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Something was wrong...

You woke from your cryo chamber feeling groggy, cold, and a bit stiff. Others were beginning to stir around you, but something was wrong. As your vision cleared, you realized the lights were blinking red, and that noise in your ear clarified to red alerts over loudspeakers. The computer was urging all passengers to seek escape pods immediately. Something in the system was down. People were getting up, stumbling, trying to move towards the evacuation route to get out of here.

You were supposed to be part of a colonization party, and there were 100 of you in cryo chambers on board the ship bound for the Earth-like planet Spera. Not all of them were opening, and the air feels stale and thin. Dates on computer screens showed you had arrived at Spera on time, but it seems life support was dwindling and that several engines had disabled over the last few months of the travel. You were supposed to arrive on the planet, wake up, and allow robotic systems to establish a simple dome colony to begin your work from, but apparently that wasn't going to happen. You have one chance to live: find the escape pods that would deliver you onto the planet in a one-way trip, and once on Spera, survive.
This is an RP centered around survival, homesteading, and human drama. It's about the lives and relationships of the players and how they interact with each other and their environment. Approach it and others how you will. Can you live on Spera , hoping that the people that sent you here would realize eventually that no signals were being sent out? That could take decades...

So you're landed on Spera, named for the Latin "fac et spera" "Do and hope," an Earth-like planet with similar conditions but very different fauna and vegetation (feel free to make up your own species as you explore, don't wait on just my direction). You will know of some of the larger creatures from the educational videos you watched prior to joining the colony population, giving up on Earth and all ties to it. You will also know some of the edible or dangerous plants, but you may end up with some trial and error. You aren't all scientists; you have a variety of people with a variety of skills. The scientists may not have even made it off the ship. There were small packages containing your personal belongings at the base of your cryo chamber, did you think to grab it? If you had someone with you, did they make it out?

I will be RPing but I will also serve as a narrator so I can bring on things like weather problems, hostile creatures, and other things into the story. :)

Hoping to have at least three people playing including myself. Preferably people that can check daily or every other day so the story keeps moving. Too often I've had RPs just die 3-4 weeks in because people stop posting. If you're prone to that, please skip this. I'm looking for active players who can write advanced RP, looking especially at character development and interaction, with dialogue as well as action and the creativity to shape a world.
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http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/9617/posts/ic Examples of my writing ability can be found here. :)

I also have a character vault here: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/9155/posts/ooc
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I'd be interested in joining this, perhaps as a tech-savvy scientist.
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I'd be interested. Hope this gets the attention it deserves.
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Awesome let me get through this weekend and Monday and I'll make a nicer ooc for character sheets. :D I've got classes to teach, an open studio to deal with, and a job interview that requires I rewrite my lesson plan outline for eighth grade rather than high school.
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I work in higher education, totally understand. I have run a few SciFi before myself, if you need any help just ask.
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I'm not good at faux-tech-speak so I will leave that to more vet scifi folks. I will probably make my character someone who won her place by lottery. (Basically passed the health and fertility exams and got her name in the hat). I'm playing with the idea of someone who planned on farming. Still working on the idea, and I'll make a CS later. My studiomates agreed we don't have the time to get the studio ready for open studio tomorrow so I'm just finishing some work to hang on our space in the hallway then I will make the OOC and we can start on CS's at our leisure. I'd like to start the game in the next week. :) My opening in the CS will be better/more informative than the interest check, so look forward to a clearer depiction of what you will go in knowing and some ideas on how you might have gotten your place on the colony ship.
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I'm interested in joining up! If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to have a character who is a botanist. I happened to catch wind of this rp right after I finished reading The Martian by Andy Weir and this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for!
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Color me interested. Seeing as how we seem to have scientists, every group needs a little bit of muscle. Good with various weapons (With which ever ones made it down, not too many just to make it interesting). Moderately well off in the Trade Skills department.
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I'm rather interested in well! I'd probably make some sort of tradesperson, something akin to a lumberjack - though probably not quite that considering this is more futuristic. I'll think more on it!
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I'm in on this. Thinking the usual security type, maybe ex-cop back on earth, maybe Desperado and I can work together. I'm assuming not much will have made it down so mine is just going to have a sidearm with a small supply of ammo, depends how futuristic this is on what type of weapon it will be. The colony would have needed a few guards to protect it from the local fauna. My character won't be high up on the command chain, just a general guard so when this gets going feel free to take a position of command Desperado.
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http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/28011/posts/ooc?page=1#post-793848

OOC is up! Hunted for some interesting alien creatures to jumpstart our thinking on the planets fauna and flora. You're certainly not limited to just those, and we can update with pics or written descriptions of creatures you encounter as we go. :) Also check out the glossary for some ideas on Earth as you left it.
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bump
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Putting together a cs, will post it tomorrow. In the process of moving right now so I'm a little busier than usual.
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