A significant travel time lay between the Leviathan’s current position and her destination at Kessik. And despite mountains of preparations and mission checks still outstanding, the captain found himself slightly worried about crew boredom. They’d just been set free from an extended period at the starbase and now had days of isotropic travel ahead. He knew that Surda would be delivering her own combat/security training. But he also wanted something more mentally challenging. Something character-building. Something fun.

As a child, he had enjoyed an ancient Earth game called ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. In it, players would assume fantasy characters and would embark on an adventure through mystical lands and rotting dungeons, fighting all manner of terrifying and whimsical creatures along their path. Interrogating the Leviathan’s computer, he was delighted to find an ancient transcript of the ‘Player Handbook’ so decided to propose a game for the crew.

That evening, all would find the following message in their personal inbox:

=^= Adventure and excitement awaits. Come join me, Captain Cobb, as your Dungeon Master and pit your skills against all manner of dangerous and wonderful creatures as you battle to complete this most magical and mysterious of quests!
Tomorrow evening. 20:00 hours. Holodeck 1. Depending on numbers we may split off into several groups. =^=

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

OOC: So this was an idea I’d briefly discussed with Gavin in discord. I’ve never done anything like this before at STF, but the plan is to try and run a standard 5E D&D adventure over text, with our characters each creating and playing their own in-game characters (so this is going to be an RP within an RP, haha!)
Of course, this is the Leviathan, so it’s not going to be an ‘ordinary’ game of D&D, muah ha ha! But if you’re interested then join in this thread and we can give it a go and see what happens!

• Sharon