Queen Raidne

Earthgone: A Sci-Fi/Cosmic Horror NRP

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A Space NRP with Tentacles!

Fancy Intro

Fancy Intro

It is 2253. The solar system has been colonized. Humanity has spread to live in everything from cities floating in Venus' atmosphere to towns hugging the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan. Small mining outfits dot the thin asteroid belt; research stations float in solar orbit, and exploration ships push the boundaries of the Oort cloud.

Despite centuries of half-joking effort, nobody has cracked the secret of faster-than-light travel. 100 years ago, the Tilson Expedition embarked on a massive generation ship sent toward a star likely to have an Earth-like world. Their penultimate transmission revealed that there was no habitable world orbiting their destination, and they had altered course toward the beta site.

Nations, both new and old, vie for space in the solar system. Earth - the only planet with air we can actually breathe; air that's sitting there, for free, was constantly mired with infighting right up to the day it disappeared.

Observation telescopes reveal the Earth was there one day, and gone the next. It simply vanished.

Luna, after some unusual wobbling, continued along in the Earth's former orbit.

Now the many nations of humanity sit with limited vital resources, with tensions mounting and a deepening economic crisis. Water is difficult to come by. Oxygen is difficult to come by. Food is difficult to come by.

Some megacorps are making a killing, entire moons have declared independence, and remnant Earth-bound nations are scrambling to find out what happened.

Social media has adopted the term "Earthgone" to describe the situation.

Then the ultimate transmission from the Tilson Expedition came:

Tilson Expedition to anyone who can hear this. Monsters are out here, and they're coming your way. They found us - tracked us down like a deer. They toyed with us, took their time, extracted memories and our [transmission interrupt - reacquiring] -rnings in fiction; stories like interminable grating noises that never stop, seeping behind your eyes, in your thoughts, intruding like gnats in your ears, never-ending [transmission interrupt - reacquiring] Listen. Whoever you are, you can't let them live. Beware the ones who bleed. It's the first sign of the second coming and judgment day, when God is triumphant hand-in-hand with the devil whose BANG!

Tilson Expedition

The transmission has continued unabated - not static, but silence.

Earth is gone. Will humanity be next?

What is This?:

This is an NRP set in the Solar System. You will play as a nation, corporation, or other solar entity struggling with the revelation that there are cosmic horrors in the universe, and they're coming this way. I will play as cosmic horrors in the universe, and I'm coming your way.

There is no plot beyond the ones we create. You can play as a corporation which has whole-heartedly gone for human sacrifice. Or perhaps you'd prefer cultists finally seeing the light of day? An innocent, standard, hard sci-fi nation trying to talk some damn sense back into the solar system? Or a fractured state looking for answers, because, damnit, magic is not a thing and Cthulhu can't exist. It's up to you!

We here in the NRP section love to worldbuild. So, that's what this RP is designed to facilitate.

Setting:

The year is 2253. Humanity has colonized the solar system. Technology is "near-future"; that is, there is no faster-than-light, and there is no ...obvious, visible... magic. Yet. Who knows? That's up to us! Impossible, insanity-driving things ate our first intersolar generation ship! Anything can happen now! Up might be down! Blue could be orange! Cats and dogs, living together in harmony!

It's mostly-hard Sci-Fi slamming into Cosmic Horror.

History:

Beyond this section, the entire history of the solar system (and everything) is up to the players. Here's what's happened so far:

0. Present-day history up to 2019 takes place in the foreground.
1. Humanity colonizes the majority of the solar system. Which parts? That's up to us.
2. Earth does not unite. Nations still cover different parts of the surface. Some have colonies on other planets/moons, others do not.
3. Some planets/moons are independent of Earth.
4. Earth is a very valuable planet, as it is the only one with "free" air and water and food.
5. A generation ship is sent to look for habitable exoplanets. This is the Tilson Expedition.
6. The Tilson Expedition has to reroute to the beta site, as close-range spectrometry reveals the alpha site doesn't have a habitable planet.
7. Something horrifying happens to the Tilson Expedition, revealed to the entire Solar System in their last, disturbing, transmission.
8. Earth just up and disappears one day in an event known as "Earthgone". The moon is mostly fine, though.

Rules:

0. Standard Guild Site Rules
1. Don't break the game.
-This includes taking any issues you might have with another player into PM's.
-This also includes obvious NRP/RP best practices, like do use decent grammar, don't godmod, don't have a Mary Sue, etc.
2. Anything weird and/or not covered by rules 0-1 will be dealt with by me.

Application:

How to apply:
1. Fill out the nation sheet below, posting in the OOC tab.
2. Upon acceptance, post it in the Characters tab.

The following fields are required:
[u]Name of Nation:[/u]
[u]Location:[/u]
[u]Summary-in-a-Sentence:[/u]
[u]Government Description:[/u]
[u]Economic Overview:[/u]
[u]Military Overview:[/u]
[u]Cultural Overview:[/u]
[u]History:[/u]

The following fields are entirely optional! Invent your own if you want/need to, or ignore as many as you'd like. It's your nation sheet!
[u]Diplomatic Overview:[/u]
[u]Theme Song:[/u]
[u]Flag:[/u]
[u]Major Character Bios:[/u]
[u]Technological Overview:[/u]
[u]Cult/Magical Overview:[/u]
[u]Scent:[/u]
[u]Favorite Colors:[/u]
[u]Most Common Topiary:[/u]

Groundhog's Day: Apocalypse

Alright, you've got 19 posts until the world ends. I figured it would be the most fun if we had one cycle of normalcy; that way we can have better contrasts with each reset.

Don't be afraid to ask questions if you need to know something about the setting!

Groundhog's Day: Apocalypse

6:23am, Thursday, August 19th, 2019

The sun rose over Seneca Glen. It slowly illuminated Market Street, glinting off of the three- and four- story buildings. "Get Your Caffeinated Drinks and go to Work Slightly Less Dead Inside for Only $3!", read a chalkboard sign on a sidewalk. A small trickle of locals were already wandering into the coffee shop. A few doors down, prep cooks were smoking out back before their shift at Mawmaw's. The First National Bank's clock claimed the temperature was a pleasant 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Market Garden - one of four local bars, and the only one that actually served cocktails, was dark. Flyers advertising live music and local bands littered the telephone poles, neatly ending at the four-story, block-wide department store/general store/gas station, Hayt General Store.

On the low side of town - farther down the ridge Seneca Glen was nestled in - Mueller's Kickboxing gym was fairly quiet. Not too many of the town's residents were fans of the punishment associated with 6 am workouts. Past the river and the parking lot for Seneca Glen State Park - 19 Waterfalls! - Market Street turned into State Route 14. Here lay Finger Lakes Community College, up on a winding road atop the ridge. Farther along State Route 14, past the ancient Stimson Barn (before it burned down and got bought up by the state), was the sprawling Melakron Plastics plant.

The opposite side of town - the high side of town - Market Street abruptly ended in the "suburbs". Just before pure residential housing, there were a series of duplexes and apartments. City Hall was up here, as was Seneca Glen High School and the local clinic. There were quite a few bed and breakfasts, as this part of town was the right combination of high enough to see the lake while still being close enough to actually get to the lake. Then Seneca Glen gradually faded into neatly gridded streets filled with one-story houses. At least, they were neatly gridded where the ridge didn't interfere with the city planners' dreams. Abruptly, civilization ended in favor of chainlink fences and warning signs on either side of the road: "DANGER: FEDERAL RESEARCH FACILITY. KEEP OUT! TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED.", followed by the abstract logo of Simmons Federal Arboreal Research Lab.

It was a normal day.

It would be a normal day, every day, for the forseeable future.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

Wow, I'm very sorry to hear that, Assallya.

Earthgone [A Space NRP with Tentacles!]

I'll start working on an OOC! It'll probably be a week or so; I'd like to flesh out the universe a bit. And also I want to make the OOC look pretty. But, mostly the fleshing-out.

Heh. "Flesh" out the universe. Cosmic horror puns.

Groundhog's Day: Apocalypse

@The One Ideally just one, but that's mostly because I've never dealt with multiple characters from a single player before.

I should have that first post up after work tonight, that is, in about 12 hours or so.

Groundhog's Day: Apocalypse

It sounds like most of you have relationships established, so you can start posting your sheets in the characters tab.

I'll write up a first post to have in the next couple of days. That's not to say that people can't still apply; I'm just very excited to kick off this RP.

Earthgone [A Space NRP with Tentacles!]

It is the 2250's. The solar system has been colonized. Luna and Mars were some of the first places with permanent settlements, but humanity has spread to live from floating cities in Venus' atmosphere to towns that hug the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan. Small mining outfits dot the thin asteroid belt; research stations float in solar orbit, and exploration ships push the boundaries of the Oort cloud.

Despite centuries of half-joking effort, nobody has cracked the secret of faster-than-light travel. 100 years ago, the Tilson Expedition embarked on a massive generation ship sent toward a star that probably had an Earth-like world. Their penultimate transmission revealed that there was no habitable world orbiting their destination, and they have altered course toward the beta site.

Nations, both new and old, vie for space in the solar system. Earth - the only planet with air we can actually breathe; air that's sitting there, for free, was constantly mired with infighting right up to the day it disappeared.

Observation telescopes reveal the Earth was there one day, and gone the next. It simply vanished.

Luna, after some unusual wobbling, continued along in the Earth's former orbit.

Now the many nations of humanity sit with limited vital resources, with tensions mounting and a deepening economic crisis. Water is difficult to come by. Oxygen is difficult to come by. Food is difficult to come by.

Some megacorps are making a killing, entire moons have declared independence, and remnant Earth-bound nations are scrambling to find out what happened.

Social media has adopted the term "Earthgone" to describe the situation.

Then the ultimate transmission from the Tilson Expedition came:

Tilson Expedition to anyone who can hear this. Monsters are out here, and they're coming your way. They found us - tracked us down like a deer. They toyed with us, took their time, extracted memories and our [transmission interrupt - reacquiring] -rnings in fiction; stories like interminable grating noises that never stop, seeping behind your eyes, in your thoughts, intruding like gnats in your ears, never-ending [transmission interrupt - reacquiring] Listen. Whoever you are, you can't let them live. Beware the ones who bleed. It's the first sign of the second coming and judgment day, when God is triumphant hand-in-hand with the devil whose BANG!

Tilson Expedition

The transmission has continued unabated - not static, but silence.

Earth is gone. Will humanity be next?

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Let's see what happens when relatively hard sci-fi nations meet eldritch horrors from beyond the cosmos! Who's with me?

Groundhog's Day: Apocalypse

D'oh! I've updated the Discord link to never expire.

Star Wars - Galaxies at War[MULTIVERSE SPACESHIP RP]

Nice to be back! I'm managing stress much more healthily these days, so, hopefully I'll stick around.