Introduction
The darkness creeps in over the fields of ash. Ruins outlined in harsh red light from the setting sun. Shadows lengthen to cover the skeletons of trees, their flesh scared by fire and coated in thick black ash. A doll lays broken in the streets amongst the shattered stones that once made up a house. Nothing more is left to suggest the nature of the occupants who resided here, before the war, before the end.
The war was one that no one alive can forget. The war lasted for four solid years, calumniating in a nuclear strike that destroyed a good third of the planet. Those that survived struggled to reclaim their homes, only to find that sickness and death was all that remained.
A treaty was put into place soon after and the construction of the dome began. What remained of the world militaries united under one banner NWO (New World Order). An organization and government that would unite all the people that remained on the planet. Where there was once well over six billion humans on planet earth there are now less then 3000 people left alive. Those who remained were slowly gathered up and brought to the Dome. A large glass and metal structure that was constructed over the site where New York used to be.
Over the next four years agriculture was restarted, industry began, heavy regulations were set into force and people began to regain their lives. Only things were not going so well for the remnants of humanity. People began to sicken, birthrate dropped, death-rate increased and it looked for all intensive purposes as if the human race would not survive.
That’s when Reboot was started. A program that was designed to modify the genetic code of humans in order to mutate it to the point where sickness was a thing of the past. In hopes of ‘Rebooting’ the human race. The project was run by the NWO military branch. As most things in the Dome. The military ran everything. From food to clothing to policing.
The year is 2020. There are now 1000 people left alive on the planet. That number is slowly decreasing as a cure has yet to be found. This is where your story begins...
- Interest Check & Inspirational Videos | +
- Ok so I was listening to skillet. which isn't unusual for me since it is my number one source of muse. I had an idea, but I would like to know what people think of it. Mostly watching these two Skillet videos I sorta got to thinking. This would make a really cool RP. So here are the videos.
Sooo my whole idea here was a military research facility that specialized in mutating human DNA. Think along the lines of Mutant X set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future semi-sci-fi modernistic world. Ok so the principle of the idea.
There was a huge war that overtook planet earth in a nuclear war. After the end of the war what remained of humanity began to sicken and soon birth rates declined, people began to die of incurable diseases and the human race was certainly headed for extinction. In an effort to save the human race from certain death a group of military scientist got together and began to work on a 'cure'. They took a handful of volunteers (read into this voluntold) and these experiments led to a strange and unforeseen side effects, the human subjects began to exhibit mutation in their very genetics that allowed them supernatural powers. Some were able to blast energy across a room. Some were able to harness electricity. You get the picture.
The problem is that these poor volunteers lost all memory of their past and none understood why they were locked beneath the surface of the earth in a dank lab being prodded.
Another larger organization believed that the mutation experiment was a blight like those that had led to the great war and soon began to raid these labs trying to kill off the experiments. What ended up happening was that the experiments got free.
What remains of the human population lives in a huge dome with very strict rules. So the experiments now find themselves on the street of a very strict and brainwashed city of normal people with no memory of what happened to lead up to this point, no ideas of the laws or regulations everyone else known and they are hunted by both those who had imprisoned them and those who were trying to kill them.
So what do people think?
(sidenote: if you guys feel more comfortable in Beta or in the Cave I'm also open to moving this to either one of those locations.
Sidenote two: I'd be looking for a few people 3-5 players for this particular RP. You have a choice or regular person, mutant, military (both those against the experiment and those for the experiment) )
The Plot
There where 5 experiments who escaped the research facility. They have no memory of their past, of the war or any knowledge of the new world. They find themselves trapped within the Dome in a society that is radically different then anything they have experienced while locked in the labs. The labs were built beneath the surface of the earth while the Dome is above the earths surface behind walls of thick steel with a solid glass roof.
Further details on the Dome and Labs can be found later on in the OOCThere are two organizations now after the experiments. The NWO, or New World Order, the organization run by the planets military that took these volunteers in the first place. They wish to return the experiments to the dark dank labs beneath the earth to learn if their mutations are indeed a cure to the sickness that the nuclear war brought or if it is something else entirely.
The other organization is called Freedom For the Future, or FFF, the members of this organization are all former military or civilians who have or had military ties. They strongly believe that the experiments are going to be the cause of the same downfall that led to the first great war. The FFF have been raiding the Labs for the better part of a year and that is what led to the experiments escaping. The radical nature of FFF means that instead of trying to capture the experiments they desire to kill them outright. The members of this organization believe only Faith and drastic changes in human society can undo the end times. They are radicals.
Lost and confused the five experiments who escaped the labs find themselves in the streets of the Domed City and must struggle to survive. This is their story...
Characters Needed
We will need the following characters that are centric to the plot. I will NPC anyone needed that isn’t claimed, you can claim more then one character and can have NPCs. Please see the rules later on in the OOC about NPCs.
- Lab staff who helped the experiments escape during the confusion of the raids.
- 5 escaped experiments
- Normal people who are helping them out.
- Members of NWO
- Members of FFF
- Others you can think of that would be interesting
The Dome
The landmass under the dome spans 321 square miles or 831 (roughly) square kilometers set out in a circle. The walls of the door are 24 feet thick solid titanium and steel walls that span the full circle without any visible break and go down 38 feet into the earth where the Labs begin. The height of the walls are 132 feet. There is no way anyone can see over the walls. What isn’t covered by solid steel is the top of the dome which is pure glass. The glass is bullet proof and specifically designed to allow filtered air into the dome. Large filtration plants are set up above the wall in the last 32 feet of wall. There are access shafts up to the plants located at the base of the walls. They are essentially large elevators that go up to the plants and then back down to the city floor. No where else. Sunlight and solar radiation is also filtered into the dome via the glass roof.
The dome effectively blocks the destruction of the old world from the view of the streets. The city is laid out like a sphere. At the very center of the dome is the government buildings. These buildings are set up a large central tower that towers well above any other building. All the streets lead to the government complex. There are four entrances the North, South, East and West. However these are all heavily guarded by the military forces of NWO. Since there have been a lot of infiltration from FFF attempting to gain control of the government buildings
More on this in FFF section.
The houses are usually located closer to the government building in the civilian and housing sector. The next layer out from there is the Market and Shopping sector, which also houses the Restaurants and Entertainments. On the very edge of the Dome nearest to the Wall is the Military sectors, a smaller wall separates this sector from the rest of the city.
The Labs
The labs span a 31 square miles area beneath the surface of the earth. The facilities is sealed off from the rest of the planet and access to it’s lower sections is held under several layers of security. The lab holds 152 different sections. The only ones that matter for this RP are the entrance to the labs, the holding cells and the research sections. I’ll explain those in details. If you have questions about the rest of the lab, feel free to ask.
Experiments would have only ever seen the Holding Cells and the Research Labs. They would have seen the entrance on their way out.
The Entrance:Located two blocks into the military sector of the city. The entrance looks like a regular building. Once you get past the lobby which looks like a typical military barricade. Metal detectors, guards, nothing else. There’s a large elevator shaft that could hold 100 people.
The shaft goes down into the earth 38 feet to the base of the outer wall. The shaft opens up on a large and brightly lit entrance where a single desk sits right in front of a large pair of double doors. A single military personal sits at the desk and enters people in and out. Monitoring everyone coming and going. Behind the double doors leads to the main labs. There are other lifts down to the lower levels located down the hall behind the desk.
The Holding Cells:This is where all the experiments are kept when they are not in the labs themselves. The holding cells are straight down at the lower levels. Down elevator shaft 19A from the main level. It’s a straight ride from the mail level down to the holding cells. The cells are all electronically locked and monitored, but there are no guards down in these levels.
The cells themselves are like a bachelor apartment. One single room with a bed, cabinet, closet, basic clothing, pens, books, some even have toys. Another room much smaller holds a shower, toilet and sink. This is where the experiments spend most of their time. The rooms are decorate however each experiment desires and look more like heavily locked hospital rooms then the prison cells they are.
Research Sections:This section looks very much like an average hospital. Operating rooms, lab space where tests are performed, private rooms for patience observation, ext. This is exactly like a high end hospital. It is located down elevator shaft 3B from the main level. It’s in the middle of the facility and easily accessible from everywhere. There are shafts from the main level and from every other level including the Holding Cells. This is the only other entrance into the Holding Cells.
Freedom For the Future (FFF)
About a year ago when the experimentations were well underway this group rose up from seemingly no where. In reality the members of this group where people who remembered the freedoms they once had and desired to be free once more. However, they couldn’t act out against the institution without being made to vanish.
It took time for these people to meet in secret at first. Exchanging messages in code. Making sure to not be seen together in daylight hours. That sort of things. No one knowing who anyone else is. Living under the guise of being a regular member of the NWO society, while in reality working to undermine and destroy them.
They are radicals. Radicals who believe that if society continues to go down the way it currently is, that if the changes are not of everyones free will and are not united in peace then the events that led to the first great war will happen again. It is only a matter of time. The seen only to free the remains of human society.
Their first large activist and organize attempt have been a series of raids on the Labs. One such raid led to the freeing of 5 experiments believed to have been caused by an insider helping them. No one knows how strong they are. Nor how many people there are in their organization. No one knows just where to find them.
New World Order (NWO)
There were so few people left, the nations were all but non existent. No one won the war. We all lost. In an effort to survive those that remained united under one treaty. The New World Order.
The remaining military of ever nation gathered under this banner and began to rebuild only one place. The Dome. Gathering the civilians who survived and bringing them to the Dome. The how isn’t important. Only survival mattered.
A lot was lost during these first years. Histories destroyed. Papers burned. Ashes remained of earth’s previous age. A new age began. The dawning of a new civilization.
Nationalities were lost, people didn’t care anymore. Why should they. There were only 3923 remaining humans on the planet and counting down... Every day saw the loss of more of the earths population. It was a struggle for the very survival of a species at this point.
The rules were created, the new government established.
Everyone was assigned a work location. Everything is distributed according to need and there are no money or currency of any kind. The New World Order controls everything. From clothing, to food, to housing, to entertainment.
Other then that there is a curfew that no citizen is to be on the streets after 10pm. This is in an effort to reduce crime and such. Also it tends to help prevent rebellions or so the government thinks anyways.
How you live, how your dress, everything is dictated by the government. Even the shows that are aired are all geared towards brainwashing the citizens of the Dome to behave a certain way.
Experiments
As the sickness brought on by the end of the war and the resulting consequences of the residual fallout from the radiation began to claim the lives of the remaining humans, a group of scientists some military and some civilian gathered together and began to organize an experiment. To alter the genetic code of the humans chosen in order to ‘cure’ the sickness claiming what remains of the human populace.
The unforeseen happened.
As their mutations began to cure the sickness it also began to mutate the very genetic materials that make us human. These experiments not long began to loose their memories as their neurological and physiological pathways were altered by the genetic tampering, but they also began to develop superhuman power.
However,
There were some side effects.
- Loss of all memories prior to the changes
- A splitting of the psyche happened meaning the experiments now have two fully developed personalities.
- Physical symptoms of their power’s manifestation or use.
All experiments will have no memory of their lives leading up to the change. This will never come back, but people who knew them before will still recognize them. Ext. So if you know some of these details like parents, siblings, stuff like that be sure to include this in your histories. It’ll be important for encounters in game.
The strain of the suddenly shifting genetics has caused a splitting of the psyche of the experiments causing them to develop another psyche that manifest primarily when they utilize their powers. Meaning when you write your characters personality, you should also include this shifted personality. This personality should matcher their power. For example if they general fire for example as a power their second personality should have the general aspects of fire. Like volatility, passion, ext. The change might be totally and radically different then their original personality, or it could be just a slight difference, a few key things that show up when they use their powers.
Physical symptoms or manifestations are changes to their physical makeup that have come about from the powers they now have. Something about them will look different. They might have scales, they might have cat eyes, or a tail. Something that is linked to their powers.
Technology
The technology level is modern day, maybe a little more advanced, but nothing Sci-fi. Remeber that the focus was on survival, so advancement would be in agriculture, education, healthcare, that sort of things. Trying to prevent the destruction of mankind.
The only reason there is still fighting is because the two factions have radically different views. One is a Radical faction (FFF) who hold to a semi-religious, end times, scenario where they don’t take with the experimentation and military enforcement and heavy regulations of the dome. Believing in freedom of thought, and freedom of choice, that sort of thing. You can bring in religion into this if you want, but it’s not necessary to belong to the FFF group.
See above for more information on the two factions.
Rules
I have learned that a few basic rules and how I do things are a very important thing to make this smoother. So here they are. They should be common sense, so they shouldn’t be hard to follow.
- The content of the RP in no way reflects personal views on anything. This world is dark, it’s full of political, military and might even have some religious views, these are the views of the characters and the people in the world and not my own views, or the views of the players. I ask that everyone keep this in mind when entering the IC.
- Follow the site rules and section rules. This might have a darker theme, but the content still has to be PG-13. That being said doesn’t mean it has to be boring.
- NPC’s. You can have NPC’s as many as you like. You can NPC anyone in the world. All I ask is that you not NPC anyone in a position of power over the world without checking with me first, that would be high level military leaders, political leaders, organization leaders. You get my picture. The only reason is these people will have information you’ll need to get from me. I don’t mind you taking them on as NPCs, but you have to talk to me first please.
- Don’t play someone else’s NPC without checking with them first. This includes my NPCs.
- Don’t God-mod. or whatever you call it. The experiments will have a lot of power, yes, they are mutants. That being said they are not ‘all powerful gods’. They are still human, they can still bleed and die, they will be confused and uncertain, since they are completely new to the world. This however applies to everyone. Every character has weaknesses, and strengths. I want to see this in your application and in game. I’m not expecting anything I’m not going to do myself.
- Have fun!
If you have questions, ask. I’m always open to questions. Please ask me here in the OOC or via PM if your not comfortable asking publicly. I also have skype if you prefer to chat over skype.
I ask that you not ask me questions in Cbox. This isn’t because I won’t answer, because I will, but your questions might be the same as others. Also Cbox can move quickly at times and I’m likely to miss your question. It is simply easier to use the OOC, PMs, or Skype.
This RP isn’t going to be fast pace. I’m not a fast writer. I prefer quality over speed or replies. You’ll have a two week window after my post to reply. If everyone replies before then I will try and have my reply in just as quickly and if it takes longer just let me know I’m in no rush.
The posting order will be pretty loose, All I ask is that everyone post only once per cycle and I’ll start the cycle. If you want to collab on a post that’s perfectly fine. You guys can do so. It’s often easier to collab on conversation posts and such. Just let us know who’s going to be posting and who all is included in that collaborative post via this OOC thread. I am always open to doing collaborative posts with anyone who wishes it.
Character Creation
I ask that you please use the following character sheet for your character. I will leave the OOC open until we begin the actual IC at which point I will close the RP. If you still want to join at that point PM me please. I’ll likely still allow you into the RP.
The Sheet Miliatary:
Code:
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Group:[/b] Choose one: FFF, NWO
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Military ID:[/b] (for NWO only) NWO-ten-digit-number
[b]Rank:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b] I expect this to be at alpha level (like a regular post)
[b]Other:[/b]
The Sheet Civilian:
Code:
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Group:[/b] Choose one: FFF or NWO
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Occupation:[/b]
[b]Status:[/b] if they have some status like leader of the resistance or something. Otherwise delete
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b] I expect this to be alpha level (like a regular post).
[b]Other:[/b]
The Sheet Experiment:
Code:
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Experiment Code:[/b] This is a 20-digit-combination of letters and numbers that is used to id the experiment and is tattooed on the inside of their forearm right under a barcode.
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b] For experiments this will be your time in the labs. Since that is your earliest memories. If you want to include the memories they lost I encourage you to do so. I expect the history of every character to be up to Alpha standards, it really isn’t hard.
[b]Powers:[/b] Every experiments will have one power. Please pick only one and describe it in details. Be as specific as you can. The more I know the more likely I am to accept your power. I’m not making a list of accepted powers because I want you to be creative.
[b]Other:[/b]
Notes
Any changes made will be noted here. Also any additional information that has no other home will be located here.
Approved Characters
CiviliansJeremi Kgute - Doctor - Played by: Tidfe
MilitaryExperimentsNatasha Vrdeskuz - 26NNSC998000001287-15 - Played by: Illegitimate Chimera