Archives: Roleplaying Games

Art­icles about table-top role­play­ing games.

Psi-Shift, Part I

Stard­ate, 9884.4. In the midst of cel­eb­rat­ing the 183rd day of the mis­sion, Lyo­n­esse receives a dis­tress call from what seams to be the miss­ing Vul­can research cruis­er, VES Sonak. Find­ing the ves­sel appar­ently wrecked and life­less, the away team are sur­prised when they find the crew very much alive.

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Forests of the Night

Stard­ate, 9871.7. Lyo­n­esse encoun­ters an appar­ently-aban­doned ali­en ves­sel in the vicin­ity of a recent super­nova. The board­ing party encoun­ters ghostly lights and hos­tile veget­a­tion and plants, while some­thing stalks them in the shad­ows as they try to solve the mystery.

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Planet of the Ebon Pearl, Part III

Stard­ate, 9861.8. The land­ing party embeds them­selves into the loc­al civil­isa­tion in order to learn how to get to the pil­grim route up the vol­cano. Cap­tain Mas­uda and her crew dis­cov­er they may not be the only warp-cap­able civil­isa­tion mov­ing about the nebula.

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A World with a Bluer Sun, Part I

Stard­ate 9842.5. Receiv­ing an ancient Earth Star­fleet dis­tress sig­nal from a crashed shuttle­pod, Lyo­n­esse res­cues a crazed sur­viv­or, while sensors detect a ves­sel stran­ded in the event hori­zon of the nearby wormhole.

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The Shadow Beneath, Part I

Stard­ate 9839.3. Lyo­n­esse’s ober­ser­va­tions of the bio­me of “space whales” feed­ing off stel­lar winds at BC-03 are inter­rup­ted by a loc­al hunter, and the dis­cov­ery that the whales them­selves are sentient.

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