FUTURE SHOCK REBIRTH
DIANNA: You become slowly aware of a voice repeating the same question over and over. You can't see or move. As you focus, you can make out a male computer voice asking "What is your last memory? Please respond." A few moments pass, then you hear it again...What is your last memory? Please respond."What is your reply to the voice?
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Dianna's mind flashes as she remembers being Captain of the huge ship protecting Earth. Her and it both relics of the past. Her friends finding her for one last adventure and then that becomes more as they help the Time Space Authority. Multiple versions of herself...human, some sort of vampire, a basic military android...All her but not her. She knows who she is though. "Last thing I remember was working for Star Corp. Is that you Dr. Jefferies....Father?"
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Just as IROC suggests a systems scan, the rest of your systems come online. It is instantly clear that, except for all of your memories, you are a standard model Alpha class tactical service android, with piloting and navigation skills in addition to the basic combat skills. You are nowhere near the advanced android you last remember being.
Dianna read her system check as it comes online...her dread of being a basic android unit stabbing her to her very core. All of what her Father had did for her...to her to make his little girl live again was gone. She was being thrust back to that very first day of existence. All the innocence and naiveté of her first day coming back to her ; all the mistakes. First losing all the people who loved and cared for her coupled with being put back with the these two men. The two that she had worked with for years and never seemed to get close with...never really even friends. She had moved on..had a good life away from all that she had dealt with traveling with these two individuals. They would sell her for parts without a moment's hesitation. They had before...and here she was with them again.
She slowly started steeling herself. Even with what she had found out she wasn't that unit...that girl...anymore. She had her memories; jumbled as they were. She would get back to her family and friends, survive being with these two again, and become the girl her Father had made her. He had seen the light shining brightly within her...seen how special she was even before the advancements... and Dianna wasn't going to let him down.
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Episode 1
Stasis Lock
All is black; you all only see the text of your HUD giving you the following:
STASIS LOCK: disengaging
COMS: Active- 2 connected
You know you won't be able to move or see until stasis lock ends, but that you can speak through the HUD to your group. You have no idea how long you have been in stasis.
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Iroc to active com: anyone else up
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Iroc to active com: personnel report
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Technomancer to iroc : relax I'm trying to figure out how long we've been in this and why you weren't built in a day you know
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Iroc? Techno? It's Dianna. Wish I could say it was good to see the both of you but...
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TO ALL: A new status is added in the HUD. It now reads:
STASIS LOCK: disengaging
COMS: Active- 2 connected
MISSION: Undefined
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We're in an older model stasis unit ... that means if we are on a ship it's a rather old one we have to wait for all locks to disengage then we can see what's going on?
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Does anyone remember how we got here? I think my memory has been corrupted. I'll need to run a complete rundown when I get a chance.
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TO ALL: HUD update, it now reads:
STASIS LOCK: 50% disengaged
COMS: Active- 2 Connected
MISSION: Undefined
SHIP: Hal
CREW:
Captain: Hal
Technician: William Pliskan
Weapons: Iroc 949
General Support: Android D-A 142 Alpha
Destination: Undefined
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If I knew I'd tell you the machine is still disengaging my ability is blocked until we get out of this stasis field
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The HUD begins to change. Blackness is slowly replaced with the interior view of a dropship. Directly across from you are 4 suits of armor, bolted and ready to be dropped into action, and you can assume you are in a similar line of four on the opposite wall. As TECHNOMANCER pointed out, they are definitely older models. They are larger than any armor any of you ever wore, painted with dessert camouflage, and you can't see any insignias indicating an affiliation. They have reflective visors, so you can't tell who us in what armor.
The entire room is just big enough for the 8 armors with a walkway down the center and the access door at 1 end. You can tell the armors are just about 2ft taller than an average human, because an average human is leaning against the back wall, opposite the entry way, tapping away at a hand held access pad. He looks vaguely familiar to you all, actually he resembles several people. He's just a little too short and square to be Hunter, not nearly muscular enough to be Victor, the head of Acme, and he looks a little like that gruff old commander from Star Corps. But you just can't place him. He's average height, average build, has reddish brown hair, and is maybe 40. He looks up, walks to the middle of the room touches each of you saying TECHNOMANCER, IROC, and DIANNA, letting you know that TECHNOMANCER and DIANNA are on the same wall, separated by 1 armor and IROC is On the opposite wall, so you can each see each other, and when you look the HUD now displays the name of the person you're looking at, and the words STASIS LOCK. The man speaks...
YOU ARE READING
Futureshock RPG
Science FictionMy friend CajunJLB transcribed the RPG we played on Facebook. I just wanted his work to be available. Enjoy!