Dirty Pair Adventure Idea

[kilemall]

While taking a stroll through youtube, found the Dirty Pair episodes had been posted.

They are 80s novel/anime characters who are 'trouble consultants' for the World Welfare Works Administration and are sent to do tough missions to fix problems and do special ops type justice work.

The two are 19 year old girls with deadly training and reflexes, who always succeed at their missions and would prefer to be known as 'The Lovely Angels'.

They are known galaxy-wide however as 'The Dirty Pair' due to the destructive chaotic path they blaze in the course of doing their job.

Normal citizens will typically take cover and/or leave the moment they are aware the Dirty Pair are on-planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Pair

Anyway, the relevant point for us here is that some of their episodes can be stripped of their specific characters and 'mode of operation' and made into good Traveller adventures.

This one, a prison riot suppression and rescue the key witness operation, features a marine jump troop op using either battle dress or powered armor frames your call, a very unique prison location, and covert surfing entry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_2MNPfrAY

 

[kilemall]

Oh this is a good setting, casino where the game is effectively mass driver asteroid roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh5M44l9xIg

One of the things this reminds me of is how the anime back then consistently had superb avionic and control graphics that look like it should work.

Note they have clear plastic information readouts that look modern.

 

[Condottiere]

If they are Agents of the Imperium, the Imperium may go bankrupt, after paying off insurance claims for personal injuries, death and infrastructural damage.

 

[kilemall]

If they are Agents of the Imperium, the Imperium may go bankrupt, after paying off insurance claims for personal injuries, death and infrastructural damage.

Well, the 3WA is not directly funded by their interstellar polity but are hired, so I suppose it's more a matter of something like a mercenary ticket.

With really big numbers out of proportion to the size of the team.

Heh, they may be used as an effective threat- fix this, turn yourselves in etc. or we will hire/send the Dirty Pair.

 

[Enoki]

I prefer the anime Black Lagoon for those sorts of ideas for a Traveller adventure. The PT boat becomes a Type S scout and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYZY6G8i8f8

It's Quintin Tarantino, Milla Jovovich, in an insane, violent action movie. What could be better than letting your players blast the equivalent of Space Nazis...?

 

[Blue Ghost]

If you're going to replace an orbital ring, you better have some very big bucks in your wallet. Quadrillion Credit Squadron territory.

 

[JimMarn]

Solar systems have gone radio quiet when hearing that the Dirty Pair are nearby. So I think the 'clean up your act or we send in the Dirty Pair' threat might work.

 

[kilemall]

Hmmm, perhaps just as interesting an idea is the WWWA- private spec ops/investigation/bounty hunting/LE quasi-licensed on a million credit scale.

OTU no way, might work for some ATU though.

 

[kilemall]

Flight 005 Conspiracy- classic Patron Ticket mission to save family writ large.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iP7z49Z2to

 

[Blue Ghost]

Dâti pea (Japanese phonetic spelling). I saw Project Eden when it first hit home video and I was in my anime phase. Apparently the duo have many seasons of TV adventure under their belts, not all of which have hit DVD.

It's been so long since I've seen them that it's tough for me to say which Eps are portable to Traveller. But Project Eden certainly is a good one. I haven't seen Flight Conspiracy in forever. "Dâti pea" does strike me as being a bit over the top, like a lot of anime.

 

[kilemall]

Oh no, the characters themselves are not particularly usable, but a lot of their adventures have very space-specific elements and a really great high tech vibe that has aged very well.

 

[Condottiere]

The American comics version are actually funnier and more radical.

 

[kilemall]

The American comics version are actually funnier and more radical.

The Adam Warren stuff, yes more transhuman as noted above, but the panicky reaction to the Dirty Pair is clearly rooted in the original material.

 

[The Pakkrat]

My Little Plushie meets Dirty Pair

Mission Idea: "We need you to outpace the 3WA's Dirt-.....Lovely Angels and secure the package, avoid all contact with the duo and continue the package's route to the destination, intact and unspoiled. And no questions asked. If the Pair- er.....Angels find out what it is or why or that you are involved, the whole subsector is in danger."

Object: Prototype, interactive, cute, plushie, TL 15 robot with tons of fun for teenage female sophonts everywhere. Perfect for those only child offspring with an in on Daddy's Checkbook.

Catch: Corsairs, News media critics of the 3WA, a competing Corporation, the bribe attempt on a PC via covert and private transmission from 3WA, the prototype has already developed self-awareness and free will, sabotage blamed on the PCs, an ion storm and a derelict fleet in a dangerous asteroid field soon to penetrate the orbit of a really Jovial Jovian Gas Giant. Prototype knows too much about:

1. Corporate secrets
2. Corporate internecine violence
3. 3WA being hired by same Patron as PCs
4. Dirty Pair want a mascot for their vessel because 'he's' so cute!
5. Turing Agents want to test the innocent plushie for true A.I. status
6. Local Low-Tech planet it's on worships the plushie 'bot as divine. It talks after all.

Extra Credit: Hacking duel three-way between Dirty Pair, PC hacker and plushie to download what the robot knows to destination's database.

Teacher's Pet: Creator and programmer of the plushie wants to ride with the PCs and is a kindly old Imperial ex-Corporate.

Curiosity Killed the-..: Prototype robot gets its paws on some skill chips, (see Cybernetics) and has more than one port.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Oh no, the characters themselves are not particularly usable, but a lot of their adventures have very space-specific elements and a really great high tech vibe that has aged very well.

Oh sure, but some of their adventures are more interpersonal and not really plot oriented. Still, it was a highly enjoyable show with tons of episodes, and I have not seen them all.

Here's the end credit sequence, minus the credits (mid 1980s anime, and I think it holds up); https://youtu.be/4m8HKCPPlYU

 

[Condottiere]

You are ... (drum roll) ... the Trillion Credit Squadron.