So they go
around, talking to people, picking up some clues. They don't know what
to do though since the adventure is not designed to have them *do*
anything before the armistice treaty, just get a feeling of the
situation and pick up some information. They try to contact Starfleet
or the Federation Council to get food for these people, maybe even use
their Orion favor. But in the end nothing seems adequate to feed a
whole world.
We move on to the armistice ceremony. We all know something's going to
happen so they all bring phasers and eight security guards to boot.
Naturally, I can only blame myself for giving them the impression that
they should do that. But really there was adequate local police to
protect everyone. They also wanted the ship ready to use transporters,
even after I mentioned at the start of the night that anyone who
suggested using transporters to solve a problem would lose Initiative.
In any case, the rebels sprung a trap. Shannon had come home by now so
his character was at the ceremony. Lots of phaser fire as dozens of
rebels fought the guards. Meanwhile the ship was under attack by a
Romulan Warbird so it couldn't send any reinforcements (all according
to the episode writeup). I wanted to capture everyone which is the way
the scenario is supposed to go, but it was getting late so I made it
into a longer fight until Jon and Gonar were able to convince the
rebels to surrender.
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After that
they talked to the rebel leader, released the rebels, and left the
planet in an uneasy state of truce. The Romulans weren't defeated, just
their rebel stooges, although for now everything looks fine on the
surface. Once again I gave negative renown to most everyone. Eric for
suggesting the guns, security, and transporters; Donald for not doing
anything even though he led the mission; Chris for never correcting the
natives that he was not one of their Romulan gods; Woo for using
threats to win the final battle; Shannon for using a phaser (his
character was barely there and I didn't want to penalize anywhere else
since then he wouldn't have been promoted). Strangely, Chris said he
liked the game. Go figure.
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