ZONES: We Moved to the OOC, Greg (Sci-Fi, High-Casual, Development, Character-Driven)

[Stairdweller]

I'm interested.

[UrbanEvolution]

All these beautiful people are interested. I love it.

[SepticGentleman]

I'm interested.

@Stairdweller

I want the thing in your avatar as a belt buckle. Or a badge. I'm serious. Holy shit.

[Stairdweller]

Nifty, eh? I actually have no idea where it came from. @Sutternalt made it for me.

[SepticGentleman]

If all goes well, the OOC will be up in two-three days. After that, you can all read over it and start working on your characters. Or, if you're antsy, message me and I'll give you the sheet and all the info you'll need to fill it out.

[UrbanEvolution]

Yeah booooi. If you guys want, I'm going to be making signatures and stuff for characters. If they get accepted and you guys want one let me know. SepticGentleman's new sigbature is one I just made today of one of my characters, to give you an idea of what they would look like. No they wont all be red and black. You'll get to choose the other color should you want one. They're not hard to make, so it's no trouble for me to do it.

[ScarlettWaters16]

Yeah booooi. If you guys want, I'm going to be making signatures and stuff for characters. If they get accepted and you guys want one let me know. SepticGentleman's new sigbature is one I just made today of one of my characters, to give you an idea of what they would look like. No they wont all be red and black. You'll get to choose the other color should you want one. They're not hard to make, so it's no trouble for me to do it.

@UrbanEvolution

That's awesome! I would definitely like one if I get accepted.

[SepticGentleman]

<Snipped quote by UrbanEvolution> That's awesome! I would definitely like one if I get accepted.

@ScarlettWaters16

You most likely will get accepted. Even if you're busy, we won't be actually starting the IC until later on once the thread is up. So you have time to see to your work first. Don't sweat anything at all.

[Stairdweller]

Tagline suggestions: - Our fists are not the hammer - Please send food - Now with 33% less sodium! - We call the big one bitey

[SepticGentleman]

Tagline suggestions: - Our fists are not the hammer - Please send food - Now with 33% less sodium! - We call the big one bitey

@Stairdweller

Second one.

[Fairess]

I'm interested! I'm not sure what character concept I would go with, but I'm curious to see what kind of characters will emerge from an idea like this!

[UrbanEvolution]

I'm interested! I'm not sure what character concept I would go with, but I'm curious to see what kind of characters will emerge from an idea like this!

@Fairess

Well, Septic's telling me to give you examples with my characters. The first one is a seventeen year old teenager named Miriam. She's sassy and sarcastic and is a realist incarnate. She's in the late stages of cancer and is fighting a losing battle, with less than six months left to life. This means she's sickly, super pale, bald, is wheeled around in a wheel chair all the time, etc. In her zone, which is Zone One, she is an athletically fit, tanned, has long brown hair tied into a braid and isn't afraid to open up a can on whoop ass on you. That and she's entirely composed of solid ash and smoke, and can turn into it. She can control fire and the smoke itself. Think Delsin Rowe smoke powers except they don't need a charge, are used more creatively more often, and has fire as a backup. The second is a fourteen year old asian boy named Henry who is super smart, but struggles with his weight (He's 5'3 and 170lbs, for scale). He's funny and a nice guy but super insecure about himself. However, in the Zone, at least in REM stage (natural sleep) he becomes the hulking, neigh-unstoppable rage and hunger lizard monster capable of incredible physical feats that does nothing but hunt, destroy, and consume everything in it's path that's not a fellow zoner. You can get an idea of how that is in SepticGentleman's signature, which has Henry in his REM and human forms in it. EDIT: Keep in mind, while these characters are powerful we are going to be facing things just as if not stronger than us that also have numbers on their side.

[Fairess]

Hm... I see. It looks like things really are on the extreme end. I'll have to think about iiiiiiit, so we'll see when the actual thread comes out.

[UrbanEvolution]

Hm... I see. It looks like things really are on the extreme end. I'll have to think about iiiiiiit, so we'll see when the actual thread comes out.

@Fairess

Well, with Henry, yes. Since I've been tasked to kinda set the top of the par with him. There is a reason he is like that. Not everyone will be on that power level.

[SepticGentleman]

<Snipped quote by Fairess> Well, with Henry, yes. Since I've been tasked to kinda set the top of the par with him. There is a reason he is like that. Not everyone will be on that power level.

@UrbanEvolution

They'll definitely be able to reach it, though. The whole point is that these characters are going to have to crank their shit up to eleven because the enemy's at fifteen. No drawbacks or weaknesses like in most other games.

[Stairdweller]

*elbows into the conversation* I'm planning on doing a zone 3 type character. With mismatched parts, as though she is constantly adding whatever new parts catch her fancy to herself, like a bionic magpie.

[SepticGentleman]

*elbows into the conversation* I'm planning on doing a zone 3 type character. With mismatched parts, as though she is constantly adding whatever new parts catch her fancy to herself, like a bionic magpie.

@Stairdweller

You're gonna love Potato.

[UrbanEvolution]

A potato flew around my room before you came, excuse the mess it made~

[Stairdweller]

I grew potatoes in my garden last year?

[SepticGentleman]

I'm just gonna put this here for the rest of yous.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Your character is a normal person living on earth in the year 2034. And I mean normal. You are free to mold them how you wish, but keep in mind the cool stuff won't be happening until they're actually Zoning. So for now, keep it mundane.
• Being that this is set in a somewhat distant future, advanced technologies exist. Improved methods of transportation (but no flying or floating cars), 2D holographic projections, simple robotics (humanoid service drones are around, but very rare, and meant only for top-tier companies and rich folk), and other such things. As for the state of the world, there's no major conflict going on save for the invasions of the Zone beings. Keep all this in mind when concocting your character's backstory.
• The setting as of now is in mid-August. The attacks began around May, involving creatures such as hulking, red, glowing humanoids with unreal powers, biomechanical abominations, feral alien creatures, etc, etc. Your character started dreaming themselves into their specific Zone a week or so after the first attack.
• Your character belongs to one of the three Zones. Zone 1, the red city, will give your character an elemental power (pyrokinesis, crykinesis, etc). Zone 2, the wilderness, physically alters your character into an animal or beast of some form or another, such as a wolf, or a griffon, or a deer/bull hybrid (mix and match parts from mundane/mythological creatures, if you wish). Zone 3 is an underground factory network housing tunnels and chambers full of mechanically augmented sludge and flesh monsters. Here, your character will have both a biological/extrasensory power (toxic bile, telekinesis, etc), and any range of mechanical augmentations (like prosthetic metal arms for better punches). What you need to do is choose one of these Zones to house your character in, and then go from there.
• Your character is not allowed any weapons or companions in the Zones. To start, that is. Such things will come about soon after the game begins.
• The main point is that after your character became very immersed in their Zoning while they slept, they were whisked away one night by figures unknown without even realizing they had been abducted. Don’t go beyond the point where they wake up – that will be covered later.

All of that is the important stuff. Anything needs explaining, just ask. Here’s the sheet.

[hider=(Your character’s full name)][b]NAME:[/b]
[b]AGE:[/b]
[b]GENDER:[/b]
[b]ZONE:[/b] (A simple number will suffice.)

[b]PERSONALITY:[/b]

[b]HISTORY:[/b] (Your character’s life up to right before they woke up in the facility.)

[b]APPERANCE[/b]
[list][*][b]PHYSICAL:[/b] (Don’t worry about your character’s attire, they will be wearing a uniform for the duration of the game. Just tell us what they look like in terms of face, figure, etc.)
[*][b]IN-ZONE:[/b] (Both your character's physical form AND outfit will change drastically in the Zones. Keep to mind your character's REM/Nexus powers and their particular Zone when typing this section out.)[/list]

[b]POWERS[/b]
[list][*][b]NEXUS:[/b] (Your character’s abilities are hampered when they are using the Nexus Projector machine. Not as effective as usual, but not completely useless either.)
[*][b]REM:[/b] (Your character's abilities at maximum potential, while they sleep regularly. I will not be asking you to create weaknesses for them, but please don’t go overboard here either.)

[b]OTHER:[/b] (Random facts and otherwise belong here.)[/hider]