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Post by adam500 on Jan 22, 2010 20:41:56 GMT
Season 1, Episode 1
We open with maintenance workers in the London Underground, surprised by a little girl being down there. Even more surprised when one of them is murdered by her touch.
*cue theme* Ghosts of the Northern Line Written by Adam500 *End theme*
A blue box, with the words police public call engraved on it materializes in lower London. However out strides not the man you would expect. Wearing a hardhat and a suit this man turns to the box and starts berating it for getting it wrong.
Meanwhile three individuals, a lawyer, a programmer, and a pilot each find out that the Northern Line is closed today for maintenance. The lawyer and the programmer soon enough forget this when their attention is caught by a man talking to a blue box. Talking to him to determine if hes sane, he flagrantly revels in the fact that he knows more than they do, even 'accidentally' giving them a peak inside his TARDIS. When all is said and done the Timelord, 'Eddi' gets back to what he was doing when another man, a maintenance worker by the looks of him comes running screaming out of the station mumbling about ghosts.
A short few minutes later the four of them are down in the tunnels tracking a signal on Eddi's "Sonic pen" (really a sonic screwdriver) and end up confronting ghosts at every turn. Eddi gets the worst of it as the ghosts take a particular interest in him (though why is never explained). Eventually they meet up with an RAF pilot who has been searching down here for signs of his missing friend, the maintenance worker Dave who disappeared the night before.
Together the five of them make it to one of the service tunnels, where they find an alien device fused to the electrical system of the Underground, drawing power from it. Its purpose the deduce was originally to act as a 'black box' and store the psychic imprint of a pilot or crew in the event of ship crashing, but there is no ship in sight.
Besieged by more 'ghosts' (now known to be psychic imprints of the victims killed by having their bio-electricity drained to power the black box) the gang fends the off by throwing D-cell batteries at them (a momentary hindrance as they stop to drain them) while the programmer disables the alien technology (go figure, you'd think the Timelord would do it).
The ghosts disappear but not before the original imprint gives his final thoughts: "We lost the game."
Triumphant, the gang heads back to the surface and Eddi shanghais them all to come with him in his TARDIS, commenting on his five souvenirs (them and the device). However his glee is short-lived as the ever-curious lawyer unknown to the Timelord begins flipping switches during all their talks, sending the TARDIS into the unknown...
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Post by adam500 on Jan 22, 2010 22:04:55 GMT
Our characters as of Episode 1
Eddi -A timelord who escaped the Time War during the events of the episode 'The End of Time' the campaign picks up shortly after this episode.
Tom - the Maintenance man that joined the gang in episode 1, he does manual labor (like hauling cables through a subway) to make a living, but his real occupation is as a survivalist and wilderness expert.
Jacob - The programmer, obsessed with technology with the technology of the Time Lords now in front of him, how will he be tempted?
Nick - The RAF pilot who was searching for his friend, not much to say so far as he really hasn't come into his own. Yet.
Kailyn - The lawyer, who prior to episode one was on her way to an interview with a new firm. With her life now in space and time how will her skills be used? Or will she just be a damsel in distress?
I will fill in more details later, or my players are welcome to.
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Post by adam500 on Jan 23, 2010 6:22:46 GMT
So we played Ep2 and Ep3 (a two-part) tonight. I'll try and fit it all in one post if I can.
Season 1, Episode 2
*cue theme* Radio Free (part one) Written by Adam500 *end theme*
We open in the TARDIS, the time rotor in motion from the end of the last adventure due to the actions of the ever curious lawyer. After coming to a stop Eddi goes over to the door to check where they've landed, only to find themselves in the middle of space. This distresses Jacob, who has a fear of flying.
Going back to the console Eddi determines they're in the SOL system, and picking up a broadcast from a pirate 'radio' station called W.S.O.L. he determines they're in the 26th century, in the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire. He follows the broad-wave pirate signal to its source, a sky-base in orbit of Pluto called Pirate One.
Upon landing the gang is greeted outside the TARDIS by station security who failed to notice the ship's approach (which on the outside appears to be a simple freighter), but did notice it in the hanger. After talking security chief Barkley down, the gang split up with the music of the Pirate broadcast in the background.
Eddi, Jacob, and the pilot figure out that for the number of ships in the hangar, there are far too few guests on the station. Poking around further they get fed a story about security issues on the station and the ships eventually being towed and sold with their owners held aboard Pirate One.
Meanwhile, the lawyer seems to know exactly where shes going, and Tom is determined to follow to keep her out of trouble. Arriving on the second level (right below level 1, the station counts from top to bottom, with the docks/lobby on level 5) they notice a change in decor, with some kind of organic material adorning the walls. They are greeted on the second level by a man in a suit, who seemed to be expecting them and invites the lawyer to see the broadcasting booth.
There he reveals that he is a member of a race known as the Blattariamorphs. A race of hive minded intelligent insects who have been on this station for some time, waiting for their broadcast to attract an individual mentally and genetically compatible enough to become their new queen. He opens the lawyer's mind to the Hive mind with a touch. Tom promptly tells her to run, and uses his pistol (Old lucky) to shoot the roach-man with no effect. She runs out into the hall with Tom right behind her but Tom is knocked to the ground, and both of them are captured and separated.
Back with the other group, they've discovered the way to the docking bay has been barred and the station personnel are very concerned with something inside, however the group are kept from going back inside by Barkley who has developed something of an enmity with Eddi. The group goes off to figure out whats going on.
On the first level the lawyer is brought face to face with the dying Blattariamorph queen, who explains that the lawyer will be converted into a new queen and take her place. She is escorted away.
In one of the Blattariamorph conversion bays Tom is strapped down, and his weapon destroyed. He his told of his idiocy and chided that after his conversion, well... Blattariamorphs eat stupid drones. They bring forth a syringe and raise it above him, preparing to administer the gene-solution.
In a side corridor on the lower levels Eddi and the programmer work together to hack into the station computer. They discover a second signal embedded in the pirate broadcast, and they discover what has the station's attention. Station security performed an inspection of the mystery ship they arrived on, the ship Eddi left unlocked...
An alarm sounds, and the group of three is surrounded by guards with Barkley amongst them. He explains that now that they know their guest is a Timelord they don't have to hold back and the guards promptly drop their guns and begin transforming into thier cockroach-like normal forms...
To be continued
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Post by JohnK on Jan 23, 2010 15:23:07 GMT
Hullo, Adam500, Our characters as of Episode 1 Eddi -A timelord who escaped the Time War during the events of the episode 'The End of Time' the campaign picks up shortly after this episode. Tom - the Maintenance man that joined the gang in episode 1, he does manual labor (like hauling cables through a subway) to make a living, but his real occupation is as a survivalist and wilderness expert. Jacob - The programmer, obsessed with technology with the technology of the Time Lords now in front of him, how will he be tempted? - The RAF pilot who was searching for his friend, not much to say so far as he really hasn't come into his own. Yet. - The lawyer, who prior to episode one was on her way to an interview with a new firm. With her life now in space and time how will her skills be used? Or will she just be a damsel in distress? I will fill in more details later, or my players are welcome to. Interestingly enough, I've got a female player in my Sunday gaming group who isn't all that familiar with Doctor Who, other than a few of the last batch of tv specials/movies, who's playing a technician from 2002 who will develop an interest in the TARDIS technical systems. Her Time Lord, The Artist, will *not* be too pleased about this.
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Post by adam500 on Jan 28, 2010 23:46:50 GMT
Season 1, Episode 3
The lawyer is escorted away to be converted into a Blattariamorph Queen. Tom is strapped to a conversion bed, a syringe over his head ready to convert him into a drone. The others are surrounded by drones, and about to be captured or killed...
*cue theme* They Came from Pluto (part 2) Written by Adam500 *End theme*
Eddi raises his sonic device up after a quick adjustment, and the sonic reverberation brings the drones to their knees fairly quickly. The three of them run off down the corridor and hop in the lift.
Meanwhile Tom is pierced by the syringe. The conversion bed closes around him like a cocoon as his transformation begins.
Back up on the third level, the three remaining of the gang break into the Maintenance office and regain access to the computer systems. They find two of the conversion bays active in the system and shut both of them down. Before the drones can bust down the door Jacob memorizes the layout of the ventilation system (which is too narrow for the drones to follow them into) and escape through it.
In the royal conversion bay the lights have gone out and the lawyer's restraints have powered down. The drones guarding her are momentarily distracted, however the lawyer takes the blackout as a sign that help is on the way. Indeed a few minutes later as the lights come back up the grate of the ventilation system flies off the wall with a kick and hits a drone in the head. The lawyer makes a dash for the vent and escapes with the others.
In the other conversion bay the lights have resumed, however the conversion process Tom was subjected to was only part-way completed. He has been left somewhere between human and drone and when the rescue party comes for him all he can say is "Orders received" when told by the hive mind to pursue the intruders and catch the lawyer without harming her.
The gang races through the vents being chased by DroneTom (partial conversion means hes small enough to fit), and they take the quickest path back to the docking bay, a 10 or more meter drop straight down. Making it down mostly unscathed but still pursued by DroneTom they get into the docking bay to discover the TARDIS has been moved. After DroneTom takes a couple swings at Jacob the lawyer is able to use her temporary link to the hive mind to make him stop, and then to get him to escort the group up to where the TARDIS is most likely to be, the queen's lair.
Back up in the queens lair they find the TARDIS. Eddi, the lawyer, and Jacob venture inside to find the Queen and her guards. The Queen demands Eddi to activate his machine. They lost their wargame before but now with this Timelord technology they will be victorious over the enemy. Eddi tells the other two to get out, and they leave.
Inside the TARDIS Eddi comments that the Queen doesn't want to start a war in time. Hes seen the devastation such a thing wreaks, but he'll prove it to her. His voice is cold.
Outside the TARDIS dematerializes leaving the gang to wonder for a moment if they have been stranded there. A few short second later it re-materializes and Eddi stumbles out visibly shaken. In the hive mind DroneTom and the lawyer can hear screaming, and shortly afterward they see the Queen outside the port window of the station.... in the vacuum of space. She dies a cold death, killing all the remaining Blattariamorphs (including DroneTom) and severing the lawyers link to the hive mind abruptly. An entire species, now extinct.
The gang helps Eddi back into the TARDIS, where he drops to the ground, and sulks.
(Eddi lost all his story points for committing genocide. Tom's player has gone on to be my co-GM whose first story will be seen in episode 5)
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Post by Curufea on Jan 29, 2010 4:19:07 GMT
Ack, harsh. But fair. You don't say how he did it though - just that he dissappears for a bit and comes back.
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Post by Little Blue Box on Jan 29, 2010 10:22:16 GMT
Yeah, tell us how he did it!
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Post by ugavine on Jan 29, 2010 16:47:31 GMT
Great write-ups there. I may even borrow a few ideas for my own campaign.
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Post by adam500 on Jan 29, 2010 22:22:56 GMT
Ack, harsh. But fair. You don't say how he did it though - just that he dissappears for a bit and comes back. Sorry I thought it was clearer in the write-up. He moved the TARDIS outside the station into the vacuum of space, then dematerialized leaving the Blattariamorphs there. The pain of dying in vaccum sent a psychic resonance (excuse the technobabble) back through the hive mind killing all the others.
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Post by adam500 on Feb 19, 2010 19:34:28 GMT
*gets out his whip*
Excuse me while I go pummel an adventure write-up out of my co-GM.
*walks off, screaming can be heard in the distance*
Oh yeah, watch this space. More to come.
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Post by jimmyev on Feb 20, 2010 18:12:41 GMT
"Were the spikes on the whips really necessary? Fine! I'm typing, I'm typing."
Season 1, Episode 4
(Important background info)
Kailyn’s dad died in a car accident, he was a trucker and Kailyn didn’t get up to tell him the weather that morning like she always did. She’s also afraid of bugs.
Eddie, he as a past, all you need to know.
Jacob HATES being in the air or in space.
(Now, to your regularly scheduled post)
The episode starts out with the group on the TARDIS. Everyone is mourning the loss of Tom and Eddie is moping over the genocide he just committed. The TARDIS begins to warp through time of its own accord. While the group tries to figure out what happened Eddie gets curious and looks out of the TARDIS. He sees a corridor covered in green vines with purple flowers. There is a strange haze over everything which can’t quite seem to pass the TARDIS’ shields. “Well that’s strange,” says Eddie.
*cue theme* Seed of Regret Written by Jimmyev *end theme*
After a brief discussion over the haze, the group decides that it’s safe and exit the TARDIS. A short way down the corridor they reach a fork. “We’ll treat this like a maze and keep to the left,” Says Eddie. Down that corridor is the Cafeteria which says United World Exploration Vessel Xenon. (UWEV Xenon) Eddie tries to remember what happened to this ship and what time it is. The doctor finds the year but has a double image of a ship either never coming back, or a ship that came back in 2374 with no crew on board. “Well, the year is 2351… and it seems that this point of time is in flux. My souvenirs and I are writing history!”
Kailyn (lawyer) notices something shiny in the vines and a small white puff ball that seems to be eating the vines. Eddie tells the group that the puff ball was an organic trashcan that was made to save space on ships. The shiny object turns out to be a data pad which is given to Jacob (Hacker). Jacob reads some info about the ship being an exploration ship and that the crew seem to have found a cylindrical relic with some withered vines on it.
There is only one other exit from the cafeteria so the group take it before coming to another fork, once again they head left and come out at an observation dome. Jacob doesn’t enter the dome but, Nick (Pilot) who does enter, notes that the ship is orbiting a sun. The group leaves the dome and heads down the other path and comes up to the bridge. The bridge contains controls similar but different to those that Nick is used to, but in a pinch he could use them. There are corpses in the room, one of which is the captain’s. He seems to be holding a data log. Jacob decrypts this one which talks about the crew starting to act paranoid shortly after the relic’s recovery, and how the withered vines seem to be coming back to life.
The group leaves the bridge and makes it to the fork where Kailyn sees Tom (prebug) standing in the hall towards the observation dome in the corner of her eye. As she turns to get a good look Tom vanishes. The group heads back to the observation dome and there is no sign of Tom. Eddie, however, does see the Blattariamorph Queen out side the dome. The Queen swiftly disappears from sight. Eddie mutters “The dead don’t come back,” before ordering the rest of the group to head back to the TARDIS. Eddie tells them that he’s heading down the last path that they haven’t gone to; there must be a lab there.
On the way back to the TARDIS Jacob faints from seeing himself suspended in space and Nick, having no regrets or fears (none that I could exploit), gets dizzy and nauseous on the way back. Once they reach the TARDIS Nick has to run to Eddie because, for once Eddie remembered to lock the TARDIS, but forgot to give them the key. When Nick leaves Kailyn sees her father who died in a car accident. His body is mangled and he blames Kailyn for his death. He takes a swing at her which she dodges. His blow hit’s a bulkhead before he vanishes. Kailyn then screams.
Eddie, on his way to the lab, finds a door branching off the hall. In side there are 3 EV (Environmental) suites and a few supplies. He hears Nick calling for him and makes it out before Nick runs past. They hear the yell and Eddie quickly hands Nick the key before heading down to the lab.
Nick makes it back to the TARDIS and opens it for everyone to get in. They wake Jacob when Nick has another bout of nausea. Kailyn once again sees Tom, but this time in bug form. He blames all of them for his death and takes a swing at Kailyn who dodges once again. BugTom disappears before her eyes. No one else saw him. Jacob hears the walls of the TARDIS strain and shake. He also is the only one to hear it.
Eddie makes it to the lab where he sees the main body of the vines and the container itself. On the container are the words “Prisoner Number: C4519” and written in red on the canister in a different older language are the words “I lost the game.” There is another data pad in this room. Eddie opens it and there seems to be a vid-log. The first few are general research logs on the container and complaints of schizophrenia and crew violence, then the researcher talks of some crew murders and in-explicable, at the end, the crew member says it’s the plant feeding off their fears and regrets before they die a violent death.
Eddie heads back to check up on the rest of the group when he starts having a flashback of the Time Wars. He’s running through some hallways following other Time Lords. There is a branching room in front of him, all but him and another Time Lord head strait, he and the other take the door. Inside is a Time Lord strapped to a chair being interrogated by two Daleks. “Where are the rest of the Time Lords!?”, “Intruders! Exterminate!” The Daleks fire at Eddie and the other Time Lord. Eddie fires back killing one and dodges their fire; the other Time Lord is hit and killed. The remaining Dalek kills the captive Time Lord before being dispatched by Eddie.
Eddie comes to and sees that he is back in the storage room holding his Sonic Screwdriver. The Screwdriver is smoking, which matches the smoking holes in the EV suites. “THE DEAD DO NOT COME BACK!” he shouts before sprinting back to the TARDIS.
When he gets back he asks if anyone has still been experiencing any problems. The answer is yes. They all head back out towards the cafeteria after deciding to fly the ship into the sun when Kailyn notices an entrance that’s covered in vines. They enter the room and find the med bay. There are two corpses there, one holding a syringe and being stabbed by the other. A data pad is on the desk near the corpses. Eddie starts having another flash back where the corpses are Daleks and everything he hears is distorted. Kailyn sees a massive bug with her father’s face on it. Jacob manages to resist whatever is causing this and grabs the syringe and the data pad. Eddie starts pointing the Sonic Screwdriver at everyone so Nick walks up behind him and holds him still. Eddie sees Nick as the Time Lord who died trying to rescue the one tied up.
As all this is going on Jacob learns that the syringe is an antidote to the spores from the plant but it can only cure you fully if you come to terms with your regrets. He manages to inject it into Eddie who comes out of the flashback but is now talking to his theoretical next regeneration, who also talks out of his mouth for all to hear. He explains Time Lord Regeneration to Jacob who memorizes it. They send Nick to the bridge to fly the ship into the sun while the rest of them have Poo (that is what they named the organic trash can) “Clean to the engine room” by eating the vines. When they reach then TARDIS Eddie makes it phase out for a couple of seconds and turn around so they can get to the other side and have Poo not eat it. When they get there Eddie makes them re-enter the TARDIS before heading to the engines. Eddie calls Nick on their modified cells and tells him there has been a change of plans and to get on the TARDIS.
Nick starts to run back while fighting nausea and trying to not be tripped by the vines. When he reaches the TARDIS there is a huge explosion, but he can’t get in since Eddie forgot to turn in around.
Eddie looks at the engine and marvels at the power source, electrified plasma and electromagnets. The plasma is stored in a tube that resembles a blue florescent light. Eddie’s theoretical second regeneration takes over and uses the Sonic Screwdriver on the tube of plasma. He turns and runs back towards the TARDIS as the engine’s power source vanishes in a huge explosion. The explosion makes hits Eddie so hard he can no longer move. Kailyn, deciding that Eddie is taking too long heads out and helps him. Eddie’s Theoretical third regeneration now forms in his mind and asks what the hell number two did to them.
Since Eddie can no longer move he tells Jacob how to use the TARDIS. Jacob follows the instructions and the TARDIS fades out to turn around; only problem, it left to turn without them. Kailyn manages to help move Eddie before it rematerializes on his arm. Everyone piles into the TARDIS and Eddie tells Jacob how to get them out of there. Jacob succeeds the group watches the ship fly into the sun on a display screen. Jacob, unfortunately, did not remember how to use the TARDIS because he couldn’t be sure of what he saw and heard.
*Roll end credits*
(Well, I hope your all happy.)
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Post by adam500 on Feb 21, 2010 1:34:26 GMT
(yes, very happy, cause now I can add episode 5!)
Season 1, Episode 5
On board a sailing vessel, a man comes down into the cargo hold investigating a strange scraping noise. (VWAAAAAARP, VWAAAAAARP) A shipping crate he has never seen before materializes before his eyes, and out pops a head wearing a strange hat with a light on it. The man in the hard-hat simple asks "Excuse me, where are we?"
*cue theme* Acushnet Written by Adam500 *end theme*
We return to the story with the crew of the TARDIS standing before the captain of the ship, the sailor who found them standing to one side. He comments that their appearance after the attacks by those lizards cannot be a coincidence. He orders the sailor, who is revealed to be Herman Melville, to take them below deck and secure them.
Herman takes away the sonic screwdriver and ties up the group. They sit there for an hour or so before hearing explosions above deck. Herman returns to 'mind the prisoners' while the crew attempts to repel the attacking lizard men again. Eddi comments that the lizards are probably Silurians, if he knows his earth genealogies. After a brief talk, Herman is convinced to let the Tardis crew go and return the sonic screwdriver.
Above deck they find the crew subdued. Ten of the 'lizard-men' surround the captured sailors and threaten them with strange hand-weapons. Eddi exclaims with recognition that these are not Silurians, they are the off-shoot Sea Devils! Intrigued with this stranger's knowledge of them, the leader of the Sea Devils approaches the TARDIS group and demands they surrender. Eddi asks what is going on, and the Sea Devil Commander explains they are searching for the remains of the 'ancient one'. Seeing the group's puzzlement, the Sea Devil commander orders his troops to fall back, he will give the ship's crew one hour. Either they will return the ancient one's remains, or everyone on the boat will die.
Despite the reservations of his captain, Melville explains that prior to the appearance of these 'sea devils' the crew managed to kill a very old Albino whale. The gang puts two and two together, and Nick goes searching the lower decks while Eddi and the captain argue. Eventually Eddi gets the captain to agree to turn over the whale's bones which Nick discovered in the cargo hold.
Upon the return of the sea devils Eddi presents them with them bones, and they take them in gratitude. However, someone must still be punished for the whale's death. He raises his sidearm and points it at the ship's captain, holding him responsible, but Eddi intervenes with an argument about how there is enough killing on the seas. The Sea Devil commander is hesitant, but lowers his fire-arm, and instructs the crew to leave the area immediately, once he is gone the captain complains about how he should have known better than to follow the instructions he won in that betting game.
Back below deck, the gang begin to file into the TARDIS/crate, and Eddi and Nick say their goodbyes to Herman Melville. Nick comments that Melville should try to be less 'wordy' when he writes, and Eddi just says goodbye. The crate begins to dissapear as mysteriously as it appeared..... (VWAAAAARP, VWAAAAARP).
Inside the TARDIS, Eddi points out to everyone that everywhere they go they seem to run into some sort of game. The game that claimed the crew of the black box ship, the war game of the Blaittariamorphs, and now a betting game leading to an attack by Sea Devils. Not pondering this long, a quick descision is made to go where you can find lots of 'games'.... Los Vegas!
(End Episode)
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Post by adam500 on Feb 27, 2010 19:12:25 GMT
Season 1, Episode 6
We open in an old west style saloon. The TARDIS travelers sitting down and having drinks and a fifth man, in contemporary clothing speaks up, "So Eddi, I think you missed Los Vegas by a few decades." Everyone laughs not seeming to realize that this stranger is unknown to them. Then another man enters the saloon. He enters the saloon and shouts "Who left an outhouse in the middle of the street?! |" The five traveling companions begin to point fingers at Eddi, who then points at Nick, and everyone else points at him as well.
*cue theme* Marshal Law (part one) Written by Jimmyev & Adam500 *End theme*
(More to come, I have to remember the whole thing which is more difficult when I'm not the main GM of the night)
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