Chapter 1: A Wary Meeting
A single, solitary person stands beneath the Fourth Street Bridge. Not a sound disturbs the one a.m. starless gloom, no cars have gone past for nearly an hour, which is almost how long the poor soul has been waiting. Not another being in sight. All is quiet except the usual nighttime noise fare.
Damnit to Hell, he said midnight!
Never mind the fact that it's FUCKING COLD! Add to that the fact that this person didn't exactly bundle up, wasn't expecting to be kept waiting so long. Geez, he said he might be a little late, but this is ridiculous! Gradually growing more impatient, they take out a hard-pack and light up a cigarette.
This dick has till I finish this....
Almost as if on cue, footsteps suddenly ring out on the sidewalk out to the right, coming down from a street intersecting the end of the bridge. After a moment, a singularly disgusting human being fades into view out of the relative darkness. Small, stooped, withered, and loosely draped in rotting tatters, this guy smells like not only a really low quality bar, but the unkempt and overused bathroom of one as well. He seems to actually radiate a scent made by his very skin, the odors of countless kinds of cheap booze mixed with the smells of every kind of excrement and a mouth fully ravaged by gingivitis. His thin hair falls in greasy curtains about his pockmarked and wrinkled face, his scalp, fully visible beneath the hair, is pale and riddled here and there with liver spots. He grins crookedly at his odor-victim, revealing less than half a normal mouthful of teeth (each one shriveled looking and black) and blackened gums.
"You came. Got a smoke?"
Without another word, and without waiting so much as a second to wait for a response, the man turns and walks away, only looking back to see if the person is following or not once.
A single, solitary person stands beneath the Fourth Street Bridge. Not a sound disturbs the one a.m. starless gloom, no cars have gone past for nearly an hour, which is almost how long the poor soul has been waiting. Not another being in sight. All is quiet except the usual nighttime noise fare.
Damnit to Hell, he said midnight!
Never mind the fact that it's FUCKING COLD! Add to that the fact that this person didn't exactly bundle up, wasn't expecting to be kept waiting so long. Geez, he said he might be a little late, but this is ridiculous! Gradually growing more impatient, they take out a hard-pack and light up a cigarette.
This dick has till I finish this....
Almost as if on cue, footsteps suddenly ring out on the sidewalk out to the right, coming down from a street intersecting the end of the bridge. After a moment, a singularly disgusting human being fades into view out of the relative darkness. Small, stooped, withered, and loosely draped in rotting tatters, this guy smells like not only a really low quality bar, but the unkempt and overused bathroom of one as well. He seems to actually radiate a scent made by his very skin, the odors of countless kinds of cheap booze mixed with the smells of every kind of excrement and a mouth fully ravaged by gingivitis. His thin hair falls in greasy curtains about his pockmarked and wrinkled face, his scalp, fully visible beneath the hair, is pale and riddled here and there with liver spots. He grins crookedly at his odor-victim, revealing less than half a normal mouthful of teeth (each one shriveled looking and black) and blackened gums.
"You came. Got a smoke?"
Without another word, and without waiting so much as a second to wait for a response, the man turns and walks away, only looking back to see if the person is following or not once.
This is a progressively developing RP, as you know from the title. That, obviously, means the story, cast, all that good stuff changes and grows as we go along. Each player who posts should find a niche in the situation as it stands, and insert yourself into it. Don't just post just to feel included, put some thought into it. A player can dedicate themselves to a major role or, just be a bit part. The first person to respond should be the person who was waiting under the bridge. You make the decisions, whether or not you follow him, do you give him a smoke, do you call out to him to wait then berate him for being so late, etc.
1) Don't bother with character sheets, I don't want to break the flow. Deliver your character in context, as it is necessary to the story.
2)I will periodically post a list of players that have shown up so far, along with a basic description of their character. I will also try to post a brief synopsis occasionally.
3) Be descriptive, but not long-winded. We're looking for a few paragraphs per post. We don't want reading it to become a daunting task.
4) I'm intending this to be kind of a modern fantasy RP, but let's not go overboard with the supernatural stuff.
5) If you get ninja'd, just accept it, and edit your post accordingly.
6) PLEASE dont post with a character that's supposed to have a major role if you're not CERTAIN you're gonna stick with it. I've seen that a million times, it ruins everything. Not fair to people who actually want to do it and have fun with it.
7) ONE CHARACTER PER PLAYER. If you want a different role, then kill off or otherwise expend your first.
Now, then. For the length of your post, you are the GM. I will be playing the gross guy, my role will still be as GM, but in a looser sense. You, the player, direct the story, with a little extra steering from me. Now, let's have fun, and take this somewhere big.
1) Don't bother with character sheets, I don't want to break the flow. Deliver your character in context, as it is necessary to the story.
2)I will periodically post a list of players that have shown up so far, along with a basic description of their character. I will also try to post a brief synopsis occasionally.
3) Be descriptive, but not long-winded. We're looking for a few paragraphs per post. We don't want reading it to become a daunting task.
4) I'm intending this to be kind of a modern fantasy RP, but let's not go overboard with the supernatural stuff.
5) If you get ninja'd, just accept it, and edit your post accordingly.
6) PLEASE dont post with a character that's supposed to have a major role if you're not CERTAIN you're gonna stick with it. I've seen that a million times, it ruins everything. Not fair to people who actually want to do it and have fun with it.
7) ONE CHARACTER PER PLAYER. If you want a different role, then kill off or otherwise expend your first.
Now, then. For the length of your post, you are the GM. I will be playing the gross guy, my role will still be as GM, but in a looser sense. You, the player, direct the story, with a little extra steering from me. Now, let's have fun, and take this somewhere big.
