Arcane Tower

 Rifts and something with ground beef. 

// posted by S'Ren @ 1:34 AM 0 Comments

 Trying this again. Hopefully everyone can make it.

Not sure whats for dinner yet, I have a few options and I’ll pick based on what I feel like when I wake up.

You’ve taken the path offered by the Artificial Intelligence, and stepped into his “Room of Requirement”. It is an extra-dimensional path that leads you to what you need, not necessarily what you want. You goal is to save the archology that has been abducted wholly by the controllers of the military unit manipulating you into the alternate universe; planting it on Sigir Alpha, a tiny planet with earth-normal gravity in spite of being less than 1% its size. The archology is apparently a crippled or incomplete space ship, but isn’t safe on the alien planet with hostile bugs moving towards it.

You need to somehow get the archology back to its location on Earth, your Earth. The A.I. told you he didn’t know the best way, but that you would find a solution if you used his Room of Requirement (and he chuckled at the Harry Potter Reference that is out dated in 2096). After navigating the extra-dimensional labyrinth, you emerged in a medieval-looking room, each from a different portal on the perimeter of the circular room looking towards the throne on a raise platform, standing with strangely dressed nobles. Your power armor isn’t with you, so you appear in the undersuits you normally wear under the power armor.

You are greeted with much ceremony and told the name of the Great House you are summoned to join and serve. You are subjected to the houses training regime which granted you archetypal skills and abilities of the house, which means their members are skilled and powerful (You each gained am arcane background, one skill point for the arcane background, then three skill points for smart-related skills through this training).

You have been issued plasma pistols and symbolic swords along with appropriate attire for you house and archetype. (Armor is +4 armor, +2 toughness, can be worn under clothing and a cloak/cape with house symbol on it adding +2 armor and +1 toughness. Plasma pistol is range 5/10/20, 2d10 damage (+2d6 on a raise). Sword is a Psi-Blade, Str + d8 AP 4, may spend ISP to increase the damage by two points (max +6 dmg))

You are being sent on a mission to meet with the emperor to discuss the recent reduction in unobtanium shipments to the great houses. It is expected that this will result in the house scions (the summoned heroes) being sent on a ridiculous quest. You are promised great (but unspecified) rewards upon successful return, and to be sent back to your home dimension when complete. So far, the training seems to have made the trip worth it as most of the heroes have studied the advanced science of this dimension and may be able to apply it to upgrading or fixing the archology. 

 Your goal is to get something that will help you "save" the archology from the situation of being moved to a hostile planet. You don't know what you'll find, only that the path you took to get here was supposed to provide an answer.

 The adventure is a book adventure based on the science fiction companion, I'm trying to find a way to include components of another adventure.

// posted by S'Ren @ 7:59 PM 0 Comments

Not sure whats for dinner yet, I have a few options and I’l pick based on what I feel like when I wake up.

You’ve taken the path offered by the Artificial Intelligence, and steped into his “Room of Requirement”. It is an extra-dimensional path that leads you to what you need, not necessarily what you want. You goal is to save the archology that has been abducted wholly by the controllers of the military unit manipulating you into the alternate universe; plantign it on Sigir Alpha, a tiny planet with earth-normal gravity in spite of being less than 1% its size. The archology is apparently a crippled or incomplete space ship, but isn’t safe on the alien planet with hostile bugs moving towards it.

You need to somehow get the archology back to its location on Earth, your Earth. The A.I. told you he didn’t know the best way, but that you would find a solution if you used his Room of Requirement (and he chuckled at the Harry Potter Reference that is out dated in 2096). After navigating the extra-dimensional labrinth, you emerged in a medival-looking room, each from a different portal on the perimeter of the circular room looking towards the throne on a raise platform, standing with strangly dressed nobles. Your power armor isn’t with you, so you appear in the undersuits you normally wear under the power armor.

You are greeted with much cerimony and told the name of the Great House you are summoned to join and serve. You are subjected to the huoses training regime which granted you archetypal skills and abilities of the house, which means their members are skilled and powerful (You each gained am arcane background, one skill point for the arcane background, then three skill points for smart-related skills through this training).

You have been issued plasma pistols and symbolic swords along with appropriate attire for you house and archetype. (Armor is +4 armor, +2 toughness, can be worn under clothing and a cloak/cape with house symbol on it adding +2 armor and +1 toughness. Plasma pistol is range 5/10/20, 2d10 damage (+2d6 on a raise). Sword is a Psi-Blade, Str + d8 AP 4, may spend ISP to increase the damage by two points (max +6 dmg))

You are being sent on a mission to meet with the emperor to discuss the recent reduction in unobtanium shipments to the great houses. It is expected that this will result in the house scions (the summoned heroes) being sent on a rediculous quest. You are promised great (but unspecified) rewards upon successful return, and to be sent back to your home dimension when complete. So far, the training seems to have made the trip worth it as most of the heroes have studied the advanced science of this dimension and may be able to apply it to upgrading or fixing the archology.

// posted by S'Ren @ 2:26 AM 0 Comments

 Not sure which of those is dinner and which is entertainment.

   You have delivered a space ship to Cyberworks, initiating hard feelings between the Northern Eagle Military Alliance and all of Central/South America; rewarding you team with a transition to luxurious accommodations and a small monetary award. 

   With trouble brewing south of the border, do you take responsibility (not sure how) or take refuge from the problems of nations in another dimension?

   You do now have the Crimson Comet, a small cargo hauler with that new ship smell and a fully chromed exterior parked next to your home away from home in another dimension the SSA Carrier Star-Shadow Avenger.

// posted by S'Ren @ 2:23 AM 0 Comments

 Ground beef, probably for burritos for dinner. 

Rifts unless someone else runs something. 

Catch you all Saturday. Dress warmly. 

// posted by S'Ren @ 3:30 AM 0 Comments

 Chicken Divan again for dinner. Maybe corned beef if I feel like adding that too.

Continuing with the multidimensional adventures  of the Houston Gamers club. 

// posted by S'Ren @ 9:57 PM 0 Comments

Planning Chicken Divan for dinner, I have a couple backups in case I mess up the sauce. 

Two players are listed as a "Maybe" depending on family plans, so I hope to see everyone, and regardless I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. 

The current state of the campaign is that the "heroes" are tracking a boogie man (woman) acting like she's a vampire through the archology. They've stolen some holy water and made a pair of stakes out of a branch from the "magic tree" in the main courtyard. They were tracking her at night, after she kidnapped another girl, and tracked her to the clinic.

 Another thing I need everyone to think about: who are your friends and family living in the archology, and what is your day job? 

Example: 

 Jonus "Hevy" Keens is a part time college student with delusions of grandeur. He thinks he's going to be an engineer, however, his specialies in trivia, gaming and sci-fi don't translate into mechanical design skills. When he's not in school, he works in the archology security office, mostly at a monitoring station, where his skills are actually useful. He has a third job, mostly unpaid working for his family's club/restaurant on the true ground floor across from the magic tree. He's the youngest in the current extended family living in the archology numbering twenty people who moved into the archology as founding residents a decade ago: 2 grandparents, 2 parents, 5 aunts/uncles, 4 siblings and 7 cousins. There are probably more extended family members he isn't aware of, but with such a large starting base, he'll one day end up related to most of the residents. 

Jonus' mother, Kalista has taken a job with management in the archology as part of the human resources team and his oldest sister Kari works in administration for the archology as well. He doesn't track all of his cousins' jobs, but most work for the club in some fashion. The family is looking for another business to start or take over inside the archology, in addition to looking to place more friends and family into direct archology employment.

// posted by S'Ren @ 3:41 AM 0 Comments