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| == Gwynne's Nefarious Plan == | | == Where Are We? == |
| Reig shares the following with you at the astro-polo finals: On Elvis, we have recovered [http://inky.org/rpg/agents-docs/decryption-E159C5F.html decrypted Gwyne data] which seems to indicate that Gwynne was planning to build something on all five of our planets, perhaps to weaponize the wormhole against the Empire. Iavo may be working for them, too, as Iavo was also interested in the same hexes listed in this data fragment. Figuring out what they were doing and what they still are planning should be a top priority in the coming weeks, as the last bit clearly says their own plans are to have us eliminated.
| | What is the name of this corner of the galaxy where the colonies are located? Please vote! |
| | * The Yellow Spiral Clump |
| | * Kneepit |
| | * The Caramel Cluster |
| | * The Wretched Hives |
| | * Something Else |
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| == Help kickstart the League of Champions! == | | == Secret Research == |
| | Those who control part of the [[Secret Advanced Physics Laboratory]] may wish to vote on which topic it begins researching in Turn 12. (Also, the results of the previous round of research are [http://inky.org/wiki/index.php?title=Agents_Of_Empire/Turns/11/House_Aramin#Results here].) |
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| See [[Agents_Of_Empire/League_of_Champions|League of Champions]] for a suggested schedule of play. (Feel free to tweak, I'm off on holiday for a bit.)
| | == Prime's 'Research Group' on Gwyne == |
| | Thanks to the productive work of absolutely no one, we have access to an, ahem, "research group" on Gwyne. We can request they look into specific secret stuff. If you have something you want looked into, post it here. |
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| The champions of the galaxy will not be denied! TITANS WILL CLASH! To make the championship as successful as possible, we need your enthusiastic support, and perhaps more importantly your cash! This is an investment opportunity not to be equalled anywhere in space or time.
| | * Look into "Operation Moon Snail" to see if there are more Gwyne operatives on Prime. |
| * Qualifying matches will be held on turn 10. Location: *Vegas!*
| | * Look into Gwynne's Nefarious Plan (below) |
| * The grand final will be held on turn 11. Location: tentatively *Arroyo* pending more investment from other houses.
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| * Houses are invited to contribute MCs to our budget, to be spent on advertising, logistics, stadium upgrades, astro-talcum, etc. After income from tickets, broadcasting rights and sponsorship deals, we expect to turn a healthy profit!
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| * 50% of the profits will go towards the GRAND PRIZE for the winning team. The remainder will be shared proportionally among the investors. In the unlikely event of lower-than-expected profits, House Intrepid will guarantee a prize pot of 5Mc.
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| * Any house may send a team to the qualifying round and trust to the dice.
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| * Contributing houses will have one additional team immediately qualified for the grand final. | |
| * Match outcomes will be determined by best-of-three dice rolls. One on each team's preferred skill, decider on Athletics.
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| * Rule changes potentially subject to revision if you pony up the cash.
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| Who's in?
| | == Gwynne's Nefarious Plan == |
| * Intrepid will start the bidding at 5Mc. We'll pre-qualify the Arabian Knights, and send the Thirteen Thieves to the qualifiers. We offer to host the finals on Arroyo, renowned home of Astro-Polo (but we're open to other suggestions).
| | Reig shares the following with you at the astro-polo finals: On Elvis, we have recovered [http://inky.org/rpg/agents-docs/decryption-E159C5F.html decrypted Gwyne data] which seems to indicate that Gwynne was planning to build something on all five of our planets, perhaps to weaponize the wormhole against the Empire. Iavo may be working for them, too, as Iavo was also interested in the same hexes listed in this data fragment. Figuring out what they were doing and what they still are planning should be a top priority in the coming weeks, as the last bit clearly says their own plans are to have us eliminated. |
| * We are pleased to announce that House Vegas is backing the League to the tune of 5Mc cash plus 10Mc in goods and services! Vegas is also handling the promotion and catering. Refereeing duties will be shared between House Vegas and native Avestruz from Arroyo. In recognition of their support, Vegas will host the qualifying matches in turn 10.
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| * House Advantage has offered a skilled investigator (Rick) to check for rule infringements and financial irregularities. This counts as a 3Mc contribution.
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| * House Intrepid pledges 7Mc in turn 11, to bring us up to a nice round 30.
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| * Intrepid will provide transport for 3 teams from Vegas to the finals (on turn 11)
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| * Additionally, Intrepid can send a ship to your planet on turn 10, and take team(s) to the finals on turn 11.
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| == Weekly Poker Match == | | == Weekly Poker Match == |
| Rick Starfarer has scheduled (perhaps retroactively as of a couple months ago) a weekly game of six-card hyperstud! All of the top local colonial movers and shakers are invited (i.e., the PC's). Just dial your holovidwave set to 55-epsilon-673-double-mauve to log on (and have an IC excuse for sharing OOC information). | | Rick Starfarer has scheduled (perhaps retroactively as of a couple months ago) a weekly game of six-card hyperstud! All of the top local colonial movers and shakers are invited (i.e., the PC's). Just dial your holovidwave set to 55-epsilon-673-double-mauve to log on (and have an IC excuse for sharing OOC information). |
| * Rick is in, of course. | | * Rick is in, of course. |
| | * Dark from Prime will play. |
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| == Strange Dreams == | | == Strange Dreams == |
| The next time you and Reig chat in person, you chat for a while, and then Reig says, "Listen, uh, I'm not sure if this means anything, but I had this strange dream when I last visited Iavo. Just in case you experience something similar, I thought I'd tell you about it." [http://spod-central.org/~lpsmith/rpg/transcripts/Agents/iavo.html Reig's dream]. | | The next time you and Reig chat in person, you chat for a while, and then Reig says, "Listen, uh, I'm not sure if this means anything, but I had this strange dream when I last visited Iavo. Just in case you experience something similar, I thought I'd tell you about it." [http://spod-central.org/~lpsmith/rpg/transcripts/Agents/iavo.html Reig's dream]. |
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| == Rescue Proposal ==
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| Representatives of one or more Houses have been individually considering mounting a rescue attempt on Turn 7 to retrieve a certain unnamed individual. If this individual is successfully retrieved, she will need a place to work. Thus, I propose a joint rescue operation, wherein any House which participates in the operation will also contribute equally to constructing a new research institution, and any research that comes out of it will then be shared equally by all the Houses involved.
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| * Aramin is interested in taking part in a joint operation. We have a wheelman (Jude, great vehicles) and the extraction guy (Reig, Good Stealth), but it might be nice to have a ship that could actually fight if need be (instead of having to steal one) and some way to pin the blame on another house (so Jayce (a Gwynne vassal) doesn't come after us).
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| ** Possible houses to pin it on: Taba (mercenary/stealth house, if they were hired); Grazene; Tipno or Topni, though they wouldn't do it well. On balance, Taba seems like the best bet.
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| * Intrepid is also interested (and has already taken the precaution of safeguarding the contact, Professor Winth). We can bring in a pirate ship, some tough soldiers, and Seve, who can act as a world-class distraction when necessary. Some kind of diversion and possibly fake pirate attack seems called for, allowing Reig and Jude to sneak in.
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| * Prime may be up for pinning the blame on Taba. Possible activities to do so:
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| ** The serial numbers on the shuttle we used to get there were filed off (and the ship exploded), but may still be readable with the right technology. When they finally get it, it would be cool if that number was registered to Taba. Or you can infiltrate the investigation and lead it to Taba that way or something.
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| Surely the Imperial Parliament cannot let such injustice stand. Several prominent politicians are currently in the process of drafting a resolution that would levy significant fines against House Gwynne and distribute the funds to the affected Houses. | | Surely the Imperial Parliament cannot let such injustice stand. Several prominent politicians are currently in the process of drafting a resolution that would levy significant fines against House Gwynne and distribute the funds to the affected Houses. |
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| == Prime Tax Reduction Act ==
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| Prime is heading up an effort to reduce taxes on all of us by 15 megacredits each. To do this, they need to sway up to nine houses:
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| * '''Reeft''': Large house with many votes, so either need to sway neutral, plus sway all the rest of the list, or sway them to support, in which case we need only sway 6 of the rest. Something going on between them and Gwynne; may be able to use this to our advantage.
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| **Status: Working on it: '''Advantage''' (working on research to consider a vote for the tax to be a vote for Gwyne) / '''Prime''' (helping with the spread of rumor via the medium of cocktail parties)
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| * '''Kresht''': military-emphasis House
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| **Status: Current supporter! ('''Prime''')
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| * '''Falus''': ship-builders. Wants this text added to bill: "a provision containing tariffs on external ship building such that the price of all ships (cargo and military) is raised by a mega-credit"
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| **Status: depends on whether we add that to the bill. (By default right now it is going in as is; if someone wants to negotiate better they can try, but they can be considered to be a supporter.) ('''Prime''')
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| * '''Tipno or Topni''': They hate each other. Something that gives a military advantage of one over the other would pull their votes. Tipno's about agriculture and slave labor and Topni's about food synthesis and robots.
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| ***Topni: Supporting the Bill
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| ***Tipno: Supporting the Bill
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| * '''Iavo''': Buddhist/Amish house. Usually uninvolved with politics
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| **Status: Current supporter! ('''Aramin''')
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| * '''Canterina''': 'Woah/tripper, dude! You know what would be ''awesome''???' house. Has three demands
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| **A bunch of different materials. Status: see 'Canterina Sampler Pack', below. Status: Working on it ('''Aramin''')
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| **For us to beat their champion in a dance competition. Status: Accomplished ('''Reig/Aramin''')
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| **For us to invent a new color. Status: Accomplished ('''Advantage''')
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| * '''Grazene''': Wants to take over SCA-style planet; we should probably vote for their bill.
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| **Status: Current supporter! ('''Everybody''')
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| * '''Vegas''': Economic dudes.
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| **Status: Pay them off, or go with Reeft. Working on it. '''Intrepid'''
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| * '''Krazybuys''': The nemesis we created.
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| **Status: Pay them off, or go with Reeft.
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| Running Totals. We need a total of 50:<br>
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| (Getting to 50 is needed, but we can drop Falus and their tax rider if we can get to 56.)<br>
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| * 10 Krescht (Dark's convincing)
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| * 8 Grazene (votes for votes established)
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| * 6 Topni
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| * 4+ Reeft (researching way to exploit Gwynne rivalry)
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| * 6 Tipno
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| * 4 Canterina (need to finish sampler, but have dance and color!)
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| * =56+ subtotal
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| * 4 Vegas
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| * ==60+ subtotal
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| Nothing in the works:
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| == Canterina Sampler Pack ==
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| One of the conditions that Canterina gave for voting for our tax break was that we need to send them a bunch of different commodities. To that end, we're going to be assembling a sampler pack of cool colonial stuff that we can send to them. But to do this, we'll need everyone's help: we need one unit of each of your raw materials. If things work out with Vefna, we believe that they'll let us use their cargo ship, so we'll be sending it around to everyone's planets to collect them, if there are no objections.
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| * House Intrepid can contribute a batch of hyperidot.
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| * House Advantage is willing to provide a silo of premium Savage Corn.
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| ** In order to ensure the greatest variety possible, House Aramin offers to pay Advantage 1Mc if they also include a unit of Food.
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| ** House Advantage accepts, and sets aside one unit of Indecent Squid.
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| * House Prime can give one kelp and one chemical unit.
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| ** We do have enough to produce the full set of samples without this unit of Chemicals, but Aramin would be happy to purchase it for 1Mc ourselves if Prime is amenable (and there is still one open slot on the cargo ship, so Prime doesn't need to deal with shipping).
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| * With Raix's Frozen Gas (and Advantage's Food), that should give us enough resources to produce a twelve-commodity sampler pack for Canterina (including six raw commodities and six refined ones).
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| == The Vefna Issue ==
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| Reig contacts you by extra-secure ansible, and says, "As some of you no doubt know by now, Grazene is trying to gain support of a bill that would dictate how defunct colonies could get taken over by other Houses. They want the bill passed for their own purposes (to take over a nearby SCA-equivalent planet), and have been playing us off against each other, telling each of us that we could be the new proud owners of Vefna (Raix's now-defunct colony). Gwynne is also a supporter of this bill, no doubt because ''they'' want to take over Vefna, too. Now, trying to administer governance of Vefna collaboratively would probably be a nightmare. And having only one of us in charge might lead to an imbalance. So, we have a proposal: we are about to transport a group of would-be homesteaders from the Empire through the wormhole. We had intended that they come to our planet to help us harvest resources and explore. But they are an otherwise neutral third party: what if we collectively supported them as the new holders of Vefna? They would no doubt be in our collective debt, and would help prevent Gwynne's intrusion back into this area of space."
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| "One effect of this would probably be the support of Grazene for a tax-reducing bill for colonies that Prime is in the middle of trying to negotiate through the senate. I'm also trying to help in other ways on that front; contact Dark for more details."
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| == News from the Empire Turn 3 Followups ==
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| * '''Grazene Politics''': House Aramin has a representative in the Core prepared to talk with Grazene on Turn 4 (after getting more information about the vote on turn 3). Depending on the nature of the vote, he is prepared to negotiate on behalf of any other House that wishes to join with us in exchange for reducing or delaying the tax burden on all of us. The more houses that join, the better deal we can probably negotiate! Who's in?
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| ** House Intrepid whole-heartedly supports the amendment of the current tax regime. Seve will help out with Socializing (Imperial).
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| == The Industrial Revolution ==
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| Your raw materials may only be worth one megacredit apiece to ''you'', but they're worth much more than that to someone with the right industrial infrastructure to make use of them. That's why House Aramin would like to partner with other houses to start mass producing valuable refined goods at a profit.
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| If you bring us a shipload of four units of your raw materials, then we'll process them with our own special blend of Unsorted Crystals to produce a unit of rank-2 refined goods (worth five megacredits on the Imperial exchange), which you can pick up when you return to drop off the next load of raw materials. If you're interested in this deal, let us know!
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| == Join the League of Champions! ==
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| [[House Intrepid]] is forming a new interplanetary Astro-Polo league, the League of Champions! Seve Ballesteros and the Krazybuys(tm) Arabian Knights are on a pre-season tour to help drum up interest. If you'd like to like to host an exhibition match in the next few turns, let us know!
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| (What that means mechanics-wise: our cargo ship visits your planet with [[House_Intrepid#Seve_Ballesteros_.28Iain.29|my PC]] aboard. No military units. If you want to trade goods on the side, great. If you join the League, there'll be another match later on, perhaps with an Imperial visit and some real money involved.)
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| * To foster community spirit between colonials and natives, House Advantage are doing their best to put together an amateur team, the Fort Tomorrow Tree Squid. The Tree Squid place a high emphasis on image marketing, after-game banquets, spray-on uniforms, ambiguous rough-housing, xenophobia and, indeed, virtually any aspect of sport that draws attention away from the actual gameplay.
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| * Huzzah! House Intrepid's (de facto) flagship Titanicus will drop by Hrobaj on turn 2, in time for the Trade and Politics phases.
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| * House Aramin proposes a combined polo match and commodities exchange: if Intrepid brings N units of (rank 0) Warp Crystals, Aramin will trade N units of (rank 0) Unsorted Crystals for them. And play a game of polo to celebrate! (Another option: four units of (rank 0) Warp Crystals for one unit of (rank 1) Fancy Crystals.) (Or we could just do the option described above, under "The Industrial Revolution".)
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| Let's keep the in-game stuff here, and use the related Discussion page for meta-game stuff. Oh, and put new stuff at the top! | | Let's keep the in-game stuff here, and use the related Discussion page for meta-game stuff. Oh, and put new stuff at the top! [[Agents of Empire/Older Scuttlebutt|Older Scuttlebutt]] that's no longer current has been moved to another page. |
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| [[Category:AgentsOfEmpire]] | | [[Category:AgentsOfEmpire]] |
Where Are We?
What is the name of this corner of the galaxy where the colonies are located? Please vote!
- The Yellow Spiral Clump
- Kneepit
- The Caramel Cluster
- The Wretched Hives
- Something Else
Secret Research
Those who control part of the Secret Advanced Physics Laboratory may wish to vote on which topic it begins researching in Turn 12. (Also, the results of the previous round of research are here.)
Prime's 'Research Group' on Gwyne
Thanks to the productive work of absolutely no one, we have access to an, ahem, "research group" on Gwyne. We can request they look into specific secret stuff. If you have something you want looked into, post it here.
- Look into "Operation Moon Snail" to see if there are more Gwyne operatives on Prime.
- Look into Gwynne's Nefarious Plan (below)
Gwynne's Nefarious Plan
Reig shares the following with you at the astro-polo finals: On Elvis, we have recovered decrypted Gwyne data which seems to indicate that Gwynne was planning to build something on all five of our planets, perhaps to weaponize the wormhole against the Empire. Iavo may be working for them, too, as Iavo was also interested in the same hexes listed in this data fragment. Figuring out what they were doing and what they still are planning should be a top priority in the coming weeks, as the last bit clearly says their own plans are to have us eliminated.
Weekly Poker Match
Rick Starfarer has scheduled (perhaps retroactively as of a couple months ago) a weekly game of six-card hyperstud! All of the top local colonial movers and shakers are invited (i.e., the PC's). Just dial your holovidwave set to 55-epsilon-673-double-mauve to log on (and have an IC excuse for sharing OOC information).
- Rick is in, of course.
- Dark from Prime will play.
Transcripts
If you have transcripts of the rpg elements of this game you want to share (either in-character or out of character), send them to me (lpsmith) and I'll put them up on the transcript page. Thanks!
Strange Dreams
The next time you and Reig chat in person, you chat for a while, and then Reig says, "Listen, uh, I'm not sure if this means anything, but I had this strange dream when I last visited Iavo. Just in case you experience something similar, I thought I'd tell you about it." Reig's dream.
Environmental Protection Act
Shockingly, it seems that House Gwynne left behind all sorts of hazardous garbage when they abandoned their various colonies. The Houses who graciously stepped in to assume control of these environmental disasters are left with the heavy financial burden of cleaning up the mess.
Surely the Imperial Parliament cannot let such injustice stand. Several prominent politicians are currently in the process of drafting a resolution that would levy significant fines against House Gwynne and distribute the funds to the affected Houses.
Using this page
Let's keep the in-game stuff here, and use the related Discussion page for meta-game stuff. Oh, and put new stuff at the top! Older Scuttlebutt that's no longer current has been moved to another page.
