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EARTH 2145: Crossfire

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The Year is 2145, over 80 years ago the world suffered through its first nuclear war. Parts of the world have become completely uninhabitable while the rest barely passes what one would consider habitable. Although driven back into a new dark age, humanity reformed, regrouped and, inevitably, fought new wars once more for what remains of earths exhausted resources.

As the 4rth World War begins in earnest, your bunker village was struck and no longer is habitable because of outside contamination. Your only hope is to reach a known ally village across a country side devastated by the ongoing conflict. How will you survive the horrors that is the year 2145?

WHAT THIS RP IS ABOUT

This is an RP based on an old video game series, the earth series to be exact. The surface world is no longer habitable and you, after your bunker town has been breach, have to find your way to a known ally bunker. The RP will mainly be a story driven narrative, a survival RP as you try to survive not only the desolate wasteland that is earth but also the crossfire between the two major factions remaining on earth.

THE EARTH IN THE YEAR 2145

Earth is no longer habitable in the technical sense. Much of the worlds population has been forced into underground bunker towns and cities, although the later are rare these days. A few exception are traveling nomads, surviving through scavenging. The earths atmosphere is toxic, slowly rotting your lungs from the inside out unless you wear appropriate respirators. Normally a man can still survive one to two years on the surface without any respirator but they slowly decompose and become ghoulish in appearance and eventually die.

The world is also suffering through a permanent nuclear winter. Clouds cover the surface of the earth, blocking the sun from reaching its surface, making the overall climate in the minuses.

FACTIONS AT WAR

The UCS: The United Civilized States controls all of the Americas and south eastern asia, mainly the Islands of Japan, the Korean Area, Indonesia and Oceania. A nation of hedonists, everything has been handed to AI's, even political and military affairs. Most of its population probably do not even know they are at war. However, many of the civilians tend to "disappear", making there overall population small as the AI tries to keep a... manageable group of humans alive, feeding them a healthy portion of soylent green per day. The most advance faction, the UCS controls a variety of battle drones and heavy AI controlled mechs.

The ED: The Eurasian Dynasty controls all of mainland Europe, North Africa, the Middle east and the vast majority of mainland Asia. A brutal dictatorship in every sense of the word, the ED are ruled by an elite few Oligarchs and the rest are basically slaves in all but name. They are powerful through sheer numbers and devout zealotry thanks to a massive propaganda network towards the Grand Khan, a god made flesh, in his own words. With conscripts leading the charge followed by heavy tanks and helicopter gunships for support, ED still poses a major threat to the technologically superior UCS.

STARTING LOCATION AND YOU!

The RP starts off on the isles of Britain, a land that remained neutral between the two major powers of the world. Because of its neutrality it became a safe haven for refugees and political dissidents from both sides and from around the world. Mostly the factions didn't touch the islands because it would have been seen by the other as an act of aggression but sense war started nonetheless, both factions now seek the strategically significant islands for an edge in the war.

You start of in the ruins that was once known as London, in one of the dozen of Bunker towns scattered across its metro system.

CHARACTER SHEET

Appearance: Although I showed some advanced bots for the UCS and a rather advanced looking (although crude) ED conscript, you are someone trying to survive a nuclear winter. Just some average civilian of the time trying to survive, which is to mean you look like someone out of the fallout series that aint from the brotherhood of steel.

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Respirator: Everyone with a brain had a respirator ready in case the worse came to pass. gas mask looking devices etc. In a world where a respirator is a necessity, they are highly customised to the individual in most cases.

Personal equipment: Low tech weaponry, such as late 20th century equipment will be allowed. AK's and M-16's and the like. Higher tech stuff like UCS plasma and ED lazer techs are off limits. Keep in mind that even the average ED conscript are much better equipped then your civilian/political refugee that you happen to be.

Personal Skills: (What your character is good at)

Bio: Where are you from? AWOL soldier from ED? Someone from the UCS that figured out he was gonna get "processed"? A native of the Isles?

Theme: Everyone loves a good theme song.

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Re: EARTH 2145: Crossfire

#2 Post by Lief »

Oh man, I already have a character idea! Despite that, I can't say for sure if I'll be joining. Have a lot on my plate at the moment unfortunately. I might be able to squeeze this in, though.

Psst, grab me on Skype if you get the chance Red.

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Re: EARTH 2145: Crossfire

#3 Post by triman95 »

The things I'm doing on this forum are not progressing, but count me in. I will try and submit a character sheet as soon as possible.

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I'll probably send you some sheets, Red.

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Reviewed and accepted.

Appearance: Short graying hair, stubble beard, looks like he been torture in the past still bearing the scars. Stormchaser hat, pants that been stitched and patched multiple times, dirty white dress shirt with different stains, suit vest with a couple of pockets sewn on, belt, bandolier belt across his chest, kneepads, a old pair of boots, and a old pair of gloves.

Name: Casey Connor

Age: 51

Gender: Male

Respirator: The facemask is a older design where the only visible part are the eyes with a long tube attaching it to a backpack filtering system that looks like a small version of bagpipes. Also carries a small filter that is on his belt for emergencies.

Personal equipment: Lever-action rifle, pistol, Bowie knife, goggles (shaded darkly), weeks worth of rations, two water containers, a flask, ammo, matches, a needle and thread, a bag handing off his belt (⅓ of it for his pistol ammo the rest for storage) and a messenger bag.

Two prescribe medications - One to help with a pain in his legs and the other to help with his lungs.

A set of tools with blowtorch - Used for scavenging and fixing things.

Assortment of fabric patches and handful of small parts - Never know when you are going to need to fix something.

Personal Good Luck Charms - Junk to others, but to him they are things that he consider to bring him good luck. It is a large key ring with a pre-war key, two small keyrings, a pre-war coin with a hole in it, and a bottle cap opener

Personal Skills: Jury Rigging - He probably won’t be able to fix most things, but at least he will be able to take any number of parts and fix most things up enough to last long enough to get it properly fixed.

Scavenger Movements - While most people are either fighting each other or growing up in bunkers he grew up around the outside world. Learned how to move around and over obstacles and know what is safe and dangerous most times, even at his current age.

Steady Hands are Better than Fast Hands - Years of work and scavenging had made his hands steady for any kind of work. Also made his aim steady at the cost of his firing speed.

Bio: Born within the British Isle on what is known as Ireland in one of the many bunkers. At a young age he started training in maintenance. During his teens his bunker experience a temporary shortage of resources and became a part of a scavenging team. After the incident was over he continued to explore and scavenge the surface world. For thirty years he scavenge, explored and survived on the surface world by trading and doing some work with the other bunkers on the British Isle.

He eventually took the chance and travel to the rest of the mainland Europe in the search of better finds. After shortly arriving he found a cache of weapons and ammo which belong to the ED (didn’t know that they did) and was taken prisoner. For two months he was thought to be a UCS spy/saboteur and was torture and interrogated. Managed to escape in the middle night barely and return back to the British Isle. Today he settled down in one of the bunkers and normally does various odd jobs and now again goes back to the surface for salvage.

Theme: Ramblin’ Rover

Misc: At times his medication won’t help with the pain in his legs all of the way and will need to rest now and again.

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#6 Post by InceptionBwaaa »

So, it's... Fallout...?

Eh, doesn't matter. I love Fallout anyway. Going to apply.

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#7 Post by the red soldier »

Fallout doesn't have giant mechs walking around blasting plasma guns at tanks the size of city blocks. :P Earth 2140-2150 were games apart, great games in there time.

And yes soylent green is a thing in the great United Civilized States. What they dont know wont hurt them...
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Alright, pre-approved.

Appearance: Short brown hair, stands at 6'1, a scruffy beard, a nose obviously broken multiple times, an bullet's exit wound on his.left arm. Medium build, green eyes, light skin, and has 4 fingers on his left hand.

Name: Ron Hekklow

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Respirator: A small black object that fits over his mouth and nose, he stole it from an ED soldier that had been killed by the thing's malfunctioning. He managed to repair it with parts from his old respirator, but it's much less effective than originally intended.

Personal equipment: A loose-fitting white tee, battered military jacket, dirt-stained tan ten-gallon hat, Winchester revolver with one broken bullet chamber but a shortened barrel that allows for more pow in close range, chipped, rusty hunting knife and an attachable scope that he has yet to attach. Also, baggy cargo pants. Can't forget those.

Personal Skills: Taking this one right from Fallout(and the other guy's application), Jury Rigging, allowing for use of relatively similar parts to repair or modify a weapon, respirator, or any other piece of equipment.
Shortstop, more of a gun effect than a skill, his weapon has more of a chance to make an enemy stagger at the price of a reduced amount of ammo before reload. Also, due to the gun's broken chamber, takes about twice as long to reload.
Experienced Hands, meaning that his poor hands have seen more action than most people in the wastes. He can more easily recognize a piece of equipment. Works in conjunction with Jury Rigging.

Theme: Hotel California's instrumental theme

Misc: His left pinky was removed while he was sorting through the rubble of a building. A sharp beam shifted and cut the thing clean off, and he didn't notice for about two minutes. He quickly made his way to his friend, Doc Mitchell Jared, who managed to cauterize it after being unable to reattach the finger.

Biography:

War. War never changes.

Born within the steel walls of Vault 101 one of London's most massive underground vaults, Ron Hekklow was raised to be a fighting man, a happy man, and, most of all, a ladies' man. Almost always found flirting with one girl or another, it soon brought him potential doom. He had been making his way to some kind of animal-related test on his sixteenth birthday when he spied a lovely young girl coming down the hall towards him. Her name's Carlotta, he remembered. He stopped her and initiated flirtation sequence 137 when two guards rounded the corner. Upon seeing his arm over her shoulder, the guards beat him mercilessly and brought him to the democratic ruler of the massive vault, who treated it more like a kingdom than a country. The man gave Ron two choices: rot in the vault's prison or serve as a guinea pig for the latest in cryogenics technology. Choosing the latter, he was immediately marched off to his father's friend, Joey's, laboratory. Joey looked at Ron with sad eyes as he initiated supercooling. Cut to 15 years later and Ron awakens from his icy slumber. Falling to his knees, a new ruler stood above him, hand on his back. He looked up to see Carlotta's face, now one of an adult, still as lovely. She helped him to his feet and gave him a tour of the new vault, complete with providing him a job in the 'wasteland exploration' division. He made many trips to the surface in the next five years, and on his 21st birthday, he left the vault for good. Knowing he would never return, he packed enough MRE's to last him at least five years, and 2 backup respirators. He took to scavenging, or, as he preferred, 'prospecting'. To this day, he remains as good as it gets, and is renown throughout the wastes as "The Vulture".
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[This sheet was approved via PM. If not, then that means I've been hit in the head one too many times.]

Appearance: http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/ ... 58q6mb.jpg
A large scar visible on right shoulder, most likely caused by a rifle bullet. Clothes seen in pic worn only when indoors in a non-hostile environment.

Name: Kira Vayner

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Respirator: I'm lazy, so here's an image.

Personal equipment: An m9 Beretta (No attachments), Five spare clips, Hunting knife, light kevlar vest, and a standard backpack. Low food supplies, consisting of two cans of baked beans and a candy bar. A canteen, full of fresh water. Wears thick grey jacket and pants outdoors.

"Last resorts" - A collections of explosives and other dangerous objects that Kira had somehow managed to find, trade for, or steal. Four frag grenades, two claymore mines, three molotovs, and even a satchel charge.

First aid supplies- Bandages, disinfectant, and a bottle of painkillers. Not all that much, but you never know when you need them.

Personal skills:

Stick to the shadows - With low firepower compared to even the common survivor most of the time, Kira has found herself avoiding conflict most if not all the time. Because of this, she knows how to get around without detection both indoors and outdoors. For the most part, at least.

Everything's gonna go to hell - After a bad incident with a sniper while traveling, one tends to not forget the experience. Kira has become incredibly paranoid, suffering from anxiety and constantly worrying and fearful that someone is taking aim at her. However, she is much more aware and perceptive of her surroundings, and tends to pick up on or notice small but important things others may not.

Rapid fire - Not everybody can be an expert marksman. Sometimes you simply don't have time to aim properly in a firefight, and one can't always be calm enough to do so. Kira aims and shoots far faster than is considered normal. She can even be quite accurate. However, her accuracy suffers when her target's more than, say, 40 feet away.

Bio: Kira once lived Alaska, in a bunker near the city that was once known as Anchorage. She would've been like most other people, oblivious to everything going on had she not been too curious for her own good. In short, she stuck her nose where it didn't belong, asked too many questions about what happened to the people mysteriously disappearing. It was no surprise that someone (Or rather, something) decided it was time for her to disappear as well. And what better way to do it than to label her a criminal? Charging her with petty theft was enough to try to arrest her without causing a scene, at which point she would then "vanish".

She was warned in advance though of what happened, and what was coming, thanks to a reliable contact. She knew it was time to pack up and leave before they took her, boarding the first ship she could directly to Russia across the Bering sea, where she then, for the most part, traveled by land to Britain through the ED's territory. It took her a year and a half to just barely make it to London this way. Unfortunately, she wouldn't get the safe haven she was looking for.

Theme: Going a bit mad, perhaps? [Theme changes so far: One]

Misc: Suffers from severe paranoia, and may also have anxiety attacks.
A quick disguise may have others mistake her for a man at first glance due to her lack of... "assets".
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#10 Post by Blue62 »

*fingers crossed* totally down for this, probably have to fill out more, happy to answer any questions about the tree stuff.

Name: Samantha M. Chapmen
Age: 36
Gender: female

Respirator: cannibalised from parts of masks taken from dead infantry and an old paintball mask, the filter sticks directly out of where the original grill was, a small faceplate sealing her mouth and nose in safely

Personal equipment: Colt Canada C7, Weaver Cougar (tree climbing harness), 150ft of half inch rope, assorted climbing gear

Personal Skills:
Tree Rat: given the time to set her line she can climb most things under half her rope length and if needed, higher, at the cost of more time

Bio: Born and raised in the ruins of the Scottish Isles, she was visiting family, including a cousin from the USC on leave when he was called back into duty, leaving his rifle behind for them.

Theme: All Star by Smashmouth

Misc: originally her proudest feature was brilliant red hair, traced back to her ancestors- now it's just and grimy and dull coloured as the rest of her.
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#11 Post by the red soldier »

(For Blues character) Very... minimal but I guess there is nothing wrong with it. accepted.

EDIT: Something of importance. Unlike fallout which was a desert most of the time, in this universe of earth 2145 of nuclear winter, it is always freezing temperatures. The average being -15 degrees Celsius on the warmest summer day. Winters makes the surface world completely lifeless.

Heck, heres an ED weather report during (Lets say) Autumn.
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Will edit this post for CS when possible.
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I'm writing a sheet for this, so save a place for me.
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SIGN ME UP!!!
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#15 Post by the red soldier »

I'll be waiting for everyone here to make there character sheet before actually starting this. No need to rush. :P

Also, if anyone has any questions about the setting or wants me to go into more details in some areas, feel free to ask.
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