The War for Island 018 - OOC

[Archaos]

The War for Island 018 -- OOC

IC Thread
Character Creation

The year is 2035. A state of martial law exists over the Continental United States (which includes an annexed Mexico and Canada.) The government, which is less and less often seen as a diplomatic entity, and more often a totalitarian regime, rules with an iron fist. Reacting to paramilitary secessionist and religious fundamentalist forces from within, and responding to an ever-expanding list of threats around the globe, resources for the last superpower are stretched to the breaking point. U.S. Foreign Policy is thinly-veiled thuggery, piracy, lunacy. At home, desperation reigns. Cities are fully divided between haves and have-nots. The unemployment rate reaches 65%. Mega-city slums and refugee camps for scores of displaced and migrant souls, eking out their meager existences in extreme poverty, dot the landscape. The crime-rate is off the charts. Disease runs rampant. Education is minimal. America is dying.

In this fearsome landscape, where gangs openly vie for authority with police and military forces, where drugs and goods are currency and a human life means nothing, human corrections housing and detention is big business. Continental prisons resemble small cities, and all are overcrowded, filthy and the most vile, concentrated nests of evil located anywhere within the four corners of the Earth. Life expectancy in a max-sec prison is a little under a year.

The business interests of what remains of America have undertaken a new experiment. A series of Islands under American control have been given over to the Corrections department. A last-ditch effort to rid American soil of the destructive element that erodes from within.

You are part of that experiment. An inmate, devoid of rights, stripped of citizenship, birthright or hope of parole. No reprieve. No escape. Exile, and death are the only expectations the wardens have for you. Survival is defiance. Hope is revolution.

Taking cues from a recent resurgence in the popularity of the genre by the likes of ‘The Passage’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ as well as little bits of ‘Escape from New York’ and originally inspired by the little-known film ‘No Escape’ starring Ray Liotta and Lance Henriksen, I love the notion of supposedly brutal people dropped into a wilderness, both foreign and familiar to live or die by their own code. Hell, I guess you could say there’s a bit of ‘Lord of the Flies’ mixed into my overall vision for the RP, as well.

Island 018, as inmates will discover, is tropical or sub-tropical. A small island, it has obviously been populated by man in the past, fairly recently, as there are at least two main habitable encampments on the 3 km-wide island. One was obviously a small community that housed workers and laborers, in the centre of the island. The other was once a bustling resort on the South coast, long derelict. Both communities date from the 1990’s. There is no readily available power on the island, no communications, little in the way of tech resources, unless it arrives with the PC, or is scavenged from the ruins.

The island is mostly deep, inhospitable jungle, difficult to traverse and inhabited by the denizens typical to the climate: insects, birds, small mammals, the occasional oxen, some predatory cats (panther) and lizards.

Welcome to Island 018. The Warden hopes you die quickly, and alleviate the surplus population.

[Snow Phoenix]

I'm thinking of RPing a new arrival. Good idea/bad idea?

[Archaos]

Snow Phoenix, that is a top-notch idea. I'm posting Niall's entry in a few hours. No need to wait -- I'm sure different prisons handle their entries different ways. Only note: however you get to the island -- no form of transport ever touches down.

[Archaos]

Niall's arrival is up in IC.

[Mtntopview]

May I take part? (As I previously requested)

[Archaos]

... Just realized I should put up some form of rules for this RP (though the very nature of the adventure dictates that some rules are made to be broken. Just not these ones.)

• Follow the rules of the Casual RP Thread Guide. Please compose with a style befitting your character, and be thoughtful about grammar and punctuation.
• NO Godmodding. Self-explanatory.
• If you have to leave, either take the time to write yourself out in a style befitting the RP, or let Archaos know and we'll have you written out.
• Please, keep it clean (re. cybering.) I know, these are inmates, and some are lawless men and women. But they may also be people of principle, and so even if your PC has a back-story filled with torturous images, please use restraint in the IC thread. If you MUST engage in an IC interaction of that type, do it via PM.
• There is no canon for this story, except what exists in my head. So if in doubt, ask Archaos.
• NO OOC in the IC thread! Let's strive for excellence in our writing, and keep the OOC chatter where it belongs -- on the easy-to-link-to OOC thread.
• Have fun, challenge yourselves and each-other, and don't take this too seriously!

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Mountaintop -- check the 'Character Creation' thread, linked above, and put your PC together. Submit it in that thread, and then post your arrival on the Island! I've already made my PC's arrival, and he mentions in his IC post that there are others aboard the chopper that drops them, so you can be part of that drop if you like, or make a separate entrance! Remember, if in doubt about a course of action, just ask!

[Mtntopview]

Kk

[Snow Phoenix]

Character information posted! Please let me know if there's anything out of place about it.

[Archaos]

Naw, Lizza... that's just about the best thing I've read in a month. Such vivid images. Can't wait to see you in action.

[Archaos]

ok, gonna carry on IC if nobody else makes an entrance soon.

-Arch