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Eclipse Phase Anecdotes

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Fri, 2012-08-24 05:19

BOMherren

Eclipse Phase Anecdotes

A big part of what I like about Eclipse Phase is the strange, often bizarre situations which can arise during play. When you mix the diverse cultures and powerful technology of the setting with the little idiosyncrasies of the rules system, and add in a healthy dose of good old player creativity, you can get some truly unique situations, which couldn't happen in any other game. So, what are your tales from the table? What's some of the most unique, funny, fascinating or just plain awesome things you've ever had happen in play? Here's one of mine. I call it [strong]We'll Always Have Pandora[/strong].

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I haven't gotten to play the game a lot yet, but my personal favorite anecdote was when my character and her father found themselves on Pandora, a space habitat modelled after James Cameron's Avatar. My character was there on behalf of Titan Autonomous University, to test a fancy new high-end Scurrier Morph prototype. Her biological father, who was kind of an old school, mad bomber terrorist with a bounty on his stack measured the kilocredits range, followed her there to bring her back to Titan, with an Ultimates bounty hunter hot on his trail. So as soon as they meet, they start shouting at eachother, over her being away from Titan. And they only stop because father's Muse notices the bounty hunter coming onto the station. So, I offer to help hide him in the forest. He agrees, and I dig a hole for him to hide in. What ends up happening is that he spends the entire session hiding in a hole in the ground, while I go frolicking around the station, participating in spacewalks and sporting events to test the Morph. I even go on a date with the bounty hunter. It doesn't go very far though, because he's understandably not very interested in half-alien raccoon things.

That session was kind of a test run for new characters and customized Morphs, so that kind of farting around was expected. The game picked up next session, and turned into a mini-campaign about retrieving a suspected T.I.T.A.N artifact from a crime ring.

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Fri, 2012-08-24 06:55

Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture

One of my favories:

One of my favories: One PC in my group tends to run a fork of himself in an implant in order to multitask, merging fairly regularly. At the climax of one adventure taking place in a Bernal sphere the fork was having (virtual) tea with some octopi artists online, trying to find a diplomatic solution to the main predicament. Meanwhile the other ego and the morph they shared were busy fleeing from zombie hordes (OK, mind-hacked citizens). Cornered, he jumped off into the low-gravity central zone near the rotation axis, using the recoil of his railgun to steer and accelerate. It worked well enough for getting away from the zombies, but he drifted out of the zone and begun to fall. Fortunately, there was a dense jungle below with plenty of trees to use to brake. Unfortunately he was not very good at it, and managed to critically fail a Climbing roll - he hit his head on a branch and fainted. The other ego, at the tea party, had a virtual warning light go on. He quickly replayed the situation and made his excuses: "I am sorry, but I have to dash. Seems like I am falling out of a tree. Lovely meeting you, and thanks for the tea and biscuits. See you later!" This session has two PCs spending most of it embracing a witness/villain in a spacesuit outside an airlock (one PC was *in* the suit) while hacking him. The other PCs were all doing fighting and design on the mesh. The only one doing anything physically dramatic was the above PC, who is the least physically able of them all.

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Fri, 2012-08-24 10:39

nezumi.hebereke nezumi.hebereke's picture

The party is investigating an

The party is investigating an abandoned exoplanet habitat. The hab is three levels, built around a central open shaft, with the gate room at the bottom level, and the PCs are wandering over every corner. One PC is working to turn on the fusion generator. He kicks it enough so it starts producing power and all of the lights and other systems flicker on. That's when the space ghost creature comes out from between two modules on the generator. He stops the power-up sequence and hightails it out to the catwalk around the central shaft. The scientist who is on his way to unlocking what killed everything hops in the plexiglass elevator. Everyone else literally starts leaping from the catwalks to get out of the way ASAP. Then the generator fails. The elevator stops. While everyone else is still running at full speed, littering the ground with grenades, the poor scientist is trapped in the elevator. The space ghost of course goes for the poor scientist. It being ghosty, it passes through the glass, and into the character's vac suit. At this point, the entire rest of the party shifts from 'run away' to 'blast it' and thoroughly ventilates the only character who had any idea what was going on. Mobile scientist vs. Ultimate Merc, Scum Enforcer, and Lunar Ego Hunter. The other one I really enjoyed, I was running was Continuity. The Istari radios to them and they hear the voice of the captain of the group. He says he's coming back. The PC captain rolls a critical fail, so is waiting for them in the airlock. The rest of the party seals the airlock, trapping him inside (and proceeds to trap all of their bots in there too). Then he feels the spider inside of his suit.

Fri, 2012-08-24 12:10

Thantastic Thantastic's picture

Funny enough

I had a broadly similar situation arise in Threshold at Gencon: The two Pathfinder employees were both pretty far gone due to the terrors they'd encountered and a bad run-in with a basilisk hack. The research lead was literally bound and gagged in a chair due to the halluncinations and incessant ranting, and the team leader was trying to convince the rest that "everything was under control" and they should continue on under his command despite the fact he just spent a few minutes curled in the fetal position vomiting everywhere. His argument was elegantly countered via a burst of rail pistol fire to the face from the Ultimate security contractor, who was one of the only mentally stable characters. When they went over to retrieve the leader's stack before bugging out the [large risk] of the scenario decided to drop on top of them. When all was said and done three people walked out under their own power with only one or two traumas apiece, and a small bag of cortical stacks clinking merrily. Ah, good times.

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Fri, 2012-08-24 13:45

nezumi.hebereke nezumi.hebereke's picture

I need to lurk in some of

I need to lurk in some of your games. I end up with tons of deaths/suicides, but PKing and insanity almost never come up.