From: martin@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Michele Martin) Newsgroups: alt.tv.quantum-leap.creative Subject: XOVER:The Witness intro Date: 14 Mar 1995 19:54:18 GMT Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Message-Id: <3k4s9a$qcl@news.duke.edu> Well, this group seems pretty quiet, and since I've got this I've started that involves Sam and Al (and lots of other interesting people), I figure I'll give it go and post it here. Let me warn you now that Sam will not show up until part 3, but the other parts are important to set up the situation in which Sam finds himself. I'm fishing for comments/criticisms on characterizations, continuity, plot, etc (please, no random flames), so if you read what I have of this story let me know what you think.... *************************************************************************** This is a crossover story between several of my personal fave shows. The genesis of this thing is kind of complicated. The idea started when someone suggested a Highlander/X-files crossover story on alt.tv.x-files. Some suggestions for a story line were given, and I felt obligated to add a few other shows for fun and amusement. Someone on the Forever Knight list saw my post and, since that show was one of the ones I dragged into the story, they forwarded it to the list. Several people thought it might be fun to actually write out an entire story in a sort of round-robin format over on FKFIC-L, the Forever Knight fanfiction list. Since my post was the one that prompted the idea, I offered to start off the story. It was rather amusing, especially since the rules were that one could drag in any show one wanted to, provided one could provide a good reason to do so. Although the FKFIC-L endeavor went off into a few unforseen tangents, I decided to take my original idea, expand upon it, and write it myself. Which is what I've done. Since I'm posting this to several relevant lists, and since I hardly expect everyone to know all the same shows I do, below I have a sort of cast of characters. That should explain to some extent who everyone is and why they're acting the way they are. If you need anymore clarification, feel free to mail me at martin@abacus.mc.duke.edu ************************************************************************* THE WITNESS (a Forever Knight/Highlander/X-Files/QL/Starman crossover) CAST: *Connor and Duncan MacLeod*: 450 and 400 year old, respectively, Immortals, from the movie and subsequent tv series (again, respectively) _Highlander_. Immortals can only die by beheading, usually at the hands of another Immortal, and this results in the release of their life force in a phenomenon knows as Quickening. Often it looks like a big electrical storm. Duncan's new SO is *Dr. Anne Lindsay*, who will show up as well. Connor MacLeod, btw, tends to use pseudonyms, moreso than does Duncan. In the original movie, Connor was known as "Russell Nash". At present, he is going by Robert Greene. *Nick Knight*: From the series _Forever Knight_, Nick (or Nicholas) is an 800 year old vampire who desperately wants to become mortal again. Out of guilt for the crimes of his past, Nick is serving society as a Toronto homicide detective. There appears to be a rather thriving vampire community in Toronto, and many local vampires hang out at a club called "The Raven", run by *Jannette*, Nick's vampiric "sister", who was responsible for seducing then-Crusader Nicholas over to vampirism in 1228. Both Jannette and Nick were "brought across" (turned into vampires) by *LaCroix*, who is also in Toronto and is often heard over the airwaves as "The Nightcrawler". Nick and LaCroix don't get along, and LaCroix has spent alot of time through the centuries thwarting Nick's attempts to become mortal again. *Don Schanke*: Nick's detective partner, who has absolutely no idea that Nick is a vampire. He just thinks Nick is really eccentric. *Dr. Natalie Lambert*: The Toronto Medical Examiner who not only knows what Nick is but is trying very hard to find a "cure". She perceives vampirism as a physical, and not necessarily a metaphysical, condition. Which means it can be cured. She says she's helping Nick because of the fascinating medical challenge he embodies. Viewers know, however, that there are _other_ motives.... *FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully*: from _The X-files_, Mulder and Scully investigate strange phenomenon, predominantly UFO related cases, which are classified by the FBI as "X-files". Mulder has an obsession with UFOs since he believes his sister, Samantha, was abducted in 1973. She hasn't been seen since. *Dr. Samuel Beckett*: from _Quantum Leap_, Sam is trapped in his own invention, project Quantum Leap, which has him leaping about in his own lifetime, sort of inhabiting other people's bodies (or taking their place and appearing to be that person). He hangs around until he solves whatever the crisis at hand is, and is aided by *Al Calivici*, who "appears in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see", and *Ziggy*, the AI computer Sam (who has, BTW, 6 PhDs and an MD) created. FYI, Sam started leaping in 1995, and was born in 1953. *Paul Forrester and Scott Hayden (now using the surname "Edwards")*: From the 1987 series _Starman_, based partly on the movie, Paul and Scott were on the run from FSA agent George Fox, who knew that Paul wasn't _really_ Paul Forrester, but an alien being (basically a glowing blue life form--possible a hooloovoo? [that's a super intelligent shade of the color blue for all you non-Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans]) who cloned the body of Forrester. The real PF was a photojournalist who got himself killed filming the eruption of Mount Hawthorne, a volcano in the Rockies. Paul and Scott were also searching for Jenny Hayden, Scott's mother (Paul, or rather the alien that pretends to be Paul, is Scott's father, a feat he managed by cloning the body of Scott Hayden Sr., Jenny's then recently deceased husband--that's in the movie). Since the story takes place in 1994, I'm postulating that Paul and Scott have found Jenny and moved to Canada. Okay, that should be enough to get you started..... -- Michele Martin martin@abacus.mc.duke.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evil Guest Immortal: "I have you now, MacLeod." Duncan MacLeod: "I admit it. You're better than I am." EGI: "Then why are you smiling?" MacLeod: "Because I know something you don't know..." "..._I_ am the star of this show." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------