<strong>This is a planning thread for the <em>Star Trek: Flight of the Vanguard</em> RP, where Scene Shoots will take place. I will change the thread title each time we open a new Scene in the Episode. The thread is open <em>only</em> to players involved in the current Scene. Other questions and commentary should be directed to the OOC thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=185062.0) or messaged to the GM.<br/><br/>Remember the purpose of the planning thread is to rough out ideas quickly. If you find yourself agonizing over word choices or crafting your prose, don't. Writing up the completed scene will be up to Saria. We will only resort to dice rolling when absolutely necessary to resolve a conflict. I will not mandate a posting order at this point, just be mindful of each other as you would in a normal group game, stay loose and have fun with it. <br/><br/>I will post in the thread as needed to answer questions, provide NPC voices where needed and will provide transitions where needed.<br/><br/>NB: To Saria and Mr. 73 -- please stand by in your trailers.</strong><br/><br/><strong>Current Episode:</strong>Episode One, "Death's Other Kingdom"<br/><strong>Current Scene:</strong>Act One, Scene Two (starting here (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=186902.msg9123460#msg9123460))<br/><strong>Starring Player:</strong>Imogen<br/><strong>Players Needed:</strong>Ebb, Joslyn<br/><br/><strong>GM's Opener:</strong><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/29/Palmyra_station.jpg)</div>Nearly two hours have elapsed since Scene 1. Dr. Tren her staff in Sickbay have tested for any trace of biological hazard in Sonvek's blood and tissue while the Vulcan scientist has slept fitfully, and the scans have come up negative. Accordingly, Captain Chandra has cleared Commander Yuuna's team for beam-down.<br/><br/>The party consists of:<br/><br/>- Commander Yuuna<br/>- Dr. Tren<br/>- Chief Engineer Adams, who is most qualified to restore full power to the base and hopefully get its computers back up and running<br/>- Lt. Cortez, tasked with being expedition record-keeper and possible first contact consultant (although there's still no trace of anything living on the planet, despite Yuuna's intuitions)<br/>- an assistant technician for Mister Adams and a security man<br/><br/>Our first Scene Objective is for the party to do an initial sweep of the station.<br/><br/><em><strong>SUPPLEMENTARY WRITING GUIDELINES:</strong><br/><br/>a) It is perfectly okay to provide some details about what your character is doing, thinking etc. -- that is part of the point -- but <strong>please try to keep it brief -- more in the nature of stage directions</strong> than large chunks of worked-out prose if you can. Remember that you are providing rough ideas, not posts in the normal group game sense. [Do however remember to keep such prose and statements as you do provide in the game's preferred tense and person (past-tense, third-person) to facilitate the scene post.]<br/><br/>b) Please try to go <strong>line-by-line</strong> in dialogue whenever possible -- or if the poster ahead of you says more than one thing, try to <strong>follow</strong> their dialogue naturally instead of interjecting responses to every piece of it -- so that the scene poster does not have to unravel a vast snarl of overlapping interjections and put them into sequential order. <br/><br/>c) It is okay to provide <strong>options</strong> for your character for subsequent players to respond to, of the "if x then y" type that Joslyn uses in her first post below. However, the next posting player should pick just <strong>one</strong> option and respond to it; don't try to respond to every option or feel you must take up every suggestion.</em>