Thane

Fallout: Apocalypse

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Fallout: Apocalypse

Duncan Ward

Name: Duncan Ward
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Faction: Dweller

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Backstory: Duncan was born in the year of 2075 in Denver, Colorado. He’s the son of Jessica Ward, an extremely talented engineer and scientist who worked on cryogenic engineering before and as it turned out after the war. His father John Ward was a decorated sergeant in the U.S army who was recruited by Vault-Tec whilst he was on leave. They had the connections to get him honourably discharged, offered to almost triple his salary, said they were willing to house his family in a vault if the worst came to pass and it meant he’d see his wife and son a hell of a lot more. It was a quadruple win. Both ended up working for Vault-Tec and when the nukes dropped on October 23rd, 2077 they were all already housed safely inside the vault.

The family was frozen and defrosted (ha!) periodically over the next 150 years and as promised they were always kept active (unfrozen) and inactive (asleep/frozen) at the same times. John became one of the vault security guards and later a security chief, his military skills making him highly efficient in both positions. His mom worked on the cryogenic functions of the vault, making sure everything kept working as it should and occasionally helping with other scientific endeavors.

Duncan grew up spending equal amounts of time with both of his parents. His mom taught him the basics of engineering and science and instilled a love of knowledge and learning into the boy. His father for his part made sure his son grew up disciplined and strong. Duncan respected both as people and although he would occasionally rebel he did very much love and appreciate them. He excelled in the classroom but ultimately wanted to become a security officer like his father. He loved weapons, enjoying reading about them and tinkering on them. His father taught him how to maintain them as well, although he never actually shot one. He also loved how his dad got to know everyone in the vault and wanted the same in his line of employment. Unfortunately for him his own academic success worked against him. The Overseer argued that making someone so obviously intelligent a mere guard would be a waste of resources, so Duncan was assigned to instead be his mother's apprentice.

He was disappointed for a while, but soon learned to love his work. It was important stuff after all, he was training to be one of the people who made it possible for families to stay together over the long years and would help keep those with extreme talent and genius alive for centuries. Luckily for him he was also allowed to do part time weapon repairs, something he loved. He found it peaceful, ironically.

When the team for the Arc-Prime mission was assembled he insisted he be on it. His combined intellectual and practical talents as well as his young age and relative physical fitness making him an ideal candidate.

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Special Skills:
S: 5
P: 5
E: 7
C: 5
I: 8
A: 6
L: 5

Equipment/Gear:
10mm Pistol
50 10mm Rounds
Combat Knife
5 Stimpacks
3 Rad-a-Way
Reinforced Vault Suit
Respirator
3 Bottles of Water
2 Ration Packs
Pip-Boy 3000-D (Equipped with Sonar Upgrade)
Weapon Repair Kit
Guns and Bullets (Book)
Deans Electronics (Book)

Strengths:

Intellect
Adaptability
Love of Learning/Curiosity

Weaknesses:

Naivety
Idealistic
Reckless
Soft Hearted
Temperamental

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<Snipped quote by Thane>

My absolute favourite Speech check is the one in FN:V When you convince the Legion General to go home without fighting. It's such a perfect demonstration of what 100 speech actually means.

@Dannyrulx

Agreed, that is an amazing moment. You can do the same thing with the NCR general too.

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

Kas’ face lit up brightly as the girl hugged him. She was very beautiful after all and an almost extraordinarily sweet person. The thuggish and usually on edge lad let himself drift into the comfort of her embrace, wrapping his own arms around her and briefly letting his eyes close. It seemed to last for quite a while but when they parted still he wished it had lasted far longer. Smiling he massaged the back of his neck, somewhat embarrassed. He was nervous those around could tell how many shields he had just accidentally lowered, it was like his mind had an army on guard and for a few moments she’d somehow made them all stand down.

“That was better than some of the sex I’ve had.” He chuckled, trying to cover some of what he perceived to be his vulnerabilities.

The next moment Amelia came up, hugging Ezera tightly and crying. Kas only got quick looks at her throughout the day but it was obvious there were bruises on her, faded slightly but most definitely there. His mind immediately went back to what they’d discussed yesterday and it seemed the only logical answer to him. One day, no bruises, the next, he’s back, bruises. The fucking asshole moved fast. Although he’d never seen him and he had no idea what he looked like Kas saw himself stabbing him, piercing his abdomen multiple times with a large hunting knife. He saw himself running him over, powering through him with a car and leaving him to die in the road. He saw himself raising up a handgun and squeezing the trigger until the gun clicked empty. Suffice to say, rage was boiling inside of him.

“What the fuck happened to your face!?” He demanded, although reckoning he already knew the answer. Before he could get one though yet another girl came over and almost immediately started arguing with Amelia.

“Oh for fuck sake, I’ll find out later.” Kas said annoyed, intending to either text Amelia or meet up with her later to get some answers once crap calmed down some. “I’m good in a dogfight, but even man like me back up when it comes to catfights.” He spoke to no one in particular, quickly recovering from the darkness in the moods.

“I don’t suppose you know what the hell this is about?” He asked, catching Poetry’s eye when she glanced over at him.

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Well, there goes my high Charisma character...

@Dannyrulx

If the reason's solely that there is another one now I don't think that's a reason to not make the character you want. After all it's mostly your writing/what your character actually says that will appeal to characters/NPC's. There may be people that are more influenced by your character than by the others just because they don't like something about our other "speech" character for some reason. They might also just respect yours more or find him more convincing at the time. It doesn't really matter how high your charisma is, if you were to write some unconvincing shizz I doubt it'd matter, which is why I always tend to keep that stat low in these games. I don't want to write something others think is unconvincing and then be like "but his speech is 60!". Haha.

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

Hey guys. Sorry about this but I think I'm going to have to drop this RP. Due to some things, this RP has begun to put me off a bit and I've lost my interest. It's still a great RP with an awesome GM though so I hope you guys have it last a long time!

@sakurasan

Aw, sad to see you go. I love your writing. Good luck whatever's next. :)

To all others, I should be able to get a post up sometime tomorrow. Today I've gotta accompany my girlfriend to her moms to discuss center pieces or some such craziness.

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@Legion-114

Am I able to make a ghoul?

@NecroKnight

I believe so since you're allowed characters from outside the vault and since it's only a hundred years after the Great War I imagine a lot of places are still highly irradiated so you could go with either a pre-war or post-war ghoul.

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@Thane I can't figure out my details lol I'm not great at full length BIOS

@KiritoAsuna

Depends on the character for me. Some I go into insane amounts of detail, others are pretty brief depending on the circumstances of their background and such.

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I'm officially a failure I'm stuck on my back story T-T

@KiritoAsuna

I was for a while too.

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

Oh, I am so cruel. If ya want to know why then dig through these hiders.

Seriously though. You really want to know?

It involves Sadie.

Derek to.

And possible science fair teams

Fine I guess I'll let you know my evil thought.

after the one after this one

Here we go.

JOHN CENA

jk

My evil thought was that if Sadie and Derek ended up in the same group, and none of Saide's friends were in the group or people willing to stand up against Derek. I'm evil.

@alexfangtalon

That was a shit ton of hiders. You're evil for several reasons now.