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essed with her proposed sister wife and asks to meet with the legally female crew members dr matauranga and vila while the males pay their respects to the prince and his father tyokh 1109 week 52 the first step is for the crew to pay their respects elehasei meets with vila and dr matauranga she is not jealous of the potential new wife alea but is concerned that her only assets are youth and beauty her clan the weseah is a low class rural one with nothing to offer and no stronger patron clan but has recently produced a batch of pretty but empty headed young females who are marrying above their status elehasei can t see a pattern in the marriages some are better than others some are advantageous and others less so she wonders if this might be part of a plot to manipulate the prince and damage his reputation perhaps the crew might look into it dr matauranga wonders privately if this is the rea a hrilkhir re integrating their members into legitimate clans they tried to persuade the prince to do that a few years ago but the macavity s crew talked him out of it meanwhile mazun and rex are talking to the iuwoiko and his now heir apparent prince hteleitoirl the clan head is in bad shape and not long for this world dr matauranga is summoned to examine him and determines he is dying of natural causes realising that it would be dishonourable to extend the ko s life when his time has come the doctor instead focuses on a treatment regimen which will allow him to pass with dignity attempts to probe the prince and alea are stonewalled mazun thinks the prince is embarrassed about how they met at a social function while vila concludes that alea is out of her depth and has decided the best way to avoid a social gaffe is to say as little as possible elehasei has had cubs in the macavity s absence but they are all female so maybe the new wife wants to usurp her position by producing a male heir there is still everything to play for the crew persuade elehasei to host a gathering for alea and her relatives dr matauranga collects genetic samples from all of them and disappears back to his laboratory to analyse them but the crew are already suspicious as the females look surprisingly similar vila offers to mentor alea arguing that he has recently integrated into the clan as an outsider himself and she accepts meanwhile the males including kharrosh rex and mazun are hanging around outside swapping yarns one of the bodyguards suggests kharrosh s story is less than accurate and rex uses this to manufacture a duel are you calling my friend a liar rex cuts him down in a flurry of claws and fangs and he and mazun carry the fallen off to dr matauranga who is well known to be an excellent doctor dr matauranga has established that the females are clones and that someone from tech world has meddled with their appearance agility and visual cortex he recognises the handiwork of a former rival the crew immediately jump to the conclusion that they are sleeper assassins but before they can act on this rex and mazun arrive with a gutted aslan for the good doctor to repair naturally the doctor shoots him full of truth drugs as well as antibiotics and mazun charms him into revealing that he is indeed a member of the rea a hrilkhir crime syndicate and now also a member of clan weseah it seems obvious that the isolated and impoverished rural clan has taken the deal the prince refused putting together the clues they have so far it also seems the syndicate has paid tech world to generate attractive clone females and is using clan weseah as a toehold marrying the females off to gradually higher and higher status clans to gain land power and influence an aslan version of money laundering dr matauranga who is now growing catgirl clones in the ship s expanded medical bay wants to make the visual cortex changes to the next batch to see what they do suspecting some kind of hypnotic gaze but there isn t time reluctantly therefore he oversees mazun and vila in hacking the register of births marriages and deaths maintained to ensure correct inheritance of land it turns out that the females all appear fully grown and marry quickly but that their integration into aslan society is facilitated by bridget harris and her port authority contacts dr matauranga suspects but cannot prove that harris is associated with the psionics institute so the crew decides not to tug on this particular thread as it may result in biting off more than they can chew they present their findings to elehasei and ask what she wants to achieve she asks that they break up the romance and take down the conspiracy any other outcome besmirches the prince s honour and by association that of his clan and hers as either he was taken in and therefore incompetent or complicit in covering it up and therefore dishonourable the first part is easy no formal promises have been exchanged so the prince just dumps his new girlfriend not without regret as she is rather pretty but the knowledge that she was deliberately and dishonourably designed to appeal to him rather takes the shine off things the crew next ponders how to end the conspiracy without dragging their own names or the clan s through the mire fortunately vila knows a guy in the port authority so they present him the case which will make his career with all evidence neatly tied up with a bow on top conscious of social niceties and not wanting to spend the rest of his life duelling this contact gives the various clans involved some warning giving them time for damage limitation before bringing the ceiling down on the rea a hrilkhir epilogue fast forward a few weeks the iuwoiko dies and hteleitoirl is installed as the new ko he promotes his former boon companions to full clan membership as a reward for their many services elehasei persuades her husband that the crew of the macavity can best serve the clan by continuing to trade along the aslan route and so they do unknown to everyone else mazun continues to report back to his iiss handler on cordan every time they get that far coreward gm notes this campaign has run its course now but it was fun while it lasted for the final session i rolled a random adventure seed number 96 from stars without number then tried to tie up as many loose ends as i could with it perhaps because of that the group worked out fairly quickly what was going on and who was responsible the problem was how to prove it and resolve the situation without causing social problems for themselves and their patrons at april 07 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aslan route 31 march 2026 books in march 2026 i ve been re reading a lot of my roleplaying games of late especially the solo ones deciding which i m going to play and which i m not as i grow ever more aware that my remaining playing time is limited i m already playing coriolis the great dark in dom s flowers of algorab campaign i love the background but the year zero engine isn t going to displace any of my existing favourites as mentioned recently i m also using faser and the italian version of cepheus engine offscreen the former is an italian equivalent of mythic gm emulator 2nd edition and very nice the latter is a straight translation of what is basically mongoose traveller 1st edition with the serial numbers filed off scarlet heroes interstellar overthruster and a star for queen zoe shall go to the ball the jury s still out on four against darkness and cairn is going to find itself in a shallow grave in its own woods i also read some proper books how bad are bananas by mike berners lee this estimates the carbon equivalent footprint that s to say including methane and other greenhouse gases of everyday products and activities allowing one to make informed choices quite a lot of it was not as i expected for example bananas are actually pretty good compared to other foodstuffs but key points are eat seasonal local food don t fly if you can help it and make any manufactured product last as long as you can i like the idea of the five tonne lifestyle in effect a personal carbon budget i might work out what my footprint currently is last act in palmyra by lindsey davis this month s falco number 6 in the series sees our hero and his long suffering girlfriend helena on an espionage mission which fails they escape by joining a travelling theatre which is short handed due to a recent murder one they feel compelled to solve the plot felt a little contrived in places but the characters were well drawn as usual and the historical detail was delightful i d worked out the missing person subplot and the motive for the murder by about halfway through the book but the identity of the murderer eluded me until the penultimate chapter otherlands by thomas halliday the palaeontology of the last half billion years in reverse chronological order i thought that was a strange choice at first but it does allow the author to shift us gradually from more familiar lifeforms to ones less so it s interesting how different the earth has been in the past and how that affected the niches available for life scratch monkey by charles stross in the far future all human star systems are connected by the dreamtime an ai controlled internet exchanging messages at lightspeed interstellar travel is accomplished by sending consciousness as a large complex message to be reincarnated in a cloned body everyone is routinely backed up into the dreamtime so death is merely an inconvenience sometimes worlds drop out of the dreamtime for various reasons and then teams of covert specialists are sent to find out why and fix it our heroine is one such specialist and gradually learns that all is not rosy in the garden the book considers how such a society might work what ai needs and the lengths it might go to to get it and how ai might evolve because evolution doesn t just stop at some arbitrary pinnacle if you re upset by body horror or child abuse you might want to give this one a miss i may need to stop reading non fiction soon though for the same reason i gave up watching the news it s just too depressing at march 31 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels reading 28 march 2026 fringe space three months in the question for you to ask yourself is whether what you think you want to pursue will actually get you the happiness you think it will get you tony hsieh from the beginning i intended to review this campaign after three months of play a dozen episodes to answer the questions i posed initially and some new ones that came up along the way and decide what to do next depending on the answers my plan was to keep going drop swade and revert to 5150 or abandon the game entirely and move on here are my conclusions ymmv questions and answers does 5150 for savage worlds work well enough for long term solo play yes it needed some tweaking but i ve always found that when i mash games up like this i have to experiment to find what works and what doesn t that s one of the main reasons i run solo games the setting npcs and missions work well enough and i think i have a good grasp of everything else i need i m happy i can run this indefinitely without any more significant tweaks or rulings one thing which is definitely faster and easier in 5150 is combat but as you ve seen i m experimenting with various options from the swade adventure toolkit to come up with something that looks and feels similarly simple and straightforward the savage goose recently suggested using the fear rules for morale checks triggered the first time an enemy is taken out or when the foes lose half their number extras or half their wounds wild cards i wish i d thought of that next time gadget next time i m tempted to introduce some edition of traveller for starmaps world statistics and ships but i m reluctant to add another product set in particular one of the beauties of the 5150 universe is that like many wargames it doesn t need a starmap perhaps i should unbend far enough to bring back interstellar rebels maybe i ve let my loathing for the movies it emulates star wars episodes 7 9 blind me to the elements worth using does it work well enough for group play i m less certain about this my usual players don t get on with on the fly emergent play i could perhaps get around that by working up adventures in advance much like the ones in the various 5150 no limits products or by recruiting new players i d have to try it out to be sure and i already have the next two campaigns sketched out which at least gives me time to prepare should i adopt more of the swade sf companion no i simply don t need it for this campaign i did try rebuilding simon makavan to avoid using the sfc captain edge but it didn t feel like him anymore after that and i like him as he is the same applies to rebuilding him for 5150 it s possible but the resulting pc doesn t feel right this is interesting as arion my previous solo sf character was rebuilt in a new game engine every few months and always felt like the same guy apart from that one edge i m using the commlink which could easily be replaced with a cellphone that s all it is really i spent many unhappy and unproductive hours trying to design the standard 5150 ships in swade but failed every time the two chief reasons for this are that mods are different sizes depending on both the size of the ship s hull frame and the component you re installing and that superstructures are enormous which is a shame as they are the obvious way to deal with 5150 ships ability to reconfigure passenger cabins as cargo holds on the fly i could have homebrewed some smaller version of superstructures i suppose but in the end i gave up and reverted to the swade adventure toolkit for ship combat so that i don t need to design ships at all meanwhile in my group game the aslan route one player eventually took an edge from the sfc the group also took a liking to the stun weapons and automatic shotguns so the companion is seeing some use is it worth switching from roll20 to fantasy grounds i experimented with this for about a month off camera and my conclusion is that for what i do it s more effort than it s worth fantasy grounds is more powerful and includes some things that are paid extras in roll20 but it has a steeper learning curve especially for the gm and works by shifting the gm s effort from the session itself into prep time i m going the other way like my parallel experiments with ai also off camera i discovered that it automates things i don t do anyway so until i come up with a more relevant use case there s no point questions arising during play is the tail wagging the dog that s to say have i become more invested in blogging than in actually playing the game no i don t think so since 2008 blogging about my solo games has been at least as important to me as actually playing and has added greatly to my enjoyment that hasn t changed if i stopped blogging...