Hey Guys,

This is a write up of my group's Demo session of 3:16: Carnage Amongst
the Stars. I ran it in lieu of our regular bi-weekly Sunday game
because the GM couldn't make it. It's so simple it was easy to prep
on just a few days notice.

First, every one created their characters. We started out with only
three players, one (Trooper Greene's Player) had to be a little late,
he didn't show up until ¾ way through the first planet. He created a
character pretty quick and played on the second planet.

The Characters were:

Simmons- FA: 7 NFA:3 - Stands his Ground
Baird- FA: 2 NFA: 8 - Sarcastic
"Nightshade"- FA: 7 NFA: 3 - Loner

Baird became the Sergeant, and Nightshade won the roll-off to be the
Corporal. Baird and Simmons selected the Slug rifle as their optional
weapon. Nightshade selected the E-Cannon.

Planet #1

Name: Whistler
Description: High Humidity- Planet covered in dense fungal growths.
Something like a fern and mushroom rainforest.
Alien: Dinosaurs- Raptor-like. Very agile. Attack from above. Hit
and run.
Ability: Flee
AA: Lowest NFA+1
Mission: Locate and rescue (if possible) missing survey team.


The session begins as the PC's squad and one other are mustered to the
briefing room. The troopers chat amongst themselves until Lt. Sallens
enters the room. Lt. Sallens, whose contempt for the enlisted man is
notorious, sniffs the air and then checks the bottom of his shoe as
though he has stepped in something unpleasant. He orders the troops
to attention before begins his debriefing. The PC's troopship the EFV
Unrepentant is in orbit of a humid jungle world named Whistler. A team
surveying a rare metal deposit on the planet below has gone missing
and two squads have been assigned to locate the team. They'll be
dropped off as close as possible to the survey team's last
whereabouts. The Lt. informs the squads that they had better be in
the dropship ready to depart in 20 minutes or else.

The squads lock n' load and are in the dropship ready to depart in
quick order. The ride down is relatively smooth, but the new squad
member, Trooper Hall, loses his lunch. The squad all laugh at him and
Sergeant Baird suggests he skip breakfast next time. Soon enough the
dropship touches down in small clearing and the pilot barks over the
Com-system for everybody to disembark. The Sergeant gives the order
and the squads disembark and gets ready for a trek through the jungle.

Planet Whistler is an incredibly humid planet. The squad notices the
oppressive heat despite their MandelBrite armor suit's ability to
regulate internal temperature and pressure. The corporal laments that
there is moisture inside the kill counter display on his E-cannon
"Lola." The surface of the planet is covered in a veritable jungle of
Fungi. Giant mushrooms the size of Redwood trees and ferns and vines
growing up the "trees" and as dense undergrowth. The last known
location of the survey team is displayed on the Squad's
Heads-up-display. With a quick world from the Sergeant the squads
form up and begin working their way through the dense foliage.

The going is slow because of the dense growth and the motion trackers
of the entire unit are going crazy because all the fauna in the
jungles. Everybody is somewhat on edge. The air is somewhat tense as
the squad travels, but eventually after traveling a while with no
major occurrences everybody calms down. Just when the squad is
feeling calm a scream blares through the com. Trooper Roberts is
being mauled be several reptilian creatures with sharp teeth and claws
that came jumped down on him from above. The squad's motion trackers
are really on the fritz now and they hear a chattering noise in the
jungle beyond. The Sergeant orders the squad to form a perimeter and
to watch each other. Trooper Simmons steps up and calmly shoots
several of the creatures off of Roberts, who is now lying on the
ground. The Corporal struggles through the growth to get to a better
firing position. The remaining creatures quick scatter off into the
thick growth and nobody can get a clear shot. One of the troopers
moves up to check on Roberts who is dead. The Sergeant orders
everyone continue on and to keep a sharp eye on the jungle.

The troopers continue on and eventually arrive at the last know
coordinates of the survey team. It doesn't take them long to find the
team, or what's left of them. They appeared to have been eaten by
something with sharp claws and teeth, their bones are picked clean.
The troopers conclude that it must be the "monkey-raptors." As if on
cue said creatures begin to renew their attack. The squad forms a
perimeter to hold them off. The creatures seem to be less cautious
than before attacking in small groups in an effort the bring one of
their prey down. Trooper Simmons holds his ground and coolly fires
off measured bursts dropping the creatures as that scurry out of or
back into the foliage, which isn't always easy considering the speed
and agility of the swarming creatures. The Coporal takes a less
conservative approach, he unloads with his E-cannon sending a torrent
of fire into the surround brush and sending splatters of blood and
creature chucks into the air. The sergeant orders two troopers with
Flamethrowers to open fire as the squads moves back still spraying
fire into the jungle. After a tense few minutes the creatures seem to
be gone. The Sergeant radios in to the ship in Orbit. They are
ordered by Lt. Sallens to finish the survey mission. The Sergeant
finds the survey equipment which is still intact The squad continues
through the jungle and down into a small valley. The hike is long,
made worse by the heat, fatigue, and anxiety of the squad. They
finally reach the spot that they are to set up the mineral survey
device. As luck would have it the creatures renew their attack. The
smell of blood is too much for them to resist and they come pouring
into the clearing despite the volume of fire that the squads are
laying down. The little creatures manage to bring down two more
troopers before they are all dispatched. After a few minutes the
survey machine announces that it has finished the survey and is
relaying the data back to the ship. The Sergeant radios in that the
survey is complete and requests extraction for the squad since their
mission is complete. The Lt. responds that the jungle is too dense
and that they'll have to hoof it back to their original landing zone
to be extracted. There are curses all around from the squad.

Everything goes pretty smoothly for the squad until they are about a
quarter of a kilometer from the extraction point. They hear the
tell-tale crackle and hiss of the creatures just before they pounce
down from above. The Sergeant orders the squad to haul ass to the LZ.
The vast majority of the remnants of the two squads run off after
Sergeant Baird. Trooper Simmons holds his ground and fires on the
creatures in the trees above. Corporal Nightshade follows Simmons
lead and opens up on the creatures coming along the ground of the
forest. For several tense seconds the troopers unleash hell on the
approaching horde of little scaly taloned horrors. Soon they are
overwhelmed. They fight desperately managing the get clear enough to
throw a few grenades. They hear the dropship's engines roar overhead.
Miraculously the two survive the onslaught and manage to kill every
one of the creatures. They move as fast as possible with their wounds
and make it to the clearing. The see the rest of the squad loaded onto
the dropship. As soon as they are on board the pilot takes off. The
Sergeant laments "Always a $%^&in' hero in every bunch…"

Post Mission: Simmons levels up to due to having the most kills. He
also receives the Crimson Sword for Valor ( he got the last kill).
Baird leveled up on the d10 roll. Simmons and Baird upped their
rifles at far range, and failed his development roll. Baird
requisitioned a Shotgun and Nightshade requisitioned a rocket pod.

That's it for the first planet. I'll try and get the summary of the
second planet typed up and posted in the next few days. Also I've
uploaded a picture of a cookie cake I had made with the 3:16 logo for
the session. They did a pretty decent job with it. The image was used
with the gracious permission of Gregor Hutton.