It's no doubt you know of the Alien from the Aliens franchise. Alien: Isolation released recently and beyond that the Alien is rated one of the most Iconic monsters of all time. So how about you (yes you) are stuck on a shipwreck on a salvaging mission when you find that there's actually something that's been causing these ships to end up floating endlessly though space with little sign of any crew.
Premise:
You are among a group of friends. You guys have been doing great making a living off of boarding derelict space craft and salvaging whatever you can find. It's however been a tough run and the last few ships have just been small private cruisers that didn't have much to them in the first place.
But what's this? A massive ship in the distance? Looks like a cargo vessel. the USCSS Nalfar. You and your crew radio it to find no response at all. Nothing being broadcast from it either. You look amongst yourselves and realise that this is the mother-lode. Close inspection shows that it was taken out my a meteor storm after a shield failure. There are some online systems: Life Support is intact thought 80% of the ship. The Bulkhead didn't fail to contain the breaches... you'd think someone would have survived. Oh well. their loss.
How this is going to work:
This is going to be some pretty experimental stuff with a hint of DnD. You guys are going to RP while I control the variables, namely the Alien(s?).
I'll set the scenes and please by all means find your own creative ways to get out of situations. However keep in mind that this is a survival horror and I'll make sure that things will be tense by taxing your actions.
e.g. you encounter the alien, but you've somehow managed to make an improvised sort of weapon. You indicate that you're swinging at it to fend it off. I see this and think, ok, you've hit it, however it's acid blood has sprayed everywhere and dicintigrated part of your suit and some of your leg, making it very difficult to move and impossible to enter an are without life support, which I will probably push you towards because I'm evil.
No worries though, I'll let you come back as an Alien and we may even have a sequel along the lines somewhere.
Character sheet:
Name:
Age:
Species:
Role: (technician, hacker, pilot, doctor, etc)
Special Training: (Did you pick something up somewhere that made you good at what you do?)
Back Story: (make your character come alive)
I'm not including weapons, however I will Assign one person to have some form of gun before I start.
All characters will have this as standard equipment:
Mk-50 Compression suit
Plasma torch for welding, cutting open
Torch/Radio headset
Rules:
No Multiple Characters (You can try, but I'll have fun killing them off)
No Godmodding (I will make an alien burst out of your chest if that's the case)
Read everything and structure your posts. I want your posts to be descriptive of the surroundings, emotions, etc.
Have fun
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them.
If you want to join some way into the RP, there'll always be a way.
I can't always be here, so message me and I'll assign a new GM
