Gemini Ascendant Campaign

[Nolgroth]

EDIT: Revised this entry to reflect the ongoing nature of this campaign. It has gone through some rough patches and yet still keeps moving forward. Whether you are a current player, former player or just curious, please post any comments or questions. We check this thread daily and will happily respond to any posts.

EDIT: ghost-angel has graciously hosted some of the logs from our campaign on his website. You can at least get an idea of how things are going from there.

There have been some pretty cool materials created by the players of the Gemini Ascendant campaign. Here is a list of some the stuff that they posted here.

Current as of 09/18/09 - Page 241

The MapTool macro code for the laser rifle
A ship I thought was going to be the next Gemini (3). Turns out it is more of a shuttle.
Elvis converted to 6E
Micah converted to 6E
Killian converted to 6E
Doc Caspar converted to 6E
Ta'Rang converted to 6E
Wade converted to 6E
Zharog Species Abstract (some stats)
Samantha converted to 6E
Gemini Ascendant HERO Designer v6 Rule Template
Changeling Template ver 1
Character Creation Guidelines
Special Tech Levels

The Tech Levels of Gemini Ascendant (cribbed and expanded from Terran Empire
Z'Qruin racial abstract (no stats)
Changeling racial abstract (no stats)
Standardized sub-skills for Gemini Ascendant
Some potential house rules
Remember that space pic from earlier? Here it is with a GIANT Samantha
A TiddlyWiki Export for HDv3. 5th Edition only
Our stern and demanding captain
The universe reborn!
The new universe slowly takes shape
The start of retcon season
Nosecone Art
Contemplative Samantha
The Crew!
The ever-growing fighter squadron
Sam as Dark Phoenix
Solron the spacefighter architext
The Wade's New Guns
A miscellany of characters
Samantha playing with a model spaceship
Tobias Crowe
Godlike the 3rd
Godlike 2!
Godlike!
Samantha versus Ta'Rang. Love Ta'Rang's posture.
Some promo pictures (not that we've actually promoted Gemini Ascendant in any way)
A pic of Ta'Rang in some impractical armor
An alternate version of a phase tracker I was using
The "final" version of Killian
Another spacefighter render with background
A spacefighter render
Some more renders in different sizes.
A spacescape. Not directly related to Gemini Ascendant but nice nonetheless.
A "cast" list from Season One
A "splash screen" for the game
An extract of one of our early gaming sessions
Another update to the Killian figure
An updated pic of Killian
A couple of news snippets
A pic of Samantha posing with a gun

A preliminary image of Killian
General Setting Timeline
The Mercury write-up. Uses the fantastic Future Armada product of the same name as the visual.
A Fighter designed by Solron and it's stats.
Spaceship Damage Tracker Excel file (compatible with Terran Empire)
A space fighter
TaRang's final version!
Another development pic of TaRang
Another propaganda photo of Samantha
A tank used for a Post Apocalyptic one-off. Could be useful in many genres. And the stats
Another pic of Wade
More of Samantha
Concept of Doc Caspar
The development of Monkey Madness continues
Another concept of Ta'Rang
More of the Washington
A small cap ship design. We used it for the Washington, an out of date destroyer.
A different style of space fighter rendering
More space fighter renders
Some space fighter renders
Group photo with an early concept of Shr'kaak
Some fantasy renders from ghost-angel
A picture of a Priestess we did for a one-off Fantasy campaign.
It is the G2 now with starry background
Another picture of the ship with a different color scheme
A picture of a spaceship. I think it is supposed to be the Gemini 2
Wade and Sam together in a pic
An early concept of Ta'Rang
Wade's turn to have a lot of pics I guess.
Another of Wade
An early concept render of Wade McCode
And another....
And another....
Surprise! Another picture of Samantha.
A picture of Milo Mahoney, the late, great Dale Ward's character
Yup. Another picture of Samantha.
A write-up of a heavy environment suit by Dale Ward
Another picture of Samantha (she's popular I guess. )
An early ship write-up
Another concept of Samantha done by Starwolf
An early concept of ghost-angel's character Samantha Arken

[Starwolf]

we'll be happy to feel you in on any questions.

Hey quite feeling me.... oh you meant fill

BTW I like the updates on the website....

[tkdguy]

Star Frontiers was a fun game. Your website looks pretty good.

[Nolgroth]

Thanks. It's going to get better as I reorganize the menu structure and clean up the weapons charts. I want to have the structure in place before I start adding any "crunchy" content.

After missing last week's game (I hope y'all got together and had fun without me), I'm really amped on getting back into it.

[Nolgroth]

Hey quite feeling me.... oh you meant fill

BTW I like the updates on the website....

Not as much as I would like to have put up, but I am in the process of changing that now.

[Starwolf]

OK I am getting really amped myself. Ghost Angel says he has our HD -> ORPG export template about half finished and may have something for us to test as early as tonight...

I feel like the lady in the commercial jumping up and down in excitement and chanting open open open

[solron915]

Nolgroth the updates to the website are alright and helpful to but where are the explosives ..........

[solron915]

I see that our ship's engineer has fallen down on his job. and yeah yeah I know blogger block , so dynamite the dam , I need to read our engineer's log and learn from his well established use of the english language how he sees our mighty group is doing in their new careers as space merchants ...

[Nolgroth]

Nolgroth the updates to the website are alright and helpful to but where are the explosives ..........

Getting to them. No really. I am almost done with a major edit of the left side menu that should hopefully make things a little easier to read. In addition, I'm finalizing the weapons charts and hopefully working on a history timeline which will tie the setting into some sort of future earth history.

My only problem is that my eyes start loosing focus about every two hours of html editing and the NVU editor that I was using to WYSIWIG it, screwed the whole codebase on the weapons' pages. Having to fix that is no mean feat.

The good news; time. For once, I have a ton of time to work towards the web page. Once that is caught up, it will be easier to focus on the campaign itself. I have established some basic formats that I will be implementing here soon. I have to jump back into windows to use HD to create exports of the character sheets. I think I might actually complete everything I want to in time for the game on Thursday.

Back to work.

[Dale A. Ward]

Sorry about the Logbook delays. I've had a slight problem over the past few days and only just got out of bed tonight.

It seems a large swarm of fire ants decided to move indoors to escape the recent heavy rains... and, for some ungodly reason, decided to camp out in the padding of my wheelchair. When I sat down a few days ago, they attacked like they really didn't care I was there first. End result... heavy swelling on my thighs and back, and a fever that almost put me in the hospital. My wife counted close to 6 dozen bites in a sparse area... near the center of activity, they were too close together to count separately.

Anyway, I think I'm over the worst of it. I can hobble around almost as well as I did before, and I've got so much calamine lotion on me that I keep sliding out of my underwear.

I did manage to post an update to the logbook. It's just a minor addendum to the message just prior to it, so it's under the same game date with a ".0002" extension.

There is more coming.

[Starwolf]

Ok just out of morbid curiosity...

Were these real fire ants... like the meat eaters from Arizona where they are about 1/2" long and a single bite raises a welt the size of a walnut and burns like hell, or these those teeny tiny little things that everyone in Texas is terrified of that about 1/8" long and while they have a painful sting really need to gang up on you to get the job done (we call them piss ants)?

In either case I hope you get to feeling better, as a fellow diabetic I know how things can quickly get out of hand. I have a sore on my back that has lingered for months.

[Nolgroth]

Oh my! I'm real sorry to hear that Dale. I hope things get better soon. Get all the rest you need and worry about the Engineer's Log after you get better. I'm beginning to wonder if our group is cursed or if this is just normal. Funksaw get's a tree in his attic, you get stung by ants, my car get's stolen, Prestidigitator has ISP problems. Almost like waiting for the headsman's axe to see what crops up next.

Well here's to you getting better.

[solron915]

Hey Dale , sorry to hear about the attack of those fire ants. I 've been bit a few times but never like you describe ...yeeeoow man that had to hurt I hope you are feeling better and don't you worry about those log entries. You just take care of yourself first. Hope to see ya on thursday

[solron915]

Hey I just went and read your entry on the trip to the hospital with Cowboy. I think you could book on our adventures . You look at the storyline from a different angle then I do and it always seems to give insight to our actions that I don't see until I read your logbook. Plus some of your views just make me laugh . Keep it up but don't push yourself . The physco monkey says thank you .

[Dale A. Ward]

Well, let's see... where to start.

Starwolf-
I'm not sure of the species, but they're about halfway between the two sizes you mentioned. These were about 1/4 inch long and red, and the resulting wounds/welts are about as big around as a nickel... with a little blister in the center about the size of a match head.

Burns like a sumagun... in fact, I have an ice pack in my shorts as I type this. The commonly accepted remedy in our area is to scrub the welts with a paste of baking soda (making sure to break the blisters). This neutralizes the formic acid and helps to relieve the itch and burning. It seems to be working quite well.

As for wounds that won't heal, I got ya beat. I have a wound on my left shin that goes all the way to exposed tendon... and we've been working on healing it for three years. Believe it or not, it IS getting better. But, with the combination of my almost-zero circulation and the movement of the exposed tendon, getting skin to grow across the wound is almost impossible. After three attempts, we've given up on skin grafts. So, we're having to depend on the edges slowly encroaching on the center.

Fortunately, none of the ant bites were low enough on the leg to be in the low circulation zone, so I don't expect any complications from that.


Nolgroth-
We may not be cursed, but we're damn sure goin' through a spell of bad luck!

And, what's this about Funksaw getting a tree in his attic?!? Did I miss something?

Solron-
Giving people fresh insight and making them laugh... a writer couldn't ask for higher praise. Thank you.

I have a lot of story seeds lying dormant in my mind... I may actually get one to sprout completely someday.