Genesis

7:00 AM

...and then, according to this Post-Fall Life Event table, I fall in love.

You find your one true love. You don’t feel like your full self when you are away from them. Gain the Intense Relationship trait (p. 90).

What kind of trashy romance novel does this guy LIVE in?

Pixie

This is basically a transhuman romance novel- yes

Magician

Hahahahahha

BESW

"Oh, I'm an independently wealthy anarchist stripper scientist who has fallen in love with one of my clients!"

Magician

...your private hab in orbit is for that kind of privacy, eh.

BESW

Okay, let's throw some drama into this. Gatecrashing Event, go!

2d10

Dice Service

7:02 AM

2

4

BESW

You serve on 1d10 missions and pick up some new skills. Replace a 1 PP Focus, Faction, or Customization package you acquired in Step 10 with the Explorer package at 1 PP (p. 32).

That is not exciting.

Magician

Roll again?

BESW

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Dice Service

10

2

BESW

You go on 1d10 gatecrashing missions, with no major consequences. You do see some cool things, though. Gain +1 Moxie.

Noooo.

2d10

Dice Service

7:03 AM

9

3

BESW

You step through a gate and arrive somewhere other than you expected. Your jaunt is adventurous, but you make it back safe. Gain +10 Profession: Gatecrashing skill.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PERSON.

You KILLED YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY WITH A CUSTOMS ERROR.

Magician

He has a tragic past which makes him brood sometimes.

BESW

WHY ARE YOU SO COMPETENT AT HORRIFIC SPACE THINGS.

Pixie

Adventurous, huh.

BESW

2d10

Dice Service

7:04 AM

9

6

BESW

You receive some focused training in gate operations. Gain the Programming (Gate Interface) specialization (p. 142, Gatecrashing).

Iron Heart

Goodness gracious.

BESW

2d10

Dice Service

9

8

Magician

@BESW Apply that to the firewall event

BESW

7:05 AM

@Magician Someone you are close to is a Firewall proxy; they brought you in to help them out. Gain +1 Moxie.

Magician

Your true love?

Pixie

The love interest?

Heh.

BESW

Obviously my lover is a super-spy.

trogdor

you might not want everyone to be the same person though

Pixie

I mean why wouldn't they be?

Magician

7:06 AM

So we start with trashy romance novel. There is a kinky asteroid. Then, suddenly, superspy.

BESW

> Hi, I'm an independently wealthy anarchist scientist with a kinky sex satellite orbiting Venus. I killed my entire family with a customs error when I was 16, and sometimes I brood about that. Recently I gave up escorting when I fell in love with one of my clients, who turns out to be a super-spy and now she wants me to help her secret organisation fight space zombies!

6

Magician

Perfect.

Pixie

Not going to lie, I'd probably give that story a chance.

BESW

I probably still make model spaceships, too.

Pixie

Your other great love.

BESW

7:10 AM

Also I somehow think that my scientific research is into re-purposing sex toy materials for space-flight applications.

Magician

One last story event? Or is the character complete as is?

BESW

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3

BESW

You participate as a test subject in a research project. You suffer no ill effects … that you can tell.

Magician

...kinky

Pixie

7:12 AM

@BESW "How did you figure out that this stuff was aerodynamic?" "Oh... funny story, that..."

BESW

Okay, afk for a while.

Not gonna try to top that.

Pixie

Hmm, maybe I'll give this a shot. I'm actually not distracted or falling asleep for once.

Magician

I'm here to advise you on the setting if needed.

Pixie

Cool! I start on page 55, right?

Magician

Yup!

Pixie

7:23 AM

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Dice Service

2

Pixie

Dilettante.

Native tongue...

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Dice Service

9

3

Pixie

Vietnamese.

Youth path...

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4

Pixie

7:26 AM

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1

7

Pixie

Wholesome youth, earthborn.

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8

trogdor

I might try after you

Pixie

Troubled. Hmm.

trogdor

7:27 AM

don't want to clog with rolls though

Pixie

1d10

Dice Service

9

Magician

@trogdor Yeah, would be hard to keep track of concurrent generation.

trogdor

@Magician my exact thought

I can definitely wait

Pixie

1d10

Dice Service

7:28 AM

9

Pixie

Techie.

Magician

@Pixie I'm a bit lost. What's this?

Ah, I think I know. The next path is just something to remember for now. It's the likely continuation of your life, but there'll be rolls still.

Pixie

Ohh, I see.

Yeah I just got confused. xD

Magician

So you get the Fall Evacuee: Underclass package from page 17, at 3pp. Except it's before the fall, so these are just the skills you get.

Pixie

Let's see, are there tables for the things it says to choose?

Magician

7:34 AM

Pages 42-43

Pixie

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7

Pixie

My interest is exoplanets. Since I'm earthborn and my childhood has not been good, they probably have a certain appeal.

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Dice Service

8

4

Pixie

roll 2d10

Oops. xD

Too used to IRC.

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Dice Service

7:38 AM

2

1

Pixie

Criminal networking, huh. My family probably does what it has to do to survive.

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5

6

Pixie

Profession is medical care. An interest likely developed from the need to take care of oneself and one's own in such rough circumstances, and I'm a flat (that's just a human body, right?).

Magician

Yeah.

Pixie

How is medical care in this setting?

Is it easy or difficult to obtain?

Rolling background event...

Magician

7:46 AM

It varies greatly.

Pixie

2d10

Dice Service

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6

Pixie

> You enjoy urban exploration and getting into off-limits areas. Gain +10 to either Climbing or Infiltration skill.

Magician

...climbing the ruins?

Pixie

I'm going to do Infiltration there.

Yes, definitely. And anywhere else she can get into. I'm getting an escapist vibe. She dreams of being able to get as far away as she can.

2d10

Dice Service

7:48 AM

4

7

Pixie

She'll be in her 30s at the beginning of play.

2d10

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8

6

Pixie

... 6 days d100 but I think it's actually a d10. xD

I'll just take the 8.

Which means I'll be switching gears...

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3

Pixie

She became a criminal herself. Not surprising. She had other plans originally, but in the end, it was all she knew.

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Dice Service

7:55 AM

1

Pixie

... an assassin. Wow.

Magician

You gotta do what you gotta do.

Pixie

Knowing how to heal also means knowing how to hurt.

Magician

And childhood spent sneaking around a war torn city doesn't hurt either.

Pixie

Yesss. She has knowledge of the body, she knows how to get into places she's not supposed to be, and she has the connections she needs.

doppelgreener

8:01 AM

@BESW WHAT? When did that get determined!?

Magician

Ok, pre-fall event!

@doppelgreener That was his Fall event, "You make a bad call that gets people killed. Now you question your gut feelings. Lose –5 INT."

Pixie

2d10

Dice Service

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2

Pixie

> You exhibit a serious lack of willpower in coping with your adult life. Gain the Addiction (Major) trait (p. 148, EP)

Magician

...

oh dear

Pixie

8:03 AM

Heh. I was thinking she might have some issues with her less than realized dreams. Perfect.

That's in another book, it looks like?

Magician

Hopefully the Fall breaks her out of her path which is all but set so far.

@Pixie Yeah, most of the game mechanics bits are in the core book. Doesn't really matter.

Pixie

I'm curious as to what it would be. :P Oh well, I'll note it down and worry about it later.

Fall event time!

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9

doppelgreener

@Pixie she has literally a thousand plushies (she keeps a tally)

Pixie

@doppelgreener No one goes to her house anymore. Their eyes follow you.

> Your ego survives the Fall but is locked in simulspace for years before you are resleeved. Roll randomly on the Choosing a Morph table (p. 44) and
gain +20 Interfacing skill.

doppelgreener

8:07 AM

@Pixie She got someone to program them to do that. She was pretty excited about it.

Pixie

@Magician Let's see... I'm gonna start on the Morph Type table here, yes?

Magician

Aye. Lets find out what new shiny body you got.

Talk of starting a new life.

Pixie

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5

10

Pixie

She's an uplift biomorph.

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8:09 AM

6

Pixie

An octomorph. Neeeeat.

trogdor

heee

lucky you

Magician

Octomorph assassins are amazing

doppelgreener

I am such a big fan of this character now

Pixie

Going to take a lot of getting used to, granted.

trogdor

8:10 AM

this is pretty awesome so far

Pixie

So she's a fancy octopus. Let's see what she's going to do now.

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8

Pixie

Defined by your actions.

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Pixie

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8:15 AM

8

Magician

@Pixie "You get the job done", no? Even more pp in Focus.

Pixie

She's staying on the path and branching out into piracy too.

Magician

Nice!

Pixie

So she gets another interest...

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9

Pixie

8:18 AM

(Location) Places of Interest

Magician

(table on the previous page for locations)

Pixie

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9

Pixie

The Outer Fringe. Brief description?

Magician

Of the Solar system. One sec.

Rimward, page 136, if you feel like reading in detail.

Pixie

8:23 AM

"I was going to be a doctor, once. Now I'm spiraling down the path of no return, killing for money and stealing what I can't earn and oh yeah I'm a ****ing octopus." "... all I asked was how are you." "Wonderful. THANKS."

Magician

> Welcome to the deep black. If you’ve come to the fringe looking for friends, turn back now. This is the darkest, coldest, loneliest part of the system.
Most of the natives guard their secrets closely and don’t take well to visitors. Agents are advised to keep their curiosity in check and mind their manners. Out here, a corpse in the recycler doesn’t raise too many questions.
Next to privacy, the major industries of the fringe are research and prospecting. Most of the fringe is too inaccessible for commercial exploitation. Life is more a matter of survival than profit, so the hypercorps ke…

Pixie

Heh. Exactly the kind of place she would go.

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8

Pixie

Mixing it up.

d10

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7

Pixie

8:27 AM

... military. xD

Magician

I'll note there was also an Art skill in the Pirate package. Just in case you want to roll that, too.

Pixie

OH I misread the table in 9.

Mixed up my faction and focus pps.

Magician

Should be 5 focus, 1 faction, I think.

Pixie

3 focus, 1 faction.

Wait... [facepalms] You're right.

I may be tireder than I thought! But I am seeing this through. :v

Magician

Almost there!

Pixie

8:32 AM

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8

1

Pixie

Her art is simulspace design.

Magician

She's been stuck in simulspace for years, makes perfect sense.

Pixie

Probably bored out of her mind, except that's all she was.

Magician

Interesting, how she got an octomorph. Those are expensive. And you don't make much money in simulspace. Did she steal it somehow, or got it as part of recruitment?

Pixie

8:34 AM

But somehow, in the midst of all her assassination and piracy, she's gotten into the military. Hmm.

Magician

Well, lets find out what military faction that is.

d10

3

...

Criminal.

She's an inside contact.

Magician

8:36 AM

I think you actually reroll if you had this before

Did you have this exact package?

"Military" simply means this faction is militant. It could be a part of a standing army (though those are somewhat rare nowadays), but it doesn't have to be.

Pixie

Oh, I think I accidentally skipped over that package. Let me see what I should have added.

Magician

Ah, I think it was a grouping before, like miliatry

And you got Assassin out of it as the actual package

Pixie

Yes, that's what it was.

So yeah, criminal works here.

Lemme count up...

1 PP in faction, 5 PP in focus, 3 PP in childhood... I think that's all I have, unless I missed something.

Magician

Also 1 PP from adult pre-fell path, bringing you to 10.

Pixie

Ahh, right. So I am where I should be.

Magician

8:41 AM

So. Grows up in a war-torn country, dreams of escaping it, escaping it all, gets sucked into the criminal underworld that runs it. After the Fall gets a second chance at life, or so it seems. Gets stuck in simulspace for years until she makes a shady deal. Now she's a cool space pirate assassin octomorph. But she still hasn't escaped her life.

Maybe random events will shake her up.

Pixie

I don't think she really sees a way out anymore, and she's glad just to have a body again, even if she complains about it.

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Dice Service

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9

Pixie

> You fall for the smooth lies of a convincing member of another faction.
You realize your error only after the damage is done. Lose 10 rep from the
rep network appropriate to your faction.

Magician

wow

Even criminals don't trust her.

Pixie

Maybe part of her wanted to believe there was a way out, so much that it clouded her judgment.

Magician

8:45 AM

Sure sounds that way.

Pixie

Firewall event time.

Oh, wait, I have a choice here.

Magician