Kyle Mitchell and Thomas Ford were lost in the aftermath of the explosion. Mark Chaplain took Doctor Rogan's self-sacrificing place in Sickbay before Renee Hampton departed the Accobar System for good. Change is in the air as the Tyrella sector recovers from an act of biological warfare.
Cut off from the rest of the station, the survivors on the deck were left to count their losses and regroup after the act of sabotage which claimed the lives of Mitchell and Ford - causing professional and personal turmoil for Costello and Etis (the happy couple were safe, huh?) Unable to take control of the station, Chaplain fumbled and blamed himself for allowing the explosive device aboard the station, as Rogan tried to band the team together in order to continue work on the cure. But the results were bittersweet. A plan was devised to use Sickbay to filter the anti-nanites to the rest of the station, but due to the damage caused, it would have to be performed manually. Overruled, Chaplain was forced to allow Rogan to undertake the act, himself. But when the time came, Chaplain took Rogan by surprise and dragged him out of Sickbay - allowing him to take the Doctor's place and deliver the solution to the rest of the station. With the lockdown lifted, but with communications still out, Renee arrived on the scene as the team discovered Chaplain's sacrifice.
As the team's plan to distribute the cure amongst the afflicted worlds was put in to action, and with many away to oversee it, Renee said quiet goodbyes to Jemma Etis and Professor Fox - recalling how Chaplain convinced her to take the job - before leaving the station behind to return to Earth.
It remains to be seen just how much more Pioneer Station and the Accobar System will be affected by the latest incident.
- What did Chaplain whisper in Jemma's ear?
- Was the perpetrator uncovered?
- Will Perry take Mitchell's place?
- Who will take command of Pioneer Station?
Through your efforts, we're back on track to ride out the anniversary season... and we're only just beginning. Thank you all for coming on such short notice ^-^
Rate and discuss, above and below.
Who voted awful? I'm ashamed of whoever voted awful. I will find you and vaporize you.
Seriously, who did it?
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Again, a verry good episode. It always suprises me to see how an SRP episode can turn out really well when everyone gets involved and has their own thing to do and to say in the RP.
Did the losses came unexpected? Perhaps because they came unexpected they didn't and perhaps because they came expected they did. At any rate, the scene has been set for a verry interesting season and further storyline. I look forward for everyone of our characters to serving in the Accobar system, and when the time comes, see how this will all end.
Quote from: SFC3 on November 03, 2013, 07:53:31 PM
Who voted awful? I'm ashamed of whoever voted awful. I will find you and vaporize you.
Seriously, who did it?
(space reserved for review)
While there is no obligation to provide written feedback, I can't fix what I don't know is broken - so I encourage a personal message, if nothing else.
Since we had 9 members in attendance, however, I would also encourage the remaining two (<-excluding me) to cast a vote at some point during the week :)
It was an excellent SRP Grizz well worth it but its a shame that you lost a fine officers including kyle :( but then gain a new one in the end but overall a really good story sad and fun in one. :)
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'A Touch of Death' - Voted Excellent
This was an interesting title for this episode. There was a moment in time in which this episode was going to meet with that certain death. If this came to fruition, then the schedule leading up to the monumental episode number 100 would have been shattered. Luckily enough, none of this has happened. Not even time could keep this episode from running, and so it was that all of you wonderful people appeared on an unlikely Sunday afternoon to take part in this installment of Asteroid Field.
Now I think I will start by saying that as ever, our dear Grizz continues to be full of surprises. But I do not think it is the surprises that make her style of roleplay so fantastic, I think it is that she has studied the greatest dramas and taken their style and infused her own creativity into it. This has produced the Accobar Sector. I wouldn't leave this sector for anything (that means Rogan is dying next week). The Accobar Sector is, of course, shaped by the characters of the series. Those characters are played by fantastic roleplayers (that's you guys), and I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you for being there when you are needed the most. Thank you for being able to make it when asked to make it short-notice. Most of all thank you for your enthusiasm, it is one of the things that makes AF so desirable and so high on at least my priorities list.
The episode itself. Wow. Once again AF delivers the flavour of drama that we simply don't see in ... well anything else really. But let's continue onto the actual episode. The Tyrella Nano-virus. When it first entered our lives it was the first time my connection crapped out on me. Being a Rogan-central episode, it was both amusing and frustrating to navigate the intricacies of roleplay with reduced control. We managed to isolate the virus, and then Rush played with the ship and BLAM! we had the storyline that would haunt the medical staff of the station (Read: Rogan) for a good chunk of his spare time. In fact, it was what lead to his experimentation with nanites. But it's back, and it's better than ever.
If you missed the last episode, Chaplain wheeled a storage container into Sickbay. Nobody knew what was in the storage cart, and everyone was so busy trying to kill the nano-virus that someone set loose on the sector, that it was too late before anyone even thought to check it. That container exploded. Hence this episode.
The character deaths for this episode were specifically designed to deliver maximum shock value and grab your undivided attention. Well, at least that's my theory. If this is the case, then I would say it was perfectly executed. Mitchell and Ford. Everyone thought that the happy couple was actually safe. When Mitchell received 0 votes on the "who do you think will die" poll, this was the dominant belief. Little did everyone know what was on the horizon...
If the character deaths didn't shock you enough, the plot should have done the rest of the work for you. Revealing the true nature of a roleplay,
A Touch of Death demonstrates perfectly that RPers are the ones making the RP. While some of the events in the episode were no doubt scripted, it never ceases to amaze me how much of these episodes is actually created by the people participating. I could go into a long, intricate analysis of the style and why we get excited but I don't feel like writing a double essay. Not this time, anyhow. Back to the episode!
The bomb exploded, the crew recovering. It seems that we're very good at acting dazed and confused and that made the first part of this episode incredibly believeable. As the episode progressed, we got to see the delicate relationships of the crew get tested and their emotional states degrade as we learned of the deaths. The final blow would be delivered in the form of a bittersweet victory for the crew: a cure had been developed and can be administerd to anyone who is on the station! ... unfortunately the cure can only be administered manually from within Sickbay. What was sure to be the end of Rogan brought out one of the most emotional scenes I have ever participated in a roleplay (and that includes going from being the Chief Science Officer aboard Dauntless to its primary villain literally overnight). As I formulated a goodbye speech to the crew, I noticed the tone get darker and darker. It was phenomenal to be able to see these reactions, and the crew be stunned. Then the thing happened.
I'd like to start this section by saying that without Griffiths to mould the character into what he became, our reaction to Chaplain and his actions would never have been as strong as they were. For that I would like to say thank you to Griffiths. Commander Mark Chaplain was as stubborn as they come. The Starfleet Officer who was dedicated to his duty and his fellow officers. He blamed himself for the carting of the bomb and he demonstrated his unwavering loyalty when he did the thing: he knocked out Rogan and took his place in the executioner's chamber of Sickbay. This scene also invoked great emotion. On top of demonstrating the full value of shock, we were all left wondering if anything could have turned out differently. Chaplain's sacrifice represents the pivotal moment of this episode, and the one event that ties together all of the shock values that were presented to us. It also marked the end of Hampton as she could no longer stay on-board the station after Chaplain's death.
This episode was the perfect demonstration of shock value. Not only that, but it brought out the values of roleplay that make something feel as real as though you were actually living it. However, the episode also left us with some questions that it cleverly hid with the tension and shock. For instance, did the sector manage to survive the outbreak? Who was the culprit and were they aboard the station? How will the deaths affect the rest of the crew? All of these questions and more are sure to be answered with questions that spawn more questions and that, my friends, is what makes Asteroid Field, Asteroid Field. Thank you Grizz, and thank you roleplayers. I can now confidently say you are an integral part of my Saturday afternoon.
~Andzzy~