FATE of the Liberation Union Strike Team

[WritesNaughtyStories]

1 hour ago, Icarian Dreams said:

Also, I did not quite communicate this clearly — I am not imagining my character's BioFrame as being operational after the initial scene, or in any way significantly threatening to Emily.

I have no position on what BioFrame your scion ends up with beyond the one you like. If that's the lonely one back at the Firebase, groovy. If that's trucking off behind Scyllia in one you had all along, great. If one gets delivered tomorrow morning, also cool. If there's one that gets shot out from under you and you take something else, that's just as good.

Scyllia is tiny, less than half the size of most other BioFrames. There is no stand-up fight that is safe for her. You will end up with a BioFrame, just not one that fights Scyllia.

Here's a thought: what if a quantum Kaiju shows up while Emily and Magda are sneaking up the river? Lots of things can happen and we'll see where the fiction leads.

Edited 18 hours ago by WritesNaughtyStories

[Icarian Dreams]

3 minutes ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

Scyllia is tiny, less than half the size of most other BioFrames. There is no stand-up fight that is safe for her. You will end up with a BioFrame, just not one that fights Scyllia

At no point did I want to fight Scyllia.

I don't have a strong idea on what BioFrame I'll end up with yet either. Wanted to get the main character idea down first and then figure out what works both narratively and thematically. The one back at the base seems as the obvious choice, I suppose. 

6 minutes ago, WritesNaughtyStories said:

Here's a thought: what if a quantum Kaiju shows up while Emily and Magda are sneaking up the river? Lots of things can happen and we'll see where the fiction leads.

Can you say a more? Does that involve me anyhow?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

It's a GM "trick" that no matter what the players do, some predetermined thing happens. The classic is in a dungeon there's an ogre. Doesn't matter what door you go through, the ogre is behind that door.

In this case, as Emily pilots Scyllia up the river a Kaiju heads out of the ocean towards your outpost. What happens next is up to you and @WickedCadrach. Magda will begin to fade into the background because with a second player she's less useful. Though I love the character and her relationship with Emily, I hate the meta of the GM having a player character.

If you are interested in playing the scion, may I suggest Fallen Hive Elite as your high concept?

[Icarian Dreams]

Ahh, the quantum ogre. I didn't make the connection. With a high-tech setting like this, my mind went to the literal

Agreed with the high concept; it's a good starting point. I should probably start thinking what her Trouble should be. Hrmm.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Getting into the story is the big thing. Get a name and a description and jump in with a post at the outpost. We've been adding Aspects and stunts as they evolve in the fiction and I think that has worked very well.

I expect this young woman has had soft sheets, new clothes, eaten regularly (as do even the poorest citizens) and air that's warmed in winter and cooled in summer. There are comforts and safety that are part of the Hive that are not available to the Union.

For your Trouble, I would suggest things to point at being a sheltered young woman who finds herself in a very different world. Stuck between worlds is close, but doesn't quite get to the discomfort of a hardscrabble existence of living in shipping containers with people who yell, cry and fuck for all kinds of reasons. Kuzko from Emperor's New Groove comes to mind. Or a proper French lady who finds herself in a Viet Minh village in Vietnam.

How's this for why you didn't fight the Kaiju two days ago: you were with the reaction force that showed up to deal with LUST DF and were ordered to stay, "protect the outpost from Kaiju and Union rebels".

One BioFrame isn't really enough to do that job though, is it?

Edited 5 hours ago by WritesNaughtyStories
A new, reorganized and expanded edition.

[WickedCadrach]

@Icarian Dreams I'm just going to drop the GoogleDrive link for Emily's character sheet in case you want to make a copy for sorting out your fallen scion (or just to get a more mechanical grip on what Emily's already bringing to the table). 

Depending on how aggressively we want to push the Hive trying to discreetly 'execute' the scion, we could tease a villain NPC and have a Trouble like Director Tanaka Wants My Head or Lt. Faraday's Promotion Will Be Signed in My Blood. Something more general might be The Hive Has a Grave Picked Out for Me. These are a touch wordy, but you get the idea. The Stuck Between Worlds trouble is definitely something that could be tapped often, though. 

[WritesNaughtyStories]

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