Season Four: Friday, September 28th

[Jen]

Hi everyone. Season Four starts tomorrow, Friday, September 28. If you're new to the RPG, and you want to create a backstory, include it in yin a second or third or forth post within your profile. Check out Duffster's (Lt. Cedric Tain), Just X (Lt.  Areic James) or my character's profile (Commander Sevryll) to see what I'm referring to. It's fun to read the back stories so if anyone else would like to do the same...please do. We'd love to read them.

Here's the outline I posted in the Think Tank for Season Four. We should probably have another Skype meeting sometime next week, if that's OK with the majority...let me know when would work best.

Here's our sketchy outline:

A group side trip to the holodeck was discussed. This will occur during our voyage to Romulus (main plot location). One holodeck location will be created that will eventually become a regular crew hang out, like the Paris casino on Voyager or the Dixon Hill story on TNG. We will eventually post a poll where locations/holodeck stories can be voted on. Look for it in the OOC section of the RPG in the upcoming week.

We encouraged small personal sub-stories for characters. For example: character 'A' is building up to ask "NPC 'B'" on date" or "character 'B' is preparing for a concert in Five Forward". Give us more information on your character's likes, dislikes, fears, back stories etc. Build them into your post nonchalantly, if you want, or write in more detail. If you want to go into great detail, you can post them within your character's profile section. Several of us have started to do thatâ€"check out Commander Sevryll, LT. Tain and Lt. Areic James profiles, we each have on-going back stories in development.

Holopets anyone? We briefly discussed the possibility of holopets, being brought into the story. Maybe Chief Engineer Kar'arth needs a mean nasty Klingon pet and makes the holoprogram for the entire ship. Who knows...

The main plot involves Admiral Talbot (Rico's character) and Krell (Commander Sevryll's father who is working with Spock in the Unification effort).

Krell is working on establishing the first Romulan/Vulcan settlement. Agents who oppose Unification are attempting to derail his efforts.

This mission, begun by Admiral Talbot, is not Sanctioned by Starfleet and is covert.

Unknown to Talbot, Section 31 has an operative shadowing the venture (posing as Talbot's assistant, and a Starfleet Marineâ€"Sevryll's husband).

There is Saboteur aboard the Tiberius, possibly multiple conspirators  (one might be Doctor Lucas an NPC doctor who asked Sevryll to preform the mind meld on Starstriker...other conspirators are as yet unnamed).

Zoen Vearne - embedded journalist, may begin an investigation into the mission and/or the saboteurs (since the mission is covert the crew is not aware of where they are going or what they're up to). His oped pieces will gain a reaction and tick-off a few crew members who confront him.

Sevryll, Talbot and select few crew members go on away mission to Romulus to find Krell. Quinn and remainder of the crew deal with the Saboteur.

Krell gets sick...he's infected by a would-be assassin with a killer virus.  Not sure who the assassin is (up in the air)...maybe Doctor Lucas or one of the other saboteurs.

We encourage you to create NPCs to incorporate in the story. The Tiberius is a big ship...they could be crewmates, girl friends, bad guys you name it. Feel free to write from another prospective. We're considering upping the number of posts  per week to encourage folks to develop their characters or make new NPCs.

If you want to join the RPG. Check out the "How to Join" thread in the "Story So Far" section.