Mattchstick

The Band of Fools - A Medieval Mercenary Company Roleplay

Interested.

"Kill or be killed" survival RP with a few quirks

I made a map in Google SketchUp. Rather than one superstore, I've split it into a supplies store and a food store, so that players will have to be even more active than before. I tried to keep it diverse. Let me know what you think.

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Legend
White: Start Location
Lines: paved roads
Dark Gray: blacktop (parking lots)
Dark Green: trees. Two of them are mistakenly shown as gray circles, sorry about that.
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G: Gear/Supplies store
F: Food/Water store
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Tan: farm field
Brown: farmhouse
Purple: two-story townhouses
Red: one-story brick houses and brick paths
Purple: radio tower
Light Green: military base/checkpoint
Yellow: power plant and power lines
Blue: apartment complex

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So...is that the end of this? I thought this was rather interesting.

Mattchstick's CS Matchbook

MASTER

Name: Dr. Miles Aster, Deputy Director of the Association for the Survival of Humanity and Experiment-200 overseer.
Age: 59
Sex: M
Appearance: Caucasian. 5'10", thin but not skinny. Dark brown hair cut to about an inch long. Dark brown eyes.
Clothing: Grey collared shirt, black necktie, heavy white lab coat with the Institute's logo printed on the shoulder, black dress pants, black leather shoes, rectangular gunmetal-gray eyeglasses.
Personality: MASTER is a cold, calculating man, who is defined by his ability to separate data from empathy. If he is insane, he doesn't show it.
Background:

Aster is the Deputy Director of ASH, circa 2200. He has been sent back through time to conduct an experiment on unwilling participants in the early 21st century.

Sometime between 2000 and 2200 AD, the world goes from a prosperous utopia to ground zero.

WWIII renders much of the world, especially the United States, uninhabitable. Any cities that were not struck with nuclear warheads were decimated by conventional bombs. A vast majority of them are uninhabitable. Those that are are ghost towns. Humanity since has been limping onward, struggling to sustain itself. The United Nations has disbanded and every country is tending to themselves, so all outside aid has been cut off. For a while, the survivors worked together to rebuild and inhabit cities. But peace can only last so long, and it only takes one warmonger with a little support to tear everything back down.

Such is the life in one particular American city. For an entire generation, they have lived peaceably among themselves. Human ingenuity has helped them develop enough farmland and harvesting to feed their population. But trouble is brewing. They're been noticed by a particularly successful warlord who is looking to expand his territory. The town is well defended with walls and small arms, but the new generation knows nothing of fighting. They have been carefully watched over by parents desperate to give their children a peaceful future, and as a result, they are both naive and inexperienced, making them easy prey for dictators-to-be.

Amidst all of this is the Association for the Survival of Humanity, an organization founded with the express purpose of keeping humans alive and furthering the race. ASH has tried desperately to seize control of the population and restore balance, but they have never had the resources or manpower to attempt such a thing. The founders changed their focus, deciding instead to monitor and support one town. The exact town that is now a target. Aware of the danger but unable to convince the hapless civilians to fight, a rather radical solution was formulated. The Association would bring people capable of killing to the town to defend it. Unfortunately, the military was inaccessible, and the only people around who could kill others were not exactly reliable or trustworthy. They needed people who could empathize with others but have the mental capacity to take a life.

And so Experiment-200 was launched. By means of time travel (explanations will be worked out later), scientists and lab assistants were sent 200 years back in time to the era just prior to the scientific utopia, a time where peace and violence uneasily coexisted. A mock town was constructed. Cameras were set. Weapons were stockpiled. 2000-era clothing and uniforms were scavenged. And unwilling participants were taken there. E-200 was presided over by Miles Aster, the Deputy Director of the Association, who volunteered to oversee the project. Miles was not an evil man. He took no pleasure in his treatment of the test subjects. He was simply capable of separating empathy from data.

And that is exactly what he did.

Mattchstick's CS Matchbook

Just gonna use this as a reference. Seems easier than constantly going to MS Word.

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"Kill or be killed" survival RP with a few quirks

I now have five players and have reached the minimum. I'll get an OOC up either today or tomorrow, and I'll start the game Saturday to give new people a little more time to join. And, you know, hammer out some rules, approve CS's, build a map, and settle on how exactly this whole thing starts.

"Kill or be killed" survival RP with a few quirks

When it comes to you killing players off, perhaps it could be a randomized fate? Similar to a spinning wheel in which you have numerous methods laid out and randomly choose. Or have them die in a character-specific way, that's determined throughout their gameplan or life (from the bio). Though I don't think in most cases the latter would be instantaneous.

I'm going to make (or find) an overhead map of a medium-sized town/cityscape OOC. That way, players can keep track of where they are and what they see, which will allow them to "randomly encounter" other players. It'll also let me force players towards each other. Like I said in quirk 3, I won't be able to kill people, but I certainly won't be telling characters that, and automatic fire or mortars will likely do a lovely job of moving people in a specific direction.

Also, the store. Forgot to mention this: the store at the center of the map is a no-kill zone, with four identical doors (north, south, east, and west). I'm not going to let anyone get away with hiding in it to ambush other characters, or get away with camping. There are checkout lines at each door, and everyone will be supplied with a credit card of sorts with infinite credit. This will give players a better sense of remembering what they bought, make it a little less hectic, and will provide useful data to the Institute.

So when you start, you'll have a flip phone (which makes browsing the internet and emergency phone calls impossible) and a credit card with infinite credit.

My pick, from the list, are the collars.

I'll put it to a vote.

"Kill or be killed" survival RP with a few quirks

I'd like people to keep in mind that, since new characters can be added at any point, players with dead characters can roll in with a new character whenever they want. Keep that in mind, because it puts your character in more danger from other characters. This doesn't mean you need to be in a rush. Character development is important. But the goal of this experiment is to find people capable of killing other people. Since the only way to die is by another character, worst-case scenario I might roll in a character myself...