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[color=403d3d]A Roleplay Inspired by [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)][color=403d3d]Tarkovsky's [i]Stalker[/i][/color][/url][/color]
[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/24/ac/34/24ac34fe303a6cdc2e9ebbfc1a2df06b.jpg[/img][hr][hr][hr][/center][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent]"𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚙 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠; ... 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜: 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑, 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛𝚜. 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕; 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜."[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][indent]~𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙵𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][hr][hr][hr]𝚂𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚒𝚝! 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚠𝚒𝚛𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚗𝚒𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚌𝚔𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚜. 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜. 𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝙸'𝚖 𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐.

𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎, 𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚟𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝, 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍? 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚝, 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚏 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚖𝚗 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚣𝚎, 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚠? 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚎 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜. 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚎; 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛. 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚏 𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎: 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚠𝚎. 𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝚆𝚑𝚘'𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚕. 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚑? 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗. 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊 𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝚃𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕. 𝙰𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎.

𝙸 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚝. 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎, 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛, 𝚞𝚑, [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa][color=ffffff][i]𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚊[/i][/color][/url]. 𝚁𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝? 𝙸 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚝. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚕, 𝚊 𝚏𝚎𝚠 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜' 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚋𝚘𝚡 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚜, 𝚜𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢. 𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕, 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚖𝚎𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙶𝚘𝚍-𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎.

𝙷𝚎𝚢. 𝙽𝚘 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚑 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 [i]𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢[/i].[hr][hr][hr][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/LnjgFwc.png[/img][/center]Welcome to [i]Cyanide Suns[/i]. This is a [b]Post-Apocalyptic[/b] roleplay with no zombies, no viruses, and no frills. This is the RP for people who like Dostoyevsky, Tarkovsky, and Zamyatin; the people who like to slow down and take it easy a bit with their action and adventure. My brothers-from-other-mothers who throw big dollops of existential angst, depression, and alcoholism into their characters.

Here's a rudimentary rundown of the story behind this RP (though I'll keep a list of worldbuilding crap in a Hider down below): It's the mid-nineties, in an alternate universe where the Cold War went suddenly hot about one decade ago. The "Two Days War" resulted in very abrupt and massive destruction both of Europe and of Asia before a sudden ceasefire was [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction]agreed upon by both parties[/url], ending the holocaust as suddenly as it had begun. While the majority of the civilized world continues to function (albeit in a sort of post-war shellshocked state), many pockets across Europe and Asia have been irreparably ruined by the light which blinds the eye and the winds which level cities. Power plants, areas of industry, and major population areas especially were targeted during those fateful forty-eight hours!

And amidst the deaths of these places rose the wriggling white maggots: colloquially known as [i]stalkers[/i].

In this RP you have entered an Exclusion Zone for your own reasons. These reasons are up to you. (There's a pretty good list of ideas in [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4042888]the IntChk[/url] if I may say so myself.) What's not up to you is what will stand in your way: bandits, mutants, radiation, weather and climate, hostilities between traders and their factions,...and more.

To you who are interested, welcome. I hope this RP will see success for a very long time, and with that goal in mind, here are the rules which will be followed in this thread:[hider=Rules][indent][hider=OOC (Out of Character)][list][*]You know this shit already: godmoding, metagaming, Mary Sues, and so on. These are bad. Don't do them.[*]I like politeness and courtesy. I like freedom of speech even more.[*]If you're going to be absent, give us ([i]me[/i]) some fair warning. I'm not holding up the entire RP for you if you cannot be arsed to show up to the thread once a week.[*]Both PCs and NPCs can die. No plot armor here.[*]Everything in this RP is considered [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/forums/5-advanced-roleplay]Advanced[/url]-level, [i]except[/i] for post length. IDGAF how long your posts are, but competence and style with the English language are a must.[*]You are allowed to enter "speedposting" mode if you and another player have entered a verbal conversation with not very many actions going on nearby. I don't mind this. Use your discretion, and again, when in doubt, ask. Collaborative posts on Skype and Google Docs are cool too![*]Feel free to do your own worldbuilding! But if in doubt, send me a PM. I care mostly about tone and atmosphere, but our bits and pieces of lore should not contradict each other.[/list][/hider][hider=IC (In Character; worldbuilding stuff)][list][*]It's the mid-1990s.[*]There are many [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone]Exclusion Zones[/url] all across the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries, where the atom bombs were dropped. Ours is somewhere in southwest Germany.[*]Zombies? What's that? Never heard of it. Surely they don't exist. (Trust me. They don't.)[*]Lots of mutants though. These will be based on the real mutants which live near the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_sarcophagus]CNPP[/url] to this day, and which crawled out of the fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously some liberties will be taken with science; most real mutants are sterile, but ours will have become actual species by now.[*]It's been between 5 and 15 years since the bombs dropped during the "Two Day War."[*]I honestly don't know how I will handle radiation yet. A player shouldn't be doomed to a guaranteed slow and agonizing death if his character wanders into an irradiated area. But whatever we end up doing, it's still dangerous and you shouldn't go swimming in it.[*]Try to be reasonable when it comes to equipment, both in your inventory and in traders'. What would we successfully be able to smuggle into the Zones? For example, vehicles basically will not exist; only a few people own them, most of these people are military or smugglers, and [i]any[/i] of them will shoot you dead for trying to jack their trucks.[*]Your currency isn't [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_2033_(video_game)]bullets[/url] (though barter will certainly be feasible), [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(series)]bottlecaps[/url], or [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]artifacts[/url]. It's money. Remember, most of the world continues to function somewhat normally outside of the Zones![*]The collection of military checkpoints, barbwire fences, and sniper towers surrounding the Zone is called "The Circle." It exists to keep radioactive dust out of civilization, and to keep civilization away from the radioactive dust. You [i]are[/i] here illegally, and therefore are a criminal; although it's up to you whether you were also a criminal [i]before[/i] coming here.[*][b]etc. (if questions are asked, or I think of more to add)[/b][/list][/hider][/indent][/hider][hr][hr][hr][center][img]http://i.imgur.com/eOmLP28.png[/img][/center]Here's a [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4042888]link to the IntChk[/url], in case I've already answered one of your questions.

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[*]"Real" names, e.g., Danny and Dan for Daniel.
[*]As many nicknames as you like, but at least one ought to be profession-based, like in the movie. They refer to each other as Scientist, Doctor and Stalker instead of their real names, and we do that here, too.
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[*]Male or Female.
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[*]A rough outline. I don't want to know everything about your character before I've even met him IC. Creating an explicit list of likes/dislikes will result in the character's immediate and unwavering rejection!
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[*][color=#CC5252][b][i]𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟[/i] 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲:[/b][/color]
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[*]I don't really give a huge goddamn in this area either. Again, the less you tell me here, the more you can reveal during the course of the RP. Short and sweet; trust your gut on what you should mention and what not.
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[*][color=#CC5252][b]𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬:[/b][/color]
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[*]Weapon 1; name and URL linking to image
[*]Weapon 2; name and URL linking to image
[*]Weapon 3; name and URL linking to image
[*]Weapon [i]n[/i]; name and URL linking to image
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Also found here are media which, although not always directly relevant to the RP or its genre, will greatly aid the players in the matters of tone and atmosphere, character development, plot progression [i]et cetera[/i], should they choose to indulge in such materials. Many of these are personal favorites:[hider][list][*]Anime and Manga[list][*][i]Angel's Egg[/i][*][i]Cowboy Bebop[/i][*][i]GANGSTA.[/i][*][i]Grave of the Fireflies[/i][*][i]Inaka Isha[/i][*][i]Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade[/i][*][i]Mononoke[/i][*][i]Mons†er[/i][*][i]Now and Then, Here and There[/i][*][i]When the Wind Blows[/i][/list][*]Film[list][*][i]Aguirre: The Wrath of God[/i][*][i]Apocalypse Now[/i][*][i]Come and See[/i][*][i]Easy Rider[/i][*][i]Fargo[/i][*][i]The Hustler[/i][*][i]The Last Laugh[/i] (1924)[*][i]No Country for Old Men[/i][*][i]One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[/i][*][i]The Seventh Seal[/i][*][i]Solaris[/i] (1972)[*][i]Stalker[/i][/list][*]Literature[list][*][i]American Psycho[/i][*][i]Brave New World[/i][*][i]Candide[/i][*][i]Catch 22[/i][*][i]Confessions of a Mask[/i][*][i]The Idiot[/i][*][i]Johnny Got His Gun[/i][*][i]Notes from Underground[/i][*][i]Roadside Picnic[/i][*][i]Solaris[/i][*][i]Steppenwolf[/i][/list][*]Interactive media ([i]e.g.[/i] videogames)[list][*][i]Bloodborne[/i][*][i]Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth[/i][*][i]Papers, Please![/i][*][i]Pathologic[/i][*][i]Planescape: Torment[/i][*][i]SOMA[/i][*]The [i]S.T.A.L.K.E.R.[/i] series[list][*][i]Shadow of Chernobyl[/i][*][i]Clear Sky[/i][*][i]Call of Pripyat[/i] [/list][*][i]The Talos Principle[/i][/list][/list][/hider][hr][hr][hr]