The tardis lands on elm street

[zebaroth]

the time lord and companions land on elm street and here about
young people dieing violently in there sleep and seek to find out
who or what is responsible. this is based on Nightmare on Elm St
as if the name did not gave that away what is your input on this
idea

[lomythica]

I don't have much to add, but after Saturday's episode with the 'Dream Lord', this seems an interesting plot to play.. Perhaps 'Freddy' is the evil embodiment of another Time Lord.

In order to get a true feel for Elm Street, the players would have to be subject to Freddy when they fall asleep. Perhaps there's an initial nightmare encounter where they are chased, but are woken up before they are captured..

Then, the story takes an almost Weeping Angel kind of angle (don't blink / don't Sleep), while the party tries to find a way to fight, or the physical manifestation of the Dreamlord/Freddie.

Having the 'bouncing' kind of feel of going from dreamworld and real world could be very interesting.. Especially if, like in 'Amy's Choice', it becomes difficult telling which is which (but that might be hard to be done well in an rpg.. not sure).

I'd end with either a sleeping timelord or other being that is exposed while generating 'dreams'. Maybe someone with locked in syndrome, that has a reason for wanting vengeance, so he brings people into his world, and behaves sadistically.. Either the party must find a way to neutralize the power, or they have to destroy the being.

Maybe when awakened, the being puts up a fight (final big boss fight).

Maybe the being is not corporeal and must be vanquished from the physical universe.

In case you can't tell.. this is pretty much brainstorming without a lot of order.

[ugavine]

Something I thought of while watching Amy's Choice was the old D&D Ravenloft suppliment The Nightmare Lands ruled by the Nightmare Man. I think it would convert to Doctor Who nicely - or nastily LOL.

[zebaroth]

an idea for the end the players find a person in a hospital that is badly burned over 90% of
his body and he is on life support the name on the chart is F. Kurger he is source of nightmares
and if he dies the nightmares will end. they could be put under by hypnosis and face Kurger
in the dream world any other ideas is how it could end

[lomythica]

I like the moral choice involved in it.. Do you kill the person, or is there another way? Maybe there's some alien method of transporting his conciousness into a new body, a machine, or something like that...

Maybe at the beginning of the story, the clues lead to a red herring of some alien race that has psychic powers..

At the end, perhaps that race might be willing to help the person out... Of course, this is all purely conjecture.. Not sure if the alien race would be homebrewed, or if there's a race that might be already in the whoniverse that isn't per se evil.

Matt

[cliffr]

Something that occurs to me (after just rereading the Doctor Who comic "The Forgotten"): If the Time Lord is aware being in a dream, he/she could possibly use story points to "summon" previous regenerations as backup. I'd allow it just for the drama of Freddy/Dream Lord suddenly facing, not one Time Lord, but several - each with very different fears and weaknesses.

[zebaroth]

May 20, 2010 23:37:46 GMT cliffr said:

Something that occurs to me (after just rereading the Doctor Who comic "The Forgotten"): If the Time Lord is aware being in a dream, he/she could possibly use story points to "summon" previous regenerations as backup. I'd allow it just for the drama of Freddy/Dream Lord suddenly facing, not one Time Lord, but several - each with very different fears and weaknesses.

that would be grate use of story points

[azimerthemad]

"Great, Cravenians. They're a psychic race that feeds off fear, travel in threes. Because look like little floating guppies, they bob around the universe, transforming psychopaths into psychic entities to get their grub for them.

Unless you find them and their oneiro-projector, they'll just keep rebooting the poor blokes everytime they're defeated. The save file gets a little wonky after a while, picking up quirks, and something that in no way resembles a sense of humor.

Pass me my sonic screwdriver; this might be a nasty one. As long as we stay away from that poor alien nano-resurrected wild boy with the hockey mask, we'll be okay."

[rev503]

Maybe do it backwards.
Aliens (or unscroupulous science group) experimenting on kids with "special abilities" and using a psi amplifier of some description.
One child (a latent projective telepath) falls asleep in the psi amp chair after watching the old earth classic "A nightmare on Elm Street"
And hes having a nightmare!
The whole facilty (space station, town, city) is now in reality just standing still while to their senses, they are in the middle of a classic horror flick being stalked by any number of hokey masked or burned beasties with the boys dream avatar being the focus of their attention
Sort of Empty Child meets Amys Choice

[zebaroth]

May 23, 2010 1:23:23 GMT rev503 said:

Maybe do it backwards.
Aliens (or unscroupulous science group) experimenting on kids with "special abilities" and using a psi amplifier of some description.
One child (a latent projective telepath) falls asleep in the psi amp chair after watching the old earth classic "A nightmare on Elm Street"
And hes having a nightmare!
The whole facilty (space station, town, city) is now in reality just standing still while to their senses, they are in the middle of a classic horror flick being stalked by any number of hokey masked or burned beasties with the boys dream avatar being the focus of their attention
Sort of Empty Child meets Amys Choice

that is good one