found in an FBI report/transcript of an on-board recording of the s.s. el faro
For context: the s.s. el faro sunk in a tropical storm and that was the last thing that the ship recorded.
A few years ago, my housemates were developing a tabletop game set in space and wanted us to play test it. The mechanics were not fully established yet and we weren’t sure what we were doing, but we had fun. My character was a 4 foot tall robot that had three skills: acrobatics, hacking, and charisma. It was the most charismatic character in the party. At one point, my friend’s character went to ask it a question, only for the whole group to realize with dismay that the android was the least intelligent character in the whole damn party.
Mary Sue
To be fair, absolutely all of the characters were Mary Sues in that campaign. Jake’s character was so ludicrously strong and imposing that he managed to intimidate half the quadrant of the galaxy into becoming socialists just by flexing on live TV after we were all thrown into an alien gladiatorial pit.
None of us had any worldly knowledge at all, so the DM had to introduce EB, or ‘Exposition Bot’, just so we could have any idea what was going on in that world. It was so much fun.
