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!!!
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....
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!"
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 ;)