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JohnSanchez
Sanchez, John G SSG RET

Thu

Jan 11
2007

23:11

OOG: Character Review and Game Setup

> Okay, I have characters from Bob, Bruce, Earl, Greg, John and 
> JR. You can review their basic stats in the same format by 
> going to http://mypbem.com/phpBB/ and looking in the Akus Moby 
> Reset forum where I have entered each as a separate topic. If 
> you want to discuss the characters with each other let's do it 
> here.

Okay.  Kewlies.

> Secondly, I'm thinking that I'll say that all of you were 
> either in, or drafted into, the military service during the 
> 5th Frontier War and all served on the same ship...a large 
> armed military transport...and have all been demobilized 
> together on Glisten. You all knew each other, at least to the 
> level of nodding acquaintances, from your time together on the 
> transport and have...more or less...decided to look for the 
> same type of job, so that you all ended up employed by the 
> Wonstar Trading Company isn't all that much of a surprise to 
> any of you.



> The /Akus Moby/ has 2 turrets with weapons (2 gunners), 8 low 
> berths (medic), 10 cabins (steward), ~80 dtons of cargo space 
> (cargomaster), and needs a Pilot and Chief Engineer as well as 
> someone designated, for the record, as Captain.

Without much alteration, I can do the Admin/brokerage/sTeward for the Akus--all that would have to happen is pulling either from engineering, piloting or gunnery (whichever position she's not a backup for) and drop the remaining two into Brokerage.

> As an out of game discussion, I'd like you to talk it over 
> *here* and decide which of you will be the Captain aboard the 
> /Akus Moby/, and work out shipboard roles for each of you.

We have Captain Conundrum...or Captain Clueless...or Space Ace...or whatever...

I vote for him!

> So...look over everyone's character, and let's talk about it. 
> Do we need to alter the characters, change skill sets a around 
> a bit to give everyone a role? Let's decide on shipboard roles 
> so everyone has something to do. Remember, you're also 
> bodyguarding/minding a passenger that you have to get from 
> Glisten to Wonstar, too.

Persephone already has Autopistol...makes for a good Steward skill in my book.

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