(Attention everyone: This RP is once again open to new players, but you must at least PM me indicating a strong desire to join and ability to post effectively and often before you are let in.)
Welcome everybody! This is the OOC thread for the Endgame Earth RP. Any comments, questions, concerns etc. regarding the RP should be posted here, or PMed to me if you don't want others seeing them. Please read the following before joining the RP, and have a great time!
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If you haven't read the history, here it is:
In the year 2020, tensions around the world over climate, the economy, and other issues reach a breaking point. A massive international war follows, with the conflict quickly escalating to a nuclear one. The war lasts only a couple years, but in that time is more destructive than all of humanity's previous wars combined. When it ends in 2022, the planet is in tatters. The sparse remnants of government and order have no idea how to proceed, and it is feared that what exists will be torn apart by the primal urge of everyone to be the "last race standing." That is when the meteors hit.
The meteors are seen coming. They are not typical space rocks- each is a large, perfect sphere of incredible density, which stays completely intact upon impact with Earth. There are hundreds of them that land around the globe, each impervious to destruction. Over the course of about a week, these spheres release some kind of force, believed to possibly be a microorganism, that targets only humans and nothing else. After the week, all the spheres self destruct at once, vaporizing themselves and leaving no trace as to what they might have been. However, the force remains.
It is named The Consumption. It overtakes the human body and transforms it, in a matter of a day, into a grotesque, fleshy being, possessing great physical power but maintaining significant intelligence. The Consumption cannot spread through the environment like a virus, though, and once the surge of Consumption released from the spheres either inhabits a host body or dies without finding one, it is wholly reliant on its living hosts. It could have been wiped out early on by killing the infected, but that is not what happened. Instead, humanity embraced it.
They saw Consumption as the great equalizer. Terrified of future wars, and in the belief that differences could never be resolved, they relinquished hope and let the Consumers (people transformed by Consumption) overrun the world, eating or injecting themselves with Consumer flesh and fluids (which, if ingested or otherwise put in the body, begin the process,) or otherwise just letting Consumers stab them with their sharp extremities and infect them themselves. Body size may differ, but every Consumer has the same objective, mindset, general appearance, and capabilities. All want to spread, all want to infect every human, and none ever attack each other. For the first time in history, humanity thought, we will all be the same and there will be unbreakable peace.
Of course, there were some who resisted. They realized two things quickly: Consumers are extremely sensitive to radioactive fallout, much more than other physiologically advanced species, and that they need to ingest organic material like any other animal to survive. Thus, the pockets of humans that wanted to remain human fled to the bombed-out ruins of great cities, where radiation levels were higher and there was less undeveloped land for Consumers to mount a sustained attack from. They also realized that Consumers are not very adept at building or utilizing machinery, so they don't try to attack across oceans or rough landscapes, like mountain ranges. Still, the sheer number of Consumers existing on Earth is vastly overwhelming to survivors.
This is where we come in. The Consumption is not programmed to attack furs, and since our numbers are very small we mostly stayed out of the way of the war and took proportionally very small losses. We have not sided with the human survivors necessarily, but we are trying to stay alive just as they are. While the Consumption cannot infect us, the Consumers will nevertheless try to kill anything that stands in their way of utter world domination. It is up to us to survive long enough, organize, and mount some kind of assault on the Consumption that may restore the world to the way it once was, or at least close to it. What we make that world, and who controls it, is up to us.
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Rules (pretty obvious, but still):
- Keep powerplaying and personal over-poweredness to a minimum. Don't be afraid to let some bad stuff happen to you now and then.
- There is no posting order, but try to post with reasonable regularity without being too overwhelming. If you ever feel like there is a problem regarding this, post about it in this topic.
- Before posting in the RP, make sure you're caught up with the storyline to avoid confusion between players.
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Character Sheet:
Everyone should fill out the following info and post it here before joining the RP:
Name:
Species:
Age:
Gender:
Defining physical traits: (If you have wings to fly with, a special kind of tail, etc. or if you just want to define your character more.)
Additional descriptors: (Coloring, markings, scars and the like.)
Ability: (NOT superpower. Everyone can have something they're especially good at, but don't go crazy. For example, you can have extraordinary night vision, but you can't shoot lasers out of your eyes.)
Weapon: (If you want one. If you choose to have one, you must be able to realistically carry it with you. Also this RP is set in the very near future, so you can be creative but no plasma cannons and stuff.)
Backstory: (Completely optional.)
Here's mine:
Name: Nova
Species: Wolf/dragon hybrid
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Defining physical traits: Long limbs and a slender build, good for running and jumping but not for brute strength.
Additional descriptors: Dark gray and black fur, scar over right eye, scaly extremities and a reptilian crest on the scalp.
Ability: Able to jump very high and freerun/parkour with ease.
Weapon: Gunblade (A lightweight sword with a semi-auto pistol as the crossguard, able to engage in melee and limited ranged combat.)
Backstory: Nova had just finished school for good and was living alone when the war broke out. He never bothered himself extensively with the matters of humans, and hoped that the war wouldn't escalate and that he'd be able to go on with his life without being affected. As the war didn't calm down, but rather intensified dramatically, he wondered if he should fight after all to defend his family and his kind from the wrath of humans. He was always a fierce fighter when it came to matters of importance to him, but after seeing the scale of the war and the issues being fought over, he decided that one more soldier wouldn't make enough difference to make up for the good he could do after the war that would never occur should he be killed. Instead, he was forced to flee his home and abandon his life to the fires of nuclear warfare. As with millions of others, he never knew what became of his family. To this day he wonders, against his better judgement, what might have happened if he had chosen to fight instead of run. He knows he would almost certainly be dead, but there is a part of him that still nags at his fighting instinct. Ultimately he blames the humans for their recklessness, and despite supporting the efforts of the remaining human survivors, he still harbors a deep resentment and distrust for their kind. The furs are the only family he has now.
