quinn's peculiar invention! No way, lets not let this happen."</P> |
| | |
| | <P><STRONG>Winona</STRONG>: "Having a free-roaming, unemployed I3 aboard sounds like a security nightmare. Tam |
| | agrees for sure, let's not."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Don't matter to Graph, but he doesn't want to see the mission impeded either. Nothing |
| | is going to stop him from his experiments man."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Seems pretty clear we need to switch to Tension Mode then. Let me set that up." She |
| | thinks for a bit. "Ok guys, 5 Tension Dice, 6 Tension on the track to Pitfall 'NOEL quits.' If that |
| | track hits 15 NOEL is done, if it hits 0, she withdraws her resignation."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Doesn't this feel vague? I mean, we don't have any clue as to why she is up and quitting. I |
| | could use some hints."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Winona</STRONG>: "Agreed."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Ok, no problem. She isn't just up and quitting, I'll make the reason obvious and you can |
| | go from there. Let me narrate something, I'll involved Frank right away since this clearly isn't |
| | going to be Graph's thing." She chuckles.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Oh. Great."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "First Frank, set the scene and tell me what Graph is doing in his medical bay."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Graph is in his usually blue and black finely striped flowing robe, only his smooth plain |
| | white face mask visible. His eyes gleam as he commands the bay's systems in a deep wavering |
| | voice."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Frank/<STRONG>Graph</STRONG>: "Yes, yes. Now test the new virulent Eclipse strain against the human form |
| | Taak'Rhay cells from slide 9. Good. Yes, very good."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Sally/<STRONG>NOEL</STRONG>: "Lt. Graph, I apologize by my systems are malfunctioning. I must close down med |
| | bay interface or risk potential biohazard."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "The interface hanging in the air before Graph folds onto itself and goes out with a silent |
| | flash."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Frank/<STRONG>Graph</STRONG>: "NOEL, what? *pause* Can you explain the malfunction."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Sally/<STRONG>NOEL</STRONG>: "Negative. Its unknown cascade failure of primary logic functions in core 203, I |
| | can't find a cause. However now core 204 is also showing similar signs of damage..."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Frank/<STRONG>Graph</STRONG>: "Sounds like an infection to me. Get me Quinn on the line NOEL, quick!"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Amy</STRONG>: "Oh, she has damage. So either she isn't in her right mind or she is just protecting the crew |
| | and ship from a horrible failure if she has a breakdown... ouch."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Yep, that is the case."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Ok, now that is something to go on. Let's get this rolling. Who has Edge Sally?"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: *consults the roles* "The I3 isn't technically part of the ship, so it doesn't trigger the |
| | engineer. No alien life, not the alien either. Not a direct security issue, so it falls through to the |
| | leader. You and Hannibal have Edge Bob."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Bob</STRONG>: "Cool, ok, so it looks like this is an engineer job at the moment. As the edge player I am |
| | going to award Quinn the bonus die, to his Technical die code. I'm going to get things going |
| | right off the rip too and make Quinn first player, lets take a chunk out of the issue round one!"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Amy</STRONG>: "Alright, so Quinn will respond to Graph and talk to the captain to get the scoop. |
| | Afterwards he will freeze core 204, the still working one, and analyze it for issues with his |
| | diagnostic gear."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Amy ok, so let me cast that into the rules. That means you'll have Quinn making a |
| | Ready! Action, since research is diligence and diligence is Ready! Do you want me to make |
| | things worse to earn a bonus die to your roll result?"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Amy</STRONG>: "Things looks ok guys right? Why not?"</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Yes, I think we are ok with that."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Group seems to agree, at least, no on argues.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Amy</STRONG>: "Sure, make things worse. I'll take the bonus die to the result."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "I also have to remove a Tension dice, nice. Takes me down to 4 Tension dice, but I up |
| | Tension itself to 7. Let's do your diligence roll first."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Frank</STRONG>: "Let's say Graph things this is some kind of infection, so he will help Quinn with advice |
| | from the medical world."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "I like it, lets do that."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P>Amy rolls her dice for Quinn (combined with some from the help she gets from Graph) and gets |
| | a total result of 15, earning her 5d from the roll and with the bonus die 6d total.</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "A serious amount of Leverage. I'll say you do indeed discover it is some kind of viral |
| | energy, perhaps even a new primitive energy life form. You also find out it thrives on ISOfield |
| | energy, and is effectively eating NOEL's peripheral logic cores. This would be analogous to her |
| | body, in the energy realm."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
| | <P><STRONG>Sally</STRONG>: "Ok, I need to narrate how things get worse, but first how about you two narrate |
| | something your research."</P> |
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| | <BR WP="BR1"><BR WP="BR2"> |
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| ===== Conclusions and Notes ===== | ===== Conclusions and Notes ===== |
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