I suppose one way would be to assume everything goes alright, and make rolls ahead of time...<br/><br/>We could even do some role playing to introduce Captain Jason Harlock to the party, assuming everyone lives till then.<br/><br/>Captain Harlock has invited Cortez and company to the Everest for an inspection tour and dinner... it probably won't be as exciting as the LAST formal dinner we had though.<br/><br/>Of course, if someone dies before hand, well, I guess we could always put it to one side and call it a "what if" story.  *chuckles*<br/><br/>Probably better to make it a side post, however.  And it'll hardly be exciting... just rolls for acquisitions, dinner and a meet and greet at the Everest... in character discussions of future plans, that sort of thing.  Anyone interested while we wait for TGT to continue the main storyline?<br/><br/>Of course, haggle rolls are opposed, and we don't know the skills of who we're haggling against... (unless someone does?) so we can't really finish that part (probably), but we could at least get some initial haggle rolls down for TGT to see.  Once everyone officially returns safely, we can roll it into the main thread and go from there.<br/><br/>I'm itching to do some role playing, and it can't hurt to get some in-character interaction done while our GM is away, can it?