 February 19, 2010 - 10:40pm | This started as a community collaborations and its fitting that it should be the first adventure post heres the basic summary of ideas from this thread: http://starfrontiers.us/node/3885 Rescue scout deployed to resolve some problem at a remote science station and there is a "menace that can destroy us all" the local environment is inhospitable and the ship cant land too close to the science station possibly requiring a 10 k trip in explorer and the station is lock up Since the model scout is important there should be a KH encounter. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 20, 2010 - 12:05am | Alrighty then here's the rough outline PROLOGUE: a little fiction to set the tone and the whole this is your mission should you choose to accept it bit Alpha section arrival insystem and the KH (sort of scenario) detection of objects on collision course with ship abstact combat ie no map gunnery character has a chance to shoot them he will not get them all (one will always get through though poor shooting will allow more). objects impact ship and use their released gas jet to force the ship into the atmosphere - piloting rolls to maintain control and prevent crash landing. (see the bit of Forbidden Moon fiction uploaded) the objects are organic and they begin to eat through the hull with acid or whatever a whole forms and a circular ring of teeth push into the craft and bend outward to hook onto the circular hole of the ship. once that happens a spincter like and anis in the center begins to open and deposits a monstrousity into the ship the crew must fight off 1-3 of these (depending on the gunners shooting) anyone wounded in melee is "infected" (the idea is disgusting horrific mutated horror). the science station has been evasive and is now out of touch. the crew will need to patch the holes to land. Beta section: landing and getting into the science station some chances to possibly chit chat with NPCs maybe a combat with another horror- suggested idea of a crash site and bodies with lacerations perimortem. Gamma: Science station has a secret: there is a alien ship/ space station/ instalation etc and it is the source of an awakened menace. PC begin to discover this. Delta: The fight to get free of the moon and another kh's possible scenario. ok the ideas behind this I'm thinking to make it a little bit of Island of Dr Morreau where the head scientist is a bit of a society hater (the society of the frontier is corrupt etc0 and thats the reason he takes remote postings.but here they found an ancient alien ship/station/ installation and accidently activated a gene resequencer that radically changed some of or one of the scientist. plus he, through touch/melee contact has infected other and there mutation is sort of slower like what we saw in the movie The Fly. the head scientist is losing it mentally but he desires to send these infected monstrosities back to the Frontier as he believes their primative atavistic aggression is more pure than the corruption of the Frontier. in order to incorporate the space station idea I had thought to have it be an station on an elyptical orbit of a gas giant and actually entering the atmosphere of the jovian giant and over eons it accumulates matter from this process that it builds up a "moon" around it. However the problem with that is that entering the gas giants outer atmosphere would slow its orbit. so to keep that idea I have to hand wave some counter grav like force into the tech base of the ancient station. This could be the mystery that led to the science station being here to investigate the mystery of this moon not slowing down despite the obvious drag the crash site could be a ship that provides warm bodies for the mutation/infection to give Dr. Morreau his army. the station can have a nuke/ fussion reactor (it could be detonated, or it's out of kilter and in danger of going all on its own.- one way to resolve the danger is to "return to the Sulaco and nuke the site from orbit" though this becomes a race to get back to orbit before it goes boom. orifaces that penetrate the ship are just another product of the biological manipulation used by the station. they have a bladder of gas that can be angled to push and steer them and can carry one mutant. how it gets to orbit - I dont know but it does somehow I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 21, 2010 - 2:17pm | here's a suggestion - have one of the 'evil' mega-corporations send the characters to investigate the space station which has broken off contact. The corporation has previously sent a ship to investigate and initial reports followed by the sudden demise of the ship have forced the corporation to send in another ship. A couple of NPC's on the ship 'advisers' if you will, are assessing the situation to see if the experiments on the ship can be saved. If it seems they can't be saved, their backup plan is to detonate the space station. Unfortunately, the scientists on board after the previous contact, have found the explosives and made safe the 'kill switch' - neutralising the bomb. Perhaps the head scientist is planning revenge on this mega-corporation by sending some of the genetic samples to attack their premises. |
February 25, 2010 - 11:42pm | I hope you don't mind, I've re-written your introduction as it didn't read properly. It's not perfect by any means! |
February 26, 2010 - 11:03am | I hope you don't mind, I've re-written your introduction as it didn't read properly. It's not perfect by any means! No dont mind this started as a community collaboration... continue to do rewrites but could you do your changes in red print? helps to mesh your with my master copy. This project is a little stalled (though not forgotten) as I still have to make stuff up whole clothe for it- been a little distracted with the mining ship project as nothing really new to make up. just layout the material and fill in the blanks straight from the book. Other than the alien menace for encounters 4 & 5 but I just had an idea for that while typing this. Sweet! I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
