Infection On Hera
spinviper
Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
<div class="IPBDescription">The Roleplaying Game.</div> <span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>RULES</span></span>
<b>When joining the story. Get yourself a character (a marine one, having characters on only one side makes it easier to keep the story straight). Make sure you decide who your character is, give him a heart and a personality. That makes him/her able to become a part of the story.
When posting in-character(action or speech) text, do so in colored text. Use a color that no one else uses. If all colors are taking, use bold text or something, just make sure to chose a color so it's not confused with OOC text. This helps compensate for the lack of a real face and makes it easier to distinguish characters to keep an overview of the story.
Follow the standard posting formats. Actions your character performs are written in asterisks(e.g. *goes to the table*), things your character says are written in quotation marks(e.g. "Hello, who are you"). Text in brackets (e.g. [tries to open hatch]) is things your character attempts to do, like killing aliens or hacking stuff. I'll post later what works and what doesnt. Out-of-character text is written in bold text, this is text that isnt a part of your characters actions(try to avoid too much of that, use it when you have something to ask or suggest)
Remember that you are not a hero. You aren't supposed to save the day. In novels and fan-fics, a hero who saves the day is allright, but in this thread every character is the main character to his owner. if every one of them were going to save the day, and all of them wanted to be the first to do it, no story would ever develop. An example is the first roleplaying game we tried, first time they encountered the kharaa, they were overrun with the whole alien team, with onos', fades and lerks, and everyone wanted to try and save the team, so the next 40 posts were about everyone performing heroic actions against those aliens. Needless to say, I've never seen anything that pointless and boring. Try considering that a character who runs away often adds far more to the story than one who just lifts his gun and fires, trusting that the great god will make sure he is still alive afterwards because he is a character in the story.
Don't take over the story. You are your own character, and ONLY your own character. Anything that is not your character, is MY domain. In the first roleplaying thread (before the A.G.), I had people posting things like: *I call the tsa, they reply that they will send a dropship*, or *I lift my gun to shoot at the alien, and it dies*. We are on a forum where not everyone is online at the same time. You have to accept that it takes a LOOONG time for the story to develop. A battle can easily take a few real days, because a lot of people have to do things and the targets have to reply, and the first people react, and so on. Have patience, it'll reward you with a better story in the end.
Take part in the story that's already there, don't try to create a new one. I know it's tempting to try and trigger new happenings, but we'll end up with a lot of things going on and none of them having depth. One of the main problems in roleplaying is the risk of ending up with everyone starting to do their own thing, and no one ending anything. While doing something new might sometimes be neccesary, remember that replying or reacting to something another character did enhances the story and provides depth, while doing something new yourself removes depth. So, the basic rule to follow here is read the last couple of posts and determing what your character would do in such a situation. If someone is killed, would your character get shocked, would he run, would he get angry or would he do something else? If you're in a battle, don't just post *I shoot at the alien* just like the last 10 guys, because that's damn boring. Read what the last few posts did, and determine what to do about that.</b>
<b>When joining the story. Get yourself a character (a marine one, having characters on only one side makes it easier to keep the story straight). Make sure you decide who your character is, give him a heart and a personality. That makes him/her able to become a part of the story.
When posting in-character(action or speech) text, do so in colored text. Use a color that no one else uses. If all colors are taking, use bold text or something, just make sure to chose a color so it's not confused with OOC text. This helps compensate for the lack of a real face and makes it easier to distinguish characters to keep an overview of the story.
Follow the standard posting formats. Actions your character performs are written in asterisks(e.g. *goes to the table*), things your character says are written in quotation marks(e.g. "Hello, who are you"). Text in brackets (e.g. [tries to open hatch]) is things your character attempts to do, like killing aliens or hacking stuff. I'll post later what works and what doesnt. Out-of-character text is written in bold text, this is text that isnt a part of your characters actions(try to avoid too much of that, use it when you have something to ask or suggest)
Remember that you are not a hero. You aren't supposed to save the day. In novels and fan-fics, a hero who saves the day is allright, but in this thread every character is the main character to his owner. if every one of them were going to save the day, and all of them wanted to be the first to do it, no story would ever develop. An example is the first roleplaying game we tried, first time they encountered the kharaa, they were overrun with the whole alien team, with onos', fades and lerks, and everyone wanted to try and save the team, so the next 40 posts were about everyone performing heroic actions against those aliens. Needless to say, I've never seen anything that pointless and boring. Try considering that a character who runs away often adds far more to the story than one who just lifts his gun and fires, trusting that the great god will make sure he is still alive afterwards because he is a character in the story.
Don't take over the story. You are your own character, and ONLY your own character. Anything that is not your character, is MY domain. In the first roleplaying thread (before the A.G.), I had people posting things like: *I call the tsa, they reply that they will send a dropship*, or *I lift my gun to shoot at the alien, and it dies*. We are on a forum where not everyone is online at the same time. You have to accept that it takes a LOOONG time for the story to develop. A battle can easily take a few real days, because a lot of people have to do things and the targets have to reply, and the first people react, and so on. Have patience, it'll reward you with a better story in the end.
Take part in the story that's already there, don't try to create a new one. I know it's tempting to try and trigger new happenings, but we'll end up with a lot of things going on and none of them having depth. One of the main problems in roleplaying is the risk of ending up with everyone starting to do their own thing, and no one ending anything. While doing something new might sometimes be neccesary, remember that replying or reacting to something another character did enhances the story and provides depth, while doing something new yourself removes depth. So, the basic rule to follow here is read the last couple of posts and determing what your character would do in such a situation. If someone is killed, would your character get shocked, would he run, would he get angry or would he do something else? If you're in a battle, don't just post *I shoot at the alien* just like the last 10 guys, because that's damn boring. Read what the last few posts did, and determine what to do about that.</b>
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<b>I will also be playing and comming,unless someone wants to comm. Dont wanan be left out <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> My characters text will be Bold Gray. And commanders text will be Bold White(The default). PS as in rules each one of you has to pick a colour as in Ardrine GuardPost</b>
TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: JezPuh
Sex: Male
Age: 13
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: School
Earlier missions:None
Favourite Weapon: LMG
3 Strengths of mine: Logical thinking, weapons, stealth.
3 Weaknesses of mine: Commanding,Fitness Slightly poorer then your standard grunt.
Why do I want to be recruited: To kick some arses! Hopefully onos arses.
<b>Comments from DM: No Pulse Rifle yet... for you guys at least.</b>
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: White
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Trained in Karate (3rd Dan)
Earlier missions: None (this is first mission)
Favourite Weapon: LMG
3 Strengths of mine: I can fight effectively (against humans, anyway) without weapons, I can shoot an LMG with near pinpoint accuracy, and I'm fairly good with a knife.
3 Weaknesses of mine: I am hot tempered, I can't shoot very well with pistols/HMGs, and I have a near-suicidal liking for melee...
Why do I want to be recruited: I want to kick some kharaa butt. (ooc: I just like rping in general, and this is a new rp, which allows me to start from the beginning)
DM Comments: Nil
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: haywire
Sex: M
Age: 20
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Raw Recruit... sorta
Earlier missions: Assigned to the TSAS Bast before its infestation, during Pesthouse. Escaped a lifeboat when Kahraa Were detected onboard
Favourite Weapon: Pistol (Pistol-Sniping)
3 Strengths of mine: Stealth. Agility. Smarts
3 Weaknesses of mine: Leadership. Likes to taunt outloud. Weak.
Why do I want to be recruited: To help destroy the Alien presence and preserve humanity!
DM Comments: No sniper rifles in the TSA.
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat:Zayl
Sex:Male
Age:20
Special Abilities/earlier occupation:Technical stuff ie: Modding Wepons, Hacking etc. Piloting skills and Sergent First Class in rank.
Earlier missions:Caged, Nothing, Eclipse, Tanith and Origin.
Favourite Weapon:Pulse Rifle Personal Mod.(Got this on mission to veil, was test of the TSA's latest wepon and when they gave him the finalised version, he customised it. PS dont worry you guys will get it too)
3 Strengths of mine:Commanding/Leadership Skills, Innovative/Intelligent and handles his gun like an extention of his body.
3 Weaknesses of mine: Can be sarcastic at times, thinks that his teammates sercurity comes first and often goes toe to toe with his foes.
Why do I want to be recruited: To see the Kharra in museums.
DM Comments : THIS IS ME!!!
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: Fox
Sex: Male
Age:21
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Can shoot a shotgun like no other. Years of clay pigeon shooting.
Earlier missions:Bast, Caged, Veil and Mineshaft
Favourite Weapon: The Shotgun
3 Strengths of mine: Marksmanship, agility, leadership
3 Weaknesses of mine: Hate to use any weapon but a shotty, easily distracted by the opposite sex, and distracts the opposite sex.
Why do I want to be recruited: I dont have a family. I have nothing to lose.
DM Comments: All the big ones eh?
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat:ichabod.
Sex:Male.
Age:52.
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Medic
Earlier missions:None.
Favourite Weapon:Whatever will keep me alive.
3 Strengths of mine.Patience, Caution and Thoroughness.
3 Weaknesses of mine:Weaker than the stander grunt because of age,grumpy and a memory thats not that good.
Why do I want to be recruited: Because I am running in the years and want to do something for humanity.
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: Cyberoptic
Sex: Male
Age: 30's
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Demolitions expert
Earlier missions: none
Favourite Weapon: Explosives ie: Grenade Launcher/ Explosives.
3 Strengths of mine: Teamwork, patience, quick thinking
3 Weaknesses of mine: A little too much love for fireworks, lack of discipline, and can be irritating.
Why do I want to be recruited:
Because blowing up the Kharra are fun!
DM Comment: Bad attitude? LOL
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: P-Khan
Sex: Male
Age: 15
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Field Engeneer and ex-Black-Ops (forced to quit by a General
Earlier missions:several 'Black-Ops'
Favourite Weapon: Pistol and HMG
3 Strengths of mine: Quick builder, easy to infiltrate locations and good aim
3 Weaknesses of mine: Loves Vodka (alcholoic), easily **** off and not good with computers
Why do I want to be recruited: To prove to the General that I can go back to Black-Ops.
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: 343
Sex: female
Age:22
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: EX-NSA field operative, Field medic
Earlier missions: Operation shadow-hand and Caged.
Favourite Weapon:Modified LMG(Modded by Zayl)
3 Strengths of mine:
1) Brilliant field medic.
2) Resourceful.
3) Silent.
3 Weaknesses of mine:
1) Suck with large guns.
2) Gets scared when things are too scary.
3) Hates wearing TSA armour, prefers NSA operative suit.
Why do I want to be recruited:Get away from it all.
DM comment: You shall be called Captain 343.
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: Malerna
Sex: Female
Age: 19
Special Abilities/earlier occupation: Demolitions
Earlier missions: None
Favourite Weapon: Grenade Launcher/Pistol
3 Strengths of mine: Grenade skills, wiring, mining(n1 mines specifically, TSA standard)
3 Weaknesses of mine: New to TSA, Arrogance, "Sprays and Prays" too much
Why do I want to be recruited: I wanna get my feet wet in the TSA's work. Not to mention, I get to blow stuff up.
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TSA MISSION RECRUITING FORM
Nickname in Combat: Panda
Sex: M
Age: 35
Special Abilities/earlier occupation:worked as a secret agent for MI5 in the computeratronics field.
Earlier missions: Was on the lost station (ns_lost) and got lost.
Favourite Weapon: LMG
3 Strengths of mine: Computer Expert (bypass security codes/cams/doors, good at getting lost (could be a strength if I am annoying ), using a sword.
3 Weaknesses of mine: Getting lost, giving wrong directions, remembering some stuff.
Why do I want to be recruited: Because I saw the Kahara kill many many people on the Lost Station who were lost.
DM Comments: its spelt Kharra nub!
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*I wake up in a hurry, get dressed as fast as I can and run to the breefing room*
"Dratted highboyz... [General expletives involving brass' nether-regions and parents] what is it this time?"
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Bah I guess I will have to leave my dinner.
*runs back to the table and grabs the mug and takes a final drink of it and heads off to the briefing room*</span>
*runs torwards the nearest lift and slaps the wall button*
Ah, so much for patrol!
*Steps ont he lift and slaps the button to goto the briefing room*</span>
*Curses at the siren and carrys on putting her hair into a pony tail. Starts jogging to the briefing room*</span>
It's spelt KHARAA, K-H-A-R-A-A
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*As I reach the breefing room, I look for an empty chair as far back of the room as humanly possible. Then I proceed to sit down still mumbling horrible curses about officers.*
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* Reaches the briefing room, ignores the whistles, sits down at the very front and waits.*</b></span>
<b><span style='color:gray'>*Sits next to 343*
"How ya doing?"</span></b>
"Hey 343! you're looking good, as usual. Any idea why we're here? That dratted siren woke me up"
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Spin it's 343 not 747 that's a plane <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
*Blushes at Cybers comment.*
" Heh thank you, i have no idea what's going on. Guess it's something important, why else would someone like him be here ?" *Gestures at the tall, clean, cut man .* " Guess we'll wait and see." * Winks at Cyber.*
" I'm fine Zayl, how are you ?"</b></span>
*Waits for rest of team*</b></span>
<b>What Happened to The rest of u guys?!?!?</b>
Computer show me where the briefing room is.
*The map on the station zooms into the briefing room*
Ahh, and computer display where I am please.
*The map zooms into the opposite side of the map*
Oh dear.
*downloads the map onto his personal data pad and follows the route*
*after all the running about Panda eventually reaches the briefing room*
Hi all, I hope I am not late.
*sits down and trys to hide the fact that he got lost again*</span>
*I look at Zeyl and smile*
"They woke you up too? These dratted brass just love to bug us off."
*I look at the guy sitting near me.*
"Hey, you're new here? I'm cyber, the only sane guy around here. Welcome aboard the USS Madness, where sanity is a luxury..."
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*Turns round to make sure no one is missing.*
" God will these guys start already."</b></span>
*I look at panda, noticing how he seems to be puffing from a long run*
"Heh heh, don't tell me you got lost again, Panda. "
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<span style='color:green'>*slowly enters the room*
[whispers]"So these are the other normal guys?"
*sits down on floor, where I lay my head against the wall. Take out a ciggaret and lights is, puffing smokes at regular intervals*
"Good....."</span>
Me lost? Never.</span>
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"Very well, Panda, if you say so."
*I notice P-Khan*
"Howdy, you're fresh meat?"
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<b>YAY FOR STEALING FROM OPFOR -_-</b>
"Oh shoot, this does not look well AT ALL..."
*I start mumbling something about cannon fodder and officer's mothers*
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" Poor guys."
" God i hope they don't plan on sending us in."
*Crosses fingers and hopes they aren't sent in.*</b></span>