[andrewas]

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away

Me, a rodian called vanoran and two others in my command crew were sitting in the Mos Eisley cantina bar (Of A New Hope fame). Also with us were 6 junior crew members. (The command crew were veterans of previous campaigns, while the juniors were newbies).

The Ultimate DM of evil asks us all to make perception checks. One of the juniors passes and comes out with "Isnt that that donovan bloke over there". Now, the veteran instantly recognised the name Donovan and, after the coughing fits and displays of shock (and double checking it was actualy him), we began checking our weapons and making sure we could get the hell out of the bar in a hurry. The command crew huddles together and we come to the conlcusion that theres no way that the DM is going to spring another legion of clone troopers etcetera on us so soon, but that it woudnt hurt to get the hell out of the outer rim ASAP. We continue on mission, taking rather more care than normal.

Donovan appears in several locations, and begins to beckon us over one at a time. Now even im beginning to get worried now, and I had a "borrowed" ISD at my command(There was an SSD docked at the station we got it, but Vader can be a pain to get rid of). Finaly I get called over, and after maiking sure that my exec has the targeting designator for the ship (Cool device that. Shoot something with it and 2 second later the ship hits it with starship-class weapons, and were talking a top-of-the-line imperial destroyer with experimental enhancements here), I go over.

It was a device to get the veterans to freak out the juniors. No secret plot, no imperial battlefleet, no nothing. Not that we told the juniors, we had them double checking dark alleys for weeks.