ClocktowerEchos

Wal-World: Dead Stock – [Walmart Apocalypse Adventuring RP] [ENDED]

“Who the fuck are you?” Lewis shouted as a haggard jackass jumped on the cart and tried to command him, “Don’t give me orders! I’m the one calling the shots here!”

With everyone on board (and an extra guess), the cart surged forward as Lewis floored the gas, leaving a trail of dust and exhaust, choking the a warrior who managed to crawl out of the bar fight. Shouting into his Wind Talker (some black box that allowed people to talk through the wind spirits provided the other person had one), he reported, “B-Bastrd getting a-away…. Ch-chase!”

Behind him a storm of hooves and wheels arrived. Mounted atop mutated steeds with mercenary Autoboyz in support, the horde chased after Lewis’s stolen cart. They split and made way for the largest of them to come in: a turbo-engined Steam Roller lovingly called “Waffle Iron”. Its grinder teeth stained an eternal red from the gore it sought.

Flashing a look behind him, Lewis cursed as he picked up the pistol dropped in his lap and threw a brick on the gas, “Topdweller! You drive!”

Leaving the man who never touched a cart in his life before in control of a rapidly accelerating vehicle was probably a terrible idea. But this wasn’t the worse. Lewis hoped the man had fast reflexes and learned even faster. He himself was getting ready to defend the cart.

Lasblaster in hand, he swung around and dangerously held on to the side of the cart. A pattering of arrows flew down around the cart, missing everyone on board but signaling that there were mounted archers tailing them. It also meant that mounted gunmen were likely which didn’t bode well in Lewis’s mind. Ideally the mounted gunners would be just as clueless as how to operate a gun like their idiot cousin in the bar.

Raising his gun as the cart began to shake and sweeter, throwing off his aim, “Hey! Keep the thing steady! They’re closing in!”

Right on cue, a motorized tricycle burst its way out of a side aisle, its driver jabbing at the exposed Bargain Hunter’s side. With a blast of his weapon, Lewis shot the man off his mount, causing him to land and slide along the floor with a sickening crunch and squelch.

Another wave of riders came in as an echoing thunder revved up and a voice shouted, “YOU SHOPLIFTERS CAN’T ESCAPE ME, WALLORD SKTROK! I SHALL HAVE YOUR HEAD ON A SPIKE AND TURN YOUR RIB CAGE AS MY GROAN SHEILD.”

Mildly disgusted, Lewis turned to the occupants of his vehicle that swerved wildly, “I hope you lot have something to hit them with! They’re coming in fast!” Turning the the Top-Dweller now desperately trying to hold the cart straight, “And you! Keep doing what you’re doing and don’t crash and kill us all!”

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OOC NOTES:
So, shit is happening and we're on the run now gents!
@Mercenary Lord I used my GM powers and have more or less forced your character into driving the cart now because I personally thought it would be hilarious. If you would prefer not to be in that role, I can change it out for someone else.
In general, the cart is now being surrounded by various mounted warriors on a whole lotta different mounts for you to try and pick off. Good Luck!

Clocku the GM and Illustrious Illuminator

The American Spring: An Alternate Present RP

The Lost Legion

Name of Faction:
The Lost Legion/The Forgotten (The Rats as an insult)

Platform: Populist - people who have become disenfranchised with the American Dream and believe themselves to be those who Lady Liberty left behind and those who were abandoned by nation such as the homeless, the impoverished and the imprisoned. They are not however to be confused with Communists.

Important Individuals:
Justin Adkins, the Homeless King
Alicia Woods-Adkins, the Homeless Queen
Commander Tyrell Jones
Commander Eric Donatello
Sec. Frank Abignail

Territory:
The North Eastern Seaboard, particularly in the major cities.

History
The Lost Legion was never born out of any grand political scheme or the desire to ignite some form of change, but instead for the simplest of all reasons: survival.

As order began to break down in cities and America began to fail, many found themselves forced into poverty. Those already in poverty found themselves devoid of any possessions and forced on to the streets. It was these homeless who found themselves flooding parks and streets. When protests and riots broke out, they fled into sewers and subways to hide from the chaos above.

Among the needy arose a man named Just Adkins, self styled “Homeless King”. He found himself at the head of a growing horde of needy people who now began to call for the heads of those who abandoned them in favor of the rich, the corporations, the bureaucracy.

As the situation in America deteriorated more and more, Adkins and his “Forgotten” became more and more active, making themselves known. At first it was public preaching as they lacked resources to do much else. Soon they gained support and with support came resources. They took their message online where tens of thousands became exposed to the Forgotten. Many of those would join them in person or in spirit as informants and agents in other places as America was on its last legs. Their web grew, their influence reaching more and more places, gaining the sympathy masses.

Then, when America fell, the Forgotten took the streets in the looting and arming that so many others did. But when they raided police stations and armories, they found little resistance. They found supporters in people who worked in such places and they weakened the resistance if not just allowed the Forgotten to waltz on in.

Now armed, Adkins sought to increase his newly christened “Lost Legion” (a name given to them from an online user) even more. Through various gang contacts, he secured the cooperations of the various organized crime mobs and rackets but under the condition that he free the prisoners within his growing realm. If he freed the prisoners, they would keep them in line. The only problem was that despite all their influence, the Lost Legion hadn’t convinced any prisons meaning that they would have to fight their way into them.

The first real taste of battle saw a wave of screaming men and women in cobbled together and looted equipment attack prisons like a particularly violent LARP group. In all, little over a hundred people lost their lives in the prison battles but the prisoners were free. And so the north eastern syndicates where pleased, swearing allegiance to the Lost Legion as cities and towns began to fly their flag, the Forlorn Banner: America may have forgotten them back then, but America will certainly remember them now.

Military Forces:
Having nothing to loose and everything to gain, the Lost Legion knows what true suffering is like. Made up of desperate people and homeless veterans, their ranks are quiet nicely padded with a mass of militia and an more professional-like elite corps of former veterans. Having gotten used to the struggles of poverty and homelessness, their soldiers are tough and durable. They fight like cornered rats, and the Lost Legion has many, many rats.

The Lost Legion’s primary tactics involve two things, Surprise and Numbers. Lost Legion soldiers will often preform “subterranean uprisings” which they crawl out of subway tunnels and sewers in force to overwhelm the enemy. While formerly homeless vets have given the Lost Legion a solid base of leadership and seasoned soldiers, they lack the ex-US Military support that other factions do meaning that they are very reliant on small unit tactics and have otherwise simple large scale strategies.

Influence is also a more unconventional weapon used by the Forgotten. The Forlorn Banner attracts many who are desperate but don’t wish to be enslaved to the communists or other factions. They are rumored to have agents everywhere and sympathizers in places where they do not.

Masters at repurposing, rebuilt vehicles can often be seen in the use of the Lost Legion: old school buses being used as APCs, trains being turned into underground tanks, catapults mounted on the backs of pick up trucks, tractor trailers being used as giant rams or mobile bunkers. And while individually most of the Lost Legion is under equipped, they grit their teeth and continue on anyways. What good is living when you have nothing to live for?

The American Spring: An Alternate Present RP

@Jpp188 Wait, I thought that Mexico and Canada remain the same as they do irl by whats said in @Keyguyperson's OP.

The American Spring: An Alternate Present RP

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The idea for me was two have two bases, one in Arizona and one in Alaska with a potential Russian Connection coming through sometime in the roleplay, but I don't mind setting up a chapter in that area as one of the three chapters I will be starting out with.

@Sovi3t

Going off of what @The Spectre said, having two bases with a massive amount of land between them doesn't seem like a wise idea. That's a lot of land which you can't control thorugh which you must travel and communicate by meaning its easy for someone to screw with you. Plus, if the base in AZ falls or is under attack, good luck trying to get any help from Alaska down in time. How would your people even form their faction though with such a distance? Did you repeatly send diplomats or something over wild air space or something? There's a reason why nations in history tend not to have holdings in distant far off lands unless they were attempting to colonize.

The American Spring: An Alternate Present RP

Is it possible for me to actually run a black market esqe faction which mainly could act as a "contractor" for rebel groups? Based upnon hardened criminals, gangsters but also some military veterans?

@Sovi3t

This sounds a bit like what I'm doing actually since I have a shit load of crime gangs/families/syndicates under me as well as military vets and homeless people and generally people who got buttfucked by poverty and want to "take back what's their's form the rich" but I'd like to offer you a preposition:

How does being in my area (north eastern seaboard) and being a closely aligned but ultimately independent faction? It'll give you a nice layer of protection, close and easy access to a hungry market who wants weapons and good land which is honestly at a premium in this RP it seems. You can have direct access to the Atlantic and unless you want to try your luck as Northern Midwest gun runners going through the Canadian wilderness, I'd say you got a very solid area to set up shop.

The American Spring: An Alternate Present RP

@Keyguyperson I have an idea. Given the general spread of people's nation's ideologies and ideas, what if there were two broad labels that people fell under. "Loyalists/Patriots" for the people who want to keep the old ways and "Revolutionaries/Reformers" who want to do something new. These labels wouldn't be binding and there could easily still be infighting but I'd imagine it would be a way for outsiders to have a broad, general view of which faction is on which side and stuff.

The American Spring: An Alternate Present RP

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It's really something that gets covered up in black up notions, but I don't think will ever really evolve into anyone straight up purchasing resources from one of these factions until they have formal control of the United States and haven't totally alienated the rest of the world. Since while certain groups could arm the factions they like, the global west may also embargo the United States to prevent or slow down the number of escalating weapons arriving inside the country.

One way to look at it too would be like when the British Empire embargo'd the colonies during the War for Independence to prevent as best they could French support ships coming in, and to capture congressional delegates heading out on diplomatic missions.

To add a layer of worry, the US is the second-most nuclear equipped country in the world. Politically instability here puts the nukes in the hands of groups with ambiguous goals. It would be in the interests of the outside world to make sure the conflict doesn't get any worse and to most importantly prevent the most radical groups from ever getting control of all the warheads.

@Dinh AaronMk

I suppose that smugglers and black market dealers are going to have a field day. As will any gun smiths who will certainly never be out of work.

Would anyone be able to get things from the outside? Or is that something which only the remains of the federal government supporters can get if at all since they are still seen as the "true" America.

How *I* See Communism: A Discussion of Spamtastic Proportions

My liberal/left side questions, since socialism and communism are different but both lead to the wealth redistribution that they both clearly want. Why would one prefer communism OVER socialism?

@SleepingSilence

My two, poorly minted cents is that its the whole idea of utopia that comes with having polarizing views. Socialism is a compromise more in the middle (despite a lot of people claiming that socialism is literally renamed communism which it isn't). Communists want a communist utopia where everyone has equal rights to the means of production and the products, Capitalists want a Capitalist Utopia where government doesn't interfere with the market and everyone gets rich. People don't like compromises so I guess its that. A less likely theory is that because so many people think communism = socialism, communists and socialists just get lumped together.

My personal (real) take on what would be "ideal" is socialism leaning towards communism but not full on communism (out side of memes). I trust the government more than I trust business since government has the purpose of keeping a nation together while corporations have the purpose of making money which I believe can lead to some interesting predicaments where an action take makes money, but fucks over a lot of people (ie axing all social welfare and letting people hopefully figure shit out on their own). I know people are going to say "you're stupid/blind/foolish for putting your faith in a centralized government!" but I don't really care since again, I have faith in the central government just like how people have undying faith in the free market. I find that to be a foolish notion, so in a sense, everyone is a fool to everyone else.

I feel that Communism is too idealistic for humans as a race because the idea of not taking ever advantage we can goes against our biological and evolutionary coding. That's why Capitalism works; because it better works off our primal programming. A society without government where all are free to do as we wish and all are equal and rich is something that would appeal to everyone on both sides, but human nature will never allow it. We're just too competitive and we just want more stuff no matter what that path towards stuff does to use or the Earth.

There's my two cents. Now I disappear and wait to be called evil. ^3^

@SleepingSilence

How *I* See Communism: A Discussion of Spamtastic Proportions

Fuck Communism. Fuck Capitalism. Fuck Democracy. Fuck all of it.
Lets just go back to Feudalism, its the best thing we've ever made so y'all can go and get executed by the king if you disagree.

The 'Explain The Appeal Of......' Thread

Explain the appeal of vemenously hating on Libertarians at every opportunity to the point that is what you are known on site for.