This is the write-up of a game of Intrepid played at the Edinburgh Indie Gamers meetup on 13/04/2019
We started with one of the players declaring that they were in several fantasy games at the moment, so how about a bit of SF? Another player suggested space opera, to which a third expressed a preference for cyberpunk style gritty SF. We decided that our setting would be 'Hard SF', set on a decaying mining station in the asteroid belt.
Game setup phase:
Taking it in turns through each step, the players write down one theme, one character, one location and one faction, and finish by linking one of their elements to one of someone else's elements. We then each create a Quest that may be followed in the next phase. We finished with the following...
Themes:
We started with one of the players declaring that they were in several fantasy games at the moment, so how about a bit of SF? Another player suggested space opera, to which a third expressed a preference for cyberpunk style gritty SF. We decided that our setting would be 'Hard SF', set on a decaying mining station in the asteroid belt.
Game setup phase:
Taking it in turns through each step, the players write down one theme, one character, one location and one faction, and finish by linking one of their elements to one of someone else's elements. We then each create a Quest that may be followed in the next phase. We finished with the following...
Themes:
- The station is decaying
- Psionics
- Contagion is spreading
- Thorium miners with new mitochondria
- The Earth is lost
- Miners syndicate.
- Space pirates Saturday night poker game: a regular poke game attended by pirates, smugglers and the odd miner.
- Human Rights Watch: a group dedicated to preserving Human Rights in these uncertain times.
- Smugglers: they just happen to be the source of the contagion on the station.
- Station Management: they are all secretly psionics.
- Daedalus: a pilot and smuggler.
- Veronica: the station’s overworked medic, who is investigating the miners’ unusual mitochondria and whom the station management want to silence.
- Alan: the A.I. that runs the remote power plant for the mining station. He is also the secretary of the Human Rights Watch group.
- Icarus: an uplifted Orangutang who makes illegal booze and grows drugs in a long-abandoned corridor of the station. He is the barman for the Saturday night poker games.
- Korrad: a drunken miner, member of the miners syndicate and player in the Saturday night poker games.
- Vasili: enforcer of the space pirates
- David: Director of electronic systems on the station, one of Daedalus’ bosses.
- Power Plant Blackout
- Smuggling Live Cargo
- The Alcohol Is Missing
- A Misshapen Miner Under Quarantine
- The Last Ship From Earth