Episode 3: Trial of the Timelords

[izlear]

At the end of the last adventure, the characters TARDIS was hijacked, and they ended up on a "Justice ship" (possibly Shadow Proclomation). When the characters leave their TARDIS, there is a line of Judoon, One of them checks the Timelord character, and confirms he is a Timelord, As all of this happens down a dark coridor the timelord hears a screaching sound metalic sound. the sound brings back fear, the fear makes way to sweat. His hearts begin beating faster and faster.

The Dalek Arrives and declares that The Timelord Race destroyed his people, and that this character "Is the Primary defendant in the TRIAL OF THE TIMELORDS"

And that is where the previous adventure ended.

Now obviously this is going to be a mockery of justice. The Dalek is claiming to be the last of a race to which the Timelord committed genocide against. Strangely most people are buying it, and are ready to put the player on trial.

On the ship there are many races, Draconians, Ice warriors, Alpha centurians. etc. . . most of them seem to be passive observers. The Timelord is imprisoned so the characters will have to convince people of his inocence.

The Plot.
The Dalek is not the only Dalek - I want to play off a power of the Daleks like scene where the one dalek is in a room, and they see another dalek in the hall. The Daleks are trying to get contol of the justice ship to covertly get into the defenses of a nearby planet, and created this as a distraction.

Yes it is convoluted, but it sounds like a dalek plot of old to me

Any advice suggestions etc would be appreciated.

[Craig Oxbrow]

The trial itself could be carried out fairly - after all, it's just a distraction for the Daleks. So the Dalek prosecutor could get all of his facts straight, the cross-examination could be fair and unbiased, the Shadow Proclamation judges would listen to counsel, the Judoon will cheerfully start firing at Daleks once the ruse is discovered...

Meanwhile, it's established in passing that the Justice Ship is decidedly well armed, due to its need to be a safe neutral ground in intergalactic judicial policy. Perhaps one of the PCs mentions that having a Dalek present is dangerous, prompting an explanation of just how powerful the vessel's armaments are.

As the third adventure it's probably a little early to refer back to previous incidents to demonstrate the PC Time Lord's character, for good or ill. What has he done "on camera" before, and in his backstory?

[izlear]

Yes I will admit that this is probably a bit early, and I should have waited a few weeks. To be honest I wanted to get the daleks out of my system early. As this adventure will not have much baring on the arc.

So I should have waited, but I am about to hit the arc heavy after the next few "episodes."

[danceswithdaleks]

i like where this is going

[zebaroth]

cool idea man

[izlear]

Thanks guys. I think I am planning to run this adventure this Friday if everything goes well. I'll report back.

[Kit]

This is a fun idea.

[knasser]

Wow. Just when we thought the Daleks couldn't get any more evil, you go and create Dalek lawyers. =: o

It's a great idea. How far do you want this to get before the climax? Is the Justice ship actually going to get to the target planet leading to a ship-board battle as the Daleks reveal themselves? Or are the PCs going to manage to derail things before they get there?

[jennysfan]

...I'm going to borrow this idea for a future session.
It is just to cool not too.
Sorry.

[Marnal]

So stealing this...

[Marnal]

Depending on how into the EU you are you might want to bring up that the Daleks signed a treaty with the Gallifreyans back during the days of Rassilon that [among other things] stated that the Time Lords would never try to go back in time and eliminate the Daleks from existance. Which is exactly what the Celestial Intervension Agency tried to do in "Genesis of the Daleks"!

So it does look like the Time Lords fired the first shot in the Time War.

[ugavine]

I love this whole idea!

[jennysfan]

I love it too...Which is why I am stealling it...for our next session.

That said most of the characters only just found out our Time Lady is not a human...by watching her regenerate.

This is going to be fun.