OK, so I played my eighth campaign game of Five Parsecs From Home. It was a short, bloody affair with quite a lot of payoff for Our Heroes. It started simply enough, with Asvyaske, O, and Iruurlaa all doing some Training while Aim found and passed up on a good bargain and Uezkfu definitely Does Not have any gambling problem. Khirki had a nice chat with some locals. And then it happened: all those rumors resolved into a Quest! Now we were getting somewhere! So, absinthe in hand, Our Heroes went merrily off to their fate.
They had to get a crate from the back of a truck parked out in the wastes. This seemed easy enough, except that our old friends from Tukera Lines had sent some drug-addled security forces along with a Nomad Scout to stop us. Weren't we on the same side? Or had something changed? In any case, the light was fading fast and we did not know how long we had to get the crate and get out of the area. And there seemed to be another, similar crate nearby. We'll grab that too if we have the chance!
First turn, O made a beeline for the truck. The Tukera goons and their friend moved either close to cover, or in some cases fully into it. The rest of Our Heroes moved forward, Aim dashing into cover and Iruurlaa testing out the new Shell Gun. Hit! Score! A dead goon!
The second turn was bloody for both sides. Uezkfu killed a goon, Aim killed the Nomad Scout, and then the Tukera team managed to take out Khirki and Uezkfu. O grabbed the crate while Iruurlaa moved closer and took another shot with the Shell Gun, killing another Tukera goon. There was only the Tukera lieutenant left facing Our Heroes, but she held her ground.
On the third turn, Aim moved out of cover and took a shot at the Tukera leader, dropping her dead. O made it to the other crate (scoring another Quest rumor) and with that, the skirmish was over.
After the game, I rolled well for the survival of Uezkfu and Khirki; Uezkfu got School Of Hard Knocks, landing us another Story point, and Khirki was just knocked out. We gained another Quest rumor, got 6 credits out of the whole shebang, and were able to loot a plasma rifle from a Tukera goon. In both the Campaign Events and Character Events, Quest Rumors were scored. This totalled FOUR Quest Rumors from one game. Where will our next Quest mission take us?
