Scenario Info
Author - Will Hindmarch/Timothy D Olsen & Mark Costello
Source - TrekRPG.net/Graduation Exercise (Prime Directive)
Players - High
Action - High
Roll Call
Shannon Appelcline (Clancy Evans)
Donald Kubasak (Krystal Evensong)
Dave Pickering (Venor Pertham)
Chris Van Horn (Beltana S'hatar)
Kevin C. Wong (Game Master)
Dave Woo (Gonar)
Audio
Section 1 (41:52, 4.7 MB,
04/14/01)
Section 2 (41:43, 4.7 MB,
04/14/01)
Section 3 (42:12, 4.8 MB,
04/14/01)
Section 4 (36:16, 4.1 MB,
04/14/01)
Section 5 (38:10, 4.3 MB,
04/14/01)
Section 6 (22:24, 2.5 MB,
04/14/01)
|
Recap
The trouble started when Eric said he wouldn't make it on Saturday. I
had been planning on running a short adventure and telling us on
Thursday was a bit late for me to change my plans radically. It would
have been a good time for the Erzo parody adventure, especially without
Sweet there since he hates the holodeck (Pick too, but at least he
keeps quiet about it). But then Woo said he wasn't going to make it and
if Woo wasn't showing up then Fulton wasn't showing up either, leaving
me with Shannon, Donald, Pick, and the once-in-a- blue-moon Chris. So
that scratched the episode. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to run
that episode since it requires lots of people yet I can't run it with
Eric, Sweet, or Pick around. Ah well, it's tough to be a GM.
With a whole day to play with it would be nice to run a longer episode.
But with only one day to prepare I wasn't about to read a 20-30 page
module and take notes. Different tack. The episode that I was going to
run originally has a few scenes of trekking in the wilderness. I can
expand that with part of the Prime Directive adventure, "Graduation
Exercise." GE is actually quite long and involved, but I only looked at
the wilderness encounters and got a general idea of what would happen.
I just had to keep it tame so I wouldn't kill a three-character team.
But the original adventure also brought up another idea that I had been
toying with: the spy-in-the-midst story. Very hard to do since the
players are naturally suspicious of any NPCs, especially when one of
them could be a dirty rotten spy. The only way to pull it off well is
to collaborate with a player, and the only player that I can see
pulling it off is Shannon. It's a good thing I tend to show up early,
so I could talk to him about his role in the episode.
|