Post by holdmykidney on Dec 2, 2012 18:39:06 GMT
Hey folks
the players of my games were asking about a Christmas special of our own. I had an idea about doing a one-day, one-off aventure, featuring both of our new (i.e. not based on canon) Doctors together in one adventure.
I've posted the story premise to my blog here (http://newbiegm.blogspot.com/2012/12/alternative-doctor-who-christmas.html) but for you guys, this is the prologue I've sent the players. Does it sound intriguing and suitably festive?
North Pole, 1977
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through Plaisted Station
not a creature was stirring...
Apart from Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and a team of U.N.I.T. troops. Lethbridge-Stewart has been dragged out of retirement after only a year and he isn't happy about it.
He's unhappy that Dr. Giddings, who has requested him personally, keeps ranting about Alien interference in his experiments. He's unhappy that they appear to be investigating the wrong Pole. He's unhappy that he's had to fly out to the Polar Scientific Research Station "Plaisted" on Christmas Eve.
Finally, he's particularly unhappy that a freak snowstorm is likely to leave them cut-off until New Year...
Andromeda Sector, Far Future
War has raged throughout the sector between the Independent Colonies and the Great Empire.
When an Independent Dreadnought is left drifting after a major conflict, the surviving crew release an S.O.S., while Imperial Intelligence receive a tip off that the ship may contain information vital to the war effort.
Ransacking a ship with survivors is against the articles of war, but the Empire have no wish to lose face or the war. Luckily there are plenty of mercenaries for hire who can murder the survivors and retrieve the information without ever implicating the Great Empire...
ROME: ?BC
The dominance of the Roman war machine is felt throughout known civilisation. Rome is expanding, by conquest and by influence. It is a time of great superstition but also promising great progress and technological advancement.
Into this world comes a fearsome creature of terrifying proportions, laying waste to whole settlements and slaughtering the inhabitants.
The people wait for a saviour: born of a virgin on December 25th. They wait for a god to free them from their terror. They wait for a warrior to protect them from The Beast. They wait for Mithras...
Meanwhile, The Doctors have been plucked out of their existing travels and pulled into a twisted and macabre plan of the most terrifying and deadly scope...
the players of my games were asking about a Christmas special of our own. I had an idea about doing a one-day, one-off aventure, featuring both of our new (i.e. not based on canon) Doctors together in one adventure.
I've posted the story premise to my blog here (http://newbiegm.blogspot.com/2012/12/alternative-doctor-who-christmas.html) but for you guys, this is the prologue I've sent the players. Does it sound intriguing and suitably festive?
North Pole, 1977
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through Plaisted Station
not a creature was stirring...
Apart from Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and a team of U.N.I.T. troops. Lethbridge-Stewart has been dragged out of retirement after only a year and he isn't happy about it.
He's unhappy that Dr. Giddings, who has requested him personally, keeps ranting about Alien interference in his experiments. He's unhappy that they appear to be investigating the wrong Pole. He's unhappy that he's had to fly out to the Polar Scientific Research Station "Plaisted" on Christmas Eve.
Finally, he's particularly unhappy that a freak snowstorm is likely to leave them cut-off until New Year...
Andromeda Sector, Far Future
War has raged throughout the sector between the Independent Colonies and the Great Empire.
When an Independent Dreadnought is left drifting after a major conflict, the surviving crew release an S.O.S., while Imperial Intelligence receive a tip off that the ship may contain information vital to the war effort.
Ransacking a ship with survivors is against the articles of war, but the Empire have no wish to lose face or the war. Luckily there are plenty of mercenaries for hire who can murder the survivors and retrieve the information without ever implicating the Great Empire...
ROME: ?BC
The dominance of the Roman war machine is felt throughout known civilisation. Rome is expanding, by conquest and by influence. It is a time of great superstition but also promising great progress and technological advancement.
Into this world comes a fearsome creature of terrifying proportions, laying waste to whole settlements and slaughtering the inhabitants.
The people wait for a saviour: born of a virgin on December 25th. They wait for a god to free them from their terror. They wait for a warrior to protect them from The Beast. They wait for Mithras...
Meanwhile, The Doctors have been plucked out of their existing travels and pulled into a twisted and macabre plan of the most terrifying and deadly scope...
