Covenant Update for November 20, 2023

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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!

We’re finally finished with the first chapter of the Underground Railroad playtest campaign. A lot of secrets were revealed, and a lot of questions answered.

To recap, our player characters (PC) were fleeing The Rekanna Industries planet of Sujimma in the New Orleans while Tweak the aco and Jack the risu stayed behind to act as a distraction i the Funny Business. There’s a problem with escaping the authorities in the Covenant universe, or at least in the Orion Arm. Most interstellar traffic goes through portals (think wormholes without the black holes). Most stellar systems maintain heavy patrols around their portals, both to keep invaders out and fugitives in.

However, there are ways around this. Cozen the aco’s social skills once more came into play, and they were able to talk a risu freighter called Stack of Nuts into hiring them as an escort. Piracy is terrible in the Archimedean Confederation, where Sujima is located, and the captain of the Stack of Nuts was happy to hire the New Orleans… after a hefty bribe, of course. Risu are merchants, after all, and the freighter captain wasn’t stupid.

So the PCs (with Tweak, he managed to escape the Sujimma security forces with the help of some helpful bloodthirsty pirates) returned to their employer Vic the Fixer on the planet Janssen, controlled by the rival company-state Janssen Holdings. That where he revealed who set up this whole thing up.

Cozen used to be involved in corporate shenanigans before he was sold out to the aco lab on Sujimma. His old handler found out and hired Vic to put together a team to rescue Cozen. Vic decided to expand the operation and rescue *everyone* in the lab.

That’s when he made the PCs a new offer: making aco rescues like this their full-time job.

Since everyone got to the end of the chapter in this campaign, though, they get to improve their characters! Each PC gets 1 build token, which they can use to buy a new trait, ability, or item. they can also swap out any traits or abilities that they don’t want for others.

We’ll probably have to wait to see how the PCs’ new jobs turn out, as Sazzy’s probably going to resume their campaign next Sunday. We’ll update you on how it goes next Monday. Talk to you then!