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DRIFTING FUTURE


It's been 150 years since the massacre of the Cloud, a maega-ship hybrid with a city big enough to be a small country. A city that both "never slept and never stopped moving" as they said in the ad campaigns. What caused the massacre is unknown but it was immense, a isolated apocalypse that left its infrastructure breaking down bit by bit. Lights bulb flicker, doors sealed with no clear reason and small segments of the ship slowly but surely fell into darkness, if not out right into a total failure to support life. Still, somehow, life has survived and even thrived within this husk of a once vibrant metropolis and small sections of it had been painstakingly bought back to function in echoes of what they were once before.

All the top brass were slaughtered in whatever event happened all that while ago and the lower ones, the guys who still had some clearance and knowledge on the ships workings lived like kings forming their own mafia, revolutions or movements and utilized their little pearls of power to play petty games. Naturally, they too, were killed in their inner wars or at the hands of descendants and survivors. The ships AI had stopped responding years ago and the few crew who did try to actually take charge as a captains or repair the ship were swallowed by the abyssal hallways.

For the last 150 years a mixture of strange human offshoots and robots have lived as citizen in this crumbling town, desperately trying to keep things running as best they can. Tolerating organized factions who held key political power to the ships long term necessities via force, know how or skills just to keep things going. The citizen themselves had known no other life and anything beyond low level leisure computers of engineering terminals were virtually totally locked out. The mystery of the past sitting in the shadows, whispering fears into their minds over the still palpable nests of brutality that are unlocked in the scavenging expeditions or reclaiming old buildings.

But now there's hope. A keycard has appeared. A UNRS rescue ship docked with a company provided captains deck access card. The fate of this crew and their ship is unknown, possibly claimed by whatever lingers in the Clouds dark corridors or just destroyed by the ruined and hazardous derelict parts. If someone can get that card...make the journey through the abyss to the fortified captains deck. Well.

They will take control of our Drifting Future.










MECHANICS AND OOC






At the moment the items are a bit scarce but my plan is to slowly open up the items more and more as the group meets more stores and people. This is just your starting options. I'll might add a few more bits later.

LIST OF ITEMS AND TRAITS





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1: You will be expected to post every 3 days.

2: You will be expected to post a min of 2 paragraphs. If you go under this in a rare moon don't worry, I won't go mad dog on you, kindred.

3: The relationship requirement is not optional. Talk to us, we don't bite, fam.

4: You will always be allowed a say when it comes to my GM decisions in combat but when I say it's settled be prepared to accept that. It can be frustrating, I know. But I promise I'll hear you out.

5: Death is a thing. Be ready for that.

6: You are only allowed one character although I will accept you using NPCs in your post when it comes to a character being in your house or mansion or faction base or whatever. NPC may be acquired later as a resource like other goodies.

7: Do NOT discuss your glimpses in ooc nor should you discuss your race commitments. Although I will allow elusions and vague references to them. Just don't exchange them in any real detail.

8: If you are struggling with something, or feel unsure about continuing the game as your character. Talk to me. I'm sure that even if I can't convince you to continue playing we can set up a nice, proper thematic death or departure for your character. It adds to the plot and lets your bow out without just ghosting.
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Operator Module Embla-6, im thinking is going to be on the more idealistic end for something like this. but a bit paranoid as a survival strategy. Skilled spaceworker, actually knows shit about spacecraft and maintenance. On a quest for answers about the fate of the Cloud.

Embla is doubtful that the card will actually work, but is still taking the risk as it might be useful (if extremely dangerous) leverage if it even unlocks control of some of the ships systems.

So, looking for relationships, Embla has spiritual beliefs (Technoshamanistic) and is most closely tied to the mining union.
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Sounds good to me, kindred. Just keep in mind that all of the ships the union has are very short range shuttles - for space that is - or space walkers - which I'll add later as a lore thing. Maybe under ships - which are basically just big old crabs/ drones that walk along the ships hull and carry people inside. Both of them are insanely rare/ hard to get a hold of.

Nice imitative, comrade. I motherfucking, dig it. I like that you made her a technoshaminist. Since you and dark cloud were so early you can post your characters without having to worry about the relationship aspect and you can mingle with others as they come to sort that bit out in OOC later.

I'll spit out a rough list of loot/ traits later today. Trying to call of the void that is my bed.
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So, I think, question is, where is the city ship in orbit? the rings of a planet or something?
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The Cloud is drifting aimlessly through space. It's not really orbiting anything which is why the Mining Operation are so dangerous because they need to intercept any passing asteroid and such. Mining it quickly then get back before the asteroid passes the Cloud or vice versa.

Where the ship is going, or was going, no one knows.

Right now the ship is just lucky that it seems to be passing some floating asteroid formations. When they pass by entirely they're kind of fucked and they know it in terms of new resources coming into the ship unless they get lucky again.
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I mean, asteroids tend to be....very spread out, so, if we arent even orbiting a star? its very possible that we may not encounter an asteroid for billions of years, given how...empty...most of space is. and we would have to be going (in cosmic scale) extremely slow in order to not just, fly right past an asteroid belt. (which would beg the question how we escaped the orbit of a star in the first place) unless like, the clouds engine was some kind of inertialess drive?
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The ship at the moment is moving very, very slowly. Like, laughably so. So the miners union job security has still got a decade or so - if not more - before they have to worry but ship moving one way, plus asteroid moving opposite moving means that the miners still have to be quick with their job lest they end up too far to get back to the dock. Even if they could get back to the ship, if they can't get to the mining dock they'd basically be forced to try and dock and connect with an unknown section of the cloud. Which is pretty much a death sentence for some dudes with mining gear and nothing else. They'd have to be really important or found something really good to justify a search party.

The ship at the movement is moving slowly but no one knows if it's always/ has been moving slowly simply because no one has access to the command deck nor the engines as they are in unknown parts of the ship.

The only people who's been in position to observe the ship are spacewalker vessels and the Mining Union. For everyone inside they have no way of knowing if its even moving since there are no ports or windows of any sort to see outside. But there SHOULD be an AI running the ship despite it not responding ages ago. So the current accepted theory is that the AI is piloting the ship but to what end and what logic no one knows. But even that is just a blind guess. It could be anything.

but there is definitely: a: some sort of a debris defence because nothing seems to hit the ship b: Some sort of force adjusting the ship course and correction. Stopping it getting dragged into orbit or flying into a sun or whatever. How this is achieved is technologically beyond its remaining residents though as no thrusters are seen correcting itself.
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I think Jenkins will be a ghost.
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Eternally cleaning people's shit up
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Haha. If you still plan on this guy being a janitor, brother. Then that's more perfect than the camera flash going off as the family portrait gets photobomb by a hot chick losing her bikini bra with the winning lottery numbers tattooed on her chest.
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@ScreenAcne yes but also still being able to kick ass.
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Ok, kindred. I added the traits and tools section. It's not a lot right now but my plan is to slowly expand your shopping options as you explore the world and sort of make the act of shopping/ scavenging more fun and revealing of potential stuff to loot.

Sorry if I'm a bit,motherfucking, slower than grandmas dribble here. I had a bit of the downward dash in the mood elevator today.
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Just remember,mi amigo I have a lot on my plate rn. So my interest is tentative. I'll work on a sheet when I can.
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Just remember,mi amigo I have a lot on my plate rn. So my interest is tentative. I'll work on a sheet when I can.


It's all cooler than a,motherfucking, snow man trapped in an igloo with an open fridge blocking the doorway. If you don't have the sinew to stretch into this RP too, kindred. Then it's ok. I won't maul your family cat or anything. But thanks for the heads up.
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I might just copy and paste the old sheet tho. Ahahah
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So long as you refit it to match the world and follow the OOC, it's cool by me, kindred.
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Ugh big cs's are my least favorite thing in the world but I'm trying.
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