A Story of the Commonwealth: OOC Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:24 pmA Story of the Commonwealth
The year is 2287 and the Commonwealth is a dangerous place. Though scant years ago a promising alliance had formed, uniting the many small settlements, today those settlements and the unfortunates who call themselves settlers are but oases in a vast and deadly wasteland. From all angles they are beset by all manner of hostile life. Animal, mutant, mechanical, and, perhaps most dangerous, human. All societies must protect themselves to flourish, so it is and so it has always been because man, man never changes.
Your Involvement
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We begin in and about the settlement of Sanctuary. Perhaps you are a vault dweller, as rumor has it one or more have been seen coming from Vault 111, perhaps your settlement has been overrun, escaped slave, synth, under cover raider? It is difficult to tell. You never know who you can trust these days. You're certainly no Brotherhood soldier, given your lack of Power Armor. Can't be Institute, given that you're not hunkered down in your bunker, wherever the hell that is. Can't be a Synth...you're not a Synth are you? Ahh but that's just what a Synth WOULD say. I've got my eye on you stranger.
Whoever, and whatever, you are, there's not much out here for the taking. You want a safe place to lay your head? You want to make a change, even a minute one, to this wasteland? I have nothing to give you, but you're gonna need some friends. It's not safe to go alone. So then, tell me, just who are you?
My Involvement
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For this RP I will be the GM, that is Game Master. Here are the three basic roles of a GM.
GM's are not required to do math, its in the Constitution.
- Author
- Director
- Referee
- Manager
In this instance, and in most RPs here, I'm not really the author, you all are. I'll do a bit of directing in the form of throwing encounters at you from time to time and Refereeing, if and when disputes arise. For the most part I'll RP as a character in one of the settlements and occasionally RP as a raider or trader or what-have-you. If this RP makes it to a full on Settlement, Faction, or Nation RP things will likely change.
Three Simple Rules
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1. No Ubering or God-Modding or Character Controlling or Meta-Gaming, Just No
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Your character is not the Vault Dweller/Chosen One/Warrior/Lone Wanderer/Courier/Sole Survivor.
Your character IS not so good at anything, let alone everything, that he/she doesn't need help. If you begin to venture into this territory a GM will let you know by PM, that'd be me. This shouldn't be an issue as long as there's give and take. Even a very Intelligent character doesn't know everything. Character Controlling and Meta-Gaming are more difficult to define, but if you feel like something you or someone else is doing is a little sketchy you're probably seeing one or the other. Essentially your freedom ends where it constricts another player's freedom.
2. Help Out the GM, Make Him Obsolete.
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Like the old posters said, "If you see something, say something," but then also "Loose lips sink ships."
So if you have a problem with something someone does try to work it out with them. If you just can't come to an agreement let me know. It's preferable to settle everything via PM, don't clog up the OOC with arguments, but if it comes down to it send me a PM.
3. Be a Pal, Put Effort Into Your Posts
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Everyone makes mistakes and that's fine, but if you don't have the time to think out a good response of at least a few paragraphs, please just refrain from posting until you do. If you do have the time to think out a good response, please, present it in the best manner possible. Use spell check, read through it once before posting, read through it again after posting. From time to time everyone makes mistakes or just has time enough for a quick short post, just please don't make a habit of it. I edit my stuff a million times to fix grammatical and spelling errors, and I still miss stuff.
Players and Characters
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Player Name Character Name
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Colonel Martyr Martin Ruriksson
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Name: Martin Ruriksson
Age: 263 years old
Race: Caucasian/Ghoul
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8 bordering on 5'9
Build: Average build with slight toning, but nothing notable.
Hair Color: Brown (What's left of it.)
Hair Style: Combed back with patches missing of his hair.
Skin Color: Formerly white
Eye Color: Formerly blue (now murky like most ghouls)
Crazy Ewok Jayson Venner
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Name: Jayson Venner
Age: 34
Race: Asian / Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9”
Build: Stocky
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Ronin
Skin Color: Tan
Eye Color: Blue
Facial Hair Style: None
Belongings: A .38 automatic pipe pistol, trench knife w/ round knuckle guard, khaki cargo pants w/ medical brace over the right leg, worn blue button up shirt, stained gray cotton trenchcoat, beige trilby hat, black rim eyeglasses, large filled green canvas backpack w/ bedroll on bottom & water canteen and bottle of bourbon on side pouches
Crazy Ewok Arthur
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Name: Arthur
Age: Indeterminate
Race: Protectron w/ Mister Handy software
Gender: Male
Height: 5'6"
Build: According to company standards
Skin Color: Burnished blue shell, white coloring at the joints
Eye Color: Green optic sensors behind the transparent faceplate
Belongings: 2 Built-in arm mounted lasers, leather harness to hitch to a wagon, flatbed wagon loaded w/ footlockers
DG_Nacho Shane Crowell
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Name: Shawn Crowell
Age: 28
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 5’11
Build: Very fit
Appearances: https://s-media-cach...fcbc759cb39.jpg
MINUS ALL GEAR (grenades, weapons, patches on clothes, etc.)
Belongings: small backpack, 1 bottle of water, 1 bottle of whiskey, gas mask, combat knife, drawing of home
Fisheye98 Alex Lantry
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Name: Alex Lantry
Age: Appears to be 26
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9
Build: Slim, almost to the point of appearing unhealthy
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Hair Style: Shoulder-length and straight
Skin Color: Pale, starting to appear sun-burnt
Eye Color: Dark Blue
Facial Hair Style: None
Facial Hair Color: None
Lt. Andronicus Robert Elmsley
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Name: Robert Elmsley
Age: 30
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1
Build: Average, the wasteland tends to keep one fit and trim.
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Hair Style: Scruffy and Unkempt.
Skin Color: White, but pock-marked with dirt and grime, and tanned from the wasteland sun.
Eye Color: Brown
Facial Hair Style: A full, unkempt beard.
Belongings: Farmhand clothes, a hardhat, a pipe revolver, a toolbox, and a pack of cigarettes
Lt. Andronicus Dorothy Elmsley
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Name: Dorothy Elmsley
Age: 27
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Height: 5-4
Build: Petite
Hair Color: Red
Hair Style: Long and typically unkempt. Wasteland-style.
Skin Color: "Wastelander," often she appears sun-burnt due to her light complexion. Her face is covered in freckles.
Eye Color: Hazel
Belongings: A Ratty Skirt, a common Hunting Rifle, and a few miscellaneous odds and ends
Magus the Red Malcolm Grant
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Name: Malcolm Grant
Age: 47
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 5ft 11inches
Build: Thin, but slightly muscled(Though the muscles are fading owing to lack of nourishment and whatnot)
Hair Color: Black, with greying.
Hair Style: I'm going to be lazy and say this.
Skin Color: Tanned and Weatherbeaten.
Eye Color: Hazel.
Facial Hair Style: Stubble, hasn't shaved in around two weeks.
Belongings: Green Shirt and Combat Boots, Brown greatcoat, Mining Helmet, Army Haversack and khaki messenger bag, Medical kit, Combat knife, open razor and a Laser Pistol(Down to it's last Energy cell). And the usual water and food.
Mr.SmileySmile Buford Tannen
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Name: Buford Tannen
Age: 31
Race: Wasteland Mutt
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1
Build: Little Bit Heavy
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Style: Buzzed
Skin Color: Tanned and Burnt
Eye Color: Brown
Facial Hair Style: Long Mustache
Belongings: A .308 Pipe Repeater Rifle, a length of Rebar, a mostly empty backpack, jeans, a green and black flannel shirt, tan jacket, and a sleeping bag.
Mr.SmileySmile Emily Tannen
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Name: Emily Tannen
Age: 8
Race: Wasteland Mutt
Gender: Female
Height: 4'2
Build: Thin
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Messy
Skin Color: Tanned and Burnt
Eye Color: Brown
Belongings: An old doll, a .38 Pipe Repeater Pistol, a backpack, a reddish brown jacket, and a sleeping bag
Paladin Lewis John Cooper
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Name: John Cooper
Age: 32
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 6’2
Build: Average Build, scarred left eye (seemlying from an energy weapon) and Hands (seemlying from a gunshot)
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Scruffy Clean Cut
Skin Color: Light Tan
Eye Color: Hazel
Facial Hair Style: Unshaven
Belongings: .44 Magnum and a few rounds, a broken Pip Boy, a length of rope, brown leather jacket, blue flannel shirt, faded jeans, socks and boots
Prizrak232 Laura "Jackal" Arlington
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Name: Laura "Jackal" Arlington
Age: 29
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 11”
Build: A thin petite build.
Hair Color: Silver
Hair Style: Wendy the Welder
Skin Color: Pale white
Eye Color: Silver
Belongings: Gunner harness worn underneath a dark blue air force officers trench coat. Black military combat boots, eyeglasses, her dog tags, and a dark blue air-force officers beret. She carries most of her gear in a dark gray military sea bag and a green satchel. Most of her gear contains a first aid kit, technological scrap, assorted food and water. 7 fully loaded 30 round .308 magazines for her rifle, as well as roughly 100 rounds of loose .308 rounds. Her primary weapon is a .308 Chinese Assault rifle, with a reflex sight, fore grip, and flash suppressor. When not in use she wears in on a sling over her shoulder. She also has a custom pip boy that she stripped out of it's casing, and now wears it on a cable connected to her belt instead of on her wrist.
Sacredless Naval Santiago
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Name: Naval Santiago
Age: 27
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 5'8''
Build: Athletic
Hair Color: Jet Black
Hair Style: 9 to 5 / Waster
Skin Color: Olive
Eye Color: Brown
Facial Hair Style: Goatee & Stubble
Belongings: A Bi-Fold Chinese Officer's Sword, a Military Cap, Dirty Black Suit, a Tire Iron, a Pip Rifle, and Pocketed Leather Chest Armor
Sacredless Ellie Lane
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Name: Ellie Laine
Age: 23
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6''
Build: Frail from a sheltered, then impoverish lifestyle with little exercise
Hair Color: Brunette
Hair Style: Summa C. Laude
Skin Color: White
Eye Color: Blue
Belongings: Fatigues, Summer Shorts, Low Range Portable Radio Transmission Set, Snubnosed .44 Pistol
Tundrafrog Helen
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Name: Helen
Age: 40
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Height: 5'9"
Build: Helen has a slight but strong build.
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Slightly past her shoulder and curly, she keeps it braided or tied back most of the time.
Skin color: Wasteland brown
Eye Color: Blue
Belongings: She wears a black, tattered and hooded robe over a few loose rags and long johns. Helen wears worn boots and a knap-sack and satchel.
Vatrou Bufftats
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Name: Bufftats
Age: 36
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 6ft tends to slouch so he seems a tad shorter.
Build: Though he looks scrawny most of his body well toned.
Hair Color: Blue
Hair Style: Has a combed over mohawk that lays towards the right of his skull.
Skin Color: Tanned and filthy
Eye Color: Green
Facial Hair Style: Clean Shaven
Belongings: Raider leathers, a baseball bat and a pipe pistol. Everything else would appear to be in a worn duffel bag.
How to Make Character Sheets
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The Simple Character Sheet is so that everyone knows just what they would know about your character from seeing them on the street, at least to start with. This way our characters, and us ourselves, can get to know other characters organically. Should be much better than our characters ostensibly knowing nothing about each other while we ourselves know each character's strengths, weakness, fears, and favorite color. I enjoy eggshell white and moonlit walks on the beach, in the nvde.
The Complete Character Sheet is so that the GM, me in this case, can make sure your character is balanced. Not likely to be necessary but every once in a while someone or other wants to make a super soldier and in this RP in particular that would quite quickly throw the balance all out of whack. Not many want to RP as a normal settler working to cement himself when Double Lieutenant Billy B. Badass (the B stands for Bad Ass) comes to town.
(Also it can help the GM, me again, to figure out how to make sure there's something for everyone to do)
Simple Character Sheet
Complete Character Sheet
Please prepare two Character Sheets for each and every character, and please note that having more than one character is probably a good idea. One Simple Character Sheet and one Complete Character Sheet, per character. The Simple Character Sheet should be posted here while the Complete Character Sheet should not be posted here and instead should be PM'd to me.
Don't worry too much if you only have time for the Simple one right now, just make sure you get me the full one before you start posting in-character.
The Simple Character Sheet is so that everyone knows just what they would know about your character from seeing them on the street, at least to start with. This way our characters, and us ourselves, can get to know other characters organically. Should be much better than our characters ostensibly knowing nothing about each other while we ourselves know each character's strengths, weakness, fears, and favorite color. I enjoy eggshell white and moonlit walks on the beach, in the nvde.
The Complete Character Sheet is so that the GM, me in this case, can make sure your character is balanced. Not likely to be necessary but every once in a while someone or other wants to make a super soldier and in this RP in particular that would quite quickly throw the balance all out of whack. Not many want to RP as a normal settler working to cement himself when Double Lieutenant Billy B. Badass (the B stands for Bad Ass) comes to town.
(Also it can help the GM, me again, to figure out how to make sure there's something for everyone to do)
Simple Character Sheet
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Name:
Age:
Race:
Gender:
Height:
Build:
Hair Color:
Hair Style:
Skin Color:
Eye Color:
Facial Hair Style:
Facial Hair Color: (If different from Hair Color)
Name:
Age:
Race:
Gender:
Height:
Build:
Hair Color:
Hair Style:
Skin Color:
Eye Color:
Facial Hair Style:
Facial Hair Color: (If different from Hair Color)
Complete Character Sheet
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Name:
Age:
Race:
Gender:
Height:
Build:
Hair Color:
Hair Style:
Skin Color:
Eye Color:
Facial Hair Style:
Facial Hair Color: (If different from Hair Color)
Strengths: Try to reflect these as the story goes on
Weaknesses: Make sure to reflect these as the story goes on
Personality:
Background:
Belongings: Keep things simple, you wouldn't be a settler if you owned a full set of Combat Armor and an Auto-Shotgun
Name:
Age:
Race:
Gender:
Height:
Build:
Hair Color:
Hair Style:
Skin Color:
Eye Color:
Facial Hair Style:
Facial Hair Color: (If different from Hair Color)
Strengths: Try to reflect these as the story goes on
Weaknesses: Make sure to reflect these as the story goes on
Personality:
Background:
Belongings: Keep things simple, you wouldn't be a settler if you owned a full set of Combat Armor and an Auto-Shotgun