LogYuriRT1-2010/07/22-Jason-1

Game log for the 2010/07/22 session of Rogue Trader: After the Gold Rush, as taken by Jason

Marneus returns home to find that his father is retiring, and the family wants him to have Solo Drakban so he can show them what he's made of. He's done a few basic courier-type runs to shake the ship down, and now he's been sent to Footfall. The mission: meet with a guy, who has some stuff for the ship.

Marneus has Solo parked in the mooring area while the bridge crew fly to the rock where the meet is to take place. Anastasia Xanatov and Victrus Karellius remain on the shuttle, while Marneus, Bors Tovon, Opiter Castus, Jotham Lentillus, and Seneschal Cornelius, an old family functionary, cheerfully blunder into a trap, and Cornelius gets schwacked early. A mob of eight thugs give chase, seeking to do bad things to us. Bors deploys his heavy bolter and puts on an exhibition of firepower, generating substantial panic among the bystanders. Opiter sets up overwatch with his bolter. Marnes asks Anastasia to prepare for hasty takeoff, and Jotham runs ahead to try to set an ambush with his flamer. The enemy boss facepalms the nearest civilian, exposing him to Opiter's fire, and ends up getting pasted badly - the third bolter shot effectively amputates his leg. Opiter claims first kill by a PC. The fire toward us actually intensifies as the bad guys' rage increases. Their return fire hits Bors and Opiter, bloodying both, but not causing any critical damage.

Meanwhile, back at the ship, Anastasia and Victrus fail perception rolls. It surprises them a lot when someone shoots the viewport, which starts to show a spiderweb of cracks. Victrus investigates and sees a guy in a dockworker's coverall spraying the shuttle's hatch with a bolter. Victrus' return fire suppresses him. Anastasia struggles to expedite the startup sequence. The situation deteriorates as another bad guy comes around the shuttle, firing yet another automatic weapon, forcing Victrus to duck back into the hatch. Even so, Victrus gets nicked.

Bors, seeing the crowd thinning out, decides to engage properly. He finds a decorative buttress and uses it to brace his heavy bolter, taking aim to set up some extreme hate death next round. Opiter ducks behind a delivery truck and puts two rounds each into two guys, just like that shit was easy. The first guy loses his arm at the shoulder, spraying blood and shoulder bones everywhere. The second guy also loses an arm, and in this case, his severed arm begins twitching and freaking out any perceptive bystanders. Good call on the running away, innocent civilians!