Prrrone of asi series! YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL SPACE PIRATE. Terrible and ‘wonderful news: you are attending the funeral of the Great Space Pirate Balthazar Germaine, and he’s written you into his will! You and your friends, who are all also ‘in his will, ub shoulders with the galaxy’s most devil-may-care scoundrels (who all also happen to be ‘mentioned in the will) and prepare for his spectacular send-off ‘YOUR (FABULOUS) NAME IS: Assign a D6 (average), a D8 (good) and a D1o (great) to your stats, which are: DARING - Run, jump, steer, climb space rigging, ete HANDSOME - Charm, impress, of lie to people VICIOUS - Inflict pain, threaten people, or break objects PICK ONE: ONCE PER SCENE, YOU CAN; Ifyou take advantage, roll another Dé and use the highest dice. 1 Determine exactly what an NPC wants right now. © Work out what an NPCis most afraid of © Finda chandelier in a beneficial location. 1D Find a laser-flintlock, or declare that one malfunctions. © Finda rope, rigging or crane apparatus. ‘DD Find a window or airlock in a useful location. CJ Tellus auseful fact about this alien’s culture. PICK ONE: ONCE PER SESSION, YOU CAN: Ifyou take advantage, roll another Dio and use the ee oes {C1 Declare an NPCis madly in love with you. TD Recruit space ghost with neospiritualism rituals. 1D Trigger a Mexican standoff in your favour. D Find a party happening nearby (you’re invited). Finda friendly NPC in a useful position. Bi Find an unattended vessel just when you need one. Di channel your sorcerous ancestry into a star-spel. mio (Tell us how amazing your coat, your vibro-sabre, your laser-flintlock and your hair are. Are you an alien? That’s cool.) SYSTEM ‘When you attempt a risky action and the outcom doubt, roll the appropriate dice and compare it to the ‘Task Number (TN) determined by the GM. If you equal or beat the task number, the task is complete. If you roll ‘under the task number, lower the TN by 1 and add1 to your PERIL score. Atrifiing or momentary concer: 4 A challenging or extended task 8 ‘Agrand endeavour indeed: 12 aA Re. BEAUTIFUL SPACE PIRATES IN: te" “The Galaxy’s Most Dangerous Funeral!” “e Aas) -Bautilal Space Names by Chris ‘Merah Arablaster* Feylor Grant : nebo omy When you make your character, roll 212 on this table. ‘These are your touchstones - people and things that you care for deeply. If you roll the same thing as another player, you share that touchstone. 1 Abernathy Towers, your stern but loving mentor, mostly robotic 2 Serratio Kingson, a beautiful space prince with literal emerald eyes 3 ~ Amaranth-9, an embodied ship's computer in the form of a shifting hologram 4.~ Terpsichore’s Vaunt, a star-skimmer that’s been in your family for generations 5 - An orbital pleasure-satellite stolen from the bad-tempered King of Jupiter 6~ Ahat so beautiful it was, for a time, the de facto ruler of the Moon 7 ~ Clarabelle-003, a time-travelling cop and your on-again, off-again paramour 8- Kinesthelesian, a crystal horse that you've ridden since you were a child. He can talk 9 Audacious Fandango, galactic mountebank. and interstellar highwayperson 10 ~ Jezail Fleurdelys, rampant space wizard 11 ~ Castor Wolfhowl, pangalactic daguerreotypist and canny muckraker 12 Sinestra Deathwine, reformed (?) supervillain and excellent kisser PERIL ‘The higher your PERIL score, the more potential danger you're in. If you ever roll a dice and it shows equal to or less than your PERIL, you're IN DANGER: you can’t act, and your friends will have to rescue you soon or you'll meet a terrible demise! ‘At any point you can lose one of your touchstones to get out of DANGER and reduce your PERIL to 0, Narrate the tearful farewell scene. Ifa shared touchstone is lost, all characters who share it reduce their PERIL to 0 and escape danger, but it is lost to all of them. ‘GM: Germaine’s will came with bizarre stipulations, and only one crew can claim the majestic reward. Roll to ‘see whats required to best the other pirate crews and claim his inheritance. (Roll twice if you're feeling brave.) 1 Survive a night in a haunted space station 2 Slay the legendary horned beast of Briar 3 ~ End the millenia-long civil war of Ecclesiarchy 6 ‘4 Steal the Twice-Born Queen’s phylactery 5 ~ Find a wealthy spouse for Germaine’s awful stepchild {6 Assassinate Germaine’s killer, the pirate warlord Xen