HeySeuss

Spiritum

I'll figure out how to respond to this. Prolly keep it short unless we are going to collab.

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

Just saw this and really down for this.

I really really want to play as a privileged socialite-cum-romance artist who only got into the colony to stop a scandal from exploding with one of the board members.
He managed to win himself the role of 'colony-poet laureate' and would have started the first colony gossip mag, convinced the assistants in one of the biochemistry labs to start whipping up narcotics, and would host wild underground orgies of sex and drugs. He would be the center of the bohemian scene on the colony.

I think a raving hedonist is exactly what a struggling utopian colony needs. Besides, scientists need to party

@Sypherkhode822

Oh, that would be perfect and lovely. We need some of those divisive social issues/practices and a bit of society in the culture. This will be particularly useful as the plot progresses.

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

Hello, the Guild is starting to get less stable and when these errors pop up, it usually means that it becomes unusable until mahz can get back.

Please login into this RP's Discord chat so we can stay in touch and, if necessary, pursue this RP on an alternative platform while the Guild has technical difficulties.

@Iryhor@CowboyCommando@Buprenex@Heap241@Atrexiel

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

Sounds good. I think it's important to note that not all characters had to be hired as the top person...a lot of people died.

If you guys would like, we can start a Trello board as well as use the discord for brainstorming sessions. I feel that Trello is a step up from just putting things on a forum, because it allows for topics to be created and added, and comments made on these specific topics. It helps track lore generation.

Remembers saying goodbye to @HeySeuss But HeySeuss has just started up an RP he once did long ago, perhaps with new surprises in store. Might join even though he is up to his eyeballs with responsibilities and other hobbies..

Dammit HeySeuss!

@CowboyCommando

This is an old favorite, but I brainstormed ideas in my little green notebook that led me to want to try this again. One of the nice things out there since the last time I tried this (more than two years ago) is that I am aware of new productivity software that helps with the brainstorming and that I know that this plot needs people to have a good idea of what direction we are taking it in.

So to fully disclose, Humanity has colonized since Aeneas' colonists disappeared. Then things happened to balkanized, fracture and otherwise devastate Humanity and they are crawling out of that, seeded on a variety of planets. Aeneas' colonists have to grapple with this situation and make decisions that have consequences. So some of the players have asked me (quietly, which is good) about certain political and scientific beliefs that I think bode well for the RP, because if these people are leading a colony and that colony is influential in ways they didn't expect and they learn things that they didn't even realize were possible, then the dissent will be fun to play out.

Furthermore, I want to be more collaborative in the GMing and work on the plot arc together. I have my ideas, but other people have plenty to bring to the table. That's why Trello -- you work on it, others see it, add to it, and spin off it.

So my role isn't to run the plot alone, it's to work with you guys and help create an atmosphere where we invest in our characters and the plotline as a whole, ditching the usual model of GM'ing. If we have twists, that's cool too. We should all be providing twists, because I like surprises and creativity as much as anyone else.

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

There would definitely need to be more than one doctor. And we can always play people who are department heads and the next in line.

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

I understand the characters have been in suspended animation/hibernation for 100+ years, but has this process; used for the space travel suspended physiological growth? Do the characters remain the age they were when the started the journey.

@Gunther

The process is a type of stasis, absolutely. I did not go into details but if someone has the science to come up with something viable, I am all for.

Far Colony [Sci-Fi]

Well, there are several ways to approach this. I am generally of the feeling that such cybernetics exist for people with a strong medical need but the required medical followup and care is such that it wouldn't be for someone to just lop off their arm to get a stronger one.

Nom de Guerre [Historical/1950]

_{A pair of Foreign Legionnaires fighting Viet Minh in an ambush, 1952}

TL;DR Summary

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• French Indochina, 1949-1950
• Historical/Psychological Thriller
• The French retook Indochina (Vietnam) after the Japanese occupied it in WWII, but encountered stiff resistance from the Vietnamese, who seek to dismantle the French colonial system in favor of self-rule.
• I have two characters; the Pole and the German. I am looking for a player to take up the role of the French nurse that is married to the German.
• The French nurse married to the German; the German is trying to escape his past and the Pole wants to kill the German for it; the Pole will find himself in the same hospital, unbeknownst to either party, that the French Nurse works at. It can move into a murder plot from there.
• The French nurse herself is a survivor of WWII, but of an age with the Pole. How she spent the war is up to you, the player. She could have been in France when it was occupied/liberated (possibly Resistance -- teenagers fought and died for France as maquis) or she might have been in exile in Britain or Canada. That's your end.
• High casual-Advanced; I can give a potential partner lots of the historical information on the era.
• Based on a true story; both "Street Without Joy" by Bernard Fall and "Eichmann in Jerusalem and the Banality of Evil" by Hannah Arendt.
• At least a couple paragraphs per post, possibly more.
• My availability is sometimes not the best, which is why a 1x1 is a better move -- I feel like I can write that with someone and I consider myself an ideal partner for someone who also might take a bit of time to get a post out.

In Character Info

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Nom de guerre (French phrase meaning "name of war" or "war name") were frequently adopted by recruits in the French Foreign Legion as part of the break with their past lives.

The tale starts in Poland, where two very different men, a Silesian German man and a Warsaw Jewish boy both hail from. The German is a grown man with a university education and a commission in the Schutzstaffel (SS), the police-military arm of the Nazi party. He oversees the slave labor of Jews in the ghettos and the concentration camps on behalf of the department of labor within the SS. He is reckoned a war criminal by the Allies.

The boy, the son of a Warsaw professor of physics, manages to escape the fate of many Polish Jews; his father has him shipped to France to stay with a colleague's family, before Poland falls in 1939. When the Germans bring the thunder of their Blitzkrieg to France in 1940, he escapes again, this time to Great Britain. There, he lies about his age and joins the war fighting for a King and Country that are not his.

When the war is over, the two men go their separate ways; many Germans join the French Foreign Legion. The French gladly take in these men, even though many of them are wanted war criminals and the invaders and occupiers of la France, yet their need for troops in far-flung corners of their failing empire, in places like Indochina and Algeria, outweigh such considerations. These men are given new names and are hidden. The German man signs his name and joins his kameraden in la Légion étrangère.

The Polish boy, now a man, leaves Europe behind for Palestine, joining the camp survivors and many other refugees to build the new Jewish homeland. There is little peace to be found and he fights a second war as part of the newly-founded Israeli Defense Forces. Eventually he locates people, camp survivors, that he once knew as a child, people who knew his family, and he finds out the bitter details; where and when it happened and who did it. He even manages to find reliable information that the man joined the Foreign Legion.

While he is a serving soldier of the Israeli Defense Forces, he requests transfer to the Navy. When his ship pulls into Genoa, he jumps ship and makes for Marseilles, France, the home of the Legion, at least in France. The Polish man signs his name and takes on a nom de guerre in la Légion étrangère.

The German man is sent to to fight the Communists, the Viet Minh, in Indochine (Vietnam) where he meets and secretly marries a French nurse; she doesn't care about his past, and he doesn't go into details -- the past is done. Together, they plan for a bright and happy future with each other; she with the sort of charming man she always dreamed of, and he putting his own black deeds well behind him by adopting a new name in the Legion and obtaining French citizenship.

Meanwhile, the young Pole is wounded in battle, and he winds up in the same hospital, in Hanoi, where the French nurse works. He has stories to tell; the past isn't as done as she thinks it is.

Out of Character Info

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The plot is simple; the Pole is going to kill the German, but he's going to have to wrangle information out of the French woman to do it. He has to track the German down somehow, and doesn't have much information to work with. It may well be that they become friends and he tells her why he's there. Sympathy turns to shock as the tale unfolds and he describes the killer of his family, a callous, amoral monster...and her husband. There's a lot of psychological, emotional and moral choices involved. How you'd care to play it is up to you, I'm down with whatever the outcome.

There is a twisted element to this, of course. There's a potential for a sordid affair, guilt and conspiracy to murder. There's a lot of potential in the plot, but I'm looking for input, more or less, on where to take it. There is another twist, of course...the German is wealthy from the ill-gotten proceeds of the war years. Or at least, he has that wealth stashed away. Hello multiple motives.

This is actually based on a true case; there was no woman involved, but an Israeli man did kill the man who had his family massacred, while both were serving as legionnaires in Indochina. When he came back after his time in the legion, he was tried for desertion in Israel, but was acquitted. He was even praised -- one less Nazi in the world. That's just a cool postscript, something I read in Bernard Fall's "Street Without Joy" a while ago. But it makes for a heck of a 1x1 idea.

The ideal partner is coming to the table with ideas of their own on where to take the plot and their character's wartime history. That history may determine how that character reacts to the idea that their husband is actually a wanted war criminal and SS type. The RP should involve flashbacks, as to explain how they got to this point.

Spiritum

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To be honest, I'd kinda prefer our own small Discord. I don't like having to silence new channels periodically.

@Draken

That's really easy to accomplish, basically.

Edit: Using this link, this is the chat we talked about. No worries about being purged out.

Star Wars - Rancor Company

Popped in one. Basically, lodging Besk's concerns that it's a goatfuck.