Right, it occurs to me after working on my fancy-pants OP, that I didn't actually say what this thread was for.
Basically, this is an interest check to see who's interested in players, as well as an OOC to hash out issues and answer questions.
To that end, I'll start answering questions that've occured to me, and others.
Q: How does this kind of game even work?
A: Basically, you are all going to start off in a closed circle environment. Which is to say, you'll be isolated from the outside world. There's a few reasons for this. The first, is so everybody doesn't go spilling out in a hundred different directions, and instead are forced to work together to survive, creating a faction.
The second reason for this isolation period, is to give you guys time to develop your characters. Beyond the obvious stuff like leveling up skills, you'll explore the local area, and stuff that'll affect all of you as a group happens.
Thirdly, is that I don't want this game to end prematurely with you all being smashed by outside forces. Pirates, bandits, Adventurers looking for shinies, that sort of thing.
Anyway, you're going to start off in a set place. From there, you'll RP a little, then choose a set of actions for the week. We'll get back to you, and in-game you'll interact with other characters until the next week rolls around. Rinse and repeat, between Events. Events are basically times when you'll be playing real-time. They can be negotiations, battles, weird occurences, interactions with NPCs, or just big events.
As time goes on, we'll probably do bigger timeskips to cover more ground, and level you guys up faster, between Events. This will continue until either you guys break the isolation phase by getting out of the starting area, or at a pre-determined point by me. I'll have you guys discovered by NPCs from outside your zone, and that'll move the game into the next phase.
Outside your little safe zone, there is an entire world. You'll have the opportunity to learn about it through books, or in other ways. What you do with it, is up to you guys. Make peace, fight wars, dominate through trade, explore the wilds, become the greatest of sages. It's all up to you.
Q: Where the hell are we, anyway?
A: In an original sci-fi fantasy that I will be creating as we go along. For the time being, you'll start inside a mysterious facility. Some people already know where I'm drawing my inspiration, but I want to keep some sense of mystery. So, people will have to try and find ways to get outside if they want to find out where in the world they are. That, or they could try and find a window.
This place is kind of... hideously big, though. So that could take awhile.
Q: What about food and water?
A: Those'll be taken care of. I want my players to explore the setting and grow. Not turn into subsistence farmers.
Q: How many players will you allow?
A: As of right now, I'm thinking about doing five. If I can wrangle myself another GM, I might do up to ten.
Approved Character List
If your name isn't here, please don't post in the IC thread.
~NGD OMEGA~ said:
Name: Mortimer "Morton" Irving
Age: 20
Appearance:
Personality: Boisterous, Friendly, and generally Quirky. Rather knowledgeable and intelligent, though his moments where he displays as such aren't as common as they should be. Very attentive to his surroundings, except when there is something that catches his interest greatly enough to block everything else from his mind entirely. Has a great desire to learn more about anything that catches his interest, though his clumsiness and tendency to get into accidents makes this rather unwise.
History: Because of his joy of learning things that fascinated him, he quickly tried learning as much about how technology worked as he could, until one day while cooped up in front of a computer he glanced out the window by chance and thanks to the gorgeous view discovered the world outside was every bit as interesting as the world behind the screen, leading him into two rather conflicting fields.
Specializations: Technology(General), Exploration(General)
lightwave said:
Name:Tristan Wieland
Age: 24ish.
Appearance: Tristan's a scarecrow. He's got long arms and legs and his black hair is prematurely graying. It's a sore spot for him. He's pale generally being completely covered by some clothing and hiding his face under hats.
Personality:Bit scatter minded, enthusiastic, free-spirited and such. Lazy. Underlining Arrogance.
Specializations: Gunsmith(Rifle), Movement(Parkour)
Schema said:
Name: Holden Seacroft
Age: 25
Appearance: Of average height with curly red hair and blue eyes and usually has at least some stubble. He may have lost some tone and definition, but he still has a mostly athletic build. A part of his left arm is scar tissue, up close you can easily guess its from a burn.
Personality: Curiosity may have killed the cat, but not him. When it comes to every day life he cares little about retaining practical knowledge or materialistic things, but craves the next experience. Most of the time he comes off as uncaring, until you catch his interest. Then he will only leave you alone after 'figuring you out'.
History: Coming from a privileged home life, he doesn't exactly know the definition of sacrifice. He wrestled for his college team for three years, "To Test Himself", before quitting. Now a professional chef one of his desires is to never make the same dish twice. Unfortunately for him until he gets his own restaurant that is not going to happen.
Specialization: Wrestling, Cooking.
happerry said:
Name: Maribel Tosh.
Age: 22
Appearance: Tall, brown haired and blue eyed, Maribel is sadly (At least in her opinion) on the slender side, and has been unflatteringly compared with a beanpole before.
Personality: Maribel is what most people call an introvert, and honestly simply took up her major of computer programming because it meant she didn't have to deal with as many people once she had a job. Once you get past her shyness, however, she is a friendly, if timid, person to know.
Specializations: Computer Programming, History.
Urdarum said:
Name: Mathew Yamakawa
Age: 25
Appearance: Mathew is a second generation Japanese immigrant. He has long blown eyes coupled with blonde hair and pale skin. He is tin and unfit while somehow maintaining good endurance (for someone that does exercise once a month).
Personality: Mister Yamakawa, as he is called at work, is a shy man only coming out of his shell when the discussion turn about games or technology. He has a slight photo-phobia and can't bear the idea of the sun touching his skin in any place other than his head. Slow to make friends he is really loyal to those he befriends.
History:He followed this interests at the beginning by studying Computer Science and been GM at a few events, but the spotlight quickly turned him away. After leaving GMing his grades started suffering and it wasn't until he changed tracks to Game Designing specializing in video games that his output recovered. He hasn't really worked on that field yet as an acquaintance got him a job in translation and adaptation of tabletop RPG games. During College he took interest in his Japanese ancestry and studied Japanese and martial arts, he drifted from art to art until finally setting in ninjustu as it was more about been stealthy than actually fighting and he strongly focus on that aspect of the art.
Specializations: Game Designing, Ninjutsu(Stealth).
Note: Ninjutsu as in the real art of hiding and getting in an out of places without been noticed with some martial arts thrown in, not stuff like Naruto's and the like. Most likely this note isn't needed but I prefer to err on the side of caution.