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Alien: Quarantine - Game Information (Read First)

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Gamemaster
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Sat 21 Mar 2020
at 15:40
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Alien: Quarantine - Game Information (Read First)

Alien: Quarantine takes place in the Alien Universe developed by Ridley Scott; a universe with a rich mythology spanning six official Alien movies, fifteen short films, video games, books and tie-in novels. And this is all before you include the Blade Runner franchise of movies. It is a world populated by corrupt corporations seeking financial gain and profit, roughnecks, Colonial Marines, synthetic lifeforms, and the alien Xenomorph. The "perfect organism".

The purpose of this game, and the hope of the GM, is to tell a story and add to the mythology of this world. To do this, we need structure, a way to resolve actions, to add dramatic tension, and to handle combat. For this purpose, we will be utilizing the Alien Roleplaying Game System developed by Free League. In this system, characters will build dice pools comprising their attributes and skills, they will role dice to determine the success or failure of actions, they will push skills, they will gain stress, and, in the end, they will face choices with life or death consequences.

The problem with any roleplaying system, however, is that if it is followed too rigidly, it can stifle gameplay. That's not the goal here. The goal is to tell a story, the system just provides the framework inside which the story will unfold.

So...

Welcome to Alien: Quarantine...

And may the odds be ever in your favor...
Gamemaster
GM, 6 posts
Sat 21 Mar 2020
at 16:15
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Alien: Quarantine - Game Information (Read First)


Alien Universe Timeline

Current Year: 2182

Notable Events:
2122 - The UNCSS Nostromo and the oil refinery she is towing are destroyed above LV-426
2137 - The flight recorder of the UNCSS Nostromo is recovered and taken to Sevastapol Station; following an accident, Sevastapol Station is destroyed.
2179 - Contact is lost with the Hadley's Hope colony on LV-426; USS Sulaco dispatched to investigate; Contact with USS Sulaco lost
2179 - Contact with the Fiorina "Fury" 161 penal colony lost

Suggested Viewing:
Alien
Aliens
Alien3
Alien: Alone
Alien: Containment
Alien: Harvest
Alien: Night Shift
Alien: Ore
Alien: Specimin
Alien: Isolation - The Digital Series

Suggested Video Games:
Alien: Isolation

Major Changes:
The conflict between the United States and the Union of Progressive Peoples has ended. The United States has joined with the European Union to form the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). All references to USCSS (United Stations Commercial Star Ship) changed to UNCSS (United Nations Commercial Star Ship); references to USCMC (United States Colonial Marine Corps) changed to UNCMC (United Nations Colonial Marine Corps).

UPP conflicts still occasionally occurring on Frontier worlds.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:20, Sun 22 Mar 2020.
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