If you know me, you know I love me some half-assed interest checks. Here's what I got so far.
You're all test subjects in an island laboratory owned by a man who is more or less a supervillain. You will not kill him, or ever meet him, and he does not know you exist. In fact, you don't really have powers, or complete sentience. You're halfway between a lab animal and a human test subject, a living example of the ugly halfway points between an experiment and an invention. Specifically, your character is a human with increased physical capabilities and decreased mental abilities. In case anyone wants to know how decreased, the scientists have nicknamed the laboratories and zoo-like sections of the island you and your ilk are confined to as "The Cavemen Corner". Your speech is about as complex as the incredible hulk, and you probably can't comprehend computers, holograms, and videos as unreal. Me tarzan, you Jane. The whole shebang. God giveth and God taketh away, and you have certainly been compensated in what he has giveth you.
I haven't thought of a name for the species player characters will be, but they're essentially prototype supersoldiers who have small levels of animal-genes. They have the muscle-control and sprinting capabilities of a cheetah, for example, meaning that they can curve their spine mid-step to turn 90 degrees in a split second. Like great white sharks, they can smell bleeding from great distances and pick off weaker assailants, and like chimpanzees, they communicate and work as a team to accomplish goals.
Anyway, they escape.
I haven't thought of a name for the species player characters will be, but they're essentially prototype supersoldiers who have small levels of animal-genes. They have the muscle-control and sprinting capabilities of a cheetah, for example, meaning that they can curve their spine mid-step to turn 90 degrees in a split second. Like great white sharks, they can smell bleeding from great distances and pick off weaker assailants, and like chimpanzees, they communicate and work as a team to accomplish goals.
Anyway, they escape.
So, the biggest and most inflexible aspect of this idea is the page-based system of events to keep you guys interested. Page one begins with our characters escaping their facility, whereas reaching Page 2 means that the entire island is aware of their escape and is on the lookout, the first post of page three means that other prototype-being have been sent to catch the characters, and so on.
By the end of Page 5, I'd like for all of the characters to either be dead or have escaped, or more likely, a mix of the two. I don't want this to go on indefinitely because for one, I think five pages is enough space to have impactful character development in characters as smart as monkeys, and because I'm busy with other RPs and life.
By the end of Page 5, I'd like for all of the characters to either be dead or have escaped, or more likely, a mix of the two. I don't want this to go on indefinitely because for one, I think five pages is enough space to have impactful character development in characters as smart as monkeys, and because I'm busy with other RPs and life.
Haven't thought of a name for the company either, but it's essentially a front for a literal supervillain's evil genius experiments. They're evil because they're a corporation in a sci-fi roleplay, and also because they made animal-people, and the appeal to nature dictates how decidedly not groovy that is. I don't have a name for them yet, but they might as well have been called There's Shit We're Not Telling You Ltd.
Caveman Corner, as the scientists performing tests on you call it, is a bubble environment on a large island made out of indestructible transparent sci-fi material. I'll name it and what it's made out of later, but we all know it's just a giant hunger games bubble, so let's be real here. Caveman corner is a big artificial forest with germ-free tap water rivers, nutrient enriched flora and fauna, and a sky that can be changed to nighttime or stormy in an instant if there is a need for the test subjects to return to their nests. At the start of the RP, the test subjects have discovered a breach in the wall to the rest of the facility, which is divided by an impassible wall (At least at first) separating the much larger abandoned section of the island from the rest of the testing facility, which is a pretty generic aperture enrichment center ripoff. Our characters will probably be traversing through the abandoned part, which still probably has fucked up rusty robots and protoprototypes to look out for.
Caveman Corner, as the scientists performing tests on you call it, is a bubble environment on a large island made out of indestructible transparent sci-fi material. I'll name it and what it's made out of later, but we all know it's just a giant hunger games bubble, so let's be real here. Caveman corner is a big artificial forest with germ-free tap water rivers, nutrient enriched flora and fauna, and a sky that can be changed to nighttime or stormy in an instant if there is a need for the test subjects to return to their nests. At the start of the RP, the test subjects have discovered a breach in the wall to the rest of the facility, which is divided by an impassible wall (At least at first) separating the much larger abandoned section of the island from the rest of the testing facility, which is a pretty generic aperture enrichment center ripoff. Our characters will probably be traversing through the abandoned part, which still probably has fucked up rusty robots and protoprototypes to look out for.
Measuring Humanity -- The characters are referred to as "cavemen", the earliest forms of humans, and live in a tight-knit group that sleeps together in a nest to keep warm, and paint with berries on cave walls and trees as a form of creative expression. Their opponents, the science facility, have few problems hunting them down because they're not human, though the scientists wear face-concealing helmets, live in sterile, fluorescent-lit environments, and create life out of chemicals, proteins, and frozen egg cells. This brings up the question, which side is more human?
I have a few more in mind, but I'll write 'em up later.
I have a few more in mind, but I'll write 'em up later.
I'll get descriptions up later, but these works of fiction all have a lot of the same themes I'm going for.
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Oryx and Crake
The Secret of Nimh
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