Hey, y'all,
(Warning, this is a bit rambling...)
So, we finished
CotG a couple of weeks ago and will take on
DoW possibly next month. If anyone's interested, I would like to discuss ways to tie the two plot lines closer together; in particular, the Draconis strain vaccine and all that. I am using my own
CotG running results to kick this off, but feel free to discuss these things based on how your own version of the story ran, too.
So, in my running, the players had their hands full with a million things, and they basically let Clayton mostly to herself. As a result, she had no problem sneaking vaccine samples and a black goo urn onboard her EEV behind everybody's backs. There was a tense standoff when she tried to leave with Dr. Flynn, but she escaped while Dr. Flynn and Cham (actually Lucas) were sucked into space. So, in my "house canon", if you will, Clayton got away with stuff and will somehow be the source of the Project Life Force vaccine. The scenario ended with Cham/Lucas and Rye strong-arming their way onboard the Sotillo and eventually struck a deal with the mercenaries. So Clayton, Cham/Lucas, Rye, Adisa Bolaji, Pinion, Helen Bein, and Micky Horton all survived the
CotG.
I would like to use some of these characters in a cameo in
DoW, possibly as replacement PCs should things go badly. I like the idea of some characters carrying over to better anchor the story for the players. The question then is, what would be good ways of utilizing these guys in
DoW? When and where would they organically fit?
The Sotillo crew are mercenaries & Seegson Privateers preying on Weyland-Yutani shipping lines and such, and Ariaricus is a bit out of their way, but perhaps they might have friends at the colony? Seegson contacts to offload loot to? Is there anything in
DoW which might fit such a thing? (Perhaps the bar is criminal network safehouse?)
Cham/Lucas & Rye ended
CotG hellbent on tracking down Clayton, but that's easier said than done. But still, if Clayton came here (Ariaricus) with her stuff and sold it to Project Life Force, then they might have tracked her somehow. Or perhaps they have heard rumors of a "Draconis vaccine" being used at Ariaricus... but that sounds a bit too convenient.
At the time of writing, I'm of the mind to keep Cham/Lucas & Rye out of
DoW, and have them show up at a later date (possibly
HoD or
FW), to link the surviving Montero crew characters with those stories and overall meta-plot, while having them skipping
DoW altogether. Instead, I sort of want to use the Sotillo crew this time since none of those characters have been run by players yet in my game, and they're pretty disposable folk and therefore great as replacement PCs. So, any suggestions as to how to make any of this work would be fantastic
(At present, I've just skimmed the
DoW book and studied certain sections, so I'm not an expert on the story at all).
Thanks in advance