Cross posting this from Best Use of Romance in Trav, why? Cuz it was damn good. -Liam
Bryan Gibson posted-"A PC named Ritter, encounters early in his career a PC named Svetlana Nesteraovaya, a Lt in the navy of Novaya Rhodina, an ethnically russian region of space. They both IP become great friends and the PCs are all on it for over a year in the realtime.
The Group does some heroic deeds, avert a war, fight terrorists and all ( the campaign at that time was very militarized, all players being ex or active military)and in due course, the pair must go their seperate ways...although they were lovers, the military comes first. Svetlana's pet trick was to make fun of her Hero's Star ( the Novaya Rhodina equivilent of the CMH)saying that " its only one star, is that enough for a constellation?" and she left it with Ritter when she left.....( i had some GREAT players)
we go forward 5 years realtime, the play has jumped forward two decades and the old group is getting together at a reunion one convention, so all the old crew and some new ones are alltogether. Great Time, 25 people here! a mass game with 3 GMS all bringing everyone together to avert one last epic crisis, took me and my partner six months to write up the scenario to be played out.....
and in the big fight, Ritter is fighting with a NR Midshipman against the enemy, who is one of the officers of their rescue ship. Unbeknownst to Ritter, Svetlanan had carrid his son, and due to their mutual careers had kept him unaware he had a kid.In a meeting between battles, he recognizes Ritter ( now a major in the elite ODR)and hand s him a package... Svetlana had had a heroic career, winning the Hero's Star in battle twice more, alas the final one being posthumous.
In a speech that honestly choked up everyone at the table, the PC son, in a lull in battle, hands Ritter the other two medals and an old picture, and tells him " Here is my mother's constellation, i should think you should be having them, Father!"
Like I said, GREAT players...'