Hi everyone
Another month, another update from your friendly neighbourhood Comms Director!
Obviously we’ve just celebrated Halloween, and even more excitingly the first few episodes of Lower Decks season five have dropped! Do join us in the community discord to chat about your favourite moments (Mine was “Cutiny!!”) and your desires for the new season.
We’re loving some of the spooooooky bits of writing being shared in the #positive-zone channel, do check those out and share your own!
News from around the Taskforces
The Esquimalt Tech Expo is underway! Come engage with this via the community discord, we’d love to have you along to visit, maybe browse some stalls or attend a presentation!
Are you interested in running a game? Maybe you feel a bit nervous about the Nova requirements, or having to do a lot of background admin? Well, we have solutions for you! Alongside the Tech Expo, we’re opening Esquimalt for your short-term storyline needs. If you want to play around with a little political storyline, or maybe some deep-cover intelligence operation…let us know! We’d love to host you! Drop a thread in the Esquimalt channel of the OF Discord and we’ll support you in whatever you need.
Game Spotlight: The USS Wabi Sabi
To Boldly Roll is a rare form of role-playing game in Obsidian Fleet in that we play once a week, live and over voice chat. We use both Discord for the voice and last-minute images and a virtual tabletop program called Foundry, which holds the rules mechanics for the Star Trek Adventures RPG we use.
When we came back from a month hiatus, we started on our new story with the help of two new wonderful players who joined our two old guard to make a crew that was going places. Specifically, to investigate a mysterious new energy signature at the edge of Federation space. In an unexplored region of space the USS Wabi Sabi, that’s our ship btw, finds an ancient and powerful structure containing a wormhole! Shenanigans ensue and they are forced to travel through said wormhole to escape the collapse of a Pulsar… or three! Now, in the large magellanic cloud with no clear way home they have started on a quest for knowledge to solve a 2-million-year-old crime of truly galactic proportions!
Interested in hearing more? Check out their page: https://www.obsidianfleet.net/game/1920/
Fleetcast
In addition to our ongoing Doctor Who reviews, we’ve had a couple more episodes of our “Let’s Write!” series hosted by Emu, on the subject of Villains and Creating a Character. Check these out over on our Youtube channel.
Coming up this month we have more of the same, plus mark out the 30th November for our monthly Quiz night!
Database Updates
We’re almost ready to share this! Just pending the last few tweaks and then we’ll be launching it for the entire community.
If you have news you want to get out into the community, or want to get involved in any events, or even if you’re just feeling a bit lost and need a chat, get in touch at [email protected]