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+Episode: 2927
+Title: HPR2927: Stardrifter RPG Playtest Part 09
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2927/hpr2927.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-24 13:24:13
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+This is HPR Episode 2927 entitled, Tardriff to RPG playtest part ne'er-9, and in part
+of the series, tabletop gaming, it is hosted by Lost in Bronx, and in about 26 minutes long,
+and carry an explicit flag.
+The summary is Lost in Bronx, and friends playtest a new, original RPG system.
+Today's show is licensed under a CC ne'er-0 license.
+This episode of HBR is brought to you by AnanasThost.com.
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+Hello, this is Lost in Bronx, also known as David Collins Rivera.
+Welcome to Part 9 of the Star Drifter role-playing game playtest.
+Today we have Taj, Brynn, and X1101.
+Last time, the player characters rested up and healed up from their earlier encounter
+in the ship.
+They listened on the calm channels of the people inside the ship, and they determined
+they were looking for something.
+The player characters spoke with the leader of the other group, and struck up a tense
+agreement to help them do their job, so the player characters could do theirs.
+Let's get into it.
+A couple of hours have passed.
+You will get the description and finally an image of something that's not quite fist-sized.
+Maybe she's got small fists, it would fit in the palm of your hand, it may not be able
+to close your hand entirely.
+Looks like it's got several different types of access, ports like for different types
+of computer systems, and supposedly this thing has a wireless connection capability, but
+you would need to either activate it like there's a physical switch on it or something
+like that.
+This is a very secure device.
+If you got a hold of this, you would not, and it was encrypted, and no one buys one
+of these without encrypting them, you would not be able to crack this with the computers
+you have on this machine.
+Certainly not with your comm, and not with what's on the boat.
+It's not military grade, well it's military grade, but it's not military issue, it is
+a civilian thing.
+Okay.
+Very expensive.
+Ultimately, we don't need to see what's in it.
+We're just finding it and handing it off.
+You seem to have modified this woman a bit.
+She's still screaming at her people, but she's not snapping at you anymore.
+So you said that in order to activate the Wi-Fi, it would be a physical switch on the device
+correct?
+It says there is one on the ads for it.
+Does it give anything like frequency, anything like that?
+It doesn't, but there are standards that are often used.
+Then again, this is a highly encrypted device, so maybe none of those standards are standard.
+Is there like a dark web in this side?
+Yeah, there's plenty of things like that.
+Space tour.
+Yeah, but we're going to need computer roles for that, my friend.
+Oh, that's fine.
+I will make the attempt then.
+Let's do.
+Really?
+Oh, I rolled a 16, I have a 17.
+Okay.
+You get the impression there is a, quote unquote, dark web.
+You know, there are these little hidden communities, let's put it that way.
+You get the sense that they're there, but you can't figure out how to get into them.
+Someone calls just script Kitty, and that's as close as you get.
+Want, want.
+But you suspect they're there.
+Well, do we want to agree to help her out and at least start that process?
+All of this research that you guys have done and you're talking, it's taken up five hours.
+Much of this day is gone by now.
+So we have no other contacts here, huh?
+You're, you guys, you know how, you know, you don't know anybody here.
+You got dropped off.
+Yeah, in the middle of nowhere.
+You got kicked off the bus, man.
+Alright, they went with the limited information that we have.
+I don't know if I, I guess I could do just a wide spectrum scan as we go over visually.
+And at the same time have, you know, just Wi-Fi, just going up and down the frequency scale while we search.
+And we'll start at the, at that hook thing.
+Okay, upfront at the bottom.
+Basically, I'm going to need you to roll a piloting just to make sure you're controlling this thing.
+To get close enough to really get a good look at this because you don't have really good optics on this bow.
+You'd have to, you have to get fairly close to it.
+This would be considered unsafe by most legal standards.
+But, you know, you guys don't go by the rules.
+Okay, yeah, I will need a piloting role.
+I rolled an eight and I have a 17.
+Oh, no problem at all.
+You keep good control of this thing.
+Basically, your boat goes around this thing with a little thruster points slowly with a spotlight over the exterior of this vessel.
+You may roll versus your intelligence.
+Everybody who's watching and I assume everybody is to see if you see anything.
+If it's there, I found it because I rolled a one.
+Okay, succeed.
+Okay.
+Also succeed.
+There's nothing there, but you're very sure of it.
+Outstanding.
+Well, it's better than not knowing.
+In other words, you can put this part of the ship behind you because you're positive.
+It's nothing like that visible exterior of this vessel, this part.
+Okay, so this was the, this would be outside deck 2A and I'm assuming, you know,
+important starboard and you're going along the dorsal and the ventral part of this part of the ship.
+Okay, make sense.
+You know, I can make you roll a hundred times, but, you know, from a realistic standpoint for simplicity's sake.
+We'll say that the entire area of deck 2A, the exterior, you've gotten a real good sense that this thing is out there.
+It's very well disguised.
+Okay.
+That took a long time.
+That took six hours and I would think that you're pretty tired by now.
+Yeah, time to rest.
+We don't want our pilot to slam us into the side of this thing.
+Yeah, are you sure?
+Okay, so the cargo ship guys have checked out the front section.
+What would be deck 2A?
+You can then proceed somewhere else if you'd like.
+We're assuming we're going to take some time to rest in there so that Bryn can have had some sleep and
+we're going to assume that you've had a shift off and, you know, he got some sleep and things are seeming a little less spooky than they were.
+Guys, at least have a ceasefire of some sort in place or so it seems.
+Oh, Bryn's flying.
+I'm going to go make the strongest coffee possible for him.
+Instant powdered coffee, the best.
+All right, he's got his coffee or coffee, whichever he preferred.
+And you guys can proceed to continue doing this or what do you want to to be going to to be okay.
+Now to be understand part of deck 3C is on the bottom of that and that's all one piece.
+I mean, it's the not separate pieces, but you can see how that slats in right there.
+So you'll be looking at at least part of 3C as well when you're down there.
+Please everybody who's looking, please roll intelligence rolls and I assume we're all looking for a change.
+Margot would see something there.
+We'll see if anyone else has seen something succeed succeed.
+I apparently am still making coffee or something because critical critical failure.
+Okay, you do not see it, but you're positive.
+It's not there.
+You're positive, you know, isn't there?
+The consensus is that it's not you.
+That's the consensus.
+Don't see anything that looks like it anyway.
+How long did that take?
+That will have taken you guys.
+That took you four hours.
+So that's like half the ship you guys have covered leaving the biggest part.
+Well, true, but I'm assuming you guys take a brief break to you know, eat your rations and eat up your frozen meals.
+I'm gonna go next.
+I guess the big 2C 3C.
+Okay, well, we'll take these as separate sections and you'll have to roll one.
+1C, 2C and 3C, the majority of 3C.
+These will have to be taken as separate sections.
+So which one do you want to do?
+1C.
+1C.
+All right, and you know what I didn't do last time, but I'm going to have you do now is roll for piloting.
+Okay, so you don't slam into the ship or scattering off into space.
+I did not scatter.
+I rolled a 12 and I have a 17.
+Okay.
+There are bonuses on this because this is actually not that difficult.
+You're more or less just inching along little tiny puffs of the thrusters.
+That's it.
+Just inching, inching and I assume you're all looking and if you're all crowded there,
+you're probably saying everybody get a good look.
+Anybody see anything?
+Let's move on.
+That sort of thing because otherwise, I don't know how you would do it.
+Right now everybody roll intelligence to see if you see succeed succeed succeed.
+Consensus is that you don't see anything here.
+I took you guys both the rest of the day that took six hours to do carefully.
+There's a lot of little dicks and crannies and crap.
+It looks like there were lock ports on the exterior where at least part of the fuel tanks would have gone
+and there's a lot of shadows and craggly little spots and it's very hard to see in an
+odd.
+This took you a long time right here.
+Okay.
+Rest for the day.
+I guess.
+This lady, she gets on the horn and she kind of asks, what's up?
+What's happening?
+Just talking to her?
+It's ties, right?
+Yeah.
+I don't see.
+There's a lot.
+Let's just tell her kind of where we're at that, you know, we went over a little more
+than I have to ship and we feel like we got a pretty good look at it.
+So, you know, another day, another two days, we'll probably have a little thing sweet
+from the outside.
+All right.
+Well, just so you understand, if you don't find it, we're not leaving.
+You got that?
+I understand.
+I understand.
+Because we're still looking in here.
+I have my boys.
+They're even the guy you've shot up.
+I have him back to work right now.
+They're all doing it.
+And you've been monitoring those channels and you can hear she's been screaming at these
+guys.
+It's like this woman doesn't sleep.
+I explain why she's so cranky.
+Yeah.
+Well, she's under the gun and need to make a profit and blah, blah, blah, you know, we're
+blocking.
+We don't fail.
+You know, all of that crap.
+So, all right.
+So, she does not seem to be getting any more testy with you.
+All right.
+What section the next day will assume you guys sleep it is now the next day.
+What's our countdown on days now?
+You guys have been out here.
+I believe you were on the sixth day.
+That's not right.
+I believe that's what it is.
+Yeah, fair enough.
+I'm just kind of.
+Yeah.
+That sounds right.
+I believe you're starting the sixth day.
+Okay.
+So, what section are you checking this time?
+2C.
+2C.
+Now, that is a big section.
+I think I'm going to have to have a.
+I letting roll this guy.
+Okay.
+Roll the 10.
+So, easily made it.
+Easily made it.
+No problem at all.
+And everybody please roll intelligence.
+Success.
+Successful.
+Successful.
+Wait, wait.
+Is that a ship?
+He was busy cleaning his pistols.
+The frozen male did not agree with him.
+And he was busy elsewhere if you get my meaning.
+You see something.
+It is by the port.
+Aft.
+Emergency airlock in engineering.
+This would be.
+If you're looking into see it would be to the left of the.
+Okay.
+That's.
+06 and 05.
+Any exterior.
+They all there.
+Do we know.
+It's right next to a spiral staircase.
+Yep.
+Yeah.
+Yeah, it's on the outside.
+There's something that you haven't seen on.
+Any of the other.
+It's a.
+It's about the right size.
+And you haven't seen things stuck.
+Near one of these places.
+Any of these.
+Erlocks.
+That looks like that.
+Right size.
+Based on what you looked at.
+So you guys think we should call Jillian until her and because if we get out and we start
+looking at this thing, she's going to get real testy real fast.
+That's as she knows we're out there looking.
+You know, we don't we don't need to be making any enemies here guys.
+Yeah, I'm just saying I didn't say we had to do it.
+I'm just saying, how would you know considering she's probably paying attention?
+No, it doesn't sound like they had any sensors because otherwise they would have seen us
+when we came in.
+You still haven't seen any sign of sensors?
+Haven't I wouldn't let it go either way.
+I just think it would probably be a good will thing to say, hey, this is out here.
+We could check it out or if you want to sense somebody, that's cool too.
+Okay, let's do that.
+I won't start trouble this time.
+Is that what you're doing?
+Bargo is going to go with the group.
+So guys decide.
+I am absolutely down for not starting trouble.
+Yes.
+Josh, what do you say?
+I tell her, you know, we found something.
+They kind of match just the description.
+We can't get a good look at it visually.
+And it would tell her right where it's at and be like, we have suits.
+We can go look at it.
+But I didn't.
+We said we weren't coming aboard.
+And that seems a little close to that barrier that we set.
+So I wanted to ask you if you wanted to have your people do it or you want us to do it.
+I mean, where is it?
+Just where is it?
+Where is it?
+So I tell her it's right back where we were on the what side to set.
+Port side.
+She curses.
+Yeah.
+They told us there was nothing out there.
+Right.
+Do not go near it.
+Back off now.
+You guys back off.
+You go out 100 meters at least.
+You back off.
+I'm going to send one of my people out.
+All right, no problem.
+We'll back out far enough.
+We'll keep our lights on so they get a little light.
+And then we'll just stay hands off.
+It actually, you know, like you're out there and I assume you're watching.
+Yep.
+It actually takes two hours before anything happens.
+But finally, the exterior air lock door does open.
+Whatever the delay was, you don't know.
+They probably welded it.
+They welded it.
+Yeah, they did.
+And it was torn up just like all the other.
+So they had to repair everything.
+But a guy goes out and he looks around and looks around.
+Smart enough to see.
+That's a good question.
+And see it.
+All right, shit.
+I rolled a 17.
+He don't see it.
+Can we call Jillian and say, hey, she calls you and says,
+my man's out there.
+He don't see nothing.
+You better not have grabbed this thing.
+No, we didn't grab it.
+And I'm not trying to like talk about your hiring practices,
+but your voice pretty dumb.
+Because it's like three foot to his left.
+To his left, she calls back.
+The guy looks again.
+Now he found it.
+Now he found his, yeah.
+Messes with a little bit.
+And he takes it a little hand tool.
+Messes with a little bit.
+And he finally gets it back inside.
+Or nothing for a while.
+And finally, Jillian says,
+you guys, you stay where you are.
+You've called in our guy.
+They are leaving.
+You guys have any problem with me just saying, okay, no.
+No, no problem at all.
+All right, I call it back.
+Say, Roger that.
+We're going to back off even further just to kind of
+be out of your way.
+And so you guys get it back down here.
+In fact, I'm going to move so that
+we're behind another ship just in case.
+And you know, on the opposite side,
+someone would come in on.
+So let go.
+Yeah.
+Just in case they are not that friendly.
+Yeah.
+Is there somewhere for us to do that?
+It looks like we have either eight or 11
+as docking ports.
+We don't know which one they're coming from.
+No, no, wait.
+I mean, out into space behind some debris.
+You can go way out if you wish.
+Yeah, that's that's entirely.
+Yeah, we want to we want to see them come in and leave.
+But we don't want it to be obvious out there and be shot at.
+Yeah.
+Hey, can you can you make sure?
+No, they're not leaving us any surprises.
+Usually of the bomb variety.
+Not from your boat.
+You'll have to maybe go in and get blown up to find that out.
+No, no, I meant.
+Margo goes first.
+I meant, can we can.
+Can we maybe, you know, remind them that we found this for them and ask them to please,
+you know, honor the, I don't know.
+You're good with the words and the people.
+Try to give us some assurance that they're not just going to blow us up for the spite, despite us.
+Are you going to say anything?
+Okay, I didn't.
+Gosh, that's you.
+I'm trying to, I'm trying to, I'm trying to ask you to get to.
+I didn't know if we were RP in this or if he was just going to roll words.
+I made a die roll, but that's got nothing to do with you.
+Oh, gosh.
+That's never a good sign.
+Hi, you never know.
+Yeah, so I call her back and just, you know, kind of what we keep us saying, you know, hey,
+we want, we want to be able to take the ship and get what we need and, you know,
+we helped you on your plan.
+I hope you're willing to see the same way for us.
+We want, we want, I'm telling you, you're not getting a piece of this job.
+We have worked really, really hard.
+She's all pissed off at you immediately.
+I just want you to go ahead and, you know, you got to what you came for.
+Just clear off the ship.
+We just don't want any surprises when we get on the ship.
+That's all we're looking for.
+I don't want your guy to get all-headed and decide he's going to stay back and plug us
+because we had interaction earlier.
+Oh, you don't have to worry about that.
+I've had my, you know, I've had everything I've had to do to stop these guys from,
+I'm, uh, booking out on me.
+This is, uh, no, no.
+We got what we came for.
+You helped us.
+Thank you.
+Now, stay out of it.
+Work on this entire thing is yours.
+You did your job.
+Good job.
+She's, doesn't sound angry, but she doesn't sound like she's grateful either.
+I don't, I don't think we made her Christmas card list.
+I think I'm just going to passively aggressively like Star Trek.
+Just close the channel.
+Yeah, while she's ranting or whatever.
+They have just closed the channel.
+Okay.
+A couple of hours go by and finally you get the transponder signal of an approaching boat.
+You see it on sensors like on radar, but you do not,
+you're, I assume you're far enough away.
+You may not be able to see it visually.
+You may not even be able to see the Tottenberg visually either,
+depending on how well you've hidden yourself behind some junk.
+But you do get confirmation that this thing matches Orbits with the Tottenberg.
+In other words, you know, the radar signal becomes a single radar signature.
+Stays that way for roughly an hour and it detaches and heads back.
+And it is not going to jump out the station that you guys were going to.
+It's going to another one high dot in this star system.
+Doesn't seem like you're even going to run into them again.
+That is that you see on your sensors.
+So I guess we go in and make sure everything's kosher before we call.
+No, we send Margot to see if everything's kosher.
+She's like, I'm an empty see, but I'm not, you know, not stupid.
+You guys, it got to back me up from the airlock.
+Yeah, yeah.
+So what do you guys do?
+You head back.
+Yeah, I guess we got to check it out.
+We have to confirm that it's empty.
+I mean, do we have to, I mean, I guess we do because we have to confirm that it's empty.
+Yeah.
+Okay.
+Can we check the comms before we go in to make sure that there's no like chatter still?
+No chatter local chatter.
+Anyway, you know, you do get long range signals.
+So as we close with the Tottenberg,
+want to see if there's any type of radio,
+Wi-Fi signal whatsoever.
+Getting nothing.
+Okay.
+Come link.
+Right.
+Of course, last time the only thing you got was the comm network.
+That appears to be either off or out of range at least.
+So where are you going to dock or are you going to?
+Yeah, we're going to dock at 11, I guess.
+At 11, okay.
+All right, that goes without problem.
+11 seems to be in good shape.
+Fact.
+Hang on a sec.
+That is in fact the one that they used.
+Based on the sensor readings you had, they came from that side.
+So it's very likely when they they used.
+And it is indeed in good shape.
+Cycle it without a problem.
+So I guess we need to clear.
+It's clear.
+It appears to be.
+11 is in fact an airlock.
+It's just a large one.
+It's to 10, which is a locker room,
+like spacesuits and such.
+Aren't any here now a lot of empty like lockers and things
+that they would keep these things in.
+That is all.
+That is all.
+Looks like this room was not destroyed or torn apart.
+As a door that goes to the center causeway.
+And there is another door that leads to seven.
+Okay, we'll check seven.
+Okay, that opens.
+There's, you know, that's without a problem.
+Seven is an elevator.
+Door is open.
+And you can see the top of the elevator on the floor below.
+Okay.
+The decking in this area is all torn up.
+So are only other way to get to different levels or back in the
+engineering room, correct?
+Yeah, it looks that way.
+Yeah, unless you want to jump down the elevator.
+Because there this elevator does have a hatch on the top.
+And that's open.
+It looks like they were working down there.
+Taren things are good jump down there if you wanted to.
+Well, let's check this whole level out first, I think.
+Tell like plan.
+Okay.
+Yeah, that's the problem.
+Yeah, that's what I was saying.
+Like maybe hard lock one of the doors to engineering.
+That way nobody can sneak up behind us and check out everything
+on this floor first.
+And then unlock it and go there and go to different levels.
+You can do that.
+You have the command code.
+Okay, so assuming you do that,
+you can check out all of deck 2b and it's all empty.
+Some of these areas, the decking here outside of that
+aft causeway, only the bulkheads in some areas like in 9 and 8.
+The bulkheads have been opened up, but not enough to let air through.
+It was just, I don't know, somebody's idea that,
+oh, let's look inside here.
+So in other words, the airlock in 8 still does seem like it would function.
+Little spooky because the bulkhead has been torn open.
+It's like it'll work.
+Are there any pressure suits in 9?
+No, I'm sure suits in 9 and 10.
+And 2b is clear.
+Now guys, I will fast forward because this ship is clear.
+Guys can have a lot of fun digging through everything,
+but in the end you're going to find a ship that was really torn to pieces.
+But you guys found what they were looking for,
+and you found a way to solve the problem.
+Not a lot of gunplay, all things considered.
+It took some time and experience, you know?
+Well, yeah, well, you should have known that to begin with.
+Enough to know it sucks.
+And you know, just a little.
+Just a little.
+I'm not used to the other people having guns.
+Okay, well, let's assume you take at least a day,
+a full day to go through this whole place.
+You will find that it is completely empty now.
+You've gotten rid of these people,
+and I would assume that part of the
+procedures for all of this you would have been told to let the dealership know that it is clear.
+And the procedure is that they will then go in and verify it for themselves,
+and then let your, I guess, your client, the guy that hired you,
+he will let that person know, and then your money gets released.
+Part of your contract requires that you leave as soon as you get your money.
+Leave the system.
+I don't think that'll be a problem.
+Okay, unless someone else has something else that they want to do,
+and you decide that this is a fraction you want to go.
+What I just described,
+all of that will play out exactly as you expect.
+You'll get paid the balance, which is 13,000 Q.
+And I believe he provided a part of the deal you made is that he gave you passage off.
+So you do, in fact, you don't even need to buy cold passage to leave.
+You actually have a ticket waiting for you.
+Guys, next ship out succeeded.
+I would like to purchase some additional supplies if we're going to do anything else.
+You can do that.
+There's no reason to.
+You're never going to play these characters again.
+I was going to say we need to go somewhere and set off his bomb report before we leave.
+Yeah, yeah.
+I want to try to set it off.
+Let's see if it actually would work.
+You could have set it off in the ship.
+They don't care if the ship gets any more damage.
+Yeah, so what I want to set it off in 20 in 20.
+Okay, go for it.
+What do you want me to roll for it?
+I want you to roll your engineering now to see if it actually goes off.
+All right, my engineering is an 18.
+Okay, you should do pretty well with this, right?
+Of course, there is a minus because you were attempting to do something weird.
+How much of my, how much is my minus?
+Your minus is minus three.
+Yeah, well, I still blew it out of the one.
+I rolled four.
+Okay, you've got it.
+This thing, boop, boop, and the airlock door.
+The interior airlock door just goes off.
+It's not on hinges.
+It slides, but but I own this thing is broken open.
+That was a pretty good bomb that you made.
+Well, guys, I guess I know I can make a bomb.
+Mission accomplished.
+Mission accomplished.
+So that was the adventure.
+You guys would have gotten paid and I can figure out the experience points if you want,
+but it doesn't matter.
+That is the game.
+Now comes the part I really would like your assessment, not just of the rules,
+but of the game itself.
+And then finally of my game mastering skills, because that comes,
+you know, that is the determining factor.
+Next time in part 10, which is the last part of this miniseries,
+the players give me feedback on the game system, the adventure,
+and pond my work as a game master.
+See you then.
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