Good news, everyone!

We have enough players to start. The Interest Check is here. You'll find more details there, as well as the simple character sheets.

In this thread, I'll lay out the rules. They won't be that strict, you'll still have a lot of RP time.
Some Rules:
1. Try to play nice with each other. You're a team here, trying to survive. Trying. If you read the origin of the game, you'll see that there's supposed to be only one survivor. I'm still considering that, but basically my ideas of ending the RP will be for a total party kill, or that one survivor, or killing the big bad.

2. As always, GM word is law. I'm not gonna be a douche to you guys as GM, but we'll have to make sensible decisions IC and OOC.

3. If you'll be away, tell us. We'll probably set your character to autopilot then.

4. Try to separate Player Knowledge from Character Knowledge.

5. Our goal is to have fun, so if you're not having fun, say something OOC and we'll try to fix whatever issue it is.

I'm terrible at writing rules. I'll update this as I realize what needs to be ruled.

For interested applicants:
I guess you can join, but we'll have to weave in your character with the story. I expect this to be fast paced midgame, so short of a deus ex machina, I don't know how we'll insert your character in.

For the dead characters:
I dunno, if you want to continue playing until the big bad is dead, we can insert your new character. You'll have to rp a different character and not the dead one though. Unless we had necromancy in this RP.

Now for the actual system we'll have. I'm still unclear about this, but here goes:

1. You are free to RP among yourselves as long as it's not COMBAT MODE. If it's combat mode, you will have to take turns posting and wait for my reply to update the battle.

2. You are free to RP among yourselves except when you're moving to a new location. I will have to describe the surroundings to you then.

3. You are free to add anything except anything giving you gamebreaking/blatant advantages (For example, making it so that you pick up a loaded gun off the ground, when I didn't place it there). Otherwise, go crazy! If you want to create and RP with an NPC (and assume his responses), go ahead, but try to assume as little as possible about the surroundings.

4. Don't change or assume anything from what I wrote. For example, if I made an NPC talk to you and you decide to shoot him, don't assume that he can't dodge or shoot back. Or, if I put a closed bag on the ground, don't RP that "I open it and find a brazillion dollars"

5. You can ask me OOC about the surroundings. For example, if I described a room and you wanted to ask something about it, you can.

6. To make it clear when it's free rp time, IC I will add to my post the tag [FREE] and anything below that, you can RP freely among yourselves without me having to intervene, except when you interact with my npc, you attempt to change locations, you discover something random, or you attempt something that has a chance of failing.

7. At any point in [FREE], I will post the tag [LOCKED], usually when you do something that triggers danger. When that tag is active, you each react to what I post. You post one each, and wait for my response. This will probably happen in combat, but I'm still trying to figure out how things will go anyway.

8. As long as the [FREE] tag is active, you can RP/post. BUT, the moment you attempt to move to a different location, you will have to freeze and wait for me to describe what you see. This will be in effect even if you're alone or with the group.

9. As for the different areas / different times, in the event that you get separated, let's try to rp so that your characters' actions will be in the same time as the others. For example, one is separated from the others and he attempts to sleep. He wouldn't be posting what he does when he wakes up when not enough time has passed for the others.

TL;DR : [FREE] post as much as you want. [LOCKED] One post each, then wait for my response.

Wow, this is hard. If you guys have any ideas how to improve this, please do tell. I'll be updating this as we go along.

Hi, I'll be playing the very slightly insane old man.

Name: Brenner Silversmith
Sex: male
Age: 62
Personality (optional): Overly serious old dude who claims to have fought in a war that happened when he was only 10 and is paranoid about an imaginary enemy and mostly just wants to keep the grandkids out of trouble
Some Backstory: Tagged along to chaperone/bodyguard for his granddaughter, citing "those damned reptoids skulking around in the woods" as his reason for feeling the need to do so
Strengths:
1. bar fights (or environmentally assisted brawling if you want fancy talk)
2. marksmanship
3. scaring random strangers
4. improvised weaponry

Weaknesses:
1. always blames aliens (ignores evidence and contextual information in favor of crackpot theories)
2. drinks too much

Backpack:

several small plastic bottles (mouthwash, shampoo, conditioner, lotion) filled with homemade moonshine
6000 assorted rubber bands
heavy duty leather gloves
hand drawn map of the entire New York City underground, color coded (with notes), in a monogrammed leather notebook
wallet, contents of which are: expired concealed carry permit for the state of Florida, Canadian drivers license, and an SD card containing several thousand pages of government documents relating to UFO crashes (laminated inside a plastic rectangle the size and shape of a credit card)

I added a wallet with yet more random crap to fit him being ever so slightly nuts. Basically just random shit in it, nothing that I can think of ANY logical use for.

*stupid post made before reading all of the icheck posts...*

So, it's agreed that my character is Rogue's characters grandpa(if she is given the green light). question is, what sort of specific relation? maternal or paternal, adopted or biological, why is he following her on the trip, etc

@Rogue Colm May want to put Cecelia here so the GM will see.
So, why have her be adopted?

Name: Cecelia Sothée
Sex: Female
Age: 19
Personality (optional): Weird medieval-history girl who has trained all throughout middle and high school in what medieval people did.
Some Backstory (optional. You guys should discuss how your characters know each other either IC or OOC): Maternal granddaugter to Brenner, and has had a normal, geeky life.

Strengths (Try to be specific and not choose a lot of wide scope skills e.g. combat. Instead, choose something like brawling, or wrestling, or firearms.)
1. Whittling/carving (because she couldn't buy medieval weapons, so she made them out of wood/sticks)
2. Swords(wo)manship
3. Jousting
4. Medieval times knowledge

Weaknesses (Try to have sensible weaknesses. Having weaknesses doesn't mean it's crippling, but phobias are welcome. Try something like "Sucks at directions" or something solid like "swimming". Yeah, I'm not good at swimming.)
1. Technology use
2. Fear of heights ("No, I'm not afraid of heights. I just have vivid fantasies of me falling from them and don't want them to become reality")

Backpack: One wooden sword (~20" long 'blade') and one wooden dagger (~7" 'blade'), a pocket knife with whetstone, camera, pens with a pocket-sized composition notebook, and a gallon bag (zip-lock bag) filled with "trail mix" (m&m's, skittles, Reece's Pieces, and nerds candies).

How about maternal biological? (For the "how is he related to me" kind of stuff?)

canon!brenner(that is, the source version) has a daughter, so that should work, and nicely explains the last names being different.

As for his being there: we needed a chaperon and he volunteered (to keep us safe from [insert alien type])?

Them damned reptoids are always lurking about in the woods, don't trust them to leave you kids alone.

The rest of us are just a bunch of college kids taking a "study abroad" gone wrong? (insert help of Grandpa's crackpot theories for the mix up)

Leave that up to the rest of you, got everything I need.

Well, I'm involved with the "rest of you" group. Just throwing that idea out there for anyone to pick up, gramps.

:P just saying, his entire motivation, personality, and excuse for being present are decided. Not much else I can do.

Oh! Scratch "study abroad". I just re-read the icheck, and the original backstory was camping, so my conclusion: scouts! Not army scouts, but the post-boy/girl scouts. Something like the irl Venture Scouts (sorry, I went through BSA and got Eagle) going on an international camping trip

I always hated scouts.
Some sort of survival trip maybe?

/me is going to leave for a bit because we're kind of overloading this with just our characters ideas and information.

Keep the ideas coming. The initial idea I had was just to give you guys some ideas. The important thing is we end up in a remote town far off, since it would suck if we're getting killed within the main civilization... right? Right? Heh.

As for old man's reason of coming with, since medieval chick sucks at technology (and maybe other modern stuff) she'll need some guidance. I guess. I dunno, whatchu guys think?

What do you guys think about the first post starting on the plane? Then after that we just skip to the bus trip to town.

My idea would be, there's a screwup with your booking, and you didn't notice / weren't notified early. Instead of wasting your vacation waiting to be re-booked, you decided to just do it, since you were on a vacation for an adventure anyway.

Is this RP still accepting applicants?