[Accepting]
Four Towers is a sprawling underground exotic research facility located in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States. Its real name and employer are lost; instead, the facility is known by the only above-ground structures: four squat watertower-like ventilation and elevator shafts arranged in a perfect rectangle. Even the employees don't know who really hired them, and they've been paid to forget the question. Research is conducted towards the nature of dark matter, psychic and ethereal phenomena, applications of theoretical physics, and genetic and viral engineering.
All of this, of course, goes horribly wrong over the course of five days. The incidenct starts on Thursday, July 18th, steadily grows disastrous over the weekend, and ends in the wholesale destruction of the facility and a 5-mile quarantine zone. Survivors are rumored to roam the hills and nearby river, however, these rumors have been strongly discouraged.
Think Half-Life's Black Mesa Research Facility, Portal's Aperture Science Enrichment Center, Resident Evil's Umbrella Corporation's secret labs, The Island' facility, or Dollhouse's main facility. Basically, a sprawling, secret, underground, this-can't-possibly-go-wrong Science complex. It is, of course, doomed. The nature of the doom is partially up to the players - each application includes a field for "role in the incident". As the RP progresses, the gaps will get filled in through NPC's and various bits of lore lying around.
This isn't a "stop the horrible scenario from happening" RP, this is a "survive the horrible scenario"/"die spectacularly" kind of RP. You'll be playing a band of survivors - scientists, assistants, security, office workers, maybe an administrator or two, or possibly even a VIP. Your first post will be meeting up in a small supply closet somewhere buried deep in the facility.
Inside the closet are janitorial supplies, one handgun (nobody knows how it got there, but everyone has their own suspicions) with a full magazine of 12 shots, a crumpled ten dollar bill, a box of seven flashlights with batteries, office supplies, a bloody pen next to a piece of paper with "Cha" written on it, a crowbar, a screwdriver, and a bloody SD card.
Departments/Jobs:
-Maintenence
-Manufacturing
-Security
-Administration
-Science [Dark Matter, Supernatural, Biological, Applied Sciences]
-Warehouse
-Emergency [Medical, Fire, Engineering(for structural and atmospheric emergencies)]
-VIP
Application Form:
Name:
Appearance:
Job:
Relation with Other Departments: [Does your character hate the science team? Do they have friends in the Administration? Why? You don't have to have every department's relationship, just the noteworthy ones for your character.]
Role in Creating the Incident: [Every player character had a hand in causing the incident. Your character, of course, may not want to admit this.]
Where You Were and What You Were Doing 5 Minutes Ago: [That is, 5 minutes before your character crawled/walked/fell from the ceiling vents in(to) the closet]
Rules:
-Don't be a jerk.
-Contribute to the story.
-Demonstrate a reasonable command of English spelling and grammar.
-No AI. Portal told the story of a rogue AI far better than I think we ever could. So the Four Towers facility was in no way involved with the research of AI.
Four Towers is a sprawling underground exotic research facility located in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States. Its real name and employer are lost; instead, the facility is known by the only above-ground structures: four squat watertower-like ventilation and elevator shafts arranged in a perfect rectangle. Even the employees don't know who really hired them, and they've been paid to forget the question. Research is conducted towards the nature of dark matter, psychic and ethereal phenomena, applications of theoretical physics, and genetic and viral engineering.
All of this, of course, goes horribly wrong over the course of five days. The incidenct starts on Thursday, July 18th, steadily grows disastrous over the weekend, and ends in the wholesale destruction of the facility and a 5-mile quarantine zone. Survivors are rumored to roam the hills and nearby river, however, these rumors have been strongly discouraged.
Think Half-Life's Black Mesa Research Facility, Portal's Aperture Science Enrichment Center, Resident Evil's Umbrella Corporation's secret labs, The Island' facility, or Dollhouse's main facility. Basically, a sprawling, secret, underground, this-can't-possibly-go-wrong Science complex. It is, of course, doomed. The nature of the doom is partially up to the players - each application includes a field for "role in the incident". As the RP progresses, the gaps will get filled in through NPC's and various bits of lore lying around.
This isn't a "stop the horrible scenario from happening" RP, this is a "survive the horrible scenario"/"die spectacularly" kind of RP. You'll be playing a band of survivors - scientists, assistants, security, office workers, maybe an administrator or two, or possibly even a VIP. Your first post will be meeting up in a small supply closet somewhere buried deep in the facility.
Inside the closet are janitorial supplies, one handgun (nobody knows how it got there, but everyone has their own suspicions) with a full magazine of 12 shots, a crumpled ten dollar bill, a box of seven flashlights with batteries, office supplies, a bloody pen next to a piece of paper with "Cha" written on it, a crowbar, a screwdriver, and a bloody SD card.
Departments/Jobs:
-Maintenence
-Manufacturing
-Security
-Administration
-Science [Dark Matter, Supernatural, Biological, Applied Sciences]
-Warehouse
-Emergency [Medical, Fire, Engineering(for structural and atmospheric emergencies)]
-VIP
Application Form:
Name:
Appearance:
Job:
Relation with Other Departments: [Does your character hate the science team? Do they have friends in the Administration? Why? You don't have to have every department's relationship, just the noteworthy ones for your character.]
Role in Creating the Incident: [Every player character had a hand in causing the incident. Your character, of course, may not want to admit this.]
Where You Were and What You Were Doing 5 Minutes Ago: [That is, 5 minutes before your character crawled/walked/fell from the ceiling vents in(to) the closet]
Rules:
-Don't be a jerk.
-Contribute to the story.
-Demonstrate a reasonable command of English spelling and grammar.
-No AI. Portal told the story of a rogue AI far better than I think we ever could. So the Four Towers facility was in no way involved with the research of AI.
