A couple of adventure seeds

[moondragon007]

Here's a couple of adventure seeds, based on a movie and a miniseries:

(Based on Memento)

The Tardis crew are going about their business when they suddenly find themselves 2 days into the future. A few minutes later, they find themselves about 10 minutes in the past. When they catch up to the moment the time skip happened, they are suddenly another 10 minutes in the past. This keeps going until they find the reason, or regress back to when it all started (which may or may not be a good thing). Watch the movie to see the effect I'm going for here. Or you can go for more of a Groundhog Day effect (straight temporal loop) if you want.

The cause turns out to be (pick one):

A) Time Flies - small insects that eat temporal energy. Normally they are harmless, eating a few miniseconds here, a few microseconds there, and you only know they're around when your clocks are a few minutes off. But several Time Flies have gotten caught in the Tardis' time rotor, causing hiccups in the flow of time.

B) An inventor who's trying to invent a time machine - only he hasn't got it quite right yet, and every time he tries a time hop, time skips backwards.

C) The Tardis is sick. She has the Tardis equivalent of a flu. She feels rotten and is trying to find a place/time to hide in, but every time she tries to go somewhere, time skips backwards. Once the crew realizes this, someone should work on calming the Tardis down while The Doctor whips up a remedy. Alternately, once the Tardis settles down and gets some rest, she'll get well on her own in a few days.

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(Based on the miniseries BrainDead)

The Tardis crew are in London or Washington DC or whatever capital fits your campaign, when they realize that leaders are acting strange - suddenly super health-conscious, and seemingly deliberately trying to start wars. It turns out that a meteor had landed recently, and it was infested with sentient insects that control people by burrowing into their brains. They're starting wars to keep distract people from investigating them too close, and the sudden obsession with health is the bugs wanting to ensure their "vehicles" stay in good shape. The bugs can be killed by locating the host housing the queen, driving her out, and killing her.

[generalrose]

moondragon007

For seed #2 also check out TNG - Conspiracy

[Catsmate]

Mar 28, 2017 15:30:09 GMT generalrose said:

moondragon007

For seed #2 also check out TNG - Conspiracy

Or Quatermass II.

[moondragon007]

I found an old article on Cracked.com about the 5 most insane alternative games, and a couple of them sound like good DW adventure seeds. Here's the article if you want to read it:

www.cracked.com/article_19346_the-5-most-insane-alternate-reality-games.html

Here's a cut-n-paste of the parts that would make good adventures:

1. Melissa was the AI onboard a futuristic spaceship that was accidentally sent back in time and crashed on present-day Earth. With the ship stranded and damaged, Melissa was forced to transfer itself to a random web server in an effort to get [itself] together and call out for help. And then things got really weird. Melissa's memory began to come back, and so did its deranged dominatrix-like personality. Eventually, Melissa managed to return to its own time, but not before inadvertently giving up Earth's location to an alien empire called the Covenant.

2. It all started with a Nine Inch Nails Tour T-shirt: among the words on the back, certain highlighted letters spelled out the phrase "iamtryingtobelieve." This was actually the URL for a strange website that described a drug called parepin, an alleged immune system booster distributed by the U.S. government through the water supply to protect its citizens from biological warfare. The website posited that it was actually a hallucinogenic and narcotic drug meant to control the populace. Because people are way easier to keep in check when they're tripping balls, apparently. It turns out that [this website], plus others that were found soon afterward, were set in a future where the U.S. has become a Christian fundamentalist state and most civil rights have been dissolved.

I know these plot descriptions may be a bit choppy, but the article is mostly devoted to the mechanics of the games, so there was quite a bit to leave out.

[moondragon007]

Another one. This one is out of my own head for a change.

The Doctor finds out just why it is that Humans never remember alien contacts/invasions/etc.

Turns out there's a group of aliens/time travelers/alien time travelers who wipe everyone's memory. Or maybe it's Torchwood doing it. The reason why is because Earth isn't supposed to have alien contact till sometime in the future. If the invasions left witnesses, the time-space continuum would be endangered.

[marrhn]

May 8, 2017 1:00:56 GMT moondragon007 said:

Another one. This one is out of my own head for a change.

The Doctor finds out just why it is that Humans never remember alien contacts/invasions/etc.

Turns out there's a group of aliens/time travelers/alien time travelers who wipe everyone's memory. Or maybe it's Torchwood doing it. The reason why is because Earth isn't supposed to have alien contact till sometime in the future. If the invasions left witnesses, the time-space continuum would be endangered.

Intriguing idea, maybe i would add another twist: the organisation that wipes all these memories was initially founded by the doctor, because he knew about the threat to the space-time continuum. The reason he doesn't remember that is, of course, the fact that he wiped his own memory concerning this organisation, for some of the same reasons they wipe the memories of the people encountering aliens.

Now if you can think of a reason why this threat by memories is caused by the doctor, too, you have a story with enough twists to keep the players invested for a while.

[moondragon007]

Here's another one:

A Gallifreyan Doctor in King Arthur's Court

The Setup:
The Tardis crew lands in 6th century England. They discover that, much like Robin Hood in "Robots of Sherwood", the legends of King Arthur and Camelot are based on real people, places, and events. But these people have a problem. Ever since the coming of the Evil Star, Camelot's enemies, the Saxons have been in league with the Demon Knights. The Saxon's evil priest has even been making human sacrifices in order to summon more of these foul things. The only thing that will kill a Demon Knight is a weapon that has been blessed by the head priest of the local chapel.

What's really going on:
The so-called Evil Star was a Cyberman scout ship that was disabled by solar flares and crashlanded in Saxon-occupied lands. The Saxon shaman was the first to encounter the Cybermen; they spared him on condition that he bring them more people to cyber-convert. He has been bringing them the "human sacrifices". The reason blessed weapons work on Cybermen is that part of the blessing ritual involves dunking the weapon into a basin of holy water - which happens to be made of gold.

Extra fun - use as desired:
The Master is also here, and has one or more people under his control. Maybe Morgan La Fey and Mordred were actually innocent?.

Merlin is another Time Lord who was thought lost, but actually his Tardis conked out, leaving only the chameleon circuit and the desktop theme operational. It's currently disguised as a cave with crystaline formations inside (Merlin's Crystal Cave). When Merlin's apprentice "traps" him in the crystal cave, she is really putting him in the Zero Room to regenerate.

Morgan La Fey is really The Rani. She may be stranded here, or she may be here voluntarily to study the effects of something like smallpox or Bubonic Plague.