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This is the Downtime section for Session 6A of a short Colonial Marines campaign for Alien: The Roleplaying Game, from Free League. The Marines have rejected the offer to join the maverick mercenary leader known as Regis Lim against the deadly corporate games of Weyland-Yutani and their puppets in the USCMC, but find themselves in agreement that something has to be done to stop those games nonetheless. Leaving the crippled Montebello in his hands, crewed by his remaining mercs, synthetics, and deadly traps, Sgt. Kaminski has the unit quietly slip away in a commandeered Mantis...

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 session was half the length of one of our normal sessions, so I opted to focus on what would normally have been a short reference to downtime, improvising from the players' plans and the results of the dice.

This is the start of Mission 6 of a probable 10 and consists solely of a played Downtime component.

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
PFC Nolan
PFC Holden

The Infected?
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INDEX
[note: setting annotations have been included throughout]

Opening Titles 00:00:00
Pre-Session Discussion 00:00:27
Pre-Session Character Improvement 00:01:27
Mission 6A: Downtime: Now It's Personal 00:04:02
LV-223 00:05:55
The Tower 00:12:03
The Crash Site 00:29:20
Put him in a body bag! 00:34:42
Or did it? 00:50:22
Post-session discussion 00:51:11
Links 00:52:50
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You can find some of our group online:

Umbramancer has put out a series of instructional videos for Alien which you can find in this playlist. His YouTube channel is here:
https://youtu.be/yjXUG_uuZIo

@ivanmike1968 has a channel showing his journey from Old School gamer to gamer, plus bass

@Third Floor Wars is a channel about gaming featuring RPGs, wargames, skirmish games, and insightful interviews with game designers from all corners of the hobby

@Runeslinger is the host of this channel. On the written blog and the podcast, a series about preparation and horror games, with Alien as a specific basis for example, is currently underway around this Actual Play series. Link below:

https://anchor.fm/runeslinger/episodes/Episode-3-1---Alien-RPG-series--part-1-e16obdp