Halloween Special Mission - Your Ideas!

[John Kawolsky]

Halloween Special Mission - Your Ideas!

As we enter the second half of the month that is September, it's time to decide upon what will be the topic for our Halloween Fleet Special Mission!

From now until October 1st, we'll be taking onboard ideas and suggestions for the style and setting of our next Special Mission, due to commence on Monday 22nd October, in the week leading up to the scariest time of the year.

Maybe the ship encounters a parallel universe where everyone is a Halloween monster? Or perhaps a Starfleet ship is found wondering a lonely sector, it's crew missing? The choice is yours, but for your suggestion to count you must post it in the comments below.

Are you ready for the scariest Special Mission yet?

[T'Ra Jones]

Sounds like fun. There was a really cool TOS episode that had a Halloween feel to it.

[Riley T. Munro]

I know Reece had reminded me of an idea he had a while back. But could we do a RL Dia De Los Muertos? A day to remember the dead, or it's literal translation, Day of the Dead.

Post pictures and stories of the people we have lost, and honor them like the holiday is celebrated world wide?

[Adolph Klein]

Alright, here's an idea. The fleet would be divided into two ships, two crews and this would be a joint mission type deal.

The USS Phantom, while on a planetary survey mission at Planet X, crashes on the planet. They send out a distress call. A local effect starts making everyone behave oddly. Soon the crew starts displaying supernatural features and abilities. Soon they start transforming into various creatures such as zombies, ghosts, and werewolves and start fighting among each other for dominance.

The USS Exorcist responds to the distress call and has to figure out what happened to the crew of the Phantom and how to reverse it. Before it happens to them....

Just a vague plot outline. I figure it could be something ridiculously simple like the full moon that's emitting a technobabble field that caused everyone who looks at though the atmosphere with it's own technobabble effect to be effected, though I suppose if we go all out we could have a supernatural TOS god like being behind it all.

The class/specification of the ships could be any range from TOS to Nemesis, though I think it'd be more fun if we do it in the TOS, or TOS movie era. Like a Miranda-class for the Phantom and a Constitution or Excelsior for the Exorcist.

Just something I came up with on the spur of the moment, but what do you think?

[Raymundo Salas]

HA HA HA do I have one for you.

This is a story I've been working on but just never gotten past the main details and as soon as I read this it popped in mind. It will need tweaking into a progressive story tree with branching scenario, thanks again Adolf for the mission template for reference. And a bit of expanding for multiple tier objectives for the three ships to ether divide and conquer or tackle together.

I don't want to spoil too much but here is the 'back cover' run down

Horizon Station is located in the heart of the Risa Sector. Serving as both trade hub, and commercial real estate for many of the Federations most prominent business'. Starfleet also has contracted several defense contracts with the Station, many of which are highly restricted. But don't worry, as Starfleet spokesmen say "all research conducted is within guidelines and pose no significant risk to the public at large." At least was believed till 1345 hours yesterday. Shadow Fleet, conducting a officers conference and shore leave on Risa has been called upon to investigate the loss of contact with Lab 248: The Silver Key Project. The lab has gone complete black out and you must ascertain the risk to the rest of the station and its people.

I did not submit this mission for the Churchill because it sounded a little too "Monster Movie Mash" but this could be fun here. like I said all I have is some scattered notes but give me a few hours and I will see what I can do.

[Rilas Miran]

How about this:

The crew wakes up to real life: they're all normal people on Earth, in 2012. They dismiss their own memories as dreams and go about their daily lives. But a monster is stalking the streets at night. People from their dreams start to go missing, only to turn up later as mutilated corpses. The crew must take on their personas from their dreams to fight the horror stalking them.

In the twenty fourth century, a previously unknown alien race has captured the entire crew and placed them in comas, feeding on their collective neural energy. The feedings manifest in the collective dream as the brutal murders.

Think of this like that DS9 episode where Sisko becomes Benny in the 50's, with some Supernatural-esque Djin-like alien vampire things thrown in. The(PCs) could develop their 21st century characters in similar roles as their real characters in an office building or something. There could even be one or two still awake on their ship, actively fighting the aliens.

[John Brown]

Here is the Situation for mine:

Its been 15 to 20 Years Since Captian Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S Enterprise-D stoped Commander Remmick, but where did the Commander Send the Signal.

Flash Forward...........You are on the Federation Starship Andromeda its mission is to Patrol The Federation/Romluan Netual Zone its a Intrepid Class Starship and has been assigned for the Past Three Months.

Meanwhile the U.S.S Tongo returns from Deep Space its heading directly for Earth its mission is to get to Earth were the Parasites with enact revenge.But What is not known they are really Mutated Forms of Trills whos plans to distroy Trill.

[Alyssa Meadows]

Finally we do something like this!

I was thinking that the Command officers, if not also the Department Heads, get possessed by demons like in Supernatural.

Here is the formal layout:
It's the graveyard shift, the last shift that the crew of the [insert ship(s) here] will have to spend before they are free ti leave and continue on their exploration. Suddenly, in the distance, black smoke can be seen going through the terminal into the ship and winding through all of the various corridors. The lights flicker and ship systems begin to malfunction.

Naturally, all of the Department Heads and Command Officers are made aware of this and make their way to their designated stations. However, just as they prepare to leave, black smoke appears and forces itself into every DH and Command Officer, possessing them. Yet something isn't right. It was like the smoke knew exactly where to go. There is an insider in the ranks of the [insert ship(s) here], one that told the demons where and when to strike.

 With the most senior officers under control of a demonic influence, it is up to the junior officers and the crewman to save the ship and their colleagues while also finding out who the insider is, before it's too late.

[Grace Masters]

Finally we do something like this!

I was thinking that the Command officers, if not also the Department Heads, get possessed by demons like in Supernatural.

Here is the formal layout:
It's the graveyard shift, the last shift that the crew of the [insert ship(s) here] will have to spend before they are free ti leave and continue on their exploration. Suddenly, in the distance, black smoke can be seen going through the terminal into the ship and winding through all of the various corridors. The lights flicker and ship systems begin to malfunction.

Naturally, all of the Department Heads and Command Officers are made aware of this and make their way to their designated stations. However, just as they prepare to leave, black smoke appears and forces itself into every DH and Command Officer, possessing them. Yet something isn't right. It was like the smoke knew exactly where to go. There is an insider in the ranks of the [insert ship(s) here], one that told the demons where and when to strike.

 With the most senior officers under control of a demonic influence, it is up to the junior officers and the crewman to save the ship and their colleagues while also finding out who the insider is, before it's too late.

If we did this we could reprogram the computer to add an EEH:

[Shelaf Greegy]

I hope you guy's don't mind if I critique your ideas?

Alright, here's an idea. The fleet would be divided into two ships, two crews and this would be a joint mission type deal.

The USS Phantom, while on a planetary survey mission at Planet X, crashes on the planet. They send out a distress call. A local effect starts making everyone behave oddly. Soon the crew starts displaying supernatural features and abilities. Soon they start transforming into various creatures such as zombies, ghosts, and werewolves and start fighting among each other for dominance.

The USS Exorcist responds to the distress call and has to figure out what happened to the crew of the Phantom and how to reverse it. Before it happens to them....

Nice idea, rather difficult in execution. It would certainly be fun, but difficult to control. In addition, one of the main points of a fleet mission is that everyone comes together on one ship to RP. Possibly, instead of the crew changing, the planets native creatures are the ones that are werwolfy vampiric zombiefied weirdos?

Horizon Station is located in the heart of the Risa Sector. Serving as both trade hub, and commercial real estate for many of the Federations most prominent business'. Starfleet also has contracted several defense contracts with the Station, many of which are highly restricted. But don't worry, as Starfleet spokesmen say "all research conducted is within guidelines and pose no significant risk to the public at large." At least was believed till 1345 hours yesterday. Shadow Fleet, conducting a officers conference and shore leave on Risa has been called upon to investigate the loss of contact with Lab 248: The Silver Key Project. The lab has gone complete black out and you must ascertain the risk to the rest of the station and its people.

Intriguing. As you say, it doesn't give much away about what is actually happening in the mission, which is presumably something you have planned in your own head. I imagine this will be similiar to that DS9 episode with the abandoned station and the nutty Cardassians.

How about this:

The crew wakes up to real life: they're all normal people on Earth, in 2012. They dismiss their own memories as dreams and go about their daily lives. But a monster is stalking the streets at night. People from their dreams start to go missing, only to turn up later as mutilated corpses. The crew must take on their personas from their dreams to fight the horror stalking them.

In the twenty fourth century, a previously unknown alien race has captured the entire crew and placed them in comas, feeding on their collective neural energy. The feedings manifest in the collective dream as the brutal murders.

Think of this like that DS9 episode where Sisko becomes Benny in the 50's, with some Supernatural-esque Djin-like alien vampire things thrown in. The(PCs) could develop their 21st century characters in similar roles as their real characters in an office building or something. There could even be one or two still awake on their ship, actively fighting the aliens.

Another interesting one that could be quite difficult in execution. With this idea, it's possible for people to take it in completely their own direction which could result in major confusion!

Here is the Situation for mine:

Its been 15 to 20 Years Since Captian Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S Enterprise-D stoped Commander Remmick, but where did the Commander Send the Signal.

Flash Forward...........You are on the Federation Starship Andromeda its mission is to Patrol The Federation/Romluan Netual Zone its a Intrepid Class Starship and has been assigned for the Past Three Months.

Meanwhile the U.S.S Tongo returns from Deep Space its heading directly for Earth its mission is to get to Earth were the Parasites with enact revenge.But What is not known they are really Mutated Forms of Trills whos plans to distroy Trill.

Hmm. I like how it latches onto existing canon, certainly. It needs a lot of developing but could be great.

Here is the formal layout:
It's the graveyard shift, the last shift that the crew of the [insert ship(s) here] will have to spend before they are free ti leave and continue on their exploration. Suddenly, in the distance, black smoke can be seen going through the terminal into the ship and winding through all of the various corridors. The lights flicker and ship systems begin to malfunction.

Naturally, all of the Department Heads and Command Officers are made aware of this and make their way to their designated stations. However, just as they prepare to leave, black smoke appears and forces itself into every DH and Command Officer, possessing them. Yet something isn't right. It was like the smoke knew exactly where to go. There is an insider in the ranks of the [insert ship(s) here], one that told the demons where and when to strike.

 With the most senior officers under control of a demonic influence, it is up to the junior officers and the crewman to save the ship and their colleagues while also finding out who the insider is, before it's too late.

The only difficulty I see is that it seems to have excessive focus on the poor crewmen. Remember that people apply for roles in fleet missions, so people could end up with the short straw of not having a playable character because it'd been possessed by a demon. Maybe all the crew that are infected are NPC's and it's up to the PC's to sort it out. Like a Starship zombie apocolypse thing?

[Grace Masters]

The only difficulty I see is that it seems to have excessive focus on the poor crewmen. Remember that people apply for roles in fleet missions, so people could end up with the short straw of not having a playable character because it'd been possessed by a demon. Maybe all the crew that are infected are NPC's and it's up to the PC's to sort it out. Like a Starship zombie apocolypse thing?

I dunno if this is the one that I would want to personally do, but why would a possessed character not be playable? I think it would be the ones that a lot of poeple would want to play because they get to be some evil bastards. If they do like they do on the show Supernatural, these characters in a lot of instances hide that they are demons and use trickery to bring about destruction... I think they are at least very playable.

[Raymundo Salas]

/snip
Intriguing. As you say, it doesn't give much away about what is actually happening in the mission, which is presumably something you have planned in your own head. I imagine this will be similiar to that DS9 episode with the abandoned station and the nutty Cardassians.
/snip

I have more written down. But now that I am actually putting some thought into it it is coming to together quiet nicely. The above blurb is just what I already had. I could make it more detailed but the idea is basically Doom meets Star Trek with a healthy dose of survival horror.

[Adolph Klein]

I hope you guy's don't mind if I critique your ideas?
Nice idea, rather difficult in execution. It would certainly be fun, but difficult to control. In addition, one of the main points of a fleet mission is that everyone comes together on one ship to RP. Possibly, instead of the crew changing, the planets native creatures are the ones that are werwolfy vampiric zombiefied weirdos

I wasn't proposing to control it, things would spin out of control. But there's a built in reset button with the moon setting and turning everyone back to normal. I don't see how your point about everyone coming together to RP is relevant being it would involve everyone. Though it does bring up a point I'll touch up later in this post. Though your idea of rescuing the crew of a crashed ship on planet Halloween Horror is a good alternate idea if you're going for "control" of the environment. Though I thought the whole point of this was to let loose and have fun.

Here is the Situation for mine:

Its been 15 to 20 Years Since Captian Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S Enterprise-D stoped Commander Remmick, but where did the Commander Send the Signal.

Flash Forward...........You are on the Federation Starship Andromeda its mission is to Patrol The Federation/Romluan Netual Zone its a Intrepid Class Starship and has been assigned for the Past Three Months.

Meanwhile the U.S.S Tongo returns from Deep Space its heading directly for Earth its mission is to get to Earth were the Parasites with enact revenge.But What is not known they are really Mutated Forms of Trills whos plans to distroy Trill.

Isn't that like the exact plot of the DS9 novels Lesser Evil and Unity? 


Anyways, a zombie apocalypse idea might be fun where a member of the crew becomes infected with "zombism" and spreads it by biting other crew members and the meds have to come up with a cure before the zombies take over the ship. 

To the point I brought up about the everyone RPing together comment... really it strikes me as worth considering to have two separate missions going on from the best two ideas. It just strikes me as too chaotic to have 30 plus people going at a single mission thread. This may have worked in the past when the fleet was smaller, but I think times and circumstances do evolve and change. This would still get everyone out of the box and rping with people they don't usually get to, which is the entire point yes?

[Alyssa Meadows]

The only difficulty I see is that it seems to have excessive focus on the poor crewmen. Remember that people apply for roles in fleet missions, so people could end up with the short straw of not having a playable character because it'd been possessed by a demon. Maybe all the crew that are infected are NPC's and it's up to the PC's to sort it out. Like a Starship zombie apocolypse thing?

I see your point when it comes to the focus on the crewman and junior officers. The reason why I suggested this type of mission was to give them something to do and not feel left out of the mission or find it seemingly impossible to force themselves in. As for the senior officers, the people would still be able to write but the possessed characters would have to be darker and more evil (IE: Alyssa during her woman time).

After I take this test that I am stressing out about, I'll give you a more detailed plan than the one above.

[Shelaf Greegy]

I see your point when it comes to the focus on the crewman and junior officers. The reason why I suggested this type of mission was to give them something to do and not feel left out of the mission or find it seemingly impossible to force themselves in. As for the senior officers, the people would still be able to write but the possessed characters would have to be darker and more evil (IE: Alyssa during her woman time).

I think you misunderstand. People who play crewmen in normal missions could have any role in the special mission, from CO downwards.

[Raymundo Salas]

Halloween Special- (Insert B Movie esq. Title Here)

Overview

Horizon Station is located in the heart of the Risa Sector. Serving as both trade hub, and commercial real estate for many of the Federations most prominent business'. Starfleet also has contracted several defense contracts with the Station, many of which are highly restricted. But don't worry, as Starfleet spokesmen say "all research conducted is within guidelines and pose no significant risk to the public at large." At least was believed till 1345 hours yesterday. Shadow Fleet, conducting a officers conference and shore leave on Risa has been called upon to investigate the loss of contact with Lab 248: The Silver Key Project. The lab has gone complete black out and you must ascertain the risk to the rest of the station and its people.

The mission itself is simple, think Id Software Doom meets Star Trek. You have the simple setup of people taping into knowledge that they were not fully prepared for the full consequences. The Silver Key  Project has been set up to investigate the potential threat that fluidic space poses to our universe. They have been working on a gateway to tap into that otherworldly realm but after a year of trying they finally broke though. However Species 8472 are not the only inhabitants of this universe. While 8472 roam fluidic space in large living bioships. The entities that came though the gate way were some of the more lower forms of life. The first opening, a beast came out but not being adapt to our universe it collapsed outside the gateway. He was bulky, wide shoulders and a little bulge for a head with a opening on the chest for a mouth. Blade like claws for fingers that the team devised were meant for hunting bioships and its lower body was tapered to a set of small bulky legs with large paddles for feet.

They secured it and studied it for a few weeks. All the while it built up strength and began to adapt to life in our universe. Till one day a ion storm rolled though the system and disrupted the transporter network as it was transporting goods on and off ships. To save the cargo the engineers diverted power to the docks and caused a brown out. And containment of the creature was lost. It did not take long for it to wrak the lab and force it to go into automatic lock down. Now it is up to Shadow Fleet to investigate.

ALT Take

The Layout is exactly the same as before only will actually go go Doom with a gateway to Hell (Or some other dimension given the fleets sensitivity to using Hell as a setting) and have some demon come out to terrorize the station. In the first setting with 8472 I am planing to (see mission layout below) have the scientists try to send the best back but accidentally bringing more into the station. And of course have some of them escape the lab. With this take the demon would have intelligences and try to bring in more of its kind though the gate way.

For the rest of the plot see flow chart below

The Location-

• Risa Sector
  
  • Planet Risa: A pleasant vacation world, famous for mild weather, warm sandy beaches and casual life style. The starting place for the mission is in the D. Button Casino Resort's main convention hall.
  • Horizon Station:As it is not a Starfleet built (ran by, but not owned) station it does not have that familiar mushroom shap is more of a saucer shape.
• Administrative Offices: Top levels, mostly spacious offices and other of the nicer things that Starfleet provides for its members. It is located at one end of the structure


• The Residential District: Many high end housing complexes. The stations attracts prosperity and those living there enjoy it.


• The Commercial District: A buzz of shops for all to browse and many fine restaurants. The Risa Sectors Stock Exchange is also located in the heart of it. Over the last decade the station has continued to grow in the market share of the total cash flow of the Federation. Located in the heart of the station.
• Engineering and Lower Decks
• Cargo Bays and On Loading and Off Loading Docks: The life blood of the station. Handling countless Metric Tons of goods daily. Most movement of goods are handled by a complex industrial transporter network. Only moving the cargo manually when needed most work is handled form a control room near the boundary of the habituated part of the station.
• Main Engineering: Located below the Docks it is like most any. Large reactor, control rooms, and all the machinery to keep things upstairs running the way it should.


• The Labs: Located just below the Admin offices on top of the station
  
  • Lab 248: The Silver Key Project operates here and is funded by Starfleet to learn all that they can about fluidic space. It is divided into several sectors including a Gateway room. A number of work labs and living areas for the scientists all self contained.
  • There are various other labs in the same area of the station. They are all built more or less the same as 248. They run study’s form anything form cosmetics to engineering projects.



NPC's


• Starfleet NPC's
  
  • Commander Ash: He is the Starfleet administrator of Horizon Station. Salt and pepper hair, heavy set, and a warm presence make for a person that people like to be around. It is clear he takes a very light handed approach to the running of the station. Starfleet pays him, and does not bother him so long as the traffic keeps moving and the business' are fulling the market. He is hesitate about the accident in Lab 248. he only has a vague idea about what the project details. He implores you to investigate quietly so as to not alarm the general public.
  • Chief of Security: Rel Tuk, a Andorran. Does not get along with the civilian Chief Engineer.


• Silver Key NPC's
  TBA
  TBA
  TBA
  


• Horizon Station NPC's
  
  • Dock Master: Fa'lor, a young Bajorin woman she is smart as a whip and eager to make a place for herself and her daughter. Fa'ten. Able to adapt to any curve that the challenges of the shipping business throws at her. All though she is often critique for being to clip and will run though a problem on the seat of her pants than take the few moments to think. Which has led to some harsh words between her and her coworkers.
  • Chief Engineer: Hershel Pots Older Man, dark skin and white curly hair. Does not get along with the restrictions of the imposing Security Chief saying that the constant monitoring and scrutiny of his workers is unacceptable. Add the Dock Master Fa'lor accusing his workers of steeling and there resulting increase of attention form Rel Tuk its no wonder he is a man on edge.
    
• The D. Button Corporation NPC's
  
  • Donatello Button: Family head of the D. Button Corporation, a hotel and casino empire in the sector and primary backer to the Silver Key Project. Tall dark and handsome 'playboy' He has a personal interest that the nature of what happens at Lab 248 stays secret as the fallout could affect his personal stock in the exchange given he is days form a major merger with another corporation on Horizon Station.
  • Mr. G: Not much is on record on this Mr. G, only that he has been in the employment of the Button corporation for many many years. He is the bodyguard and personal agent of Mr. Button. He is a Well built Nausicaan and quick on his feet in a tough situation.


• 8472 NPC's
  
  • “Monster Zero”: the first being though the gateway. Completely violent and destructive it will also act as a ambush predator. Its claws will not dissolve its victim like a 8472 would. But they will shred anything. Even non reenforced deuterium platting. It moves on its knuckles and shoulders its way around except when attacking. Be careful it moves quick for something so large.
    Others TBA

Note that for the 8472 NPC's if we do the ALT line the monsters can easily be changed with demons of varying kinds.

-EDIT-

the see below comments are for the mission plan that is not included here. this is just the setting to get a response on what people think.

[T'Ra Jones]

I think Salas and Meadows have cool ideas. Being possessed would be kind of fun. A demonic Vulcan...