Another excellent game of
Alpha Blue last night... a
continuation from last session.
Three players, two new PCs, and one returning - Ginger Roots, a female navigation expert and explorer who's contemplative, healthy, wealthy, and wise - along with being good with lasers and hand-to-hand combat.
The other PCs were a robot chef named RB with flamethrower, chopping knives, and hover-board feet who also kept a little creature in his chest oven.
Hanzo was a space rat templar embodying the worst parts of organized religion - fanatical in the promotion of his own god for the dual purposes of increasing the power and spreading the influence of that god's religion.
Hanzo was created using the traditional character generation tables in the
Alpha Blue rulebook, while RB was made using the new 7 word or phrase method
over here.
Left high and dry on Alpha Blue by their former crew, they wandered the Mardi Gras type celebration happening in the entire entertainment section of the space station.
Ginger Roots and Hanzo got acquainted with RB as he was serving succulent and effervescent desserts upon a platter or h'orderves. If the player hadn't come up with his own, we could have used
this random dessert table here.
Ginger and Hanzo were looking to join a new crew on a new ship, so they asked RB if he knew of any job openings. Turns out that RB's master was in the market for spacers.
They talked to Kystin pirate pimp extraordinaire and he agreed to take them on as probationary members of the crew if they delivered a message to his rival, Vom Fass.
So, the PCs continued to walk through the celebration - going to the restroom, watching some alien get blasted, someone bought them drinks with his gambling winnings, they bought some drugs from a shifty trench-coat wearing dude, and chatted with a bunch of prostitutes who took RB's credits so he could taste a very special kind of dessert in the backroom.
Before you know it, they were standing in front of Vom Fass who stood inside an environmental suit. Vom Fass insulted them and when the PCs talked back, he got ready to draw. RB preempted any dueling by letting loose his flame thrower. Hanzo kept shooting laser crossbow bolts into his groin while Ginger Roots blasted his arm off. Vom Fass got a couple good shots in before he died.
They hightailed it onto Kystin's ship and out of Alpha Blue before a small angry, laser-toting mob got to them. Off to the desert planet of P'oon to pick up an illegal shipment of... an undisclosed substance.
While relaxing on route to P'oon, Hanzo took a look at the meditation room on the ship, only to discover there was another crew member already using it. This fellow spacer was a pink gelatinous dude who worshiped an entirely different space god. This distressed Hanzo and led to a heretical religious debate of sacrilege and blasphemy. The jelly dude's form of worship was oozing green slime on women's breasts. As much as Hanzo wanted to denounce such alternative religious practices, he couldn't help but realize the sense of it, eventually joining in.
Kystin's ship bypassed a Federation battle cruiser thanks to Ginger's navigational skills. They landed in the desert, near the intended target - a starport.
A Zone trooper security patrol caught up to the PCs, demanding to see their papers. Instead, Kystin blasted them, but then got shot himself. Before dying, his last words to the PCs were don't forget to pick up the turquoise.
RB used his computer access to locate the ship full of turquoise. Dressed as Zone troopers, the PCs cut in line at the checkpoint. Hanzo decided to pop some drugs he had bought on Alpha Blue and started seeing colorful dots all over, plus he was talking to himself.
Luckily, he held it together until they could take possession of the turquoise. Another security officer came by to check on things, questioning the PCs. They made it through ok and flew the smaller ship full of turquoise into Kystin's ship.
Then, they went back to Alpha Blue to sell it.
It was a typical
Alpha Blue sandbox adventure driven by the players and helped with some random tables. Besides coming up with a couple of NPCs beforehand, it was all improvised. I got to use my electric, color-changing candles and roll on some new tables, so that was also cool.
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p.s. I had planned on recording some of this session and uploading it to YouTube, but since it was
Alpha Blue (the sleaziest RPG in the galaxy), the wife vetoed that pretty hard.
