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Cthulhu 2023: Better the Devil you Know

The Kill City chapter of The Children of Satan is upset. Membership of this psycho-gang is down, with new initiates choosing the Cult of Dagon instead of good old fashioned Satanism. This new gang, which practices body-modification and draws in members by saying the End Times are now, has publicly set up shop in the docks area. There is also talk that they are threatening the Children’s drug operation among the rich and decadent of Kill City. It looks like a gang war is looming, and with the authorities in the dark about the Cult’s operating methods, there’s an open reward for any intelligence about them.

Cthulhu 2023 is a cyberpunk game featuring Lovecraft’s creations in a completely unexpected way. The game system is a hacked version of the Liminal engine. This straightforward ruleset uses two normal six-sided dice to resolve the action with additional rules to deal with cybernetic augmentation and virtual reality.

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Coriolis - Last Voyage of the Ghazali

The Tsurabi gas mine colony has sent out an urgent distress signal. In response, the Colonial Agency assembles a rescue fleet to evacuate the colony, centred around a decommissioned luxury liner called The Ghazali which has been hastily retrofitted with several hundred statis pods. You are part of the rescue crew, but when you come out of stasis into a dark and silent ship it quickly becomes clear that something has gone terribly wrong.

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My first attempt at Coriolis. Really like the setting and the whole tone of the game, on the fence about the rules system, but going to give it a good go RAW before I start hacking it.
 
The Graveyard of The Robots
System: Manifold (5 players)

In the far future, on a distant planet, the robots have risen and driven human civilization underground. For longer than anyone can remember, there has only been the Settlement, and the Surface. Only the mad and desperate leave the Settlement for the Surface, where the killer machines prowl.

But the Settlement is failing, the massive air purifiers are breaking down and manufacture of spares is beyond your capabilities. The only hope is to scavenge parts from the robots on the Surface. Rumours tell of a graveyard, where the machines go to wait to be recycled. If you can reach it, perhaps there is hope for the Settlement.

A post apocalyptic game of cooperation and survival.

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This Forgotten Babylon
System: Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed (5 players)

On a desolate planet in a remote system, a survey crew has found something extraordinary. A ruined city, abandoned for tens of thousands of years, built with technology that no-one has ever seen before. Immediately the system was placed under interdiction, and an urgent courier sent to arrange a large-scale survey mission.

But a secret is a hard thing to keep. Freelance salvage crews across the sub-sector keep bored administrators 'on retainer' just so that they can get word of finds like this first, to steal a march on the competition. You are one such crew, and years of bribes have now paid off handsomely. Imagine the price you will get, selling the first artifacts of this newly discovered alien race

You have arrived in-system, ahead of the competition and the authorities. All you have to do now is fill your hold with treasures and get away before anyone can stop you. Simple.

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Games update - 20 March 2021

Currently, five games offered in each of slots 1,2 and 3, supporting ~24 players. Slot 4 has four games offered with eighteen player spaces.

Presently there is one open game slot in each of slots 1 to 3 and two in slot 4. We've plenty of time for these to fill and more.
 
Don't know - all I can see is that it was created on March 6th at 10.15pm by an anonymous user.
There's no corresponding listing either.
 
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TERMAGANT BLUES
a scenario for GOLGOTHA
4 players, Slot 1, VTT - Role

You're all scavengers, employed by the Overseers to travel the fractureways to recover lost technologies, baubles and mechanisms from Golgotha, abandoned sites on the Tomb Worlds of long lost civilisations, beyond the Human Sphere, in the disputed borders between the Erix Absolution and the Concordant of Shelz where the Everwar rages.

The Overseers have promised you significant rewards to find out what happened to a lost mission and - if it failed - complete its goals. This is no bauble hunt; the reward is commensurate with the risk.

A scavenger operation that could change the course of the Everwar.
 
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North Star 2021, Virtual Con on-line.

Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th May 2021

http://www.northstarcon.org.uk/



These are the two Fria Ligan RPG games I am running at Virtual North Star in May.

The first is a new Tales From The Loop Mystery set in the UK at Christmas 1984. Adventures in the snow, a fleeting glimpse of a silver and red Father Christmas, a Jawa-faced stranger hanging around a red telephone box, and mysterious lorries delivering odd devices. What’s it all about?


The second game is an Fria Ligan Alien scenario using the crew of The Betty from Alien: Resurrection as the player characters. A heist on a popular space liner under a tight time constraint for a psychotic crime boss, what could go wrong?


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‘Winter Wonderland and Snow All Around’

Tales from the Loop RPG

Saturday Morning Slot

For up to six players. New players welcome!

“Monitoring Android last looked out, On the feast of Stephen”

“When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even”

“Brightly shone the searchlights that night, the heat-rays’ bite was cruel”

“When a giant Tripod came in sight, burning down the school.”

Tags: Player-led, Sci-Fi (Alt-History), Nostalgia Play, No Pre-gens, Rules-lite, Newbie Friendly, Fria Ligan, Musical Accompaniment.


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‘All That Glitters is Gold’

Alien RPG

Saturday Evening Slot

For up to six players. Newbies welcome!

The job would be a cinch, a simple box bust on a floating palace baron stuck in a jam. Ringers onboard have thrown a spanner in the works.

Once they douse the glim, we bolt in offering gall gab as we grift our way in. Togged up as grease-monkeys to fix their gears they’ll welcome us in.

There’s no gitters or feds to nix the keister so we can oil open the box.

The haul wouldn’t be chicken feed either, it will be a cushy number of props. We secure the derby, scoot it out on The Betty, and meet up for the slaughter for our split. You savvy?

Tags: 18+, Alien, Hidden Agendas, Horror, Player-Led, Pre-Gens, Sci-Fi, Spaceships with Ashtrays, Fria Ligan, Musical Accompaniment.

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