Post by senko on Sept 1, 2017 6:59:56 GMT
I've begun reading the new series books (yes I'm late) and after reading one this popped into my head and wouldn't leave so I'm sharing it to get it out of there hopefully.
A Darkness Fading
The party arrive on the Andromeda space station orbitting the 4th moon the gas giant Sycrirax 7 just in time for the finale of the 4th season of Bum Fights. Unfortunately all is not well with the station or its inhabitants. For the past month there have been a steady stream of unexplained glitches and problems plaguing the station but in the past day things have gone from troublesome to explosive.
24 Hours Ago
An explosion in the shuttle bay destroyed the onboard ships and vessels as well as killing most of the senior station staff and arriving Sim Sense Star Vanessa Clarkson. At the same time external communications went down and all exterior airlocks sealed.
14 Hours Ago
The last surviving senior station staff specifically Odo the head of security who survived as he was in the security centre handling crowd control for Vanessa's arrival was commited to medical ranting about "Purple Lightning brings our doom."
7 Hours Ago
Leading contender for the Bum Fight Championship and 3 times winner of the golden gasmask Bradley Borenson was found electrocuted in his shower.
3 Hours Ago
Up and coming and the odds on favorite to unseat Bradely Steven Karensask was also found electrocuted in the cafetaria.
Now the people on board are screaming for someone to protect them and get them off the station. Surviving station staff are stretched thin trying to control the panicky vistors much less find and solve the deaths or fix the faults. Raxacoricofallapatorian Bopz Slitheen is in tears that his show is being sabotaged and convinced its being done by a rival to destroy his attempt to legitimtize the family as it was generating huge funds and catapaulting him up the family ranks even though its not a traditional source of income. Meanwhile the party find their vessel is unable to leave (A TARDIS or similar refuses and a more conventional vessel is suddenly insisting all propulsion and communications are not working) and they must calm the visitors, find the cause of the deaths and failures and solve what will probably be one of the stranger adventures they have. For while they've doubtless faced diabolical villains and crazed megalomaniacs this is probably the first and maybe only time they will face an enemy who's forgotten its own masterplan.
A Darkness Fading
The party arrive on the Andromeda space station orbitting the 4th moon the gas giant Sycrirax 7 just in time for the finale of the 4th season of Bum Fights. Unfortunately all is not well with the station or its inhabitants. For the past month there have been a steady stream of unexplained glitches and problems plaguing the station but in the past day things have gone from troublesome to explosive.
24 Hours Ago
An explosion in the shuttle bay destroyed the onboard ships and vessels as well as killing most of the senior station staff and arriving Sim Sense Star Vanessa Clarkson. At the same time external communications went down and all exterior airlocks sealed.
14 Hours Ago
The last surviving senior station staff specifically Odo the head of security who survived as he was in the security centre handling crowd control for Vanessa's arrival was commited to medical ranting about "Purple Lightning brings our doom."
7 Hours Ago
Leading contender for the Bum Fight Championship and 3 times winner of the golden gasmask Bradley Borenson was found electrocuted in his shower.
3 Hours Ago
Up and coming and the odds on favorite to unseat Bradely Steven Karensask was also found electrocuted in the cafetaria.
Now the people on board are screaming for someone to protect them and get them off the station. Surviving station staff are stretched thin trying to control the panicky vistors much less find and solve the deaths or fix the faults. Raxacoricofallapatorian Bopz Slitheen is in tears that his show is being sabotaged and convinced its being done by a rival to destroy his attempt to legitimtize the family as it was generating huge funds and catapaulting him up the family ranks even though its not a traditional source of income. Meanwhile the party find their vessel is unable to leave (A TARDIS or similar refuses and a more conventional vessel is suddenly insisting all propulsion and communications are not working) and they must calm the visitors, find the cause of the deaths and failures and solve what will probably be one of the stranger adventures they have. For while they've doubtless faced diabolical villains and crazed megalomaniacs this is probably the first and maybe only time they will face an enemy who's forgotten its own masterplan.
Psychic Characters can sense the station itself feels pained and hungry.
Time sensative character can feel a swirling vortex of twisted strands all funnelling into a gaping emptiness
Chracters familiar with this period of the 2nd great and bountiful human empire know there never was a program called Bum Fights where contestants are locked in a sealed room and fart at each other till one can't stand the stench and gives up.
The main enemy is the Mandragora Helix suffering from Alzheimers. After the Dr defeated it in Beautfiul Chaos it drifted for millenia broken and lost. Eventually possesing a passing being it was able to feed their mental energy and remember it had once been more and that "the time traveller did this to me." So it set about its plan for revenge feasting on the occasional sentient it slowly set in motion a series of events to acheive its goal. To create a situation that would draw in the time traveller and holding a crowd of food hostage force him to fix it. Sadly being in place on Adromeda it had to refrain from feeding to avoid arousing suspicion and without a steady supply of mental energy it forgot its entire plan. A plan that draw in the party (and depending on if your group has The doctor) by mistake or succesfully. It no longer remembers that was what it was doing instead all it see's is a great big trapped smorgasboard of mental energy to make itself whole again for awhile. The two bum fighters were just its first victims drained of their mental energy leaving behind signs of electrocution. Odo walked in on Steven's death and was able to escape but not without being partially drained he's trying desperately to warn people of what he saw but can't hold it together enough to be coherant.
Time sensative character can feel a swirling vortex of twisted strands all funnelling into a gaping emptiness
Chracters familiar with this period of the 2nd great and bountiful human empire know there never was a program called Bum Fights where contestants are locked in a sealed room and fart at each other till one can't stand the stench and gives up.
The main enemy is the Mandragora Helix suffering from Alzheimers. After the Dr defeated it in Beautfiul Chaos it drifted for millenia broken and lost. Eventually possesing a passing being it was able to feed their mental energy and remember it had once been more and that "the time traveller did this to me." So it set about its plan for revenge feasting on the occasional sentient it slowly set in motion a series of events to acheive its goal. To create a situation that would draw in the time traveller and holding a crowd of food hostage force him to fix it. Sadly being in place on Adromeda it had to refrain from feeding to avoid arousing suspicion and without a steady supply of mental energy it forgot its entire plan. A plan that draw in the party (and depending on if your group has The doctor) by mistake or succesfully. It no longer remembers that was what it was doing instead all it see's is a great big trapped smorgasboard of mental energy to make itself whole again for awhile. The two bum fighters were just its first victims drained of their mental energy leaving behind signs of electrocution. Odo walked in on Steven's death and was able to escape but not without being partially drained he's trying desperately to warn people of what he saw but can't hold it together enough to be coherant.