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Well, about time

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I have forgotten what this is

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Wait, what?! Im not ready!

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Hurrah!

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Total Members Voted: 7

[Dwarmin]

Anyway, we need to form a coherent plot, fellas.

So, what do we wanna do in this game? Space exploration? Fighting the bug war? Ragtag bunch of criminal scum?

[GiglameshDespair]

Exploring bug space to help fight the war as a ragtag bunch of criminal scum.

[Dwarmin]

Right. How about we all list our characters primary motivation/goals?

For example...

My character is directionless, aligned only with herself, but looking for a cause to champion

She'll follow anything deemed not too morally repugnant....but, she's not entirely decided on that, either.

[GiglameshDespair]

My character wants money and a good fight, not caring if it's for a good cause or bad.

[Cain12]

Okay, suppose its better than going in blind.

Main/End goal is to eventually go home/find family, needs money to do that.

Might fight for a cause, if convinced it was actually worth fighting for/is offered incentives.

Isn't an out and out criminal, but is no stranger to morally wrong/ambiguous tasks.
Would have liked to be a good person once, but settled for being a live person.

(As for what to do, we are in a bar with bored/pissed off people, some dissatisfied with their lots in life, start fight club. )

[Dwarmin]

Yeah, normally I'd want to keep OOC knowledge limited, but the GM threw us to the wolves and said 'fight it out'. So we gotta figure something.

Anyway, that's two votes for making money, three for 'a good fight', and 1/2 in favor of an acceptable level of moral turpitude.

[Aseaheru]

 Hey, atleast you arent getting railroaded.

[Dwarmin]

Fair enough, but can we at least get some local news over the bar on a television?

Or it's retro-future equivalent.

Failing that, I'm literally going to do a skill check.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Alban is mostly just bored, and looking for something to do. Ideally, he'd like to fight the good fight, for non-negative values of 'good' and 'fight'. ie: he'd help rob a shipment of medicine, if they turned around gave it to an orphanage. Money's not really motivating him, he's got plenty.

That all said, he's going to jump at the first chance to fly again. He feels very grounded, and not in a good way.

[Stirk]

So the goals of most characters is money and/or action. While this is sufficiently broad and the general goal of most RPG characters, it doesn't really narrow down the options or give us any better idea of what to do .

[Dwarmin]

OK, so let's all break character and randomly introduce ourselves!

It's all we have to do for now.

[GiglameshDespair]

I suppose the problem I (and others, I imagine) have is I don't really know the lore well, I have no idea what's available on the planet to how to get a ship, etc.

[Dwarmin]

I suppose the problem I (and others, I imagine) have is I don't really know the lore well, I have no idea what's available on the planet to how to get a ship, etc.

There's some old computers from 192290's in the corner of the bar, I guess you can use them for lore dumps.

The real problem is that any player who doesn't 'pair off' with another player or join a group for future funtime space stuff is going to be stuck in this bar forever, waiting for something to happen.

I suggest the GM drop a bomb on it eventually, just to remove the inactive players.

[Dwarmin]

Btw, as for lore, I pretty much put this game in the same 'canon' as the Alien movies, at least technology and social wise. It's pretty clearly gritty retro-futuristic. Just imagine if they had spaceships in the 1980's. Which means boomboxes and cassette tapes in space!

https://youtu.be/icpR-R1ZOa4?t=41 <--This video is pretty good for getting you into the mindset of the worlds we are playing on, as would any stuff from Alien Isolation, really. It's called Hard-Scifi. Our technology has advanced somewhat, but we're still the same soft, fleshy and flawed human beings we are right now. And we can travel faster than light speeds...but our ships literally look like garbage, and we have to do everything manually.

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Also, you chose a home planet, right? If you did, just base your personal 'lore' off that. It's not likely you'd know everything anyway.

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As for buying a ship, the prices I've found indicate at least 1,000,000 LV to start, probably more.

Obviously, we wouldn't be able to buy it at once. In fact, I doubt we'd finish the game before we were finished paying for it. It's up the GM if the players owning a ship is workable, however.

[My Name is Immaterial]

As for buying a ship, the prices I've found indicate at least 1,000,000 LV to start, probably more.

That's for buying a fighter, right? Not a fully jump capable ship?