Worse, as you pass over the quayside you realize you're losing height.” "I'll engage the thrusters to correct my course.” The breeze is carrying you towards the seafront.” “You rise above the crowd and drift over their heads in a sweeping arc. We hadn’t discussed equipment at all, but obviously he had to have an anti¬gravity belt or he couldn't have mentioned it.
"I use my anti-gravity belt to rise above them,” Oliver said. Accidentally offending against the Jakallan code of etiquette, Jasper became embroiled in a struggle. When an ionic storm prevented his swift return, we began to suspect his ship's computer was not wholly reliable. In a few hours we had somehow dredged up, inferred and/or mutually created the background of Oliver's character, Jasper Faze, and how he came to be orbiting Tekumel even though there are no other inhabited worlds in its universe.Īt one point Jasper beamed down to the city. That was how we began one of our best games.
Taking the big colour map of Jakalla, Oliver laid it on the floor and said, “So tell me about this city as if I were looking down on it from outer space.” Oliver had heard me talk about my Empire of the Petal Throne sessions, but he'd never played in that campaign. One afternoon, many years ago, Oliver Johnson and I were talking about Tekumel.
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