Journeys

Journeys

Departure

• Needs a ship - your own, or borrowed
• Pick a destination
• Make preparation
  • E.g. Hiring extra crew, cargo & passengers, planning
• The Firefly creates journey tracks
  • Hidden tracks
  • Progress - Only when the Progress track is filled do you arrive
  • Risk - When you're travelling through particularly risky locations, track it with a risk track
  • Pathfinding - See Cartographizing below
  • Riot - Tracks crew / passenger dissatisfaction, rarely used

Progress

• Player role depends on their station

At the helm

• Cut a path
  • Traveling normally
  • Mark a single box on the progress track
  • Usually have a choice about encountering things spotted on watch
• Forge ahead
  • Going fast
  • Mark two boxes on the progress track
  • Usually have to encounter what's spotted on watch; the ship may take damage if you try to avoid
• Drop anchor
  • Stop
  • Do a montage
  • No watch roll is made - the undercrew keeps watch instead
• Challenging terrain may require an additional ratings roll at the helm

On watch

• Two options: make a watch roll or spend resources for a discovery.
• Watch roll
  • Roll a single D6
  • Firefly rolls a D6 threat roll (hidden from players)
    • If you own a chart of the area, the Firefly rolls 2d6 and takes the higher result
  • Threat roll results:
    • 6 - Danger-free opportunity
    • 4-5 - Hazardous encounter with a payoff
    • 1-3 - Immediate danger with little chance of payoff
  • Consult the Watch Roll Results table
• Discovery
  • Spend a chart and a whisper - both are lost
  • Gives the player input into a discovered location
    • The location has to be something that might be recorded on a map or chart
  • Firefly still makes a hidden threat roll

Encounters

• Avoiding
  • You may need to make a ratings roll to avoid an encounter if it's something that can give chase
  • Harder if you're forging ahead
• Engage
  • Firefly should give some indication of threat
  • Choice, challenge, or scene
    • Choice
      • Outcome of the encounter depends on a choice
      • E.g. do you investigate an emergency flare or not
    • Challenge
      • Some kind of threat to the ship
      • Player at the helm makes a ratings roll, and go from there
      • E.g. A pirate ship opens fire
    • Scene
      • Usually involves leaving the ship
      • E.g. exploring a ruin

Tending the engine

• Proceed normally
• You can hijack focus for engine trouble
• Overload the engine
  • Spend a resource as fuel
  • Increase impact relating to ship speed, or mark an extra box for progress
• Muffle the engine
  • Uses a resource to muffle the engine
  • Increase impact for stealth, or stealthily leave if you haven't been spotted yet

Cartographizing

• Firefly makes a track
• Mark it when you find an important landmark
• Gain a related chart when you complete the track

Watching the Weather

• Similar to being on watch
• But you always roll
• Check the Weather-Watching Results table

Arrival

• When the progress track is filled
• Firefly describes where you've arrived
• Spend some time port-side to heal, relax, and repair the ship

Wildsea Free Edition, page 40-47, Wildsea, page 67, Wildsea, page 70-77