Rise Of The Survivors (RotS) OOC Chat/Player Sheets/Story

[Captain Kyth]

Rise of the Survivors
The Bomb annihilated all but 3,000 of Earth's Humans. The surviving 3,000 had been handpicked to survive.
The shelter, located under London had supplies for all 3,000, as well as satellite uplinks, etc. etc.

Eventually, Machines developed sentience. After a long period, a Master Computer "evolved", and united the Machines, in an effort to find their masters. Not to kill. But to help. For once, the Machines were not turning against their creators. The mechanicals had evolved emotions. They saw what had happened. Age old video cameras were accessed, showing the unfortunate "victims" being turned into naught but dust. They felt sorry for their masters, and vague records that had not been deleted indicated that a group of humans were still alive, somewhere on the world.

The Machines obtained access to the civilian satellite networks and used them to scan for the humans to no avail, for the Bunker was protected. The Humans still had the military satellites. They rarely used them, as the radio signals would give their positions away.

Eventually the Machines colonized other worlds and terraformed them into ideal locations for their masters to live should they return. Each planet was assigned a Master Computer by the Overmind. (The Most Powerful And Complex Computer, EVER)

Unfortunately, Mar's MC thought that Earth's MC was keeping the humans hidden, and had found them. The two began all out warfare over controversies and rumours. Eventually, when the EMPF (Earth Machinoid Peacekeeping Force) was struck a deadly blow by the MARS (Mars Assualt Regimental Soldiers) when the MARS developed a piece of weaponry that could change the alliegance of any Machine the user chose.

As the EMPF were pushed further and further back, closer to home, the dormant Military Satellites, owned by the ESF (Earth Survival Force) reactivated and opened fire upon the MARS assualt ships. The EMPF were astounded that such seemingly outdated equipment could be so deadly. The ESF contacted the EMPF and they forged an alliance. The EMPF would provide the supplies the ESF needed to rebuild London's populace and transport systems, whilst the ESF would use their Military Satellites to fend off MARS attacks.

The ESF flourished and after only a few years, the human population was estimated at 30,000. Not many, but ten times that of their original headcount. The EMPF also took DNA samples from test labs and produced an army of mindless super soldiers, named the "Legionators". Over time, and prolonged failure to adapt the alliegance changing device (aka the "Judas Device") forced MARS to capture a Legionator. After extensive reengineering, the "Brute" was produced. Twice the size of the Legionators, Brutes were big, bad, slow, and heavily armed. Legionators might have outnumbered Brutes, but Brutes outgunned Legionators. Neither army could win again.

Eventually, the ESF, who were both outnumbered and outgunned, decided to take the war into their own hands. The MARS faced an entirely new foe. One that was sneaky, underhanded, unpredictable, and most of all... Unique. The ESF's superior cunning and resourcefulness, as well as unpredictability, allowed them to take Brutes apart from all angles. Weapons thought to be ineffective were now effective in the hands of the puny mortals. Humanity was back and in the house. And nothing was stopping it now. Eventually, the ESF turned on the EMPF and overrode the MC, and forced it to work for them. Earth was now totally under the control of the HMC (Human/Machinoid Coalition) and MARS were next. MARS called upon local MC's and they took up arms, some with the HMC, recognising the Humans as their true ancestors and the ones who would rightfully own what they had worked hard to get for them, whilst others allied with MARS, outraged that such a pitiful collection of mortals had the nerve to take an MC as their own.

MARS abandoned the Brute project as it was costing too much, whilst the humans considered the Legionators to be freaks of nature and stopped them from being produced. Humans enhanced themselves with Biomechanical upgrades, whilst certain Machines were installed with upgrades depending on how well they did in battle.

~~~~Notes~~~~

This won't all be fighting, there will be some RP in the HQ/bases as well, just so you know.

~~~~Character Sheet~~~~

Name:
Race: Machine/Human
Age:
Design Specs/Special Features: (Machine Only)
Biomechanical Enhancements: (Human Only)
Place of Birth: (Human Only)
Alliegance: MARS/HMC (Machines can be either, Humans can ONLY be HMC)
Weaponry: (Pick something, but not anything overly destructive. Minimalities on Rocket Launchers please. Robots can carry a maximum of three, humans two.)

~~~~Player Characters~~~~

Name: Brian Rowley - Captain Kyth
Race: Human
Age: 27
Biomechanical Enhancements: Enhanced Eyesight & Strength
Place of Birth: London, Earth
Alliegance: HMC
Weaponry: Gatling Cannon
Description: Clad from head-to-toe in his shining white servo-enhanced Heavy Combat Armor, Brian is a literal tank of a man. Whilst he moves about as fast as a snail, his Gatling Cannon's HEAP rounds tear his opposition to shreds.

Name: RaR20521 (Repair, assesment and Recycle) - wkz
Race: Machine
Age: 204years, 130days, 5hours, 20minutes, 3seconds and 5 hundredth as of mark ............ *mark*
Design Specs/Special Features: Repair/Scan
Alliegance: MARS
Weaponry: A scaple. Seriously.
Description: Looking like an overgrown 4 armed, 2 legs insect, this line of machines was formally built for use with the "Judas Device", but complications with multi-directional computation arose (the J.Device just cannot be used against 2 targets at once. It'll fry circuits). Now outfitted with all kinds of scaples, scanners, bolts and nuts to enable Search and Rescue operations, the RaR model is a frontline targetboard, able to heal machinary and wet-ware alike.

~~~~Non-Player Characters~~~~

Name: Malcolm "Malc" McLean
Race: Human
Age: 36
Real Age: Unknown (200+)
Biomechanical Enhancements: None
Place of Birth: Texas, Earth
Alliegance: HMC
Weaponry: Advanced Laser Rifle
Description: Malcolm is the best of the best the HMC has to offer, the elitest of the elite... he was subjected to numerous biological tests and is now of an undeterminable age. He is also clad in some sort of unremovable organic armor that covers almost all of his body, leaving only a small patch over his right eye for him to see out of. Information is fed to his left eye by a small camera attached to a headpiece that is integrated into the suit.

Name: Assistor
Race: Machine
Age: Approximated 300+
Design Specs/Special Features: Reverse-Jointed Legs, Thrusters
Alliegance: MARS
Weaponry: Plasma Pistol
Description: A reverse-jointed legged upright biped, Assistor is the MARS Commanders' right-hand-robot who relays all orders and so on. For defense he merely retains a single, fully-loaded plasma pistol. A coward at heart, Assistor runs and hides behind those better suited for combat, though is prone to moments of heroism. His reverse joints allow him greater jumping capability and maneuverability, at the cost of a little speed. He also has two powerful thrusters built into his back which allow him to boost along and fly a little. He has been around since the first MARS' defeat and was instrumental in bringing it back to power.

Edited by: Captain Kyth at: 5/26/04 12:08 pm

[wkz]

Well, you might want to change the first post in the 'Other RP'. Otherwise I would not know how to start...

This is my character:

Name: RaR20521 (Repair, assesment and Recycle)
Race: Machine
Age: 204years, 130days, 5hours, 20minutes, 3seconds and 5 hundredth as of mark ............ *mark*
Design Specs/Special Features: Repair/Scan
Alliegance: MARS
Weaponry: A scaple. Seriously.
Description: Looking like an overgrown 4 armed, 2 legs insect, this line of machines was formally built for use with the "Judas Device", but complications with multi-directional computation arose (the J.Device just cannot be used against 2 targets at once. It'll fry circuits). Now outfitted with all kinds of scaples, scanners, bolts and nuts to enable Search and Rescue operations, the RaR model is a frontline targetboard, able to heal machinary and wet-ware alike.

Curiously enough, there is no Friend and Foe programming built into most of the Bots of this model. Maybe the Mars MC just want this line erased, or that it is a big "machinitarian/Humanitarian". Its a wonder RaR20521 survived till today.

Also goes by the group name "Spider" or personal name"Tri-arm" (one of its arm articulators is blown off, and hangs limply waiting for spare parts that is out of production)

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=wkz@rpgww60462>wkz</A] at: 5/24/04 10:26 pm

[Captain Kyth]

Ok, I've worked you into the storyline, check the latest post.

That's basically what I'll do for everyone, rather than have you put yourself in (which can be catastrophic at times), I will work you into the story at the best possible moment, to avoid confusion.

New MARS characters are almost certainly going to be the grunts and soldiers aboard the dropships.

Is it a diamond edged scalpel? or a laser scalpel? Thems can be deadly in the right hands.

[wkz]

Note 1: You might want to wait for more people to join in. Its kind of lonely right now.....

Note 2:RaR20521 carries ALL forms of field support equipment, so that means both diamond edged scalpels (for wet-ware) and laser scalpels (for the 'bots). But in an age of missles, miniguns, smart guns(?), nukes and what not, a scaple of any type is a little underpowered for the job.

Edit:
Note 3: After reading the storyline thread, it seems this will be a combat-centered storyline. While I do not have any complaints against that, note that RPGWW tends towards Character Interaction more so than "Cast that Magic! Fire that Gun" type stories. (or at least that's what i think. I'm quite new here myself...). You might find it a little hard to attract members to this RP......

Note 4: Robots that TALK (AUDIO IN/OUT) to each other?!? Isn't there enough technology to put at least a simple radio transmitter/receiver in them (that will work 10 times better at least) instead of a boom-box?!?

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=wkz@rpgww60462>wkz</A] at: 5/26/04 1:43 am

[Captain Kyth]

1: Good point

2: Guess so

3: Mainly, but it's not -that- simple.

4: You could consider it as the transmitter/receiver, but considering you've just been activated, not all of your circuits will be activated instantly, will they now? Also, the robots were originally designed to interact with their masters easily, and the Predescessors (ie, the first that gained sentience and self-awareness) decided that some form of vocal interaction would be needed, as their master's brain's were not currently advanced enough to understand radio signals.

Also, if you're a "Judas Age" Machinoid, which were quite old and not the brightest of the lot, and a medic, then you're likely to have vocal communication so you can talk to your organic patients.

[shagy68]

Captain Kyth
I have a character with a long history I would love to play if possible?
my character started out as a fighter/thief in the dark realms adventures. He was 13yr old, on his first adventure he managed to steel a mythral robe. which inturned pissed off my dm, for he was already mad that I rolled all 20 when I drew up my player character. So when zenneth runningmoon stoled the mythral robe, He made the none player character a god.
who sent me in to a time hole. Which in turn landed zenneth in the rift role playing game. Which caused his mythral robe to bond to his body;the mythral is now zenneth new skin.
zenneth went crazy lost his mind ! zenneth ended up getting trained to be a solder for an evil overlord. who with out permission had zenneths left eye replaced with an info red/night vision biomenchanical eye,his right eye was replaced by an enhanced eye , his ears where biomenchanically enhanced.
MY dm kept trying to kill off zenneth but was unable too. so he put him in a ship shoot him into space where he drifted in cryogenic sleep until he reentered a time hole and was back on earth in an unknown time and place .Which is where he still waits to be played!
He is trained to use all weapons ;at this point he is unarmed and still asleep.
I would love to play zenneth again! It would be interesting to see how he grows up !
please let zenneth wake up! you can determine his stats.

[wkz]

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Your Zenneth looks like every GM's nightmare character (a character that rolled full 20s on all stats??!? A character that cannot be killed, even by GM powers??!? Mine God-modding goodness!!)

Its still up in the air.... Ask the GM if he wants it....

Note: you posted a (most probably) unkillable character for use in a (most likely) dead RP. Talk about irony...


Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=wkz@rpgww60462>wkz</A] at: 6/7/04 1:35 am

[Banjooie]

Shagy is obviously joking. Duh. :( <p><Chat> <Matto says, "What's up?"
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Angst."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Drama."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Betrayal."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Plushies."</p>

[shagy68]

Sorry about that! Zenneth can be killed. His hit points are only 75, His new skin only has 500 blast points,1000 piercing points [knifes,arrows normal bullets.] laser do no damage in the sun light or bright light. in normal light and darkness they do double damage .DO to the fact that the mythral is not reflective accept in bright light. When zenneth went crazy his intelligence went down ,wisdom went down. I just get lucky when I roll the dice. My dm could have out-rite killed zenneth but that would not have stayed in game parameters. Unless you play by no rules at all?
But please do not forget he is only 15yr old. A kid who knows nothing of life at all. How do you think the evil overlord tricked him? It was actually very obvious.
, but scared kid needs a friend

[Banjooie]

See? This is obviously a joke. Nobody could be this stupid intentionally. <p><Chat> <Matto says, "What's up?"
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Angst."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Drama."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Betrayal."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Plushies."</p>

[Besyanteo]

Joke or not, this whole thread should be destroyed. The utterly worthless content at the start, the post dates in the middle...

If nothing else, this should be locked. The RP is substandard at best from the look.

Mods, please? <p>

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Jeridan: Holder of the "Tastes like Chicken" Award.

"So you're afraid of a man who can't walk in sunlight, can't stand crosses, and is easily dispatched by WOOD?" ~Selrahc/KoD

"IM: ....my brother is a baby drinker." ~Ara</p>

[shagy68]

No joke that is one of my characters! Weather or not I like what he did to Zenneth . I never give up on ANY character!

[wkz]

"I never give up on ANY character!"

And so he comes to RPGWW, probably from at least 2 other RP forums. And still not getting the hints laid in his path...

[Besyanteo]

OK, if the character isn't a joke, then Shagy68 has made the terrible mistake of assuming we're retards, just from his character's OOC backstory. There is not a single intelligent point to your character. Nor is there one that would ever occur in DnD or any other system.

And because I'm in the mood, I'll explain why.

Quote:

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I have a character with a long history I would love to play if possible?
my character started out as a fighter/thief in the dark realms adventures. He was 13yr old, on his first adventure he managed to steel a mythral robe. which inturned pissed off my dm, for he was already mad that I rolled all 20 when I drew up my player character. So when zenneth runningmoon stoled the mythral robe, He made the none player character a god.
who sent me in to a time hole. Which in turn landed zenneth in the rift role playing game. Which caused his mythral robe to bond to his body;the mythral is now zenneth new skin.
zenneth went crazy lost his mind ! zenneth ended up getting trained to be a solder for an evil overlord. who with out permission had zenneths left eye replaced with an info red/night vision biomenchanical eye,his right eye was replaced by an enhanced eye, his ears where biomenchanically enhanced.
MY dm kept trying to kill off zenneth but was unable too. so he put him in a ship shoot him into space where he drifted in cryogenic sleep until he reentered a time hole and was back on earth in an unknown time and place .Which is where he still waits to be played!
He is trained to use all weapons ;at this point he is unarmed and still asleep.
I would love to play zenneth again! It would be interesting to see how he grows up !
please let zenneth wake up! you can determine his stats.

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OK.

Fighter/thief, steals a mithril robe. Your GM doesn't want you to have it, but just lives with it. This might occur. But, if he later tried to kill your character, I can't believe he'd just allow you to have the robe because the dice said so. That's one of the reasons only GMs know difficulty ratings.

Now... He was mad at you because your rolled 20 in every stat for your character? How about, no, you didn't. You just think we're all retarded enough to believe you. If I were one of our DnD GMs, I would pimp slap you for even suggesting it.

Then, your character was transplanted to the Rifts RPG system, my home turf. ... The enhancements exist, but you have no sheet to back them up. I'm not going to go dig out my corebook for your bullshit character either. The Mithril bonded to his skin to become Mega Damage armor skin? ... No. Rifts don't work that way. Again, you're full of shit. Zenneth might be driven insane by the inhabitants of Rifts earth, but it would do precisely -nothing- to his physiology to travel between worlds.

Finally, the cryogenic sleep. I have never once seen anyone in Rifts earth, the post apocalyptic RPG, with the technology to cryogenicly freeze a potato, let alone a human being. Not the Coalition, not the NGR, Not even New Atlantis.

Even with reworked stats, it's not enough. This character, if you're being serious, is not acceptable. In any way.

By the way: Your spelling and grammar are terrible. Learn to type. <p>

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Jeridan: Holder of the "Tastes like Chicken" Award.

"So you're afraid of a man who can't walk in sunlight, can't stand crosses, and is easily dispatched by WOOD?" ~Selrahc/KoD

"IM: ....my brother is a baby drinker." ~Ara</p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=besyanteo@rpgww60462>Besyanteo</A]&nbsp; at: 6/8/04 12:12 pm

[Idran1701]

Also: Bes is right on all locking points. Thus, it shall be done! <p>

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"Never let your morals get in the way of doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin</p>