Andreyich

War Never Changes III: Annals of the East

Jordan looked at himself in the mirror. He had gone through these motions thousands of times, but still he felt strange preparing for a public appearance in this form. He reached into his pocket, removing the purple heart he had earned more than two centuries ago. The mutant stared at the inscription. “For Military Merit, Jordan B. Cockburne.” he muttered, before pinning it to one of his bandoliers.

Straightening his beret on his head, the man grunted as his touched the scorched scars on his face. He couldn't even remember who had caused those, when. Then, Jordan raised an eyebrow. "Report." He said to the shimmering he saw in the reflection, grinning as the nightkin clearly did not appreciate being seen despite the active stealth boy. It was a comforting thing. Jordan remembered days with the psych ward after his first dealings against Chinese stealth suits. Now his beastly eyes could truly make out the technology of subterfuge.

"Johnson and Slasher are fighting again."

"What over?"

"The sewers. Johnson is insisting we keep them as is so we can hunt the mirelurks and such while Slasher wants to clear it out for more workshops."

Cockburne groaned. "Where are they."

"Council room."

The Colonel stomped off traversing a corridor and two flights of stairs to come to the scene of the argument. The two debaters were almost nose to nose until the arrival of their commander. They saluted, their fingers touching the spot where flesh met their flat caps. Jordan was about to spew out a tirade, but then a better idea came.

"I hear you have been debating the matter of the sewers.” he stated.

A raspy “Yessir.” came from both mutants.

“Good. Healthy debate lets the army improve itself. However, you both have as many merits as flaws in your arguments.” he stated, not elaborating. “The solution is simple. Both of you are to take your divisions and march East. You will bring something to me. Whoever brings a better tribute will show that their way is correct. Understood?”

“Yessir!”

“Good.” And with that, Cockburne left. This at least would put the passion of the feud between two of his Lieutenants in the army into a productive outlet. Eventually however, a choice would have to be made, and Cockburne knew that the fact was that the tribute wouldn’t have any relation to what decision he made as to the fate of the sewers. He rubbed his forehead walking towards the balcony of the underground restaurant wherein he would make a speech to his people. The more mutants joined the army the more issues they had with one another, and Cockburne knew one day that this boil would have to be popped.

A portrait of the glorious Colonel Cockburne

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In Quebec, sure, but I'm not going any further north than the Ontario River.

Edit: does anyone have plans with Detroit or Buffalo NY? I don't plan on taking them, but I feel like Ronto should at least have relations with whoever's in those areas.

@Jeddaven

I imagine Cockburne's Army passing through there from Chicago kidnapped a whole lot of people but that's about it

War Never Changes III: Annals of the East

If anybody wants to do le post together I'm all ears since I'm not sure what to do for my first one

War Never Changes III: Annals of the East

Wait, your nation doesn't have to be from the original fall-out series, right? (I'm sorry this is my first time doing a fall out nation rp)

@Kale19

no

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That sounds about right for Super mutants definitely a frosty relationship since both sides most likely wouldn't hate or love each other i see more of a competition for power rather than actual diplomacy.

@DX3214

I imagine it could kind of be a situation like in New Reno where they have good relations with one of the seven families in Cleveland but not the rest i.e. they have a special agreement to work for them as mercenaries in exchange for slaves and medical/scientific equipment while the rest they have a really bad relationship because of the aforementioned raiding

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my still in WIP sheet is a page back if you want to read but yeah lest go the consortium is a state born out mobsters and has a merchant stance towards things

@DX3214

yeah I just read it, honestly doesn't sound like we'd have much of a relationship then

at best Cockburne's army would and the Consortium would just be two places traders go back and forth from and maybe the Army would send a few guys there to work as mercenaries if caps were urgently needed, at worst Cockburne's army would raid the place for people to dip in FEV every so often

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seems like we are neighbors.

@DX3214

I didn't read what you have going. If you're in Ohio then I suppose we can work on some sort of existing relationship between our nations if you are interested since we've probably both been around long enough to have had contact.

War Never Changes III: Annals of the East

Change of plans - I'm still using the Chinese AI, but I'm going to be mashing it up with Ronto/Canadian nationalism. An uneasy alliance between the two, if you will.

Edit: Some ideas for this sitch: Toronto has a huge network of pedestrian tunnels and underground shopping centers that were built IRL in the 1970s-80s (some in the early 1900s) initially and have been expanded since; also including subway lines/stations and the like. Now, this isn't anywhere near enough to comfortably hold the entire population, but my thinking is that it might be enough to shelter a decent enough portion of the population from the bombs to make a difference and allow Toronto to become the major regional power of 'Ronto' that's mentioned in The Pitt. I'm still thinking about how exactly that's going to happen - my immediate thought is that the very high density of power-generating facilities in the region might allow-it to re-electrify comparatively quickly, though a lot of those will be targets of any nuclear attack, so it's partly a question of how many survived and in what state. There's also the question of nuclear research facilities like Chalk River.

I also considered how access to the great Lakes region might affect the survival of an urban area like Ronto - perhaps it's an especially valuable fishing resource in the post-nuclear wasteland; maybe the lion's share of the didn't land in the lakes or the connected watersheds, avoiding making it a toxic pile of ass? Additionally, Canada was (fairly) recently occupied, and US Forces would probably still be fairly active suppressing dissent. Could that have led to a relatively large availability of military equipment?

@Jeddaven

Access to the great lakes would definitely be a big boon, especially for maritime trade of which Ronto could have become a hub. That said I think the US occuppying the area would only serve as a detriment to the development. Most likely the remnants of the American army would end up transforming into terrifyingly well armed and trained raiders harassing locals for decades to come.

Tips for writing POC, LGBT+, and other minority characters in RP

Spin off question (I'll update the original post too): What are obstacles you have to writing characters who are a different gender/race/sexuality/any other quality as yourself?

I notice a lot of people in the 1x1 section seem to stick to writing as their own gender and want to open this thread up further for discussion and advice for anyone who might want to branch out from their niche, whatever that may be.

@Dagger

To be quite honest most of the time its simply because Im not interested. Of course I dont want to do a stupid self insert but at the same time if a character is too different to myself I just cannot relate and hence cant write em

Tips for writing POC, LGBT+, and other minority characters in RP

Men, women, black, white, we're all people.

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Interesting. I don't know if I've noticed that but its good to take note of. On the flip side, men do make a lot of women less than experienced which frankly, is just stupid. Of course it can be written well, but I never understood the 'purity' trope as a prerequisite for a goodly woman protag.

@POOHEAD189

Probably the writer not having met many women