Post by fluke on Sept 19, 2012 15:22:01 GMT -5
The title: Star Trek: That Hideous Secret
I wrote this first part of a story for a friendly competition on another board. Monthly, they have a SpecFic draft, usually with a theme. About half of them are supers themed, but there have been spy months, fantasy months (I'm hoping another one of those comes up as I have a great idea), and space opera months. The rules vary a little by month, but the general idea is the same.
The first rule is "this is a draft" like the NFL draft. You pick your characters one day at a time, but if your story requires certain characters being together to work, you can hold your picks until you have enough saved to get all the ones you need (say you absolutely have to have both Picard and Kirk. Then you just wait a day and grab them both on your next turn. It's better in the game if you keep this to a minimum as someone might still snipe one of them before you get him or her). Once a character is picked, then no other writer can use that one. August had a space opera theme, and these were my picks in order of appearance:
Base: The Defiant, first of her class (ST: DS9)
Crew: Benajmin Sisko (ST: DS9) - Captain
Villain draft: The Sith Empire (5,000 BBY).
Crew: Jean-Luc Picard (ST: TNG) - First Officer, demoted for almost losing the Enterprise
Option: Samuel Vimes (Discworld) - the Starfleet admiral who demotes Picard
Crew: Madison Jeffries (Alpha Flight) - engineer
Option: Darth Zannah - face of the villain and comes under flag of truce to ask for their help with an intercepted transmission
Crew: Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) - communications specialist brought in to help decode the transmission
Crew: Kiyone Makibi (Tenchi Muyo) - tactical officer, trained by Vimes.
Crew: Grig (The Last Starfighter) - helmsman, the gung-ho iguana
Option: Professor Elwin Ransom (CS Lewis' Space Trilogy) - appears out of nowhere, offering his services as a linguist.
Option: Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh (Masks of Nyarlathotep for Call of Cthulhu) - the true enemy. They sent the message and have big plans for the galaxy. They have operatives on many worlds under different names such as "Teeth of the Eyes of Ice," "Church of the Haunter's Wisdom," and "Order of the Bent Blade." Ransom mentions that they were the force behind N.I.C.E.
Ransom discovers the message is in a language designed by twisting Old Solar. He translates it as "Begin. The stars are almost right. The secret can be revealed."
As you can see, this was a definite genre crossover. And it was a blast! One of the other participants sent a PM that I had absolutely nailed Ransom.
I wrote this first part of a story for a friendly competition on another board. Monthly, they have a SpecFic draft, usually with a theme. About half of them are supers themed, but there have been spy months, fantasy months (I'm hoping another one of those comes up as I have a great idea), and space opera months. The rules vary a little by month, but the general idea is the same.
The first rule is "this is a draft" like the NFL draft. You pick your characters one day at a time, but if your story requires certain characters being together to work, you can hold your picks until you have enough saved to get all the ones you need (say you absolutely have to have both Picard and Kirk. Then you just wait a day and grab them both on your next turn. It's better in the game if you keep this to a minimum as someone might still snipe one of them before you get him or her). Once a character is picked, then no other writer can use that one. August had a space opera theme, and these were my picks in order of appearance:
Base: The Defiant, first of her class (ST: DS9)
Crew: Benajmin Sisko (ST: DS9) - Captain
Villain draft: The Sith Empire (5,000 BBY).
Crew: Jean-Luc Picard (ST: TNG) - First Officer, demoted for almost losing the Enterprise
Option: Samuel Vimes (Discworld) - the Starfleet admiral who demotes Picard
Crew: Madison Jeffries (Alpha Flight) - engineer
Option: Darth Zannah - face of the villain and comes under flag of truce to ask for their help with an intercepted transmission
Crew: Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) - communications specialist brought in to help decode the transmission
Crew: Kiyone Makibi (Tenchi Muyo) - tactical officer, trained by Vimes.
Crew: Grig (The Last Starfighter) - helmsman, the gung-ho iguana
Option: Professor Elwin Ransom (CS Lewis' Space Trilogy) - appears out of nowhere, offering his services as a linguist.
Option: Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh (Masks of Nyarlathotep for Call of Cthulhu) - the true enemy. They sent the message and have big plans for the galaxy. They have operatives on many worlds under different names such as "Teeth of the Eyes of Ice," "Church of the Haunter's Wisdom," and "Order of the Bent Blade." Ransom mentions that they were the force behind N.I.C.E.
Ransom discovers the message is in a language designed by twisting Old Solar. He translates it as "Begin. The stars are almost right. The secret can be revealed."
As you can see, this was a definite genre crossover. And it was a blast! One of the other participants sent a PM that I had absolutely nailed Ransom.