Andoria trip planning document.
Posted on Tue Jul 21st, 2020 @ 9:00am by Captain Enalia Telvan & Lieutenant Mona Gonadie & Emergency Medical Hologram (Adam Power) Mk X & Ahreva Malana & Aiva One & Kodria Mizu & Hera & Baroness 2nd Class Schwein von Alcott & Baroness 3rd Class Sarika & Commander Rita Paris & Lieutenant Commander Mnhei'sahe Dox & Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi & Lieutenant Commander Sonak & Lieutenant Samuel Clemens XV & Lieutenant JG Tovanna Mah & Ensign Tanaak Sado & Lieutenant Tyra Ironhooves & Ensign Weiaex & Ensign Briaar Gavarus & Ensign Fiona O'Dell
Edited on on Tue Jul 21st, 2020 @ 9:02am
Mission: OOC Documents
Okay here's the planning document for the crew trip to andoria. I have a basic plan for what we're going to do.
The ships going to arrive on andoria system to find everything on high alert with the imperial guard searching every ship. Andorian separatists/religious cultists are at it again.
We can attempt to get permission to go to the northern ice sheet officially, but get turned away for various reasons.
We sneak up to the ice sheet and find a crevice that's clearly been filled in. Thex has a wired feeling she's been here before.
At the bottom, we find a pyramid that's made of an oily black stone cover with the symbol of nyarlathotep.(though we don't know that) As we examine it we find what's left of the expedition. All have been executed there bodies have been mummified by the cold. Examining the pyramid we find the stone is ancient and isn't native to andoria.
We are then attacked by Andorian's in power armour. We manage to fight them off and take one of them, prisoner. We finish of our exploration of the pyramid, but can't reach the central chamber. The stone is fused together and even phasers won't dent it.
The prisoner won't say anything and is babbling in an unknown language. He then dies of a heart attack as if he's been scared to death. We return to the andoria capital. The government either truly knows nothing or is that good at lying we can't tell.
With no choice, Thex goes to the one place that would know something. Her home. Only it's not as how she remembers it.
Sound good?
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OOC: Dox- Any recommendations for the core party to go down to the planet and who stays up top? I imagine we need some characters to stay on the Hera to continue distracting the Government if the rest of us are going in under cover.
Maybe Thex, Rita, Dox, Sonak and Jablonski and the Klingon Sisters or Jablonski and Az'Prel, for the trip planetside. Who wants to go where everyone? Exploring an ancient alien pyramid sounds like fun.
Certain elements like the symbol of nyarlathotep, the unknown language and the non-native stone will need to be defined for the writers as, if we have Sonak on the team, anything Science related won't stay a mystery for long. And it stands to reason, plenty of research will have been done in advance.
How will the home be different? As in her memories of it are false or it's drastically changed since she was last there?
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Home will be different from how she remembers it.
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OOC Az: Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos, has a few different symbols, seals, and marks they're known by.
https://temp.split-world.com/uploads/Pictures/nyarlathotep/
Here I've gathered several common symbols and images from across the internet. As for the anime girl, that's how the Japanese see her for some reason. Nyaruko - the crawling perverted chaos that will 'love' you to death... Really weird anime and manga. Anyway, Andre, I assume you have a repository of knowledge on the Crawling Chaos that would put Wikipedia to shame so I do believe we'll be counting on you again for your eldritch lore. ^_^
OOCSonak: much less than my Trek lore I must say. But fortunately, I started to delve deeper on it for the last months since my novel employs Lovecraftian ideas. But I'll do my best. The good thing is, Lovecraft made his work nebulous enough to deliberately allow creativity. We should do good :)
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Mission Outline
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The Hera arrives at Andor. Requesting to go to the polar region, we are told by a stuffy Bureaucrat (with overly expressive Antenna that lets Everyone watching know when he’s full of shit or surprised.) That the area is off limits.
Once in orbit, Thex has a psychic flash from her “sister” on the planet.
Rita assigns a minor crewmember to be Enalia’s new Yeoman to help bury that guy in paperwork.
The away team, (Rita, Sonak, Dox, Sarika, Thex, Tova) takes a runabout down to the side of the mountain we ARE allowed to go to and we hike over the mountain range and ski down, making our way on foot to the polar region.
Enalia stays behind to verbally spar with the Bureaucrat and trade paperwork to (hopefully) legally validate our presence.
At the edge of a great crevasse, we find the secret cloning facility. IN the facility, Thex’s OTHER parents are the administrators, using failed or deformed Tivri-Thex style clones as the mindless drones in the factory in creepy robes. (So we can have a dramatic moment where Thex can yank a robe off to reveal the other clones working the facility.
The facility is to grow more clones because they can be distilled into a serum that can be used to expand life expectancy.
Thex's family are in fact several thousand years. They were formerly members of andorian anti eldritch group, but over years of using the drug they've began warping into eldritch abominations themselves.
In the facility, we discover the preserved form of Talla P’Trell, the clone’s originator.
We also discover the deformed clone in a tube with enhanced mental powers that has been calling Thex.
To keep her from talking to us, They transports us into the base of the creepy pyramid, telling us there’s something we need to get from there as an impetus.
the perfect clones get to go forth with the order to reproduce in the population
and the rest maintain the facility and produce the chemical.
the perfect ones are likely normally used to hide the existence of them via mind control
but Thex isn't as perfect as they thought and doesn't think on the same wavelength or maybe because she chose starfleet what's her name has been shielding her.
and the call of Nyaaaa-chan is why they send the away team to solve the puzzle-temple
since the clones can't and they can't get close to it
As we are separated into teams of two (Rita and Thex, Sonak and Dox, Tova and Sarika) we begin working our way into the labyrinth before Sonak possibly logics that by “solving” the mazes, we will unlock the Eldritch horror that will feed upon the clones. So, using his growing telepathy, he lets the team know to instead focus on busting OUT and regrouping.
At the base of the pyramid, three miles deep, we need to make our way back up and out, encountering various creatures from the depths of Andor.
We then have to make the moral decision of letting things continue, reporting this to the Andorian Government and Starfleet, or shutting it down. Decision is likely ultimately left to Thex.
Final post - Thex goes to the orphanage she thought she grew up in only to find out that it’s an abandoned building that hasn’t been used in almost a hundred years. Cue the sinking in of the realization that she too was grown in the cloning facility and that all of her memories growing up were implanted.
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QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PYRAMID MISSION:
- What are the Seals?
- How are they currently FAILING that the Masters have leaked their influence out?
- How can we REPAIR them?
- Will Thex still be being pressured telepathically since Talla P’Trell and the Tube Thex are blocking the Masters. or will she have her full mental capacity back?
- If the pressure is reduced, then maybe her connection may make Thex MORE sensitive to the Crawling Terror thingy to give us an idea of what THEY want, so we can do the reverse?
