Theme Song
January 11th, 2017, no one could have ever predicted the terrible disaster that would strike the great New York City at exactly seven P.M just ten days after the beginning of the new year.
In the late evening hours of January 11th, the millions of citizens in New York City were all blindsided when a chorus of explosions could be heard erupting throughout the city followed seconds later by a city wide blackout.
The entire city, metaphorically, froze on the spot.
The towering skyscrapers, the brightly lit streets, the luminous bill boards and big screens, all went black in an instant, that plus so much more.
However, though most of the city was blackened with darkness, several larger and more critical buildings such as city hall, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, and the many police stations, fire stations, and hospitals, as well as other more prominent buildings remained online due to temporary back up generators and emergency power supplies.
Despite this however, the carnage of power loss and miscommunication and misdirection began to billow up across New York City.
Within just an hour after the blackout the hospitals were already crowding out with patients, an equal balance of mild injuries and severe cases, and along with that, a death toll that already stretched well over two thousand.
This was all before chaos itself was unleashed.
At eight P.M, the few locations that still maintained power found their television screens and their radios broadcasting a message to them.
One that left their blood chilled and their hearts quivering.
Greetings New York...
The voice from the broadcast itself was distorted and scrambled into an echoey low pitch, due to the use of a modulator.
So no one new who it was that delivered the message.
Allow us to introduce ourselves, we are the Night Skulls, and this is our city now.
We are the very ones whom society chooses to distance itself from.
But now, we shall be society itself, as stated, this is our city now.
Dark City, where a new frontier and a new generation will be born and cultivated.
The United States Government and their military puppets have no place or right here anymore, this is our land now, and those who stand against us will be slaughtered without mercy.
This goes for citizens and dwellers of this city as well.
Everything here is ours and ours alone, we own everything now, even your lives, and we shall use it all and take it and grant it as we see fit.
We will not be stopped.
Join us, submit to us, or die.
That broadcast alone left the city speechless and terrified.
While many speculated it to be an empty terroristic threat, that was proven to be false when, on queue to the end of the broadcast, firefights, explosions, and mobs began lighting up across the city.
Angry mobs and bands of looters began raging throughout the dark streets of the now offline city of New York, initiating brawls, mass destruction, and looting and plundering now darkened homes and businesses and setting the streets ablaze with the fires of violence.
Thousands of police and SWAT units were dispatched in masse across the Big Apple, but it was too late to contain the chaos.
All they could do now was fight it and hope to quell it.
The paramedics, doctors, and other medical personnel were swamped with rescues and saving lives by the thousands while the fire brigades battle the raging infernos set ablaze by the mobs and looters.
All the while, swarms of dissidents in dark clothing adorned with black masks and bandanas are overrunning the streets, exchanging fire with the police and SWAT units.
While their weapons are mostly of civil design and model, they are still inflicting the law enforcement with heavy injuries and casualties, keeping them at bay, protecting their newly gained territory.
Others are raiding homes, businesses, and civic buildings, looting and stripping them of all value before torching them.
All through the streets and alleys there are black flags being raised and insignias and emblems are being painted across the buildings and walls, with the same designs on these terrorists masks and bandanas.
Those designs being grinning skulls of all variations.
For these terrorists who are seizing the city by force are the Night Skulls.
In Washington D.C., Congress and the President declare a state of emergency and dispatch the National Guard and the Coast Guard to set up a perimeter around New York City and carry forth efforts at evacuating innocents, securing the city, and putting down the Night Skulls and liberating the city.
The military are estimated to be in full position in the early morning hours and will begin operations on their official arrival.
With the city in chaos, the nation in a state of panic, and the international community gazing on in wonder, you must survive this hellish nightmare until order is restored.
This is a war zone, a chaos core, only the fit and the smart will survive.
No policies nor laws nor activism will protect you, only your strength and your wits will grant you your life.
Survival of the fittest.
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PLOT SUMMARY
You are a citizen of New York City.
Maybe your a policeman, a fireman, or an accountant, or a school teacher, it's up to you.
You will immediately find yourself swirling through the whirlpool of chaos that has swallowed up the Big Apple.
Facing looters, fires, rioters, and sooner or later the dreaded Night Skulls.
The whole city is offline and totally dark, with a few exceptions as far as major civil buildings and businesses go.
The National Guard and the Coast Guard both are inbound but won't begin conducting operations within the city until sometime tomorrow, forcing you to brave the first night with only yourself and the shambling local law and rescue forces to rely on, if even that.
You will have to utilize all of your skills and instincts to have a prayer of survival.
No one knows how long this anarchic state in New York City will endure, so you must be prepared for the worst.
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THE NIGHT SKULLS
The Night Skulls, no one within the last two to three hours could tell you anything about them, who are they are, where they came from, or how numerous they are.
Or if they were the ones responsible for the blackout, though for obvious reason everyone believe that they are the culprits.
They are all adorned in common clothing that is dark colored, meaning black, gray, brown, and navy blue.
The only thing identifying them is the black masks and bandanas that they all are wearing that are imprinted with different skull face designs.
They are even now storming throughout Manhattan and the surrounding city districts and neighborhoods, gunning down and murdering civilians in masse, firing on and skirmishing with the police and SWAT units, and looting and pillaging homes, businesses, and civic buildings.
They are raising black flags emblemed with skulls like those on their masks and are painting the same designs on buildings and walls, indicating that this is their city now.
They are well equipped, coordinated and organized, brutal, and unpredictable.
The Night Skulls themselves are an NPC faction-group.
This is because, well, let's just say I have a deep sinister sidewinding plot wrote and planned out for them and don't need it being altered, compromised, or shared.
Sorry for the slight bummer, chums.
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MAP
RULES1. No metagaming, godmodding, spamming, trolling, raging, flaming, or any kind of cheating or crude conduct whatsoever.
2.Each player may have a maximum of 2 primary characters active at once.If one or both of your characters dies then you can create a new one at any time.But you may have ONLY TWO ACTIVE AT ONCE.
3. No one liners whatsoever. At all.I'm not demanding every post to be an essay, no, but let's keep it at the very least casual.A minimum of one paragraph per post. So let's say 6-8 sentences.
4.After a week(7 days) of inactivity you will be removed from the roster, i.e. murdered by the Night Skulls.
However, I am a very understanding person.If something comes up let me know and we'll work something out so you can stay in the RP and partake.
5. No back-to-back posts, if you need to add something in just edit your first post then let everyone know here in the OOC.
6.Overall though you may only have 2 primary characters you can virtually have unlimited secondary characters.(Within reason please.Don't take this out of context.)
7. No killing each other's characters without granted permission please from your opponent.
Any other questions?Just ask! :D
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RECRUITING, FACTION BUILDING
SECONDARY CHARACTERS
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Standard Character Sheet
(Attention!The following classes are not permitted, ergo you cannot apply as them; Current Active Military, however ex-military is fine,no kind of Politicians, not even a city council member, no Organized Criminal of any kind, no Mafia, Triads ect.)
Police Character Sheet
SWAT Unit Character Sheet
Fire Fighter Character Sheet
Mercenary Character Sheet
Coming Soon!
Contract Killer/Hitman Character Sheet
Coming Soon!