ClocktowerEchos

Salute to the Fallen (Reboot)

@TheodorableQuickly looked over the IC, noticed a mistake. You put the Deigo guy as the Prime Minster, he's actually just a senator

When Royalty Collides ~Closed~

Zhou Mei Xianshi

Prince Zhou Mei Xianshi of Liang

_{"The past is history, the future is a mysterious; that is why we call today the present"-Old Turtle Master Dude}

Nickname:
The Pirate Prince
King of Blades (Zhou made it up himself, he's rather proud of it)
Hai Wang
Xian
Zhou
Xian Xian (child name used only by his father)

Birth Date:
July 3rd, 1997

Age:
18

Sexuality:
Straight

In Depth Appearance:
Zhou is one of those people you can immediately spot as not being of royalty or nobility in terms of mannerisms in the traditional sense. His slick hair is tainted with the salty scent of the sea as its often combed over in one rough, seemingly unmanaged way or another (sometimes with the use of copious amounts of hair spray and gel). A wicked, adventurous smile adorns his face with several small cuts and bruises are hidden by make up cover some more of both his face and body. Zhou's tall build has a good amount of muscles built up on it after years of fist fights and manual labor. When he walks, there is a notable swagger and sway to the nearly six foot man, Zhou's legs from all his time on the ship yet when he would other wise appear to become unbalanced, his balance never breaks. From time to time, Zhou might have a bit of beard or a chin stubble, keeping it for a few days before returning to his clean shaved looks.

Despite preferring more common clothes and sometimes pirate "armor", he does give in to wear more formal clothing. He's divided between modern suits with trenchcoats and traditional Chinese robes.

Personality:

• Rough • Loyal • Reckless •

Zhou is untrained in the ways of a noble. Sure, he knows his manners and not what to do around guests but he doesn't know the fine intricacies of being of royal blood. Being gentle or exercising restraint is not his strong suit and is prone to using aggressive language or physical blows against those he deems that its necessary against. Zhou has a rather warped philosphy and see being too passive as a sign of weakness as it constantly giving in. He's blunt, uncouth, and snarky, but he'll follow you to the end if you convince him too.

He's appearance often gives off the look of lacking grace and elegance, like playing heavy metal in the middle of a classical orchestra. Zhou isn't afraid of what other royals would see as "dishonorable" or "disrespectful", only remembering a certain amount of social cues at any given moment. Zhou also tends to do hell-face turns on what he says on occasion, ignoring his own hypocrisy and flaws in his logic and can get a bit childish. But he does keep at least the look of a someone his age, just a bit... rougher around the corners. He's got style and he can have class, its just not the classy style expected of a royal gentleman.

Likes:

• Talking to people and telling stories both true and false
• His old crew/squad/groupie/gang/etc
• Action movies
• Basically doing whatever he wants
• The wealth that comes with being royalty
• Progressive politics
• A wide variety of games
• Really good seafood.

Dislikes:

• "All work and no play"
• "Noble Pride" (the "we're better than everyone else since we're nobles" thing)
• Non-violence/Passiveness/Innocence
• People who try to bring up/insult his past and the people he used to be with
• Most types of alcohol (Zhou is actually surprisingly light headed)
• People who try to push work on to him
• Having to keep up with what he calls the "facade of nobility"
• Tabloid magazines

Fears:

• Having his past exclusively define what he is
• No longer being of royalty and having the perks that come with it
• Any situation that looks like it could be from a horror movie

Biography:
Zhou's story starts when his father and the uncle of Mai Mei, Ming Mei, was young and stupid and intoxicated and impregnated a woman. Once Ming had gotten word that the woman he impregnated gave birth, he had sent men to make sure that news would never get out and possibly besmirch his political chances. However, in her final hours, Zhou's mother hid her baby away and put him out of reach Ming's grasp, sending baby Zhou away on the Yellow River in a basket with a note that would explain everything, but what his actual name was. In her haste, his mother never gave him a proper name, just referring to him as just "prince".

In his basket boat, Zhou floated down river until he was picked up by not just anyone, but pirates and smugglers and criminals. The baby bastard prince had been picked up the the 54 Immortals, a group of pirates and smugglers who raided ships off the coast of Liang. There was an idea of ransoming the kid but then the leaders of the 54i came down, Ironhand Han. He took notice of the child who floated down river and how it smiled and reached out for him, even with his metal fake limbs.

Taking immediate liking of the boy, Ironhand Han proclaimed that this new boy would be his son and named him Zhou as a genetic disorder prevented him from ever having a child of his own. He raised the prince as his own and took him, turning him into a fine pirate raider. However, Han always hid the note from his mother so that Zhou would never know where he was really from and turn him in.

Of course, fate has an interesting way with things and one day when Zhou was 15, his mother's letter had surfaced and come to his attention after a friend had found it while room cleaning. Upon discovering the letter, an intense shouting match between Zhou and Han ensued with the young Zhou standing his ground in the face of the much older man. Finally, at the urging of his crew, Han decided to let Zhou go and find the father who once wanted him dead as long he kept in touch and found a way to expunge their crimes.

Having wandered around China, picking up news and bits that he didn't hear before, Zhou was slightly shocked that his father had made himself king and decided it was time to pay him a visit. After figuratively and literally kicking down the doors to the throne room, Zhou demanded an audience with his father, now Emperor of Liang, to which Ming had allowed. After the revelation of Zhou having a half sister who was heir, Mai Mei, and half a day's worth of discussions, Zhou was declared a legal (if not bastard) prince but would not be heir to the throne. Instead, he was place at the command of the Imperial Navy and had hired the 54i as "mercenaries" effectively expunging them of their crimes so long they didn't go back to pirating.

Since then, Zhou has been getting used to the ins and outs of being royalty, enjoying the fruits of he new found wealth. He suspects that Mai thought that he was part of some great conspiracy but the two have since warmed up well to each other's presences. However, Zhou still finds her "royalty lessons" to be a pain in the ass.

Theme Song:
Miiro - AKINO with bless4
<sub>(Translated)
At a loss for words,
I was just listening to the sound of the waves,
Feeling like the significance of my memories was being tested.

But even amongst the darkness I remember;
I'm moving onwards,
So watch me go!</sub>

When Royalty Collides ~Closed~

Reposting here ^^

Zhou Mei Xianshi

Prince Zhou Mei Xianshi of Liang

_{"The past is history, the future is a mysterious; that is why we call today the present"-Old Turtle Master Dude}

Nickname:
The Pirate Prince
King of Blades (Zhou made it up himself, he's rather proud of it)
Hai Wang
Xian
Zhou
Xian Xian (child name used only by his father)

Birth Date:
July 3rd, 1997

Age:
18

Sexuality:
Straight

In Depth Appearance:
Zhou is one of those people you can immediately spot as not being of royalty or nobility in terms of mannerisms in the traditional sense. His slick hair is tainted with the salty scent of the sea as its often combed over in one rough, seemingly unmanaged way or another (sometimes with the use of copious amounts of hair spray and gel). A wicked, adventurous smile adorns his face with several small cuts and bruises are hidden by make up cover some more of both his face and body. Zhou's tall build has a good amount of muscles built up on it after years of fist fights and manual labor. When he walks, there is a notable swagger and sway to the nearly six foot man, Zhou's legs from all his time on the ship yet when he would other wise appear to become unbalanced, his balance never breaks. From time to time, Zhou might have a bit of beard or a chin stubble, keeping it for a few days before returning to his clean shaved looks.

Despite preferring more common clothes and sometimes pirate "armor", he does give in to wear more formal clothing. He's divided between modern suits with trenchcoats and traditional Chinese robes.

Personality:

• Rough • Loyal • Reckless •

Zhou is untrained in the ways of a noble. Sure, he knows his manners and not what to do around guests but he doesn't know the fine intricacies of being of royal blood. Being gentle or exercising restraint is not his strong suit and is prone to using aggressive language or physical blows against those he deems that its necessary against. Zhou has a rather warped philosphy and see being too passive as a sign of weakness as it constantly giving in. He's blunt, uncouth, and snarky, but he'll follow you to the end if you convince him too.

He's appearance often gives off the look of lacking grace and elegance, like playing heavy metal in the middle of a classical orchestra. Zhou isn't afraid of what other royals would see as "dishonorable" or "disrespectful", only remembering a certain amount of social cues at any given moment. Zhou also tends to do hell-face turns on what he says on occasion, ignoring his own hypocrisy and flaws in his logic and can get a bit childish. But he does keep at least the look of a someone his age, just a bit... rougher around the corners. He's got style and he can have class, its just not the classy style expected of a royal gentleman.

Likes:

• Talking to people and telling stories both true and false
• His old crew/squad/groupie/gang/etc
• Action movies
• Basically doing whatever he wants
• The wealth that comes with being royalty
• Progressive politics
• A wide variety of games
• Really good seafood.

Dislikes:

• "All work and no play"
• "Noble Pride" (the "we're better than everyone else since we're nobles" thing)
• Non-violence/Passiveness/Innocence
• People who try to bring up/insult his past and the people he used to be with
• Most types of alcohol (Zhou is actually surprisingly light headed)
• People who try to push work on to him
• Having to keep up with what he calls the "facade of nobility"
• Tabloid magazines

Fears:

• Having his past exclusively define what he is
• No longer being of royalty and having the perks that come with it
• Any situation that looks like it could be from a horror movie

Biography:
Zhou's story starts when his father and the uncle of Mai Mei, Ming Mei, was young and stupid and intoxicated and impregnated a woman. Once Ming had gotten word that the woman he impregnated gave birth, he had sent men to make sure that news would never get out and possibly besmirch his political chances. However, in her final hours, Zhou's mother hid her baby away and put him out of reach Ming's grasp, sending baby Zhou away on the Yellow River in a basket with a note that would explain everything, but what his actual name was. In her haste, his mother never gave him a proper name, just referring to him as just "prince".

In his basket boat, Zhou floated down river until he was picked up by not just anyone, but pirates and smugglers and criminals. The baby bastard prince had been picked up the the 54 Immortals, a group of pirates and smugglers who raided ships off the coast of Liang. There was an idea of ransoming the kid but then the leaders of the 54i came down, Ironhand Han. He took notice of the child who floated down river and how it smiled and reached out for him, even with his metal fake limbs.

Taking immediate liking of the boy, Ironhand Han proclaimed that this new boy would be his son and named him Zhou as a genetic disorder prevented him from ever having a child of his own. He raised the prince as his own and took him, turning him into a fine pirate raider. However, Han always hid the note from his mother so that Zhou would never know where he was really from and turn him in.

Of course, fate has an interesting way with things and one day when Zhou was 15, his mother's letter had surfaced and come to his attention after a friend had found it while room cleaning. Upon discovering the letter, an intense shouting match between Zhou and Han ensued with the young Zhou standing his ground in the face of the much older man. Finally, at the urging of his crew, Han decided to let Zhou go and find the father who once wanted him dead as long he kept in touch and found a way to expunge their crimes.

Having wandered around China, picking up news and bits that he didn't hear before, Zhou was slightly shocked that his father had made himself king and decided it was time to pay him a visit. After figuratively and literally kicking down the doors to the throne room, Zhou demanded an audience with his father, now Emperor of Liang, to which Ming had allowed. After the revelation of Zhou having a half sister who was heir, Mai Mei, and half a day's worth of discussions, Zhou was declared a legal (if not bastard) prince but would not be heir to the throne. Instead, he was place at the command of the Imperial Navy and had hired the 54i as "mercenaries" effectively expunging them of their crimes so long they didn't go back to pirating.

Since then, Zhou has been getting used to the ins and outs of being royalty, enjoying the fruits of he new found wealth. He suspects that Mai thought that he was part of some great conspiracy but the two have since warmed up well to each other's presences. However, Zhou still finds her "royalty lessons" to be a pain in the ass.

Theme Song:
Miiro - AKINO with bless4
<sub>(Translated)
At a loss for words,
I was just listening to the sound of the waves,
Feeling like the significance of my memories was being tested.

But even amongst the darkness I remember;
I'm moving onwards,
So watch me go!</sub>

What a Lovely Day (Mad Max NRP)

Huh, I have never seen Mad Max or anything like that, though admittedly I have played Fallout religiously, so this should be new. You have my Interest.

@Lauder

Here are your rolls!

ROLLS

Genetic Make Up
Wretched: Riddled with tumours and malformations, these poor sods are kept at an arm's length by everyone else. Ugly and deformed, think Hills have eyes. Very high infant mortality, and fewer still make it to adulthood. Always in need of breeders. (86)

Cultural Meta-Group
Raiders: An unfortunate truth of the wastes is the prevalence of raider gangs. Savage and violent, they typically take more than they make but there are exceptions. Most don’t settle down in any place for too long, and tend to use up what they have quickly. Many treat the apocalypse as a sort of hedonistic paradise, murdering for fun, using homemade narcotics, and generally raping to their hearts content. (43)

Leadership
Democracy/Consensus: A relative rarity in the post-apocalypse, the group has decided that no one individual holds all the power, but generally makes decisions based on everyones input. (73)

Cultural Quirks
Motor Worship: In a world of vast blasted wastes and monstrous hazards, access to vehicles is the dividing line between life and death for most. Some take this a step farther and literally worship their rides as tools of divine salvation. Maybe they revere them like holy animals, wear garb that evokes them, or even take violent offense to those who mistreat them.

Xenophobic: Distrustful and always wary of outsiders, the group is often seen as cold or distant by others. Trade is hard, and diplomatic interactions are harder. Other cultural strains often run stronger in insular groups though.
(25 & 36)

Distinctive Appearance
War Paint: When they go to battle, these people paint themselves, and maybe even their rides, in a distinctive style.

Unique Body Mod: Come in many forms, from filed teeth to a specific kind of tattoo to ritual branding.
(83, 84, 17)

Unique/Exclusive Resource
Scrap: Everyone wants it, everyone needs it, most people have it. This group has a specific type, or an extreme profusion of it, and they use it to barter for whatever else they need. (28)

Equipment Quality
Old World: Armor is either as good as or from old world police stockpiles, guns are actually pre-apocalypse quality, and they live in pre-war/quality buildings. Clothes are still pretty shabby and hand made though by our standards, but very good by post apocalyptic ones.(62)

Motor-Pool General Make Up
Custom: Either customized to unrecognizable extents or built from the ground up, these cars and trucks don’t fit into any pre-war category. Generally prone to mechanical problems and ramshackle stylings, but common and easily repaired. (28)

Special Vehicle Shit
Lances: Grenades on sticks. A shockingly effective weapon, and you can mount them conveniently on a lot of different parts of a vehicle without messing with it too much.

Black on Black: Your come in any colour so long as it’s black. Stealthier at night, and more intimidating during the day. The black paint also seemingly correlates with higher skill among drivers. Re Choose to re-roll this or Shiny and Chrome if you get both.
(20, 91)

Flagship Vehicle
A Fucking Tank: Slow, complicated, and chugs fuel faster than anything else you can imagine. It even has a limited ammo supply for its main gun. But it’s functionally indestructible, can wipe out any other vehicle with a single shot, and if someone sees one of these coming you can bet their fucking ass they’re going to run. (93)

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

@Ophidian Closest thing I could find to the Soviet Anthem x Yakety Sax but I still feel it does the neo-sov justice!

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

<Snipped quote by ClocktowerEchos>

Oh, they're not that oppressive. Or willing to kill their own citizens. There's just....alot of quiet desperation to them. But I understand the confusion.

They're sort of inspired, partially, by the purity faction in Beyond Earth. Clinging to the past because the present has kicked them around but good, often with the technology someone said would be a salvation. Seeing other factions running around with tech they've seen abused, they know can be abused, in horrible ways...

Well.

I'd start to polish my artillery pieces too.

...

And I'm saving that link.

@Ophidian

The armies of neo-Sov SPESS MAHREENS shall march to battle under the heroic old world tunes of Yakety Sax and the works of Mire Fixtape! They shall strike endless fear into the hearts of the enemy!

Coincidentally, such musical masterpieces are all that the government has allowed the people to listen to thus causing many to think that Terrans did in fact play these songs at elaborate opera and performance halls and thinking of the songs as the highest cultural peak of humanity and have based their entire musical culture around the teachings of Mire Fixtape, a master artist of sound in his time.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

@Ophidian Not going to lie, I honestly thought that the Neo-Sovs were basically the Imperium of Man only with communism instead of religion.

And here's another equally fitting national anthem!

Tiniest Empires (Wargaming Miniatures the NRP)

Tiniest Empires

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"Let me tell you a story, one which thous shall never believe.
Doth ye know of the tiny miniatures some enjoy playing games with and the insects that crawl everywhere?
What if I told you, they came to life and intelligence. And in one house, they made empires.
Would thou believe me?"

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Inspired by @Yennefer's Little Wars NRP and Rogue Vector's 40k - ToyHammer fanfic, comes Tiniest Empires. Players will play as various factions who all inhabit a two story summer home on the west coast owned by some random family of rich east coasters. Given their limited resources, the inhabitants make use of what they can from and of the house as well as local dumpsters and stores to create weapons, armor, and clothes when needed. That being said these creatures are resourceful and have found ways to forge what they find into beautiful, and deadly works.

The inhabitants themselves are divided into two "races", Animus Minorus (Miniatures) and Animus Creatura (Small animals/insects). Both of them should be fairly self explanatory, Miniatures are the figures from tabletop games such as DnD, 40k, etc who have come to life and the Creatures are generally animals or insects that are but 2.5 inches tall. (Note: The Miniatures aren't actually miniatures given life but actual beings just on a much smaller scale.) Regardless of their origins, they now inhabit various "sectors" of the house, also known as the "Great House" in various tongues. There will be various tech levels at play here but I have confidence in people's ability to be able to sort things out and not rofl stomp all over each other.

The Great House w/ Sectors

Blue areas marks the territory of NPC tribes/settlements which you can interact with, more info on them later.

NS Guide

[center][h1]<Faction Name>[/h1]
<Icon/Banner/Flag Here>

[.hr][.hr]
[h2][b][u]OVERVIEW[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](Introduce your faction and its overall bits, sort of like a tl;dr if you will)[/indent]

[h2][b][u]CULTURE[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](What are your people like? How do they operate on a day to day basis? Do they have some sort of religion? How are they generally perceived?)[/indent]

[h2][b][u]APPERANCE[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](What do your people look like? Describe them if they aren't so human and maybe go into their biology. If they are human, is there any really common physical traits amongst them or what the lot of them wear.)[/indent]

[h2][b][u]ECONOMY[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](What resources do you have and what to you use to refine/process them? Basically anything you think of as economical/industrial/production goes here.)[/indent]

[h2][b][u]LEADERSHIP[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](Describe how your administration/leadership, feel free to also talk about some major figures and people if you so wish.)[/indent]

[h2][b][u]LEGACY[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](What kind of history does your faction have or think they have? Don't need to go into great detail, just some major events that shaped your faction at least in the minds of your people.)[/indent]

[h2][b][u]MILITARY[/u][/b][/h2]
[indent](What kind of military do you have? Describe units, weapons, vehicle, tactics, etc as simply or as complexly as you want.)[/indent]
[/center]

Now let us see if this will actually work or flop or just get filled with 40k stuff

Discord Chat for the NRP

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

<Snipped quote by ClocktowerEchos>

Thank you Echo, your parody is the light of my experience on this site.

@Ophidian

Then let us honor the memory of the furry space communist with fitting music that I propose be the athemn of the Neo-Sovs.

Stardust: A Freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP

Neo-Sov in a nutshell:

You've got the so-called core colonies-the ones that went all in on communism, and built their entire identity around it. These poor SOBs had the misfortune to be the first ruled by the pain-slave using aristocrats and their AI friend.

@Ophidian

"We know the meaning of BDSM! Bolsheviks, Domination, Stalin and Masochism!"

Then you've got what I'll be calling the Hivers-cybernetic colonists, adopting themselves to a harsh, arctic environment. Based out of massive, sprawling cities built around geothermal vents-or "human hives" if you will.

@Ophidian

"We're techno-barbarian eskimo dwarves! :D"

Then you have the Confederates-a loose group of miners, and rough and tumble types settled on a string of questionably habitable, resource-rich worlds. These guys love their hardsuits.

@Ophidian

"Mhmmmmmmmmm... look at dat hardsuit Johnny, doncha wanna just blow your molten alloys all over dat thang?"

Finally, you've got the genetically engineered super soldiers I mentioned, originally a US marine unit, co-opted and brutally modified by the AI, these guys look human, but they're a shit ton deadlier and their genetic code could, charitably, be called "fucked".

@Ophidian

"WE ARR SPEHSS MAHREENS. WE WIHLL CRUSH URR METAL BAWKSES WIDTH OURA STEEL REHN. YEW KOWARDZ N' TEH FEWLZ!!"

The Premier could also be called "chief cat herder".

@Ophidian

"Did you know that space Stalin was a shepherd and has a cat fetish?"
"Does that make him a furry space communist Jesus?"