#2 Serenity Campaign Session Player Notes

Vera's Chop Shop
The crew has arrived at the job fair and has just stepped off the shuttle...
Large space station. Room for eight ships. Bulk of it is in sphere at centre.
Todd takes the wagon off the shuttle. Everyone scatters.
Will goes to the Cantina.
Molly goes to look at a smaller booth, C and then D. Talk to Blacks Salvagers, one of the bigger freelancers. A father son gig. Well respected. Well known. Not hiring salvagers right now, but sorters. Molly talks to the dad a bit, but no interest in her. She moves on.
Wren and Cale go to the left. To smaller booths. One is looking for crew for another space station. Just servicing alliance ships. Not going to Beylex but as a waypoint to avoid need to land. Pass on that.
Go to another one, service industry sort. Move on.
Alliance, nicer booth but still low class. Office drone type jobs. Talks to them. Anything pilot related? Nope. Office drones. Heads down path on left.
Molly and Todd go to sketchy looking guy's table. Guy is actually brick shithouse woman. Can tell about people. Named Kai. Like 6'4". About 35ish. Mixed race. Hair gone prematurely grey tied back. Everything about her is serviceable. No nonsense. WORK.
Todd is a good cook. Gets hired on. Molly is a doctor. Gets hired.
Kai is headed to next planet soon, Higgen's Moon. Will put out call to Molly's superior officer.
Kai's ship is Aces n Eights.
Todd goes with Kai to settle his plants.
Will heads off to follow the wagon to talk to Kai.
Wren and Cale head down the walkway. Ships. Firefly class. Across from it is Aces N Eights.
Mid sized transport. Bigger ship. Weapons. About 6000 tonnes.
Firefly in berth 2. Aces in berth 1. Dock Sei.
Wren/Cale go to #8 first. Rolls 6/10 spaceship engineering. Looks different from the usual ship. Cale is amazed at everything. Rewired the piloting. Had to change a bunch of stuff. Keeps coming up with ways to change things to make them better.
They go to the weapons room. Wren has never been in one. It's closed and locked. Rolls 6/10 spaceship engineering. Not the usual lock, a whole heavier duty set-up. Different material.
They go to the engine room. Cale goes nuts on the way. Otaku at Otafest.
Engine room is open. They pass people on the way out. Laughing in disbelief. Cale darts in and fanboys. Useless.
Wren rolls 5/10 spaceship engineering. Notices major repairs. Differences. Irregularities.
Firefly class. They go up to the pilot's room. Worse repair. Patches where needed. Nothing fancy. Dinged up.
Wren goes to the engine room. Cale is all enthusiastic again. Ship is a lot older. From like 10-15 years ago. Class B, now on class G.
Wren wanders back into hallway. Runs into Molly. Molly asks Cale and Wren if they want to work on a ship. Cale is energetic again.
Molly says Kai needs pilot and mechanic. Wren and Cale. They go off to meet up with Kai. Berth Yi.
Aces & Eights;195 feet long, 125 breadth, 65 feet high,6000 tonnes
Speed class 5 cruise 7 hard burn
Crew quarters 2 singles 2 double bunks
Fuel capacity 800 hours
Ammo capacity 4 tonne bomb bay plus 8 tonnes external weapons
Cargo capacity 300 tonnes
Passenger capacity in addition to crew 2 single 2 queen beds
Armament 2 secret 100 pound short range missiles mounted on undercarriage, plus one turret
Cargo ship with weapons
Will arrives. Goes to loft. Main hall area. Nothing of note. Exposed pipes and stuff. Flat floor.
Goes left to explore. In bridge. Doesn't touch anything.
Heads back down and over to the other side of the ship. Keeps exploring. Ends up in crew quarters area. Hears voices, recognizes Todd's.
Todd is being given a room. Kai is impressed. Genuinely interested in plants. Tells Todd not to mention the plants at all. People will kill for some of those plants. Valuable.
Long way to the moon. Kai wants to set up lights to keep the plants alive for the trip. Will overhears them and goes to see. Kai turns around and Will is there.
Will can do the lights. He signs on for two thirds the pay and has to rig the lights up before they leave or he gets dumped on the moon.
Molly, Cale, and Wren at the entrance. Kai leaves Todd and Will and goes to the front. They're all brought aboard to pick their bunks. Someone is going to have to share a bunk with Cale.

Wren and Molly bunk together.
Molly and Wren put their stuff away. They take a tour of the ship. The gamesroom has been updated to a larger infirmary.
Todd sets Will up working on the lights. Molly and Wren show up and they converse. Cale shows up and is excited as usual.
Kai approves of the crew. No one has anything they need to go pick up. Kai explains the deal going to the moon. They need meat. Delivering cows. Some electronics. Will decide from there if everyone gets to stay on.
First crew on a new ship.

Cale and Will share a bunk.
Kai gives a tour. Old infirmary is closed. Don't go in there. Shuttle bay is closed. Don't go in there.
Todd knows cooking. He's set up in the galley.
Molly rolls 5/6
Todd 4/6
Will 8/8
Todd notices stuff he could use to make more shelves and stuff.
Molly notices the recesses for fridges and stuff are still there with wiring, but stuff hasn't been cleaned out. Stuff is just in there for storage.
Will notices that with little effort I could climate control the entire room.
Will suggests he tweak the room to make it a proper garden. Can use whatever he wants in there as long as he keeps it clean.
Will rolls 6/8. Builds an acceptable stool.
Wren rolls 7/10 piloting. Kai gives her course. Launches reasonably well and we head out.
Cale rolls 2/10, nearly kills us all. Puts everything back together.
Launch goes swimmingly.
END SUMMARY: Crew has assembles on Kai's ship. Everyone has their places. Everyone is part of crew. Ship has launched on way to first location.

Notes taken by Paul Keely of www.paul-keely.com

#1 Serenity Campaign Session Player Notes

Beylix.
Newly terraformed.
Needs to import canned goods, chickens, cows, grains. Small finicky parts. Good quality steel.
Main enterprise is salvage.
Trash heap of the system is nearby,
United Reclamation specializes in trash. Monopoly in areas they operate.
Farther out from core the more they’re willing to enforce monopoly with dubious measures.
They make their money selling salvage rights to the trash heap.
One moon named Charity.
Sun is named Ping Lai
Capital city is Newhouse
Alliance aligned.
Decade after end of Unification Wars.
Newhouse: downtown district. Governor’s mansion, United Reclamation head office, business-area. As well as market. All along the outskirts almost like Gas Alley. Chop shops, not salvage-yards trying to be more self sufficient.
Not huge ships but warehouses for bits.
One of the larger ones called Joyce’s Choice Ship Emporium. Right now hosting showcase of Frankenstein ships.
Chop shops go talent scouting for good mechanics and good salvagers.
Doors open for public, also providing shuttle service to hub at Charity where larger ships are.
Hub is having hiring fair.
Major imports livestock and food.
Molly knew a rancher. Brought along to help out. Met kid named Todd who loves animals and has way with people. Also has plants.
Wren and Cale and William are there for their assorted reasons.
Vera's Chop Shop is having job fair/open house. Providing free shuttle service up to space platform.
A whole incident with Todd's flower wagon, a few of us help him get it up onto the platform and onto the shuttle.
On the flight up to the platform the shuttle is stopped briefly by alliance.
We arrive.
END SUMMARY: Group arrives at the station for the job fair.

Notes taken by Paul Keely of www.paul-keely.com