[TML] AWAD: Texaco

[Bruce Johnson]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Brad Murray wrote:

> [BJM: a short one today -- there's only so much you can do with all
> those zeroes ]
>
> Texaco
>
> 0309 D200000-0
> Gas Giants present
>
> What can you say about Texaco? It's an airless, waterless, metal-free
> rock with an old automated refinery and a yeast farm that may or may
> not have gone over. No one lives there and anyone who happens to be
> manning the station isn't there officially. Texaco is a popular
> refueling point for jump-2 vessels heading to or from Kraleer space
> but other than that it's a dead system.

Oh, goody! a Doom wad for Traveller :-)

Great place to send unsuspecting PC's on a salvage mission to recover  
machinery from the abandoned refinery, which proceeds normally until  
something disables their ship.

Then an NPC vanishes. Then another. Then they find half of the second  
one, with a blood trail leading off into the refinery...

Standard 'Aliens' stuff, but if you strand the PC's there without the  
usual battalion-sized arsenal PC's like to travel with, it doesn't  
matter how many monster movies the players have seen...they're in a  
serious fight for survival...

A good place to place 'The Chamax Horde' too...

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Bruce Johnson
U of Az  College of Pharmacy
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