[OOC] Of Crosses and Collapses: A Crossover Adventure of Survival on a Patchwork World.

[Shikaru]

There's a million meme's to describe my memory, and I'm to lazy to link one. IN SHORT. I will work on a sheet tomorrow and AT-LEAST get a WIP posted. Sorry for vanishing again ^-^'.

[Crosswire]

And I have posted! Sorry if my post was a bit big, I wanted to address everyone and get the mission down. This is gonna be fun~

[FrozenEcstasy]

Gonna wait till Oddsbod posts before I continue

[Crosswire]

@FrozenEcstasyOdds is actually gonna have his character show up on the mission after you guys leave town.

[Kamen Evie]

Okay, finally managed to get this done before bed.

The Merchant

”Got somethin’ that might interest ya!”

[30’s(?)| Human (?) | Resident Evil 4| Male]

APPEARANCE, PERSONALITY, & BACKGROUND

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

It’s a tense situation. An isolated situation, fraught with danger, in uncharted lands. You enter the next room with dread, expecting the worst…

And are met by The Merchant, a hooded figure in a long, weathered black trench coat, with a purple cloth covering most of his face. That, along with the fingerless gloves, meaning that his fingers and the area just around his eyes are the only traces of his pale skin that remain visible. His eyes are blue, but sometimes they glow red, and he usually stands with a slouchy posture, possibly due to the large backpack he carries with him.

Despite his shady appearance he gives off a very amicable aura. Maybe it's the giddy look he gets in his eyes when he sees a potential customer, maybe it's his strangely endearing cockney-esque accent, or maybe it's the way he’ll open up that trench coat to reveal enough firepower to solve every problem you could ever even think of… provided you've got the cash.

PERSONALITY ASPECTS

• Jovial
• Opportunistic
• Miserly
• Polite
• Unassuming

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Just exactly who or what The Merchant is always has and probably always will be a complete mystery, but it was quite clear that against all odds, he had hit the jackpot. Two customers had enough of a need for his inventory that they were willing to trade villages, castles, and mines full of treasure for it, and they had succeeded, destroying the Los Illuminados for good and filling his coffers full of pesetas in the process. The Merchant escaped the destruction of the island and left to clean out his other shops and head on to another venture…

Until The Event happened, and he lost it all. The guns, the shops, the shooting galleries, those blue torches, and perhaps worst of all, the bottlecap figurines. He was left with nothing, and had wandered the pastiche of worlds until he had found the town of 2Fort. It wasn’t all bad. He could definitely work with this. After all, with all these worlds coming together full of dangerous creatures and dangerous people, there oughta be some very profitable business opportunities just ripe for the picking.

CHARACTER CAPABILITIES

~SKILLS~

Appraisal: As one who frequently trades weapons and treasures, The Merchant can quickly and accurately determine the identity and value of any firearm or treasure he comes across.

Weapon Maintenance: The Merchant has an encyclopedic knowledge of firearms, with a firm understanding of every part of anything that could be considered a gun, and as such can keep one running, provided the parts themselves aren’t broken.

Minor Crafting: The Merchant is surprisingly good with machinery, able to rig up a shooting gallery with moving targets in several different locations. It’s nothing extreme, but he could probably fix a broken gate or something. He also possesses a few more utilitarian skills like herb-mixing.

~SPECIAL ABILITIES~

Tune Up: By somehow expending treasure or raw cash, The Merchant can permanently raise a firearm beyond its normal capabilities, increasing either firepower, firing speed, reload speed, or magazine capacity. Upgrading the magazine capacity will (somehow) refill the magazine to full capacity.

Strong Back: Though The Merchant already looks like he’s packing enough heat and cash to fund a small militia, he can carry even more than he appears to be able to, to the point that one wonders whether it’s some sort of extra-dimensional storage… provided that it’s cash, treasure, or part of what he’s selling.

Weapon Hunter The Merchant can practically sniff out a new and interesting gun to add to his collection. He has an easier time finding firearms than most, regardless of the quality.

~Perks~

I’ve got a Selection of Good Things on Sale, Stranger! Though most of his inventory has been lost, The Merchant has retained a few basic weapons: A handgun, a shotgun, and a rifle, along with one First Aid Spray

~Faults~

Miser: The Merchant is ridiculously stingy about keeping his potential sales in perfect condition. He will only use the worst equipment he has on him, if that equipment is remotely worth holding on to, and save the rest as inventory. He also isn’t willing to part with his inventory out of goodwill.

~Weaknesses~

The Merchant can shoot a gun or swing a knife or club, but his skills with them are average at best. He’d prefer to let his customers wield his inventory rather than himself.

The Merchant is also quite frugal with his services. He’s rather affable, but don’t expect him to shell out weapons or upgrades out of the kindness of his heart.

INVENTORY & EQUIPMENT

~STARTING EQUIPMENT~
Clothes and Gear: The Merchant’s trusty outfit and backpack. Withstands the elements and can conceal a mindblowing amount of weaponry, though the heat it would suggest to provide doesn’t seem to bother him.

Shop Inventory: The Merchant’s remaining shop inventory. He won’t use these himself, but he's willing to part with them for the right price.

• Handgun: A slightly used semi-automatic pistol that was sold to The Merchant by a certain stranger early on in his adventure, comes with a full ten-round magazine. Reliable, but nothing particularly special.
• Shotgun: An old-fashioned pump-action shotgun.
• Rifle: An old-fashioned bolt-action rifle. Doesn’t come with a scope.
• First Aid Spray: A spray can containing a bizarre substance that heals all injuries. Can only be used once.

~CURRENTLY EQUIPPED GEAR~

Clothes and Gear

~INVENTORY~

*listed above*

MEDALS AND ACCOLADES

EXTRA

[Crosswire]

@lavulmanThe Merchant is accepted! He should probably appear and meet the gang when out on their mission as well because, well, he's the merchant. Unless you just want to have had him there the whole time or something.

[Eventua]

EUUUGGGHHH

I find myself tempted to sign up as more characters but it's just, like... too many. Way too many.

[agentnumalol]

>The Merchant
I know who John's gonna be visiting very often.

@Crosswire By the way, I was thinking about editing my first IC post to be formatted more consistent with the first post. Would you like posts to be in that format or is it more of a personal preference?

[Kamen Evie]

@lavulmanThe Merchant is accepted! He should probably appear and meet the gang when out on their mission as well because, well, he's the merchant. Unless you just want to have had him there the whole time or something.

@Crosswire

Both of these options sound rather tempting, but I think I'll stick with the first.

EUUUGGGHHH

I find myself tempted to sign up as more characters but it's just, like... too many. Way too many.

@Eventua

I'm thinking of claiming The Courier myself. I'd do the Vault Dweller or The Chosen One but then I'd feel obligated to use the Jinxed trait and have everyone hate me.

>The Merchant
I know who John's gonna be visiting very often.

@agentnumalol

Heheheh!

[Crosswire]

>The Merchant
I know who John's gonna be visiting very often.

@agentnumalol

Marston: Drops a load of bloody animal hides and zombie hearts at the Merchant's feet"How much will you give me for a dead man's butt?"

Yes I'd like character posts to be formatted that way. With a heading, a mention of the location, and mentions of the characters involved using the @ command. There's no need to go back and edit your previous posts though. I TOTALLY forgot the important of having a properly formatted post. I was so excited that I just jumped right into things. Besides everyone is in the same place at the moment so it's not a huge issue.

Thanks for asking though.

EUUUGGGHHH

I find myself tempted to sign up as more characters but it's just, like... too many. Way too many.

@Eventua

Ha, yeah I get you. I'd be fine with you having two more characters but try to restrain yourself for playing characters you REALLY want. Besides characters can die in this roleplay, especially if shit hits the fan and things get bad. I won't be unfair or force anyone to kill their characters but I encourage players to take the situation and the actions of others into consideration. Besides there are ways characters can come back from the dead given all the games involved.

So maybe it's best to save your other character ideas and work on them for when one of your current character drops.

@lavulman

Oh god having the Courier would mean adding Fallout stuff. My god that'd be great. Butt tons of items, weapons, armor, creatures, and ass tons of toxins and radiation. Plus having Jinxed+Wild Wasteland could lead to some neat stuff in this roleplay.

[Kamen Evie]

Plus having Jinxed+Wild Wasteland could lead to some neat stuff in this roleplay.

@Crosswire

Half the party: "Okay this is maybe the eighth time my gun exploded today, this is not normal." *steps on an inconveniently placed rake*

Vault Dweller: "I didn't do it."

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I'll probably write up a Courier CS at some point in the future, once I get caught up with everything else.

[Kamen Evie]

Oh, I also edited in the ammo capacity for Merch's shotgun and rifle because I totally forgot to do that.

[Crosswire]

@lavulmanThank you, I appreciate adding in those details. What pistol is the merchant carrying exactly? The Shotgun and Rifle are easy to assume given there aren't many rifles or shotguns in his inventory in Resident Evil 4, but the pistol less so. Is it the starter pistol Leon carried? And that I always pawned off for the Red9?

[Megsychan]

El Presidente

British Officer: Seriously, you are without a doubt, the worst dictator I have ever heard of.
El Presidente: But you have heard of me!

[300+| Human | Tropico, Republic of Tropico | Male]

APPEARANCE, PERSONALITY, & BACKGROUND

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

El Presidente is the president of the world's smallest nation, but that doesn't stop him from trying to look like he comes from a nation that actually matters. El Presidente stands at an average height for a fully grown man, with a downright fat build (but call him a fatty at your own risk!) His olive skin, often tanned through the heat in his island nation, is complimented by a full black beard and mustache. El Presidente's brown eyes are usually obscured by a pair of sunglasses he never takes off, not even indoors (it's part of his image!)

His outfit screams his old profession. A military dress uniform, complete with a matching cap, shows off his impressive power as the de facto dictator of Tropico. At first he wore green, but El Presidente decided to change to black later on in his presidency. There was a brief stint where he considered switching to white (as the image above depicts) due to being more comfortable in the Tropican climate, but he later changed back to black because black hid his fat better was more imposing. El Presidente also has a pistol, a Tokarev, which he keeps in a holster to once again show off his authority. Finally, El Presidente's brand is completed with a Tropican-made cigar in his mouth, one of his nation's chief exports.

PERSONALITY ASPECTS

* Strangely charismatic
* Slightly eccentric
* Jovial demenour
* Natural-born schemer
* Self-centered morality, doesn't care about things except in relationship to himself and his own interests
* No real sense of right or wrong
* Prideful
* Vengeful
* Bombastic


BACKGROUND INFORMATION

El Presidente is synonymous with the island of Tropico itself, situated in the serene Caribbean ocean. The island, originally settled by pirates as a safe harbor to rest after spending time on the high seas. The man who established Tropico, a Spanish pirate famously tortured by the English, known simply as El Rey Pirata, is rumored to be El Presidente himself (putting his age closer to 500 years old instead of the current 300). At the very least, he is most likely an ancestor for El Presidente, given their strangely similar looks. The Spanish Empire seized the islands sometime in the 1600s, displacing EL Rey Pirata and his pirate and resettling the island with mestizos across the Caribbean. Britain would seize the island only about a hundred years later, incoperating Tropico into their empire. In order to prevent any discontent on the island, they offered the position of Governor-General to the first Tropican to respond to their job offer. An eccentric man only known as "El Presidente" took up their offer.

Of course, El Presidente immediately went to work (re)turning the island into a personal fiefdom for his own enrichment. He continuously embezzled state funding, used technicalities and favors to continuously extend his mandate for as long as possible, and made any British investigator that pried too close to his illegal activities disappear. As the British Empire in the 1800s was looking away from the New World and into Asia and Africa, El Presidente used their waning interest in policing their Carribean territories to declare independence. The British sent a small contingent of Royal Marines in an attempt to arrest El Presidente, but after being defeated on the beaches, Queen Victoria allegedly shrugged and asked instead if they were interested in a trade agreement instead.

With Tropican independence secured, El Presidente's first hundred years of reign went on realtively uneventful, as every world power ignored the tiny island to pursue their empire building. The outbreak of the First World War changed everything. Suddenly, both Britain and Germany were competing with each other to get Tropico to send resources to a particular side. Tropico remained officially neutral, but experts noted that Tropico seemed to have fulfilled more trade requests from Germany rather than Britain. A bit due to already producing what the Germans wanted, a bit simply as one last screw you to the British.

World War II was a different story, however. As the Tropican relationships with Germany grew, and the Nazis facing near total collapse by 1945, Tropico officially declared for the Axis. El Presidente sent his trusted advisor, Penultimo, and a unit of Tropican soldiers, to Germany in order to help crush the encircled airborne units in the Ardennes. After brutal fighting in the snow, the representative of the Allied Powers personally went to El Presidente to thank Tropico for their invaluable help in helping the utter destruction of German troops. The Tropican delegation was so terrible, ill-prepared, and mismanaged, that many historians blame Tropico for single-handingly losing the battle for Germany. Nazi leaders fled to Tropico once it became apparent they lost the war, and an Anglo-American join task force attempted to bring El Presidente to justice. However, they landed at the same beach that the British landed on nearly one hundred-fifty years prior, now built up with lots of fortifications. Tropico celebrated a decisive victory, and Queen Elizabeth simply shrugged her shoulders and once again asked if Tropico were interested in a new trade agreement. America too lost interest, despite Tropico practically being in their backyard.

El Presidente, however, was humbled by the experience. No more would he ever declare for a single "side", as that almost ruined his nice little empire. Instead, as the Cold War kicked in with the 1950s, El Presidente played both the Americans and the Soviets against each other as he continuously grew rich from fulfilling both of their demands. Both superpowers never even realized how deceptive El Presidente was in keeping both powers happy, pretending to be socialist or capitalist wherever it was the most convenient. El Presidente's bank account grew to enormous numbers as he continued to embezzle funds from as many sources he could get his greedy hands on.

Things started to go weird around the 90s. The Soviet Union never fell, and the Cold War continued well into the 2010s. The EU, the Arab Leauge, and the People's Republic of China all became superpowers in their own right, not quite to the tier of the USA or USSR, but strong enough to attempt to exert influence on Tropico. El Presidente included all three into his Great Game, but even as he was smart in keeping all five happy in Tropico, it became clear that geopolitics at large was never meant to accommodate this many superpowers. By the 2010s, El Presidente was greeted with a bright flash and a mushroom cloud: some dispute in Ukraine or whatever simply escalated too far, and someone had beef with El Presidente. Probably those damn British. El Presidente hated the British. Always had.

As El Presidente was consumed by the inferno, he didn't die. No, worse. He found himself in some sort of desert, away from his beautiful palace and tropical paradise. Seperated from his swiss bank account, now El Presidente has to rebuild everything from scratch.

CHARACTER CAPABILITIES

~SKILLS~

Cult of Personality: If there is one thing El Presidente is good at, it's yelling into the microphone and sounding utterly convincing. Tropico has survived two invasions and a Cold War, not to mention various rebel groups, through El Presidente's sheer charisma and demagoguery. El Presidente knows what strings to pull, what sells well to a person or group of people, and can get people to easily do his bidding, while making them seem in control.

Financial Vision: If there is a way for something to make money, especially a personal profit, El Presidente knows how. Particularly if it involves embezzling, his favorite activity.

~SPECIAL ABILITIES~

Besides unexplained immortality, El Presidente is no different from any other regular human being, and thus has no magical ability

~Perks~

Swiss Bank Accounts: El Presidente's slush fund is magical. Anytime the timeline in his own universe was disrupted, the amount of money that was in the overseas banks would stay. Thus, El Presidente was able to amass a personal fortune in various banks all across the tax havens of the world. This remains true even in this universe; those funds still managed to cross over, although none of it is currently in his possession. However, El Presidente is certain that, if he puts the effort to search for it, he could probably find areas where parts of his fortune are stored.

~Faults~

Nicotine Addiction: That American gangster movie that El Presidente liked to watch, Scarface he thinks it was called, said the most important rule to the drug trade was to never get high on your own supply. Much like Tony, El Presidente ignored that warning, chomping on the finest cigars made on this planet Earth: his own country's. While this didn't lead to his death via shootout, he is now addicted to Nicotine, and there is only so-much cigars a person can carry on their own.

~Weaknesses~

El Presidente is a leader, not a fighter. While he can shoot down the average mook with his pistol, he is used to having an army fighting for (and with! El Presidente is certainly no coward, mind you) him. He can get overwhelmed very quickly by numbers, and he doesn't have the personal strength to deal with named characters. El Presidente prefers to fight with words, not bullets.

After a certain time without having nicotine or tobacco of some kind, El Presidente will go into withdraw. When he does, Cross will roll on a special little table and a number of things will happen that he'll have to contend with. They can range from silly, to strange, to worryingly dangerous. It'll be fun!!!

INVENTORY & EQUIPMENT

~STARTING EQUIPMENT~

* Dictator clothes and hat, to make him look imposing and regal
* A Soviet TT-30 pistol, infinite ammo but nothing more than a simple peashooter in strength
* A pack of the finest Tropican cigars
* Nuclear detonator (Broken)


~CURRENTLY EQUIPPED GEAR~

* Clothes
* TT-30

~INVENTORY~

See above

MEDALS AND ACCOLADES

EXTRA

VOTE EL PRESIDENTE OR ELSE

[Crosswire]

@MegsychanI like El Presidente but there are a few things I'd like you to alter:

* First is his immortality. Honestly it's more the wording then anything else. El Presidente basically can't die of old age. Immortality seems to suggest he can't be killed which I'm kind of iffy on in regards to this roleplay.

*Second, the infinite ammo pistol. Given he's a fatty an individual not suited for melee combat, I'd be fine with him starting with a firearm. However it should require ammunition and he should only start with a single full magazine. So specify the clip size of the gun while you're at it.

Besides if he starts with a regular ol' pistol he'll have the right to complain and get dibs on something crazy later on. Like golden lugers, or a pistol that shoots acid (both of which are actually on the loot list) :D

*Third, specify how many cigars he has. After all nicotine addition and all that. Kind of important to specify how many smokes he has before he needs to find more.

Andddd that's it. While Tropico itself might not add a lot besides a neat little island location I can basically design as I please El Presidente sounds like a lot of fun. He's a great alternative to Jack and with him we could actually have a proper election!

[Kamen Evie]

Is it the starter pistol Leon carried? And that I always pawned off for the Red9?

@Crosswire

It is exactly that. Also yeah Red9 is best gun.

[Crosswire]

@lavulmanAwesome! I have those on the loot list too. This is going to be awesome~

[agentnumalol]

Ah, got my post up. Hopefully it's not too lengthy, wasn't sure how to go about it, so I just put down a lot.

Also, my post makes it look like he just left before anyone responded to him, but really I just wanted to express that John searched for goodies after the meeting.

[Crosswire]

@agentnumalolNo it's the perfect length. Also I'm totally fine with people preemptively wanting to search for goodies. In fact I'll start rolling for his loot right now.

Oh and before I forget I recently added Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas (plus all their add ons) to the loot/enemy/location lists!

[Eventua]

I probably wont post anything until tomorrow at this point due to work and time constraints, but tomorrow I will definitely post.

The Batter is probably gonna be aloof and generally avoid talking to people unless they approach him.

Abe is... hmm. Not sure yet.