Learning Starforged: Prologue and the Iron Vow.

On the advice of more experienced players, I've upped each of Spider's stats by 1, which I'm told should give her a chance of surviving more than five minutes in solo play.

I'm using the Stargazer app to keep track of things.

The comms module on the Manta made its familiar irritating beep. A wave from Vesper Frost. Spider pressed the button to accept and Vesper's familiar steely features appeared.

"Hi, Vesper." Spider only said this to wind her up, but for once, there was no demand to refer to her properly as Mayor Frost.

"Skip the nicities, this isn't a social call. I'm hiring you."

Spider's eyebrows shot up. "Huh. Who do you need finding?"

"Kaisa. She's been taken."

It had been two days earlier that Spider had been sat in a spaceport bar drinking cheap liquor and discovering that the spacer she was talking to was actually Vesper Frost's daughter. She hadn't even known Vesper Frost had a daughter. That was because Kaisa hadn't been home in so many years, she wasn't even sure her mother would want to see her any more. Spider disagreed. Only a terrible mother wouldn't want to see her child, and Kaisa was quick to confirm that that wasn't the case.

And now something terrible had happened.

A cloud of dust blew up from under the Manta as Spider landed in the field that passed for a landing strip on the edge of Paxton.  She was expected. The gates opened as she approached them, and Vesper herself was waiting outside.

"Mayor Frost."

"Spider."

Vesper ran through the details in her office. A raiding party from Wellspring had been sighted and the usual security protocols put in place. Except Kaisa wasn't accounted for, and didn't know the signals, and when the raiders had arrived she was still outside. She'd been carried off alive, but if they'd planned to keep her that way, Vesper would have expected a ransom demand by now. There had been nothing.

Spider clutched her poker chip tightly in her hand. "Mayor Frost, I will find her. And I will bring her back to you."

Swear an iron vow: roll +heart +1 because she's swearing to a connection.

Strong hit! It's clear what to do. +2 Momentum

Rank of Dangerous.