It's a space game (like a Cowboy Bebop or a Firefly sort of vibe) so presumably not everyone will make it to every session and we'll have sort of a rotating crew, but...
And I was like okay guys this was insane and fun but I can't do this for you ALL constantly, so ... basically good luck to your GM and I hope it is fun and That Player chills back.
I got kind of confused by the absolute clusterfuck that our first mission turned into, but I think that was more because I was having trouble understanding the rules and, like, what I could actually do
To establish how the crew all knew each other, we did a thing where we each get to have a rumor about our character (that may or may not be true!) and then two of our crewmates get to make up rumors about us.
So the rumors Tonic ended up with aaare: That he FAKED HIS OWN DEATH to get out of crippling debt, that his dramatic acid burn scars are because he was the Other Woman to some rich dignitary and their partner wanted REVENGE, and that his acid burn scars are because he was asked to doctor up a mob boss and it didn't go so well.
Though another character's rumor was that he tried to attend a fancy fashion academy but got SUPER SNUBBED by the board in what was a long dumpster-fire of a public scandal.
OMG that's a great intro mechanic, yeah! I love it! .... and I may steal it if I ever do the secondary B-cast version of my current game for the folks who still want to play
It was neat! And it's totally up to the player whether the things that people come up with for them are only rumor, or if they actually want to incorporate that into their character backstory somehow and make it true. :>
We did it in such a way that each player got to pick which other character was the one their character pulled into the crew, and then those two would assign rumors to each other.
And then the one that just got picked would get to go next and pick someone, until everyone on the "crew" had been hired by someone and everyone got two extra rumors.
Lore wants to GM a sci-fi game someday where the whole party wakes up on a ship with amnesia. They start out with blank character sheets and fill them in as they try to do / discover things
1. Don't screw over the people feeding you.
2. Stay in school.
3. Don't stab Tonic.
isn't that a porn anime