So, I've started running SF again with my RPG group. I say 'again' as all but one of the players had played SF with me right from the first session back in 1983, but we'd not played SF since 1990. This was due to the fact that as we got to a certain age (our late teens/early 20s), we drifted off into having jobs and I moved 150 miles away to London. Nowadays we're all back in the same locality. Despite the fact that we now all own copies of Alpha Dawn and Zeb's Guide, we were all surprisingly rusty WRT remembering rules and similar things. As we actually like both AD and ZG, we're playing a version of SF that uses bits of both, but running all skills and dice-related stuff using AD's percentile system. It does actually work quite well, and after two sessions we're really getting back into it. I'm the referee and there are four players. We have a human medic, a human explorer, a Yazirian enforcer, and an Ifshnit techex. Sorry, no-one wanted to be a dralasite! At the moment all are starting characters with a few extra skills to round them out, and they're just out of a CDC training facility as lowly 'apprentices'.<br /><br />Despite thinking that they might not have much to do, they were assigned to work as a roaming security patrol for CDC facilities dotted around the city of Buckerton (on Madderlys Star). To cut a long story short, they disturbed a robbery of a CDC bullion storehouse being carried out by self-destructing robots and their Yazirian handler (but he mamaged to escape in an aircar, despite one of the players ramming it with a van as it was taking off!). This in turn seems to be linked to the death of a Vrusk computing student at a CDC college (who appears to have had a secret drug-related life), and then led them to a members-only secret club whose clientele seems to be the local MerCo workforce. Here they ran into the Yazirian they saw at the robbery and he immediately shouted 'Cops!' at the top of his voice, which led to the club erupting into everyone there trying to escape as quickly as possible. After a bit of fighting and having to deal with chasing the Yazirian and several other suspects to the top of the building, they embarked on a quite mad aircar race across town trying to chase them down. This despite the fact that the baddies used several small spherical flying robots to try and finish them off as the flew across Buckerton to the spaceport. There they've seen that the baddies have a ship and they're just about to see if they can do anything to stop it taking off...
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