Backstory
Many, many years ago, a man had an idea. A test of strength of sorts, an artificial natural selection. His idea was simply entitled The Engine, and it was published into an obscure novel which was never acknowledged as anything special. His idea consisted of what was essentially a man-made planet. Its landscape would be harsh and metal, it would be fitted with millions of traps over its approximate ten thousand miles, and it would be overrun with monsters who would be hell-bent on destroying anything abnormal in their territory.The man died, his name falling into obscurity as well as his novel, and his idea was never realized.
Over a decade ever, however, someone dug up an old copy of The Engine. Looking through the novel, he found it included a lot of detailed drawings and blueprints, and, as he advanced through the novel, the original ideas began to meld more and more with his own. The man was rather rich, although not particularly famous: He created so-called reality shows for the masses, and this allowed for him to make ridiculously large investments into things which may end up ultimately failing.
And so he did. He put nearly every penny he had into creating an Engine of his own, along with quite a few pennies that he didn't. "The Name of Clancy Farthing," he was later quoted as saying, "will soon be known around the world!"
Two more decades passed. The Engine had been completed, nearly entirely in secret. Clancy was majorly in debt, and was now an old man, but he had managed to create a smaller-scale version of the thing he had been working on for so long. And now, he decided, it was time to test it. Time to create his show. It was a long-shot, but he'd figure out a way to manage it.
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That night, a few large beams of light hit various places on the planet, taking people, sections of street, and entire homes with them. They left only craters in their wake. Each of the people who were taken through the beams woke up nearly a day later, finding their houses destroyed; their lives taken from them in one fell swoop.
They stumbled out of their ruined homes, and found beyond it only a harsh, forbidding landscape which stretched out seemingly infinitely in all directions, dotted with the occasional pole, with cameras and loudspeakers lining the top of each. The ground was only hard steel under their feet, clanking and echoing as it was walked across.
How to join
Create a character. I will control the events in the world, and after each character is introduced and everyone is prepared, I will make a post giving the group an objective.I am expecting people who know what they're doing, and people who are willing to take some time out of their day to write and flesh out a realistic character. All posts should be at least a few paragraphs.
Name: Clancy Farthing
Age: 68
Home(On Earth): Million-Dollar mansion in America.
Lifestyle: Lives the life of a rich man: He is fat and isn't athletic, and has made all his money from(and spent it all on) the suffering of others.
Skills: Turning concepts into realities, making money, tricking others.
Flaws: Doesn't do anything on his own, is fat, is unintelligent, is just generally bad at most things.
Bio
Not necessary, but would be nice to have. I'll be putting my own together later.)
Age: 68
Home(On Earth): Million-Dollar mansion in America.
Lifestyle: Lives the life of a rich man: He is fat and isn't athletic, and has made all his money from(and spent it all on) the suffering of others.
Skills: Turning concepts into realities, making money, tricking others.
Flaws: Doesn't do anything on his own, is fat, is unintelligent, is just generally bad at most things.
Bio
Not necessary, but would be nice to have. I'll be putting my own together later.)Character list
Name: Clancy Farthing
Age: 68
Home(On Earth): Million-Dollar mansion in America.
Lifestyle: Lives the life of a rich man: He is fat and isn't athletic, and has made all his money from(and spent it all on) the suffering of others.
Skills: Turning concepts into realities, making money, tricking others.
Flaws: Doesn't do anything on his own, is fat, is unintelligent, is just generally bad at most things.
Age: 68
Home(On Earth): Million-Dollar mansion in America.
Lifestyle: Lives the life of a rich man: He is fat and isn't athletic, and has made all his money from(and spent it all on) the suffering of others.
Skills: Turning concepts into realities, making money, tricking others.
Flaws: Doesn't do anything on his own, is fat, is unintelligent, is just generally bad at most things.
Name: Rachael Wernus (Ebony Soliva)
Age: 17
Home(On Earth): A small ruined shack in Australia, A few kilometres from Bondi Beach.
Lifestyle: Lives the life of a poor person: She is frail and small but she has talents that make up for being so short and thin.
Skills: She is highly adept with a skateboard, rather stealthy.
Flaws: Because of her being so severely underweight she tends to vomit at certain times, Her immune system is also very frail from being such a sickly child, also because she has a split personality she is entitled to severe outbursts.
Bio: Rachael was abandoned by her parents when she was born, She was thrown into a garbage bin after her mother gave birth to her, After a few days her life was near over when a friendly Hobo named Bill found her and took her into his home, Rachael and Bill from then on have been Father and Daughter, Rachael taking up a new name, "Ebony" so Bill could keep her until she was 18, At about age 13 Rachael started showing signs of being Severely underweight but this was always counteracted by how fast and stealthy she was because she was so light, When the beam's came and took her Bill could only watch on as the only Daughter his ever known slowly slipped away into a bright light, Rachael also develop a split personality after witnessing Bill killing somebody for cash.
Age: 17
Home(On Earth): A small ruined shack in Australia, A few kilometres from Bondi Beach.
Lifestyle: Lives the life of a poor person: She is frail and small but she has talents that make up for being so short and thin.
Skills: She is highly adept with a skateboard, rather stealthy.
Flaws: Because of her being so severely underweight she tends to vomit at certain times, Her immune system is also very frail from being such a sickly child, also because she has a split personality she is entitled to severe outbursts.
Bio: Rachael was abandoned by her parents when she was born, She was thrown into a garbage bin after her mother gave birth to her, After a few days her life was near over when a friendly Hobo named Bill found her and took her into his home, Rachael and Bill from then on have been Father and Daughter, Rachael taking up a new name, "Ebony" so Bill could keep her until she was 18, At about age 13 Rachael started showing signs of being Severely underweight but this was always counteracted by how fast and stealthy she was because she was so light, When the beam's came and took her Bill could only watch on as the only Daughter his ever known slowly slipped away into a bright light, Rachael also develop a split personality after witnessing Bill killing somebody for cash.
