SoloTrav: Flykiller: Efate-ful Encounters

[SpaceBadger]

SoloTrav: Flykiller:

GM: SpaceBadger

Player: Flykiller

PC: Lora Lei

Campaign:

Setting: Spinward Marches, pre-war

Starting Place and Date:

[SpaceBadger]

Status: Flykiller has his PC generated, I just need to sit down and come up with a good introduction to begin the adventure.

[flykiller]

be careful how good it is. if it's too good you create unrealistic expectations ....

[SpaceBadger]

Originally Posted by flykiller

Lora Lei, 7B9BCD, age 46 (6 in lowberth) 40, regen to bio-age 20
Scout 7 tours, Psi 11/11 telepath/telekin
Skills: pilot 3 navigation 1 engineering 1 damagecontrol 1 vaccsuit 2 0g 2 instructor 2 liaison 1 equestrian 2 sidearm 2 combatives 3 Forgery-0, Investigation-1, Search/Hide-1, Security/Intrusion-1
Muster: Baronette/pension, Scoutship

Exiting Jump into Efate (SM 1705) system, Retired Scout Lora Lei checks her indicators and finds them all showing Green, and breathes a sigh of relief. She uses the ship's PA to advise her passengers of their safe arrival in-system, and begins her sensor scan to determine her exact position in-system, preparatory to making a comm to the Scout Way Station on the mainworld to see if they have a berth available.

A good jump, only 110 diameters out from the mainworld, a mere 1,050,000 km, about 4 hours at 2-G, less if she can use the atmo for some final deceleration. As she aims her laser comm to contact the Way Station, she is startled as her board pings with an incoming comm from... Scout Way Station, Efate?

She taps the Receive icon and her holo-field lights up with the image of a woman in neat Scout office uniform with Admin tabs. The woman looks up at her and appears startled. "Excuse me, may I speak with Retired Scout Lora Lei?" Upon Lora's identification of herself, the woman appears even more perplexed. "There must be some mistake. Maybe it is your mother I need? Is she a Retired Scout? Does the Service know that you're flying her detached duty Scoutship?"

[flykiller]

An atmo-decel. She looks forward to that, if she can find a low-population area where it would be permitted by the port authority. She locates the Efate nav beacons and starts planning two approaches, one boring and one fun. "Will she or will she not? Only her flight director knows for sure."

"No mistake. My mother is a lady of the house of Lei of Strouden and has been all her life and is not retired. Perhaps the graphics you have of me are outdated but I am sure you note the scar." She passes her hand by the scar across her right eye, reaching from her eyebrow to her cheek. She speaks formally but not as if she takes it seriously. Typical pilot. She selects a few files on the computer and posts them. "Sending you an update. And how is it that someone is calling for me the instant I am in-system? I cannot recall owing anyone any money."

[who are the passengers?]

[SpaceBadger]

Ah, yes, the passengers. The life of a retired Scout in between adventures; friends looks at your "free" starship and free fuel and tend to ask for rides to places they could not afford to travel otherwise. Beverly Cleary and her daughter Ramona, good friends of Lora's from her various times visiting Regina, had requested a ride to Efate and Lora agreed. They plan to stay for several months visiting family there, so they understand that Lora may want or need to leave and they may need to pay for passage back to Regina - unless they can find another friend with a "free" starship, that is.

The woman at the Way Station takes time to examine the files Lora sent, then calls up more info, then looks up, "I'm sorry, I still don't understand. You are retired Senior Scout Lora Lei, 7 terms, born in 1059 Imp? Ma'am, you just appear much younger than the images that I have. Would you mind sending me a current biometric scan of your hand? This is a classified matter, and I really must be sure I am speaking to the right person."