Colonial Marines: What Comes Home to Roost 5a [Alien Campaign Play]
18This is Session 5A of a short Colonial Marines campaign for Alien: The Roleplaying Game, from Free League. The Marines have barely survived surveying the wreck of the alien spacecraft on LV-426 to see if they could destroy the parasite as Ellen Ripley and Corporal Dwayne Hicks had convinced them was necessary. With species XX121 found to be active and beyond their personal weapons to eradicate, the Marines are faced with needing to return to and infiltrate their ship, the Montebello, now in the control of crazed mercenary, Regis Lim...
Due to the shortness of time available, each video in this Actual Play series will be considered to be half of one normal session of play (Part A or Part B). This campaign is being run as a Troupe so players have access to a set of characters during each mission.
This is the start of Mission 5 of a probable 10 to 12.
The Corps: Initial Characters
José as Sergeant Kaminski
Eloy as Lance Corporal Rios
Ivan as Corporal Baxter
Craig as PFC Patch Patterson
The Fallen
PFC James 'Geek' Greek
The Walking Wounded
Cpl Baxter
PFC Patch Patterson
Cpl Rios
Sgt Kaminski
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INDEX
[note: rules annotations have been included throughout]
Opening Titles 00:00:00
Pre-Session Character Improvement 00:00:39
Pre-Session Recap and Situation 00:06:10
Mission 5a: Semper Fidelis? 00:10:19
Baxter's Leg...? 00:12:50
Holden! 00:18:22
Coyote circles 0028:02
Deceitful Negotiations 00:31:07
Standard Docking...? 00:52:46
Aggressive Negotiations 1:10:22
Frozen (Key point of post-session discussion) 1:42:36
The Truth of the Lie 1:43:40
Baxter lives to taunt another day 1:48:21
Post-session discussion (focus on 10+ Panic ratings) 1:49:24
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