Session VI: It's a TRAP!?!?!

Opening Crawl:

After discovering a group of Imperial intelligence officers in a hidden room inside the ruins of the Palace of Alderaan, Vero, Turk, Jeegn, D’wook, Hal and the droids quickly defeated them and kept one alive for questioning.

Who was this trap set for? Where is all the rumored Alderaanian treasure? And how are they going to get off this Asteroid?

The Imperial officer stares defiantly at the group of rebels, intent on keeping his secrets. At least for now... 

This is apparently what the palace of Alderaan looked like. So imagine this is just part of a large asteroid and it is flying around in space.

Session V: The Graverobbers' Gambit

Yes, every small ship in the galaxy looks like that.

Opening crawl

The rebel agent Zaz Kamiroz is dead, but with his last breaths he revealed to Vero Morelock, whom he mistook for an undercover Princess Leia Organa, that the ROYAL PALACE of ALDERAAN has been found by the miners of OUTPOST 11  in the Graveyard of Alderaan, a newly formed cluster of asteroids that once made up the doomed planet.

It is very likely that the Empire has also learned of the discovery and the rumor that Bail Organa, one of the architects of the Rebellion, may have survived the planet’s destruction.

The race is on to find the palace before the Empire can, but Vero and her friends can do nothing other than return to the safe confines of Poliss’ droid shop to discuss their next move.

The Graveyard of Alderaan module was written with several cutscenes which serve to inform the players (but not the party) of the story. This time we opened with Leia standing over a dead miner and telling Luke that they found her father and they have to go to Alderaan. Han then suggests taking the Falcon.

I have to say I kind of don’t like this, because it forces the players to act on information that their characters don’t have. They now know that the feature characters are on their way to the same place they are going, and their goal is to preserve continuity or else the Empire Strikes Back isn’t going to happen. I tried to alter the story a bit to inform them in game that this is what is going to happen, but then it was all the less climactic when they uncovered that information. 

Session IV: BACTA THE FUTURE

That's Turk.... honest.

Opening crawl

After narrowly escaping a deadly shootout on the streets of Mos Eisley, the group of badly wounded rebels board the Ithorian herd ship Bazaar with a new lease on life.

Much has changed in the galaxy during the two years they spent in the belly of the hellish sarlaac monster, including Hal Brunchkiller, who now thinks he’s some kind of Jedi knight. 

The massive herd rumbles as it prepares to enter hyperspace and leave Tatooine and its twin suns far, far behind...

For good...

For real...

Honest... we really aren’t going back there again...

What? You want to go back?... but there is an ENTIRE FREAKING GALAXY!!! WHY DO WE HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON TATOOINE?

It's like the galactic equivalent of South Dakota... No offense to South Dakotans. 

Oh, who am I kidding? There are no South Dakotans that will ever read this, but that’s my point! Tatooine is the freakin’ sticks! There's New York! There's LA! DC!!!! No, you wanna go back to Bismarck?

Okay, Bismarck is actually North Dakota, but did YOU know that? Did you?

Okay fine, we'll go back to Tatooine eventually. Just not right now. We've got more important things to do. Like find that medical center, and then try to reestablish contact with the Rebel Alliance....

Session III: THE FORCE WITHIN

So this session began with a merging of universes. Turk and D'wook's players were present to join the new group.

The last session ended on the cliffhanger with the party having been captured by the pirates they freed from Captain Needa's Star Destroyer.

But rather than opening with the whole group brought to Jabba to be sentenced, I decided that that's something that just happened between sessions, so we opened the session with the skiff traveling towards the sarlaac with Jabba’s pleasure barge leading the way, with a large group of spectators.

Opening Crawl:

Tragedy! The band of heroic rebels have been captured by pirates and taken to the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt for a hefty bounty. 

The empire is now the least of their worries because Jabba has sentenced them to death in the belly of the Sarlaac, where they will know a new definition of pain and suffering as they are slowly digested over a thousand years. 

Jabba’s sail barge sails over the Dune Sea toward the pit of Carkoon, with the prisoners in tow... 

Yikes!

Retcons and retools

Hey, you weren't there!

Well I've started up again after a long hiatus. I assembled a new group to come out and play this game, because only two from the previous group seemed to be the slightest bit interested. And since so much effort has been put into the first introductory adventure where the party has a critical role in the Battle of Yavin, it only really made sense for us to start from the very beginning. I'm actually pretty proud of the plot I devised to have the party tangentially related to what's happening in the movie, so naturally I wanted to give the players a feeling like they are just as important to the Death Star's destruction as Luke Skywalker is. That's fun.

Session II: THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY....

Note: The title of this session was originally "The Force Within," but the force wasn't really "within" anything for two reasons. First, two of the group members canceled on short notice, which means I had to rework what I had planned. Next, one of the group members was quite late, meaning we ran out of time before what was supposed to be the big climax. (Meaning we probably are going to start the next session with said climax.)

 

Opening Crawl:

The Death Star is no more. REBEL command is planning to evacuate their no-longer hidden base on Yavin IV.

Distress calls from IMPERIAL survivors have been intercepted. They originate from deep within the Yavinian Jungles, because where else would they be when the entire planet/moon thingy has only one biome, like all inhabitable planets in the galaxy.

Special Agent Arnette Sterling Turk, in his first mission as a newly-minted rebel sergeant, has been ordered to lead a team disguised as Imperials to “rescue” this band of survivors and silence any further communication they might have with the Empire...

Session I: SPICE AND SECRETS

Well alright! I've started a new blog for this, because I love the Star Wars D6 roleplaying game and I want my gaming sessions to live forever. I hope that the group I GMed for a few days ago can come together and continue this story.

But for those who are interested in reading... Here are a few introductory disclaimers.