High guard game looking for players.

[barnest2]

I run the 'A long way from home' game on this site.
It's a high guard game where the players are officers and crew aboard a 9,000 ton cruiser in a small (non-3I) environment. We have an active gunnery officer and a helmsman, an NPC captain and (possibly) a marine captain.
The ship is currently stuck in a distant low tech system, and will hopefully soon be moving on towards home. Anyone interested, please post here with a character idea.
Thanks.

 

[BFalcon]

Hehe would I be right in thinking that you'd want to be away from me for one thread?

If not, Engineer who thinks that officers are a waste of space to be tolerated and satisfied as quickly as possible so they'll leave his engines alone? And anyone messing with "his" ship is gonna PAY... (officers only think they run the ship - true engineers know better...)

 

[barnest2]

I'd be happy to have you... but in terms of engineers, I kind of have one who still hangs around. Tell you what, submit one, but if Hector turns up, would you mind rolling something else?

Oh, yeah, Hector, Old timer, Far trader and any others. If you're around and still want to play, please respond to this.

 

[phavoc]

Will there be shoreleave?

 

[barnest2]

Plausibly, once you're back in Brittanian space. why?

 

[BFalcon]

Will there be shoreleave?

Why has Leslie Fish's "Banned From Argo" suddenly started to play in my mind's juke box?

 

[barnest2]

hehe. I've never heard that before... plus not only are you spacers, but navy spacers. All the worse eh?

 

[BFalcon]

Hehe... well, it was written about the crew from the original series of ST... so yeah, it would be kinda appropriate in a worrying kind of way...

Another one to get you worried - see if you can look up Bob Newhart's the cruise of the USS Codfish... that will also point out just how horribly wrong a navy crew can get.... :shock:

Be afraid... be very afraid... :twisted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoP1AIuMZxE

Especially love the "Let's hear it for the cooks... look, I'm not going to surface until I hear it for the cooks...", "we'd like the Executive Officer returned... we're just glad it wasn't someone important, like the navigator..." and "My door is always open... I think you know why it's always open... that was stolen, I'd like that returned...."

Or the record for the Most Japanese Tonnage Sunk - in 1954...

 

[barnest2]

Anyone else? Come on BFalcon, get a character in

 

[barnest2]

Seriously, you guys are all useless Play more!

 

[Old timer]

I am, all my games are face to face at mo so dont have time or energy for online games currently

 

[barnest2]

Oy. You never said you were leaving. I wondered where my XO had gone

 

[Finlos]

Do I need to own High Guard to play in this campaign? Haven't played Traveller in years and this might be a good way to re-learn the system.

 

[barnest2]

Hmmm.... not technically, though it would help with char creation.
Depends what sort of character you want. What do you want to be?
(I suppose you could do it with core actually... lets hear your ideas first)

 

[Finlos]

And to think I picked up Merchant Prince instead of High Guard last time I was in a good hobby store. I'll have to see if I can find it locally. Could you use a science officer or a ship's doctor?

 

[barnest2]

Hey merchant prince is good (and better for the trader game I run )
Doctor yes-ish, but you wouldn't have huge amounts to do (i'll throw stuff at you but it would be sparse)
Science officer... not really. I wouldn't know what to do with you.

 

[Finlos]

The difficulty I see is that you're looking for players for High Guard, not traders :lol:

Seems you're looking for an action-type character, not a scholarly-tpye. I'll have to do some looking to see if I can find the book locally

 

[barnest2]

True dat. I think traders is basically full.
Combat type, yes a bit more, mainly so you have something to do during the main drag during combat. You may also want to look through the threads as well, I would be accepting characters from the protectorate (an allied low tech system)

 

[Finlos]

Which of the ongoing campaigns under the Online Games would I be looking for?? I'll see if I can come up with something that compliments the party well but doesn't overlap too much.

 

[barnest2]

high guard is "A long way from home" (because you are)