**Spoilers Alert if you’re in my game** (Not sure my players actually travel to this forum yet but if you do be aware your ruining your own surprise)
I am a couple days away from running my character creation session with my players and have come up with a very interesting plot twist for the players.
We are running the campaign in Starfleet Academy starting the fall semester in 2361. Starting shortly after Worf has graduated in the Spring Semester. I have asked my players for some answers to some basic character questions to start their creative juices flowing and to help me plot out a fun breaking the ice style session for my players since; I have players who have not gamed together before.
I have asked my players to come up with a moment or event in their characters history that was the characters reason for joining Star Fleet or the defining moment that sparked their path to joining Star Fleet. Using these events I am going to have a few pre-made npc's to hand out to the other players and we are going to play out the events from each of the characters background histories.
(Examples: An Andorian character who is attempting to join the Andorian Defense Force and who failed out to later join Star Fleet; A Human/Vulcan raised on Earth without his Vulcan father to teach him the Vulcan ways and who is attempting to steal a Starfleet shuttle craft to run away to Vulcan not realizing he is under the throes of Pon Far.)
These events will be unfolding in the way the player envisions them and the other players will get a chance to partake in the experience with the player that the events are meant for.
The twist is going to be during the First Game session after the character creation session. What I have planned is that this was a part of the preparatory program. The Characters are actually reliving events from their past and being scored on the way they handled themselves in each scenario. The scoring is not necessary however this is more of a test of character.
The part I am unsure of is how this would be administered. Personally I want it to be a mixture of Receptive Telepathy, Projective Telepathy, Mind Meld, or some other telepathic forms. I want this to be done with all the characters to where they are unaware of it unless they make some type of successful telepathic test against the "attacker". This would be done in a class room of maybe 12-15 applicants to Starfleet. I have thought about having them focused on some type of equipment or device possibly resembling the Virtual Reality head gear and during the process this may enhance the Psionic link in some way. This would be done while the applicants are in some sort of hypnotic like state or while all the memories are being experienced at once if the one administering the test were telepathically strong enough to focus his energies on all the applicants at the same time and create the experience that is akin to a walk down memory lane. I prefer having as few administering the test as possible, but if more than one Psionic user would be necessary a couple could be worked in. The administrators can be of any races that are in the Federation. I was thinking Betazoid or Vulcan but others are possible. For those that succesfully detect the Psionic effects they will probably feel a deja vu effect and possibly be ablt to counter act it.
Any ideas on this type of testing would be excellent. I only have until Late Friday sorry for the short notice.