[OOC] Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

[Tenish the Mighty]

New post. Nudity and computational forensics now included.

[DJAtomika]

Simon will get right on that.

...the healing I mean. Not anything else.

[DJAtomika]

@Tenish the Mighty Will her Dust, like, repair her internal electronics by themselves?

EDIT: Never mind I re-read the post.

[SimplyJohn]

@Tenish the Mighty New post. Nudity and computational forensics now included.

Where's an internal security camera feed when you need it? :P

[TTwoThumbsUp]

Back from the great outdoors, where much sunburns and chafing has occurred.

Will throw something up tomorrow.

[SimplyJohn]

@TTwoThumbsUp Back from the great outdoors, where much sunburns and chafing has occurred.

Didn't I told you before? If you're going to sleep with a married woman, make sure her house is close to the bus stop so you don't end up having to outrun her husband in the woods!

[RPforthatPR]

Are there no spaces left?

[SimplyJohn]

@RPforthatPR Are there no spaces left?

Technically no, since the party's already boarded a ship which has been adrift in space for years, but if you can come up with a good Character Sheet and a reasonable way for your character to get on-board then I'd be happy to have you along.

When thinking of the sort of person you'd like to play as please take into account that we already have two hacker/technicians, two doctors, one soldier and a thief on the team.

Well, two soldiers, but one of them's currently floating away from the ship after blowing himself out the airlock so I haven't counted him in the list. :)

[RPforthatPR]

Frank

Name: Doctor Frank Jengele

Race: Human

Appearance:

Personality: Frank has always loved the idea of exploring planets and discovering new things in space. He hopes to make a major breakthrough.

Skills: Expert Chemist
Expert Physicist
Expert Biologist
Moderate Philosopher
Complete Madman

General Pistol/handgun usage

Non-standard Abilities: Can do anything science related, and a quick and clever thinker.

Equipment:
He usually has phials or syringes on him, as well as some containers for anything the team may find. He also carries a snub nose revolver for good measure. He wears a bulletproof vest under his normal uniform.

Bio: A brief (two or three paragraph) history of the character detailing where they're from, their current life circumstances and their reason for being included on the mission.

Frank always wanted to leave Earth and discover more about the galaxies around them. All the unexplored planets, which could lead many wonders, fascinated.

So he did his scientific studies, and wrapped up enough money to buy a small spaceship. He used this to go to several planets, where he found exotic creatures and new elements. He keeps the information written down in his diary, and also has several suitcases on his ship full of his findings. but on the way back to Earth his ship was shot down by pirates and the controls turned off. He's now living on a broken ship floating through space with the distress signal turned on, using up all the batteries. He has only a few more food storage packs left to keep him going.

Quote: "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

Could they maybe pick up the signal and find him?

[DJAtomika]

Don't know if that would be feasible. The Lone Star is a ship the size of several large cruise ships put together, which is currently abandoned and inhabited by a weird...Something.

[RPforthatPR]

Where is everyone then?

[SimplyJohn]

Where is everyone then?

@RPforthatPR

If you check out the Characters thread there's a list of current character locations, and I just added an exploration map to show the areas of the ship they've already explored. This isn't a fully comprehensive map as it only shows the locations which the characters have either actually been to or have been able to get a look at through viewports and will be expanded as they venture further into the ship.

The Lone Star's currently passing through an asteroid belt, but it would still be possible for another shuttle to rendezvous with it if they had an exceptional pilot in control.

The ship itself appears to have been abandoned for years with minimal life support and 'something' prowling the decks, the party were already attacked by one of these somethings, but it got blown apart with a plasma charge before they were able to get a good look at it. While it's highly unlikely that anyone could've survived in those conditions it isn't impossible, but you'd have to plan to be playing a character in a similar situation to 'Newt' in Aliens, Noland (Lawrence Fishburn's character) from Predators or Ben Gunn from Treasure Island, a lone survivor who's only managed to survive on their wits and salvaged supplies.

Some of the characters have been given secret information via PM which they may choose to use to help carry the story forwards, and I'm happy to discuss any secret ideas people would like to put forwards to help their own characters develop more. I may block things which contradict other character's agendas too much, but anything people want to add will be fairly considered.

[RPforthatPR]

Could he maybe be trapped in one of the rooms of the Lone Star then?

[SimplyJohn]

@RPforthatPR

Possibly, but if so he'd have been there for years without any air, food, water or medical supplies while being hunted by the thing on the ship. Highly unlikely unless he had some really good fluff explanation for how he'd managed to survive.

[DJAtomika]

@SimplyJohn He could be one of the Lone Star's original crew. Kept in cryostasis and unaware of all his colleagues' fates. All he knows is that he was to be put into the long nap until the return leg of their journey was done. He gets pulled out of cryo by our party and has to get reacclimated to life and also has to solve the mystery of what the hell happened to his ship and the rest of his colleagues.

@RPforthatPR That sound good to you?

[RPforthatPR]

Sounds great!

[SimplyJohn]

@DJAtomika@RPforthatPR That could certainly work, although I'd recommend he be a low-ranking member of the crew who knew nothing about what had happened on the ship, apart from all the weird system failures going on.

[Tenish the Mighty]

So...anyone else gonna post or do I got ups again?

[SimplyJohn]

Feel free to let Hundred take charge, I think she and Simon have the most investment in seeing the rest of the ship than most of the others anyways. :)

[Bonjour xx]

Sorry about not posting yet! I haven't forgotten about everyone and will endeavour to have one up soon!!