H-238: Cap Isle, Central District, Law Offices of Zevon, Croolsee, Brownej and Raina

Metagame

OK, we’ll keep it mostly background, but I’ll get you to give me a few rolls now and may ask for some more as we go along.  Let me know if you’re happy with the below abstracted approach to this part of the module – I’ve tried to experiment with a mini-game style of background development through player choice of game skill mechanics.

Vista Reef Arcology Operations

Being her thing, she can note the people and begin looking deeper.

There is a natural categorisation Lia can apply that divides most people into three groups:

• Related to Raina’s objective to get work for local suppliers
• Related to Raina’s objective to create a new administrative region for the arcology
• Not obviously related to either of the above

Some individuals might fall into both of the first two groups.

Info Dump

So, for her initial work can I have two Research rolls for Lia’s appraisal of Dator’s information package.  Feel free to nominate any other skills Lia might have that you think might be relevant and throw in a roll against them (I’ll use the rolls if I think it might be relevant or ignore them otherwise!) 

Twin Objectives

Methodology

Following that we’ll do some rolls to represent Lia’s initial work on fact-finding outside the information package and preliminary influencing.  For each of the two objectives (Local Suppliers and Administrative Region) may I have two rolls against any two of Lia’s skills.  It doesn’t have to be the same two skills for each objective.  The skills you choose will/should reflect the sort of approach she’s taking against each objective.  For example, if she reaches out to underworld contacts you might use Streetwise, if she works an info terminal or a library you might use Research, for swanking around the social set picking up gossip you might use Savoir Faire (High Society).  To be clear, that’s four rolls in all for this part.

The approach/skills you choose and the level of success with them will determine what happens next.  Depending on how she goes with reading the information package, there may be a bonus or extra information.

Urgency

How quickly will she do this work?  I’m going to say you have a total +8 bonus to apply (which you can apply after rolling) in any way you see fit eg: +2 to each skill roll, +4 to a single skill roll, not at all, etc.  You can even trade +2 for a roll on an additional skill for a particular objective that may provide extra information/influence.  However, this represents Lia’s focus and energy in a particular area – using the bonus will take extra time, the more bonus, the more time; it’s unclear at this point how patient Raina will be. 

Law Offices of Zevon, Croolsee, Brownej and Raina

Does Lia wish to do anything else at the offices or with Dator?