Accessories to Murder

Previously On #Amalgaverse… You and 19 others have been stranded in an amalgam universe of myriad SF realities. All 19 are sci-fi’s Best of the Best. And then there’s you, uniquely qualified given your encyclopedic knowledge garnered from your world where these characters, their technologies, and their stories are fiction, beloved t.v. shows you have watched time and again. Together, all 20 of you have set off on the Enterprise-D, tasked with finding a way home. On its first mission, the crew answered a distress call from a dead ship and found it was far from empty.  Aboard, the away team awoke an android named Maia, discovered a “survivor” named Rhea who turned out to be something else entirely, and fought their way off as scavengers closed in.  They came home to the Enterprise with two things: a new crewmember in Maia, and a fragment of the signature an entity left behind when it crossed into this reality.  Colonel Carter believes it’s one piece of a much larger puzzle, and that the rest of it is still out there waiting. For your second mission, you have elected to follow a Starfleet directive, traveling to pick up and transport Harven Zax, a dangerous intelligence broker, to a rendezvous point at the edge of the Expanse.  Upon arrival, you discover his cruiser inoperable, drifting towards a black hole, the ship’s automated defense systems preventing Scotty from using the Enterprise’s transporter to simply beam them aboard. O’Neill and Data take the jumper to the cruiser where they encounter four stranded passengers: the annoyingly flamboyant Harven Zax, his silent bodyguard Lucinda Shockley, his mild-mannered protege Milo, a Starfleet official named Robespierre, and the ship’s utility bot, Dunsel.  Everyone piles into the jumper and launch, only to be caught by the black hole’s gravitational pull.  The Enterprise uses its tractor in an attempt to reel in the jumper while, on the bridge, the crew must decide what to do about the two life signs in the mercenary shuttle headed for the event horizon. The Enterprise escapes the black hole’s gravitational pull by using the deflector array to project a counter-field ahead of the ship and then jumping to warp. You set off for the rendezvous point and your guests settle in: no-nonsense Lucinda, meek Milo, officious Robespierre and, of course, the bombastic Harven Zax. While Data works on repairing Dunsel the robot, you check in on the mercenaries you beamed off the doomed shuttle headed towards the black hole’s event horizon.  They offer to talk in exchange for their freedom.  Instead, you  have Garak chat with the alien mercenary, Algernon.  In his own incomparable fashion, the simple Cardassian tailor convinces the merc to talk and reveal he and his partner were in the employ of a Klingon Great House who want Harven Zax for a secret he carries.  Algernon also reveals that he and Mira were given coordinates to the damaged cruiser transporting Zax.  But Garak finds this mysterious.  The cruisers engines failed without warning.  So how did anyone know where to find it? Suddenly, the Enterprise shudders and slows.  Data reveals the ship’s nacelles are encrusted with glittering green growth that turns out to be a subspace organism that feeds on warp fields.

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Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 2.3 – The Mercs) #Amalgaverse The Enterprise is en route through the Klingon corridor, bound for the rendezvous.  While Data works on Dunsel down in engineering, you check in on your two other guests. In the briefing room, under guard, sit the two mercs you rescued from the black hole’s event horizon. As you settle in, Mira, the wild-eyed old pirate, twitches in her chair, pounds the table and launches into something only barely resembling language: “Aaaar!  Ye frontin’ tall, but lemme ‘splain.  Ye bet yer vee we gunnin’ fer a tract, lest we go no talk-talk!” Beside her, her hulking partner, Algernon, speaks up, in a deep, cultured voice nobody expected: “Do forgive my associate.  Her command of the language is, shall we say, impressionistic.  What she is endeavoring to convey is that we should be delighted to arrive at some mutually agreeable arrangement.  A quid pro quo, if you will: the information you so clearly desire in exchange for our liberty.” What do you do? A) Make the deal.  Let them go free at the next port and get your answers now, trusting that the information is worth it. B) Refuse the deal.  Send them back to the brig to think about it, then hand them over to the authorities at the rendezvous if they still haven’t cooperated. C) Send in Garak.  Let him have a quiet word with them.  He may get the truth without a bargain, but there’s no telling what methods he’ll use or what it might cost you with Kirk. Choose! Recruit a crewmate. Share this with a fellow fan! Then TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission! See below for our Previously On recap - or check out the glorious Amalagaverse website: amalgaverse.link/index.html by @ugorur

Question your guests or fix the robot? Choose!

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Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 2.2 – Close Quarters) #Amalgaverse Who is Harven Zax and why does someone want him so badly? The orders don't say. The Enterprise is on her way, and Starfleet’s orders remain thin: deliver Harven Zax to a set of coordinates on the far side of the Expanse before the deadline and hand him over to whoever is waiting there.  The orders don’t say who. With time to kill, the crew gets its first real look at their guests. Harven Zax holds court in Ten Forward, regaling all with dubious tales of his own daring.  None of the dates or places in his stories quite line up, and he seems confident no one will notice. Lucinda Shockley, his bodyguard, has a deadpan wit and the air of someone you do not want to cross.  She shadows Zax, yet her eyes keep drifting to his young protégé, Milo.  Unrequited love, perhaps? Milo, for his part, keeps to the edges at first.  Once he opens up, however, he turns out to be quite knowledgeable about the border sector’s tangled history.  A true nerd. Oswin Robespierre has clearly never waited for anything in his life and is handling the novelty badly.  He complains about his quarters and keeps a sealed diplomatic pouch close at hand, refusing every offer to lock it in the ship’s secure vault. And then there’s Dunsel, clanking after everyone like an adopted stray.  Something is wrong with him.  He starts tasks and forgets them halfway through, and every so often he freezes, lights dimming, before shuffling on.  Data suspects damage to his memory core and offers to take a look, though the repair could shut him down for good. The orders say where to take Zax but not why he’s worth so much trouble.  Kirk isn’t satisfied.  If the Enterprise is going to protect this man, the crew needs to know who might come for him and why. Where do you start? A) Question Zax.  Go straight to the source and ask the man himself why he’s worth all this trouble. B) Ask Lucinda.  His bodyguard must know who has been coming after him, and why. C) Talk to Milo.  A protégé hears everything, and the shy but friendly young man may say more than his employer would. D) Press Robespierre.  He is the Federation’s man on this trip, and he likely knows what Starfleet is holding back. E) Fix Dunsel.  Help Data repair the little robot, knowing it could cost Dunsel what’s left of his memory. Choose! And recruit a crewmate. Share this with a fellow fan! TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission! See below for our Previously On recap - or check out the glorious Amalagaverse website: amalgaverse.link/index.html by @ugorur

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Second Mission: The Delivery (Part 1.7) – Escape Velocity #Amalgaverse With an assist from the tractor beam, the jumper and its passengers make it safely back into the Enterprise’s shuttlebay.  But the rescue has come at a cost.  The Enterprise has been drawn dangerously close to the black hole. “Captain, the hull is under tremendous stress,”reports Pilot.  “The ship cannot hold this position for much longer.” Kirk orders full impulse.  The ship shudders, but the gravitational pull is too strong. Warp is out of the question.  This deep in the gravity well, space is curved too steeply for a normal warp field to form, and the attempt would tear the field apart, and the ship with it. Data, back at his station on the bridge, delivers the verdict: “Captain, at our current rate of drift, we have eleven minutes and forty seconds before escape becomes impossible by any means.” “Then let’s not waste any of them,”says Kirk.  “Ideas.” The resident nerds brainstorm and come up with three. Carter pitches the first: “Sir, a low-level warp field around the ship would reduce our effective mass.  The black hole’s grip on us would weaken, and impulse could finally pull us clear.  Then, once we’re far enough out, we go to warp.  But the calibration has to be perfect.  If the field destabilizes this close, we lose it, and the ship along with it.” McKay has a bolder and, in his opinion, better suggestion: “Or we stop running from it.  We dive towards the ergosphere, catch the black hole’s spin, and get flung out faster than we went in.  Absolutely brilliant in its elegance, but potentially catastrophic if my math is even slightly off.  Which it isn’t.” Thor offers a third option: “Your deflector array can be modified to project a counter-field ahead of the ship.  Within it, space will be flat enough for your warp drive to function.  It will, however, place considerable strain on your systems.” Time is running out and the event horizon looms ever closer.  Which plan do you go with? A) The warp bubble.  Carter’s slow steady climb out on impulse, if the calibration holds. B) The slingshot.  McKay’s dive towards the ergosphere for a faster way out, if his math is right. C) The counter-field.  Thor’s corridor lets you jump straight to warp, if the ship’s systems can take the strain. Choose! [END OF ACT ONE] TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission! See below for our Previously On recap - or check out the glorious Amalagaverse website: amalgaverse.link/index.html by @ugorur

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You're abandoning ship! Are you taking the robot with you?

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