This scenario can be played some time after the free adventure Lower Deck 'Second Targ to the Right" Some Ferengi contacts made on this adventure can be useful.
Summary:
The players have to take and convey a live Targ from Risa to Ferenginar on a Danube Shuttle. It’s a one week trek. What can possibly go wrong…
Spoilers
Plot:
Broht and Forrester(B&F) have made a holonovel about Toby the Targ (Lower Decks p4).
It was successful (if the players have solved ‘Second Targ to the Right’ adventure. In my team one player has become the president of Toby the Targ fanclub and an animated series was made (because it was easier to do an animated series than filming with a live Targ.
But B&F is a Ferrengi company and when a cousin Gar Brohl and his new society “GarTarg Inc” proposed to do a Live Action version, following the Rules of aquisition they exploited their familly and sold the adaptation rigths for a big latinium amont and a part of benefits if successful and no risk if it’s a failure (it was hard enough to made a numeric version of Toby they will never take the risk of making a live action version
The filming was a nightmare (I recomend looking at a documentary about the movie “Roar” Roar (1981) - IMDb to give a good rendition of the atmosphere of the set) and Gar saw a disaster coming. But there was one way to make real latinium nethertheless selling participations to many investors and he has sold 1000% of the movie (see the movie the Producers for inspiration Les Producteurs (1967) - IMDb ) but now that he has oversell the series it has to fail. He must fail. Considering the problems on set there’s no way the filming could finish.
But against all odds the director a human Noel Marshall made a miracle and has finished the filming on time. Now the only way to cover his loss is to kill Diesel vom Targinwald the targ that played Toby with a live insurance on it.
Gar Brohl have rented two klingon pirates L’oss and S’Mash to kill the Targ.
Scene 1: On the ship. The ship has a vacation on Risa. Let the players rejoice make some plans then call them to their superior cabin. Their superior is already in swimwear. “The captain want somebody to do an important mission for the relation between Federation and Klingon and he has thought about them to do this mission instead of going in vacation. the filming of Toby the Targ the live action series will finish today. You will have to convey a Targ from Risa to Ferenginar. The director was afraid that a Klingo ship might eat the Tar so he has called a friend of his to make Starfleet bring back the Targ to GarTarg Inc headquarters on Ferenginar”
The Danube assigned to the crew is the the Shuttle Wesley Crusher. Some problem that has to be solved if the players thought about them. No Cage for the Tag (the targ if nothing is prepared will be in the cargo bay). The food replicator is in the cargo bay (can be solved) The Transporter is in the Cargo bay (cannot be solved unless really creative). The door to get out is also in the cargo bay.
If the players want to do some figuration on the movie you can make a Time Challenge for shuttle preparation
Scene 2 Risa
Noel Marshall will recieve the players and the Targ has has some problems during filming and shouldn’t be put to sleep with anesthetics he was afraid that a Klingon ship can eat it so he has called the Federation which is also part of the project.
may try to convince some players to play in a scene. If the roll is bad they will be cut from the final version? The see many wounded technicians with broken limbs arms or eyes and many bruises. The Targ Trainer is the Klingon Klek from previous scenario. All can say that there were many incidents on the set and it was a miracle that the filming will be finished today. The last scene is 3 beatiful actresses and Toby having a cocktail on a tiki bar. One player can be the waiter in the background. At some point the Targ will go wild and may inured some actress, the waiter player or other players in the vicinity.
Yesterday L’oss and S’Mash have injected a medical probe a targ illness that will trigger during the trip
Scene 3 the Star Targ Trek
The first event is the Targ in the shuttle bay? The payers also have to make food and clean Targ dejection
The second event is the targ getting hill.Diesel has to be healed. A medical probe can be found
Third event seeing that the probe say that the Targ is still alive L’oss and S’Mash will attack the craft (maybe with or cloaked fighters) The probe signal can be traced back to the cloaked ships.
They will flee to avoid capture. They can be identified as pirate for hire. Some latinium can be found on their personal effects
Scene 4 space near Ferenginar
The shuttle will be contacted by Ferenginar customs. They soon realized that nobody has paid the Love animal importation task (Gar has assumed that the targ will be dead and wanted to save latinium). A space ship of the Ferengi IRS a size 6 spacecraft “the inevitable income tax” with a Ferengi Tax Collector as Captain Zacchaeus will soon appear and call the shuttle inside the ship.
Some things that can be discovered euther by Ferengi contacts or by Zacchaeus or some accounting
- the series was sold several times it has to fail to be profitable
- No tax was paid for importing a Targ
- GarTarg Inc has no location prepared to house a targ
- maybe latinium can be traced
- B&F are innocent but make profit unlikely for GarTarg Inc
- No one is ready to take the Targ so they will have to bring Diesel back to their ship
Gar will be beamed on the “the inevitable income tax” and will face something more deadlier than Death itself
Epilogue: The captain will see the team they will have to explain why a Targ is on his ship and why a B&F official has decided to film season 2 on his ship?