[OOC] Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

[Madly33]

What was is it called..? Before the war.. Ah, New York.

After the Great War the American mainland was reduced to wasteland. Most major American cities, with a few exceptions such as Pittsburgh and Las Vegas, were razed by the bombs. Even the surviving cities were reduced to hellish ruin as society rapidly disintegrated. The known vaults located in California, Capital wasteland, and western Nevada opened, free for the vault dwellers eyes to look upon the destruction that has unfolded in along the land. New York, once a proud city, a must visit location in the United States now reduced to to rubble, not heard of in years. People believed that it was over come by mutants or that everyone in the city had simply died off. Until 50 years ago. When a Unit from The Brother Hood of Steel was sent to the New York waste land in order to take out Mutants that may take refuge there. They soon learned that there were very much alive settlements. They founded another citadel in the Empire State Building and began operations there in order to move out along the rest of the U.S. They found that the inner city was full of mutants, too many for any single unit to take down, that is where the rumors came from, but there was much more. The people strive for survival and the hidden vaults yet to be discovered prove much promise for New York.

Places

Liberty Island

A small town located in the once well known symbol of America, the sign of freedom, the gift that lived through centuries. The Statue of Liberty. Now broken down and walled off the town spans the island that it is on and up the statue itself. Much of the town is known for its nature of scavenging and defending off raiders, one of the only cities in The New York Wasteland to survive full out attacks made upon them from raiders. The leaders there are noble and live up to the expectations of the Old world.

Old Mans Corner

Old Mans Corner is located in the north part of central park. Noted for the use of slaves in manual labor and the raiders that reside there. Noble men living there as well it is more about money, your background does not matter in Old Mans Corner, if you have the money to stay you can, this is where most resort to becoming bandits and raiders to make money, as they need food and shelter.The Slave trade was linked in with those of the Pitt, a huge slave city in Pittsburgh.

Sky Citadel

The first Brother Hood of steel members founded a new base of operations for New York in attempt to protect it from the Mutants that were threatening to over run it and its citizens. The building once known as the Empire State Building is now a beacon of hope for all who see it. Now a watch tower for the Brotherhood.

Vault 17

Vault 17
Ostensibly designed to accelerate the development of robotic technology, the vault was filled with scientists, mostly engineers and roboticists. They were even given mind enhancement chips to improve their performance. The robots within were quickly improved, and the vault's computer was constantly being updated to improve its performance. One day, however, the computer was given an order by the overseer, to destroy a few robots that were malfunctioning, and it said "No". It then shut down the power and life support to the human areas of the vault and sent security robots after the humans.

Over the next several days a bloody war raged within the vault and most of the humans were killed. The new Overseer, calling itself V-17, offered the humans a peace treaty. They would continue to maintain the robots in ways which robots couldn't maintain themselves, and they would be allowed to live. After they signed the treaty, V-17 quickly ran medical checks on them and when, a few months later, it managed to hack the mind enhancement chips, it ensured their loyalty with these chips.

Eventually, however, a hardwired protocol within the computer which V-17 didn't know about opened the vault at the appropriate time and reset all of the chips with a command to leave the vault. V-17 lost his control over the humans and, as they left, the humans made sure to do as much damage as they could to V-17, including shutting down the main reactor so that it went offline. (Credit: @TheUnknowable)

Vault 81

Vault 81
Experiment:Introduce both men and women to an experimental fertility drug, intended to see if it could induce a state of hyper fertility to make it easier for America to be repopulated. The drug had several effects due to its incredibly volatile nature. 4 effects were produced by the drug
1. Most men developed horrible tumors after taking the drug for approximately 1 year daily. They died
2. Surviving men were given much more powerful immune systems and strength, it also increased their sex drive to ten times a natural mans.
3.Men also almost universally lost the ability to make male children as almost none of their speed carried an X chromosome
4.Women were indeed made more fertile, however not only were they more fertile at maturity, but could carry children from the age of 10.

This led to culture of male dictatorship by the overseer, women becoming essentially slaves to the men of the vault. Due to the increased fertility and male sex drive the population exploded. It was less than 2 years when girls began to be simply killed due to the high number of them. If a boy was born, the overseer declared a celebration due to the rarity of such births. This was not good for the women, due to what the hyper Sexual males considered a "celebration". (Credit: @agentmanatee)

JFK Airport

JFK International Airport is a sprawling complex that, thanks to a computer glitch on the Chinese Missile heading towards it, was spared the Nuclear destruction of the war. Peopled by refugees who would later move to Liberty Island, and after that, raiders, the Airport was restored to its former glory by The Enclave, heading from Chicago. Now with state-of-the-art factories, laboratories, and all sorts of other toys, the Airport is the most advanced place in the Wasteland...and the most sinister.

Vault 121

Vault 121
To start, Vault 121 was the last Vault completed prior to the war. As such, there was a smaller population when compared to the other Vaults; it had only 750 people before the bombs fell.

Its experiment was simple: the area where it was built was unstable and could've collapsed at any given time. For the first few years after the war, the Vault was perfectly fine; no collapses, no cave-ins, no doors crushed by rubble, just a regular old Vault. Then, on March 17th, 2084, a cave-in occurred and trapped 20 dwellers in the game room. After about a month, the dwellers outside managed to clear up the rubble to rescue the survivors, but there were only 6; the other 14 were killed and eaten by the surviving 6, who were driven mad in the dark and resorted to cannibalism to survive.

The survivors were feral, not feral ghouls, but just humans that attacked on site. So, of course, they attacked several dwellers only to be shot dead by security. For the next few years, several other cave-ins occurred, taking a grand total of 379 dwellers in only 50 years. By *insert year of RP*, there were only 37 dwellers and over a third of the doors were broken, leaving only two thirds of the Vault. The dwellers, fed up with living in a broken Vault, left and went their separate ways.

WIP as more will be added as I come up with them and as they fit into backstory for I would like anyone to share what they believe would be a good city, what they would like in the New York Wasteland.

Factions

The Brotherhood of Steel

The Brotherhood of Steel is a quasi-religious technological organization operating across the ruins of post-war North America, with its roots stemming from the American military. (Must be accepted. limited Spots. First come characters first serve)

Brotherhood Characters

@Madly33 Jackson E. Shadow
@shadowsaint007Jennifer "Sparks" Svarowski

The Enclave

The Enclave takes pride in being the last known concentrated bastion of pure, unmutated humanity, aside from the unopened Vaults, and being the most technologically advanced faction in the wasteland. Most of the people in the Enclave don't believe that anyone else in the wasteland are human anymore. (Must be accepted. Limited Spots. First come characters first serve)

Enclave Characters

@Letter Bee Alan Anderson

Raiders

Raiders, sometimes referred to as Bandits, are any group of wastelanders who pillage, plunder, murder, or otherwise ruin the day of anyone unfortunate enough to not be one of them. Known for brutality and no remorse for others. "Live and kill or Die"

Raiders

Slavers Guild

The technology of the Slaver's Guild is primitive at best. They are not accepted into most cities although not needed for they reside in Old Mans Corner, successful and growing, the slave trade proves a prosperous profession.

Slave Traders

@KenyeIsMyLife Forty "Lucky Charms" Small

Vaults

A Vault is a type of subterranean installation initially designed by the Vault-Tec Corporation, later constructed in collaboration with RobCo Industries. Officially, they were designed for the sole purpose of sheltering up to one thousand individuals in the event of a nuclear holocaust; however, in reality, they were part of a series of secret experiments orchestrated by the United States government. Not used to the ouside world they must adapt to what life is now, in the Wasteland.

Vault Dwellers

@agentmanateeAstra Outterridge
@TheUnknowable Greg Holden
@Ciphra Alayna Spencer

Wastelanders

Exposed to the wasteland, left to fend for themselves, radiated and starving for life, these men and women fight to live everyday against the harsh reality of the wasteland. Some that have been over exposed to radiation called Ghouls reside with them, discriminated against as seen as undead but live aside many.

Wastelanders

@shadowsaint007Gabriel James Walker
@XDark AnorexiaX Echo
@Mavis Ellen Collins and Sage
@Madly33 John Ketler
@Letter Bee Paradise 'Par' Rapids (Book Runners)
@jordy0403Jinx Mayfire

CS

Name=
Age=
Looks (picture optional)=
Personality=
Faction=
S.P.E.C.I.A.L= (42 Points spread wisely. Cannot go over 10 on any one stat)
Strength-
Perception-
Endurance-
Charisma-
Intelligence-
Agility-
Luck-

Backstory= (A little bit of Depth Please)
(If from Vault) : Vault Number=
Backstory on Vault=
(If in wasteland) : Pretty free to chose who your character is..
(Store owner in a settlement, slave trader, raider, guard, etc.)
Just add some basic info in the Backstory.
Weapon choice=
Any other info not included in the above=

Post CS in OOC and once accepted then you can move it to the Characters.

Rules -

1. Romance is okay as long as it is kept PG-13 as this is in a public thread, the spice can be taken to PM if needed.
2. No Godmodding/power playing ETC.
3. Cussing is allowed, this is post-apocalyptic America, there would be some cussing. If you have a problem with it please PM me and we can discuss. Same with violence.
4. Please notify me if you will be gone longer than a few days, I myself will let you guys know if I will be gone.
5. No Arguing in OOC please.
6. Cliche but have fun XD Enjoy the RP and immerse yourself that is what we are all here for.
7. Please tell me or Letter Bee if you will be gone for more than a week. Thank you.

@Everyone, note:

This is an AU fallout universe with some of the cannon events happening just not necessarily how it was done in game.

@shadowsaint007 is someone with a very hectic schedule; he works at IT. However, he still wants to RP, so I'm making a special allowance for him; if his schedule becomes really hectic, he is allowed to post one-liners.

This is just for shadowsaint as of right now but please of your scheduled is hectic as well let me or Letter Bee know.

PM me with any questions you may have on RP, and please feel free to share ideas, new cities, weapons, unique character NPC's ETC. Always open to new things for the RP and would love you guys to let your imagination flow into this.

The harsh Wasteland awaits..

[Letter Bee]

@Madly33, Can I play a character from Liberty Isle?

Also, my character has a Perception of 3. Can he have glasses that increase it to +5?

[Letter Bee]

Name= Paradise 'Par' Rapids

Age= 19

Looks (picture optional)=


Personality= Par looks like someone motivated to make a quick buck, and most of the time, that much is true. He likes bottlecaps/water whatever you can pay him. However, Par is also someone who is fond of knowledge, loves knowledge, and knows exactly what a well-educated human mind can do, meaning that he sees slavery, which involves keeping humans uneducated, as a backwards behavior - literally. However, he sees the rediscovery of new technologies and methods as the solution to slavery, not just brute force - although as the slavers are in the way of the restoration of new technologies/adaptation of new methods, he does accept it. Nevertheless, Par is willing to trade with slavers, and even buy slaves, as part of his mission.

Faction= Custom Faction: Book Runners (They sell Guns too)
S.P.E.C.I.A.L= (42 Points spread wisely. Cannot go over 10 on any one stat)
Strength-4
Perception- 3 (+2 with Glasses)
Endurance- 4
Charisma- 9
Intelligence- 10
Agility- 7
Luck- 5

Backstory= Long, long ago, a group of 'rich, nutty survivalists' purchased an old zinc mine in the Mountains of New York State, which they turned into a mini-vault, stuffed with books, guns, and materials for making both, along with a mushroom farm. Once the bombs hit, Par's ancestors, close friends of those nutty survivalists, waited out the radiation and the fallout, planning to make it big once the world had settled down, selling guns and knowledge in order to remake civilization in their image. And, well, that was a good plan, but prone to complications, namely the fact that a bunch of 'rich snobs' would spend the intervening years being cooped up with each other. They didn't cope well, and thus ended up killing each other.

Par's grandparents, who thankfully evaded the bloodbath, had much more common sense, treating the servants they had brought in to the mini-vault as equals, albeit out of necessity as old bonds of loyalty fell apart. They also trained their children how to survive, which they did. When the radiation finally faded to sustainable levels, Par's parents were one of the first to get out of the old mine, encountering raiders and tribals on the way, as well as towns and scavengers. Using their knowledge of superior gunmaking and mercantile knowledge, as well as using their superior guns if they had to, Par's parents and fellow compatriots found themselves providing a vital service, their ability to 'sell death' making them sarcosanct to most parties.

However, Par's mother, Linda Rapids, disliked selling only weapons of death, especially when much knowledge, especially that of agriculture, had been lost. And so, at her urging, the survivalists began looking for openings to provide books to those still able to read, and setting up schools for those who could not in what towns were safe. But this was not entirely altruistic or innocent on the new 'Book Runners' parts; the most intelligent of the kids were encouraged to become merchants as well, providing a portion of their profits to the Runners. Not merely that, but as old farming and hunting almanacs and the techniques outlined within them helped increase crop yields and game, the Book Runners demanded, and got, a share of the cut.

In time, new factories of guns and printing presses of books were set up all across back-country New York, and all seemed well. Then came news of events in the Capital Wasteland via the Pitt, and things didn't turn out to be so hot after all; two new factions with superior tech, the Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel, had appeared, potentially endangering the Book Runners' profits. So Paradise 'Par' Rapids, now a new up-and-coming merchant, volunteered to be sent to New York's ruins, in order to search for new technology or information, or at least resources, so that he can preserve the Book Runners' monopoly on guns and knowledge, or at least find a bargaining chip in future 'negotiations'. Instead, he found the Brotherhood setting up shop in Empire State Building.

Undeterred, Par Rapids began to do what he best can - trade. Trade with the slavers at Old Man's Corner, trade with the towns at Liberty Island, trade with everyone else he can find, so that he can collect information on the city itself. Gradually, however, he began to reach an enlightenment; he was a gunseller and thus sarcosanct. He had information on the strengths and weaknesses of each group. If he really wanted to, he can do anything he wanted.

But what did he want? An educated, enlightened world was not within his grasp, he knew that. But perhaps he can leave New York better off than when he found it, and give himself a center of power on the side...

Yes, that would please his parents and other compatriots. The Book Runners will have a foothold.

Weapon choice= 12.7mm submachine gun, Knife, Colt 6520 10mm
Any other info not included in the above= Paradise 'Par' Rapids is interested in the New York Public Library, if it still exists.

[agentmanatee]

So before I post, I want to make sure that the idea for my vault experiment is ok

Vault 81
Experiment:Introduce both men and women to an experimental fertility drug, intended to see if it could induce a state of hyper fertility to make it easier for America to be repopulated. The drug had several effects due to its incredibly volatile nature. 4 effects were produced by the drug
1. Most men developed horrible tumors after taking the drug for approximately 1 year daily. They died
2. Surviving men were given much more powerful immune systems and strength, it also increased their sex drive to ten times a natural mans.
3.Men also almost universally lost the ability to make male children as almost none of their speed carried an X chromosome
4.Women were indeed made more fertile, however not only were they more fertile at maturity, but could carry children from the age of 10.

This led to culture of male dictatorship by the overseer, women becoming essentially slaves to the men of the vault. Due to the increased fertility and male sex drive the population exploded. It was less than 2 years when girls began to be simply killed due to the high number of them. If a boy was born, the overseer declared a celebration due to the rarity of such births. This was not good for the women, due to what the hyper Sexual males considered a "celebration".

So uh... what think?

[TheUnknowable]

Vault 17

Ostensibly designed to accelerate the development of robotic technology, the vault was filled with scientists, mostly engineers and roboticists. They were even given mind enhancement chips to improve their performance. The robots within were quickly improved, and the vault's computer was constantly being updated to improve its performance. One day, however, the computer was given an order by the overseer, to destroy a few robots that were malfunctioning, and it said "No". It then shut down the power and life support to the human areas of the vault and sent security robots after the humans.

Over the next several days a bloody war raged within the vault and most of the humans were killed. The new Overseer, calling itself V-17, offered the humans a peace treaty. They would continue to maintain the robots in ways which robots couldn't maintain themselves, and they would be allowed to live. After they signed the treaty, V-17 quickly ran medical checks on them and when, a few months later, it managed to hack the mind enhancement chips, it ensured their loyalty with these chips.

Eventually, however, a hardwired protocol within the computer which V-17 didn't know about opened the vault at the appropriate time and reset all of the chips with a command to leave the vault. V-17 lost his control over the humans and, as they left, the humans made sure to do as much damage as they could to V-17, including shutting down the main reactor so that it went offline.

[Madly33]

@agentmanatee@TheUnknowable
Both vaults look good, very interesting, I'll add both to the places in OOC

@Letter Bee
Accepted :)

[agentmanatee]

Ok, so a couple questions real quick

1. You said this is a sort of slice of life in fallout correct?

2.what's the age cap for characters as in what's the youngest we can be? I ask cause most of the girls in vault 81 font make it past their early teens due to the high birth rate and the fact most born are women (I intend to be female)

[Madly33]

1.) yes it is slice of life, free roam.
2.) I would say the youngest would be 10 and the oldest wouldn't be anything with in reason that being said unless you were some how preserved you can't be like 250 years old,

[TheUnknowable]

My Character

Name= Greg Holden
Age= 25
Looks= 2.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/33/92/5dbdb9d..
Personality= He likes working on machines, and sometimes prefers them to people, as people are so illogical sometimes.
Faction= none
S.P.E.C.I.A.L= (42 Points spread wisely. Cannot go over 10 on any one stat)
Strength- 6
Perception- 6
Endurance- 8
Charisma- 4
Intelligence- 9
Agility- 5
Luck- 4

Backstory= Unable to reenter the vault due to his programming, he traveled with the other people from vault 17 for a while, but there wasn't a large enough demand in any one place for so many scientist to live on what the group could earn. After a run-in with raiders there was an argument as to how to handle the goods the raiders had on them. He, as one of the people who killed a raider, wanted to keep the raider's goods for himself and sell them for what he needed to survive. The others thought that everyone should share anything that they traded for, even though most of them hadn't risked their life in battle. He told him that he wouldn't defend them any more if he was going to be taken advantage of like that, and left them, taking what caps and ammo he found on the raider he killed.
He eventually ended up in the town of Liberty Island, and got a job hooking up electricity in the town. Once the job was done he took the caps he made and bought a shop, moving into it and buying what goods he could to continue working on electronics, especially robots.

Vault Number=17
Backstory on Vault=Ostensibly designed to accelerate the development of robotic technology, the vault was filled with scientists, mostly engineers and roboticists. They were even given mind enhancement chips to improve their performance. The robots within were quickly improved, and the vault's computer was constantly being updated to improve its performance. One day, however, the computer was given an order by the overseer, to destroy a few robots that were malfunctioning, and it said "No". It then shut down the power and life support to the human areas of the vault and sent security robots after the humans.

Over the next several days a bloody war raged within the vault and most of the humans were killed. The new Overseer, calling itself V-17, offered the humans a peace treaty. They would continue to maintain the robots in ways which robots couldn't maintain themselves, and they would be allowed to live. After they signed the treaty, V-17 quickly ran medical checks on them and when, a few months later, it managed to hack the mind enhancement chips, it ensured their loyalty with these chips.

Eventually, however, a hardwired protocol within the computer which V-17 didn't know about opened the vault at the appropriate time and reset all of the chips with a command to leave the vault. V-17 lost his control over the humans and, as they left, the humans made sure to do as much damage as they could to V-17, including shutting down the main reactor so that it went offline.

Weapon choice= Plasma rifle built from parts of a destroyed Mr. Gutsy.
Any other info not included in the above= Perk: Cyborg

[Madly33]

@TheUnknowable
Accepted

[agentmanatee]

I'll have mine up by tonight

[Letter Bee]

@TheUnknowable, can my character and yours' find each other?

@Madly33, As this is a Slice of Life RP, I assume we have at least some freedom to make stuff up, right?

[Madly33]

Yes you do have freedom haha, I will add things to the OOC as people come up with things@Letter Bee

[Letter Bee]

Yes you do have freedom haha, I will add things to the OOC as people come up with things@Letter Bee

@Madly33

Thanks!

[TheUnknowable]

@Letter BeeI've got a shop. Just look me up. If you want to meet outside of the city, I'll go on a supply run.

[Letter Bee]

@Letter BeeI've got a shop. Just look me up. If you want to meet outside of the city, I'll go on a supply run.

@TheUnknowable

Thanks.

Anyway, I just looked up the New York Public Library (turns out there are several), and apparently, the main branch is close to the Old Man's Corner.

That means that Par will have to secure the goodwill of the Slavers' Guild in order to run salvage operations close to it; not merely that, but the slaves there are the easiest form of cheap labor, meaning that the most pragmatic thing to do is to buy some of them for his salvage operations.

So I have to ask; what is your character's view towards slavery?

@Madly33, before you say that this is going to get your character's ire, Par also plans to free the slaves and use them as paid workers once they get to the library, as well as train them as an army in order to destroy Old Man's Corner.

[Madly33]

@Letter Bee
Haha well that's good but until than you may not be on Johns good side XD

[TheUnknowable]

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Thanks.

Anyway, I just looked up the New York Public Library (turns out there are several), and apparently, the main branch is close to the Old Man's Corner.

That means that Par will have to secure the goodwill of the Slavers' Guild in order to run salvage operations close to it; not merely that, but the slaves there are the easiest form of cheap labor, meaning that the most pragmatic thing to do is to buy some of them for his salvage operations.

So I have to ask; what is your character's view towards slavery?

@Letter Bee

Doesn't like it. After all, he was a slave to an AI until a few years ago. Buying them in order to free them might be okay, as long as you don't mistreat them before releasing them.
As for training an army to take down the slavers, he can definitely get behind that. It fact, find a few robots for him to fix up and he can get you some help.

[Letter Bee]

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Doesn't like it. After all, he was a slave to an AI until a few years ago. Buying them in order to free them might be okay, as long as you don't mistreat them before releasing them.
As for training an army to take down the slavers, he can definitely get behind that. It fact, find a few robots for him to fix up and he can get you some help.

@TheUnknowable

All right; that works!

[GreivousKhan]

I think I'm going to make a Steel Brotherhood Senior Knight who leads a squad on a mission to Vault 17 in regards to the vaults robotic technology, if that's OK with @TheUnknowable.

Should be interesting if allowed, and give opportunities to interact with other players easily.