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Ghost Island (Sandbox Twilight Zone - High Casual to Advanced)

docs.google.com/document/d/1wxaatoW4K…

Ghost Island (Sandbox Twilight Zone - High Casual to Advanced)

You have awakened on a Ghost Island, not just any ghost island, but a ghosted version of Long Island, NY. Not another living soul around. There are several situations you may find yourself in initially when you first wake up.

In you home or apartment if you already lived on the island.
In you car - stopped - if you were on the road.
Homeless, if you were.
On a subway. (They still run right on schedule.)
On a bus - if you were on one.
In your seat on a plane - at the airport (either at the terminal or sitting on the taxiway).
On a boat (if you were on one). You WILL be docked.

If you are from this area, you will be one up on others. (I said you woke up alone. That doesn’t mean noone else is on the island. If not, good luck, not my problem. Get a map.

You can do pretty much whatever you want. However, there are some oddities about the Island you need to know. Feel free to roleplay discovering these things.

Stores are stocked - including grocery stores - and the produce and meat are fresh.
Soda machines work.
Cars run (unless they are obviously junk). They never run out of fuel.
Utilities work - however, there are no plugs. (Creepy huh?) No cords either, but the damned things all work.
Phones work - including cell phones. However, you can only call locally. For all public services you will get hold, music, voicemail, etc.
All ammo are blanks. All weapons are fake. (Of course, you can always grab a baseball bat or tire iron.)
Internet works, but you an click on Contact Us and likely never get a response.
You can get as far as midway across a bridge and hit an invisible wall. If you take a boat out you will run into a similar barrier. Same with subway, rail, etc.
Planes will not take off. (Neither will a helicopter.)
Fuel Pumps at Gas Stations don't work. Well, the readouts change, but nothing comes out.

Posting
Try to include real addresses or even links I am using Google Maps. (Remember, Long Island, not Manhattan …)
Add an in RP time for your post.
Try not to drag scenes out.
Detailed or High Casual writing

Characters
docs.google.com/document/d/1wxaatoW4K…
There are no other people other than the characters we create.
Yes, you may create more than one character, but start separately.
I am looking for something a little unique about each character, so add details.

NOTE: Come back and check this description later as it may change. (I will probably add to the list of oddities and ways to arrive as I think of things I forgot or people ask.)

Ghost Island (Sandbox Twilight Zone - High Casual to Advanced) - Recruitment

Note: While I have tagged this Post Apocalypse, there hasn't been an apocalypse. But the utter absence of people will make it seem a bit like one has happened. The Sci Fi was tagged as things work for unknown reasons.

You have awakened on a Ghost Island, not just any ghost island, but a ghosted version of Long Island, NY. Not another living soul around. There are several situations you may find yourself in initially when you first wake up.

In you home or apartment if you already lived on the island.
In you car - stopped - if you were on the road.
Homeless, if you were.
On a subway. (They still run right on schedule.)
On a bus - if you were on one.
In your seat on a plane - at the airport (either at the terminal or sitting on the taxiway).
On a boat (if you were on one). You WILL be docked.

If you are from this area, you will be one up on others. (I said you woke up alone. That doesn’t mean noone else is on the island. If not, good luck, not my problem. Get a map.

You can do pretty much whatever you want. However, there are some oddities about the Island you need to know. Feel free to roleplay discovering these things.

Stores are stocked - including grocery stores - and the produce and meat are fresh.
Soda machines work.
Cars run (unless they are obviously junk).
Utilities work - however, there are no plugs. (Creepy huh?) No cords either, but the damned things all work.
Phones work - including cell phones. However, you can only call locally. For all public services you will get hold, music, voicemail, etc.
All ammo are blanks. All weapons are fake. (Of course, you can always grab a baseball bat or tire iron.)
Internet works, but you an click on Contact Us and likely never get a response.
You can get as far as midway across a bridge and hit an invisible wall. If you take a boat out you will run into a similar barrier. Same with subway, rail, etc.
Planes will not take off. (Neither will a helicopter.)

Posting
Try to include real addresses or even links I am using Google Maps. (Remember, Long Island, not Manhattan …)
Add an in RP time for your post.
Try not to drag scenes out.
Detailed or High Casual writing

Characters
docs.google.com/document/d/1wxaatoW4K…
There are no other people other than the characters we create.
Yes, you may create more than one character, but start separately.
I am looking for something a little unique about each character, so add details.

It IS possible to have two people wake up at the same time and place. A family on vacation could suddenly wake up there. Or perhaps two people who just had a fender bender.

NOTE: Come back and check this description later as it may change. (I will probably add to the list of oddities and ways to arrive as I think of things I forgot or people ask.)

Help Wanted (MxF sort a Nanny and the Professor idea minus the kids)

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Oumuamua (Superpower MxF)

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NSA - NSFW 18+ MxF or MxM RP

Is it wrong that I thought something similar? I mean ... I actually WORKED for NSA (just not in a wiretapping section). Yes, that's right I was James Bond - the desk jockey version.

Isle of Beautiful Women (FxM)

Cliche? I know. But that is the theme of this RP. The short version is a young man (or a small group) shipwreck on a South Seas tropical island. You won’t find this island on any charts though. Soon he (they) will discover that the island is inhabited by beautiful women.

Sounds like a dream come true? Well it might be - if not for the fact that the women are protected by some mythological beings who are more than a little protective of their women. They have one law: no men allowed. Should they learn of the presence of the men, the hunt will be on. You don’t want to know what happens to the men if caught.

Of course, the women might not mind so much. Test the waters at your peril.

Girl, Gold Watch and Everything (FxM)

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And inside is even more interesting … a picture of a beautiful woman.

The start of this RP is very, very simple. Your rather eccentric Great Uncle passed away with no direct heirs. His estate was worth a fortune - billions. He had been a man of many talents. Explorer, author, inventor. He had once told you that you were his favorite - several times in fact. The first time was when you were a young boy of 6. You had been into dinosaurs. He had invited you to view his personal museum filled with all sorts of fossils. He had enraptured you for hours telling you stories about the giant reptiles that once roamed the Earth. The next time it had been pirates. Your mother told you to stop bothering him about sunken pirate treasure. And yet he laughed it off and continued to tell pirate stories. He often gave you messages that were encrypted and made treasure hunts. He was just that sort of man. Enigmatic.

He encouraged you to follow in his footsteps, much to the chagrin of your parents. As you entered your early teens they told him that you needed to start growing up. He told them "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." He was quoting Einstein.

That was the last time you saw him. Oh, he sent you the usual birthday gifts. But he stopped sending cards. He used to always send cards with cryptograms. This days were gone.

June 22, 2037 Monday

So there you were, with all your siblings, parents, family members you hardly knew, your Great Uncle’s business partners - and their attorneys. And slowly the fortune was given away. Of particular note was that his home and a modest trust fund to cover its maintenance and a perpetual income was left to his caretaker/butler, Mr Jonathan Whitmore.

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You were left with a micro USB flash drive and a short letter. The short letter read:

For all the cards you never got.
For all the stories never told.
Forgive and live
Brave and bold.

Within the flash drive were tons of files, but one folder popped up first labelled Read Me First. The first file in the folder was a snapshot of a birthday card. It was for your 13th birthday - the first one he missed. The next picture was Christmas of the same year. He hadn’t forgotten - not yours, not any of your family. The cards had simply never made it to you. And as always - each of yours had hidden messages.

You looked up as there was some commotion. Your Great Uncle’s old partners were raising a fuss. They kept saying that couldn’t be all. And yet, that was the end of the Will.

Your world is about to change as you continue to decipher the cards. You will find yourself skipping to the year the last Will was written and discover a hidden message.

“Go to Jonathan. You can trust him with your life. My attorney knows about this last part. But it was left for you to discover. A treasure hunt of sorts. For you see, to you I have left … Everything. When you see him, he will raise a fist to you. He won’t do that at reading.

Stage 1: Raise the left hand, palm outward to the person being addressed. Keep the thumb tucked to the side of the palm, pointing upward. Clench the index and pinky fingers as if making a fist and extend the middle and ring fingers vertically. The gesture should be made at the same time as speaking the "graaaaagnah" part of the verbal Universal Greeting.

Stage 2: Extend the index, ring and pinky fingers. Curl the middle finger and thumb towards the palm of the hand so that they touch at right-angles, with the side of the thumb's tip pressed against the nail of the middle finger. This should be done in time with the verbalization "wheep".

Stage 3: Clench the index, middle and ring fingers. Extend the thumb and pinky fingers so that the gesture resembles a horizontally-flipped 'L'. Shake the hand sideways twice, in time to the syllables of "ni ni"

Stage 4: As the final "bong" is spoken, open your hand out so that all digits are extended and slightly splayed, as if to make a handprint in clay. Pause momentarily and then press the thus-opened hand against that of the person you are addressing, who themselves should have a likewise open palm.

It was the Universal Greeting from the old original Transformers animated movie. Why? Because it was just the sort of obscure thing none of his old partners would have recognized.

“Jonathan’s hand won’t be empty. His hand will hold the key to my greatest treasure. This I leave to you. Take good care of her.”

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Your character should be a young man, 18-25, still single. How his life has turned out since his Great Uncle became estranged from the family is up to you. Did you choose to pursue adventure and such despite your family’s wishes? Or did they stifle your imagination and turn you into some office flunky - or worse?

Oumuamua (Superpower MxF)

Oumuamua

In 2017 an asteroid of interstellar origins passed through our solar system at over twice the escape velocity of Earth. It was nearest to Earth (0.276 a.u. Or 25 million miles) on October 8, 2017. Any meteorite activity from the visitor would have hit Earth around Oct 18.

It is June 23, 2023. In the past few years humans with strange abilities have begun to emerge. Many of these humans have proven dangerous, using their new powers for personal gain, or lacking any control. As a result governments around the world have begun the hunt for these “mutants”. Most are taken to special prisons for study.

Laws have been passed that requires all mutants to surrender themselves to the authorities. Under the Patriot Act they have no civil rights. Of course, not everyone agrees with this. There are advocates for mutant rights. And officially the government will take right into account - for those mutants who turn themselves in voluntarily.

It is now a requirement to have a blood test to obtain or renew a driver’s license. All children in schools must now go through testng. Unfortunately there have been many false positives. And it is equally likely that many positives have been missed. But the testing process is still being perfected.

Powers
Think along the lines of the mutants in Gifted. (I am NOT using the X-Men or MCU. This is an original setting.)

Plot
This is not a hero vs villain RP. As far as the government is concerned you ARE the villains. Whether they are aware of you or not is the question. There may be as many as 8000 mutants worldwide. I has been nearly 6 years since the asteroid passed the Earth. If anyone has made the connection, it hasn’t been made public knowledge. However, this should give an idea of the LONGEST you should have had your powers. Most didn’t manifest right away. Most adults have to get their driver’s license renewed with a period like that though. Or if you were still a teenager, you would have been tested.

Characters
This is to be an MxF. I can run either role. (I have a female character in mind, but I can pick another.)

Modern Jekyll and Hyde Scenario (MxF)

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