2020

Growing demands for food and clean water have pushed man to develop an increasingly artificial "natural" world. Food and water rations are being laid upon the population by the United Nations. Improved growth hormones are being distributed to massive farms across the world. Many new hormones have been developed for trees to meet the growing demand for wooden shelters in FEMA sponsored camps, while the leaders of the world attempt to handle overpopulation. Humanity's control of this artificial nature, bent to the survival needs of man, has caused mass shifts in climate. Storms increase in intensity with each passing year and natural disasters become more frequent as nature attempts to balance the overflow of mankind. Still, Humanity's persistence to survive continues to trump natures attempt at balance and many humans believe their world may be drying up.

However, recent storms have begun to swell in the Pacific Ocean. A large typhoon, not unlike Typhoon Tip of 1979, has formed fifty miles from the coast of Japan. Many ships in the area have been lost to sea without a trace, unable to be located by NOAA's weather reconnaissance aircraft. Search and rescue teams have been unable to traverse the violent waves and many fear the typhoon will make landfall soon. Humanity does not know the beast they have awoken, for in that storm lurks nature's last resort. A creature of immense power and scale, lost in slumber for millennia, has been stirred by the major shifts in climate. Its eyes are curiously set on the nearest human civilization, seeking the source of the ships in its territory. Mankind's fear of the unknown and his ignorance of his actions shall lead him to the balance nature thirsts for.

This is where our story will take off. Japan stands in the path of a curious, soon-to-be enraged radioactive nightmare. This is where I need some input from you guys. Where do you suppose our characters should begin and what role shall they play? My character, so far, is planned to be a rookie reporter from New York getting his first major story in Tokyo as a coastal wall is being erected around Tokyo Bay. Obviously, he will be caught in the hell as it begins and will fight to survive in an apocalyptic warzone. Your characters could be family or friends attempting to keep contact with him as this unfolds and as he, following the initial attack, returns home? Or, if we go the friends route, your characters could have come along with my character as a surprise, also being caught in the initial conflict?

I'd say throw up a character sheet and see what people are going for. I was intending either going with a random tourist or a meteorologist.

Noted and updated with a character sheet.

I thought my character might be NAVY intelligence caught in it all. I have no intentions to make him any less vulnerable than any ordinary man, but him being military raises some opportunities.
My character might be caught in it all, and caught by complete surprise. But the fact that he is military means, he feels a commitment to bringing back information. So he is caught between:
1. Trying to bring back the information he gathers.
2. Trying to help his fellow man.

He understand that he can't save everybody, and sometimes have to leave some people behind.

Maybe he comes across your character and realizes that, your character might have the only images of what caused the incidence. They make a trade: The photos for my character's help. And then begins a journey.

Name: Kassiddy 'Kass' Le Mat
Age: 38
Appearance:
Brief Description:
Kass is a Canadian meteorologist with a keen interest in global warming and specifically large weather patterns such as hurricanes, typhoons, vortexes, and winter storms. He has traveled to Japan to gather first hand data on the preparation by the Japanese government takes for such weather events and to record the state of the nation after such an event passes. As such while most tourists, foreigners, and even some Japanese are leaving the country to escape the typhoon, Kass is doing just the opposite. He is a widow of 4 years after his wife passed from a severe stroke. Since then Kass has been seeking more and more dangerous assignments for his papers and research, seemingly trying to validate his work through endangerment, He has never much been a very polite professor, and is one of the doctorate types that states his opinion as fact and thus is very strong-headed. This isn't to say he is cold or compassionate, just merely stubborn. Currently he in Kyoto gathering supplies for what he presumes to be a 'indentured' stay on the mainland of Japan(food, water, hotplate, flares.)

Name: Bryan Matthews

Appearance:

Brief Description:
Bryan is new to the news world. An amateur in the eyes of his company, Bryan has asked to be given one major report to prove he is of the right material, and what better a subject to report than potential disaster? However, Bryan is not one to take advantage of others. A generous man, Bryan tends to stay selfless in most social situations, a trait that had earned him a girlfriend, Lily, back in New York. Bryan's always been a bit of a risk taker, not afraid to go into the possible hell this storm could bring, should the coastal walls fail. Bryan has never truly known fear, never stared death in the face and will be ill-prepare for the nightmare about to unfold. He currently resides in the InterContinental Hotels near Tokyo Bay, waiting out the coming storm and reporting on the final stages of the walls' erection.

Unknown100 said
I thought my character might be NAVY intelligence caught in it all. I have no intentions to make him any less vulnerable than any ordinary man, but him being military raises some opportunities.My character might be caught in it all, and caught by complete surprise. But the fact that he is military means, he feels a commitment to bringing back information. So he is caught between:1. Trying to bring back the information he gathers.2. Trying to help his fellow man.He understand that he can't save everybody, and sometimes have to leave some people behind.Maybe he comes across your character and realizes that, your character might have the only images of what caused the incidence. They make a trade: The photos for my character's help. And then begins a journey.

That could work. I thought of having one military type character in the group, even playing another character myself if no one suggested one. Go ahead and create a character sheet!

cool :D

Always been a big fan of Godzilla, so I'm more than interested in joining this. Just need to think of a character for this.

Kingdom said
Always been a big fan of Godzilla, so I'm more than interested in joining this. Just need to think of a character for this.

Sounds good! I'd like to wait for you and Unknown to make your character sheets and then I think we'll be set for starting. We can fit in any other interested players whenever they show up.

Kingdom said
Always been a big fan of Godzilla, so I'm more than interested in joining this. Just need to think of a character for this.

Sounds good! I'd like to wait for you and Unknown to make your character sheets and then I think we'll be set for starting. We can fit in any other interested players whenever they show up.

I'll try to get a CS up soon :)

Character Sheet:
Name: Dave Cutter
Age: 34
Appearance:
Brief Description: There really had been no question Dave was gonna join the military. His father had been NAVY, his uncle had been NAVY, and his grandfather had worked in the Pentagon.
After a strict childhood, military school and 2 years of boot camp, in the middle of nowhere, he became US soldier. The hard work only paid off when bureaus starting showing interest too. One thing led to another and suddenly he didn't need to spend time in some foreign hellhole, he was CIA.
Being a CIA operative he had been monitoring an international criminal, currently located in Tokyo, for the past 6 months. Then something happened. Something no one could have predicted. Buildings fell like dominos and roads became infernos. Something bigger and more terrifying than anything else made Tokyo tremble and fall. Hell had begun and David was suddenly caught in the middle of it.

David can both act from the goodness of his heart and yet make cold calculate decisions for the bureau. Surviving in a warzone is what he is good at. He is well trained. But he is in the dark on this one, and orders no man should do alone has been placed on him. His supplies are limited, the bullet in his concealed weapon are few. Dave is only one man and can’t possibly fight his way out of all scenarios the world now throws at him. The biggest threat are not always bombs, collapsing building or giant monsters. Sometimes the biggest treat are the people around you, and Dave is completely alone.

Dave is placed right in the destruction. He is caught between helping his fellow man and carrying out the cruel order from a barely working walky-talky.
Can he be trusted? Maybe. Maybe not. But he does know right from wrong when he sees it.

Deja and Unknown are approved and ready to go! I think it fair to give Kingdom another day. If he doesn't post a CS by then, then I shall toss up the first IC post!

cool ;)

Unfortunately, going to have to pull out of this. Real life is whack.