End of March Plots!

[ten_fwd_mods]

It's the Spring Equinox for many of us in the northern hemisphere, and you didn't think we'd let March go out like a plotless little lamb, did you? ;)

ETA: An IC kick-off post is now live in the main comm!

Happy Father's Alien Abduction Day!



Today, March 20th, is International Alien Abduction Day, and with Father's Day having just passed (in parts of Europe and South America, don't worry America you still have 3 months to pick out the perfect tie for your pappy), Q has decided to show how much of a loving and kindly individual he really is and to get people to stop grumbling about how they miss their families.

For one week starting today and ending next Sunday, characters will have the chance if they so choose to talk to their fathers, or father-like figures. This can either be done using the comms system (pictured above), rather like a Facetime or Skype (or universe equivalent feature) conversation, no matter where or when the father exists. Why? Maybe there's some unresolved business between your character and their father. Maybe your character just wants to talk to them one last time...

For characters whose fathers are dead or don't exist in a time period with such technology, the holodecks will create a simulation of their father to interact with. (This will be a real conversation and not just a ghostly apparition, much like in the Superman franchise when Kal-El and Kara are allowed to talk to their deceased parents via hologram).

If your character has absolutely no desire to speak with their father, they may be treated to another glimpse into Father's Day... of the future... by speaking to what could be your character's future child. Just call Q the Ghost of Christmas Future. Possible future children will likewise appear to interact with your character via the holodeck simulations.

When this is done, characters who decide to give Q a Father's Day gift in return will be granted one wish, as long as it's a reasonable wish. So that means no wishing to return home, having someone else show up on the ship, deadly or rule-breaky items. This post is where your characters can make their Father/Aliens's Day wishes, and if Q deigns to grant their wish it will come true next Sunday, March 27th.

Two important notes: 1) since it is a Father's Day phone call, your characters will only be able to speak with their fathers. 2) once the comm/holodeck simulation ends, your character will not be able to bring it back up again. Q is bending the rules of space and time just for this one week.

WHO: Anyone can participate or not, as they choose!
WHAT: Q enabling daddy issues!
WHERE: The entire ship, including personal quarters and holodecks (or anywhere comm systems can be accessed)
WHEN: From today (20 March 2016) to next Sunday (27 March 2016)

Spring Equinox, Planetside!



Spring is in the vacuum? air! Flowers are blooming, birds are calling, all those pesky pheromones are in the air - but not all is hunky-dory for the Federation. Tonight, the Enterprise will receive a call for assistance from a Federation colony whose crops are failing, and who need the help of the ship's complement to recover before deadly consequences ensue. Luckily, the Enterprise just stopped at Pacifica on that botany mission, and happens to be carrying many seedlings, seeds, and helpful equipment the doomed settlement desperately needs. Not to mention, most importantly of all, people with skills and interests in planting.

The timeline will look something like this - the Enterprise will make landfall tonight, and the first characters who wish to help will be beamed ashore in the morning. With this plot, characters will be helping out with manual labor - tilling soil, maybe pulling weeds, et cetera. Anyone who decides to do so will be given an equinox-themed gift at the end of the plot - like a plant they helped grow, a basket of chocolate eggs, et cetera. What your characters end up with is up to you - so long as it's Spring-themed!

All volunteers who choose to spend the week helping in whatever capacity they can will receive their gift at the end of the week, before the Enterprise shoves off to commence with April's plots. Whatever healthy plants are left will be brought to a nearby space station to supplement their greenhouses, and while there the Enterprise may be picking up a few more things...

WHO: Anyone can participate or not, as they choose!
WHAT: Good Samaritan-ing, with gifts for their good behavior
WHERE: All happening in one settlement on the planet, free rein in the botany labs is granted!
WHEN: From tomorrow (21 March 2016) to next Monday (28 March 2016) with a few days buffer to wrap things up before April

>> QUESTIONS?
>> FATHER'S DAY WISHES
>> PLANT/PLANET PLOTTING

Comments

QUESTIONS

[ten_fwd_mods]

Questions about either of these plots can be left right here!

About that facetime/phonecall...

[electro_kinetic]

Sooooo...

Can the guy on the other end hang up on this phonecall? And if he does is there a way to reconnect?

[disneydescendant]

How long do the calls last? Is there a post going up about it? Do we write our own? Handwave it since the Fathers are probably not on the ship?

Re: QUESTIONS

[hallowedarethefounders]

What happens when a character doesn't have a father? For example, Olan'atar belongs to a genetically engineered species, would they meet the particular person who created him, in this case Odo?

[seekingcrocodile]

So to build off of Henry!mun's question up there, if we have an account for a character's father (like the account I have for Henry's father) can we use that account to thread with them, even if the character's not in the game? Or would you prefer the interaction to happen some other way?

[thekillingword]

Can the character talk to their future child[ren] if they actually will have children in canon?

Re: QUESTIONS

[fishermansweater]

Quick question about Father's Day! Since Finnick and Annie are joined at the hip rooming together, would it be allowable for them to participate in each other's calls? Like, would Finnick be able to be there to say hi to his father in law while Annie is talking to him, and if Annie happened to be with her husband when he went to the holodeck would she be there when he was talking to a simulation of his father?

Just mulling over ideas <_<

Re: QUESTIONS

[callmethor]

If we use a journal to play a character in someone else's personal log conversation, and we are apping them later, would we have the option of having them remember the conversation? Either way is fine, I was just curious.

Questions!

[agathaheterodyne]

Okay, so the it doesn't have to be genetic and no biological father questions (and the multiples) were all answered, WHEE! I do have one more....

Kaylin got a mirror from home from Q, and in her world, mirrors are how they communicate over distances. Would Q actually let her "call" come through on the mirror instead of a more trek like place? Since it's actually her mirror where he usually calls to wake her up?

(where waking her up occurs hours after she is due in and involves swearing, snarling and threats, of course.)

ALSO: give what to Q how? I know Ailyshia will have a gift for him, though it is one that might kill some mortals. (she will NOT be pleased at having seen her father)

[derek_morgan]

I'm not sure how to tag the post. Is it an interaction we write ourselves or do we tag the post and someone will act as our character's dear old dad?

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Are current children a possibility?

[last_ofthe_jedi]

Say our character does have a biological father, but was raised by someone else and sees them as more of an actual father (in Luke's case, Uncle Owen) can they talk to them instead?

Re: QUESTIONS

[redarrowqueen]

Is going the aftermath route an option (with a highlights reel version of what would have happened during the call) if someone is not at ease with writing a certain character (in this case its Malcolm, I have ideas but know I could not pull him off. But given the world of Arrow Thea will be upset either way)

Re: QUESTIONS

[impossibilities]

So what if someone would rather talk to Q than their father especially after he mentioned that feeling like a father thing?

Make a Qwish...

[trial_never_ends]

If you wish upon a star.....


maybe I'll decide it's worth my time.

So, tell me. What does your heart desire?

[tactlenecks]

dank kush

Re: Make a Qwish...

[southernreaper]

My powers to work. I don't mind being a pariah, but at least make it so I know what's going on with them.

[do_your_duty]

The only thing Aeryn wants aside from "to go home" (both universally, to her universe, and socially, to her people without basically having to die the next second, and we all know neither of those are happening....) is her prowler.




Bbbbuuuuuutttt, honestly, if this becomes the Talyn show, I could totally see this turning into asking for her prowler, but getting a small model of Talyn, too >_>

[seekingcrocodile]

Can I get my hand back? It's kind of hard to change diapers with a hook...

I know this one either wont be granted, or he'll lie and say it is but....

[agathaheterodyne]

"I want to retain all of my memories of this place, all that I learn here, when I do return home finally."

PLANT/PLANET PLOTTING

[ten_fwd_mods]

Plot with other players here!

Re: PLANT/PLANET PLOTTING

[southernreaper]

Kevin loves planting! He's totally down for helping out! Anyone want to work with him?

Father's Day plotting

[techno_galen]

Galen has no interest in speaking to his father, but does with Elric. Does anyone have a burning desire to play Elric in that conversation?

Galen will make sure no one overhears, so there aren't any other characters that can take part in Galen's father's day conversation.

[ten_fwd_mods]

If a player with suitable knowledge of the canon doesn't step forward, there is a small mod-run team who can provide NPCs for anyone who chooses.

Plotting

[impossibilities]

I'm a bit torn on who to have show up for Grainne. There'll be heartbreaking no matter how it's sliced. Cormac mac Airt is her actual father but she's also often viewed Aengus Og as a sort of paternal figure, too. People invested in Irish legend might be interested in overhearing her conversation though!

Father's Day Plotting

[major_egret_msfsod]

Jackal really doesn't want to talk to her father--but if someone wants to run into her after Q sets up the connection anyway, that could work! Definitely open to more than one thread, since she'll stay angry for awhile after any conversation with him.

Also I'm assuming no one is going to jump at the chance to actually play her father in that conversation since gen2 but feel free to poke me if I'm wrong!

So, this will be a disaster in the making...

[not_the_question]

The Doctor: he sort of IS the father-figure in the show, and we don't know enough about his past for me to be comfy with threading this.

Islington: is an angel, so while he could talk to The Father, telephones aren't needed for such conversations. And what would he say anyway "Hahaha, I got out. What are you gonna do about it?"

Cridhe: While TARDISes are grown and not built, that doesn't mean she has a father and certainly no figure she'd be interested in talking to. That said, I do have a massive headcanon about her first Pilot (whom she may or may not have killed, depending on your interpretation of events), that could be some fantastic RP fodder.

Anyway, I'm open to any ideas if anyone has some.