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Introduction to the Characters

The Story

The Beast
Relena Horvald and the crew of the Mystic Shark accept a contract to courier a package to an uncharted location. When they arrive, everything goes horribly wrong...

Exchange
The crew of the Mystic Shark is given an offer that they can't refuse...

The Warlock Karla
The crew of the Mystic Shark find out more than they wanted to know about their mysterious new passenger...

The Hockey Match
In which the crew of the Shark offloads Karla Krace, assassinates an ambassador, gets suspicious about men in Immaculately Tailored Suits and wins a zero-g hockey match.

Mr. Smith
In which Relena accepts a well-paying job that (of course) goes horribly wrong.

The Delivery
In which the crew of the Shark makes their delivery to Mr Smith and tries to contend with a few mysteries.

Blood of the Saviour
The crew of the Shark are begged to recover a religious icon that has been kidnapped... er, I mean stolen...

The Problem Child
The crew of the Shark grapples with a mysterious organism found aboard the ship, and discuss what to do with Brian.

The Horror
It's killing the passengers and the crew, one by one. We can't see it and we don't know what it is. The ship is stranded without power in deep space and we have, at most, 48 hours of life support. The Halloween Special Episode, in which everything goes (you guessed it) horribly wrong.

Conviction
An unpleasant surprise awaits the crew of the Shark when they return to Vitar.

Hell's Kitten
In which Noumalia follows her pet kurr-ssa.

Wasteland
In which the crew of the Shark discovers something frightening about the Empire, and rescues an old "friend".

The Outing of Dha
In which one of the Guild's deepest secrets is revealed.

The Curious Case of the Agent and the Cat
Kelda is hired for an assassination that... goes horribly wrong.

Mindvirus!
A mysterious ailment afflicts both passengers and crew

Gravity Well
The Shark is caught in an Imperial Trap! Who else is caught?

Escort Service
In which an apparently innocent passenger has a secret agenda! (What a shock!)

One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
In which the crew lose something valuable.

The Battle
In which they find it again. Recovering it is a different matter...

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I would like to extend my thanks to Sage Leslie, Sarah Murray, Amanda Pickering, Peter Cobcroft, Chris Mackie and Peter Wass for their help in creating this epic story. Also I would like to thank my various Muses - Kim, Kai', Lily, Role Playing Public Radio (especially for The Horror), and every website, movie and TV show that has provided inspiration for this game. I would also like to acknowledge SeventhSanctum.com for their random name generators, which I have used extensively.