I played demo few nights from now and i must say, it was fun. It's real simple plot IS blessing, beacuse this should only highlight ome things about the game, get playes and GM time to "get used to system". I think that if I would run it, I maybe add some extra subplots, beacuse i would porpbaly start new campign with that, but demo is good as it is. Maybe too linear, but cool scenes has . ;]

Moracai wrote:

After the nanocanister burst and before no-one had the chance to make contact between PCs and Firewall proxy, one of the PCs had a bright idea to steer the ship into the sun.

I got exaclty the same idea, not knowing about the plot. It seams logical, in most S-F settings, to get away with something dangeous by steering the ship in to the sun. ;)

Hi, I mastered this adventure twice, one before and one after reading this post. This adventure is really a good start, it introduces many basic aspects of EP, specially the concept of one's character death and re-sleeve (at least one PC must die in the first part). My first run was not so great, but thanks to "collectedcrust", I found the glitch : the lack of an identified enemy. So for the second run, I picked the Jovians, it adds someone to cross and to compete with during the dealer search (the PC's main intel source was even attacked by them, adding a gunfight in the barge). But this time my major problem was about money (or the lake of it) : "How much" does the TITAN artefact costs ? What Firewall gives the PC for the initial deal : Credits, (mad-scientist)-Rep, raw materiel, intel,... Since the second part is a bit "poor", I also add a small research scene in Elysium. Gray Xu had resleeve on Mars, PC have to find where and follow her track to the ruins (where the Jovian are also converging). Hops this help

I GM'ed the quickstart adventure yesterday. My players were very... ahem... creative. While at the arms-dealer's ship, they intentionally shot the nanoswarm canister to fend off the attackers. Not the smartest move - especially considering the fact that (few minutes before the fight began) they saw a cinematic footage of the nanoswarm at work - which dealt them some mental damage. And still - they shot the goddamn can. Well, they died. (Not a big surprise.) Now they wait for resleeving and the next assignment (Mars). The Scum barge is still there, because the arms-dealer undocked his ship and moved it away. Hope they won't blow up Mars...

I recently ran the first half of the quickstart adventure, partially as a way of bringing new characters into the action and partially to up the ante a bit because there had not been much action in recent games. The way it was reworked, the neo-hominid bodyguards were full uplifts and in fact one of them was the target of the party's ego hunter (after being implicated in the release of highly controlled khaki goo in the habitat's drydock the day before). The target in question had been hired by Grey Xu to help guard the auction. It should be noted that only one PC was a member of Firewall, and kept this fact a closely guarded secret. The Firewall character (the economic hitman) had been given the standard capture-or-destroy order by a Proxy (whom I really need to write up). The professional OSINT spook heard about the auction from the ego hunter and managed to wrangle them invitations to the auction. Every PC had different reasons and plans for going to the auction. The FA/EHM forked himself a few times and hacked a number of mining drones used to keep Extropia supplied with feedstock so that each fork could sleeve a drone (they were fairly intelligent AGIs, designed to go on mining runs for months at a time and return with base material when their hoppers were full). They were connected using tactical networking software so they could coordinate their actions in near-realtime. The way the auction played out, two NPC attendees failed their stress checks when they found out what the item was and left as fast as they could. The bidding swiftly climbed to a half million Solar credits, plus biomorphs, various and sundry weapons, test-type synthmorphs, and even a few quantum computers were thrown into the pot. Imagine the stakes of a Wild West poker game and you will not be that far off; quite a few entities in Sol system had an idea of what the item was and sent their best to try to win it for their own reasons. The Direct Action mole was tasked with winning the auction if possible, dry gulching the winner if not, and blowing itself and the spacecraft to kingdom come at worst. The mole failed to blow up itself and the nanoswarm, but one of the neo-hominids shot the nanoswarm's containment unit in the process of stitching a line of rounds up the mole's slitheroid morph... when the swarm activated the PCs failed their stress checks (hee hee hee... they think the odd shapes it made might have been a basilisk hack. I will never tell...) and bolted for their shuttle craft. It was at this time that the FA/EHM's hacked drones went into action and attempted to destroy anything or anybody trying to escape Grey Xu's ship (just in case the nanoswarm was infectious) and destroy her ship by blowing up its power plant. The XP smuggler and OSINT spook made it off of Grey Xu's ship. The ego hunter just... barely.. made it... with a few seconds to spare (by spending a point of moxie) because the ship's centrifuge had seized up and was beginning to tear the rest of the ship to pieces. The remaining mining drone knocked their shuttle off course and away from Grey Xu's ship when the EHM triggered his emergency farcaster. To make things interesting, I ruled that the antimatter detonation was sufficient to destroy the TITAN nanoswarm; the reactor going critical took care of the rest of the ship and the hacked mining drones.