Silver Lining:The Pay-Offs and The Rip-Offs
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Shipping luxury contraband goods can be profitable - for a crew capable of avoiding any trouble.
Cold Open
The officer looks at you, then takes a long minute to take in the cargo bay. He turns to the other officer. "Indeps." he scoffs, "You gotta look real close at these indeps."
Characters Introduced
NPCs
- Konstantino Tyndel aka "Dino The Greek", "El Greco", "Greco" - Knaves enforcer, Christina Whitehall's right hand man.
- Officer Chadwick Bene - ISPS Customs Agent
- Officer Trainee Lloyd - Bene's sidekick
- Lorc McGrue - muscle bound thug who's fallen in with Griff
- Fingers "Two-Feet" Malone - non-muscle bound technology whiz who's reluctantly working work Griff
- Karn Muldavy - Unscrupulous fence of illegal goods
Scene 1 - Meeting with Greco
Konstantino Tyndel has a knack for flair. The meeting with him occurs at Lucaille (la cah-aye) 8760, a red dwarf. The system has helium-3 mining operations in an ice planet, Lucaille 8760e, in a station orbiting over the planet that serves as a quarters for workers and a transfer point to-and-from the planet. His ship is immediatley noticable as the Silver Lining docks. It's essentially a mid-sized winnebego, silver with violet accents and edging. As the PCs go to meet with him, they will occasionally pass members of his cell, and all are dressed nicely, business suits, accented in some way violet - a flower, a pair of sunglasses, pinstripes, etc.
Konstantino is a dark-skinned Black man from New York City in the North American Concord. He goes by many aliases, but prefers "Greco". He's waiting for the PCs in the commissary of the space station, and has taken up resident by himself at a table in the middle of the room. Greco wears a simple pair of black slacks with violet pinstripes, a violet shirt with arm garters and black tie. On the table sits a black fedora with a violet hat band. When the Silver Lining crew arrive, he stands up and greets them all, and shakes each one's hand, offering to them to sit down.The workers currently here shoot him and the Silver Lining crew dirty glances. He's very polite, but not overly formal. Anyone who's worked with or dealt with him before knows he values loyalty and respect above all other things, but can be brutal and swift when crossed, though he never tries to be (as far as he sees it) unnecessarily cruel.
He sends his regards from Christina to John. John thanks him, but tries to change the subject.
Greco has several (10) large crates filled with Fomalhut Ivory. Ten per crate. They're filling up his yatch, the Violet Star, and he can't easily smuggle goods like these into populated space. The job is simple. They bring the shipment of ivory to a fence on PLANET, a pawn broker named Karn Muldavy at the Marangard Pawn Shop. These should fetch 100k, the silver lining will get a cut of the final amount.
Scene 2 - High Stakes
PCs must stop at a way station for refueling, run into an angry crew who say the ivory is thiers and they want it back.
Silver Lining has to stop to take on supplies, so they are forced to stop at a space station at Rigel Cantorus - Station. John wanders off to handle this. He hasn't returned after several hours. Attempts to call his communicator go unanswered. Delivery people start to show up with supplies, but still JOhn isn't forthcoming.
Investigation to find him 2d6.
Talking with shop keepers, he stands out. A medical suppliy shop recognized him - he showed up to order some things as well as get some medication filled.
Was also spotted at a food supply shop. Was asking about where to get some equipment for ship repairs, shop keeper gave him directions. Will let PC know.
If they PCs get to that shop, he will say they never saw anyone of that description. However, in a dark corredor of the station, there are signs of an obvious struggle. Trash cans knocked over, some blood spatter. John's cane.
Drag marks (shoe scuffs) can be seen on the ground. Can be followed to a door. on the way to him, they find his communicator.
A plain room, john at one end, tied to a chair. he's groggy on the edge of consciousness.
Three thugs lie in wait.
Griff Speaks: "Hey Buttheads. We neer thought you were gonna show up. We didn't have your phone number or else we would have given you a call."
Hand over the ivory, and we'll give you back the fat man.
That blonde bitch stole it from us. We hunted those creatures ourself fair and square just for her to jump us. We just want back what's rightfully ours.
They dont' want to pay for them.
Lorc McGrue - The Muscle
d10 Muscle and Sinew
d8 I'm gonna punch you out
d6 I'm Smaat!
Fingers "Two-Feet" Malone - Brains
d6 I know only pain
d8 Heavily Modded Gun
d10 What Idiot Put You In Charg?
Biff Tanner
d10 Rabble Rouser
d8 Might Makes Right
d6 Devious Bully
Sig Asset
d8 baseball bat
d8 shiny future jacket
Scene 3
PCs dealing with customs officer in station above final destination. The ship is approached a compact vessel with flashing lights. It passes in front of the
silver lining and flashes it's lights into the cockpit to get thier attention. They must dock and the customs agent comes aboard with a jr agent in tow.
Port of Origin?
Port of Registry? (Earth)
Destination?
"I'm Officer Bene, this is Officer Loyd. Log book and manifest."
To Lloyd: "You gotta look real close at these indeps. You can usually fine something wrong to ticket them for. Like the log book, or if the manfiest is wrong."
"DO you have an LMC? (last mile carrier)" is one of the questions
Officer Bene then leaves Lloyd to inspect the logs and manifest while he pokes around the hold.
He WILL try to open the crates that hold the ivory.
Officer Chad Bene - dyed black hair, bushy mustache, reflective sunglasses.
d8 Phy
d10 men
d6 soc
Distinctions
d8 The Man
d8 By The Book
d8
Skills
d8 Capitalist
d10 Lawyer
d8 Gumshoe
d6 Gunner
d6 Scrapper
d8 Pilot
d8 Quartermaster
Sig Asset
d8 The Man's Rulebook
Extra
d6 Officer Lloyd - young, blonde, nervious
Scene 4 - At the pawnbroker's shop.
Dealing with the fence - he's going to try to lowball them
Gestures to the price list, and goes on about how it's hard to move ivory these days.
"The market's been flooded with this stuff recently"
d6 if they successfully get paid the proper amount.
Karn Muldavy
d8 double talk
d10 wise guy
d8 crafty
Sig Asset: d8 price list
Reward: d4
Marangard City
Karn Muldavy
Kristoph57 — 11/18/2022 11:03 PM
Marangard Prawn Bokers Chop - Karn Muldavy (Proprietor)
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Song: | Smuggler's Blues |
Artist: | Glenn Frey |
Album: | The Allnighter |
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