Believe it or not, this is another RP story, but it's more of a miniature RP, as it isn't about an entire world. Warning: The contents of this story may be overly cliche for most people.
[spoiler=Prologue]
Prologue
In April, 2004, a top secret underground military installation in Ukraine has suddenly gone quiet and lost contact. The last decipherable message from the compound was from the head scientist, Dr. Sergey Ivanovich Virkov, on March 23
rd, 2004, stating that everything was either going well or mostly well before the messages turned to crazed mumblings of an unknown scientist who seemed to have thought that the communications center was a journal log, shortly before contact was lost altogether. Two weeks later a group of international special forces soldiers would be dispatched to investigate after a team of soldiers didn't report back after being sent inside the complex. The Ukrainian government is planning to destroy the facility if the other team of soldiers doesn't return, as to not allow any evidence of the experiments that were brewing inside to the public in any way, as they fear the effect of this getting out into the public would cause a problem for the government far greater than the Chernobyl project ever did.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Rules]1. Do not use offensive language unless in dialogue, but try to keep even that at a minimum.
2. Do not try to offend anyone's country or any country in general.
3. While the other RPs were against character control, this one is a bit different, since we are working as a team most of the time, so tactics, battles, and some conversations (as long as they portrait the other team members accurately) can have character control.
4. No team members get killed unless they agree to it (this would be part of character control, but this should be stressed).
5. Have correct grammar (at least understandable will do).
6. Make sense when you write, as in, don't spoil dramatic or eerie sequences by making a monster or something jump out of nowhere, unless that's what the moment is about.[/spoiler]
Alright, anyone who wants to have a crack at this, send me a PM with the character form below filled out.
[spoiler=Character Form]Name:
Codename (optional):
Appearance:
Nationality:
Previous Special Forces Experience (S.A.S., Spetsnaz, Green Berets, etc.):
Personality:
Skills:
Equipment:[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Characters][spoiler=Duskling]Name: Alexander (Sasha) Volkov
Codename: Tiger
Appearance: Average Height, Blue-Grey eyes, Ash-Black hair
Nationality: Russian
Previous Experience: 7 years with the Spetsnaz
Personality: Brutally honest with criticism, very precise with his words and his shots.
Skills: Advanced vision and hearing, lock-picking, and above-average reflexes.
Equipment: Main Weapon: Scoped AK-74 with 10 clips, 30 5.45x39mm rounds per clip, modified to use many ammunition types, Secondary Weapon: Dual
Skorpion vz. 61 Es with 10 clips each, 20 .32 ACP rounds per clip, also modified, Comlink, 7 F1 Grenades, Claymore Mines, Ballistic Knife, Flashlight, and a portable PDA (for listing objectives).
[/spoiler][spoiler=Zackirus]Name: William Poter
Codename: Darkness
Nationality: Canadian
Previous Special Forces Experience: CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service)
Personality: Often remains quiet, only talks when he believes it is necessary, and when he does usually in short 1-3 words
Apperance: He is around 26 years old but he has been training as a CSIS member since he was 14. He has blondish grey hair and electric blue eyes.
Skills: Sniping, Hacking/Electronics, Moving Silently, Increased Precision
Equipment: M93 Black Arrow with Optical Slight (x8 Magnification with the division up to 1,800 m), Mark XIX Desert Eagle (x2) with Laser Dot Sights,
Portable Military PDA with Hack Device[/spoiler][spoiler=Namelesskitty]Name: Cassiopia
Codename: Klael
Previous exp/training: ASIS trained especially in the art of sabotage and the use of poisions.
Skills: can do anything with poision as well as work out mechanisims in seconds
Equipment: three dart guns and various other toxins, a welding torch, desert eagle.
Personality: irritable to say the least, but tolerent until the point where she breaks everyone's necks.
Appearence: she is about 23 with shoulder length brown hair, she stands 5'7'' and is of middle eastern descent.[/spoiler][spoiler=Duckling]Nikolai Djarim
Codename: Tesla
Nationality: Georgia, Russian Birth
Previous Special Forces/Military Service: GSADF; Georgian Special Air Defense Forces
Personality: Quiet, stares off into space a lot, but during duty is fully there and attentive; has a strong sense of justice and rightness, possibly strong enough to be used for comic effect. Talks and opens up around friends.
Appearance: 23 yrs old, dirty blond wavy hair, medium height, and just muscular enough to get through basic training.
Skills: Piloting, Guided Missile systems, Gun support (artillery, tanks, gunships), and throwing knives (almost as good as Niven). And poisons.
Equipment: Throwing knives x 5, poison kit (for on the knives), Uzi with silencer. And whatever airship the government gives him.[/spoiler][/spoiler]
Hopefully this will have some more visitors at some point. :)
Perhaps the soldiers should have a codename, rather than a name.
Done. Any more ideas?
My Character
Name: William Poter
Codename: Darkness
Nationality: Canadian
Previous Special Forces Experience: CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service)
Personality: Often remains quiet, only talks when he believes it is necessary, and when he does usually in short 1-3 words
Apperance: He is around 26 years old but he has been training as a CSIS member since he was 14. He has blondish grey hair and electric blue eyes.
Skills: Sniping, Hacking/Electronics, Moving Silently, Increased Precision
Equipment: M93 Black Arrow with Optical Slight (x8 Magnification with the division up to 1,800 m), Mark XIX Desert Eagle (x2) with Laser Dot Sights, Portable Military PDA with Hack Device
OOC: Also, Where are we going to start, we will each us get recruited or will we start in the base preparing to go on our mission.
Suggestion: why don't you keep a record of characters on the first post since you asked for PMs.
Zack: We are going to start two weeks before the incident, just back from our latest mission, getting ready for something that the Ukrainian government told us is top secret and to prepare for the mission, since some other soldiers didn't come back. During that period of time, we will be training harder than usual, since we know that top secret government missions are much tougher than regular missions, and we might get some new members on the team, in case anyone else wants to join when we start the story.
Namelesskitty: Alright, I will include the character list, give me a second.
Update: Character list added, sorry for the wait, it takes a while.
Qhy don't you kick this off duskling, then others will join but we can start off now
I can't, we need at least four people to start this off, at least one person to talk to during training for each person, even if Zack's character doesn't talk much.
I'll try to draw people in.
But rxactly why do we need four?
Quote from: The Holy namelesskitty on September 06, 2010, 09:59:15 PM
I'll try to draw people in.
But rxactly why do we need four?
Please read the comment above yours, but in case you don't get it, we have to converse with each other, such as what do we think about the mission, what is it about, why is it so secret, and how will it turn out. Things like that.
Yes but why do we need four for that?
For individual conversation, as in there is Person1, Person2, Person3, and Person4. I want it to be so that Person1 could talk to Person2 while Person3 is talking to Person4, not an entire group dialogue.
Ahhh that makes sense, I wasn't opposed to the idea, just wondering why.
I'll join:
Nikolai Djarim
Codename: Tesla
Nationality: Georgia, Russian Birth (excuse me if I get stuff wrong about the region
Previous Special Forces/Military Service: GSADF; Georgian Special Air Defense Forces
Personality: Quiet, stares off into space a lot, but during duty is fully there and attentive; has a strong sense of justice and rightness, possibly strong enough to be used for comic effect. Talks and opens up around friends.
Appearance: 23 yrs old, dirty blond wavy hair, medium height, and just muscular enough to get through basic training.
Skills: Piloting, Guided Missile systems, Gun support (artillery, tanks, gunships), and throwing knives (almost as good as Niven). And poisons.
Equipment: Throwing knives x 5, poison kit (for on the knives), Uzi with silencer. And whatever airship the government gives him.
I'm changing my codename to klael before we pfficially start, hootsy, now we have four players and can stem from there.
OOC: I'll keep my word, let's begin! :)
IC: Alexander was not surprised the special team that included him was to be sent on this mission, nor was he confused about how the government was silent to them about it, they always are. Taking a look at his modified AK-74, he noticed a small scratch. Promptly rubbing out the single scratch, he went over to Cassiopia, wondering how she was planning to save their skins if something went too wrong this time.
"So," Tiger began, with a slight Slavic accent, "How is our poisons expert feeling about the usual 'Top secret government affair?'"
OOC: Houston, we have lift-off! :D
Cassiopia sighed and turned towards the approaching figure, "I'll figure out how to save your sorry asses when you need it, until then I'll just cover up your mistakes, after all, what is special recconissance for?"
Cassiopia felt a pang in her gut, this always happened when there was troube about to happen, it made her snappu, well more so than normal. Oh and you better get in the habit of calling me Klael, if you screw up, we're all dead, but trust me you'll be the first to go, because you are a suspicious figure if I've ever seen one, trust me, I have." this happened when she was anxious, she became all business. " but that's nothing new, why'd they pick you soldior? You the least likely to screw us all?" she said in a jalf hearted attempt to lighten the exchange.
"Very funny," said the Russian, dryly, "But, if I'm here, I'm useful, just like everyone else here, speaking of which, Tesla! Is the gunship up and running yet?"
"what? Oh yeah it it."
"He's a bit spacy huh" cassiopia noted, "why do you need it anyways?"
Quote from: The Holy namelesskitty on September 08, 2010, 09:06:54 PM
"what? Oh yeah it it."
You can control Duckling's character if, and only if, he isn't online. In a combat situation we can take turns with perspectives.
"All systems operational, except for ejector seat, because someone spilled brain fluid... erm coffee on the button. Gunnery online," replied Nikolai. "But I'm not buffing her up. What you'd need for that is one of them Karate Kids. 'Wax on, wax off.' Anyone find out the exact details of the mission yet? 'Cause I've got to run different systems checks depending on the mission. If it's a standard 'hit, run, and blow the whole damn place sky high' job, you wouldn't want the ship all fine-tuned for minigun support, now wouldya?"
OOC: I'm going to bed. I have a new, earlier, self-enforced bedtime, as I'm not getting enough sleep.
I think we're supposed to go in and neuteralize it.
"Whaddya mean, 'neutralize it'? Does that mean take out the whole area? Take out the individuals? Was I not filled in on something?" shot back Djarim.
OOC: Have we been filled in yet?
"We need you to drop us off at the place, a government plane or chopper would be too noticeable compared to ours, keep watch outside, we'll call you in if we need you, if anyone, or anything, for that matter, escapes and it's not us, I want it filled with lead," Tiger replied to Tesla, "Also, we might need to have a 'Big Bang' type of bomb attached to it if it gets too hot and we can't get out, or if we're dead already, I want you to blow the place sky high."
OOC: As soon as Zack comes online and responds in some way, we'll be good to go.
"What ever it is I don't like it, it makes me feel like there's a redback crawling on my face, we don't know what's in there and we're just gonna march in, for all we Know it's a trap set to catch us, we all do have a bit of stuff we'd rather not let anyone know about" snapped cassiopia impatiently, "if anything gets in, I will rip your Body to shreds while your soul watches in the afterlife. You got that Telsa"
Telsa looked shocked
Tiger shot cassiopia a harsh glance, and interjected "she says that to rveryone, pay it no mind."
OOC: sorry, but I felt that your reactions were important for the scene at hand.
William walked into the corridor right outside the room after he finished his sniping practice. He heard voices and quicken his pace as they he had seen any of them for around 2 days. When he entered the room, Cassiopia turned her head towards him and snorted "Oh look, one more person I have to save.". William raised one eyebrow but Alexander quickly replied "She says that to everyone about everything." William shrugged his soldiers and looked at the gunship. Not his style but he would have to deal with it. He sat down in one of the chairs and pulled out the first book in the dark-tower series and started to read. He was wasting time until they had to go to the base.
as William took his seat next to her, Cassiopia sighed and told Telsa "c'mon flyboy, let's get this show on the road, the sooner we touch down the sooner my head'll stop spinning."
"It's not going to be easy; I mean, it's not like they put out a welcome map or a helipad outside the front door. I'm going to have to land you guys at a flat area a couple of miles away from the target point, so it's going to be a bit of a hike. Did everyone go to the bathroom beforehand? If you did, get in. It's gonna be a bumpy ride."
OOC: So we're taking off now, are we? I'll retract my post if I have my timeline wrong.
OOC: no , you're fine
"Alright," Tiger said eagerly as he boarded the gunship, "Let's get this party started!"
Nikolai started up the chopper with a humorous warning to keep our seat belts on, to which Klael responded with sarcasm, and then the chopper was in the air.
"could you please shut the doors now?" klael pleaded, "I just, am afraid someone will wall out." Klael saved herself.
"oh, you're afraid for us, how sweet." William inserted, his voice dripping with sarcasm. There was the heated silence of somebody counting to ten very slowly.
"ok, I'm afraid of heights, what do you make of it." Cassiopia snapped, in her usual tone of loathing.
"so you're saying not to do this? Said Telsa.
"no no, PLEASE!" shouted Cassiopia, just as Telsa was preparing for a barrel roll."
There was a fit of laughter from the cockpit in front of her, "that better be coughing I hear" cassiopia growled, much to the amusment of the rest of the team.
"So," Nikolai asked, easing the chopper forward, "this is some weird job, right? I mean, one day I was working for the GSADF, and the next I got this weird formal request, saying it was accepting by reputation only. I would have never heard of me were I not myself; would you have?" he asked Tiger.
OOC: I forget; what're people's names and codenames? I know Duskling is Tiger, Holy Kitty is Cassiopia, Zack is William, but what are Kitty's and Zack's codenames?
Klael, 5 awesome points to the first to guess where I got the name, hint I changed a letter butit still looks the same.
OOC: Thanks. I feel more filled in.
OOC: Zack's is Darkness.
"Nope," answered Sasha, "Probably not; say, are we there yet? I'm dyin' to find out what this is all about."
"I'm not, this whole thing gives me the willies" said Klael
"Oh lighten up!" Tiger told Klael, "It can't be that bad, and even if it is, we weren't chosen because we couldn't handle it."
"that's where I think you're wrong, this all smells like an assassination" said Klael "someone wants us dead"
"That's where I think you're being overzealous," Tiger replied, "I don't think the Ukrainian government would risk horrible publicity and another region-wide screw-up just to kill us, especially after Chernobyl."
"Alright, but you don't know who I've offended, and weirder things have happened"
"I don't want to know who you've offended before," laughed Tiger, now changing the subject, "Tesla, are we there yet?"
OOC: I've got some work to do, so don't expect many more posts today.
OCC: William doesn't talk much, and when he does he only talks in 1-3 words
IC: William eased back into his seat in the gunship and listened in on Tiger's and Klael's fighting. He thought to himself: Why would the Ukrainian government be tyring to kill us, I have only been to the Ukraine once and during that time I killed some Chicago Mob Boss. He closed his eyes and heard Tesla yelling, "Okay were are at the drop zone!". The gunship suddenly slowed down and landed in a small field with the dull long grass. William hopped out and sprinted to one of the hills that surrounded the field and took out his sniper rifle. He zoomed in and surveyed the base. Their was no sign of damage or sign of forced entry. Its lights still remained on however. William took out his PDA and sent his findings via message to everyone PDA to avoid yelling and attracting attention. He also emailed he would watch everyone from the rear and meet up with them at the front of the base.
OOC: thanks, for the help that'll help us make better character control if needed, Klael's default is a snappy comeback, cold calculation, or an insult marinated in sarcasm.
IC: as soon as Klael stepped out of the plane, she took out her faintly pinging Geiger Counter (which was not mentioned in her bio on accident) and checked it, there was a large source to her left rear. "this way, of course" she informed the others who were heading to her left.
"what makes you sure? asked Telsa
"Gee, I guess that there are tons of excessively radioactive facilities within two miles, wait, no there aren't. You can fly that piece of metal, but on the ground you listen to me when I say where to go, got it?"
the rest of the hike went smoothly, until an unnatural clearing of shredded trees, gravelized rocks, and upturned turf.
"one got out, or more" said darkness calmly
"no sh*t sherlock!" Klael replied.
Their impending argument was cut of by the most horrifying sound that they could hear, the snapping of a tree.
OCC: Kitty: First of all, I don't talk! Second, I was the rear guard remember! I think you meant Tiger!
"I might have," said namelesskitty, "so, sorry, yes, that's what I mean."
Name: Jace Belaran
Codename (optional): Rainen
Appearance: dark blue hair (dyed) eyes the color of the ocean and about 5'8" with a muscular build, emphasized on his arms
Nationality: Austrian
Previous Special Forces Experience (S.A.S., Spetsnaz, Green Berets, etc.): Private assassin
Personality: prone to drastic mood changes (only normal to angry then right back to normal again, normal being however he was feeling), has a sharp tongue and quotes many many things.
Skills: extremely skilled with sword play as well as almost inhuman sprinting speeds. Has amazing accuracy with his side arms.
Equipment:A back pack that has straps that are held together with heavy duty snaps for easy removal. it has a supply of ammo for his two types of guns, smoke bombs, small scale white phosphorous grenades and various electronic devices, two katanas kept in an X shape between his backpack and back, one Austrian Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Magnum with special explosive rounds (the bullets are about the size of your middle finger so i think this would be realistic. The gun itself is freakin huge too) that is holstered onto a specially made belt with extra ammo. He also owns two smaller handguns with special rounds coated with a chemical that induces paralysis that are holstered on his backpack
IC: Jace walked out over to his kill and smiled at the creature that was now missing most of its chest. He walked around a little and laughed at the fact that the trees in the area were rotted. He looked out past the miniature forest and saw a small group of people starring in his general direction. Those must be the people the big guys sent. He reached into a side pocket on his pack and pulled out a small transmitter that was sent to send an unencrypted message to any electronic device. The message simply said, "I am part of an SF unit tasked to protect this facility."
Quote from: rainen on September 10, 2010, 08:46:25 PM
IC: Jace walked out over to his kill and smiled at the creature that was now missing most of its chest. He walked around a little and laughed at the fact that the trees in the area were rotted. He looked out past the miniature forest and saw a small group of people starring in his general direction. Those must be the people the big guys sent. He reached into a side pocket on his pack and pulled out a small transmitter that was sent to send an unencrypted message to any electronic device. The message simply said, "I am part of an SF unit tasked to protect this facility."
Erm... I don't think any of you are quite getting the story, nobody is
calm in that facility. Everyone who was stationed at the facility before is either crazy or dead. I don't think I explained that well enough, but I think that "the facility lost contact" should be clue enough. Also, none of the creatures escaped, at least not yet, they're all inside the facility, which runs underground, so they shouldn't be outside. So, I think everyone should, very carefully, read the first page to see everyone's personalities and the prologue, just about all of you that included the facility in your parts of the story got it wrong, just follow my lead. Plus, rainen, I don't understand what you are protecting the facility from, us? If you want to join, you'll have to blend into the story, not just "I shot this beast and now I see the main characters." Sorry if this sounded harsh, but you guys want to continue posting here, you should read the back-story first.
lost contact doesn't mean everybody is crazy... lost contact also doesn't mean everybody is dead either. Lost contact just simply means, no messages have been received from a certain area. I read the back story before i posted and i read every singe post after that as well. Nothing in any of it told me that everybody was dead or crazy or that the monsters didn't get out of the facility yet. If you want to change the story to emphasize those facts then just do it now to prevent confusion later. If it happens now it will undoubtedly happen later.
Just, follow his lead, perhaps you destroyed the trees in a fit of rage instead.
Quote from: rainen on September 11, 2010, 08:08:00 AM
lost contact doesn't mean everybody is crazy... lost contact also doesn't mean everybody is dead either. Lost contact just simply means, no messages have been received from a certain area. I read the back story before i posted and i read every singe post after that as well. Nothing in any of it told me that everybody was dead or crazy or that the monsters didn't get out of the facility yet. If you want to change the story to emphasize those facts then just do it now to prevent confusion later. If it happens now it will undoubtedly happen later.
This just isn't going to go well. Especially since everyone intends to get to the action right away. Story canceled, everyone just forget about this.