Just a heads up that next Friday, June 26th will mark the start of Season 10. Please don't wait until that time to update your profiles.
I will create another thread here with season notes, which will contain a fresh outline (minus the debate had in the other thread) and other details for the this specific story.
Just so you know, this season will start off with the Arabella as a new ship. The Lucas Virus (from the prime time line of Season 5) destroyed the Tiberius in this timeline as well and everyone who was a crew member on that ship, and survived, went to quarantine for a year (just like Season 6). It took another year before Arabella was finished. So, two years have passed since the destruction of Tiberius. The events that occurred during this time are almost the same, with only a few details being different. For example: Doctor Lucas was the CMO of the Tibeirus.Drett was Assistant CMO. Quinn was always the captain (there was no Captain Bell), and Sevryll was always the XO of that ship. Lucas died from the virus and Drett became acting CMO. Ryla still has her symbiont as the Mirror Universe story did not occur in this timeline.
When we begin this season, the Arabella will be fresh from space dock. She will already have crossed into Romulan Space with a convoy of six other vessels that she is heading (she will be called a "flag ship" but it's only of this convoy). The convoy is called "The Seventh Fleet". The creation of this fleet will give us plenty of opportunities to board other SF vessels to help, command, socialize etc. There will be a post detailing the other ships posted in an upcoming "season 10 notes" thread. Look for that soon.
I don't think we're going to have a Skype call on the RR before Season 10 begins. We are so busy with work and family stuff that it is sort of difficult to plan a 'get together' right now. But we will have one at some point after the story has started. Stay tuned.
sweet!
Rock n roll :)
*Laughs most evily in evilish anticipation* :joker
Please see "Season 10 Outline" and "The Seventh Fleet:
Vessels, Crews and Missions" for direction and resources this season.
Seventh Fleet:
http://www.treksinscifi.com/forum/index.php?topic=6714.msg74027;topicseen#new (http://www.treksinscifi.com/forum/index.php?topic=6714.msg74027;topicseen#new)
Season 10 Outline:
http://www.treksinscifi.com/forum/index.php?topic=6715.msg74030;topicseen#new (http://www.treksinscifi.com/forum/index.php?topic=6715.msg74030;topicseen#new)
Season 10 begins tomorrow morning. You'll know after the first two posts exactly what's going on. We're instantly jumping in to the action. ;) Again, please update your profiles before tomorrow. A couple of you still have the same ranks, positions and ship postings from previous seasons listed in your dusty character profiles...If you have been promoted or you have a character portrait, please change your character information to reflect that. Writers refer to profiles when they need to include other characters in their posts and having proper information will make our story better. Don't make me PM you. :D Thanks. :)
counting down!
This is going to be interesting. Hopefully I can keep up without having a breakdown! :D
Bringi it on. :-)
Great job everyone. I'm enjoying the posts. :)
Don't forget to introduce the reader to your character...act as though they know nothing about who they are or what they are all about.
I hope my sudden sprouting of... well, Redshirts was kosher. I vaguely remember there being a list of such characters somewhere, but I couldn't track it down. Hope I didn't unintentionally borrow anyone ^^;;
It's more than okay to invent characters, but there is a section of NPCs if you want to use one that we already created (see link below)...if you will go ahead and make profiles for those NPCs you've recently invented so we can reuse them (if you're not planning to kill them off) include them here, that would be awesome :) :
http://www.treksinscifi.com/forum/index.php?board=25.0 (http://www.treksinscifi.com/forum/index.php?board=25.0)
Oh and K'Tan is the Chief of Operations now. I noticed you guys mentioned him as "one of your own" as if he was a security guy. Maybe I misread? Also, the first officer called only D'Callan, K'Tan, Daelen and Drett on the away mission but Dunn was included in your post. I thought he was being told by D'Callan to run the department while he was away. :)
Yeah, what Jen said. I too need clarification on who's going on the mission. Is D'callan wanting to put Dunn on the away team?
I asked Meds to call him along to bring him into the story. Is that ok? ??? I didn't see where he left Dunn in charge.
Aeric picked the team he did because of their experience and or their knowledge of the people they are meeting. He wanted the numbers low because of the space on the shuttle. I also don't think that he's going to approve the presence of three security officers on a rescue mission. It doesn't paint the picture of trust that they need to establish with them. Also, it's not a good idea for the chief and his go to guy to jump on the same mission without running it up the flag pole first.
My bad, sorry Jen, sorry Chris should have checked fist. Personally though i think three security officers are needed. We don't know whats going on over there and it's not like the tos days where security just looks like they are there for a fight. (Although I've just read dingheads post and man is Darius a wild card ha ha ) On another point i'm so happy to have writers wanting to join in and be excited to have their character involved that i don't see the problem, especially if we want to keep the story flowing if i have to ask the XO or the Captain about every detail i'm not going to be posting every day because of time difference. I undertand the need for rank in Trek etc but i think we need to keep a bit of artistic licence for creativity.
I'm hoping i'm not sounding too defensive by the way, just putting my point of view over, Crystal had a good idea we could have Dunn disguised as a medic, that way he would still be involved but disguised. :)
Hmmm. Tricky one.
I can understand both points of view as personally I'd have Galdar flying the runabout and Tolok and Gariss along to help if needed. I also have a 'reality' streak though, and that means I'd go with the mission as called by the XO.
The fact is that we have so many writers and good characters now that we have to accept that not everyone can do everything.
Quote from: HawkeyeMeds on June 28, 2009, 01:24:06 AM
My bad, sorry Jen, sorry Chris should have checked fist. Personally though i think three security officers are needed. We don't know whats going on over there and it's not like the tos days where security just looks like they are there for a fight. (Although I've just read dingheads post and man is Darius a wild card ha ha ) On another point i'm so happy to have writers wanting to join in and be excited to have their character involved that i don't see the problem, especially if we want to keep the story flowing if i have to ask the XO or the Captain about every detail i'm not going to be posting every day because of time difference. I undertand the need for rank in Trek etc but i think we need to keep a bit of artistic licence for creativity.
I'm hoping i'm not sounding too defensive by the way, just putting my point of view over, Crystal had a good idea we could have Dunn disguised as a medic, that way he would still be involved but disguised. :)
x2. Well said, Meds. Dunn doesn't have to go, D'Callan can decide to have him stay behind, I just wanted to get him into the story. :dry
I understand where you are coming from, but at the same time, not everyone can be on the away mission. When putting together the team, it wasn't an arbitrary decision. There were more people on the list, but it had to be cut for space on the ship and so that we aren't taking the most skilled people on the mission. As nice as it would be to pack the ship with security, there needs to be a level of respect given to the people we are trying to save. When you look at the lineup you will see that only the doctor isn't combat trained in some way.
Galdar was on the list to be the pilot and the chief engineer was also on the list, but if all the big names are in the shuttle who is going to watch the house?
I'd also like to point out that getting on the away team isn't the only story. It isn't even the primary story. It's trying to get some people on the ship. Some of these people might even be the allies that we have had for years.
Galdar's about to raise some problems on the bridge so he's better off where he is. Hopefully those problems will also keep Tolok busy :)
I'm fine where I am - I said I understood the draw of the away team but equally, I prefer to read a story that fills out life on the ship while the away-team's off playing. What I do is simply try and invent a story around my people wherever history has put them.
I did that for Galdar in the last season and look where that ended up :D
Bryan don't forget you have a new character on the Romulan vessel. I remember you asking me if she could be there. I figured that would give you an in to that story without including more Starfleet characters on the away mission. There are plenty of things for characters on the ship to be doing. Sevryll gave orders for security to prepare for the evacuees by securing the essential areas. She gave orders to the engineering department too. You don't have to be on the away mission to join the story, but If ANYONE wants to be in those upcoming scenes, please consider playing one of the Romulans on the disabled vessel. You are more than welcome to do so. We need some puppeteers to play our cast of evacuees.
There is plenty of room for artistic license, but we're also trying to write a story that parallels the protocol we've all seen on the Trek series. That's why the Captain is staying behind and why the XO chose the away team and is leading it. I am not trying to be a Nazi here, just trying to keep the story going in a straight line. The more writers we get, the more difficult that becomes sometimes. I may PM people more often to ask them to tweak little details that were overlooked..I'm not singling anyone out. :) Everyone is doing a great job writing in the story. The outline we've put together gives everyone a chance to jump in and do something. The story is just beginning there is so much more to go. This is only a blip on the radar. Remember there will be another ship we have to rescue that will be filled with Romulans with differing views from the ones we are picking up now. They will clash. There will be a murder on the ship. Security will be very busy. Arabella will also run into the Warbird. You'll have a chance there too. :)
Dunn so far is not mentioned that he is on board the shuttle, i've just checked all the posts. So D'callan can easily have called for Dunn to be over seeing the shuttle bay for when we arrive back. The only people mentioned in the posts is Aeric, Drett, K'Tan, Shelby and D'callan.
Ok dunn is now positioned in the shuttle bay ready for the shuttle to return. That way we dont need to explain why D'callan didnt ask Aeric because there would be no need to ask where he would station his own men. :)
That will work too. I appreciate the tweak.
No worries Boss ;) So everyone knows Dunn is stationed at the shuttle bay desk ready to receive our Romulan friends. He is monitoring shuttle progress, if anyone wants to speak to him from the bridge please do. :)
Quote from: Jen on June 28, 2009, 12:09:03 PM
Bryan don't forget you have a new character on the Romulan vessel. I remember you asking me if she could be there. I figured that would give you an in to that story without including more Starfleet characters on the away mission. There are plenty of things for characters on the ship to be doing. Sevryll gave orders for security to prepare for the evacuees by securing the essential areas. She gave orders to the engineering department too. You don't have to be on the away mission to join the story, but If ANYONE wants to be in those upcoming scenes, please consider playing one of the Romulans on the disabled vessel. You are more than welcome to do so. We need some puppeteers to play our cast of evacuees.
Yes, I would like to introduce her but I wasn't sure that she would be on this ship or on the other one we were going to encounter. I sort of saw her on on of the mercenary type ships and not traveling with the Senators as she would hate them. If there will be another ship we will encounter, I can write her on that otherwise I can put her on this ship. Let me know what will work.
I could care less if Dunn is on the away mission and remember he is a NPC. I was just looking to bring him into the story. I appreciate trying to "herd cats" so speak. :)
Yeah, there is another ship we will encounter right after we rescue the peeps on this one. She could be on that ship if you want. They will obviously bump heads with the senators. Is she a recurring character or just a person who will be along for one season? If she's only on for one season, she could be the one who murders the senator. If she's not...she could be pivotal in discovering the murder. Just a few ideas. Obviously we haven't crossed that bridge yet. :)
Quote from: Jen on June 28, 2009, 05:18:01 PM
Yeah, there is another ship we will encounter right after we rescue the peeps on this one. She could be on that ship if you want. They will obviously bump heads with the senators. Is she a recurring character or just a person who will be along for one season? If she's only on for one season, she could be the one who murders the senator. If she's not...she could be pivotal in discovering the murder. Just a few ideas. Obviously we haven't crossed that bridge yet. :)
Oh, I'll do with a one season and done for her, that sounds like a more interesting direction. Good deal, Jen, I'll start on that.
Quote from: Bryancd on June 28, 2009, 07:33:55 PM
Quote from: Jen on June 28, 2009, 05:18:01 PM
Yeah, there is another ship we will encounter right after we rescue the peeps on this one. She could be on that ship if you want. They will obviously bump heads with the senators. Is she a recurring character or just a person who will be along for one season? If she's only on for one season, she could be the one who murders the senator. If she's not...she could be pivotal in discovering the murder. Just a few ideas. Obviously we haven't crossed that bridge yet. :)
Oh, I'll do with a one season and done for her, that sounds like a more interesting direction. Good deal, Jen, I'll start on that.
Okay, cool. So she's the murderer? Our outline says it's the aid of another politician that kills the senator because she wants to defect. Maybe Nalah is actually on this ship the away team is about to board then.
Quote from: Jen on June 28, 2009, 07:55:58 PM
Quote from: Bryancd on June 28, 2009, 07:33:55 PM
Quote from: Jen on June 28, 2009, 05:18:01 PM
Yeah, there is another ship we will encounter right after we rescue the peeps on this one. She could be on that ship if you want. They will obviously bump heads with the senators. Is she a recurring character or just a person who will be along for one season? If she's only on for one season, she could be the one who murders the senator. If she's not...she could be pivotal in discovering the murder. Just a few ideas. Obviously we haven't crossed that bridge yet. :)
Oh, I'll do with a one season and done for her, that sounds like a more interesting direction. Good deal, Jen, I'll start on that.
Okay, cool. So she's the murderer? Our outline says it's the aid of another politician that kills the senator because she wants to defect. Maybe Nalah is actually on this ship the away team is about to board then.
Oh, no, I'm sorry, I don't want her to be the killer, although she would want to kill the Senators. That might make for some good foddder, I have been chatting via PM with Shelby about how the two Rumulan women would react to eachother. Certainly she would be a suspect.
Anyway, I'll put her aboard this ship today in a post. :)
Be sure to read the posts carefully everyone. There are some details that have been missed, which were laid out in a few previous posts.
I went back and tweaked Sevryll's post, where she witnessed the shuttle going into the cloaked ship, because of the number of other posts that followed where the away team was still in the shuttle bay. It's no biggie, a little over lap is cool, but we have to be careful not to jump around too much. It could get confusing because we have so many writers this season. :)
We wrote that the senators are clustered in the engine room for protection (second post). The Arabella's bridge crew scanned for survivors and located 20 that were concentrated in that one area. We can write that the interference that has kept them from getting transporter locks, initially prevented them from locating more survivors.. that's not a problem at all. Just be sure to look for things like that.
I'm really am enjoying everyone's perspectives. Great job on the visual descriptions and the little asides. Keep up the good work. :)
My bad, I didn't catch the head count, I wrote that at 5:00am this morning when I got into my officce.
I figure 20 Senators in the Engine Room safe and sound and myabe we have another 20-30 refugees locked up in the cargo hold. This might eliminate the need to encounter another ship later in the story as we will have a diverse cast of characters aboard the Arabella to create drama and mischief. :)
We had planed on having a few Romulans who beamed over from the Warbird to the disabled Romulan transport, who would end up scuffling with the awayteam. Maybe it's some of these refuges instead. I think the team should try not to use their phasers to defend themselves—they are on a rescue mission and they know the Romulans are skittish...It might create good tension for the rest of the story, if one of the awayteam ends up stunning someone who becomes a problem later on. Maybe this happens between Shelby and Nahla. We're working on a joint post now that will place the team in the cloaked ship. Shelby may be guarding the runabout. She could have her confrontation there in the bay. That's just one idea. Let us get the series of docking posts up first and then you guys can put your heads together for that.
Also, Galdar has found a singularity in the warp drive that will end up destroying the Romulan transport. I am working on a post with Feathers that will add even more urgency to the mission to rescue the survivors.
The team will have to get the survivors off the ship ASAP. The runabout can only transport 40 peole at a time. There are twenty in the engine room...there are five awayteam members so that means there can only be about fifteen other survivors, including Nahla...unless the team makes two trips or we decided they don't end up saving everyone on time.
Quote from: Bryancd on June 29, 2009, 07:01:18 AM
My bad, I didn't catch the head count, I wrote that at 5:00am this morning when I got into my officce.
I figure 20 Senators in the Engine Room safe and sound and myabe we have another 20-30 refugees locked up in the cargo hold. This might eliminate the need to encounter another ship later in the story as we will have a diverse cast of characters aboard the Arabella to create drama and mischief. :)
Yes, that could work too. I think we will eventually run into the Warbird though. They will want to inspect Arabella.
Quote from: Jen on June 29, 2009, 07:07:47 AM
We had planed on having a few Romulans who beamed over from the Warbird to the disabled Romulan transport, who would end up scuffling with the awayteam. Maybe it's some of these refuges instead. I think the team should try not to use their phasers to defend themselves—they are on a rescue mission and they know the Romulans are skittish...It might create good tension for the rest of the story, if one of the awayteam ends up stunning someone who becomes a problem later on. Maybe this happens between Shelby and Nahla. We're working on a joint post now that will place the team in the cloaked ship. Shelby may be guarding the runabout. She could have her confrontation there in the bay. That's just one idea. Let us get the series of docking posts up first and then you guys can put your heads together for that.
The team will have to get the survivors off the ship ASAP. The runabout can only transport 40 peole at a time. There are twenty in the engine room...there are five awayteam members so that means there can only be about fifteen other survivors, including Nahla...unless the team makes two trips or we decided they don't end up saving everyone on time.
Great idea, I'll get together with Shelby on that and 15 extra Romulans works just as well.
It's been stated a few times that the ship's partially cloaked so there's an opportunity for all sorts of things to be sitting undetected in the areas of the ship that are still cloaked (i.e. more refugees).
The only reason Galdar detected the singularity containment problem was because something passed through the cloak in the right place at the right time to pierce the shielding effect.
If we've got to get them off quick may i ask if D'Callan and either Shelby or Aeric stay on board the romulan ship while they're going back and forth and K'Tan stays with Drett (they can have some awkward chat with each other). Just A suggestion. :-)
Hey Chris.. question... Post #36 "Joint post by the usual suspects" I actually need to know who help wrote it for the RR. If you could please list all the joint writers that would help me out alot.. thanks. BTW.. who joint wrote post #36?
Chris wrote #36.
Quote from: Jen on June 30, 2009, 11:08:46 AM
Chris wrote #36.
Then why did he put "Joint post by the usual suspects"
I don't know, but the first paragraph had been apart of a joint post the four of us were working on (all the people who had posted the previous four joint posts). I modified the post and removed "Joint post by the usual suspects" because he wrote everything in that post, even though part of it had been in a joint post people were working on.
You know the way D'Callan thinks! ;)
Ha ha oh Shelby, Shelby you know me so well. :)
Oh don't get him arrested in this reality too!
Shelby and I are almost done with a joint post in the hanger deck, so you all can rescue the survivors and start heading back there at you convenience.
Quick question - in the NPC area and previous seasons, Frep was a Chief but in Sevryll's new back story he's a Lieutenant.
Is this a new timeline change?
I've used him as a Chief for the moment.
Hey guys let me know where I can slot in somewhere. Not much happening in engineering at the moment so if you need me to do something just ask! ;)
Quote from: Dangelus on July 02, 2009, 06:30:06 AM
Hey guys let me know where I can slot in somewhere. Not much happening in engineering at the moment so if you need me to do something just ask! ;)
I've sent you a PM - I'm sure engineering isn't really as quiet as all that ;)
Quote from: Feathers on July 02, 2009, 04:31:15 AM
Quick question - in the NPC area and previous seasons, Frep was a Chief but in Sevryll's new back story he's a Lieutenant.
Is this a new timeline change?
I've used him as a Chief for the moment.
I have not updated the NPCs profiles. He is a transporter Chief. I didn't think the rank would matter...so I called him Lt.
I don't think it does matter too much. It's only that he's recorded as a real Chief i.e. a Chief Petty Officer, somewhere that I found this afternoon.
Quote from: Feathers on July 02, 2009, 11:00:24 AM
I don't think it does matter too much. It's only that he's recorded as a real Chief i.e. a Chief Petty Officer, somewhere that I found this afternoon.
Haven't had time to change it. I'll do that this weekend. :)
OK, Sorry. I misunderstood your original response. :)
I'm being really dense today it seems.
So, it sounds like we're about to start bringing people over (at least via transporter), are there any forthcoming surprises (i mean pre-murder) I was going to do a short post about the crew in 'Bella's cargo bay and I don't want to step on any toes.
Quote from: dinghead on July 03, 2009, 05:15:19 PM
So, it sounds like we're about to start bringing people over (at least via transporter), are there any forthcoming surprises (i mean pre-murder) I was going to do a short post about the crew in 'Bella's cargo bay and I don't want to step on any toes.
Remember Lt. Dunn is in there as senior security officer.
I thought Dunn was waiting in the shuttle bay where they were due to disembark? I think dinghead's talking about the converted shutlle bay where they'll live?
Dunn is in the shuttle bay awaiting the arrivals, also remember that Dunn has been put in charge of Ship security while D'Callan is away. Other security officers have been given assignments directly by the chief but Dunn is temporarilly in charge. Any changes in ship security must be reported to him. ;-)
I have a question regarding the storyline. I was thinking that there might be a Romulan Senator onboard the rescued ship who she blames for her fathers disgrace and she will seek revenge. Does anyone mind if I build that into her story?
Quote from: Bryancd on July 09, 2009, 09:13:22 AM
I have a question regarding the storyline. I was thinking that there might be a Romulan Senator onboard the rescued ship who she blames for her fathers disgrace and she will seek revenge. Does anyone mind if I build that into her story?
I have no problems with it, I'd just advise that if she gets out of the brig to not do something that will get her tossed right back in. As a veteran of the brig, I can tell you that it's tough to write from there if you're not Hannibal Lecter.
Quote from: Just X on July 09, 2009, 10:19:12 AM
Quote from: Bryancd on July 09, 2009, 09:13:22 AM
I have a question regarding the storyline. I was thinking that there might be a Romulan Senator onboard the rescued ship who she blames for her fathers disgrace and she will seek revenge. Does anyone mind if I build that into her story?
I have no problems with it, I'd just advise that if she gets out of the brig to not do something that will get her tossed right back in. As a veteran of the brig, I can tell you that it's tough to write from there if you're not Hannibal Lecter.
LOL! I was thinking along the lines is she get's out of the brig (we are working on a JP right now) and rejoins the population, discovers this Senator, tries to make a play, but Shelby comes to her emotional and spiritual rescue. :)
Nice, like it Bryan, lets work on this JP
Erm, sorry to be picky, but if Dunn's in the main hanger then he's in there with a load of shuttles.
The refugees are in bay two.
Quote from: Feathers on July 10, 2009, 10:52:23 AM
Erm, sorry to be picky, but if Dunn's in the main hanger then he's in there with a load of shuttles.
The refugees are in bay two.
I put him in the cargo bay with the refugees in the last post in the RPG, Mike.
Quote from: Feathers on July 10, 2009, 10:52:23 AM
Erm, sorry to be picky, but if Dunn's in the main hanger then he's in there with a load of shuttles.
The refugees are in bay two.
Yeah, they were transported to the cargo bay because of the larger transporter pads then escorted to shuttle bay 2. Sure it's behind the main shuttle bay, but they would have entered it from the hallway instead of being beamed into either shuttle bay.
Bryan, I think he ment your line about dunn having been at the main hanger deck when the people arrived. In that location, he wouldn't have seen them arrive. Then they went from the crago bay to shuttle bay two, you have it reversed in your most recent post.
Oh, I see, I'll fix that.
What he said!
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Whatever it used to say it looks OK now. :)
Location update: Aeric James is now on the way to engineering to drop off something then heading to his office. Rori and the kids are now all in Aeric and Sevryll's quarters. K'Tan was last scene with a romulan child in the main transporters room. This is as of the last post if anyone needs to refer to them or have the computer relay their locations in one of your posts. When the locations change, I'll post an update so we can all stay on the same page.
Read all the posts completely (no skimming) and make notes as to the location of officers and orders given. There's a lot more people posting and those can be forgotten, or missed after so many posts are put up.
I am only adding this note here as a reminder, but Sevryll is going to the Cargo bays... She gave orders to D'Callan to leave Nalah in the brig for two hours, then she will be released to private quarters that will be guarded. She cannot leave those quarters without an escort. Sevryll also asked D'Callan to monitor the senator's movements...discretely. Meds, involve Dinghead in these operations if you can.
I wrote that the evacuees were stripped of weapons during their transport...lets say they're in another location so heirlooms such as honor blades are not lost, they're in safe keeping.
Finally, if we have any scuffles on Arabella, please don't make them wide spread helter-skelter. Limit them to two or three people and try to build up to it over several posts before they throw down. Sevryll's trying to maintain security and give the passengers a sense of dignity, don't make her look like a total idiot by having the whole ship erupt in violence. :D Seriously...if something big comes into your mind, please ask me before writing it so we can negotiate an outcome that doesn't make the crew look inept.
Just to let everybody know I have informed Jen and Kenny that (at least for the foreseeable future) I have resigned as a writer on the RPG. This is due to personal commitments and not having a lot of time to write quality posts.
Lester Garriss will continue as a NPC now for you to use as you see fit so be gentle! ;)
I will continue to contribute with reading for the Ready Room.
Oh thats a shame mate, hope everything is OK. Look forward to hearing you still on the ready room. :)
Shame. I hope I can still keep Lester busy in Engineering for you. If we have to build a new runabout, a warp specialist might be useful to have on the team.
We'll miss you Dan...but we understand. Thank you for letting us know, so we know what to do with 'ol Lester.
Hate it when reality gets in the way of RPGing!
The lousy thing is that I'm in sort of the same spot... We've had a major holiday release go wonky and OT is the order of the day I'm afraid. I know I haven't been around as often as I should, and it's probably going to continue for at least the next month or so ^^;;;
Quote from: dinghead on July 25, 2009, 12:42:20 PM
The lousy thing is that I'm in sort of the same spot... We've had a major holiday release go wonky and OT is the order of the day I'm afraid. I know I haven't been around as often as I should, and it's probably going to continue for at least the next month or so ^^;;;
You can take a break if you need too...no need to quit. There are a number of people who take breaks here. :)
I can write your involvement when he's with D'Callan Dan, i mean Allen, ahem so no worries.
Ok, I'm just confused now. Who am I? LOL
Oh you've changed your name to allen, right so we'll call you Dan ;) lol
We could always call Dan, Allen, just to even things up. :)
After reading the last few joint posts in the works (yet to be posted) and a select few 'questioning incidents' from the first few posts, I have decided that Sevryll may have a conversation with certain crew members should the distrust of her judgment escalate. :D You'll see when you read them. But...seriously. Don't second guess the captain unless you want to be called out on it. I think Captain Sevryll is being very patient, but she missed her nightly meditation ritual. I'm not sure how much longer she can be 'cool' and 'aloof'. ;)
Lay some old-fashioned Kirk-style smack-down on 'em!!
Quote from: Allen on July 26, 2009, 06:10:42 PM
Lay some old-fashioned Kirk-style smack-down on 'em!!
LOL, I'm not sure how a Vulcan would do that precisely...but I'm working on it, just in case she needs to.
Hey, Spock was pretty handy in a fist-fight when he needed to be!
(TOS, season 3, episode 22, "The Savage Curtain")
http://www.tv.com/video/Uov29DwwNKBcz4UCQsiSfSpVCu5IBx9_/The+Savage+Curtain?o=cbs&tag=content_wrap;episode_header (http://www.tv.com/video/Uov29DwwNKBcz4UCQsiSfSpVCu5IBx9_/The+Savage+Curtain?o=cbs&tag=content_wrap;episode_header)
Hee hee. And I've just seen a reason why one certain individual is being a bit more tense than usual. ;-)
Holy Cow!!!! How did we fit a 30 meter long ship into the shuttle bay of an Intrepid class ship! :wacko
Sounds like the same scaling issue's thay had on "Voayger". ;)
...and don't forget that one of the shuttle bays is out of comission too with its craft distributed between the others.
Yeah, we got three. the presido was stored in shuttle bay 3 where the Aurora is and presidio was kept. That the more secure bay as well.
Well, then we're being consistent with the shows, then aren't we? LOL
Status update.
Aeric James - Off duty in a closed door meeting with the captain.
Oryn - Just entered a turbo lift after some off screen talks with people in the shuttle bay.
It is currently well into the Beta shift and should be shifting to the gamma shift soon. Alpha shift ended between 6 -7 hours ago. Since the ship is currently on a full rotation, there wouldn't be much difference between Alpha and beta staff levels, but there will be a reduction for the gamma shift as per normal.
I'm going to begin a 'briefing' post for the senior officers soon. I'll send the writers (senior officers), an invite to google docs in another day or so. Let me get it started first...been busy at work and with Anomaly.
I'm beginning to turn the wheel of the 'murder plot'. I've been putting little details in my posts that will unfold further down the line. I will involve others a little later.
Also, let me be the one to progress the time in the story so it will be easier for writers to stay on the same day. It cuts back on confusion. As Chris said, right now it's late beta shift and it's about to transition to gamma.
Ouch! Galdar's been in the bar for hours then!
I guess he may have left and come back he did have some holoentertainment scheduled at some point.
Thanks; I really dig the joint post you & Meds put together. Really some amazing stuff! :)
Is it morning yet?
Yes, but keep it morning in your posts. I'm working on a post now that I can't put up until tomorrow, since I already posted once today. It takes place in the morning and refers to the upcoming senior staff briefing.
Don't forget, one post per day...per character.
So can I post a morning post now?
Yes
I've just deleted my last post. :)
so is there some time that lapsed? When was the bar fight? At the end of beta shift or later?
Quote from: Allen on July 31, 2009, 10:58:02 AM
so is there some time that lapsed? When was the bar fight? At the end of beta shift or later?
The beginning of the 'bar fight post series' says it was late Beta early Gamma. My post tomorrow was going to bring us back to Alpha, but since people are patiently waiting for the timeline to be advanced I allowed Bryan to post the collaboration he and Crystal have been waiting a few days to put up. If there was something writers wanted their characters to have done during the evening it can always be referred to, as if it had already happened. If you wanted your character to be in the lounge and witness the activity, feel free to write as though your character saw it all go down. :)
Gotcha! Thanks.
Sooo... what is our current Stardate?
Quote from: Allen on August 03, 2009, 10:07:40 AM
Sooo... what is our current Stardate?
No clue! I don't think that it's ever been brought up as relevant, so it wasn't figured out. It's roughly 3 weeks and three days after the hobus incident.
I was thinking of doing a "Department log" post, like the Captain's Log. And they always mention the star date. Anyone know how to compute that? The stardate I found for the Hobus nova was 64444.5.
Quote from: Allen on August 03, 2009, 10:58:43 AM
I was thinking of doing a "Department log" post, like the Captain's Log. And they always mention the star date. Anyone know how to compute that? The stardate I found for the Hobus nova was 64444.5.
Oh, when we do those we usually start them with (for example), "captain's log supplemental". We write them so rarely it never gets repetitive. :)
Right, just wanted to use it as a framework for some flashback type stuff. Wanted to be "authentic"!
Quote from: Allen on August 03, 2009, 11:12:54 AM
Right, just wanted to use it as a framework for some flashback type stuff. Wanted to be "authentic"!
Sorry, stardates are a hair ball that I try to avoid...there are a few stardate generators online. If you can figure out when the Hobis Ultra Nova occurred (date wise) and add the time frame Chris mentioned, you could probably come close to the date. :)
eh, too much work. I'll just go with "Departmental log, continued" or something!
Always go with the easiest option mate ;)
If we wanted to be consistent with the film, they seemed to drop stardates completely in the new reality :)
Or maybe they are being consistent with us!
I have an idea I wanted to pass by you all. Rather than have the murder investigation begin, and keep this season rolling for another month or two while that plays out, what do you think about the murder scene ending this season in a cliff hanger and having the subsequent investigation be the plot of next season?
We can get the crew to the space station, have the murder occur...end Season 10 and set to work developing a good plot for the whole murder thing for Season 11. I don't want anyone to burn out this season. It's been rolling along nicely, but I sense the tide is turning. For the remainder of Season 10, I'd want people to continue developing their characters and foreshadowing the murder by writing about the tension between the Romulans on the ship.
Regarding the space station mentioned in the last few posts, it gives us an opportunity to keep some of these awesome temporary characters we created. They can exist there on the station and we wouldn't have to kill them off or have them fade to black. I know Meds only intended Legate Rayan to be temporary and Bryan mentioned something about Nalah being temporary as well. Since Dan left the game, his character, Lester, can be transferred there too. There is one or two others who were completely AWOL in the game (not even writing a single post), we'll just park their characters on the station in case they decide to return rather than forgetting about them. Basically the station will be a place where Arabella can take shore leaves, pick up new characters, get supplies, refits, repairs etc.
I'm 100% onboard! I think it all makes sense and adds to the building of the universe. It also makes sense in that while many of our characters have "known" each other for years thanks to the new timeline, this is really the first time that we are writing new characters in new situations. As much as we think of the other season, this one is a new beast and the characters are different. I'm glad to have the time to sit down and work out how those relationships are and how they blend with the histories of the characters.
I was also thinking more about the space station and those uses for it and I could see certain characters with offices there doing their thing when time permits and being able to jump into the action when more time permits.
It also serves to not only build our section of the universe, it serves to give us a place to build NPCs and other things that might happen at the station and migrate to the rest of the fleet. I think we can also use it to give the story a sense of distance to the federation. They are near the core of the empire ... places where few humans have travels, let alone these other races ... it might be the first time that some of these races encounter someone that's not Romulan. I think the presence of the station can work well with that.
I like that idea.
Speaking as one of the "peripheral" characters, I've kind of had trouble keeping track of the time line. It seemed everything crawled for about 6 hours, then fast forwarded to the next day. Now I'm stumped as to how I should proceed. It just seemed the main plot moved on before I could find a way to have Herm intersect with it. I think moving toward a cliffhanger and character/tension building is good.
I like this idea Jen, we've got a good story going and i think the part of the reason for this being so successfull is with the initial planning that yourself and Chris did. If we can do the same with season 11 especially now that we have such nice new charcters who are regaly posting it will keep it fresh. I think Season 11 should start with maybe the discovery of the body.
Quote from: Allen on August 10, 2009, 11:20:42 AM
I like that idea.
Speaking as one of the "peripheral" characters, I've kind of had trouble keeping track of the time line. It seemed everything crawled for about 6 hours, then fast forwarded to the next day. Now I'm stumped as to how I should proceed. It just seemed the main plot moved on before I could find a way to have Herm intersect with it. I think moving toward a cliffhanger and character/tension building is good.
I think you missed the main plot because it really hasn't happened yet. The arrival of the romulans wasn't the main plot but part of the arc. I'd suggest you just figure out where you want your character and who you want them to talk to and go from there. The main plot is that of the characters. You're automatically a part of that, the rest is just having them deal with the everyday and the unusual and write it down for everyone else to read.
Quote from: Just X on August 10, 2009, 12:19:32 PM
Quote from: Allen on August 10, 2009, 11:20:42 AM
I like that idea.
Speaking as one of the "peripheral" characters, I've kind of had trouble keeping track of the time line. It seemed everything crawled for about 6 hours, then fast forwarded to the next day. Now I'm stumped as to how I should proceed. It just seemed the main plot moved on before I could find a way to have Herm intersect with it. I think moving toward a cliffhanger and character/tension building is good.
I think you missed the main plot because it really hasn't happened yet. The arrival of the romulans wasn't the main plot but part of the arc. I'd suggest you just figure out where you want your character and who you want them to talk to and go from there. The main plot is that of the characters. You're automatically a part of that, the rest is just having them deal with the everyday and the unusual and write it down for everyone else to read.
That's what I meant, the arc. Herm just seemed to miss all the excitement. Not that that's a bad thing, story wise, it just seemed to me that things went by awful fast from day one to day two. That was my point.
I think that's a great idea, Jen!
Quote from: Jen on August 10, 2009, 10:51:31 AM
I have an idea I wanted to pass by you all. Rather than have the murder investigation begin, and keep this season rolling for another month or two while that plays out, what do you think about the murder scene ending this season in a cliff hanger and having the subsequent investigation be the plot of next season?
We can get the crew to the space station, have the murder occur...end Season 10 and set to work developing a good plot for the whole murder thing for Season 11. I don't want anyone to burn out this season. It's been rolling along nicely, but I sense the tide is turning. For the remainder of Season 10, I'd want people to continue developing their characters and foreshadowing the murder by writing about the tension between the Romulans on the ship.
Regarding the space station mentioned in the last few posts, it gives us an opportunity to keep some of these awesome temporary characters we created. They can exist there on the station and we wouldn't have to kill them off or have them fade to black. I know Meds only intended Legate Rayan to be temporary and Bryan mentioned something about Nalah being temporary as well. Since Dan left the game, his character, Lester, can be transferred there too. There is one or two others who were completely AWOL in the game (not even writing a single post), we'll just park their characters on the station in case they decide to return rather than forgetting about them. Basically the station will be a place where Arabella can take shore leaves, pick up new characters, get supplies, refits, repairs etc.
Awesome idea. U. R. da bomb!
I'm happy to run with idea. My characters are pretty peripheral to the current story so it should be easy to go with the flow.
Quote from: Allen on August 10, 2009, 01:17:29 PM
Quote from: Just X on August 10, 2009, 12:19:32 PM
Quote from: Allen on August 10, 2009, 11:20:42 AM
I like that idea.
Speaking as one of the "peripheral" characters, I've kind of had trouble keeping track of the time line. It seemed everything crawled for about 6 hours, then fast forwarded to the next day. Now I'm stumped as to how I should proceed. It just seemed the main plot moved on before I could find a way to have Herm intersect with it. I think moving toward a cliffhanger and character/tension building is good.
I think you missed the main plot because it really hasn't happened yet. The arrival of the romulans wasn't the main plot but part of the arc. I'd suggest you just figure out where you want your character and who you want them to talk to and go from there. The main plot is that of the characters. You're automatically a part of that, the rest is just having them deal with the everyday and the unusual and write it down for everyone else to read.
That's what I meant, the arc. Herm just seemed to miss all the excitement. Not that that's a bad thing, story wise, it just seemed to me that things went by awful fast from day one to day two. That was my point.
I think it just takes a little time to get use to how things work here. You're doing well...no worries. Next season you'll have the hang of it. :)
I believe what you were referring to was our joint post in the Afterburner involving the fight. That was a joint post, a few writers did for fun, as a wrap up to the long day. We led up to it with several posts about going there after their Alpha shifts were finished. Those are hints to writers who want their characters to end up at the same place as others.... look for those in the story. The day took more than half of the season to write...it needed to be wrapped up, it was the longest day ever and we had Alpha Shift crewmen still working even after Beta and later Gamma shift began. ;) We've only been writing 'day two' for a little over a week. I would suggest doing more joint posts with people to help Herm into scenes. Once you do that it makes it easier to interact.
Okay cool...looks like everyone agrees that we should save the murder investigation till next season. Well, lets get Arabella to the station and walk around over there for a while...it probably needs some fixing up. :) Try to do joint posts with people you haven't posted with before. It's a great way to get to know one another. :) Come see Ryla in Sickbay...she's bored with those grouchy senators.
Heads up! Beta shift is beginning. We've established that the Arabella will reach the Romulan starbase in 15 hours. If you're not ready for your character to go off shift...say they're working overtime. :) If you play a character on another shift, check back here and keep up with the story to see when they go on duty.
This season is winding down...let me know if you will be returning next season or whether we should transfer your character to the starbase so you can play them every now and then and we can get another writer to write for the position you are not playing full time.
I'm coming back next season though as discussed will need a bit of help with the odd posting.
Quote from: HawkeyeMeds on August 22, 2009, 08:47:20 AM
I'm coming back next season though as discussed will need a bit of help with the odd posting.
No problem. I knew you would. :)
I'll be back an hopefully work will be quieter meaning more time to do other things :)
I will be back mid september have not been writing because of broken elbow.
i really want to be back. I feel so guilty about just going poof.
... Meds hasn't done anything unfortunate to Darius has he? O_O
I'll be there!
No mate don't worry Darius is fine. I've been a bit busy lol.
Quote from: HawkeyeMeds on August 25, 2009, 04:56:00 AM
No mate don't worry Darius is fine. I've been a bit busy lol.
*PHEW!* I was afraid the response would be something like.. 'Don't worry, it'll grow back.' ^_~
Wrong films, I know but...
"What have you two maniacs done to my [Character]?" ^_~ :trooper
LOL, I think Darius has guarded Nalah a few times...but he wasn't maimed during his shift. :D
Oh yeah, and of course remember when we had him dressed as a . . .
Quote from: HawkeyeMeds on August 25, 2009, 06:12:09 PM
Oh yeah, and of course remember when we had him dressed as a . . .
:roflmao :cheers
I am now attempting to come up with a way of integrating an embarrassing post-party photo of the good Ensign into his profile....
Isn't being evil to your characters fun? :ohbaby
someone programmed the replicator in his quarters to continuously produce rubber chickens. He was buried by them and that's where he's been all this time.
Ok, in my young and foolish days I was a member of a Terran Empire LARP group. Unfortunately the group had to shut down. However we all got to contribute ONE story idea to the "end scene" as our fleet scooted back across regular Federation space to our rift back home.... I should also point out that this was 1994, and the US Congress had basically forced a governmental shut down (it became a plot point).
...And so the great Imperial fleet sped riftward. But as the horribly be-weaponed battle-wagons approached, they found the rift was closed! Where the event horizon should have been there was merely a small plackard:
"We're sorry, but due to Governmental shutdown, this multidimensional gateway has been temporarily closed. We do not expect the closure to be a long one, and recommend you check back often for future updates"
So... stuck with nothing better to do, the fleet waited. In order to avoid detection, they clustered close together. During this lull, the chief engineer of of one frigate decided to tour the recently upgraded flagship.
The tour went well until the flagship's chief and his guest stopped for lunch. His guest asked him "how much additional volume did you gain?" at the exact time he asked the replicator for "Chocloate Ice cream..."
This would not have been so bad if the flagship chief didn't answer the query immediately with "...about 136 metric tons."
Thus the replicator nearest engineering began churning out 136 metric tons of chocolate ice cream. The confection quickly piled up and into main engineering itself, off-set the warp core and caused an anti-mater breach.
The explosion was spectacular. Made more so by the proximity of the other vessels, which began following in a mass daisy-chain of destruction.
...and thus was the pride of Earth, fist of the Empire brought low...by creamy chocolate goodness.
A Cautionary Tale, indeed.
:roflmao :metallica:
ahem,,,,,, walks away silently dum de dum de dum
It's now Alpha Shift and the Arabella has arrived at the Romulan Station.
One question I have on the station:
Given that the 'Romulan Situation' has only just happened, how did they build it so fast? Was it already in progress as a colaboration between the powers prior to the supernova?
Well remember when the rebels destroyed the death star at the end of a new hope and then it pops back up in empire we borrowed that one ;-) lol
Ah! We switched it in from an alternate dimension or timeline...sort of like Babylon 4?
Cool! :)
Quote from: Feathers on September 29, 2009, 03:19:25 AM
One question I have on the station:
Given that the 'Romulan Situation' has only just happened, how did they build it so fast? Was it already in progress as a colaboration between the powers prior to the supernova?
To answer your question, I'll give the short answer.
Quirinus Station was built by a joint effort between the federation, romulans, and other Khitomer signers close to the border of the Romulan Star Empire and the Romulan Imperial State. It's purpose was to serve as a defensive position, research and construction center, and a part of a proposed resupply line should the worse happen.
When the Hobus situation was discovered, the Empress ordered a change in the nature of Quirinus station. Instead of a cloaked defense, construction, and research center, it was retasked to become the center of a new romulan empire.
So the station was there, but still in the final construction phase shortly before the discovery of the Hobus problem. While some people were racing to stop the problem, the empress retasked her people to turn the station into what might be the only hope for many displaced people.
Remember, they had a long warning that something bad was going to happen, unfortunately, they were never given specifics as to when their world world die.
Great, that's what I'd hoped since without the long term aspect it's existence simply didn't make sense.
I thought it had been posted elsewhere but I couldn't find it.
I've inserted a bit of ongoing construction in my latest post. I hope that's still in context.
I prefer my answer lol ;) Thanks Chris.
Since everyone seems done with their things, I'm putting up the end of the season now.
Congratulations to all of you fine writers that have participated in Season 10 of the RPG. There has been some great writing going on and you have all been fantastic in the face of all of the loaded schedules of the writers this season.
As you might have read, Season 10 has ended on a cliffhanger that will be resolved in the next season. I think that it's been a wonderful ride and wanted to personally thank each and everyone one of the creators involved on this project.
We've had many of the regulars do fantastic work and while some of us ran into scheduling conflicts, the sophomores and newbies to the RPG have really stepped up this season to make it great.
I look forward to this breather to recharge our batteries and for what might happen this next season. I'm also thinking that a some point we should all get together on skype to discuss the future direction of the series, the events of this season, and where we want to go with our characters.
Special thanks to those that have read for the ready room and those that continue to support this creative project.
Great work to all!
Chris
Nice one Chris, good words my friens. Remember the last time we had a skype call regarding the RPG, we ended up knocking back several beers. Looking forward to the skype call then lol ;)
Quote from: Shelby Daelen on October 12, 2009, 06:32:29 AM
Cheers to all the folks who played this season looking forward to next :D
x2 and a special hug to Crystal for helping me write a female character for the first time. I'm breaking down the gender barrier! :)
Nice ending...and I have to say, it couldn't have happened to a nicer Romulan :)