Syben

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

PM me character sheets or wait for the ooc. Thank you.

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

I will be home tomorrow and hopefully launching the ooc. Shooting for Tuesday at the latest.

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

@JackHasAShotgun Maybe they (The character) fled inland to get away from the intial chaos, and decided to continue west as opposed to all those who were headed back east to find shelter. Cars still ran in the first few, lets say weeks? (I have a reason why cars are harder to come by now.) So, we'll use that to give your character a reason to be on the west coast relatively quickly. Even though they could easily walk it in three months, without water they would die.

However, think of this more as a parallel earth. You don't have to actually know the area too well. The only real big important things is Washington state is known for having Naval Bases, and the national monument, the Space Needle. You can use google maps to get a feel for the layout once I pick an area. Otherwise, it should be pretty simple and forward, we'll make things up as we need to go and I'll document important locale's as needed. You don't have to get so specific as to know the street names. Really just the names of outlying towns and the basic geographical area.

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

@Ever

The roleplay will focus around Refuge, a survivor colony, but you're not limited. You can do whatever you like, have your own stories and plots, be creative. Just keep in mind, as I said, we focus around Refuge.

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

@Aeonumbra
Perhaps I'm a blind motherfucker but where in the US are we

@Andreyich

I've settled on Washington State, where specifically I have not quite decided, but it will be near either the Ocean, or the Puget Sound.

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

Let's go with about 3 months since the last date on the timeline

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

Character Sheets are out, and will be on the first post.

Tips: For now leave "Aligned Faction" Blank, unless you wish to create your own. This roleplay will center around Refuge, and the area it resides in. Currently I have thoughts on what factions Refuge will have. A few branches of military/government, probably, and maybe some prominent minor factions (Monster Hunters, anyone?)

Edit:
Changed the Character sheet to be clearer.
"Talents" is now "Talents & Hobbies"
"Skills" are now "Trade Skills".

Wal-World: Dead Stock – [Walmart Apocalypse Adventuring RP] [ENDED]

Sorry mate. I think I'll be dropping this, just wanted to let you know.

Syben's Swamp

Compression Zone:

Text Recovery Guide

Read Me

^{Disclaimer: I am sharing information, but the choice to use it is yours and yours alone.}
This guide is intended to assist users who have spent hours modifying a post, only to lose it to a refreshed page. Typically, this means that you were editing a post that had already been made, as the new post box remembers what you write in it. If you are on or had been working through a mobile device, I cannot help you. Know what you're getting in to and do not stray from the steps. If you think you know something useful in regards to this guide, please PM it to me. This can be a somewhat complex process and I don't want people getting confused and messing things up. I will ask for posts of this nature to be hidden.

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Initial Steps

^{I do not know if these steps are particularly necessary, but this is what I did}
• Do not close your internet browser.
• Do not close the tab you were working in.
• Do not shutdown your computer.
• Do this as soon as possible.

Necessaries

^{These are the programs I used.}

• HxD Hex Editor
└ We won't be editing anything, just searching for and copying information.
• Notepad++
└ We will be using this to clean up our text.

The Process

^{Stay the course. Do not stray.}

• Run HxD Hex Editor as Administrator.

• Go to: Tools > Open Main Memory

• You will see a list of programs. You want to open yourbrowser.exe
└ Chrome likes to open a process for everything, so, we need to take an extra step to find the one we want. Pull up your
Chrome browser, and use [shift + esc] to open Chrome's task manager. Find the task with that iconic green "R" and scroll
the window towards the right, or stretch your dialogue box to make it bigger. You want the "Process ID", you will use this
number to know which chrome.exe you need to open with HxD Hex Editor.

• Take note of the giant chunk of information that has loaded, we will be sifting through this to find your text.

The Search

^{This can be the longest and most difficult part.}

• In HxD Hex Editor, go to: Search > Find
└ We will be looking for any word you can remember being in your post. Don't jump ahead, however.

• Make sure at the top of the new window you are under the "Text-string" tab.

• Make sure to have the following in place before running your search:
○ Options: change "(Editor Encoding)" to "Unicode (UTF-16 little endian)"
○ Search Direction: Check the bubble for "All"
○ Case sensitive: Optional, but I did not use it.
○ Search for: This is where you will input the word you want to find.

• Once everything is in place and you have your word, use "Search All".

• A search box should open in the bottom window showing your search results.
○ If you are getting too many results, trying picking less common words.
○ It can also help to search for two or three words that you know are together.
○ I found it was easiest to find parts bbcode I had written.


• Double-click on a search result, you should see the information in the window above change.
○ You may get many similar results. Some results will only be a few words or a single sentence, we want a large chunk of text.
○ Look at the column that says "Excerpt (text)" in your search results, this can help you locate your text faster.
○ After you locate a chunk of your text, you can one of the final few words in the chunk to search for the beginning of the next chunk.

• In the process memory, the window above your search results, you want to focus on the "Decoded Text" after double-clicking on a search result.
○ You are looking for the rough outline of your text.

Example

• Once you have located a piece of your text, highlight the whole chunk from beginning to end. Make sure to only focus on what's in the "Decoded Text" column, there's a lot there that you don't need, so only highlight the relevant text.
└ Start at the beginning of your text, drag across the text and work your way downwards until you get to the end of the relevant text.

Refinement

^{Now requiring 480% less manual deleting.}

• Once you have your chunk of text highlighted in HxD, go to: Edit > Copy

• Open Notepad++, go to: File > New

• Paste your copied text here, and then rinse and repeat the previous step until you have recovered all, or the bulk of your lost text.
└ Looks like garbage, right? Don't worry. We'll make this as easy as we can.

• You will likely have a strange character, like a question mark inside of a diamond, or empty box in-between each and every letter of your text. Highlight and copy one.

• In Notepad++ go to: Search > Replace. Paste your strange character in "Find what", and leave "Replace with" blank.

• Hit "Replace All" and Notepad++ should automagically erase the strange characters and smooosh your letters back together.

• Go to: Edit > Select All.

• Go to: Edit > Line Operations > Split Lines.

• Congratulations, you should now have something resembling your work back.
└ You will still need to do some minor cleanup, fixes, and reformatting.

Deadland Wasteland: Calling All Survivors (Looking for a few more.)

Character sheets are being tweaked. I will put them up as soon as I'm done with them.

If you're watching the thread, you can get another jump on some information. Here's your overview of shooty-bang-bangs and stuff.

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Weapons and Technology

Weaponry

•Projectile Systems•

•Ballistics: Handguns, Rifles, and Shotguns are common among the normal populace. Automatic Weaponry is much less common. Heavy Ordnance and Military Grade equipment are rare to come by naturally: Things such as Heavy Machine Guns, Explosives, Rocket and Grenade Launchers, and so forth. Ask the GM for a permit before acquiring. Despite these limitations, many things exist in a homemade form, often times referred to as "Scrap"/"Scrapper", as their origin primarily comes from spare parts, or scrap. Eg; "Scrap Pistol".

•Laser: Quite rare, and did not exist as a standard for conventional weaponry when the world ended. However, in the months leading up to mankind's end prototypes did exist. In the months after, Laser weaponry will see a rise in use, but some of these weapons and devices can be dangerous and unstable. The technology was primarily applied to practical utility use, which was common among the pre-era's industry. Such things as small laser cutters no bigger than a pen, human recognition interfaces, and other smaller tools such as laser tipped rods designed for punching holes through metal, or laser edged scalpels. Electromagnetic control is typically used to "bend" the laser and make it hold a shape.

•Plasma: Other than plasma cutting and welding, Plasma is a highly experimental form of weaponry. The most common application pre-era was use in a flamethrower type device, called the plasma thrower, wherein the flame was more like a hot, burning goo (that was also on fire). Actual "Plasma Guns" did not see use by the time civilization ended, though prototypes were developed.

•Grades of Ammunition•

•Scrap: Homemade rounds. Cheap, common, but weak. This also includes "Scrap Cells" for poorly made, shoddy laser weapons.

•Scavenged: Pre-era manufactured bullets and cells. Still leagues better than scrap.

•"Mako": A term construed from "Maker's Rounds", which in turn was a reference to Lani B. Maker: Who is accredited with being one of the first post-era manufacturers of actually decent bullets. Bullets that were so good, they were comparable to the Pre-era manufactured rounds. Nowadays, "Mako" refers to a higher quality of homemade bullet.

•Military: Military Grade Rounds and battery cells are scarce, and very expensive. The upside is that they are very powerful.

•Types of Ammunition•
^{If your character is only using standard ammunition, there's no need to clarify—It will be assumed.}

•AP Round: Armor Piercing; High velocity rounds with a strong tip, designed to penetrate through armored targets.

•HP Round: Hollow Point; Rounds with an indented tip, designed to create large, messy holes in softer targets.

•Incendiary Round: Pretty self explanatory, a bullet that can set flammable materials on fire.

•LC Cell: Low-Charge Battery Cell, for laser weaponry. Meant to stun, rather than kill.

I-Cell: Incendiary Battery Cell; the optical beam is emitted at such a high temperature that it can set targets on fire (Assuming you hit flammable material).

HC-Cell: A cell of highly concentrated power, meant to give laser weaponry armor piercing power.

Plasma Tank: A 2-gallon tank designed to fit Plasma Flamers, despite the smallish size it has a relatively good life for continual use.

•Other Weapons:

There are many other weapons within the world, but I will not list them all here (Yet). Use your creativity, dashed with some realism. For prototype or experimental guns just talk it over with me first. Also, it's alright to assume things exist within the world like; plasma grenades, shrapnel grenades, EMP weapons, pointy things on sticks, and etc.

Pre-Era Technology

•Energy•

•Solar: Solar energy collecting panels that became widespread by the end of the twenty-first century. Solar panels have become integrated into many homes and businesses, and have achieved a modern, compact design. Rather than an entire roof littered with them, smaller panels can be found strategically positioned to keep from being unsightly. Two or Three of these panels can easily power a home.

•Hydro-Electric: Turbines spun by underwater currents of the ocean produce large quantities of power, which paved the way for making fossil fuels obsolete. Large underwater plants are scattered along the coastlines, housing hundreds of these turbines.

•Power Plants: Electricity created through nuclear energy, methane, natural gas, coal, oil, etc, that turns water into steam to turn the turbines. Many of these methods were done away with in favor of hydro-electric power, more specifically the non-renewable sources.

•Wind Turbines: Another method of power collection that saw a popular rise in the earlier years of the twenty-first century. However, before they could really catch on and become produced en masse, hydro-electric power began trending and overtook the green energy movements. In reality, only a handful of "Wind Farms" exist across the U.S.

•Robotics and Cybernetics•

•Home A.I: An expensive and uncommon feature, the Home A.I can do just about anything when integrated into a home or business: From turning on the lights, to turning off the stove, it can lock your doors, open windows, regulate tempurate, keep an eye on your children, set calendar dates, take notes, give you reminders monitor vitals, and much more. The Home A.I is basically "Siri" for your house—But smarter and less sassy.

•Security: Unfortunately, there are no laser defense grids for your lawn, but most locks have been converted to ancient tumbler locks, to electronic locks that use key pins, laser eye recognition, fingerprint scanners, or even full body scans. Some security systems use a combination of these things. Fingerprint scanners were especially popular for personal storage, such as locked drawers, or briefcases. Tumbler locks are considered ancient, and are rarely found anywhere.

•Robots: Very rare, and even then they are generally not used by the public—Not since the "Personal Butler Uprising". However, automated robotics are widespread, such as assembling machines for manufacturing plants, and primarily only exist for industrial use. A person who owns an actual automaton with a functioning A.I is about the same as a pre-era rich guy buying endangered animals.

•Cybernetics: Advancements here have led to fully functional robotic limb and organs, for those who have lost their biological ones or simply desire an upgrade. The functionality ranges, and maintenance depends on the quality of the mechanical limb. Because of the complexity of these limbs, it's difficult to achieve things like inhuman strength, despite some higher quality models of limbs being quite strong. However, typically in higher end cybernetics there is some small amount of free space, so small tools and devices could be incorporated.

•Genomics and Medicine•

•Compound Pills: A compound is a pill designed to treat a wide range of problems at the same time, but contained in a single capsule. TYpically, these pills are geared towards their respective end of the medicinal spectrum. Vitapills pretty much cover your essential daily intake of vitamins and minerals, and those other oddball extracts and supplements that people were into. Immunizers updated your vaccines and helped prevent illness and disease. The crisis pill, used by emergency responders, included a combination of pain killers, antibiotics, coagulants, and etc to help stabilize patient en route to the hospital. A wide range of compound pills exist.

•Imagery: The enormous and bulky imaging devices for cat-scans and x-rays are a thing of the distant past. Now internal imaging devices, resembling slightly larger laptops, can be used on the fly and require no additional equipment. These "Scanners" come equipped with an extending pen sized wand which emits a laser curtain equal to the size of the wands length. The laser curtain is intended to be scanned over the body slowly, and depending on the selected mode, will produce the desired visuals on the scanner. The wand is also wireless, but has a short range, and requires only a few micro-cells.