[OOC] Strange World

[Balthazar007]

Strange World OOC

Here you will find all the need to know information for this RP. I will update this particular post as characters are added and to sum up ongoing and completed story arcs. Players and potential players can post in this OOC in order to collaborate their stories better or just chat. Observers outside this RP may also post here to show their support; don't spam our RP or troll this OOC or you will be reported immediately.

The Plot

This section will update in order to sum up major plot points as they unfold. This will help observers catch up quickly if they wish to start following our story.

The Beginning

Chapter 1

There is an inexplicable force abducting humans throughout history. These humans are not people of note; they are average people with average lives. Abducted in their sleep, they find themselves standing wide awake on the sidewalks of a strange city, wearing nothing but a plain grey track suit.

The flying cars and holographic televisions that litter the skies upset some more than others, depending from which time period each person arrived. Around every corner, one will find different architecture from different points in human history. Walking in one direction long enough, one will discover something even stranger, an invisible wall that circles the entire city. Unlike glass, this completely invisible barrier looks out over a vast world beyond the city. It is also apparent that the city is perched high atop a mountain, as the world beyond is far below.

With enough time, one will discover another great mystery. From the moment one arrives, the sensations of hunger, thirst, and exhaustion disappear. Substance is consumed soley for taste. Our bodies seem to be in a constant state of rejuvenation; injuries, while still painful, heal in a matter of minutes.

Furthermore, currency, one of mankind's greatest inventions, is not even relevant here. There are numerous stores and restaurants, all ran by super realistic AI that simply give things out for free. Poverty and class division are long forgotten. There are no homes, but rather, free hourly accommodations for anyone wanting to relax.

To top everything off with one last phenomenon, the sky never changes. It is always a gentle light blue. Standing at the edge of the city, looking out far beyond the invisible wall, one will see distant signs of clouds and darkness.

Is there a way out of this city? Why would one want to leave this paradise of a city anyways? Why are we being kept here? Who is keeping us here? How did we get here? Fret not. These are normal questions. All new arrivals have them at first. Maybe you are better off leaving these questions unanswered... maybe...

Chapter 2

After completing The Casino Trials quest, you will discover an underground city. Life here has some similarities to the city above. Here, there is still no need to eat, rest, or worry about the body in any way; in fact, injuries heal even quicker, instantaneously for smaller damage. Money is also a completely useless thing in this area as well, as the shops are still 'take what you please'. Aside from these similarities, the two cities couldn't be any different.

From a distance, you can tell that the architecture of this city is consistent. The buildings are built out of clay and some are borrowed into the cave walls. One might think that this clay structure would equal short three level high buildings, but aucontraire, multiple buildings tower high above the others with ease. One might also suspect that an underground city made of clay would be somewhat underdeveloped. When in actuality, the lights below change from one color to the next coordinated to the sound of music. It's as if the entire city is one giant rave party.

Once inside the city, you will see that 'one giant rave party' is not a far off description. The people in the streets dance as they walk, and clothing is hardly concealing for most. The clothing issue could stem from the fact that the temperature sits at a constant high, especially if you walk too near to one of the canals. The canals are filled with lava that flows at a thin syrupy pace. Wild children and teenagers get their thrills daring each other to dip body parts into the lava, burning their skin and muscle off till only the bone is left, then watching as the muscles and skin regenerate right in front of their eyes.

If you think life on the streets looks too wild, you surely don't want to enter one of the loud clubs that practically litter the landscape. In these establishments, you can find everything from lustful scenes, gambling with body parts as wagers, and of course the popular sport of fighting.

Fighting has become ingrained in the inhabitants of this city, adults and children alike. Due to the miraculous healing effects, fights never end in a knockout or serious damage. Winners are decided at the end of a time limit. At which point, the crowd will either applaud their favorite fighter or a panel of judges will determine a winner. There are competitive fighting leagues for every body type: small children, teenagers, men, women, short people, tall people,the elderly, you name it. If you want to fight, there is a league for you. Champions of these leagues are regarded as celebrities. You don't have to be in a league to end up in a fight however, as long time locals love picking on new arrivals.

One might think that drugs and alcohol would not be an issue, with the bodies ability to regenerate so quickly, but one would be wrong. There is a secret network of dealers that will be happy to give you a vial of "liquid light", a substance that will both get you drunk/high and give you a burst of incredible strength and speed, lasting about five minutes per vial. Since there is no currency, dealers tend to ask favors in exchange for the substance, but these favors are not always pretty. Many people become slave to these dealers in order to chase the incredibly fleeting power.

Beyond the city is a dark landscape with ravenous hound like creatures that love to pick off wanderers. Only the truly insane venture off in this direction. The screams of those fools can be heard as the beasts rip and tear them apart continuously while there bodies try to heal just as quickly. After many days, these people usually return. Most stories are just bloody descriptions of being ripped apart for days or even weeks till the creatures finally become bored and let them return to the city.

At two opposite points along the cave wall, there is an elevator. If you take this elevator, it will open up to one of the secret buildings in the city above. The elevator runs both ways, so you can go back and forth as much as you like, but the elevator won't move if there is anyone that hasn't completed "The Casino Trials".

Quests

Quests are essential to advancing your character within the plot. Here you will find links to quests as they are revealed within the story.

The Casino Trials // The Casino Trials (END)

Characters

Here you will find links to all the characters that have been approved for this RP.

It is important to note that there are 4 types of characters:

Main Characters:

Each player gets one of these characters. This is the character you enter the world as, your avatar if you will. Through this character, you will grow and go on many adventures.

Side Characters:

Each player can have multiple side characters. They do not grow in the same way that main characters do. They are people/beings that our main characters discover and befriend along the journey. Also unlike main characters, these characters can be written off and come back at a later time; when you do this, you have the option to make them a little more powerful, with GM approval of course.

Static Characters:

These characters are created by the GM for very specific reasons, such as boss battles for quests. They are characters that anyone can control, but your character's exp points (or characters in the case of multiple main characters working together) must be at a certain point to interact successfully with them.

Minor Characters:

These are characters that you can create within the text of any of your posts. Their purpose is just to have something for your main and side characters to interact with temporarily. These can be civilians, AIs, or minor baddies.

Main Characters

Ricardo Chadwick by @Balthazar007 Exp Points: 43

Cammila thebe Ocaris by @Classpet Exp Points: 42

Abigail Mistly by @Airalin Exp Points: 40

Andy Jones by @Invader Len Exp Points: 32

Retired Main Characters

The users behind these characters have either announced their retirement from this RP or have been missing for an extended period of time. We will keep the door open for them by keeping their characters hidden here.

Paris Rose by @Alina13 Exp Points: 1

Greyken Rest by @rechonq Exp Points: 25

Side Characters

Bryce Antony Lichston by @classpet

The Thing by @Invader Len

Static Characters

Adam - Exp Level: 1

Evette - Exp Level: 5

The Hard Knox Brothers - Exp Level: 50

Game Play

Here you will find need to know information for playing along in this story. I will update this later if I see room for improvement.

How to Play

* To apply to this RP, post a main character in the Character tab. Follow the format provided in first post of the Character section.

* When approved, your character will appear in the 'characters' section of this post.

* After approval, go to the IC tab and post as your main character, who should be standing confused on any random sidewalk in the city, dressed in a plain gray track suit.

* If you want to add a side character, submit that character to the Character tab just the same as your main. except, follow the side character formatting.

* In every IC post, write as your main first. Then you may optionally write as one or multiple of your side characters.

* Based on how often you post and your successes within the story, you will gain exp points. I will update everyone's experience points via this opening post. You may then copy these points to your character sheet. These points help you advance past check points. This will be easy to understand as we go.

* That's it!

Rules

Here you will find the rules specific to this RP. I reserve the right to add more rules as needed.

Rule 1: Follow all guild rules, especially on 'no god modding'.
Rule 2: Wait for at least 1 other to post before you post again in the IC tab.
Rule 3: Wait at least 24 hours between each of your own posts in the IC tab.
Rule 4: Keep your main character's section of a post about 3,000 characters or less. (The character counter is in the bottom right corner of your text box as you type, just in case you haven't noticed.)
Rule 5: Keep your side character(s)' section of a post about 1,500 characters or less per character.

[Balthazar007]

This RP is a reboot of a former RP. I think things will work better this time, with a smaller team of writers where each is able to control multiple characters. Since this is a reboot, it only feels fair to give a heads up to everyone that was writing on the original RP, False Paradise. I hope one or two of you are still interested! Thanks!

@Rick Sanchez@CallMeChaotix@Zombehs@Bai Suzhen@SashaWindrider

[Classpet]

This seems really cool, and I'd love to make up a character.
Just one question; what do you mean by main character & side character? Sorry if that's a silly question :0c

[Balthazar007]

This seems really cool, and I'd love to make up a character.
Just one question; what do you mean by main character & side character? Sorry if that's a silly question :0c

@Classpet

Awesome! There are no bad questions. Your main character will be the person that you build all the way from the moment they find themself in this world. Through that character, you will go on diverse adventures and obtain new powers.

Side characters are more like static support characters. They are there to help drive the plot and give the main characters more people to interact with. But you will not be character building these guys and gals.

That make sense?

[Classpet]

@Balthazar007 Hows this? :>

Name: Cammila thebe Ocaris
Age: 14
Exp Points: 0
From Year: 450 B.C; Golden Age of Athens
Home Land: Thebes, Greece; In the Roman Empire

Appearance:
A small but quaint child. Brown curls fall around her face and green eyes glint in the mischievous way of children. Her attire consists mostly of loose patterned dresses of cotton or silk.


Personality:

Being a child she is prone to want things to go her way and asks a lot of questions. Really she isn't so frightened of the new world as she is curious. Having free range is another feeling she isn't used to and unsure about, she went from staying at home all the time to not even having a home. She is usually in a state of amazement as everything is completely new and revolutionary technology for her.

Most of the time she is so overwhelmed about how great this new place is that she doesn't question things; the lack of night is scary, so is the lack of stars but the amount of light is new and strange and nighttime isn't a priority anyway. She enjoys all the new experiences including food. Occasionally she will become distressed, usually in startling or difficult situations and become upset because she has no parents any more and that is the worst thing that could happen in her perspective.

Biography: (3 to 5 paragraph description)
Being born in 450 B.C would never seem like a pleasant thing, especially retrospectively, even worse for girls. Cammila was just that though, a girl born in a world for men. Cammila never really got a chance to experience the world much, so our story shant be as devastating as some of the time.

Her mother was married to a richer man and had several children before Cammila, and by the time the child disappeared there would be a few more. The first was a strong boy, Edelmar , a perfect heir to the Ocaris name and a fine son. He grew and learned and went to school, never caring much for his siblings. The second was a pair of girls, Gavrilla and Gaynora, Gavrilla died at a young age from sickness and Gaynora grew on to help her mother and the slaves keep the house. She learned to sew and helped with the next two children before being married to a handsome youth. Garrette came next, another boy to replace a lost child. He was meek though and not as mighty as his eldest brother, he enjoyed helping look after the girls and protecting the house while the older men were away.

Then came little Cammila, blessed with beauty and kindness and loved by her elder brother and sisters. She grew up much like Gaynora, though not quiet as sad. She learned to sew and clean and keep a home. She played with Garrette, enjoying the boyish games he brought home to share with her. They were best friends but as he went off to school they grew distant.

At ten years of age Cammila knew who her husband would be, though the would wait until she was fourteen to actually marry her. In this time she gained another two siblings, Tavetti and Saburo, a girl and a boy who she had the pleasure of helping look after. Really she loved her siblings.

About a month before her wedding day she turned fourteen. A few days later she found herself at the river gathering water, and then she wasn't. It was a whole new world, a dream really. Everything was made of silver even the floating beasts. At first she was frightened, but the strange city turned out to not be so bad, perhaps she thought, this was Athens; the city of wonder.

Powers:

[Balthazar007]

@Classpet

I like your character a lot. A little girl from the past, lost in a strange new world, perfect. First erase my little parenthesed (3 to 5 paragraph description). Then go ahead and copy that into the character section.

:)

[Balthazar007]

@Classpet

I'm going to go ahead and start on my first IC post. I'll have my character wander around the city confused and such. Perhaps find a clothing store and get some new clothes, being that we all start off with an ugly gray track suit. You can wait for me to post if you want to build off mine. Or you can just work on it independently and our characters can meet later. The choice is yours.

[rechonq]

rechonq's traveler

Greyken Rest

Name: Greyken Rest
Age: 27
Exp Points: 0
From Year: 1472
Home Land: England

Appearance:

Appearance

Personality: Grey is a very hot-headed sailor from the 1400's. His ego is very large, but some of his hot-air is just for fluff. He knows he is not capable of doing some of the things he says he can or has done. He is very capable though and can back up much of what he says he can do. He struggles taking orders or giving them for that fact. He just likes to act on things. He has good instincts that has served him well until now, and he is going to stick with those instincts. He does still listen to others, as their wisdom can help him learn some lessons the easy way.

Biography: Grey grew up as a navy cadet for his early life. His family was very well off and sent him off on a path to be a renowned navy officer. He enjoyed it at first. The adventure was great to young Grey. He learned how the ship worked very quickly, and how to lead a ship well. This was great for a few years, but he was getting tired of the navy scene fast.

He never did become an officer as he was finding that causing trouble was a good way to kill time and boredom. He soon took his pranks a step to far and was going to face some serious penalties. He was able to escape though and ran off with a pirate crew. Even though he only started as a cabin boy now, he enjoyed this free life more than his strictt navy life. He rose through the ranks over the years and was now a first mate. He had the capablility to be a captain, but he always said that life wasn't for him.

During an ordinary raid on a traders vessel, something extraordinary happened to him. Their was a small navy vessel assigned to escort the tradeship, but that was taken care of quickly, thanks to their surprise attack. Looting the ship was going smoothly as well. At least until he walked through a door in the lower quarters. He didn't pay much attention as he barged through, but he found himself in some other world. He looked back to the door to try and go back to the ship, but the door had already disappeared. He was stuck in this strange new place now.

Powers:

[Balthazar007]

@rechonq

Nice to see another person interested! Let me know when you are finished.

[rechonq]

@Balthazar007
Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out a personality and biography for him. I got to there and now I can't decide how I want to play him.

[Balthazar007]

I have done a few minor updates to the opening OOC post, most notably to the Characters section. Please take a look at these changes, as they may clear up some questions. Other minor changes were made in order to cut back on redundant coding.

[Shorticus]

I'm interested, very interested, but since I don't know how often you want this thread to update I can't dedicate just yet.

So, what sort of In-Character activity amount are you looking for? I'll be upfront and say that the best number for me is "1-2 times per week." Anything more frequent than that would make me a risk factor. I neither wish to slow down your roleplay if you want folks to post once a day or the like, nor do I wish to say "I'll try to keep up" and be unable to (since that kills roleplays).

Should your players avoid playing historical figures, or was that something you were hoping your players would try?

Do you want submitted characters to avoid having certain skillsets? For instance, do you want them to NOT be super well trained Spartan warriors? NOT be a member of the CIA? Etc.

Again: I'm very interested, but I don't want to say "I'm in" until I know if I'll be a good fit for your RP.

[Balthazar007]

@Shorticus
Thank you for your consideration and thought. I do want people that play to post at least 4 or 5 times per week. So that may be a bit of a stretch for you, but if 2 or 3 of those are just a well thought out paragraph or 2 that's just fine.

As far as historical figures or super well trained warriors, that's a no. Your character can be athletic or even trained in fighting, but no masters of anything. They need to be considered about average at whatever it is they do.

Let me know what you think! :)

[Shorticus]

4 or 5 times a week would be too much for me, so I'll step out. It's very possible that I can post that often, but it's also just as possible that college will rear its ugly head and bite my time in half, leaving you with... well, a deadweight player. I don't want to be a deadweight player.

I'll bow out. Thanks for responding in a timely fashion, and good luck with this roleplay! Again, this looks really fun.

[Balthazar007]

@Shorticus

You're very welcome. And thanks for showing interest. It's appreciated!

[Balthazar007]

@rechonq

How goes it?

[rechonq]

@Balthazar007

pretty good, I think I know his personality, but I need to find a backstory now.

[Balthazar007]

@Balthazar007

pretty good, I think I know his personality, but I need to find a backstory now.

@rechonq

Nice! Glad to hear it! :)

[Balthazar007]

@Classpet

That was a beautiful introductory post for your character! You have a few grammatical issues that you could edit, but I'm not really concerned about that. I'm more concerned about how well you painted the scene. Bravo lady! Bravo!

[Alina13]

@Balthazar007
I will be making a char sheet soon. When I have time later today or tomorrow