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Sleeping in your one room apartment, you began to hear a noise ticking away in your ears. Well, ears were the wrong term for it; it felt like your ears, but it was really the copper in your brain. A voice was echoing through you, it spoke of the end of the city. Far above you it was known by many that the city never ended, but rumors had long circulated of the tower that reached above it all. Images were transmitted into your brain through the receivers behind your eyes: a prize beyond your wildest dreams, a promise of godlike power, or a cure to all illnesses. Your greatest desire, at the end of the city.
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Welcome to the City of Dark Rain, the never ending megapolis.
You are one of many who has received a signal from the end of the city. As the rain pounds down against your cheap glass windows, you must now ponder what you desire and if it is worth finding.
This is an RP focused around individual characters and their exploration of an infinite city. I will act as a GM and provide obstacles/updates for each character or group as they wander the city in search of the signal.
Combat is a focus of the story but not the only one and only if it is something two characters would organically engage in. I want to see different pairings of characters and interpersonal relations leading to different outcomes. I want mystique, romance, noire, and drama with an edge of action and slice of life in the city.
There will be elements of a battle royale at play, with a combat system focusing on clever writing and environmental awareness.
The signal itself has come with coordinates and, as such, each player will be expected to be on the path of finding the unending treasures at the "end of the city". This means players will be routed into eachother frequently and expected to speak, ally, or combat.
There is no real limit as to what you can play and what your end goal is here. Players are encouraged to diversify their goals, ranging anywhere from a doctor hoping to cure disease to an android girl wanting to cause the end times.
Fighting is allowed and encouraged. This is an exodus to the furthest reaches of a technological wonder and the winner takes all.





More music for character creation/writing fun.

Please show interest here if you wish to see this grow into a thread, I am new to the site so I am actually uncertain if this is the right place to post this (though not new to RP by any stretch).
We will be accepting somewhere around six to ten characters, though the story will be very NPC heavy due to its nature.
Character death will be a possibility, and if your character dies having a second one ready to roll is a good idea.

Any combat will be done post by post with me, as GM, deciding what happens next depending on character actions. This alleviates complications involved with dice rolling or autohitting. Following player posts I will create an update documenting what happened between each player as well as their current statuses and location.

As of now we are still accepting characters up to an arbitrary limit. Please post your characters in this thread using the template below.

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So, I can persuade you to allow in Magic if it's pitched well enough, yes?

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Should be dropping an app tonight or tommorow.

Got a social-do to deal for today but I'd like to reserve intent.

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I just read the @ in the interest check. I'd much rather be cute Droid though Decker is hard to beat.
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@deadpixel101 Reservation accepted, good luck lad.
@Letter Bee It really depends on how well it fits. If you pitched an outright wizard with robes and a staff I would probably say no. However! If you were to pitch something like a blind girl with supernatural senses, a guy with very very mild telekinetic abilities, a sleuth with supernaturally good intuition, or an android that was sentient by some means I would accept that.
Basically, think of it as a possible deniability rule. If you can pitch it in a way that gives it ambiguity, I am down with it no matter what it is.
This also applies to supernatural abilities that could be misinterpreted as technology.
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@deadpixel101 Reservation accepted, good luck lad.
@Letter Bee It really depends on how well it fits. If you pitched an outright wizard with robes and a staff I would probably say no. However! If you were to pitch something like a blind girl with supernatural senses, a guy with very very mild telekinetic abilities, a sleuth with supernaturally good intuition, or an android that was sentient by some means I would accept that.
Basically, think of it as a possible deniability rule. If you can pitch it in a way that gives it ambiguity, I am down with it no matter what it is.
This also applies to supernatural abilities that could be misinterpreted as technology.


Ah; to be honest, I don't think this will be the game for me, then. I am sorry.
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I'm most definitely interested. Would a roboticist type character work? One that can build and repair cyborgs and androids and the like?
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@Letter Bee S'fine lad, feel free to join in later if you change your mind.
@dereken >"Would a (thing to do with robots) be allowed?"

In fact, you'd be rather useful. Say you write a guy who can do repairs and upgrades on the fly, others will be turning to you to keep them going. A roboticist in this scenario would have all the advantages you'd expect plus the ability to act like a medic for androids and cyborgs.
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Excellent! I imagine he'll be less combat oriented, so here's hoping he makes some friends he can trust along the way. CS should be done before the night is out.
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Care for one more buckaroo to join your lil' rodeo here?
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Sure! Write up a character, bud.
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i'll finna sheet later,.,...
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@dereken

I love robots so I think I'll make a friend or two for you lol

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Also can I waste my time making the CS look uselessly fancy? It's becoming habit.

If you'd prefer I keep it simple and clean I understand though.
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@deadpixel101 Do as you will lad.
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There it is. Not perfect, but it's mine.
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I wanna join, but only because I'm gonna snoop around to steal all the good ideas for a scenario of my own. And because I'm a sucker for cyberpunk.

Whaddaya say I make a K-2SO for the party. Sounds fun, rite?
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Transhumanism, noir, and violence?

I'm in~!
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@deadpixel101 Now this is effort posting. I like that you've prepared three, it will save time if one of them suffers from an unlucky situation.
As I am trying new things in regards to individual aspects of the world and characters I want to try and balance things out fairly. Due to your focus on plasma/energy weaponry and rarer, more advanced sciences, I've been considering how we'll handle ammunition and supplies.
For now, I imagine issues with recharging and spare parts will be easily remedied at the start of the game with more issues arising the higher in the city each character goes.
Welcome to the journey lad, we're going to have some fun.

@dereken Works well enough, you're in.

@6slyboy6 Feel free to, though try to keep comedy reserved for comedic moments. My biggest issue with the new star wars films is that they don't know how to space silliness and drama apart, failing to reserve them from each other.

@DeadDrop Sad to see you go, pitch me something later on if you change your mind.

@BurningDaisies Glad to hear, feel free to write up a character!

EDIT: To clarify, I am fine with multiple characters per writer in play at once.
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Lovely to hear~

I can throw as many robot bodies at you as you can throw character deaths at me. That's not a threat; I just like suffering.

Also I wrote those all at like 1AM after a long day and I am now seeing the numerous typos and grammatical errors. I'll get to fixing those.

Eventually.
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