Wow, Hurrah! I didn't think that so many people would be interested in this topic. I'm confused though, this isn't a strict in-universe RP story. How did it end up in Discovery RP 24/7? Anyway, I hope to do every mission in the campaign in this style. Any feedback on whats good, bad, should be added, or taken out would be much appreciated!
Mission Two
Since we last saw our Hero, he's been busy grinding missions against the Liberty Rogues. For such a hardened group of thugs they sure do go down by the dozen. Trent has purchased himself a Liberty Patriot and a selection of guns to make his life easier. Just as he finished slaughtering his daily Rogue before Coffee, he receives a call from Juni, who has a new assignment for him on Planet Manhattan. Given that Juni has shackled Trent in the New York system, forcing him to work for her, he doesn't get much choice. Once there, Juni tells Trent about Sean Ashcroft, a dangerous artifact smuggler wanted by the LSF. Juni states that this man will be heavily guarded and smuggling the artifacts on a Convoy. Remember that, it'll be important later. She even offers you a bonus: Juni will loosen your chain and give you access to all the Liberty jump gates. Damn, first she wants you to escort a transport, and now she wants you to help track down a wanted criminal. What are the LPI and LN doing, sitting around at Fort Bush placing bets on how long that poor sap who became Juni's new play toy will last? "I'll put 500 credits on Juni rigging Trent's ship to play "Never Gunna Give You Up" on a constant loop the second he enters Colorado!" Naturally Juni wants to sit back and watch Liberty make a fool of itself, so she sends you and King alone.
You'll never suspect the pack of Hyenas I stuffed into your cargo hold
On the flight pad you run into Lonnigan, a fellow Freeport 7 survivor who owes you a million credits. You were paying him for a load of Boron, the deal of a lifetime! Ok, math time. You can buy a unit of Boron for about 150 credits in New York. If he had a million credits, how much Boron could Trent buy? 6,666. I'm not kidding. Go check yourself. Alright, it was 'the deal of a lifetime,' so lets cut Trent some slack. Pulling a number out of the rear, lets say he paid 75 per unit, a bargain that would net him a hefty profit. That's 13,333 units of Boron right there. Assuming he has one of those standard Transports you see roaming around Liberty, that's actually not too far off from what in-game NPC transports carry. Lonnigan rambles on about escaping Medical, and that the Government is after them. Trent just crosses his arms and demands his money. Before your bonding can really get going, the Liberty Navy shows up and shoots Lonnigan in the neck with some sort of knock out potion, and before you can say 'I'm scanning your cargo bay for contraband,' the other officer knocks Trent out with a magic zap stick. Despite hunting down all of the Freeport survivors, they decide to take Lonnigan and just leave Trent laying there. My theory is that the two officers actually had nothing to do with Freeport 7, Juni just ordered them to go find Trent and make his life suck for lulz.
This is more fun then ganking light fighters with a battlecruiser!
When he comes to, he hears the soothing voice of Junko Zane, good! Things are going to be al- WHAT THE HELL. Juni wakes the poor bastard up with a nice, hard slap across the face. King is there and just sits and chuckles. "Ha, your turn now, poor little man!" Juni asks what happened, but Trent doesn't remember. "Good. The memory stealing magic zap-ray works like a charm!" Juni shrugs off finding Trent out cold on the launch pad and has him up and off to take out Ashcroft.
This is the initiation that all of Juni's new pilots have to go through
If King thought using a Trade Lane was such a big deal, he's going to have a fraking spaz attack when it's time to go through the jump gate. The Battleship Unity is guarding the gate, and could easily scan any ships jumping through into New York, but King is insisted on waiting right on the other side. So, who could it be? That convoy of transports? Nope. That wing of freighters? Nah, couldn't be. King wants you to scan the lone fighter. Scanning a single patriot, you find the artifacts! Egads! you demand he stop and surrender, but he opens fire. You smash up his ship and he claims that he isn't Ashcroft, which King believes instantly. Wait, what? Your taking the guy that was just trying to kill you on his word that he isn't the guy you were hunting down? This must be another reason why Nomad infiltration is so easy!
Navy screening procedures:
"Can i haz battleship?"
"Are you possessed by a Nomad, or have any history of unlawful activity?"
"Nope."
"Your In!" :crazy:
You receive a distress call from Pueblo station, an Agiera base located by the Silverton asteroid field. Being known as a major Rogue and Xeno raiding area, the Liberty fighters are caught completely off guard by the ambush coming from... The Silverton asteroid field. Pueblo is under heavy fire, the station is burning and your it's only hope! Liberty really needs to make a note to not build bases within spitting distance of pirate territory.
Need torpedoes to damage the station my ass
You skillfully defend Pueblo, who then gives you the coordinates of where the pirates are believed to be. Despite fighting Liberty Rogues, you pass right by a Xeno base. The rogues aren't to sharp about picking meeting places are they?
"Hey, Sean, where do you want these extremely valuable artifacts? How about waiting at Beaumont?
"Nah"
"Ok, what about the Rogue base in California?"
"Too cold."
"Oh... well we could sneak them through open space in Colorado."
"Colorado? Great idea! But instead of empty space lets move it directly passed major strongholds of not one, but TWO of our greatest enemies!"
You find him, but he retreats. The moment is tense. King fires away his cruise disruptor in a last ditch hope to stop him from escaping.
King: Damn, the cruise disruptor missed it's target, get ready to pursue!"
Trent: Hey, your ship isn't even equipped with a CD!"
Meanwhile, on Planet Manhattan
Juni leans back in her chair with a bowl of popcorn on her lap, observing the scene in Colorado unfold on her TV. She's toying with a screwdriver in her left hand. Juni lets out a soft laugh and a sly grin as King fails to even launch the weapon that could have saved them so much trouble. She turns her head to look at the Wasp launcher laying in the back of her room that she skillfully unmounted from King's ship while Trent was out cold.
Instead of just staying the course and taking the jump hole to New York, then on to Rochester, Ashcroft stops to engage you. Remmember that whole convoy thing? By 'Convoy' they apparently meant one dude with a heavy fighter and a bunch of cannon fodder escorts, with no actual freight ships. Man, Liberty Intelligence sucks. You blow his ship to high heaven and rush back to New York. Your ambushed once more at Fort Bush, and then head to Nolfork to drop Ashcroft off at the Battleship Missouri.
"The Missouri?" King says with awe. "Usually the navy draws the line at Zone 21. They must really want to get their hands on Ashcroft!"
"draws the line at Zone 21"
at Zone 21
You drop Ashcroft off, Juni is there to pay and congratulate you. "Fine, I'll just have to think of something even more evil for you to do next time!" With more spending money and all of Liberty open to you, maybe you can finally get some real action going!
Next Time on Freelancer: Abridged
Trent is off to California to escort a convoy of artifacts while the LSF works to rat out a mole. Rhienland lulwats attack California without any Roleplay purpose, leading to their sanction by one Captain Walker, commander of a Liberty Cruiser task force. Also: Capitol ship weapons that have a lower DPS then class 4 fighter guns.
' Wrote:Capitol ship weapons that have a lower DPS then class 4 fighter guns.
Just proves that snub craft are the best ships in the game.
Anyway, keep it up. Nice to make fun of the Campaign in a way that appeals to Discovery players.
[17:45:39] Wolfs Ghost (Murphy): Tom, you have problems. Go kill yourself.
[19:25:12] Johnny (Jam): Tomtom, I will beat you with a spoon.
[14:22:56] Prarabdh Thakur: KILL HIM WITH A SHEEP.
[17:40:48] Eagle (Junes): Tom should be slapped with a spoon.
[11:32:18] Warspite: Thank you for being so awesome Tom. <3
[18:17:36] Metano: I love you tomtom
[20:06:24] Warspite: I will seriously give you epic head.
' Wrote:Edit: also, Tomtomrawr, fappin' like a boss.
This is quite possibly one of the best, if not THE best, posting that has been made on here in a long time. Please keep this going. It has much win! :yahoo:
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.