When last we left Eveline Hawking, she had docked the Vigilant with the Rookery and was donning an EVA suit to head outside and activate the Rookery’s docking clamps.Inspecting the ClampsEveline opens the external airlock of the Vigilant and secures her tether. She moves slowly around the locks of the two ships and inspects the clamps. One clamp on the Rookery appears to have suffered a direct hit in the storm and has some charring that prevented the automatic firing when thr Vigilant’s clamps attached. Eveline uses her tools to scrape the scoring away until the springs can snap the clamp into place. It takes so much time, she finds herself spiralling about what she’ll find inside the Rookery.With the clamps Secure she returns to the Vigilant to begin the retraction of the clamps to bring the airlocks into contact.Securing the ShipsThe locks slide together smoothly, and Eveline pressurizes her side and removes her helmet. She checks the controls on Rookery’s lock and sees that the airlock is depressurized. She replaces her helmet and opens the pressure valves on the Vigilant to supply pressure to the Rookery as she opens the external vents on the lock to equalize pressure to open the doors.The Two locks are equalized, but there is an ongoing hiss from a leak somewhere in the airlocks. The clock just started ticking a little faster on the rescue attempt. Eveline opens up both external locks and rushes into the Rookery.Inside the RookeryEveline gets the locks open and wind moves through the tunnel as air from the Vigilant begins to replenish what was lost from the Rookery.Eveline enters the Rookery, thinking about where she can find LT. With danger and power out, she’s likely to be in engineering. As a precaution, Eveline keeps her eva suit and a rebreather on in case of fumes or sudden depressurization as she approaches Engineering. As she rushes into the compartment, she sees LT standing at an engineering station catching her breath.“LT what’s going on?” Eveline removes her helmet.“The storms, there’s some sort of device controlling them. Found it in an Ascendency ruin. Weird it hadn’t been found this close to Luminus. Must have set it off, then the storms knocked out the e-drive and I had to use batteries while I got here on the drift.”“Wait, a control device? Where? Nevermind, thats for later. On battery did you get any diagnostics done?”“No, I focused them all on the beacon and environmental.”Next TimeThe next installment of Voyages of the Vigilant will focus on an escape from the Rookery and the storm that disabled it. If you’ve liked what you’ve read so far, I’m considering whether in these edited recaps whether I should include more info about the rolls that led to this twist or that in the story. Do you have any interest in seeing things like what move was rolled at a given point and whether the result was a weak hit or a strong hit or a miss?I thought about this because there’s a section that felt tense to me playing, because I had a clock going that was filling up with all the weak hits I had going, but it doesn’t translate as well into the story how I chose to “get what I want but it took longer than I wanted” and fill segments.I’ve mostly blogged recaps from D&D and Pathfinder games where I was the GM before, where the conflict is a lot more literal and visible, so just working out what would make this campaign journal a better read.Find the GameIronsworn Starforged was created by Tomkin Press and can be found in hardcover and digital formats on the Tomkin Press website [non-affiliate link] or in PDF format from DriveThruRPG [affiliate link].
