I apologize that the audio on this one is wonky. Evidently a mic cord wasn't fully plugged in or something. I fixed it as best I could, but it's still weird.
I don't know what editing software you use, but if you ever get this audio error again, fiddling with mono channel vs stereo may be able to help. This sounds like a stereo audio, which has one channel for the left ear, one channel for the right ear, that only had the left channel recording. But you can basically just duplicate the channel that actually recorded to the other ear in most editing software. It's just hard to find in most software. You probably already tried this type of stuff or use an editing software that may not allow such editing, but hey maybe it will help with future stuff. I am a rando on the internet, but if you let me know what audio editing software you use, I might be able to point you to a video or make a quick google doc to show you what I mean. Again, not sure if that is the actual problem, but who knows. Might help if this ever happens again. Still a great video though!
This plot feels Cowboy Bebop as hell. If I get the chance to run this I am absolutely going to find some appropriate jazz to cue up for the climax (if I don't just use Yoko Kanno's music from the show).
Very Bebop while the Shawarma Cat incident definitely dips into Outlaw Star territory - substitute in C'tarl C'tarl for Aslan - it's definitely something Aisha would do.
I visited a shawarma place called "Cat" today (not ShwarmaCat, but the closest they have in this city; "this city" is very far from the US). I didn't really want to go there before, because the name reminded me of an old conspiracy theory about fast food made out of stray cats (and yes, I know it's not true and most likely never was), but now I think about this video when see the name; author clearly implied neither of these (but it was clearly "feed the cat", not "eat the cat"). And yes, I choose shawarma places based on the name, because why not.
Man I love this channel so much , recently had my first game of call of Cthulhu ... and well it was fun !! Until like Byron known escort got murdered by a crazed sailor ! Thanks for helping me find a great new hobby Jack , you charismatic heart and soul of the channel
This adventure is a B plot, something to happen in the background of a bigger story. I feel like I have to mention: contrary to cold-war political thrillers, real-world espionage is... honestly pretty boring; well, unless you're into stuff like admin-punk.
8:46 this does sound like running up against the whole "professional courtesy" that some players in these sorts of games run into. Sort of a "we get paid to not ask questions" mentality that works in some situations and works to their detriment in others. Best to either have a plan in case the players *don't* investigate their boss' private business, or suddenly make the answers to these questions *very* important to the Traveler's survival.
I'd say add something suspicious like a tracking device signal in a coin (or two, only working when near each other) and the players will totally tear those fancy coin cases into pieces
Hey, Seth. Have you ever read Downbelow Station or other books by C. J. Cherryh? Between your Traveller videos and my coming across the Filk genre of music, I came across Cherryh's stories and just finished the aforementioned book. It seems like some good inspiration for Traveller stuff and is a good read itself. I'm loving the whole bloody setting.
Seth, if you haven't read E.C. Tubb's Dumarest of Terra books, I strongly suggest them. Very good Traveller inspiration...and they're super-fast reads.
@@SSkorkowsky I was unable to find the Shwarma Cat directly from this video (maybe add a direct link in the description). I WAS able to find it on your channel About tab, by following the Merch link, at the bottom of the list. A bit like the Public Records in the beginning of the Hitchhiker's Guide (i.e. disused basement lavatory, broken stairs, beware the jaguar).
Thanks again for delivering awesome quality videos. I am very happy your books are doing well (I hope they are - we listen to them on audible, hope you are getting those dollars) and hope for much success in the future.
Love the shawarma war story thing at the end. I'd love it if some of your videos were longer and you have more details of game play. I've been separated from my gaming group for more than year so it's especially great to hear your game storytelling I really look forward to your new video every week. I wish you could do two!
Every adventure can be "converted" or "mined"/"cherry picked". Obviously, this is a low combat scenario. The juice is in the intrigue. At my table, the "Spys who tail me" would never become violent when made, unless attacked directly with lethal force. 5 low level robbers should be easy to stat out. You could easily run this in GURPS (or any other system). Give it a try! 😃
Great video as always. I just read this adventure again today and was thinking of running it in my game, which just happens to be taking place in the Islands Subsectors too. I've been running it over a year now and about 1/3 of that has been in the Islands, I am thinking of running this as I recently introduced some Zhodani plotting in the area. Even if they don't realise what the coins are all about I thought it was appropriate with the background stories I have going on.
For my game, I changed it to some old coins from Earth, since the region was populated by 21st Century Earthlings on generation ships. It was like some commemorative coins from the 2032 Olympics.
@@SSkorkowsky Cool, I was thinking of something like that. It is probably a stretch to try and tie in the Zhodani stuff with it, I will see how the adventure goes when I run it, my players always have a tendancy to surprise me.
Seth: mispronounces a word. Me: whoa whoa whoa that's wrong. Jack: whoa whoa whoa... Me: THANK you Jack. Jack proceeds to correct Seth on pronounciation of some made up word. Me, a Canadian: WTF, no, it was Regina that he mispronounced you heathens!
I'd say do a Mexican stand-off for the finale: 1) Make it so both spy networks booked as many tables as they could, making pretty much the entire restaurant their agents. 2) Robbers come in guns drawn, which in turn makes the Imperium agents think they got setup by their enemies, so they stand up, draw their guns. The collector and his comrades think the same so they do the same. PCs being PCs they are probably armed as well escalating the situation even further. (Also add another side if the PCs managed to piss of the local police/space-TSA or a personal enemy). Basically a stand off that could erupt just by the chef in the kitchen ringing the bell to get a waiter back there. Can the PCs talk their way out? Which side should they engage with first? Just take the coins and leave? There should be enough enemies to be deadly, but then again they gonna take eachother out as well. Maybe have the players sit at the staff exit, so they can easily disengage, but it will lead to a chase, especially if they carry the coins. If you do it right, the players will forever thing the antiquity collection ring is completly insane and that collection coins is the most badass hobby there is....
i have to say that the mascot thing is a genius idea, and just is very very funny, what would be even better is if because of this that brand gets popular and starts franchising out to other star ports in the clusters so now when ever they go to a star port there is one of these places and maybe even that video
i was only ran in travaller for a few months in high school before the group fell apart, my current table doesn't want to play it because we aleady play Conan, DnD, Cathulu and Cyberpunk... really only Conan and Cathulu with DnD really being one shots and our Cyberpunk campain has been on hiatus for over a year
A smokescreen might be handy for adventures like this. Given that a major activity for travelers is smuggling, having players regularly get simple offers of clandestine transport mixed in with the real thing might be a good way of making it less obvious exactly what the macguffin is right from the outset.
Great video! Thanks again, I will definitely have to run this one for my players. I ran Marooned on Marduk and your video on that was super helpful! I was wondering if you had done a review for MAKERGOD? I thought you did but can't find the link. I'm also curious about your thoughts on The Theories of Everything. (The game, not as a general statement 😁)
Never ran either of them. Makergod very reads well. Theories of Everything reads, OK. The adventure-part feels like it was tacked on to give one cool scene. I'd planned to do run Theories of Everything early on in our first campaign, but our planetologist character up and got himself killed before I could. So after Marooned on Marduk we ended up doing Mystery of BT-SHT 365 instead.
@@SSkorkowsky Thank you for the reply!! I totally agree with you on Theories of Everything. When I ran it I felt that it relied on Characters reacting badly to bad behavior. Lol I was very surprised when my players behaved like professionals and were all, "Okay let's not let rash feelings get in the way of what we have to do." I am very excited about Makergod especially bc going to Oghma fits perfectly with my campaign so far.
@@SSkorkowsky I'd also be interested in Makergod; I have that but it doesn't fit into our campaign yet. What I'd really like to hear is your review of Deepnight Endeavour (it is Rift-friendly). Great horror elements to work with on that adventure.
Colchis is pronounced KOL-KISS. It's the home of Medea and the Golden Fleece. It's on the edge of the Black Sea in what is present day Georgia. Slough Feg is pronounced SLO-UGG-YEH FAT-CHA. Sláine is pronounced SLAWN-YA.
8:45 I'd be that player. The one who wouldn't look too deep or give it a second thought. Because I wouldn't have thought about covert intelligence data in coins.
If it was a male Allan, then he was probably FURIOUS About how humiliating and dishounerable that was. Aslan males are a proud warior race! All of the buissness comerce and Industry are female jobs! Aslan jobs are very gender segregated! IVE just wacthed a video on the aslan race and sosiety, litterally my last video, just before now!
Hey, don't knock free food. My Shadowrun Troll would take that deal in a heartbeat. "Wait? I get to have a fight to the death, kick some guys' asses, have a bar named after me and get free booze and food there? Ok, spill it, what's the catch?"
In my game, the coins were part of an ancient set that had a mythological backstory akin to the silver pieces given to Judas. They were also psionically active, which is how the spies expected to implant the transferred data. They succeeded in stealing and replacing one coin, but then tampered with the stolen coin. This led to them learning that the coins were psionic prisons for the mental engrams of some bad mama Jana’s. Several agents killed and one mentally overwritten and now hunting down the remainder of the coins. I like to have a little Cthulhu feel. The newly freed “demon” possessing the spy had some cool powers, but also limited active time, and battles of will, which made for great chaos during an ambush, and stalking sessions. It also gave me a way to clue players in, and in one case avert an unlucky roll to leading to character death. The buyer at the other end turned out to be a temple devoted to containing the “demons” but the spies stole some of the co8ns (after delivery or course) to retrieve the data. This released a few more possessed spies, who led to other adventures and cameos.
So I ran this as they were on route to another job. They had been sidelined via the shanghai that starts flatlined, and were on their way to Flammarian for their actual first job (High & Dry), so I changed the destination and starting location. Other than that things went relatively smoothly, the recipient was only a little suspicious when they showed up, so there fortunately wasn't a sniper on the roof across the way. I say fortunate because I still don't have the damage rules in combat down.
If this adventure were a movie, some accident would have occurred that opened the case & spilled the coins, making one fall open & reveal a data chip inside.
I'm not a Traveller GM or Traveller Player at the moment; however, I'm always happy to see a new Seth Skorkowsky video. How would you let the PCs in on what is actually happening? I find this fiddly in my games. "Shawarma Cat? Its just down the block; between Scott Brown and the Temple to Thor."
For some reason this story , especially the idea of the collection ending up on a PC's wall despite all the spy games, gave me a hilarious image of them ending up at the Traveller equivalent of an Antique's Roadshow and theyve dragged in all the random crap that's been pack-ratted into random corners of their spaceship. Would actually be fun how much information the Appraiser gives them A) Valuable Coins B) Worthless Fakes C) Oh, what a lovely example of mid 2800s Zhodani Spycraft, such excellent condition!! The more I think about it, having an Antique's Roadshow "episode" in general would have a massive amount of potential for Traveller. It would be a great confluence of bringing buyers and sellers together, and give the crew opportunities for bodyguarding or thieving. Perhaps they only find out about it from someone who buys passage on their ship, or they are convinced they are about to sell their junk for a fortune and retire. And if nothing else, as with the coin example above, it's a fun way to hit the players over the head for any plot hooks youve given them in the past that they missed!
I apologize that the audio on this one is wonky. Evidently a mic cord wasn't fully plugged in or something. I fixed it as best I could, but it's still weird.
The audio for Jack the NPC is perfectly fine, though. Good ol' Jack.
Jack double-checks that his cords are all fully plugged in.
I'd say "fill right with left" but that's a Premiere thing that I'm not sure your software has
For a second there I thought there was something going on with my headset.
I don't know what editing software you use, but if you ever get this audio error again, fiddling with mono channel vs stereo may be able to help. This sounds like a stereo audio, which has one channel for the left ear, one channel for the right ear, that only had the left channel recording. But you can basically just duplicate the channel that actually recorded to the other ear in most editing software. It's just hard to find in most software. You probably already tried this type of stuff or use an editing software that may not allow such editing, but hey maybe it will help with future stuff.
I am a rando on the internet, but if you let me know what audio editing software you use, I might be able to point you to a video or make a quick google doc to show you what I mean. Again, not sure if that is the actual problem, but who knows. Might help if this ever happens again.
Still a great video though!
I didn’t expect “Jack interrupts the video to indignantly correct Seth’s pronunciations” would become a running joke, but I think I like it!
Even better is when he goes "I'm going with the metal band's pronunciation." Always follow the path of Metal!
I see Jack agreed to the Shawarma Cat sponsorship. They must be a Coke restaurant.
total sell-out, my respect for him and his work is done i say!
catnip
This plot feels Cowboy Bebop as hell. If I get the chance to run this I am absolutely going to find some appropriate jazz to cue up for the climax (if I don't just use Yoko Kanno's music from the show).
Very Bebop while the Shawarma Cat incident definitely dips into Outlaw Star territory - substitute in C'tarl C'tarl for Aslan - it's definitely something Aisha would do.
You know doing a Cowboy Bebop themed Traveler campaign would rock.
@@cameronjames3499 yeah you don't want to interrupt her meal
I love the story of the Shawarma Cat! It is not only hilarious, but also a perfectly good super hero story.
Incredibly rude to interrupt a mans meal
"You might just become a restaurant mascot and get free shawarma."
Ahhh... the good life.
I am considering opening a restaurant called SchwarmaCat once this lockdown stuff is done.
Feed the Warrior! Roar!
I visited a shawarma place called "Cat" today (not ShwarmaCat, but the closest they have in this city; "this city" is very far from the US).
I didn't really want to go there before, because the name reminded me of an old conspiracy theory about fast food made out of stray cats (and yes, I know it's not true and most likely never was), but now I think about this video when see the name; author clearly implied neither of these (but it was clearly "feed the cat", not "eat the cat"). And yes, I choose shawarma places based on the name, because why not.
The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.
Marc Clément, that was the first thing that came to mind. LOL. Shiny.
Yeah, me too. I can hear the song in my head now. :)
@@jmartin4396 now Im stuck singing it.
Scotty doesn't know, Scotty doesn't know...damn I am old
The Travellers go back to the old homeworld because the colonists are damned puritans who forgot how to party. Hilarity ensues. :)
Man I love this channel so much , recently had my first game of call of Cthulhu ... and well it was fun !! Until like Byron known escort got murdered by a crazed sailor !
Thanks for helping me find a great new hobby Jack , you charismatic heart and soul of the channel
Happy to be of service. Welcome to Call of Cthulhu.
He has heard the Call....
Much as I like Slough Feg, their Traveller lore is highly dodgy. I'm with Jack on this one.
This reminds me of Fallout: New Vegas. A simple platinum poker chip leading into giant factions warring for the ownership of the land.
Ring-a-ding baby
This adventure is a B plot, something to happen in the background of a bigger story.
I feel like I have to mention: contrary to cold-war political thrillers, real-world espionage is... honestly pretty boring; well, unless you're into stuff like admin-punk.
That incident was strait out of a movie
Glory and statues? Nah... Too ostentatious...
Free Shawarma for life? Yeah... Now THAT is a reward!
You cant eat a statue!
8:46 this does sound like running up against the whole "professional courtesy" that some players in these sorts of games run into. Sort of a "we get paid to not ask questions" mentality that works in some situations and works to their detriment in others. Best to either have a plan in case the players *don't* investigate their boss' private business, or suddenly make the answers to these questions *very* important to the Traveler's survival.
I'd say add something suspicious like a tracking device signal in a coin (or two, only working when near each other) and the players will totally tear those fancy coin cases into pieces
@@EurojuegosBsAs like sensors detects a weird blip when they pass within distance of nearby ships or marker boyies.
Shawarma Cat for the win! I will proudly wear that T-Shirt!
teespring.com/stores/seth-skorkowsky
Jack is likely to take the Channel over if Seth is not careful.
Seriously the Jack the NPC and Seths portrayals of his three "playas" are my favorite parts.
I want more TableTop War Stories.
Waiting for that April fools video where Jack the npc talks about the game and Seth talks about the player perspective
@@JabAtLife You're a freaking genius.
Hey, Seth. Have you ever read Downbelow Station or other books by C. J. Cherryh? Between your Traveller videos and my coming across the Filk genre of music, I came across Cherryh's stories and just finished the aforementioned book. It seems like some good inspiration for Traveller stuff and is a good read itself. I'm loving the whole bloody setting.
Thanks for dropping a vid in the final hour before cyberpunk 2077 unlocks. You rock.
Had to look up shawarma. Sounds tasty. Hope Shawarma Cat opens a franchise here on the planet Connecticut
proof that even in the future far off galaxies of Traveler people still love cat videos
Hmm it's like left eared ASMR now. That nice Seth voice flowing into my ear.
Seth, if you haven't read E.C. Tubb's Dumarest of Terra books, I strongly suggest them. Very good Traveller inspiration...and they're super-fast reads.
Euro Trip reference in a Traveller review?!? Awseome! One of my guilty pleasures... xD
I agree that Eurotrip would make a fantastic Traveller adventure. For that mater, so would a lot of those Wacky Vacation movies.
Will there be a Shawarma Cat tee shirt in your shop?
Already is
I see that there is, which is fantastic
@Seth Skorkowski, you my friend, are a capitalist genius. Take my money!
@@SSkorkowsky I was unable to find the Shwarma Cat directly from this video (maybe add a direct link in the description). I WAS able to find it on your channel About tab, by following the Merch link, at the bottom of the list. A bit like the Public Records in the beginning of the Hitchhiker's Guide (i.e. disused basement lavatory, broken stairs, beware the jaguar).
Thanks again for delivering awesome quality videos. I am very happy your books are doing well (I hope they are - we listen to them on audible, hope you are getting those dollars) and hope for much success in the future.
Another Great Review, your style is one of the Best in Reviewing, informative, competent suggestions, and tidbits of great entertainment.
"Zho-dan- EE."
It is in one of the Journals, or perhaps it was Aries magazine or Dragon, I do not remember exactly, but it is canon.
My left ear thanks you Seth!
Damn, my headphones are on backwards
Big Damn Heroes!
Jayne going strong!
I hope Feed the Warrior becomes a meme.
Nice Slough Feg shout out, love the traveller album
Not a GM, but also not a player of Traveller, so yes, I stick around to the end. I'm here for your summary, acting, and stories. :D
lol same
Seth: "You know who you are"
Me: "Actually, I don't"
16:19 *Can You Feel My Heart starts playing*
That time I used a coke vending machine and a can of Pepsi rolled out...
Scotty doesn't know! Excellent callback to an underrated comedy. Scusi.
Eurotrip is my favorite college-comedy! Awesome movie, great soundtrack!
I mostly fixed the audio issue by removing my right ear bud from the equation. Besides that, great content as always, Seth.
Love the shawarma war story thing at the end. I'd love it if some of your videos were longer and you have more details of game play. I've been separated from my gaming group for more than year so it's especially great to hear your game storytelling I really look forward to your new video every week. I wish you could do two!
Another great review, thanks. Be well and stay safe!
Hey Seth, do you think we can get a sticker of the logo of the shawarma shop? It would go well with my "Vote for Szechuan" sticker
Like this one? teespring.com/shawarma-cat?tsmac=store&tsmic=seth-skorkowsky&pid=663&cid=102920
@@SSkorkowsky that's awesome, thank you !
Now we need Shwarmacat t-shirts
Hell yeah! Feed the Warrior!
Only thing that could make this adventure better is if it was for GURPS. Love your stuff bro.
Ah GURPS. My favorite rpg System. Sadly it seems to be underrated
Every adventure can be "converted" or "mined"/"cherry picked". Obviously, this is a low combat scenario. The juice is in the intrigue. At my table, the "Spys who tail me" would never become violent when made, unless attacked directly with lethal force. 5 low level robbers should be easy to stat out. You could easily run this in GURPS (or any other system). Give it a try! 😃
@@Tboysupreme GURPS deserves more credit than it gets. My favorite system by far.
Do you have a cyberpunk red review brewing?
Don't get between an Aslan and his meal lol
Dude! You referenced Eurotrip! Seriously underrated movie.
A ton of cargo in Traveller is the volume occupied by 1 ton of liquid hydrogen not 1 ton mass.
Tell me more. ua-cam.com/video/D-MleY7W5Fw/v-deo.html
Great video as always. I just read this adventure again today and was thinking of running it in my game, which just happens to be taking place in the Islands Subsectors too. I've been running it over a year now and about 1/3 of that has been in the Islands, I am thinking of running this as I recently introduced some Zhodani plotting in the area. Even if they don't realise what the coins are all about I thought it was appropriate with the background stories I have going on.
For my game, I changed it to some old coins from Earth, since the region was populated by 21st Century Earthlings on generation ships. It was like some commemorative coins from the 2032 Olympics.
@@SSkorkowsky Cool, I was thinking of something like that. It is probably a stretch to try and tie in the Zhodani stuff with it, I will see how the adventure goes when I run it, my players always have a tendancy to surprise me.
Seth: mispronounces a word.
Me: whoa whoa whoa that's wrong.
Jack: whoa whoa whoa...
Me: THANK you Jack.
Jack proceeds to correct Seth on pronounciation of some made up word.
Me, a Canadian: WTF, no, it was Regina that he mispronounced you heathens!
Not sure if I have a hankering for shawarma or to play traveller
what timing, I can watch this video and have 4 minutes to spare before CP2077 launches :D
I'd say do a Mexican stand-off for the finale:
1) Make it so both spy networks booked as many tables as they could, making pretty much the entire restaurant their agents.
2) Robbers come in guns drawn, which in turn makes the Imperium agents think they got setup by their enemies, so they stand up, draw their guns. The collector and his comrades think the same so they do the same.
PCs being PCs they are probably armed as well escalating the situation even further. (Also add another side if the PCs managed to piss of the local police/space-TSA or a personal enemy).
Basically a stand off that could erupt just by the chef in the kitchen ringing the bell to get a waiter back there. Can the PCs talk their way out? Which side should they engage with first? Just take the coins and leave? There should be enough enemies to be deadly, but then again they gonna take eachother out as well. Maybe have the players sit at the staff exit, so they can easily disengage, but it will lead to a chase, especially if they carry the coins.
If you do it right, the players will forever thing the antiquity collection ring is completly insane and that collection coins is the most badass hobby there is....
Hi. Player here. I never leave at the spoiler warning.
We don't play many premades, though
OH OH OH, SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW-OHHH
Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats! HO!
i have to say that the mascot thing is a genius idea, and just is very very funny, what would be even better is if because of this that brand gets popular and starts franchising out to other star ports in the clusters so now when ever they go to a star port there is one of these places and maybe even that video
The dislikes are from the dudes that were in the restaurant.
“Feed the Warrior”
1:58 Ree-JEYE-na, like the Queen, yo. :)
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Regina#Pronunciation
Hmmm... Shawarma chicken, shawarma beef or shawarma cat. Sounds a little dodgy. 😁 Seriously, thanks for all you do.
need to wash down that Shwarma with a pint of Mudders Milk.
hearing that they changed their NAME made me audibly laugh, thank you for that
As always Seth, fantastic content. Thank you so much!
i was only ran in travaller for a few months in high school before the group fell apart, my current table doesn't want to play it because we aleady play Conan, DnD, Cathulu and Cyberpunk... really only Conan and Cathulu with DnD really being one shots and our Cyberpunk campain has been on hiatus for over a year
15:20
Hey robber. Drop any shotguns lately hahahahaha
Curse you Vanderbilt!!
@@SSkorkowsky Is this reply my Christmas present from you Seth cause it sure feels like it :)
A smokescreen might be handy for adventures like this. Given that a major activity for travelers is smuggling, having players regularly get simple offers of clandestine transport mixed in with the real thing might be a good way of making it less obvious exactly what the macguffin is right from the outset.
I'd have been here an hour ago, but i was finishing watching his interview.
What I want to know is this: When does the Lloyd & Seth Show start? Hope you haven't sold it to HBO
I don't know if I could keep up with Lloyd.
now I've got that song stuck in my head
Great video! Thanks again, I will definitely have to run this one for my players.
I ran Marooned on Marduk and your video on that was super helpful! I was wondering if you had done a review for MAKERGOD? I thought you did but can't find the link. I'm also curious about your thoughts on The Theories of Everything. (The game, not as a general statement 😁)
Never ran either of them. Makergod very reads well. Theories of Everything reads, OK. The adventure-part feels like it was tacked on to give one cool scene. I'd planned to do run Theories of Everything early on in our first campaign, but our planetologist character up and got himself killed before I could. So after Marooned on Marduk we ended up doing Mystery of BT-SHT 365 instead.
@@SSkorkowsky Thank you for the reply!! I totally agree with you on Theories of Everything. When I ran it I felt that it relied on Characters reacting badly to bad behavior. Lol I was very surprised when my players behaved like professionals and were all, "Okay let's not let rash feelings get in the way of what we have to do."
I am very excited about Makergod especially bc going to Oghma fits perfectly with my campaign so far.
@@SSkorkowsky I'd also be interested in Makergod; I have that but it doesn't fit into our campaign yet. What I'd really like to hear is your review of Deepnight Endeavour (it is Rift-friendly). Great horror elements to work with on that adventure.
Colchis is pronounced KOL-KISS. It's the home of Medea and the Golden Fleece. It's on the edge of the Black Sea in what is present day Georgia. Slough Feg is pronounced SLO-UGG-YEH FAT-CHA. Sláine is pronounced SLAWN-YA.
Shilling for big shawarma I see.
Free food is better thab a useless statue xD.
Your videos always make me happy
So. Even you are getting sponsored by Shawarma cat as well?
Sellout!
Middle passage = you won't die while defrosting.
Original Traveller sure liked to kill its PCs in many varied ways not involving enemy action.
Makes ya think of Paranoia.
8:45 I'd be that player. The one who wouldn't look too deep or give it a second thought. Because I wouldn't have thought about covert intelligence data in coins.
Feed the Warrior! I'm still giggling over that one.
Will you review the new dune rpg when its release?
If it was a male Allan, then he was probably FURIOUS About how humiliating and dishounerable that was. Aslan males are a proud warior race! All of the buissness comerce and Industry are female jobs! Aslan jobs are very gender segregated! IVE just wacthed a video on the aslan race and sosiety, litterally my last video, just before now!
Shawarma? Sounds worth it to me.
Hey, don't knock free food. My Shadowrun Troll would take that deal in a heartbeat.
"Wait? I get to have a fight to the death, kick some guys' asses, have a bar named after me and get free booze and food there? Ok, spill it, what's the catch?"
No.... Scotty doesn't know :(
Have you ever played GURPS Traveller?
In my game, the coins were part of an ancient set that had a mythological backstory akin to the silver pieces given to Judas. They were also psionically active, which is how the spies expected to implant the transferred data. They succeeded in stealing and replacing one coin, but then tampered with the stolen coin. This led to them learning that the coins were psionic prisons for the mental engrams of some bad mama Jana’s. Several agents killed and one mentally overwritten and now hunting down the remainder of the coins. I like to have a little Cthulhu feel. The newly freed “demon” possessing the spy had some cool powers, but also limited active time, and battles of will, which made for great chaos during an ambush, and stalking sessions. It also gave me a way to clue players in, and in one case avert an unlucky roll to leading to character death.
The buyer at the other end turned out to be a temple devoted to containing the “demons” but the spies stole some of the co8ns (after delivery or course) to retrieve the data. This released a few more possessed spies, who led to other adventures and cameos.
So I ran this as they were on route to another job. They had been sidelined via the shanghai that starts flatlined, and were on their way to Flammarian for their actual first job (High & Dry), so I changed the destination and starting location. Other than that things went relatively smoothly, the recipient was only a little suspicious when they showed up, so there fortunately wasn't a sniper on the roof across the way. I say fortunate because I still don't have the damage rules in combat down.
If this adventure were a movie, some accident would have occurred that opened the case & spilled the coins, making one fall open & reveal a data chip inside.
Jack's ending was brilliantly hilarious.
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Very cool. Sounds like a neat scenario. Love that the Aslan ended up how he did.
I think Swarma Cat, will go all franchise, since the footage went sector wide...
Um... There's no _actual_ cat in this, _right?_
Free food is nothing to be sniffed at unless it’s gas station sushi in which case hopefully all con saves are made
Its a cool adventure, but its a pitty that the npcs doesn´t have statblocks, I missed that.
I watched this video and no shwarma cat is a big thing in my game
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I'm not a Traveller GM or Traveller Player at the moment; however, I'm always happy to see a new Seth Skorkowsky video.
How would you let the PCs in on what is actually happening? I find this fiddly in my games.
"Shawarma Cat? Its just down the block; between Scott Brown and the Temple to Thor."
For some reason this story , especially the idea of the collection ending up on a PC's wall despite all the spy games, gave me a hilarious image of them ending up at the Traveller equivalent of an Antique's Roadshow and theyve dragged in all the random crap that's been pack-ratted into random corners of their spaceship. Would actually be fun how much information the Appraiser gives them A) Valuable Coins B) Worthless Fakes C) Oh, what a lovely example of mid 2800s Zhodani Spycraft, such excellent condition!!
The more I think about it, having an Antique's Roadshow "episode" in general would have a massive amount of potential for Traveller. It would be a great confluence of bringing buyers and sellers together, and give the crew opportunities for bodyguarding or thieving. Perhaps they only find out about it from someone who buys passage on their ship, or they are convinced they are about to sell their junk for a fortune and retire.
And if nothing else, as with the coin example above, it's a fun way to hit the players over the head for any plot hooks youve given them in the past that they missed!
1:57 Excuse me, it's pronounced Re-jai-na, like China.
No, it's Re-GEE-na unless you're talking about the city in Saskatchewan. Means "queen" in Latin