anyone wanna help me think of an rp

[Otebon Albrecht]

What kind of a story are you looking to tell?

A crash landing only tells me, the reader, where. Why is the important question. Was the ship carrying something important (are we scientists / military escorting something dangerous, like a virus)? Is it a colony ship and we are the only survivors? Do we even know (the point is to discover why)?


That's the important part, all else is superficial details.

[Jinx Leven]

sorry im not good at ideas in this kind of area i would say we were flying to a space colony to resupply when we crash landed on a planet filled with hostile and dangerous aliens and that we have no way of contacting anyone due to the ship nearly exploding does that help specify it Otebon

[Otebon Albrecht]

Oh, I'm sorry. I've done it again....


I was trying to give ideas. What you have is a good basis for a story, no problems there. An average mission going wrong is a wonderful impetus to a story. What plot do you wish to tell though?


Do you wish to have a survival story where the only purpose is to live for as long as possible? It's a bit dry and needs lots of opportunities to "cull the flock" as it were.


Do you want to see a story-based mission occur. What if the crash was engineered by something? A pirate colony or weapon that the players need to destroy?


There are countless opportunities.


If you really can't think of what you want to do though, try telling it to someone that does run RPs (like me) and have them tell the story for you. If they accept, you can play in your own story without ruining the ending.

[Jinx Leven]

lets say they are trying to survive and get off the planet

[Otebon Albrecht]

You say a survival story...


trying to get off the planet implies that there is someway to do that. This would also imply that the reason the ship crashed is reversible, so how and why did it crash? (I am just trying to show you my train of thought when I build a story)


Several options off the top of my head...


-Electro-magnetic field that caused the ship's instruments to malfunction. Fixing it may require destroying the field or discovering what it is so that the instruments can be recalibrated.
-Damage from anything. Could be natural (meteor shower, solar wind, gravity wells, etc.) to synthetic (sabotage, attack, mistaken identity as a military vessel in protected space, etc.). To "fix" this is obvious as the ship will not be ready to fly until fixed, but the cause of the crash must be dealt with. In the natural case, time may be the answer. The synthetic is more difficult to deal with as it doesn't just go away. Perhaps they need to find a working radio to call in someone to eliminate the pirate outpost and pick them up.
-Miscalculation of flight time led to lack of resources necessary to reach the destination. In short, we ran out of fuel...
-The crash was on purpose. The ship was actually programmed to crash land on the planet for some reason (escape pod, experiment and we are the subjects, exile, etc.).


Hope this helps!

[Jinx Leven]

ok i think i got it figured out. we were flying to a space colony to resupply when a band of space pirates attack us and we crash and when the pirates tried to land they also crash leaving us stranded with no way to communicate with the outside world and we must scavenge for parts and materials so we can live and get off the planet we have very limited resources since we crashed and we had almost nothing and the pirates barely had anything so we must find a way to fix a radio to get off this planet and there are hostile aliens attacking us so we must be careful. is that better Otebon

[Otebon Albrecht]

"Better" is up to you, it's your story.


Forgive me, I am trying to help you build your story. My opinion doesn't matter (or at least it shouldn't).


It's a great outline for a story. Now you just need to fill in a few details like...


-what caused the pirates to crash?
-what is on the planet that leads the survivors from both ships to believe that parts can be scavenged to rebuild a radio?
-why are aliens attacking?


Give it a little bit more work, and a great RP is in the works!

[Jinx Leven]

The cause of the crash is unknown. The colony is not far away so that is what causes the survivors to believe they can make a radio. The aliens are attacking because one of the ships hit the alien nest so the aliens are furious and are attacking anything they see.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Alright, there you go.


Now that you have a basis for the story, you can begin to do the grunt work for the story. This is the names, places, reasoning, and intro to the RP. It's really the difference between introducing your RP like this...


--- --- ---


Alright guys, this is an alien survival RP. We have all crash landed on a planet and have to run from aliens. We have to make a radio and ...


--- --- --


and this...


--- --- ---


The year is 4056 and Furkind has finally done what pups have dreamed of for centuries: colonize the Outer Rim. You were selected to be  on the Takinai, a colony resupply vessel carrying vital resources for Clarion 9. En route however, your ship was attacked by...


--- --- ---


It just makes everything... better in my opinion.


Have fun!

[Jinx Leven]

thanks for the help and you are welcome to join the rp if ou would like

[Otebon Albrecht]

I'll keep my eyes open for an OOC.


If you need any more help, feel free to PM me or keep posting here. I have it set up so I get notifications.

Good luck!

[Jinx Leven]

Here is a link to it  http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=18769.msg813877#new

[Otebon Albrecht]

I'm curious as to the location. It's in the Training Grounds section. Are you just testing it out before building a full RP?

[Jinx Leven]

It's in the training grounds

[Otebon Albrecht]

You know what, I had an idea. Here is an RP that I set up a little bit ago. I'm sorry that I can't offer you a space, all spots are filled already, but feel free to use it as a form for your own RP.


http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=18563.0