Your life, your decisions, your survival (A Post-apocalyptic RP if you haven't noticed)

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**Tyranic Marta**

Screw it ill join

**Tyranic Marta**

Player Name:Tyranic Marta
Character Name: Terence Blackwood, (No not the one from SURVIVE

)
Char Age: 37
Char appearance: Lightly tanned skin and the surety of someone with many years of experience. Scars from some form of massive injury criss cross his chest, a doctor would say they look self inflicted, his left eye is a startling bright blue the other is a milky white, however he can still see out of it due to a wierd genetic disposition. His mouth is almost permanantly closed due to a bullet sawing through the nerves on the right side of his jaw, the wound slowly healing and so his speach is often short if at all spoken. A groove along his right cheek that reaches to his ear testament to the bullet wound. His powerful arms and strong legs suggest the build of someone who excels in bursts of strength that can be held and endured. His Leather Jacket has been lined with monofilament Titanium-Alloy fibres that increase its strength, his DPM pants come right out of a Pre-apocalyptic engagement, and his boots are military issue. His black singlet has seen its share of damage as its many patches attest. The final thing one would be drawn to upon seeing this grisiled veteran would be his length of black hair drain into a braid that reaches down his back, tipped at the end with 4 teeth taken from the mouth of one of his victims.
Equipment: His Remigington 40cal sniper rifle has dozens of kill marks on its weathered stock and the silenced SMG on a bandolier sling has its share too. A pack filled with ammo and grenades is strapped to his back, the kidney strap adorned with grenades and clip on magazine holsters for his SMG, a thigh holster holds a Browning 9mm silenced pistol and a 15" combat knife is slipped into its holster on his boot.
Backstory: Terence has seen fighting across all 7 continents in the service of various world powers, when the apocalypse stuck he was piloting a helicopter gunship that was engaging a rebel pirate ship of the coast of Peurto Rico fufilling a contract, he managed to rise above the breakers of the following Tsunami and head to the nearest refulling point that was still standing after the fall.

He hates to tell others of his past but the one thing he often speaks of is his sighting of one of the worlds most lethal predators, he will then laugh and mutter under his breath, "I looked in a mirror"
Other info: Loyal to few people except those who pay him he has a soft spot somewhere deep down that he nurtures but tells noone of.

**Darkvoidof40k**

When I wake up, I'll be sure to do a nice long post.

Welcome aboard, Marta.

**Tyranic Marta**

Thanks Darkvoid

**Darkvoidof40k**

Tyranic Marta wrote:Thanks Darkvoid.

You're welcome.

**Tyranic Marta**

**Darkvoidof40k**

I think we've established that England (and the rest of the world) is radically different from how we all imagine it now. It's more of a barren wasteland made up of dirt and sand, rather than grass and soil, and the temperature has risen greatly from an average of 15 Degrees on a good day to almost always the heat we get on our hottest days (roughly 35-40 degrees celsius).

**Tyranic Marta**

okyday

**Shas'ui T'au Kais**

Remember FITZZ, that if they guys in Elysium don't like you, or don't even think you look clean enough, they will chuck your right out on your a$$

**Shas'ui T'au Kais**

Well said Dark, and Tyranic, good to see you aboard m8

Chowderhead, I really must say that I like what you are doing in your posts...

**Darkvoidof40k**

Shas'ui T'au Kais wrote:Well said Dark, and Tyranic, good to see you aboard m8

Chowderhead, I really must say that I like what you are doing in your posts...

You.. you like castration?

**Catos**

Cathal woke up groggily and attempted to stand up. Long story short, he failed. He attempted again with a large amount of pain due to his broken leg but managed to lean against a tree for suppourt. He looked at the amulet around his neck curiously, he had a slight concussion and couldn't quite remember how he had got it.

"Wait till the guys back in Troy see this!" he thought to himself before coming to the sudden realization that until he fixed his leg he wasn't going anywhere. He fashioned a crude splint out of some wood and string, hoping it would do the trick. He realized he would have to fix his leg straight if he was going to use it in the first place. With immense pain, he snapped his leg back into position, causing him to cry out in pain. He strapped the makeshift splint to his leg and found a walking stick. He started painfully walking back to Troy, each step more agonising than the last.

"This had better be worth it," he thought to himself and found him wondering about how to use the item.

"I'll think about it later," he thought to himself.

Three hours later he reached the gates of Troy, panting. He shouted out to the man guarding the mighty doors,

"Little help here? Went toe to toe with a reaper and kinda need some help!" The guard looked on in amazement as his partner called for the gates to be opened. There was a small crowd gathering after hearing the story of the reaper death.

"Rumours," thought Cathal, "The only things in the universe that can travel faster than the speed of light," he walked painfully into Troy as the crowd marvelled at the item hanging around his neck.

"Well since I'm the only human to have a mysical item or to defeat a reaper, I gues that might be cause for celebration....."

OOC: In case any players feel like going to Troy there's someone there who might want to start a survival group!

**Darkvoidof40k**

I can't take your character seriously, Catos.

**blood reaper**

I think Catos's Character is supposed to be a self obsesed Chuck Norris wanabe

**Shas'ui T'au Kais**

His character is definately not serious, but he can be when he wants to be... maybe?

...No?

...

...

...

... soooo anybody up for a game of Kwik Cricket?

**Darkvoidof40k**

I had a game of quick cricket yesterday at school. The fat kid hit the ball, ran two steps the wrong way and fell over backwards.

So funny.

And he can only be whatever he likes if Kaiser lets him. At the minute, I can't see what his character is adding to the roleplay apart from "zomg I'm an invincible super hero hurr".

**Catos**

Darkvoidof40k wrote:I had a game of quick cricket yesterday at school. The fat kid hit the ball, ran two steps the wrong way and fell over backwards. So funny.

And he can only be whatever he likes if Kaiser lets him. At the minute, I can't see what his character is adding to the roleplay apart from "zomg I'm an invincible super hero hurr".

Well I didn't actually expect to succeed in taking down the reaper and at the moment I am already planning on doing something important. Besides, if someone walked into your school with plutonium people might get pretty interested. Im only posting what I think would happen if I actually walked into troy with a magical cursed artefact.

p.s. blood reaper I dont see what your character is doing other than killing random people like you're Chuck Norris. When I killed the reaper it was Kaisers idea not mine so dont call me a chuck norris wannabe.

p.p.s I dont want you guys to hate me just bear in mind my last post will be relevent to future posts.

**Darkvoidof40k**

We don't hate you; that would be stupid considering we don't know you.

Kaiser, in the spirit of the game and the fear-factor he was racking up for these Reapers, should've killed your character or let him escape with serious wounds, instead of letting him kill it somehow. I can understand why he did it; when you're GMing the urge to be soft and not kill characters is very hard to ignore; a problem I'm dealing with in the current Space Hulk event.

**Shas'ui T'au Kais**

Trask Cale brought up his binoculars and looked towards a mysterious building with Aztec designs imprinted on it. He was here to be the savior, To bring back all the civilians who were lost here. He would be a hero.

Or so he thought.

He watched in awe as 5 figures moved out of the building, levitating!

"Jesus, they must be the Reapers!" he thought as they moved around, but suddenly his heart stopped beating when, as one, they turned and stared at him, thier gold burning eyes penetrating deep into his nerves.

"Oh crap!"

Then they simply disappeared, and Trask thought that he was safe, and that he had just imagined them, when they appeared directly in front of him, thier bodies translucent, and scary as hell, he thought.
He lowered his binoculars as the one that was directly in front him brought his hand towards his face, and the darkness enveloped him...

************

The Reaper moved onwards, it's thoughts focusing on his one target, who had killed another of his kin. He would be destroyed, and all those whgo followed him would be as well.
The man who he had just encountered had been spying on them, but he would grant him a bit of mercy. He would be a tool like the others who had wondered too close to them. The same mercy would not be granted to his target. He would die a terribly painful, and slow death, and would be a sacrifice to the Gods.

He revelled in these thoughts, as did his allies, as they moved closer and closer, towards the one they would destroy...

**Catos**

Darkvoidof40k wrote:We don't hate you; that would be stupid considering we don't know you.

Kaiser, in the spirit of the game and the fear-factor he was racking up for these Reapers, should've killed your character or let him escape with serious wounds, instead of letting him kill it somehow. I can understand why he did it; when you're GMing the urge to be soft and not kill characters is very hard to ignore; a problem I'm dealing with in the current Space Hulk event.

Fair enough. I'm not sure how I survived either

**Shas'ui T'au Kais**

No, I did not do it out of being soft and kind towards Catos.

If I had had my way, he would either now be dead, or he would just have survived major injureis and escaped.

It was just the way the dice rolled, and I have already explained why I am going to be using dice for these events, as I took inspiration from FITZZ's RP, in which it worked really well.

Now, lock it up, and get on with the roleplaying

**Darkvoidof40k**

Catos wrote:
Darkvoidof40k wrote:We don't hate you; that would be stupid considering we don't know you.

Kaiser, in the spirit of the game and the fear-factor he was racking up for these Reapers, should've killed your character or let him escape with serious wounds, instead of letting him kill it somehow. I can understand why he did it; when you're GMing the urge to be soft and not kill characters is very hard to ignore; a problem I'm dealing with in the current Space Hulk event.

Fair enough. I'm not sure how I survived either

"Lucky rolls" apparently. ¬.¬

**Darkvoidof40k**

Shas'ui T'au Kais wrote:No, I did not do it out of being soft and kind towards Catos.

If I had had my way, he would either now be dead, or he would just have survived major injureis and escaped.

It was just the way the dice rolled, and I have already explained why I am going to be using dice for these events, as I took inspiration from FITZZ's RP, in which it worked really well.

Now, lock it up, and get on with the roleplaying

Just because you get some dice rolls, as GM you have no reason to do exactly what they "say". This is why dice are a bad idea; they have no sense of humanity or understanding of the spirit of the game. They can create really stupid situations, for example, end of a roleplay, the last character is running for his life to disarm the bomb/assassinate the dictator/escape/whatever and then he trips on a random rock and cracks his skull open, or some crappy cultist jumps out of nowhere and whacks him to death with a stick.

**Shas'ui T'au Kais**

Okay, I admit I could have done it better, and not let him kill it, but that was the first fricking event I have ever done. Remember, this is the first goddamn RP I have ever done, so cut me some slack.

**Catos**

okay seriously, just forgive and forget and continue the rp

**Darkvoidof40k**

Shas'ui T'au Kais wrote:Okay, I admit I could have done it better, and not let him kill it, but that was the first fricking event I have ever done. Remember, this is the first goddamn RP I have ever done, so cut me some slack.

Oh, I'm sorry. Let me just apologize for explaining what you did wrong and why, so that your future events will be better. When I did my first events, I didn't have someone to point out what I did wrong/give help.

**blood reaper**

I've killed 6 unwary Bandits and you've deafeted a Reaper , somthing that turned the world into a hell hole. I'm not trying to be Chuck Norris and you've instantly got a crowd cheering for you.

**Darkvoidof40k**

blood reaper wrote:I've killed 6 unwary Bandits and you've deafeted a Reaper , somthing that turned the world into a hell hole. I'm not trying to be Chuck Norris and you've instantly got a crowd cheering for you.

Don't forget snapping his own broken leg back into position whilst being totally unaffected by blood loss, then hiking 3 hours over dangerous, Reaper and Raider filled land.

**FITZZ**

Quick attempt to explain the "Combat resolution system" I'm using for my RP...

All characters have a basic stat outline sort of like 40K (WS/BS/S/T...etc) and I use that as a guideline when combats come in to play..using dice rolls..

..But...I also have all players involved PM me with specific character actions concerning what their character wishes to do in a given event...

I find this method to work both in reflecting the randomness of being in a fight while maintaining a coherent narrative in the storyline..

**Darkvoidof40k**

In the events I now do, I exclude dice and stat systems, and now I also exclude the venerable PM system (unless it is absolutely necessary). It gives much more freedom.

But depending on people's GMing experience and ability, YMMV.