Season 1 ideas

[Eryx]

I'm planning on a short 10 episode campaign to try and get some of my local players interested in playing a DW:AIT&S campaign. So far I'm just writing some basic notes to expand upon over December/Christmas. I'd have them do a Time Lord and companions of their own creation for this. For reference, I'm figuring that the campaign will be set during the 7th-8th Doctors time but well before the Time War. if it works out maybe I can convince the players to keep going and do a season 2.

Here are the notes I have jotted down this evening:

Season #1:

1.1: The Totter's Lane Mystery.
2014. Strange lights in the sky over London, missing locals and the first appearance of the mysterious Grey.

1.2: Hive Lords of Malice.
31st century. Crime lords, assassination and an underworld power struggle.

1.3: The House of Evil.
1925. An malevolent entity trapped in victorian house, a seance, and terror.

1.4: Village of the Damned.
2014. A Norfolk village replaced by alien hybrids, an experiment, and the return of the Greys.

1.5: Sky Pirates of Scintilla.
Zeppelins, pirates and a valuable cargo that must reach it's destination at all costs.

1.6: Dawn of the Daleks.
Skaro. Daleks, Thals, a crashed expedition, and a war without end.

1.7: The Wrexham Incident.
1983. Mysterious lights, a UFO sighting, military involvement and lost time. Have the Greys returned?

1.8: Hulk in Space.
Future. A damaged TARDIS, a wreck adrift in deep space, and a hostile alien organism out for blood.

1.9: The Fall of Avalon.
A Gallifreyan outpost under attack by Daleks, a traitor in the war council, and who is responsible for lowering the defences?

1.10: Terror from the Stars.
2015. A passenger liner in the Carribean, the Bermuda Triangle, a time-space tunnel to the edge of space, and the ultimate plans of the Grey revealed.


Each is sort of based on something I've watched or thought about recently. I've been watching a lot of the UFO documentaries on the Discovery channel and have decided to use the Greys as a new recurring villain. Just need to plot them out a bit and work on some stats for them.

Any thoughts, ideas or potential twists? Also any ideas for the Greys?

[Curufea]

Greys fit in very easily as the Silents in the current Who if you want to use them - a parasitic alien race that is immediately forgotten.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_%28Doctor_Who%29

[misterharry]

Sounds intriguing! As for the Greys, a few versions have appeared in the wider Doctor Who universe and you might want to have a look at these for inspiration.

The 10th Doctor animation, Dreamland, featured one version. It's a while since I watched this so I can't remember much about them.

The Virgin and BBC novels also featured a race based on the Greys, called the Tzun, who are masters of genetic engineering and invade planets by infiltration. Here's the TARDIS Data Core entry for them:

TARDIS Data Core - Tzun

I prepared a DWAITAS write-up for them a year or two back, but I don't think I ever posted it on the forum - but it's included in my Aliens & Enemies compilation which is still available to download from my MediaFire page. Or I can post it here - let me know if you're interested in seeing it.

There was a third version of the Greys called the Nedenah which featured in the novel The Devil Goblins of Neptune - but I haven't read that book and don't know anything about them. You should be able to find an entry in the Data Core though.

[Eryx]

I did briefly consider the Silents but I decided against it. At the moment we don't know enough about them from the show and I fancy the idea of a new baddie race.

I had forgotten about Dreamland. I have the the DVD around here somewhere. I'll have to rewatch it. Thanks for the reminder Misterharry.

Thanks for the ideas.

[Craig Oxbrow]

The House of Evil might be a bit close to The Unquiet Dead especially as episode three after a modern "aliens of London" intro and a far future thriller. Maybe shift it to a later point and bring in another historical going further back? (This is a concern based on just reading that short pitch, of course, you might have something quite different in mind.)

Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2012 links the Silent and Greys explicitly, with River, Amy and Rory spending those months in 1969 investigating alien abduction stories, leading to a selection of in-character articles about real-life abduction reports.

And on a related note of historicals, with the Greys I'd consider an episode about the idea of alien abduction as a modern version of the same belief as being taken by faeries - maybe a medieval story about disappearances, possibly connected to the Pied Piper story, with primitive Greys firing "elf shot" tranq darts with blowpipes instead of knockout rays?

[Curufea]

The faeries do turn up in a Torchwood ep, so you could use those.

[Eryx]

Nov 28, 2013 19:27:19 GMT Craig Oxbrow said:

The House of Evil might be a bit close to The Unquiet Dead especially as episode three after a modern "aliens of London" intro and a far future thriller. Maybe shift it to a later point and bring in another historical going further back? (This is a concern based on just reading that short pitch, of course, you might have something quite different in mind.)

It wouldn't make any difference to my players. They wouldn't be comparing the campaign to the show like that. As for the story I am thinking of something more like a mix between HP Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space and The Legend of Hell House.

And on a related note of historicals, with the Greys I'd consider an episode about the idea of alien abduction as a modern version of the same belief as being taken by faeries - maybe a medieval story about disappearances, possibly connected to the Pied Piper story, with primitive Greys firing "elf shot" tranq darts with blowpipes instead of knockout rays?

That is a really nice idea. Maybe as the first story so they players think they are dealing with faeries of some sort (not all have seen Torchwood) and then later in the first season when they are revealed to be aliens... ooooh.... *thumbs up*

[zebaroth]

they revile the Silents reason in the Xmas special