THE FARSCAPE EPIC RPG UNIVERSE: NEW CHARACTERS & SETTING.
Author's Note:
This is the first time I'm trying this. This story was played out in my Farscape Epic RPG game on Yahoo.
I edited together all the posts as best as I could to create the story. I also tried to keep them as close as possible to the original players posts. Sometimes I wasn't able to too and other times I was. So the story is a little rough in spots - but that is my fault and not the other players. I thought the story line was fairly good and I've referred back to this incident in other fiction, so I thought I'd try posting it.
My co-authors for this piece are as follows:
Murdough2000 - who created and owns the Andar Murdough of Shalazar character.
Lonegirl189 - who created and owes the Malika Phatan character, and the Samnatha and Zanath Phatan characters, in addition to the Rahlin character who were or will be mentioned in some of the stories.
GadgetGirl-Pip, also known as the infamous Lady_T - handles Aeryn Sun and most of John Crichton in this story. GG-Pip (Lady_T) is also the co-founder of our game.
Dagoddda - who is no longer with the group, played D'argo's parts for most of the story.
Other characters were free at this time and where written for by whatever player needed to use them.
Arckatius was created by Chant99. Below follows the usual description of the game.
This story was written based on the characters from my Farscape RPG group. I thought I'd try posting it here to see what others thought. But first I need to explain a bit about our RPG so you can follow the extra characters.
The name of the group is "Farscape Epic RPG" and it can be found on Yahoo groups for those who wish to look us up. The game is based in an alternate Farscape universe that diverges from the shows timeline somewhere after Talyn's birth but before the Chiana/D'argo relationship.
The Berret character here is basically the same Shrike 457 character from the "Fallen Angel" series posted here at Fanfiction.net. Though the original meeting between Chiana and the Shrike took place in a different way in the game.
The other new characters in this story are original player characters.
Andar Murdough - is a Sebacean teacher from a forgotten and lost colony. Andar's people have lost so much knowledge over the cycles that space flight is considered science fiction. Andar is abducted by aliens who experiment on his brain trying to increase intelligence. The project works much better then they thought and Andar steals a shuttle and eventually finds his way to Moya. Andar becomes a sponge for any sort of knowledge and begins to go through Moya's data banks learning everything he can. He often sees machines or gadgets in his mind and will disappear for days into his workshop to build them.
Malika Phatan - is a 125-year-old Delvian teenager. After spending a number of cycles as a Peacekeeper slave aboard a command carrier, she and her mother escape in a Prowler, but at the cost of the life of a young PK officer who fell in love and secretly married Malika. After a time of running and hiding, the pair run into a Syndicate Shrike and the meeting leaves young Malika with an intense hatred and distrust for the Enforcers when the assassin kills a client Malika took a job bodyguarding for, and almost kills her and her mother in the process. Sometime after that, Malika's mother is tragically killed, leaving the girl alone. She hears a story about an escaped Leviathan with a Delvian Pa'u aboard and sets out to find the living ship with the hopes of fulfilling her mother's dream of her becoming a Pa'u. She finds Moya and Zhaan (who is alive in our game) and the older Delvian agrees to take her in. However, now there is a Shrike aboard Moya as Chiana's companion and she is having a hard time controlling the tendencies for violence she developed during the hard life she lived on the run from the Peacekeepers. Through young, Malika is also a skilled healer and thanks to her parents, an educated student of exobiology. She sets up a small lab on one of Moya's lower tiers, mostly to hide out from having to be around Berret ... and possibly Andar. Both Andar and Malika feel an attraction to each other, but the Delvian isn't sure she wants to open her heart to another after what happened to her Peacekeeper husband.
Sean Crichton - 70 years after the disappearance of astronaut John Crichton, his descendant Sean uses John and DK's research to construct the Wander module. In an attempt to prove that his ancestor's theories were sound, Sean repeats the slingshot effect and is also thrown halfway across the universe only with a slightly different result. The Wander module is somehow draw backward in time to the Farscape module's location and is expelled from a wormhole near Moya. Sean finds himself stunned to be surrounded by a group of aliens and suddenly faced with a family legend. (This story takes place before the arrival of Sean Crichton.)
Arckatius - The Scarren leader of the Black Syndicate House that enslaved Berret and made him a Shrike Enforcer / Assassin. Arckatius is a distant cousin of Scorpius' and is slightly demented for a Scarren, believing himself to be a "King". In "The Grandmaster", Arckatius sends his Master Shrike, Val'Cirrus after Berret to kill him and bring back his control collar - which contains information about several operations that Berret took part in for the Black Syndicate. Berret has vowed to kill the Scarren Syndicate leader in repayment for his enslavement and the life he feels that Arckatius has destroyed. Driven by the haunting nightmares of the lives he was forced to take as a Syndicate Enforcer, Berret feels that killing Arckatius will go some way in atoning for his "sins." He also holds the Scarren responsible for what he thinks as his inability to love Chiana... and that the Nebari girl could never love him in return because of the things he has done in his Syndicate past.
This story takes place shortly after Berret, Andar, and Malika come aboard Moya. Moya and crew were recently ambushed by pirates and in the resulting battle; Moya was damaged and lost most of her fresh water stores. The group spends a long period of time looking for a safe place to replace their stock and finally find one.
I thank everyone who has reviewed my stories and has like them. I wasn't sure that they would interest anyone outside my RPG but I see they have. To Miss Terri who has reviewed several of the stories and had stopped by the RPG, please feel free to join. We'll have no problem teaching you how to play the game.
I thank you for the support and I hope I can continue to keep you all interested. Please enjoy~!
Chant99
Author's Note:
This is the first time I'm trying this. This story was played out in my Farscape Epic RPG game on Yahoo.
I edited together all the posts as best as I could to create the story. I also tried to keep them as close as possible to the original players posts. Sometimes I wasn't able to too and other times I was. So the story is a little rough in spots - but that is my fault and not the other players. I thought the story line was fairly good and I've referred back to this incident in other fiction, so I thought I'd try posting it.
My co-authors for this piece are as follows:
Murdough2000 - who created and owns the Andar Murdough of Shalazar character.
Lonegirl189 - who created and owes the Malika Phatan character, and the Samnatha and Zanath Phatan characters, in addition to the Rahlin character who were or will be mentioned in some of the stories.
GadgetGirl-Pip, also known as the infamous Lady_T - handles Aeryn Sun and most of John Crichton in this story. GG-Pip (Lady_T) is also the co-founder of our game.
Dagoddda - who is no longer with the group, played D'argo's parts for most of the story.
Other characters were free at this time and where written for by whatever player needed to use them.
Arckatius was created by Chant99. Below follows the usual description of the game.
This story was written based on the characters from my Farscape RPG group. I thought I'd try posting it here to see what others thought. But first I need to explain a bit about our RPG so you can follow the extra characters.
The name of the group is "Farscape Epic RPG" and it can be found on Yahoo groups for those who wish to look us up. The game is based in an alternate Farscape universe that diverges from the shows timeline somewhere after Talyn's birth but before the Chiana/D'argo relationship.
The Berret character here is basically the same Shrike 457 character from the "Fallen Angel" series posted here at Fanfiction.net. Though the original meeting between Chiana and the Shrike took place in a different way in the game.
The other new characters in this story are original player characters.
Andar Murdough - is a Sebacean teacher from a forgotten and lost colony. Andar's people have lost so much knowledge over the cycles that space flight is considered science fiction. Andar is abducted by aliens who experiment on his brain trying to increase intelligence. The project works much better then they thought and Andar steals a shuttle and eventually finds his way to Moya. Andar becomes a sponge for any sort of knowledge and begins to go through Moya's data banks learning everything he can. He often sees machines or gadgets in his mind and will disappear for days into his workshop to build them.
Malika Phatan - is a 125-year-old Delvian teenager. After spending a number of cycles as a Peacekeeper slave aboard a command carrier, she and her mother escape in a Prowler, but at the cost of the life of a young PK officer who fell in love and secretly married Malika. After a time of running and hiding, the pair run into a Syndicate Shrike and the meeting leaves young Malika with an intense hatred and distrust for the Enforcers when the assassin kills a client Malika took a job bodyguarding for, and almost kills her and her mother in the process. Sometime after that, Malika's mother is tragically killed, leaving the girl alone. She hears a story about an escaped Leviathan with a Delvian Pa'u aboard and sets out to find the living ship with the hopes of fulfilling her mother's dream of her becoming a Pa'u. She finds Moya and Zhaan (who is alive in our game) and the older Delvian agrees to take her in. However, now there is a Shrike aboard Moya as Chiana's companion and she is having a hard time controlling the tendencies for violence she developed during the hard life she lived on the run from the Peacekeepers. Through young, Malika is also a skilled healer and thanks to her parents, an educated student of exobiology. She sets up a small lab on one of Moya's lower tiers, mostly to hide out from having to be around Berret ... and possibly Andar. Both Andar and Malika feel an attraction to each other, but the Delvian isn't sure she wants to open her heart to another after what happened to her Peacekeeper husband.
Sean Crichton - 70 years after the disappearance of astronaut John Crichton, his descendant Sean uses John and DK's research to construct the Wander module. In an attempt to prove that his ancestor's theories were sound, Sean repeats the slingshot effect and is also thrown halfway across the universe only with a slightly different result. The Wander module is somehow draw backward in time to the Farscape module's location and is expelled from a wormhole near Moya. Sean finds himself stunned to be surrounded by a group of aliens and suddenly faced with a family legend. (This story takes place before the arrival of Sean Crichton.)
Arckatius - The Scarren leader of the Black Syndicate House that enslaved Berret and made him a Shrike Enforcer / Assassin. Arckatius is a distant cousin of Scorpius' and is slightly demented for a Scarren, believing himself to be a "King". In "The Grandmaster", Arckatius sends his Master Shrike, Val'Cirrus after Berret to kill him and bring back his control collar - which contains information about several operations that Berret took part in for the Black Syndicate. Berret has vowed to kill the Scarren Syndicate leader in repayment for his enslavement and the life he feels that Arckatius has destroyed. Driven by the haunting nightmares of the lives he was forced to take as a Syndicate Enforcer, Berret feels that killing Arckatius will go some way in atoning for his "sins." He also holds the Scarren responsible for what he thinks as his inability to love Chiana... and that the Nebari girl could never love him in return because of the things he has done in his Syndicate past.
This story takes place shortly after Berret, Andar, and Malika come aboard Moya. Moya and crew were recently ambushed by pirates and in the resulting battle; Moya was damaged and lost most of her fresh water stores. The group spends a long period of time looking for a safe place to replace their stock and finally find one.
I thank everyone who has reviewed my stories and has like them. I wasn't sure that they would interest anyone outside my RPG but I see they have. To Miss Terri who has reviewed several of the stories and had stopped by the RPG, please feel free to join. We'll have no problem teaching you how to play the game.
I thank you for the support and I hope I can continue to keep you all interested. Please enjoy~!
Chant99