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Finally... => Forum Games and Roleplaying => Topic started by: PremierMeridian on August 10, 2011, 05:17:21 pm

Title: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 10, 2011, 05:17:21 pm
Just some mood setters:

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NEW CYDONIA

POPULATION: 370


It is the year 2156, Martian colonization and terraformation was carried out large corporations from Earth in the late 2090s, Mars is now primarily used for Agriculture and mining of the rare Cydonite, invaluable to electronics on Earth, the discovery of the material caused huge leaps forward in Computing and Robotic technology. Now, the settlers of Mars govern themselves and the dusty wilderness has fallen into ruin of it's past glories.


Essentially what I am aiming at is a Borderlands style text-based adventure game. So! The adventur begins.

Build your character:

NAME: xxxxxxxx

Equipment: (anything within reason, these are poor Martian immigrants looking for fortune in a recessive world)

Traits and Abilities: (again, keep within the context)

Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 10, 2011, 05:19:56 pm
Name: Justin Black
Weapon: Voice ak-47
Traits: long flippable hair high pitched annoying nassly voice. IGNORE THIS
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 10, 2011, 05:32:22 pm
NAME: Reyhana Tahan

Equipment: Bedouin Clothes (light shirt, vest, robes, turban etc), anti-ballisitic vest (under robe), Long Knife (concealed in chest holster), Worn Rucksack, Jith Single-Action Carbine (25 bullets left, slung over back), half gallon canteen, little money

Traits:
Natural Trader +
Animal Handling +

Overly Aggressive -
Greenhorn -

Abilities:
Live off the land

Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 10, 2011, 05:33:40 pm
Oh I thought it was a single guy... Making different char


Name: Max Yeskly
Equipment: Still-suit ( like from dune only if water is valuable though.) 3 days of rations 1 week of water 30' of rope ak-47 and 67 rounds for it. Kevlar body armor
Traits and abilities. Tall with a bushy red beard and blue eyes. He was a guard for a poor mining facility before it got shut down. He was the leader of a 27 man unit. He is smart and good with computers wit a good shot with his gun he dislikes his current weapon and would prefer a more modern weapon.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 05:44:19 pm
Name: Sami Taiya
Equipment: Assault rifle, Semi-automatic pistol, Terchaika "Olympus" Powered exosuit (Armoured and without the helmet intact), Automatic Assault shotgun, SMG.
Traits and Abilities: Stubborn, Charge
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Knave on August 10, 2011, 05:44:52 pm
Yes, this looks interesting! But is it a Single character suggestion adventure, or multiplayer?
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 10, 2011, 05:46:57 pm
Quote from: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 05:44:19 pm
Name: Sami Taiya
Equipment: Assault rifle, Semi-automatic pistol, Terchaika "Olympus" Powered exosuit (Armoured and without the helmet intact), Automatic Assault shotgun, SMG.
Traits and Abilities: Stubborn, Charge
were poor and well not gonna have a power suit  and a whole lotta weapons IMHO
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 10, 2011, 05:47:47 pm
Max Yeskly:

Inventory:
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Max stands at the old Hover-Runner dock, overlooking a large crater formed many years before colonization, the Hover-Runners barely run any more but a Timetable is pinned to a board to his right. Behind him is the town of New Cydonia, a depressed town with high unemployment and a small population, a dirt track leads through the town, past saloons, general stores and such, and up into the mountains to the south.

He slings his archaic weapon over his shoulder and decides what he is going to do....


Reyhana Tahan sits in the Red Rock Inn, the saloon of New Cydonia, large holograms display the latest offers and several down beat people litter the hot and dry room

Sami sits on the terrace of a small, wooden house in what can be described as the suburbs of New Cydonia, he is lonely, out of work and out of luck, above him, the sun beats down mercilessly.

Digger is sitting at the closed mine, so many memories and thoughts, or maybe that is his medicine acting up again. He's been born on this planet, one of the first to do so, and he was now seeing it in decline, he grabs his hunting rifle and decides to look for pastures new.. or more medicine, we can't be sure.


ALL SLOTS ARE FULL
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Phantom on August 10, 2011, 05:49:13 pm
Name: Parker
Inventory: Reinforced Environmental Suit, Plasma Miner.
Traits and Abilities: Unremarkable, Mining, Resilience.


I'm not gonna copy Red Faction or something!
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 05:50:35 pm
Quote from: Elfeater on August 10, 2011, 05:46:57 pm
Quote from: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 05:44:19 pm
Name: Sami Taiya
Equipment: Assault rifle, Semi-automatic pistol, Terchaika "Olympus" Powered exosuit (Armoured and without the helmet intact), Automatic Assault shotgun, SMG.
Traits and Abilities: Stubborn, Charge
were poor and well not gonna have a power suit  and a whole lotta weapons IMHO
Never said they were top of the line. The armour being like the like the borderland soldier armour (Only more in a damaged state)
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 10, 2011, 05:54:38 pm
My char is done-edited post.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 10, 2011, 06:02:10 pm
I'm going to limit your inventory to one weapon each.

See 'Action Post' of Max for details of starting context

Sami Taiya

Inventory:
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Reyhana Tahan

Inventory
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Ghazkull on August 10, 2011, 06:02:10 pm
NAME: Miles "Digger" Terch

Equipment: Shovel, 5 x Cyronit-III mining charges, old Hunting Rifle, Mars-V Mining-Helmet with integrated gas mask, back-pack, flask o' "medicine"

Traits and Abilities: Miner, Tough-as-Nails, Tinker, Sharp Eye

negative:
Old Man
"medicine" addict
one-eyed
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 06:07:31 pm
Head into one of the saloons.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 10, 2011, 06:09:21 pm
Reyhana goes to fill her canteen in the town well, then tries to buy at least a weeks worth of dry food from the local general store
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 10, 2011, 06:10:26 pm
Miles "Digger" Terch

Inventory
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Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 10, 2011, 06:15:14 pm
Quote from: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 06:07:31 pm
Head into one of the saloons.
Same and may I have a few credits to spend? Maybe 100 (5 for a beer or so)
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 10, 2011, 06:28:44 pm
Tahan searches for the local well and fills up the canteen he holds in his sack. The general store looks closed but on closer inspection an elderly lady waits behind the counter. Tahan checks out the prices

[ BEST PRICE RATIONS ]

1 Day  -- â10

2 Days -- â15

3 Days -- â20


etc

The old lady rocks back and forth in her chair, muttering quietly and playing Angry Birds all the while.


Sami stands up and heads off towards the Red Rock Inn, the nearest of the saloons, he passes a trough full of Solar Meal with Mk II STaLLIoNs eating quietly. When Sami enters the bar, he is greeted with the sight of a couple of drunks and a mysterious robed person, sat in the corner. He is aware someone is watching him...

Max turns about and looks heads for the nearest saloon, the Cosmonaut's Rest, he turns out his pocket and finds â15, handy for purchasing things in today's Mars, where a lot of people have nothing..

The Cosmonaut's Rest is a strange bar, the seats, once luxuriously furnished, are worn and threadbare, strange skulls are hanging on the walls and the windows are blocked out, the only light comes from the behind bar lights which provide a dark feel to the Rest.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 06:33:50 pm
((It's a she :/))
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 10, 2011, 06:34:44 pm
Get out of the creepy bar and go some where else I mean skulls really?
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 10, 2011, 06:38:26 pm
((My character is a trader, so it sort of makes sense she might have a little money. Maybe make a background and you can get some?))

Reyhana Tahan hefted the wait of her now full canteen. Water was life after all...even out here, some thing never change. When it had become clear to her that the desert lands her family had called home for generations were no longer safe due to the threat of the War, she  and her family had gathered up the last of the money and sent her to Mars to found a homestead. Her father and mother were too old, her brothers and sisters too young. It was up to her. If all went well, she would be sending back money soon to have them brought to Mars as well, and maybe they could all have a new home...if all didn't go well, she pondered grimly...no need to dwell on that.

She was just lucky the last few family trinkets she bartered to the more wealthy vacationers in the space port had gotten her some Martian Credits to buy some food with, however bitter it was to part with them. Reyhana was desperately hungry after the long flight. She had heard the less reputable Space-Travel lines like she rode in on cut the nutrient rations to those sleeping in cryogenic stasis by half or more, which might explain that. She wondered what sort of food they ate on Mars...

She asked the woman for two days worth of food, and hands over half her credits.

Hmm. Well, it was nothing she had ever eaten before. Some sort of heavily spiced, dry jerky, that came in small strips and portions of bitter, yet hearty tasting bread. She wolfed a quarter portion down ravenously...it was actually quite good. Not too bad for trail food.

Enjoying her food, it was easy to get lost in thought, but of course, she was being careful-she knew that this town was rife with criminals-waiting to take a cut out of your hide. Not too different from Earth at all. The desperation and anger was everywhere, and most of them seemed to be men, angry at her for taking water from a public well that was 'theirs', or perhaps for for no reason than she was an 'outsider' or maybe even because she an Arabic seeming woman that held herself proudly. But, the rifle slung over her back tempered their dislike and desperation with a need for self preservation.

She saw a few others heading into the saloon. Maybe other people new to Mars like her?

Action: Enters the saloon, to take a look the hologram offers, and maybe find some work from the locals.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 10, 2011, 06:41:00 pm
Sami found it fairly unnerving about being watched like this, and thus got the hell out of there.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PyroDesu on August 10, 2011, 07:56:44 pm
Can I join in?
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on August 10, 2011, 08:25:06 pm
NAME: Mikheal

Equipment: Trenchcoat, Bullet Vest, Simple Trousers, Revolver x2, Hunting Shotgun, and last but not least...
A 50 pound Full-Loaded Revolver Cannon, capable of completely demolishing anything in its path.

Traits:
+ Clam and Controlled
+ Tall

- Tends to stand out
- Tends not to take cover

Abilities:
Ranger: Has remarkable accuracy, and can survive much easier in the wilderness.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PyroDesu on August 11, 2011, 12:23:46 am
Name: Neco Ferratum

Equipment: Combat-fitted Hazardous Environment Suit (Sealable), Pneumatic Drill (Modified- Air compressor fitted to backpack), C-4 mining charges, Irin Particle Shotgun (Modified- Hi-Cap Batteries, Charge x2).

Traits:
+Rockhound
+Quick Reflexes

-Antisocial
-Bad Eyesight

Abilities:
Tinkerer: Can modify anything. ANYTHING.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 11, 2011, 12:27:03 pm
What is it about, no slots left don't people understand? Although if Ghazkull doesn't post back, I'll open up his place, I'll wait until then to post the next turn, watch this space...
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 11, 2011, 04:03:47 pm
Ok Ghazkull hasn't replied, I shall open up one slot, first post gets the slot.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Tehan on August 11, 2011, 04:14:05 pm
NAME: Obrad Zoran

Equipment: Dust goggles and mask over mouth. Brown Leather trenchcoat with a black undershirt with ballistic armor vest (Only covering chest and abdomen) Wallet with 75 Credits and an old rusty S&W Revolver (with 20-25 spare bullets in pocket)

Traits and Abilities: Not a bad shot, good with words.

Bio: Some sort of bandit
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 11, 2011, 04:25:27 pm
At least your character is somewhat is more realisitic, Tehan. You should fill in some bio on him though. By the look of him, he's some sort of bandit.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 11, 2011, 04:31:35 pm
Obrad is at the top of the church tower, watching the people below trudge to their individual locations. He is here because he wanted to throw himself off, taking with him his Grandfather's old Revolver in case he wasn't sure how to end it, but now he has decided with life and a new dawn of adventure opens out in front of him.

Tahan goes to the bar and surveys the Hologram offers

Finest Tharsian Mead â2

Marine Wine â50

Imported Terran Ales â4 each

He asks the people in the bar if they have anything that needs doing, nobody replies but an elderly man who is sitting in the corner, he appears eccentric.

"Take my STaLLIoN and ride to the hills, I have a friend up there but I haven't heard from him in a long time and I am beginning to fret"

"Why don't you just call him?" replies Tahan, confused.

"because you can't get reception in the hills, there is too much interference from the all the transmissions, not even a TERRAnet signal" he says, insistent.


Sami leaves the Red Rock and stands out in the Street. Yellow clouds boil up on the horizon against a pale sky.

Max leave the Cosmonaut's Rest and stands out in the street, he notices another person standing out in the street outside the Red Rock Inn far down the main dusty road.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 11, 2011, 04:39:04 pm
Sami heads off and starts looking for work.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 11, 2011, 04:44:00 pm
((OOC: PremierMeridian/My character is a female as well...))

Reyhana wasn't so sure the man was being totally honest with with her...it could be a trap.

Since she didn't like the thought of her bones baking under the Martian sun, Reyhana  decided to press him for information.

"Where exactly can I find your friend? And what can I get paid when I come back? I'm sort of new here, but I'm not working for charity..."

She sat down in the chair across from him, paitently waiting for his answer.

Action: Ask the eccentric man the questions above
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 11, 2011, 05:46:57 pm
Follow said person...
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Elfeater on August 13, 2011, 11:44:11 am
Bump
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: PremierMeridian on August 15, 2011, 05:26:08 am
Tehan drifts off and stares into space

Sami heads off down the road looking for work, there doesn't seem to be many jobs about as the mines have closed and other local industries collapsed. She looks around and notices the complete desolation of the town, she heads down the road and comes to a small inn, The Rasseljack's Welcome, and decides to head inside.

Reyhana continues to quiz the old man. "Where EXACTLY can I find your friend?"

"Well I don't rightly know, else I'd needn't worry. Try checking his home up along the Mountain Path, it might give you some clues about his whereabouts"

"And... how much will I be paid?" She demanded.

"I will pay you â100 if you find him alive and well or just â50 if he is dead" He replies, seemingly quite serious
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Taricus on August 15, 2011, 05:52:53 am
Look for some work there.
Title: Re: The Lone Ranger of Mars
Post by: Dwarmin on August 15, 2011, 09:16:07 am
Reyhana reluctantly agrees. If he were some sort of disreputable sort, he would have offered more money to lure her into a trap. That's what she hoped, anyway. She nodded to the man, then walked out to the Stallion.

She instinctively rubbed the horses nose, and offered him a sugar cube-things she usually kept somewhere on her person, for such occasions. It seemed happy. The horse wasn't exactly mistreated, but it wasn't being well taken care of either.

Take a ride up the mountain path-I'm in no hurry, so take it slow and keep a lookout for danger.