Welcome to the C&C Tiberian Sun role-play, Bitter Blitz.
I expect we're all reasonable, intelligent people so lets get a good story together with nonsense to a minimum, OK.
The events in this roleplay take place in the early Firestorm Crisis, CABAL will be activated soon, and the cyborgs have not rebelled YET. We want the story revolving around another attempt by Nod to get control of Hammerfest, though to begin with it will be a routine day, with no Nod people in sight. This doesn't mean to say everyone should join GDI, we need people on the Nod side to spice things up!
You play one main character/squad who you'll introduce like this:
Name:
Faction: (Nod/GDI/Mutant)
Job: (Pilot, Infantry, Spy, whatever)
Rank:
Location:
Bio:
There are no Scrin in this roleplay, though if you like you could mention them in some creative way.
Your free to introduce a secondary or tertiary character, or as many characters as you like, so long as you can keep up to date with all of them, or come up with a good plot reason to abandon them.
Feel free to stretch the TibSun story line, within reason though, don't go off into the deep end. Stretching the story includes letting some events happen ahead of time, like giving Nod a Mobile Stealth Generator before CABAL rebelled, or giving Nod a Navy, or giving the Mutants some of their own technology instead of old scrapped Nod/GDI vehicles.
You can post in third person or first person.
Some rules:
1) If your writing out of character, write in blue like I am now.
2) I will occasionally post things in red. When they are in red, it means that I am temporarily taking control of someone like Slavik or Oxanna. I will do this to heavily influence the story if it's starting to get a bit pear shaped. For example, if everyone joins Nod, first I would kindly ask some people to make a secondary character on GDI, then I would take control of General Solomon and order some kind of battle-changing event, like drop-pod marines behind enemy lines (Hey look, that's a good character to take control of!) or an Ion cannon on the source of the Nod invasion.
3) YOU MUST HAVE LIMITS!!11one!1shift! Nobody likes to read a story where you can pull a gigantic army out of your rear end, it might be fun to write, but not very fun to read. It's actually more interesting when you create problems for your characters. It keeps the people reading wondering "what's gunna happen next?". This is NOT a competition on who can win the battle but still be in the limits, it's more a competition on who can be the most creative. For example, your character has an enemy soldier at gunpoint, ready to shoot, but your weapon is out of ammo or jammed. What's gunna happen then? Or better yet have your character follow orders from a guy who he doesn't like. Limits rock.
4) Build up your character. Not many people want to read about Capt. Random who assassinates Slavik, or kills 15 GDI soldiers with a grenade.
5) Don't Godmod, IE, don't take control of other people's characters without their permission. Don't kill someone else's character without permission from them, however, if they are completely ruining the story, I will allow people to kill him/her/it.
6) Make sense *facepalm*. For example, don't bring back a character who died FOR SURE 5 pages ago, or call an artillery strike on a bunker that was destroyed yesterday.
7) Grammar is important. /nerd. Mozilla Firefox has an addon you can use that underlines any mistakes.
Introduce your character and wait for my approval. PM me. If I don't answer within 2 days your free to post away.
9) When I say 'SITREP', everyone is to stop posting story and fill this out. I'll say this when it becomes unbearably complicated:
Character/vehicle/force: (Please be exact, say what exact units you have under your command/with you)
Location: (If you are moving somewhere, please say that)
Action, interacting with: (What are you doing? Are you having general chat next to a coffee vender or fighting off hordes of Nod light infantry?)
Your last actions: (Simple enough, how did you get to what were you doing. IE, your character was thirsty so he got a coffee, or your character was ordered to garrison a building)
I'll then take action as a higher person (Solomon, McNeil etc) to try and fix the story as best I can. I'll say when people can start posting again.
10) I'm not going to lay down direct formatting rules, but what I and I assume a lot of people find easier to read is this:
Description, description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description.
'Dialogue'
'Dialogue' Description description
'Dialogue dialogue'
You get the idea, just remember to make it look like someone would want to read it. Put new lines before and after dialogue, that kind of stuff.
11) BEFORE YOU POST, post the time and day in the storyline, so the story takes place in 2031, post the date and time so we know when you are. This makes things so much easier for people to understand. If you do this, it means you can use flashbacks and people will understand. Post like this:
Day/Month/Yeah - Time, Local time
1st of January, 2031 - 4:21 AM, Local Time
You can go back BEFORE the roleplay started, IE, before the 31st.
Writing is a skill, and if you think your going to drop a wrecking ball on the story, then look at other's input and try and take from them.
If someone criticizes your stuff, don't be offended. Learn from it and be better.
Without further ado, I made a map so it's easy to get an idea of where people are. We don't want a mutant meeting up with a lone soldier stuck on patrol duty around the Auxiliary base, both acting like they are standing a few feet away.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/creamyjoshy/Hammerfest2.jpg
(Yaay, MS paint)
I'll update the map as time progresses, with new unit positions and such.
Basically, Hammerfest is a very large base with pretty much everything. The blue around it is a firestorm wall. The concrete walls that are left open actually have gates on them but I didn't know how to illustrate it. The black lines are concrete road, the brown are dirt roads and the other random black lines are contour lines. They grey squiggles along the coast are cliffs.
The coloured large squares are buildings. Red = Nod, Gold = GDI and Blue/Green = Forgotten.
The large circles are vehicles
And the small circles are infantry.
Oh, and grey are civilian buildings, Hammerfest is, after all a city.
I put that in to give a general idea on what's what. There is also a larger garrison inside the Hammerfest base and the Auxiliary base but I couldn't draw it without it looking like a firework display being sick.
You may also notice the Lighthouse in the South West, it has Forgotten infantry garrisoned in it and it's effectively a looking post/headquarters.
Oh, and I forgot to add tiberium, lets just say that Tiberium is present in these locations:
1) South east of Hammerfest, medium/large tiberium field with some blue crystals near the centre
2) Small field to the east of the forgotten base.
3) Small unused field to the Easy of the Auxiliary base
4) Reports of some blossom trees (Yes, we're still in TibSun remember) in the south forest, though no Tiberium has been spotted.
Prologue:
The Sun rises on a tiberium polluted Earth, Kane's vision. During the second tiberian war, no one really noticed how out of control the situation had become. Entire rainforests had become habitats for monsters, entire species converted, no, assimilated into the Tiberian Era ready to be exploited by whatever sick experiments or agendas Nod had planned. It was clear by this point that Nod had betrayed the world and become tyrants to humanity, but equally how could we, the civilian populace place our trust in the Global Defence Initiative? GDI were war-mongers, set up by the United Nations to do nothing but give Nod publicity. They don't protect us, they can't. They are quite literally waging a war against a substance, using weapons of war against a... disease, an infection, and all of these things are bulletproof. How long will it take for them to take real action? We've given them well over thirty years, while they blow away money on fancy space stations and massive walkers, machines designed to kill, they should be preserving humanity, offering survival over evolution.
I don't know who to trust any more. The media is controlled by GDI and Nod bias, entire networks dedicated to manipulating and indoctrinating the civilian population in a vein hope that someone will be foolish enough to sign up to any of the two evils. And then what? They die somewhere in South America, thousands of miles away from home, or are killed by a wild Tiberian Mutation while on a routine patrol. In this new world, there are hundreds of ways to die on the field of battle, and most of them are completly random, uncontrollable. It's not the soldier's fault he breathed in Blossom Tree Gas, or misstepped and was pulled in to the dark abyss that is a vein hole monster. We have Kane and GDI bureaucrats to thank for that.
I don't know, maybe I've watched too much propaganda, maybe I have tiberian shards growing on my brain (more common that you think) or maybe I'm starting to go insane. No matter, I will stay in self exile with some close friends in the caves of Mexico while my Tiberian mutation eats away at me and forces me to rot. I don't see how that's possible though, there's no life here for miles. There are rumours in the local town that the air is becoming toxic, and random tiberian mutations are happening over the Earth. For this, GDI has set up Mutant Refugee camps all over the world. I was temped to move to one in Mexico City, but for what? It's in the middle of a city, riots are bound to of happened, if not soon. Civilians hate us shiners. They believe we're infected, and we should be slaughtered to avoid spreading it. Animals the lot of them, sheep to street preachers.
I've heard that the camp in Norway is particularly nice, away from everything, in a corner of the world, beautiful and peaceful, with GDI unseen over the hills, only coming down for routine supply runs. It's a very independent camp, isolated and obscured by huge hills and mountains, not a bother in the world.
The time is 11:24PM, 31st of December 2030. And to whoever reads this, I say: Happy New Year.
Aaaaaaaaaaand, we'll start from Hammerfest, lets get some posts rolling!
PS.
This may not get many joiners, but I haven't been lurking on this section of the forum long, so even if you don't want to join in, tell me what you think! Thanks!
Also, can someone tell me the forum codes for making a suitable title up top? Thanks.
Now, I'm gunna do some homework, so don't expect to be approved for a few hours.
I expect we're all reasonable, intelligent people so lets get a good story together with nonsense to a minimum, OK.
The events in this roleplay take place in the early Firestorm Crisis, CABAL will be activated soon, and the cyborgs have not rebelled YET. We want the story revolving around another attempt by Nod to get control of Hammerfest, though to begin with it will be a routine day, with no Nod people in sight. This doesn't mean to say everyone should join GDI, we need people on the Nod side to spice things up!
You play one main character/squad who you'll introduce like this:
Name:
Faction: (Nod/GDI/Mutant)
Job: (Pilot, Infantry, Spy, whatever)
Rank:
Location:
Bio:
There are no Scrin in this roleplay, though if you like you could mention them in some creative way.
Your free to introduce a secondary or tertiary character, or as many characters as you like, so long as you can keep up to date with all of them, or come up with a good plot reason to abandon them.
Feel free to stretch the TibSun story line, within reason though, don't go off into the deep end. Stretching the story includes letting some events happen ahead of time, like giving Nod a Mobile Stealth Generator before CABAL rebelled, or giving Nod a Navy, or giving the Mutants some of their own technology instead of old scrapped Nod/GDI vehicles.
You can post in third person or first person.
Some rules:
1) If your writing out of character, write in blue like I am now.
2) I will occasionally post things in red. When they are in red, it means that I am temporarily taking control of someone like Slavik or Oxanna. I will do this to heavily influence the story if it's starting to get a bit pear shaped. For example, if everyone joins Nod, first I would kindly ask some people to make a secondary character on GDI, then I would take control of General Solomon and order some kind of battle-changing event, like drop-pod marines behind enemy lines (Hey look, that's a good character to take control of!
) or an Ion cannon on the source of the Nod invasion.3) YOU MUST HAVE LIMITS!!11one!1shift! Nobody likes to read a story where you can pull a gigantic army out of your rear end, it might be fun to write, but not very fun to read. It's actually more interesting when you create problems for your characters. It keeps the people reading wondering "what's gunna happen next?". This is NOT a competition on who can win the battle but still be in the limits, it's more a competition on who can be the most creative. For example, your character has an enemy soldier at gunpoint, ready to shoot, but your weapon is out of ammo or jammed. What's gunna happen then? Or better yet have your character follow orders from a guy who he doesn't like. Limits rock.
4) Build up your character. Not many people want to read about Capt. Random who assassinates Slavik, or kills 15 GDI soldiers with a grenade.
5) Don't Godmod, IE, don't take control of other people's characters without their permission. Don't kill someone else's character without permission from them, however, if they are completely ruining the story, I will allow people to kill him/her/it.
6) Make sense *facepalm*. For example, don't bring back a character who died FOR SURE 5 pages ago, or call an artillery strike on a bunker that was destroyed yesterday.
7) Grammar is important. /nerd. Mozilla Firefox has an addon you can use that underlines any mistakes.
Introduce your character and wait for my approval. PM me. If I don't answer within 2 days your free to post away.
9) When I say 'SITREP', everyone is to stop posting story and fill this out. I'll say this when it becomes unbearably complicated:
Character/vehicle/force: (Please be exact, say what exact units you have under your command/with you)
Location: (If you are moving somewhere, please say that)
Action, interacting with: (What are you doing? Are you having general chat next to a coffee vender or fighting off hordes of Nod light infantry?)
Your last actions: (Simple enough, how did you get to what were you doing. IE, your character was thirsty so he got a coffee, or your character was ordered to garrison a building)
I'll then take action as a higher person (Solomon, McNeil etc) to try and fix the story as best I can. I'll say when people can start posting again.
10) I'm not going to lay down direct formatting rules, but what I and I assume a lot of people find easier to read is this:
Description, description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description, description description description.
'Dialogue'
'Dialogue' Description description
'Dialogue dialogue'
You get the idea, just remember to make it look like someone would want to read it. Put new lines before and after dialogue, that kind of stuff.
11) BEFORE YOU POST, post the time and day in the storyline, so the story takes place in 2031, post the date and time so we know when you are. This makes things so much easier for people to understand. If you do this, it means you can use flashbacks and people will understand. Post like this:
Day/Month/Yeah - Time, Local time
1st of January, 2031 - 4:21 AM, Local Time
You can go back BEFORE the roleplay started, IE, before the 31st.
Writing is a skill, and if you think your going to drop a wrecking ball on the story, then look at other's input and try and take from them.
If someone criticizes your stuff, don't be offended. Learn from it and be better.
Without further ado, I made a map so it's easy to get an idea of where people are. We don't want a mutant meeting up with a lone soldier stuck on patrol duty around the Auxiliary base, both acting like they are standing a few feet away.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/creamyjoshy/Hammerfest2.jpg
(Yaay, MS paint)
I'll update the map as time progresses, with new unit positions and such.
Basically, Hammerfest is a very large base with pretty much everything. The blue around it is a firestorm wall. The concrete walls that are left open actually have gates on them but I didn't know how to illustrate it. The black lines are concrete road, the brown are dirt roads and the other random black lines are contour lines. They grey squiggles along the coast are cliffs.
The coloured large squares are buildings. Red = Nod, Gold = GDI and Blue/Green = Forgotten.
The large circles are vehicles
And the small circles are infantry.
Oh, and grey are civilian buildings, Hammerfest is, after all a city.
I put that in to give a general idea on what's what. There is also a larger garrison inside the Hammerfest base and the Auxiliary base but I couldn't draw it without it looking like a firework display being sick.
You may also notice the Lighthouse in the South West, it has Forgotten infantry garrisoned in it and it's effectively a looking post/headquarters.
Oh, and I forgot to add tiberium, lets just say that Tiberium is present in these locations:
1) South east of Hammerfest, medium/large tiberium field with some blue crystals near the centre
2) Small field to the east of the forgotten base.
3) Small unused field to the Easy of the Auxiliary base
4) Reports of some blossom trees (Yes, we're still in TibSun remember) in the south forest, though no Tiberium has been spotted.
Prologue:
The Sun rises on a tiberium polluted Earth, Kane's vision. During the second tiberian war, no one really noticed how out of control the situation had become. Entire rainforests had become habitats for monsters, entire species converted, no, assimilated into the Tiberian Era ready to be exploited by whatever sick experiments or agendas Nod had planned. It was clear by this point that Nod had betrayed the world and become tyrants to humanity, but equally how could we, the civilian populace place our trust in the Global Defence Initiative? GDI were war-mongers, set up by the United Nations to do nothing but give Nod publicity. They don't protect us, they can't. They are quite literally waging a war against a substance, using weapons of war against a... disease, an infection, and all of these things are bulletproof. How long will it take for them to take real action? We've given them well over thirty years, while they blow away money on fancy space stations and massive walkers, machines designed to kill, they should be preserving humanity, offering survival over evolution.
I don't know who to trust any more. The media is controlled by GDI and Nod bias, entire networks dedicated to manipulating and indoctrinating the civilian population in a vein hope that someone will be foolish enough to sign up to any of the two evils. And then what? They die somewhere in South America, thousands of miles away from home, or are killed by a wild Tiberian Mutation while on a routine patrol. In this new world, there are hundreds of ways to die on the field of battle, and most of them are completly random, uncontrollable. It's not the soldier's fault he breathed in Blossom Tree Gas, or misstepped and was pulled in to the dark abyss that is a vein hole monster. We have Kane and GDI bureaucrats to thank for that.
I don't know, maybe I've watched too much propaganda, maybe I have tiberian shards growing on my brain (more common that you think) or maybe I'm starting to go insane. No matter, I will stay in self exile with some close friends in the caves of Mexico while my Tiberian mutation eats away at me and forces me to rot. I don't see how that's possible though, there's no life here for miles. There are rumours in the local town that the air is becoming toxic, and random tiberian mutations are happening over the Earth. For this, GDI has set up Mutant Refugee camps all over the world. I was temped to move to one in Mexico City, but for what? It's in the middle of a city, riots are bound to of happened, if not soon. Civilians hate us shiners. They believe we're infected, and we should be slaughtered to avoid spreading it. Animals the lot of them, sheep to street preachers.
I've heard that the camp in Norway is particularly nice, away from everything, in a corner of the world, beautiful and peaceful, with GDI unseen over the hills, only coming down for routine supply runs. It's a very independent camp, isolated and obscured by huge hills and mountains, not a bother in the world.
The time is 11:24PM, 31st of December 2030. And to whoever reads this, I say: Happy New Year.
Aaaaaaaaaaand, we'll start from Hammerfest, lets get some posts rolling!
PS.
This may not get many joiners, but I haven't been lurking on this section of the forum long, so even if you don't want to join in, tell me what you think! Thanks!
Also, can someone tell me the forum codes for making a suitable title up top? Thanks.
Now, I'm gunna do some homework, so don't expect to be approved for a few hours.