TFL/Session Logs

## GM Summaries

Campaign dates are arbitrary *Almighty Dollar* relative time, starting at morning as hour 0.
Session 1
"The Ang Xiu Blackmail Job" on 3 May 2022
Campaign date: Day 0 Hour 0 to Day 1 Hour 3
After completing the purchase of the *Almighty Dollar*, the crew decided to take the first Repo Job and the first Routine Job. A streetkid courier then presented them with a blackmail attempt. Jeff used Bandit to track the blackmailers to an abandoned warehouse district, and Dex and Alifred Dixon broke in and murdered or subdued the blackmailers. The blackmailers were funded by an "Ang Xiu", but no one recognized the name.
Session 2
"The Morning Glory Repo Job Part 1" on 10 May 2022
Campaign date: Day 1 Hour 3 to Day 5 Hour 8
Elru and SERA tracked down some freight for Fromeltar, including 50 tons of weapons-grade U-235 uranium in radiation proof casks that the customers would prefer not get reported to CSU Customs. Jeff tracked down a corrupt loading dock supervisor to ask about the *Morning Glory's* cargo, but balked at the $100K bribe he wanted. After Kyle Denning arrived, the *Dollar* headed out at 175 mps, arriving at the T-K point only an hour behind the *Glory*. Dex easily track them and overtook them after about two hours on their meandering course into the CDE. After a brief exchange of laser fire and hacking, the *Glory's* crew surrendered. Before Denning could begin the process of safely transferring over, Claudia Hayes noticed a potential pirate launching Starfighters and Dex, Jeff, and Kyle got into a heated argument about contract obligations and what to do next.
Session 3
"The Morning Glory Repo Job Part 2" on 17 May 2022
Campaign date: Day 5 Hour 8 to Day 27 Hour 4 (Local V'Altrin time is Day 0 Hour 8)
After a heated argument, the crew of the *Dollar* separate from the *Glory* and engage the pirates. Jeff spoofs their sensors to divert a spread of missiles, Dex closes at full speed, and Alifred engages the starfighters with the anti-small craft lasers. The starfighters do a poor job of dodging and each take a full minute of shots - one loses it anti-matter containment and is destroyed, but the other two are just holed in 20-30 places and retreat. The pirate threatens the *Dollar* with a nuclear missile launch and retreats; Dex regretfully agrees not to pursue.
Kyle transfers to the *Glory*, pays Jeff to do some overdue maintenance, and departs after a day for Tienguo. Dex easily plots a course for Fromeltar and the *Dollar* arrives after 20 days; Jesse Cawthorne, one of the U-235 receiving agents arranges a ruse to get his 30 tons of freight before the ship clears Customs. After clearing Customs, Elru is summoned by the local Skoz Family capo and told to find and subvert the Cheng Stone pirate agent on station. Almost immediately afterwards, Dex is summoned to the Solar League consulate and told to find the pirate agent and provide iron-clad evidence of his guilt for arrest and trial by CSU or Fromeltar law enforcement.
Session 4
"The Pirate Agent Job Part 1" on 24 May 2022
Campaign date: Day 27 Hour 4 to Day 28 Hour 12 (Local V'Altrin time is Day 1 Hour 16)
Dex heads off to get thoroughly drunk while Elru and Alifred start hitting the streets to find the agent and Jeff starts analyzing records. Elru and Alifred eventually confront a corrupt, low-level shipping broker Klizzen-Z who gives them the name of his boss, Maxwell Lang. Jeff tracks down Robin Uvalde, a docks supervisor who loaded ships that are slightly more likely to be attacked by pirates. Breaking into Uvalde's data records shows some suspicious connections to the CDE consulate, and the next day, the crew definitely associates Uvalde with Megan Waters, CDE consulate staff and trade economics advisor. The team turns to Lang, breaks into his surprisingly well protected orbital salvage business, and discovers he is a mid-level boss in some kind of organized crime outfit, with at least one boss above him and at least one boss below him.
Kim Taylor, the receiving agent for the other load of U-235, is delaying picking up his cargo. Elru and Jeff are threatening to charge him rent but he hopes to pick up his freight within a few days.
Session 5
"The Pirate Agent Job Part 2" on 31 May 2022
Campaign date: Day 28 Hour 12 to Day 29 Hour 16 (Local V'Altrin time is Day 2 Hour 20)
Jeff fails to break into the CDE consulate servers, but realizes that someone else has and is running a data tap. Alifred and Elru do various investigations on station, picking up minor clues but not finding the pirate agent. They talk with Lang and realize not only is he shady, he has people watching the *Dollar* and knows about the HEU-235 shipments.
After a day or so, Kim agrees to pick up his shipment. He arrives with a truck and a half-dozen guards (some concealed, some open). While Taylor is transferring the freight, another dozen goons break in to the *Dollar's* holds and threaten Kim. They accuse each other of being associated with pirates: Kim initially calls the hijackers "Red Castle schmucks", but they claim to be "Star Devils" and call him a "Voider". Kim refuses to pay Alifred's high fees to get into a fight against foes with drawn weapons and the Star Devils leave with Kim and the HEU-235. Jeff slaps a tracker on the freight and eventually determines that Jesse Cawthorne has it - and from the messages exchanged on Lang's system, Lang is Cawthorne's boss.
Kim hires Alifred at low rates to assist on a raid on Cawthorne's totally legitimate business. Jeff eventually breaches the CDE consulate security and realizes that someone opened some normally inaccessible access points, almost certainly from inside the consulate firewall and with the (possibly duped) co-operation of the consulate authorities.
Session 6
"The Pirate Agent Job Part 2.5" on 14 Jun 2022
Campaign date: Day 29 Hour 16 to Day 30 Hour 9 (Local V'Altrin time is Day 3 Hour 13)
Jeff and Elru arrange a meeting with Megan Waters, posing as FTA economics investigators. Things go slightly off when Waters refers to Kel Kehote, the Slug office manager at the V'Altrin FTA and Jeff doesn't them, but Elru manages to smooth things over. Megan Waters sincerely and honestly believes she is not involved in piracy and provides some other useful information while Jeff and Elru do not give up anything.
Jeff then has a long talk with Kim Taylor that mostly involves Taylor sounding out whether the *Dollar* would be willing to ship to a non-CSU, non-CDE system within 10 light years that is disreputable, might require a guarantee of safe passage, and needs unspecified venture cargo. Jeff realizes that is almost certainly Cheng Stone - but possibly Haven - and mulls over the offer of at least $36M, cash on delivery, with unspecified additional work in the future.
Jeff then attempts to hack at Lang's anonymizer service, but realizes that their professional grade security is just too solid for him. He considers hacking Taylor's service but is suddenly messaged - from inside the *Dollar's systems* - by a RuteXcalation (RX). RX thanks Jeff for hiring his security evaluation service, then steals $1M from the *Dollar's* accounts and presents a faked invoice from a non-existent Duncanite security analysis service, much to SERA's confusion. Jeff realizes that whoever RX is, it is weird that he attacked a random freighter and that means he probably had some reason for the attack. Also, RX almost certainly made the attack from V'altrin and it is possible that the cracker underworld might know who RuteXcalation actually is.
Session 7
"The Pirate Agent Job Part 2.5" on 21 Jun 2022
Campaign date: Day 30 Hour 9 to Day 31 Hour 0 (Local V'Altrin time is Day 4 Hour 6)
Elru and Alifred return to the ship and review notes with Jeff, and everyone agrees to hunt RX because they're annoyed with him and think he may be connected to the pirates. Elru makes some local underworld contacts and eventually gets an invite to KraX, the local hacker dark data site with job postings and bragging history.
The team relocates to an inexpensive hotel in CW-Mid and Jeff logs onto KraX under a fake identity as a manager looking for services. He gets hassled by the admins but eventually turns up a lead with RingXeroXploit (RXX). Jeff and Elru message with RXX, who tries to scam them out of their money but eventually agrees to upgrade Jeff's account to a proper hacker's account. After the upgrade, Jeff recognizes KraX's OS and realizes it has some unpatched security holes, which he exploits to get root access and more data on RX.
Some digging and thinking doesn't reveal RX's name or information, but does suggest he's operating somewhere near the line between CCW-Mid and CCW-Down and probably celebrating his recent wealth. Lacking context on V'Altrin's neighborhoods, Elru sets out to find a native guide to help locate RX. He does, and is pointed to Macroni's Irish Pub, a relatively upscale dinery that sells fantastically expensive, authentic, Irish whiskey imported from Earth.
Jeff stakes out a nearby coffeeshop while Alifred, Elru, and Bandit go in to scope out the customers. Facial recognition systems and some tips to the bartender Guiseppe sort out 2 tables: tough guy Joey Hegsworth, his irritable girlfriend Maya Chin, and nerds Tony Hurt and Glenn Tomasko and one table, with weaselly Johnny Bauer and nerdy Rudy Calais at the other, with both tables also seating several expensive escorts. Alifred orders a bottle and decides to wait the groups out; Elru follows his lead.
After a few hours, both tables get up and leave at about the same time. Elru meets up with Jeff, while Alifred follows Joey and friends and Bandit trails Johnny and Rudy. Rudy stops at an electronics store to buy hyperspectral goggles, but Bandit easily stays out of his distracted but enhanced view and follows him home.
With both groups stationary and under watch, Alifred and Bandit wait for Jeff and Elru to show up before making their next moves.
## Player Summaries

Astrogator's Log
Dex's personal records of events.
Engineering Log
Jeff's notes from the Chief Engineer.