Where could
Granger drive to? Only two well used roads from the main city, one to
the Bringloidi village and one to the crash site of the Mariposa. They
take the shuttle to the crash site, where they detect a life sign.
Going down to investigate, they find someone trapped in a room. Phaser
through the door. It's Danillo O'dell! How could it be? Confusion.
Danillo seems kind of mad at Wilson, who he claims put him here.
Krystal comes up with a plan. With Danillo and Wilson's wrongdoing, she
thinks she has enough leverage to make Wilson compromise. She calls a
meeting where she goes over her proposals: equal governmental
representation, sex at the Bringloidi pace -- can't force them to have
sex with three women, a central market place where the two peoples can
interact in a neutral environment. Brenna is all for that. Wilson still
has objections. Enter Danillo. Brenna is devastated at the betrayal,
Wilson is defeated, Danillo has to be restrained from choking Wilson.
Wilson gives in to the demands. Another successful mission.
I must admit that this was a fun episode to run. I got to really ham it
up and act out the NPCs without having lots of players to juggle.
Commander Argyle talked a mile a minute, saying how unreasonable the
two peoples are, how the diplomatic manual doesn't cover this
situation, how he pointed out what they should be doing but they
wouldn't listen. Engineering never prepared him for this, if not for
his dreams to make Admiral he wouldn't have changed branches.
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The initial
Bringloidi scene was hectic. Bringloidi men demanding that Brenna leave
them alone. They should be free to drink and womanize as they want.
Brenna saying that the men should get off their lazy asses and
contribute some useful work to the village. Calls for making Bessie the
Cow the new Bringloidi speaker. Threats that God will strike the men
down. Quite entertaining.
Wilson Granger is very straight and calm. Even when accused of doing
wrong, he only hesitated briefly before denying everything and coming
up with plausible explanations. There was a lot of impromptu speaking
on my part. I had the adventure more or less memorized so I didn't have
to refer to the text. I think I presented all the clues, didn't skip
anything important, kept the flow moving smoothly and entertainingly. A
good episode, and time for me to take a week off and bask in the glory.
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