Starboard Watch

The Wickedness of Man

Running Concept

Eruthros, The Scarlet King

• Born into extravagant luxury and power, which has made him accordingly tyrannical and cruel. Eruthros' kingdom is thousands of years old -- who wore the scarlet crown before Eruthros isn't so important as knowing that he isn't the first Scarlet King. On a scale of tyrants, Eruthros is farther from pragmatic empire-builders like Genghis Khan and closer to the self-deified hedonists like Caligula. To give you an idea of his rulership policies, Eruthros gets around on a hexapedal throne made from naked slaves holding him up.

• Eruthros indirectly rules the Scarlet Kingdom, and directly rules Sudara, the Scarlet City. The city's wall, its oldest buildings, and the Scarlet Palace are all built from mortar mixed with ox blood and fat, giving it a dark red hue. The clay around the city and the bronze mined on its outskirts are both particularly red as well.

• Eruthros' greatest contribution to his royal line's achievements is the Garden of Eruthros, a menagerie of plants, animals, and slaves deemed one-of-a-kind. It's where he keeps his giant, his liger, his hermaphrodite, his albino terrorbird, and allegedly, a chained-up angel.

@Moth

>Scarlet King

I, too, read SCP.

I think our erstwhile GM is banned?

NCR Rangers in the Capital Wasteland (General Fallout Interest Check)

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Hi there! Thanks for the feedback. To answer your questions yeah 12 years is a little too late now that I think about it now. I was thinking that the NCR had more pressing matters like rebuilding and securing the Mojave before they sent a kill team east. However maybe I'll settle for around two and four years after the battle. Also the west and east coast chapters did reconnect in 2283 after Arthur Maxson became the new Elder in the east coast. I know FO4 lore isn't popular with the fans but I think it sets up a nice continuity for the roleplay's setting. Maxson is off on his campaign in the Commonwealth leaving his trusted officers along with the West coast survivors in charge of New Maxson. That's when our Rangers arrive in the area. Something along those lines. Anyways it's all still a work in progress in my head.

@The Incredible John

I think Bethesda's desire to have the Brotherhood be some based org is a little misguided, and makes no sense when one considers the vast distance between the East and West and the logistical nightmare of trying to keep in contact. But my main point is that you've also set up the NCR as being pretty much defeated and on the backlegs, but they can somehow power project across a Continent? I don't know man, it just doesn't sit right. I like the concept and I'm just offering some things for you to think about, so the story makes sense.

The Wickedness of Man

Definitely interested. But what's the story - like the overarching narrative?

NCR Rangers in the Capital Wasteland (General Fallout Interest Check)

Generally interested, but I feel like twelve years is just too little time for them to reach all the way over to the Capital Wasteland. It's pretty much said that the Brotherhood Chapter there just about went rogue and cut themselves off from the rest of the group by heading over there. The whole backstory just seems not too thought out to me. But I like the concept, and I'd be down if there's more grit to it.

Dark Space ~ A Cosmic Horror of Exploration and Survival (Open)

@Starboard Watch: Pick your rate; pick your fate. Am I right?

@iAmAnEnemy

Thankfully I picked a good one. And could probably do the job of half the Navy too.

Dark Space ~ A Cosmic Horror of Exploration and Survival (Open)

What is Earth and the human systems like? Like the background world that we live in?

Dark Space ~ A Cosmic Horror of Exploration and Survival (Open)

I'm certainly interested. I'm in the Navy myself and have experience in the whole way shipboard experience works. Just want to say that the Nav isn't really the one that pilots the ship - that would be the helmsman. He issues course corrections and in the event of some critical evolution, is the only person that the helmsman would listen to. Most of the time, though, that job is done by the XO or any Junior Officer in the pilot house.

The Night Shift - Supernatural Horror Gas Station Simulator

Interested for sure. Are we all part of this night shift? Like the guy above me said, in every continence store I’ve seen there’s only one or two poor bastards there.

Concepts (M for F)

bump

The Sunday Group - Paranormal Detectives

@Starboard Watch History as people know it is the same but there might well be otherworldly explanations behind accepted historical events.

@Penny

Alright sounds good. I'm interested.