i am completely interested sign me up the opening post sounds fine a character sheet would be nicePaintyFace said:Mmkay, so I'm fed up of humans being the bad guys (seriously, at times it seems like every other species or sub-species in the Universe is perfect and innocent and humans are always the jerks. But I digress) so I'm thinking of starting an RP where aliens land on Earth, and we have to fight them off to survive and to get Earth back.
Here's a first draft of the opening, but it's subject to change, particularly if I get any better ideas :3
May, 2015.
Three spaceships crash in Saudi Arabia, leaving twenty-five aliens stranded on Earth. People from the nearest towns go to see, and are attacked and killed. When the army gets to the area, they find the nearest eight towns deserted, and only small fragments of metal left from the ships.
Over the next few days, thousands of people are slaughtered. As news spreads across the planet, people flee their homes. Most of Asia ends up deserted, with people either being attacked or desperately trying to find somewhere safe.
About a week after the crash, a body of an alien is found and examined. They are named Plutarians, and they can only survive in hot weather. When people find this out, they head towards the poles. Large areas of Mexico and the southern US states are abandoned, along with most of South America and large parts of Europe.
Now, six months after the first crash, humanity hides in the coldest parts of the world, hoping to survive. Governments have got together and a team of special agents have been assembled. They will be sent to Asia, to find and kill the Plutarians, and to save the planet. The question is, can they do it?
The aliens will be at least 7 foot tall, some up to 7 foot 6 inches (approx 215 - 230 cm for anyone who uses metric). They will have long broad bodies, with wide hips and shoulders, but short arms and legs. They will be fat and slow moving for their race, as they were rich and lived in luxury.
They have basic guns like ours, and they have communications devices. They can only communicate with each other though, and cannot communicate with humans or their home planet.
(Apologies for no picture, but my drawing skills aren't so great. If anyone wants to try a picture, PM it to me so I can check it was what I was thinking of.)
The team will have a leader back in Europe, and one in the team as they go to the aliens. I will probably control these two characters.
We will also be looking for several military personnel, preferably with different skills (ie a sniper, someone good with first person combat etc.), some scientists (they know the most about the aliens, and will have special technology to find out more about them) and a survival expert or two (remember, this area of the world has been abandoned, so food, water, electricity won't be as readily available).
I will also consider other members on the team, but you'll need to convince me that there's a reason for them to be there.
So firstly, is anyone interested? Also, any input on the opening post, any ideas to improve or expand the story? And does anything significant need to be changed to get more people interested?
sorry to be nit pick but thats the wrong type of cereal (serial)nuba km said:as much as I want to say 'he as seen some weird shit' I will give an actual reason and i will break it into points:PaintyFace said:If you make him psychotic, it needs to be for a reason. What caused it? He'll also need a reason for being on the team, even if he is just there to do menial work.nuba km said:seems good as a team would need all those skills and the fact that people who have those certain skills will be very different from those with certain other skills (e.g. scientist is not the same as the people for fighting) though I would properly love to be the guy that is in the team pretty much just because he is as close as they can get to psychotic without the person killing the team.
I hope that is a valid explanation of my character please tell me anything you want me to1. when he was 8 years old a cereal killer broke into his house he tied up the family into chairs he then started to eat each of them one by one but luckily one of the neighbours noticed something strange going on and called the police which were able to get there just after the cereal killer killed the father leaving just him and his mother.
2. his mother went to a psychologist but eventually committed suicide.
3. after this he went to an orphanage but as he already started showing psychotic behaviour (e.g. catching small animals for experiments) he was sent to a military school where he started to control his psychotic behaviour.
4. after leaving the military schools with high marks he didn't know what to do with his live he eventually decided to join the military.
5. he flight through all the physical tests with near perfect marks but his mental test showed that he could be a danger to any potential squad members.
6. the military needed some people for a suicide mission with his excellent skills in combat he was picked. during the mission he saved one of squad members but after the mission the surviving squad members described some of the things he did to the enemy soldiers (e.g. cut open one of their head pulled out the brain, placed an active grenade in the brain and through it at some other enemy soldiers) he was forced to leave the army as even though he wanted to save team-mate's live he could still not fully control his psychotic behaviour.
7. now with the new thread of the alien beings he has been picked for the mission as he has amazing combat abilities and he even might be able to mentally scar the aliens but the commander (I presume their is a leader of the squad) has been given orders to shoot him at the first sign that he could endanger the mission.
favoured weapons:
semi-auto glock
trench knife
shotgun (with various types of ammo)
any explosives he can get his hands on
change.
That sounds more like a Zombie RP than an Alien RP.PaleCross28 said:how about something like if they scrach you or bite you or something like that you turn into a sort of creture would that work?
Ahem. *Glances at own character sheet that has been up for a day already*Andalusa said:straight dark, almost black, shoulder length hair
I didn't even notice >.< I just glanced over yours to get a general idea of how it should be set out... oopsie.Cap said:Ahem. *Glances at own character sheet that has been up for a day already*Andalusa said:straight dark, almost black, shoulder length hair
It's fine, it just shows that great minds think alike.
Captcha: eaturring the
Hmmm...
Well in all seriousness, it's hardly improbable that two people on the same team would have the same hair colour, and they're not all that similar in any other way.Andalusa said:I didn't even notice >.< I just glanced over yours to get a general idea of how it should be set out... oopsie.Cap said:Ahem. *Glances at own character sheet that has been up for a day already*Andalusa said:straight dark, almost black, shoulder length hair
It's fine, it just shows that great minds think alike.
Captcha: eaturring the
Hmmm...
Yeah, sorry about this. I've been busy and stressed the last few days.Cap said:So this might be the massive amounts of caffeine speaking, but do we know if anything is going to happen with this soon?
Fair enough, I'm not nearly level-headed enough to GM an RP, so I can understand the need.PaintyFace said:Yeah, sorry about this. I've been busy and stressed the last few days.Cap said:So this might be the massive amounts of caffeine speaking, but do we know if anything is going to happen with this soon?
Due to the GM being very busy, stressed and probably absent-minded in March, this RP has been postponed until April. All the people who posted in the thread have been accepted and we can start when I'm sorted out. Anyone wishing to join before then will be considered and I'll let them know if they're in.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to PM me.