Clonus Posted June 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Re: Identify the Source The characters arrive at a far-off colony world to discover the colonists in a considerable state of agitation. One of the colonist's children, has disappeared. The colonist is suspected of murdering his daughter, but claims that a monstrous alien abducted her even though the survey of the world before colonization found no such lifeforms to exist on the planet. On further interrogation and investigation, they determine that the colonist isn't a murderer but has been bending the truth. He stumbled across an alien installation in the wilderness, not native to the planet but older than the colony. After he broke in, the occupant threatened his life for the intrusion and damage, but he managed to plea-bargain his way to an agreement to pay for his actions with a long term of servitude and the alien even agreed to let him go home, say his farewells and pack. He had no intention of returning, but tracks at his homestead indicate the alien came to the homestead, and his daughter and some of her possessions are missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Beauty and the Beast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted June 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Beauty and the Beast? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted June 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Re: Identify the Source The characters are on a world dominated by the corporation which founded the colony when they are approached by a anonymous client with loads of money and a whole shopping list of jobs. They are to: Find a street chemist who can produce a designer drug chemically similar to Euphoria, but different enough that the illegal drugs addictive and mind-altering qualities are gone, then deliver supplies of it to the son of the late CEO of the corporation. Copy the autopsy records for the kid's father, the late CEO of the corporation, and get them to an independent expert. Investigate the medical examiner who determined the surprisingly young death of the kid's father was due to natural causes, an undetected heart defect. Blackmail him into explaining on camera just why he covered up evidence. Hack into the security videos for the corporate HQ for the night the CEO died in his office and reconstruct everyone's movements. Find out what secret bank accounts the CEO's brother and wife has and what activity there has been on them. Do a background check on the CEO's wife and find out what kind of contacts she had with the brother before she became a widow. Get a saliva sample from her and have it chemically screened. Take the results of their investigations and bring them to a certain freelance journalist. Have him put it together into a story. Get a copy on a memory card. Label it "Family Memories". Replace the catering staff at the reception for the wedding between the widow of the CEO and her brother-in-law. Switch the Family Memories card they have with an identical one the son has. Deal with any resulting violence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Re: Identify the Source The characters are on a world dominated by the corporation which founded the colony when they are approached by a anonymous client with loads of money and a whole shopping list of jobs. They are to: Find a street chemist who can produce a designer drug chemically similar to Euphoria, but different enough that the illegal drugs addictive and mind-altering qualities are gone, then deliver supplies of it to the son of the late CEO of the corporation. Copy the autopsy records for the kid's father, the late CEO of the corporation, and get them to an independent expert. Investigate the medical examiner who determined the surprisingly young death of the kid's father was due to natural causes, an undetected heart defect. Blackmail him into explaining on camera just why he covered up evidence. Hack into the security videos for the corporate HQ for the night the CEO died in his office and reconstruct everyone's movements. Find out what secret bank accounts the CEO's brother and wife has and what activity there has been on them. Do a background check on the CEO's wife and find out what kind of contacts she had with the brother before she became a widow. Get a saliva sample from her and have it chemically screened. Take the results of their investigations and bring them to a certain freelance journalist. Have him put it together into a story. Get a copy on a memory card. Label it "Family Memories". Replace the catering staff at the reception for the wedding between the widow of the CEO and her brother-in-law. Switch the Family Memories card they have with an identical one the son has. Deal with any resulting violence. I dunno, but I'd love to play it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Re: Identify the Source The characters are on a world dominated by the corporation which founded the colony when they are approached by a anonymous client with loads of money and a whole shopping list of jobs. They are to: Find a street chemist who can produce a designer drug chemically similar to Euphoria, but different enough that the illegal drugs addictive and mind-altering qualities are gone, then deliver supplies of it to the son of the late CEO of the corporation. Copy the autopsy records for the kid's father, the late CEO of the corporation, and get them to an independent expert. Investigate the medical examiner who determined the surprisingly young death of the kid's father was due to natural causes, an undetected heart defect. Blackmail him into explaining on camera just why he covered up evidence. Hack into the security videos for the corporate HQ for the night the CEO died in his office and reconstruct everyone's movements. Find out what secret bank accounts the CEO's brother and wife has and what activity there has been on them. Do a background check on the CEO's wife and find out what kind of contacts she had with the brother before she became a widow. Get a saliva sample from her and have it chemically screened. Take the results of their investigations and bring them to a certain freelance journalist. Have him put it together into a story. Get a copy on a memory card. Label it "Family Memories". Replace the catering staff at the reception for the wedding between the widow of the CEO and her brother-in-law. Switch the Family Memories card they have with an identical one the son has. Deal with any resulting violence. Hamlet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted June 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Hamlet? Hamlet. He's posing as a junkie rather than a lunatic, and the "ghost of his father" is played by a recorded message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Re: Identify the Source I always knew that Hamlet would make a great sci-fi movie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Another colony, another problem. The characters arrive at a particularly young colony which is losing citizens one by one to a night-stalking creature native to the world. It doesn't seem to use tools, relying on it's claws and teeth, but it is superhumanly strong, super stealthy, breathes water, and smart enough that it shorted out an electric fence, and tore off a colonist's arm and used it to operate a palm lock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Another colony' date=' another problem. The characters arrive at a particularly young colony which is losing citizens one by one to a night-stalking creature native to the world. It doesn't seem to use tools, relying on it's claws and teeth, but it is superhumanly strong, super stealthy, breathes water, and smart enough that it shorted out an electric fence, and tore off a colonist's arm and used it to operate a palm lock.[/quote'] Would this be the story of Grendel by any chance? Major Tom 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Would this be the story of Grendel by any chance? Major Tom 2009 Beowulf, yes. The characters are crew on board a massive freighter. En route an NPC is found dead in the cargo-hold, apparently having been breaking into some of the shipping crates. From that point, crew members seem to succumb one by one to some kind of disease that leaves them dead or comatose, while the Captain seems to be sleepwalking through the situation. One by one the crew complement diminishes, and soon the PCs will be next... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Dracula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Dracula. Yuppers. Yet another colony, yet another problem. The world the characters are visiting is also being visited by a foreign vessel. When a mysterious explosion kills almost all of the crew, the characters are asked to investigate, and determine the cause was a manufacturing flaw. But now they are hunted by agents of the manufacturer who want to cover up their mistake and ensure the war happens so they'll get a big order. When the first attempt to kill them doesn't work the characters are accused of being the perpetrators. They must evade mercenaries, government agents, naval ships and police and make it to and through the foreign capital in time to reveal their evidence, clear themselves and prevent a war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Yuppers. Yet another colony, yet another problem. The world the characters are visiting is also being visited by a foreign vessel. When a mysterious explosion kills almost all of the crew, the characters are asked to investigate, and determine the cause was a manufacturing flaw. But now they are hunted by agents of the manufacturer who want to cover up their mistake and ensure the war happens so they'll get a big order. When the first attempt to kill them doesn't work the characters are accused of being the perpetrators. They must evade mercenaries, government agents, naval ships and police and make it to and through the foreign capital in time to reveal their evidence, clear themselves and prevent a war. Spanish-American War. "Remember the Maine!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Quite right. One of the characters is asked to agree to be body-sculpted and DNA-imprinted temporarily into the image of a planetary leader at risk of assassination (with the other characters being bodyguards for the assignment), only to discover that the planet is on the verge of all-out revolution and the President has emptied the treasury and left the character behind to give himself a head start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Re: Identify the Source After the character's ship is destroyed by a strange "living starship" known as the dragon, they are rescued by a privateer, only to discover the cyborg captain is obsessed with pursuing the dragon, and in fact it is his pursuit of the creature that drove into the spacelanes to encounter them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Moby Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted July 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Quite right. The characters, once again in charge of their own ship are hired to travel into the Pleiades cluster, difficult to navigate because of many navigational hazards in the "dust" cloud surrounding the tightly grouped massive stars. They are supposed to retrieve a missing explorer who vanished into the cluster decades ago, and was presumed dead. Making their way inside, they are attacked by technologically primitive spaceships, but proceed on to find a strange anachronistic world with a highly polluted atmosphere. It is greatly overpopulated, and the huge cities look like a creepy funhouse version of the "dark satanic mills" of the 19th century, combined with technologies from centuries later in human history such as the ships that attacked the PCs. The PCs learn that the explorer landed here, took over and in serious violation of law has been teaching the fast-breeding natives advanced technologies. He's insane and plans to lead the aliens into war against human interstellar civilization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Apocalypse Now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Apocalypse Now. Or possibly Heart of Darkness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Or possibly Heart of Darkness. 60-40 split says you're right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Typist Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Re: Identify the Source We've skipped one! You guys are good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Quite right. One of the characters is asked to agree to be body-sculpted and DNA-imprinted temporarily into the image of a planetary leader at risk of assassination (with the other characters being bodyguards for the assignment), only to discover that the planet is on the verge of all-out revolution and the President has emptied the treasury and left the character behind to give himself a head start. No clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Re: Identify the Source Quite right. One of the characters is asked to agree to be body-sculpted and DNA-imprinted temporarily into the image of a planetary leader at risk of assassination (with the other characters being bodyguards for the assignment), only to discover that the planet is on the verge of all-out revolution and the President has emptied the treasury and left the character behind to give himself a head start. This sounds like it might have been taken from the French Revolution (or at least Mel Brooks's...unique...take on said event). Major Tom 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Typist Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 Re: Identify the Source This sounds like it might have been taken from the French Revolution (or at least Mel Brooks's...unique...take on said event). Major Tom 2009 I was thinking The Man in the Iron Mask for a bit, then rejected it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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