Actually, I think my character will be a RobCo Engineer. Will start work on a CS.

Right doing my sign up now, by the way I was hoping to be a British diplomat as my character, is this possible?

Leos Klien said
Right doing my sign up now, by the way I was hoping to be a British diplomat as my character, is this possible?

Make and it and we'll go from there. The better it's written the more likely yeah, why not. We'll talk about making it fit the location afterwards, shouldn't be too hard to reason though.

@Can't wait to see Lone! Check out Camas/Portland, there are a TON of engineering based companies around here that could be competing or absorbed by RobCo.

Lo Pellegrino said
@Imperfectionist: Decide if you want to do this, really. Your immediate reaction before was to quit because it didn't fit your exact idea, and no judgements, if that's how you feel follow that path. Otherwise, remember that being flexible doesn't mean then suggesting an overhaul to fit yet another expectation. Cool, we can alter SPECIAL Points to total to 40, but we won't be going the whole stats way.

My immediate response to the numbers was "damn it, this is so unecessary! Grr! Hiss!"... And you said "calm down, lady, I know what I'm doing." I realized how petulant I was being, so I decided to see what I could do, instead of doing more bitching. I took a different approach to the sheet, this time as if I had no opinions on whether it should have numbers or not, and that's what led to the questions.

Anyway, I'm glad you agree that 40 points make more sense, and I understand not wanting to go the full-stats route. I'll try to get my sheets up soon.

Name: Maximilian Tryant (generally called Max, however he prefers the name in full)
Date of Birth: 10/7/34
Physical Description: Maximilian is in his early 40's and has a face to match his age, however being a diplomat is a tough and demanding job, as well as the knowledge that his home country could badly suffer from his failings. This has made Max's face to become a stern visage and he constantly looks as if he is deep in thought.
He has a craggy and weathered lined face, with a strong jaw line, straight nose and a prominent brow that shadows his surprisingly warm, sea green eyes.
Although a stern expression is usually on his face and smiles are few and far between for Max, he does have a pleasant dimpled smile that makes his face look younger.
Atop his head sits a thatch of thick, unruly black hair that is streaked with grey here and there. Max stands at about 6'1, with a wiry frame and lean muscles. He is a slim build and has somewhat pale skin.
As is appropriate with his profession, Max wears a three piece suit - a long black Cromby coat in place of the suit jacket.The shirt is white with long sleeves although they're often rolled up to the elbow. The waistcoat Is a stony grey with a black silk back,with 3 buttons- which are done up the majority of the time.
His trousers are the same shade of gray as his waist coat and his shoes are a smart black leather with obvious wear.
Atop his head he wears a classic black Fedora.

Image: I'm afraid I have no image at the minute, so I've provided a very in depth description, if this is too much of a bother I'll try and get an image for you.
Profession: Diplomat
Background: Max has loved his country from a very early age and has always wished to do much for it, he also came from a very powerful and old family and growing up with them effectively prepared him for a job in government which is something he deeply wished for. At the age of 18 he attended one of countries most prestigious universities studying Law and International Law, he left with a masters Degree in it and was recruited into the British government to act as a Diplomat from a fairly early age.
It didn't take long for Max to make a name for himself in the political arena and fast became one of the British Governments greatest assets in terms of solving international issues. However the world was going down the fast track road to its own destruction and Max witnessed first hand the dissolution of the United Nations, due to the break down of overall international relations based over the escalating hostilities between Red China and the USA.
Finally in order to prevent total collapse of European/American/Asian relations Max was one member of a team sent to America in order to reduce tensions on the global scale.
Unfortunately things began to collapse at an alarming rate, all efforts of a cease fire was out of the window because U.S congress felt that they were invincible thanks to their win over the communist Chinese in Alaska.
Personality: Max does everything in his power to try and keep his country safe from things like human idiocy, this makes him a powerful nationalist and a cynic all in one. Max tries his best to be as upstanding and open minded as he can but with him growing older he soon developed a Master race complex, he see's anyone who doesn't think in the best interest of the world as people beneath him and are the bane of the human race, he would kill people like this with out so much as a single regret within an instant if he could get away with it. And due to the Americans unwillingness to cooperate in the best interests of the world he is having a hard time not taring all of them with the same brush.
Max is also a very sophisticated man, as well as incredibly intelligent; many times has his mind saved him and his nation, and whenever he gains the opportunity to he sharpens it like one would with a whetstone to a blade. He tries to see if he can best others mentally, and treats life like a game sometimes, and this can put him in positions that he could have easily avoided simply by merely doing nothing at all, but he loves it and whats worse... is that he's good at it. No doubt it will one day be the reason why he dies.
SPECIAL:

Strength 3
Perception 6
Endurance 3
Charisma 8
Intellligence 10
Agility 4
Luck 6

Any queries about my sign up?

Out of curiosity, would you be accepting new players?

I'm very interested in joining this RP! I love all things post apocalyptic, Mad Max and Fallout. If I can join, I can start work on my character right away.

Show me the Character Sheets!

I'm certainly interested in this, as the Fallout section of the Bethaoft Forums has slowed down in recent months, and a Great War RP setting is something that you usually don't see. Hopefully stats won't matter too much, as I've never really been a fan of stats in RPs, though I'm more than willing to shut up and just go along with it.

Also, Lone Wanderer, you aren't by chance from the Bethsoft Fallout forums, are you?

Hmm do I know you Katabasis? Anyways I have to agree the Bethsoft forum has been slow. If it doesn't pick back up I might join myself.

VATROU said
Hmm do I know you Katabasis? Anyways I have to agree the Bethsoft forum has been slow. If it doesn't pick back up I might join myself.

Yessir, It's Fish. I decided to quit Bethesda for a while, as I can't seem to get myself back into the Conventions and wanted a bit of a change-up.

Is this roleplay still going?

It is. Just running slightly behind on reviewing as the next step. I'm in a PR consultant and my hour aren't exactly regular. This will pick up very soon.

I'm still interested, by the way, I've just not had much of a chance to write up an app as of yet.

Zombiedude101 said
I'm still interested, by the way, I've just not had much of a chance to write up an app as of yet.

I checked up on your history, I love what you did with Apocalyptica. Can't wait to see the character you make here!

That's good news then, I was worried for a bit there as I really want to do this rp.

Name: Sergeant Nathan Vikowski
Date of Birth: 20/02/2046 (What is it with Americans and their incorrect method of organising dates?)

Physical Description: Standing at a rough height of about 5'11, Nate is a man who's prematurely aged beyond his years, having the body of someone in their early thirties but the eyes and the world-weariness of one at least a score past that. His hair is a coarse, charcoal colour, kept trimmed down to a typical crew cut that you might see with a lot of soldiers, whilst he keeps his jaw and cheeks trimmed of any noticable facial hair as is required amongst the US Army's personnel. His eyes are a pale blue, due in part to his distant Polish ancestry, and his hardened expression reminds one of the thousand-yard stare one sees in older war films from times long since passed. Physically, he's of a fairly average build, though years of military training and routine have toned him up and left him with especially strengthened limbs, alongside a number of faded scars from his lengthy service in Alaska. The most notable of his injuries, however, would be just below the knee of his left leg which has left him with a pronounced limp whenever he walks on it, though he otherwise functions normally.

Image: Can't really find one that suits at the moment, description will have to do for now.

Profession: US Army Infantryman

Background: Born in suburban Los Angeles as the elder son of a career soldier, Nate spent his early years surrounded by patriotic zeal and eventually came to aspire towards the idea of following in his old man's footsteps and enlisting in the army. At the same time, the United States' growing tensions with China over their oil supply led many to believe that a war with the 'Filthy Reds' was all but inevitable, and only a year after Nate enlisted in the army at the age of eighteen, the Chinese invasion of Alaska had begun, and the United States initiated the Anchorage Campaign.

Naive and green as they came, Nate was unprepared for the bleak truth of war that the patriotic zeal and glorification of military service had always swept under the rug, and by the end of his first eighteen months he was one of remaining half of the original members of his unit that hadn't been killed or captured by the enemy. He'd lost more than a few friends and when the psychological effect was noticed, instead of being sent home he was promoted to Corporal and temporarily re-assigned to prison camp duty, where he saw just as many horrors inflicted on Chinese POWs and at times found himself doing the same. He became somewhat disconnected the ideals that the US were meant to stand for, but continued his service as the 'loyal grunt' he was expected to be.

Eventually he was able to ship home on leave for a few months, having been unable to correspond with his family except through short letters. When he came to visit them in LA, he learned that his younger brother Wyatt had secretly enlisted despite being underage, courtesy of Uncle Sam's loosening of regulations so the Anchorage Front Line could be reinforced. Knowing what harsh reality awaited his brother, Nate quickly returned to active service to find out which unit Wyatt had been assigned to. It was only a few months later that he learned that his brother had been captured and transferred to a POW camp far behind enemy lines. He knew the kind of treatment the kid was in for, and so he chose to willingly endure additional service on the frontline with the hope that if he helped to see the war through, he'd be able to liberate Wyatt from captivity before it was too late.

To this end, he successfully transferred to the mechanised heavy infantry division which saw the brunt of the action and placed him in the so-called 'mouth of the red dragon', a notoriously dangerous field of operation aptly named for the strategic advantage held over it by the Chinese woth their 'dragon's breath' artillery strikes. Wearing the newly developed power armour that the US believed could help win the war, Nate spent the next few years in bloody fighting until the war was all-but won for the US, the Chinese prison camps having been all but liberated by the American forces. However, during one of the few final pushes to liberate the remaining camps - where Wyatt was still being held - military command gave orders to pull back in order to protect a depot for Poseidon Energy which was said to hold a number of corporate VIPs, several of whom were known to be massive supporters of US Politicians. Despite the fact that the depot was hardly acknowledged by the retreating Chinese, preoccupied with covering their own receding lines, Nate's command had deemed it 'important' enough to hold off liberating the remaining POWs until reinforcements arrived.

Alas, reinforcements finally arrived to relieve the 'glorified bodyguards' of their duties, it was too late for the POWs - in a policy of 'salting-the-earth' during their retreat and out of revenge for their own executed prisoners, the Chinese had executed most of the American prisoners en-masse before demolishing the camps to rubble to leave no trace behind, Wyatt listed amongst the dead. To add salt to the wound, a dejected Nate was quickly shipped back home only to find himself being placed alongside law enforcement agencies in a desperate attempt to keep the peace as American men, women and children began protesting and rioting over shortages of food and oil. After seeing the men who were meant to be 'protecting Free America' by beating back the crowds in their power armour, and how the government seemed to be whitewashing the whole deal with 'minor incidents of unrest', it was then that Nate realised how his brother, along with hundreds of other Americans had been willingly sacrificed to protect the private interests of a few 'suits' for little gain for the American people, and he became disillusioned with the ideals and the country that he'd given up a brother and over a decade of his life to serve. With stories of deserters reaching him from as far as newly annexed Canada, Nate found himself contemplating joining their ranks as the eve of nuclear holocaust was upon them all.

Personality: Given his original circumstances for enlisting in the military, Nate himself isn't a particularly ammoral or otherwise antagonistic individual, rather another unfortunate example of how exposure to violence and warfare can shape a man into something worse. Having spent close to a decade fighting the Chinese in Anchorage, then returning home to find the next 'enemy' were the Americans he'd initially enlisted to defend, Nate's psyche has already been pushed to breaking point, leaving him prone to violent outbursts in which he lashes out against those who disagree or otherwise become 'obstacles' to his own goals, either through verbal intimidation or physical confrontaton. In particular, he distrusts authority figures who can't 'prove' themselves capable of handling their role, and he equally mistrusts political figures - whom he views as having always used soldiers such as himself as pawns for their own personal gain, but in contrast he is more likely to be accepting of like-minded or working-class individuals and in a situation of crisis he's often one to step up to the role of a figure of leadership or guidance of such people. Also, despite his temperamental shortcomings, he had a tendency to display fierce loyalty towards those who align their beliefs with his own, those who take his side in situations of crsis and those who've suffered similar situations of loss or otherwise traumatic experiences due to the war.

SPECIAL:
Strength 6
Perception 7
Endurance 8
Charisma 4
Intelligence 6
Agility 4
Luck 3

This is still a WIP, so.. yeah.

Zombiedude101 said
20/02/2046 (What is it with Americans and their incorrect method of organising dates?)

Yeah, I've always wondered that myself. Why on earth is it month first? It's just so much easier with the day before hand.

I'll be reviewing tonight, sorry for the delay, receiving new training from a promotion (yay).