Post Apocalyptic Western: Episode 2

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Khedive Rex

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Is it too late to add another character? I've got a fun one in mind.

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It occures to me that I should probably say who the character is so you can decide if theres room for him.

Name: Ex seargent Bartelby Fargrounds

Occupation: Bumbling rebel. Want's to lead a revolt to overthrow the federation but tends to spend more of his time fleeing from one village to the next.

Description: He's a man of the people in that the more people who are following him the easier it is to hide behind them. He believes and respects the ideas of justice and nobility but fully recognizes that they're for people who are morally superior to him. He's not below a dirty trick or two and in fact often relies on them. Gets along well enough with people but has a unlucky tendency to bite off more than he can chew ("Gee, the mayor has let me stay in his home ... with his beautiful daughter ..." and the next thing he knows he's running again.) Despite all his short comings he honestly feels the suffering of the people and believes that the Federation deserves to be over thrown.

Motivation: Overthrow the federation / get rich and powerful on some days.

Allegiances: His personal safety, bringing an end to the federation, wealth.

Fighting Style: His physical fighting style mostly focuses on dodging blows and getting away / out of grabs. He's good at setting traps for opponents and mostly focuses on avoiding damage while leading the enemy into preset traps. When taken by surprise, he attacks quickly and very chaotically but generally not very powerfully.

Skills and abilities: Running (escaping specifically), lying, trap setting, disquise (spelling?), climbing, hiding, has a good knowledge of geography and formal military strategy from his past as a seargent for the federation and knows a lot of influencial people (most of them hate him but ...)

Defeciencies: physically weak, can't swim, low endurance, low threshold for pain, is afraid of llamas :)

Equipment: a peice of Black Technology he found which is basically a suped-up motorcycle. Can hold three people and travels at 420 miles an hour across any terrain. The Black technology has no weapons and weak armor attached. He has two low caliber hand guns and 4 hand grenades, a good knife, lots of thin rope and some duct tape. He had a small metal plate surgically implanted in the skin over his heart so he could never be shot there. To this day it has never helped him.

Appearence: Early thirties. Thin build, 5/10. Medium length black hair and a thin beard. vaguley handsome but this is overpowered by his constant look of worry and occasionally terror. Only wears very fine clothes.
 

PedroSteckecilo

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Alotak has yet to get back to me so Khedive is in, if everyone is okay with that.

I'll hopefully have the rules and the Intro paragraph posted today. My workload has increased recently so I don't know exactly how much time I'll have today.
 

Kovash86

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Post apocalyptic RPs are typically very depressing, you can never find anything useful, since it all has some huge drawback to it "you can use this armor with decent stats, but it's radioactive so you will get cancer in a month." and the rules for mutants are never any good.
 

PedroSteckecilo

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Not this one, the whole point of the setting is an excuse Cowboys vs. Gangsters on Motorcycles in the Desert with holdover technology from before a nuclear war. Hence the Nausicaa reference, it's an excuse to build a different world with some of the conveniences of the modern one.
 

LewsTherin

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Its like Mad Max and The Dark tower combined...<3

The awesometre canna take much more cap'n!
 

Bling Cat

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hmm, the weekends coming up so ill have a lot of free time then, but ive got two days till then. ill be on 5-10 british time, so if you post aany time outside that and i dont reply, just leave it.
 

Conqueror Kenny

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Bling Cat said:
hmm, the weekends coming up so ill have a lot of free time then, but ive got two days till then. ill be on 5-10 british time, so if you post aany time outside that and i dont reply, just leave it.
Same here really might be on till bout 11 though.
[ spoiler=what you want the front of it to say]spoiler text [/spoiler]without the first space
 

PedroSteckecilo

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7dollarbill said:
Description: Bo stands in at 9.ft tall

Equipment: The only thing Bo carries is an ancient rusted catterpillar forklift attached to a large and durable cain. In battle Bo swings it around like a large flail, flattening men and crushing small vehicles. Otherwise he just drags it behind him leaving a large and easily identifiable trail.
Two issues...

Would you mind making him 7 feet or just over 7 feet tall? It's a little more managable for the world.

Same thing with the weapon, it's a little more superhuman than usual for the setting, feel free to replace it with something else large and I'll certainly still allow a lot of power.

Are these okay?
 

PedroSteckecilo

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DA RULEZ

Rules for Conduct and Posting

1)The Game Master (myself) will begin a ?Round? and then every player may take a single ?Turn?, please delineate your ?Turn? with the marker ?Turn? mostly for the sake of convenience. You may post outside of a ?Turn? but please limit that to in character conversation or planning.

2)All Out of Character conversation must occur in Spoiler Boxes.

3)Be Polite and Courteous to your fellow players, you may be as rude and offensive as you like IN CHARACTER but recall that this is a game and please don?t intentionally antagonize any other players or the GM.

4)I want to try and maintain a collaborative Story environment where everyone has fun, if you have any suggestions, comments or criticisms feel free to PM me or post them OOC.

5)Use Good Grammar and Spelling. I?m not a grammar nazi, but I have a university degree and people who don?t even try to spell properly make me a little mad.

6)This is meant to be collaborative and cooperative, not competitive, please don?t try to ?win? unless that appears to be the objective of the story, play in character and try to keep the game fun for everyone.

7)I currently define the laws and continuity of the game world, so please clear anything pertaining to these with me before invoking them.

8)If I?m being a dick or you think I?m being unfair please let me know, I WILL NOT respond by killing off your character.

9)Please let me know if you are unable to post at least once a day and when your going to be dropping out for awhile (IF you're going to be dropping out for awhile).

Rules for the Game
1)Supplies will be dictated by the plot, if I say you?re out of food, water or money you are, the main reason will be to advance the story.

2)I will try and be fair with threats and obstacles, try not to god mode.

3)No Hit Lands unless I say it does, describe your attack but please DO NOT describe the effect, that is up to me.

4)Evasion of attacks must be plausible within the rules of the universe, feel free to be creative though, if it sounds like it would work I will allow it. This same rule applies for all actions.

5)Based on your characters ability certain ?violations? of the laws of physics are allowed, namely dodging bullets, running a short ways up walls etc, think physics akin to those found in a John Woo Movie or other Action Movies, this isn?t meant to be perfect realism. PM me if you are unsure whether a given action is valid.

6)When a character is injured I expect them to act like it. Notably suicidal, risky or blatantly stupid actions may get you killed, or at least badly injured. Recovery time is generous and a ?good rest? will cure almost everything, Fun is more important that Realism in my opinion.

The Final Character List is as Follows

Dcarty745 as Carty

JohnGalt as J. Galt

Bling Cat as Nathan Tieksh

killer8531 as Striker Light

conqueror Kenny as John Lasio

ThePoodonkis as Chris Thompson

bermyduck as Jago

LewsTherin as Roland Graves

7dollarbill as Bo Jagger

Khedive Rex as Ex-Sgt. Bartleby

Alotak as Alotak

MrtnRndrs as "Robin" Joe "Hood"

I'm working on posting The Introduction Paragraph by this afternoon, after that posting Da Rulez will be in effect.

Anyone got any Comments? Questions? Concerns?
 

Khedive Rex

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PedroSteckecilo said:
The Final Character List is as Follows

Dcarty745 as Carty

JohnGalt as J. Galt

Bling Cat as Nathan Tieksh

killer8531 as Striker Light

conqueror Kenny as John Lasio

ThePoodonkis as Chris Thompson

bermyduck as Jago

LewsTherin as Roland Graves

7dollarbill as Bo Jagger

I'm working on posting The Introduction Paragraph by this afternoon, after that posting Da Rulez will be in effect.

Anyone got any Comments? Questions? Concerns?
So I'm not in?
 

Conqueror Kenny

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Just the one question: How long is a good rest? If something happens to my character's legs I will be screwed.
 

PedroSteckecilo

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Khedive Rex said:
So I'm not in?
Yes you are, sorry, my bad, you just need to change your last name, LewsTherin already grabbed the name "Roland Graves"

kenny, unfortunately it'll basically be what I deam as "appropriate down time".
 

killer8531

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horrah! the rules! my character PROBABLY wont be able to do anything fancy, ya know with him in a wheelchair and all, but hell, he may get some of his old battle instincts back if put in danger. or be able to have an awsome shot. or both if possible.so if you could contribute to these ideas i would be greatful