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Offline has.been

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Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« on: December 03, 2024, 05:02:52 PM »
Market day on Theriap, third moon of Recktored.
Weird & wonderful life forms jostle with busy droids.
Vendors shout to draw the attention of the punters.
Into this confusion, three groups joining the throng are hardly noticed,
not by the usual crowd, nor the Seers (Civilian Conduct Control Droids),
not even by Officer (4th Class) De-Reeble looking out from the roof of
the Regulators' Station House.
8508/9 = The overview. The two halves of the market split by the chasm.
                Bridge was thanks to the Civic Corp of Workers.
8504 = One of the Seers. There were plenty in the market.
8503 = Officer De Reeble (right of picture) on the lookout for his nemesis...T.C.

8525 = Debray's Team (Bob,aka Flatpack)
8527 = Micense's Mob  (John, aka JC)
8529 = Bruon's Crew (Ian, aka Westbury)



Offline has.been

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2024, 05:16:54 PM »
All three players were after fuel cells, known to all as Coal
(I was going to call it 'Jack' but Bob pointed out that it might cause
confusion as we were playing Galactic Heroes, which involves cards.
As the markers they were to 'acquire' were black he suggested, 'Coal'
Nice one Bob)

The troubles were as follows:-
1)'Coal' is very heavily taxed on the official selling platforms.
2) The market has a Regulators fort on the edge of the market. 
     That can have from 10 to 30 regulators, all heavily armed.
3) Buying elicit 'Coal' is an offence
4) The Market is crawling with Seers.

These pictures are the market in progress.
All is busy, but peaceful, but then our 'Heroes' have yet to debus.

Offline has.been

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2024, 05:26:13 PM »
Each player had a vehicle & (ideally) that it where they needed to return laden with 'Coal'.

8494 = Bob's car is parked outside Madame Bovery's House of Ill Repute.

8515/6 & 8493 = Some of Madame Bovery's...staff.

8488 = John's hot-rod sitting ready for a fast getaway.

The rest are of the TBA (Tall Blue Aliens  ;)) Nobody ever asked about them,
or why they were there.
« Last Edit: December 03, 2024, 05:28:49 PM by has.been »

Offline has.been

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2024, 05:59:27 PM »
As to the game I will keep this part brief, & leave it up to the players to
provide their own viewpoint. ???

8519 = Is that an illegal deal going down at one of the stalls?
            Seers move in.
8520 = John definitely does NOT like the Seers poking their circuits into his business.
            He shoots one!
             This is illegal on several levels. I now shuffle the two jokers into the pack.
             When the first one come out the Alarm will sound at the Regulars' Fort.
              If players are still on the table when the second one appears they will
              arrested & dealt with harshly.
8521 = John's two Wildlings have the trait of 'Bloodthirsty' which means they MUST
            charge into combat with an 'enemy' if in move range. By firing at the Seer
             John has signaled they are 'enemy'.
              Two separate attacks ensue... both wildlings try to eat their Seer.  :o
              Both get nasty electric shocks. lol
8522 = Bob is more subtle with his trader. Quietly haggling & resting his hand on
            his blaster pistol when negotiations stall. 'Coal' & Credits change hands. :)
             Ian is even smarter, pointing out to the nearby Seers that there is a disturbance
             at the other end of town. The Seers fall for it & head across the bridge towards John.
8523 = The first Joker makes an appearance!
            Ian quickly make a deal for some coal & gets on his Skiff, getting away easily.
            Bob decided to do likewise' & despite the young ladies outside Madam Bovery's
            best attempts to entice his crew in, makes a getaway.

Meanwhile John, at the other end of town, figures, 'To hell with quiet negotiations' &
shoots the trader. Grabs what 'Coal' he can & runs for the getaway vehicle.
In the next card draw...no sign of the second joker.  :-*
Then he stalls the motor  :o :o :o
Another draw of cards. Still no second joker, phew!
The engine roars into life.
He needs one more move to get away.
The cards are dealt for what must be the last time...
and...
not a joker in sight.  :D

All players got away with some coal. Not as much as they could have, but still a profitable day.
Only two shots were fired in the entire game  :o Both by John's team. Naughty boy.
As a result his team will have attracted the attention of police & bounty hunters.

I hope the players enjoyed the game.
I now leave it up to them to fill in & add pictures.

Offline hubbabubba

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2024, 07:12:45 PM »
Great looking set up. :-*

Offline has.been

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2024, 07:15:05 PM »
Thanks hubbabubba.
I hate to tell you how much it all cost...what with the price of discarded bits now-a-days  lol lol lol

Offline mikedemana

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2024, 08:04:09 PM »
Love those marble Seers! Reminds me of the floating eyes watching a park in a Larry Niven Sci-Fi short story. The setup looks great -- love all the characterful figs on the table.

Mike Demana

Offline Freddy

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2024, 09:01:03 PM »
Wow, nice models and terrain!

Offline flatpack

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2024, 12:05:23 AM »
The encounter from the Debray team’s point of view.

Let’s pop down the market and pick up a little coal.
What can possibly go wrong ?
It’s not illegal is it ?
Oh yes it is….

So we arrive at the market, incredibly at the same time as two other groups arrive. All looking for coal.


Whilst another group questions a stall owner over the availability of coal, my chap struggles to listen in.


Then a breakthrough.
This vendor is happy to sell a lump or two of coal.
I’m running a rich seam of luck with this chap. lol lol


Right boys, fire up the Quattro.
Look away from the girls, they’ll only cause you more problems, and let’s hope that copper ain’t watching.


All aboard the skylark…
Let’s get out of here.


Looking back as we leave, we can see trouble is brewing for the other “visitors”.


Fun game, and not a shot fired in anger.
Flatpack

Offline has.been

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2024, 10:43:03 AM »
Thanks for the nice comments Mike & Freddy.
Bob, nice pictures and AAR.  :)

Online Donkeymilkman

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2024, 10:45:08 AM »
Nice stuff Bob and Peter. The table looks wonderful.
I have nothing important to say so just keep on scrolling.

Offline has.been

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2024, 01:49:17 PM »
Thanks Sam, sorry I missed your comment earlier.

Offline Westbury

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2024, 06:20:40 PM »
We came, we bought, we left. Not a shot fired.

Offline scotty

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2024, 09:51:32 PM »
Superb looking game

Offline syrinx0

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Re: Market day on Theriap. (Galactic Heroes)
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2024, 12:53:09 AM »
Great looking table.  Quite a run of luck for the players.  Though one must ask, what were the blue pajama aliens doing? Will they play a more active part in the next scenario?
Painted:  2025:158; 2024: 410; 2023: 37; 2022: 56

 

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