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Now that Stonehaven is attracting more settlers, the community is starting to thrive.
New businesses are opening up, more people coming to trade, more people with money to spend and of course borrow.The Wasberg family being shrewd folk have set up a well defended bank.
Protected by a Nielson Force Fence and a local security group they are confident they can meet all your financial needs.Need to borrow or deposit your hard earned Newro (New Euro) then the Wasberg Moneylenders is for you!
I reckon a couple of dishonourably discharged RDF gunsharks, with a few debts and fully loaded KR16 knock-offs from an illicit Badlander 3D print facilitator, could easily ‘acquire’ a significant amount of neuro from the Venerable House of Wasberg if need be. Unless the family have been generous to the mercenary cartels again.
I feel a scenario seed is a-germinating…
The fluff is growing on me. I must admit that initially I found Kometenmelodie a tad too dreary and miserable-looking a planet when you first debuted it some years back, but I see the charm of it now. To me it’s a bit like Carpathia from Outcasts, a bit like Caprice from Heavy Gear, and a bit like something entirely its own. I also find it inspiring to see other people use the existing fluff as a canvas, like Earther did. It inspires me to do the same.
Those riots, by the way, are to be known afterwards as the “milk and sugar riots”
AB’s fluff is great, and is just loose enough for the old Traveller GM in me to hang loads of the good stuff on.
Rhoderic, I’m liking the Stonehaven Milk and Sugar Riots, it got my scenario gland going. What if our dastardly ex-RDF duo were undertaking their heist as the riots were kicking off? That would be an intense scenario I think!
And what if the aged old don of the Wasberg familia decided to grab some compensation for his losses once the supply shuttles started dirtsiding again? Wasbergs private contractors try and seize several ship’s worth of containers from the shuttle port – The Stonehaven Kraftwerks Compound? Unfortunately for the mercs, BPI black operators/agents have been dispatched to protect some illicit company shipments. And the RDF have had some legit intel about the Wasberg hit from a local Junker informant…
Argh! The gland! It spews!!
Started work on another Stonehaven building due to enthusiasm from you guys.
Some sort of barracks/law keepers place.Big sturdy door and so on.
Almost done, only the stone texture to add and fill in the cracks.
Just trying to decide if to make the roof stone like the walls or metal.
Stone feels stronger so may well do that, will add a little hatch for access too.I have some progress on my Ishtar Merchant.
I made a foot rest for Ishtar.
Made a rough harness and hook for the ped pullers and made a little rod/hole do-dad so that it hovers above the ground.It is designed so that Ishtar and the wagon can be taken off the base.
That is because this is Ishtar as he drives around.I will be using the same hover wagon but with another base for when he sets up his wares to sell.
This will have the wagon hovering still, the peds untethered and a standing Ishtar selling some stuff under the shade of his pull out canopy (the white thing on the side of the wagon)pics thus far.
Doh! Soz mate.
Maybe a battered underside and grav modules (as Kometenmelodie is harsh) and a fancy ‘jingle truck’ style gaudy roof?
…initially I found Kometenmelodie a tad too dreary and miserable-looking a planet…
That’s probably how the first wave of colonists felt then!
The harness is made and painted.
It has clasps to hold the bar, the clasp are bolted into the Jurapeds thick boney spinal plating.The base colours of the wagon are done.
Need to dirty it up and then highlight and what not.
Lefty the ‘ped has been at the Slush Puppies again I see… and Righty seems to find it funny. Jurapeds are sooooo immature.
But Ishtar’s ride is looking good so far.
Lefty the ‘ped has been at the Slush Puppies again I see… and Righty seems to find it funny. Jurapeds are sooooo immature.
But Ishtar’s ride is looking good so far.
I do so love you.
This will be on the site tomorrow.
Finished the base and the basic model.
I need to add some extra touches such as some crud next to his chair and probably some stuff hanging off the end/sides.
I also want to make the grooves in the repulsor pads emit some bright energy glow, just trying to figure out how best to do that.
Then I will start work on the other base that goes with it.
This will be a selling base, which will have a dismounted version of Ishtar along with his wares and so on.Then a write up about him.
Then the market after that…
Does Ishtar have a cybernetic leg? Or is it one his nearly famous patented Silver Space Wellies™?
Here we have the start of the other section.
You can see now that the green thing on the side is where is canopy is stored, good for keeping sun/rain of his wares…
I found a little techie box to go on the wagon near his seat and on the floor we have some pots/jars that contain some more unusual herbs and spices, the start of his stock.
‘Unusual herbs and spices’ eh?
Never trust a man with a Stonehaven copy of a North Korean counterfeit of a Swiss prosthetic implant.
Great idea for a vignette. Intrigued to see you use this set up in a game…
The real question is how he travels the Badlands without armed escort…
“You messin’ with Ishtar, you messin’ with the Junkers!”
Very cool seeing this character come gradually more alive.
On an entirely different note, are you planning to model any more native vegetation for Kometenmelodie? IIRC, the KR-16 fluff makes out the region on which the story is centered as having a temperate and rainy climate like that of the British Isles. I’d love to see more trees and bushes and reeds and whatnot. I assume that much of what we’re seeing of the ground is in fact grassy/shrubby vegetation in the typically drab colours of the planet, as opposed to bare earth?
Ishtar the merchant is complete.
He uses an old hover wagon that he has modified to be a shop/home.
He travels Kometenmelodie moving between the Liao River Valley and the Badlands, selling what he can.
Today we see he has some urns full of spices, a MK. II release valve, some ThermoDuct piping, some sleeping bags and an agri-bot.
No-one is really sure how he got his cyberleg, or how he manages to travel the distances he does on his own, and not get robbed or mauled.
Some say he is ex ECM, others that he is the best shot with a KR16 assault rifle on the planet, others that he is just lucky.Whatever his story, he seems here to stay and maybe, just maybe he has that special item you need.
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