Post by curtisj on Aug 1, 2010 11:43:15 GMT
1.1: The Golden Guardians
The city of Fawnllos is the centre of the Olai Empire on the planet of Shallacatop (TL2), a city dominated by three large buildings, each of which will pose its own question to adventurers. If they visit the Emperor's Palace, why are the Emperor's guards armed with Judoon Blasters and Armour? If they visit the Military Court (army/police), who or what is turning people into statues? And if they visit the Temple Of The Golden Guardians, why are the residents of this city worshipping stone Daleks?
Any of the city's inhabitants can tell the story of the Golden Guardians:
Three years ago, there was a light in the sky at night. The augurs interpretted it as a sign of bad things to come, and sure enough the next day a huge metal cylinder descended from the sky, and from it came an army of horned devils, wearing unnatural black armour and armed with strange implements. They began to slaughter the populace of the city.
Then the skies changed, other worlds appearing above, and from the skies came the Golden Guardians. They struck dead the devils, before turning themselves to stone, ready to awaken when the empire is threatened again.
The stone people can be used to trace the signal used to turn them to stone to below the city, to the ship of Rose Elmarch (a Tetraphene*) and six small droids. She will offer up her story to the players.
Three years ago, The Destruction Sect, a secretive organisation of corrupt Tetraphenes headed by Rose, crashed Tastia XIV, a space hotel and neutral meeting ground for some of the highest level multi-species negotiations and diplomatic missions in the universe, in order to silence several people who knew of their existance and their numerous crimes.
Unfortunately, the Judoon had been tipped off, and closed in on the Sect. A lot of ships escaped, but Rose's was pursued by a Judoon ship, severely damaged, and forced to crash-land in the oil lakes near the city (the light in the sky), before releasing its droids and shifting itself through the oil under the town.
So the Judoon ship landed, and prepared to search the town for her. The Arsotians didn't like this, and began to fight them, dying in force ("they began to slaughter the populace of the city").
Then came the events of The Stolen Earth: Shallacatop was teleported to the Medusa Cascade, and the Daleks descended, murdering the Judoon troops. The remaining Arsotian soldiers began to worship the Daleks, who were preparing to exterminate them.
That was when Rose's droids arrived. Pre-occupied with the Daleks, no-one saw them, and they transformed the Daleks to stone, harvesting the energy gained to repair the ship.
The ship's power is running out now though, so the droids are using the people of the city to power the ship's life support systems.
Peaceful resolution is possible in this adventure: the ship's main generator runs on Spirium fuel; all that needs doing is converting it to take oil. Less peaceful solutions are also an option, though.
NOTES:
My adventures are set straight after Journey's End; nothing from The Next Doctor onwards exists in this game.
*People of wood. Think "Forest of Cheem".
More to come.
The city of Fawnllos is the centre of the Olai Empire on the planet of Shallacatop (TL2), a city dominated by three large buildings, each of which will pose its own question to adventurers. If they visit the Emperor's Palace, why are the Emperor's guards armed with Judoon Blasters and Armour? If they visit the Military Court (army/police), who or what is turning people into statues? And if they visit the Temple Of The Golden Guardians, why are the residents of this city worshipping stone Daleks?
Any of the city's inhabitants can tell the story of the Golden Guardians:
Three years ago, there was a light in the sky at night. The augurs interpretted it as a sign of bad things to come, and sure enough the next day a huge metal cylinder descended from the sky, and from it came an army of horned devils, wearing unnatural black armour and armed with strange implements. They began to slaughter the populace of the city.
Then the skies changed, other worlds appearing above, and from the skies came the Golden Guardians. They struck dead the devils, before turning themselves to stone, ready to awaken when the empire is threatened again.
The stone people can be used to trace the signal used to turn them to stone to below the city, to the ship of Rose Elmarch (a Tetraphene*) and six small droids. She will offer up her story to the players.
Three years ago, The Destruction Sect, a secretive organisation of corrupt Tetraphenes headed by Rose, crashed Tastia XIV, a space hotel and neutral meeting ground for some of the highest level multi-species negotiations and diplomatic missions in the universe, in order to silence several people who knew of their existance and their numerous crimes.
Unfortunately, the Judoon had been tipped off, and closed in on the Sect. A lot of ships escaped, but Rose's was pursued by a Judoon ship, severely damaged, and forced to crash-land in the oil lakes near the city (the light in the sky), before releasing its droids and shifting itself through the oil under the town.
So the Judoon ship landed, and prepared to search the town for her. The Arsotians didn't like this, and began to fight them, dying in force ("they began to slaughter the populace of the city").
Then came the events of The Stolen Earth: Shallacatop was teleported to the Medusa Cascade, and the Daleks descended, murdering the Judoon troops. The remaining Arsotian soldiers began to worship the Daleks, who were preparing to exterminate them.
That was when Rose's droids arrived. Pre-occupied with the Daleks, no-one saw them, and they transformed the Daleks to stone, harvesting the energy gained to repair the ship.
The ship's power is running out now though, so the droids are using the people of the city to power the ship's life support systems.
Peaceful resolution is possible in this adventure: the ship's main generator runs on Spirium fuel; all that needs doing is converting it to take oil. Less peaceful solutions are also an option, though.
NOTES:
My adventures are set straight after Journey's End; nothing from The Next Doctor onwards exists in this game.
*People of wood. Think "Forest of Cheem".
More to come.
