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Detective Wars [Detective/Mystery Fiction RP] - Hiatus

CS is a WIP!

Name: Nathaniel 'Nathan' Alstrad

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Nationality: Born British, raised American

Appearance: WIP

Personality: Nathan is a quiet, reserved person. Very 'bookish', he spends more time with books than he does interacting with other people. This has lead him over his life to have a bit of a weird outlook on things, being able to persuade or coerce people with his words simply because he views them as characters in his own story, as opposed to people. His book smarts assist him in his line of work, referencing works off the top of his head to help him connect he dots in many situatons.

Bio: Nathan was born in the British Isles, his family moving early in his life across the water to the newer nation of America. He spent his childhood living on a plantation, tucked away in his room pouring over books. He was smart, and reaching his teens he found himself using the knowledge he'd attained from his studies to help people in ways he could. Working backwards through their day to help find lost items, using minor clues to solve thefts, a few times even finding missing animals. It became a passion of his, and once he'd become old enough he began traveling the States perfecting his craft and solving bigger and bigger cases. He worked with many of the authorities throughout the country, and began stowing away on boats to move between continents, learning the trade from some of the greatest minds the world had to offer on the subject.

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@hagroden Oh, I honestly hadn't noticed it was posted in casual at all. I may wait to see what other people post in the OCC before I totally commit.

Crime Bosses or Godly Offspring

Fingers crossed then!

The Serpent and The Galah

Sign me up. Sounds interesting.

All Summer '16

All Summer '16

Interior

Summer. As a teenager it can be the greatest time of your life, or the worst, depending on who you spend it with (or who you don't in some cases). You've been invited to join a small group of friends (some more friendly than others) to spend the weekend at the beach house owned by the parents of one of your friends. He's assured everyone how much fun it will be. Three months of no parents, no responsibilities, and plenty of booze. Who can resist the beautiful home, and the more beautiful beach it rests against.

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This is a more casual slice of life RP. I'll be looking for a small group of people, up to 7, trying to keep it split pretty evenly between boys and girls. Characters for this RP will be high school aged, so the 15 to 18 age range works fine. The house will have shared bedrooms, two to a room aside from the master bedroom (where the owners son will be staying himself, because rich kid and all that). The rooms will be only shared by same gender characters, at least at first anyway. There's not a lot planned for this, I just thought it'd be a fun way to have some RP time where not a ton of thought is required.

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Some minor rules.

• Violence should be kept to a minimum. This isn't a major combat RP, no one should be busting out swords or something.
• While sex between characters is totally up to those characters, please keep it to PM. A simple 'heading to the bedroom' post is all that's necessary IC.
• This is a more reality based RP. When you fill out your CS, if you choose to use a picture for your appearance, please no anime.
• I can't believe I have to write this, but after trying this sort of thing out before, please no super powers or paranormal abilities.
• Try to be at least somewhat active. Sure maybe people can't post every day, but if you can't post at all one day, please let anyone know if their character is currently involved with yours somehow.
• No one line posts please. Multiple paragraphs aren't always needed, but at least one would be nice.

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Below I've posted a template character sheet. If you'd like to go ahead and fill it out, that would be great. Otherwise I'm just looking for anyone interested here before I post an OOC thread where you could put a CS later on.

Character Sheet

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance (image or description):
Major likes:
Major dislikes:
Mini-biography:

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Thanks for taking the time to read this! Hopefully we get some interest and can make something fun out of this!

Crime Bosses or Godly Offspring

Crime bosses sounds super fun, I'd love the chance to play a detective/police officer.

What Happens After The End Of Days?

The Backstory

It all started with the first manned mission out of the solar system. 2080. The plan was for a large shuttle carrying a crew over just a couple hundred men and women willing to sacrifice their lives, to cross just outside of the edge of our solar system, get whatever readings or samples they could, and to make the return trip. Over all, the mission should have taken almost exactly one hundred years. No one was going to survive the trip, while human lives have on average extended slightly, it was still just too long of time. Their mission was to get the shuttle pointed correctly, engage the on board auto pilot, then enter the sleep pods to be injected with a lethal dose of anethesia.

By the year 2045 the crew had reached their "destination". The readings they sent home showed nothing much out of the ordinary, exactly what was expected. Except for the radiation. It was high doses, and of a variety we hadn't experienced on earth. It was an exciting discovery. Over time maybe maybe this was something that could be harnessed. The possibilities could have been endless. After two years of floating in space, the crew prepared to turn the shuttle back, and plotted their course.

This is where things began going wrong.

The plan had been for the crew to... Go to sleep... In a kind of tiered system. They were to handle it in groups, starting with the least important members of running the ship. Janitorial, cafeteria, and the like first. Then the assistant scientists were up next. Finally the senior reseachers, leaving only a group of three men who were necessary to pilot the ship. Once they confirmed the autopilot was functional and the course plotted, they would be the last ones to go under.

2190, the ship crash lands as planned in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. It took a crew of a couple hundred men just a week to recover most of the wreckage. The bodies of the crew, what could be found with the wreckage in the water, had burned beyond recognition upon re-entry. They would be given heroes funerals. High levels of the same mysterious radiation was found on the pieces of the ship that were recovered.

It started with the men who recovered the wreckage. They began developing exceedingly aggressive forms of cancer, some of them died within a couple weeks, the longest lasting one just a month. The cancer appeared to spread to the doctors and nurses who helped them, the family who visited them, the other patients in the building. Even quarantining them off didn't appear to stop things. However it was transmitting, it was transmitting quickly. Within the following six months, it was estimated half of the population of the United States had fallen victim to the disease, and there was a certain death following contraction. It seemed a small percentage of the population were immune to catching the disease, but the future still looked bleak.

Then people started waking up. Bodies that had been dumped into mass graves that had yet to be buried over began pulling themselves out. People who had passed away in their homes without anyone to dispose of them began making their way out into the streets. They didn't appear to have any reasoning or thought, and were viciously violent. At the sight of a living person, they were drive into a rage, attacking them, clawing and biting at them. The few people who had seen this happening and gotten away alive claim they saw the reanimated people cannibalizing their targets.

Within the next few years the population of the United States was nearly wiped out, most people who survived the "outbreak" spent their time traveling alone, rarely coming across another living person. Some who did band together did what they had to do to survive. Some called them bandits, or raiders, or simply just gangs. They took what they needed to to feed their own, despite who it may hurt in the process. Others tried to form small communities to get some semblance of their old world back, as hopeless as it may feel.

The Plot

So my idea of this is very loosely planned right now. I enjoy the possibility of things changing up as the story goes, though I do have some key bullet points we would be following, that I'll reveal as the story progresses. The starting point of it would be a small group meeting up, the size of that group would be decided by how many people show interest in this. The goal of the group will come up ICly, while I don't necessarily want to play a "leader" just because I'm starting the RP (in fact I feel more comfortable RPing outside a leader role), my character will have some information to get the group started. Again, would be revealed ICly once everyone is "together".

The Setting

The story will begin in the Midwest United States, rural Ohio to be precise. The plot of the story will lead our group nearly across country, so this is planned to be a somewhat long term RP. The year is late 2100s, but technology isn't anything super crazy, we're playing under the assumption people just stopped inventing things in the mid 2000s. At this point of the situation, technology wouldn't be much help. Sure, it's possible to find batteries for radios or flashlights, ammunition for guns, stores of food, etc. But few places have electricity, you're not likely to find much fuel for vehicles, etc.

The Characters

The characters involved should be pretty normal people. There's the possibility of a member of the group being a soldier or something, but no one in the group will be starting out carrying machine guns or grenades or something. Everyone will be allowed to give their character a starting "inventory" of supplies. What those could be is left up to the players involved writing their character, but I just ask that it's nothing crazy.

So if anyone's interested I'd love to hear so. I ask that this be considered more of an "advanced" RP. I'd appreciate people being able to make posts that really contribute to things, so no one or two liners or anything like that. If we get some interest, I'll start up an OOC thread soon.

The gentle art of education.

Hey this sounds pretty interesting. Did you have any story basis in mind aside from the pairing?

XCOM 2

I've yet to even start it. I picked it up after finishing XCOM, and had to move, now I just have my laptop to use and it won't run on it. The struggle.

Detective Wars [Detective/Mystery Fiction RP]

I'd be super interested in taking part in this.