[OOC] Life After- A Sorta Nation Prepping RP

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@Andrew Blade

Be reasonable, but no real limits otherwise.

[Andrew Blade]

Okay. The math thing that everyone was talking about made me think that I would need to provide a cost/income analysis for my group.

[Banzai Tracers]

Oh man im WAY into this. Its only what ive been thinking about for the past 4 years.

Would you be ok with my picking a fairly large clan of people for the story? Atleast 3 families, and may infact keep growing. They will all be connected together through a common clan in the Scottish sense. The budgeting will be real world, except there will be a fairly large cash injection initially as the family has a few wealthy backers. However as society deteriorates there will be no banks to draw money out of and no dividends from shares so we'll be on our own.

I hope the disaster is something a bit different from zombies, of all the disasters that one is the least likely. Not that it woulnt be fun.

I used to be a prepper, and i love colony games. Lets get this on like diddy-kong.

[Enigmatik]

Aaaaand we’re back folks!

@Banzai Tracers That sounds gretty fun! Keep the point of view characters down though please, it might get overwhelming otherwise. I will say that Zombies are just about the only disaster that I haven’t considered for this RP, so we’re clear there.

[Andrew Blade]

Super excited to get this kicked off.

... Would a player be able to join and not form a group and play as another primary point of view in the same group as another player?

[Enigmatik]

@Andrew Blade

Um... I honestly never considered that?

[Raylah]

I think it could work in some larger group - like you would have two sort of subgroups (ie competing for leadership or something like that), or you could have a lone road warrior/smaller group temporarly joining with a large group, but still remaining independent to some extent. However, it would require a lot of communication between the two players.

[Andrew Blade]

I don't have anything specific in mind, but I have some friends I used to play with that might be able to meet the requirements for this RPG. I was thinking that they might not want to do as much planning and research, but they would be happy to tag-along as a POV player for my group, or, as Raylah said, a loner that gets lucky enough to meet up with a group, or a survivor that somehow gets rescued somewhere along the way.

[Enigmatik]

@Andrew Blade

I could see that working, yes.

[Raylah]

@Irredeemable So, when will we get this running? :)

[Andrew Blade]

So I totally watched Cloverfield Paradox last night on Netflix. Not a very good movie, honestly, but I had to finish it just to see how things worked out.

@irredeemable, if you went THAT route for a worldwide calamity... I mean, damn.

[Banzai Tracers]

Still working on my WIP btw. Its probably 75% done.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Finally here once more. I'm having an idea of a group of cultists who have taken over an old church (or was formed from the church) and is now fortifying it into a fortress monastery or something. Although this idea might require a bunch of "nameless" NPCs who don't get the lime lihgt.

My other idea is a group of road warriors/nomads who act as traders and caravaners, smelling profit in the end of the world.

[Enigmatik]

@ClocktowerEchos I’ll be honest, I like the cult idea. You don’t have to have everyone be under the spotlight.

As for start date, I want to kick this off before the end of the week.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Irredeemable How many "NPCs" can I have tho?

[ClocktowerEchos]

WIP. Pretty sure I'm on some kind of list for looking up firearms on university internet lmao. C&C welcomed.

(WIP) The Church of the Falling Star

THE CHURCH OF THE FALLING STAR

THE SANCTUARY

Once a crumbling rural stone chapel, the Church of the Falling Star has dutifully rebuilt and fortified into a self-proclaims "fortress-monastery". Complete with communal dining hall, sleeping cells, a library, an armory-forge, a radio communications room with a "Pillar of Light" (broadcasting beacon), and underground cellars, the Church is confident it can weather the "Star Fall". Many of these additions have been tacked on to the side or on top of the old chapel, forcing its silhouette into a new, much larger shape.

Farming plots and animal pens for sheep, chickens and pigs have been set up with the animals provided by farmers who have seen the light. A few separate buildings been set up to act as guard houses, outdoor workshops, communal grounds and storage barns. A rudimentary wall of logs, sheet metal and homemade barbed wire marks the outer wall of the compound although some farms and "guard stations" (read: glorified bathtubs basically) mark the "frontier". Loud speakers are common in the territory of the Church and used to signal prayer and other messages while numerous flags and other iconography is used to display who now owns these lands and the great solar deity who protects them.

The vaults of the Church contain several years' worth of nonperishable food even though they plan to rely on their farmland and farming knowledge. Common over the counter medicines, vitamin supplements and even a few prescription painkillers along with medical kits and gasmasks are used to treated wounds but the Followers of the Falling Star hope to use their own herb greenhouse to make herbal remedies as well as prayer. There are few if any power tools and but plenty of toolboxes. Most important of all is the raw material stockpiles of logs, scrap metal and fabrics the Church possess and uses to craft anything they cannot get their hands on.

The armory contains weapons of simpler designs, the Grand Inquisitor knowing that they will not be able to rely on modern, complex firearms forever has opted to arm his followers in a more basic manner. As such, nearly all fire arms are bolt action or revolvers:

• Remington Model 700 Rifles w/ 4,000 rounds of .308 Winchester
• Smith and Wesson Model 686 Revolvers w/ 7,000 rounds of .357 Magnum
• Henry Lever Action Carbines w/ 7,000 rounds of .357 Magnum
• Double Barrel Shotguns w/ 3,000 of 12 Gauge Buck
• Crossbows w/ 7,000 Bolts
• Homemade Flamethrowers to Purge
• Axes, Machetes, Homemade Swords, Hammers

THE FAITHFUL


THE CANON

"Do you not see the signs? Do you not see how the wind howls and how the birds no longer sing! Do you not see how the world sours itself under the weight of its own filth! Do you not feel the rotting dread deep within you my brothers and sisters! Do you not feel how we have angered Lord all mighty! For centuries we have let governments and wealth and politics and false idols blind us! For centuries we have been awaiting damnation! I tell you, I do, of when the stars falls and the very heavens themselves blacken with the souls of the lost and the damned where not even the so called worthy will survive!

There will be no redemption, no salvation, no rapture for those who cling to the sickening pollution of old gods and false lies! Every day, our reckoning creeps ever closer! Do you not feel it! Do you not feel the Sun setting upon humanity! Oh how the light leaves us and the dark drags us! The so called 'wise' will say we have nothing to worry about and the so called 'pious' will proclaim with serpent tongues that the god they worship will save them, but they are of the darkness that shall consume the world! The most holy and hallowed ground of our forefathers and their forefathers! Lost to the shadows of the apocalypse!

The stars will fall and rain down hellfire upon those who are not prepared! The light is lost to all those who are blindly ignorant to the truth and thus I beg of you, of mankind, of all of Earth to heed my warning! The heavens shall shatter and the stars will fall and the light of mankind will forever extinguish into eternal nightmares less you heed my clarion call to arms! To arms brothers, to arms sisters! To arms to defend what good remains of man and what good remains of his achievement for we shall not go silently unto that most dark and dreaded night silently!"

[Banzai Tracers]

@ClocktowerEchos Haha, when i was looking up something for my characters one of the companies i clicked on the product root and it turned out the other thing they made was ball barings, which i tried to steer well clear of. Im gonna be sorry when james bond catches up with me.

[Enigmatik]

@ClocktowerEchos

There’s an NPC faction that is going to love you.

[Andrew Blade]

@ClocktowerEchos I'm only commenting because you said C&C welcomed. The only comment I have is that all of the firearms you've listed are chambered in a caliber with a lot of recoil (though the .357 in a lever-action wouldn't be terrible). As long as most of your cult members are larger people, this works out just fine, but if you have smaller individuals or people that aren't as familiar or well-trained (they could all be trained in each of these weapons proficiently for all I know), something with less recoil would be more effective than something with a lot of power.

If you do decide to include smaller calibers, I recommend keeping with the Remington Model 700, but selecting several chambered in .223 in addition to the .308 models. The .223 is more than capable of reaching out to distances up to 600 meters in the hands of a capable shooter, and while it has less power than the .308, well-placed shots on a human target will put them down easily.

For revolvers, I would suggest finding something in a 9mm selection. Ruger makes a small one called the LCR that can be kept in a pocket for self-defense purposes. It's hammerless, which means it won't snag on any clothing if you have to draw it in a hurry, but that also means it has a double-action only trigger, which means each pull of the trigger requires a longer, more difficult squeeze of the trigger. Taurus also makes one called the Taurus 905 that operates more similarly to your usual double/single action revolver. That you can fire in double-action, but you can also pull the hammer back for a crisp single-action pull as well, if you are able to take the time between shots to do so.

And for lever-action rifles, you could pick up something in a .22 WMR (Henry has these too), which packs more than enough power to take down small game at medium range as well as put down a human with the appropriate shot placement within 100 meters. But as I said before, the .357 in a carbine wouldn't really be all that bad for recoil.

Ignore all of these suggestions, though, if you don't plan on any of your cult members not being comfortable withstanding the recoil of more powerful arms.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Irredeemable Oo do tell

@Andrew Blade Honestly I just looked up what the most common/popular ammunition and firearms where. The Church is in it for the long haul since they believe eventually ammo will run out and producing it will become extremely difficult as the chemicals needed will no longer be produced and thus are trying to shift towards a medieval style of armory with some muzzle loaders they can make themselves.