PD-S02 “Meet the Neighborhood”

PCs:

Jordan - “Metal” Miles Rockbell, engineer

Alaina - Laika Weaver, miner

Kim - Joni CRID106, crisis response android

Martina - Nadia Zorovich, Exobiologist

Paul - Gnat, android

Highlights

• Paul and Martina were joining us for their first session of the campaign this week, and onboarding was pretty quick as I had intended. I prepped some prerolled characters for each class with everything already written except skill selection and any stat mods that require a choice, which sped things up a lot. Paul used his character from the Moonbase Blues one shot we did a while ago.

• we started the session a day after last session, in the common room of a capsule hotel. The party met some other passengers from the jumpliner (Nadia and Gnat) who were also looking for freelance work and to possibly form a crew. The crew got to talking about different job leads and decided to pursue something local

• the capsule hotel owner mentioned that some local businesses were deeply in debt to a casino in the neighborhood called Lucky Flight, and that they might be looking to hire a team to erase the debt. The crew went to find Charlie Sand, the local fixer, at The Stellar Burn (the dream’s biggest nightclub and a popular neutral meeting spot for fixers and freelancers)

• at the bar the crew chatted with Sem the bartender and heard some rumors about current events on the station, especially a dispute between the Teamster’s Union and the Novos over a recent piracy situation and ongoing hostage negotiations

• after ordering some drinks, the crew met with Charlie and learned the details of the gig. Open contract, objective to destroy the on-site ledgers that contain any record of the debt local businesses owe to the Lucky Flight casino. At least one member of the community (Batu) has already attempted the mission on their own and not returned. Payment in the form of a decommissioned Tempest Co. squad car, plus an unspecified bonus if Batu is safely recovered.

• the crew headed to the Lucky Flight during business hours to case the place. They had a floor plan of the main level provided by Batu, but knew there are at least two more levels

• Laika gambled a bit and broke even. She then purchased a VIP pass to access the upper level, and scouted it out a bit with Gnat. They learned this casino is frequented by the Stone Eels gang, led by a woman named Saša.

• Miles ran into one of the SecOps officers (security for the casino) in the restroom and after a botched pickpocketing attempt, engineered a sort of HR incident where they accused the officer of misconduct. In the course of that they met the casino owner, a woman named Vaska Jordan.

• meanwhile Laika social engineered her way into the staff office on the second level to use the elevator to go downstairs. She ended up in the staff locker room on the main level, and forced entry to a locker so she could steal a staff credstick as well as some other items.

• the group identified a basement level, with at least one entry point (an elevator leading down from the band stage), but did not visit that level

• the session ended with the crew reconvening outside the casino to discuss next steps and how to best leverage their recon into a payday