Forsythe

Marooned (Original universe fantasy) (OOC up)

Marooned

@Forsythe - @Starlance

OOC is up!

It is the seagulls that wake you up. The cheeky birds sound like they are laughing at you and your misfortune. The air around is salty and you feel you are drenched to the bone. Opening your eyes, you see a storm breaking up in the skies above. Looking around, you gather you are on a beach, and if the wreck of the ship nearby is any indication, you have not arrived to your destination. You wonder if you are the only one the sea spat out alive.

Searching around, you only find the items you had on you the other day. For a second you eyeball the remains of the ship and wonder if more of your stuff may have survived the ship shattering on the nearby cliff, before a column of smoke rising from the cliffs above catches your eye.

What will you do?

Game overview

Marooned is a classic fantasy set in original world. The game is intended to be post-by-post, with some tabletop mechanics in the background handled by the GMs. Unlike most guild RPs, Marooned has a map with locations that have prepared scenarios that will be ran by the GMs for the players to interact with. The scenarios have progressive difficulty and are built with multiple possible endings to the game.

That said, the game is built to last a relatively short time in hope to avoid dying and dropouts, leaving plenty of possible sequels based on which ending is reached if the player base remains interested.

Mechanics

Map

The game area is set on a map that will be revealed as the characters explore and travel. If the characters split up, GMs will create personalised maps for each unless they decide to share with the other characters in-game.

Scenarios

Scenarios are special parts of the game map that have special story, rewards and NPCs that will provide advantages to those that find them. Some scenarios will be repeatable to facilitate resource gathering and opportunities for the characters to sharpen their abilities.

NPCs

In certain areas of the map, NPCs may be encountered to assign additional quests, trade items and services or provide advice and aid to the player characters. The characters’ actions will have an impact on their reputation with them, which will affect the services offered to the given character and may even open up a different ending.

Crafting

The characters can find different materials in scenarios and trade them between each other and with NPCs. There is a recipe system created for the game, and players can invent them in two ways - experimenting with the materials, or asking a GM for the end result to be provided a list of components.

Magic

Basic magic, available to every character, works by combining runes to get the desired effect. Much like crafting, you may ask a GM for the runes required for a spell or a list of runes known by your character to create the desired spell yourself, or simply attempt to activate a random sequence of runes to see what happens. Advanced magic, available to well-practiced mages, does not rely on runes to cast.

Races

Each of the playable races - Demons, Dwarves, Elves, Fairies and Humans - has traits that impact your character’s abilities, working to your advantage or disadvantage in situations from combat to exploration to interacting with other characters.

There are other races wandering the world, that will be subject to individual scrutiny by the GMs should you wish to play them.

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Freya

Freya

“Ykcul tog tsuj uoy, diputs llits s’ti, skrow ti tub diputs s’ti fi!”

Race: Asgard
Gender: Female
Age: Too many to count, too many for her to care
Nationality: Vanir
Title/Function: Science and Engineering specialist

Appearance:

Like most Asgard, and one of the oldest, Fraya suffers from the same genetic degradation, and thus it is very hard to distinguish her from the other members of her species. She is on the short side, barely reaching over the waist of an average human.

Her face is a bit more angular, almost starved looking, with prominent bones and generally triangular shape.

She bears the standard implants of the Vanir race, one over an eye and one on the chest. Alongside that, she has a burn scar on her left arm, a remnant of a wound that didn’t warrant the cloning of a new body.

History:

At one point masquerading as a norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility and war, and the one who was able to re-weave the fates, she took more active role interfering with humanity from the start, just barely avoiding having the wrath of the council fall on her head.

When not messing with the development of human history, Frya operated in a science capacity for the Asgardian navy, eventually finding herself with a beliskner class of her own, modified to conduct deep-space scientific operations, which she promptly used to carry defectors along with the other Vanir ships to Pegasus.

Once there, she briefly worked with the Lanteans on the Arcturus project, before leaving for the fear of her own safety over the hazards the Lantean commander of the outpost was willing to take. She spent the rest of the war on her ship, until she was eventually hunted down and shot down over a gateless planet.

Lucky to have survived, Freya converted part of her crashed ship to a survival base. With the galaxy still scourged by the wraith and no means to provide sustenance, she chose to enter stasis, only waking up to conduct maintenance, and once every few centuries to check whether the wraith returned to sleep, and broadcasting a distress call with limited reach in hopes of a rescue.

Her labor finally bore fruit, when she was picked up by Atlantis reconnaissance team 9 that happened to arrive by the system’s space gate. Having been out of contact with the rest of the Vanir for so long and after her health stabilized during a short stay on Atlantis, she agreed to go to Earth to aid SGC with her knowledge rather than return to the Vanir, in exchange for being allowed to conduct a non-damaging genetic research with volunteers.

Her efforts were eventually rendered obsolete with the return of Ran, and while she waits for the result of that particular attempt to save her race, she offered her services on the UK’s science ship, something she has great deal of experience with.

Personality:

Like a lot of Asgard and scientists in particular, she initially looked at humanity with a degree of disdain not matched since Hermiod. After her trip to Atlantis though and finding it hard to argue with the results the Tau’Ri got while the Aesir were locked in a losing battle with a bunch of machines, she started treating them on more equal ground.

Freya eventually came to admire the human talent for what she calls ‘cost effective’ problem solving, as wella s the general ability to think out of the box, finding out that she can actually learn from them in this field, which lead her to interact with the humans more to study how they think. Hence, she is perfectly fine engaging even in idle chat, albeit she might not be particularly amused by it.

In a combat capacity, Freya is one of the worst offenders against the Geneva conventions, spending no time to deploy the most horrible weapons if it gets the job done with minimal casualties on her side. Like most of the Vanir, she is capable of fighting on her own feet as well, using an exo-suit.

Equipment:

Freya has a customized exo-suit developed during her stay shot down in Pegasus. Unlike the standard Vanir suit, it relies on heavier armor rather than various shielding systems. It also has massive sensor and scouting capabilities and an on-board scaled-down Asgard computer core, making Freya able to engage in heavy electronic warfare on the ground. It comes equipped with palm.mounted outlets for high voltage arc generators serving as short range and melee weapons, and shoulder mounted pods with weapons akin to the kull warrior plasma repeaters for mid to short range engagements.

Trivia:

Voice actor: Moira Quirk
Theme: Portal 2 OST - Reconstructing science

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Can I have a Vanir crew member? I didn't (still) get around to the Atlantis books, I dunno how cold the relations are :S

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I wanna, badly, but ugh, time constrains and XCOM2 on discount on Steam xD I'll let you know by Sunday and I might be packing another person with me.

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Diamond – Incompatible opinions

“Trust? That went out the window fourteen years ago.” Diamond said, wanting to go with a snarky snort, but in the end, she sounded beaten and sour about it. “I don’t expect any and give little, never implicitly anyway. If I did, I’d have ended up dead or on a whorehouse or something like that a long time ago.”

Then she looked up in the teacher’s eyes. “Trust? Among hunters? Few days ago, I saw a huntress turned grimm worshipper gut one of the number of people I can count on the fingers of one crippled hand that I actually care about, and could, perhaps, after some time working together, ‘trust’. If someone who trained to protect people from the Grimm and was allowed to pass can fall into.. into… wanting to be one with them?! Then who can you trust?” She complained, frustrated and still a bit distressed by the memory. On one hand they are trying to feed her this teamwork, gettogether propaganda, on the other they sent her into 100% situations thus far where she got stabbed in the back. Bullshit detected!

“Rewind again, a week ago, we were set up by a racist maniac and almost buried all evidence of his atrocities, believing he was sending us to relieve the area of grimm. From what I’ve seen this far, this job requires you to look over your shoulder, read between the lines, observe every detail and question everything than working for the mob.”

She smiled inside when it came to detention. Free classes. As if she ever left for anything but a drink, something she could do without. Girl, you have no life! Perhaps no smuggling drinks into the dorm for a while. “I’ll be there. And you’re welcome to pick my head any day, but first I’ll want to know whom you’re allowed to tell how much of what I tell you.” She said, not wanting to go into any details before she knew the shrink won’t tell on her. Better get kicked out and take a chance with the dirty money than jailed, and the rest of the faculty need to be none the wiser.

@Crimmy

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@NaraK Reporting in o7

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@NaraK Outage solved, just the next week remaining.

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Internet outage at home, will try to be available from shopping mall/work. Internal audit in company next week, expecting to be unavailable TU-THU.

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@NaraK @Crimmy Got something up, sorry. Had the outline of the post in my head but it's a bit hard to find the time to write stuff down at the present.

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Diamond - Dentention?

SO the answer was 'roll the dice' You didn't need to consciously focus on not blowing up, but you mustn't be distracted either. Just wonderful, this stuff couldn't possibly be more random. Deciding to forego looks, Diamond let her aura flow freely rather than suppressing it, as she did to calm the glow in her eyes. With a longer blink of the eyes, she looked like a lich again. Well, here's to hoping we don't get a stealth mission in a dark come Friday. Then again, I'll never set a tripwire with headlights for eyes.

Right. Back on topic. "...Yeah. I suppose." Diamond answered the last question. Waste of resources? Losing a pawn too early? School losing face? Oh, society frowning, can never have enough of that. Taking a breath she composed an answer that was the least likely to get her thrown out by the collar, but obscuring least of the truth. "It just never crossed my mind - to ask that is. I'm still not used to this. Actually getting help when I need it. I've been on my own as far as I can recall. Trust doesn't come easily for me, and I expect it equally as little. I'll try to behave." A thought occurred to her. I wonder if she thinks of this as punishment? Hmm. Looks like more of a free lesson or a consultation from over here. Last teacher assaulted me with the output of a Bullhead's reactor as punishment. This one doesn't quite reach the bar.

"Do what you need to do. But I did not have any ill intention doing this." she ended.