Crosswire

Project Crossover [Video Game Crossover RP]

@Lmpkio@Bright_Ops@DracoLunaris@Etherean Fire@Lugubrious@Zarkun@Guardian Angel Haruki@WingsOfBronze@Crosswire

As I said, there is never an obligation for someone to post. If you have something to write, do so. If you're lacking energy, then don't do it because you'll only just frustrate yourself and before you or I even know it, you'll be like, "I'm leaving the game wah." And then I'll see your ass in ANOTHER game to just go through that exact same process all over again. So please, bear with it. This game is going to move on regardless and not stagnate anywhere. Eventually, there will be a moment in it where you WILL feel like posting. On another note, if you're lacking creative energy then just do something else: work out, go to the movies, hang out with real people and not people online, change your diet, etc. Hobbies. It might help. Sometimes your mind just needs a creative break. I take breaks all the time when I'm waiting for the "X" amount of people in this game to post lol. But any who...

@Holy Soldier

Wow, Holy that's honestly really comforting. I have a tendency to beat up on myself when I'm feeling burned out in regards to writing. I hate holding people up so hearing this from a moderator is a really surprising and appreciated thing. I hope you enjoy your vacation in Japan. Try not to get wrapped up in any zanny plots that'll make into you an anime protagonist!

Who Believes In Fairytales?

@Riflebird Thanks for editting! Sorry for the confusion on the names, that was probably my fault.

@Oddsbod Anyway. Sorry for the delay in posting everyone, I have been SWAMPED and knee deep in something that had me writing up till 5:00 AM trying to get it done. So I'll post for B.B and we can probably kick of Red's interaction with Eissen. Drag is gonna have the crier stop off somewhere else.

Test

Current Population: 20 People
Current Resources: [Fresh Water], [Fish], [Weak Electrical Power]
Population Mood: "Feeling Safe!"
EVENTS: None at this time.

Two nearly identical buildings, one blue another red, stand separated by a pond and connected by a battered roofed bridge running over it. Made of wood, corrugated sheet metal, and the occasional length of chicken wire they give off an agricultural feel. The hay, empty grain silos, and barn style doors seem to suggest this is fact.

However the lingerings stink of gunpowder betrays the true nature of the opposing forts.

Beneath the surfaces of both forts are clean and sleek facilities with offices, meeting rooms, rows of computer banks, and mission control rooms that once accurately displayed the state of the world from which it was from.

A road and a railroad track runs through 2Fort, though where they lead now is unclearly…

-Areas and Facilities in 2Fort-

Arowana Pond

Arowana Pond

Beneath the bridge running between the Red and Blu forts of 2Fort is a pond filled with fresh water. There are signs that a proper river once ran between the buildings, but it either dried up or was deliberately cordoned off. Whatever the case is a recession was left between in the that has filled with and continues to be replenished by rain water.

Light vegetation in the form of lily pads and some form of fish known as Arowana currently live in the 'pond' though it's hard to tell if the fish were native to the pond prior to The Event.

If you want to get technical, it's more a recession under a bridge that happens to be filled with water then it is a pond. However if we’re being technical it's also your only current source of food and drinking water. So it’s probably best to be nice and just call it a pond.

The Arowana Pond provides a source of fresh water and fish.

Every day an Arowana Fish will be caught for each member of the town (including player characters) that needs to be fed to do with as they desire.

However there are only so many fish in the pond and at the rate the town is likely to go through them, they’ll be gone quickly if they’re relied on as the sole food source.

The water is pretty plentiful though, more than enough for drinking and even bathing though there’s not exactly plumbing. However if a heat wave hit the town or some kind of contaminate got into it, everyone would be in trouble.

The Arowana Pond is currently your life blood, but you need to expand your resources and either supplement or build up the pond if you want to 2Fort to survive and expand.



Arowana: A large fish, said to be quite ancient. While bony, it’s very tasty raw or cooked and provides moderate stamina recovery.

Battlements

Battlements x2

The Red and Blu Forts of 2Fort each have an areas overlooking the opposing fort and the space in between. Stepping out into the open on these battlements fills you with a strange, irrational fear that a sniper has your head in his sights. While they currently lack any fortifications or emplacements these battlements give a good vantage point for firing down at invaders while keeping out of melee range of even the longest armed foes.

While simple and not offering a whole lot of protection, these Battlements leave lots of room for improvement or outright re-purposing.

Underground Offices

Underground Offices x2

On the surface the Blu and Red buildings of 2Fort seem normal. Wooden with a rustic, farm related feel. However beneath the surface down some stairs or through the ‘sewer’ tunnels and you’ll find a facility. It has desks, reel to reel computer banks, a control room, pointless meeting rooms, and a coffee machine with enough overused grounds to still make something resembling coffee.

In other words it has all one needs to run some form of orderly, likely bureaucratic governing body.

Computers [Old]: Computers that were considered high tech...in the 1960s. While they take up a lot of space and comparatively don’t have a lot of power, there are plenty of spare reels and could potentially be made to do something useful given some clever technical application.

Command Center [Old]: A large room with lots of consoles dotted with flashing lights, important looking buttons, and a large screen that once showed the current state of the world. Most of the equipment in this room is not useless, however it still has some working radio equipment. Allowing for those staying at the town to communicate with characters who have gone out exploring. Provided of course the characters in question have a radio too...

Power Generator [Simple]: A conventional fuel generator keeps the lights and equipment of the offices, as well as the things above ground at 2fort, running. It’s not particularly strong and could very easily fritz out, but for now it’s the town's sole source of electrical generation. Generates [Weak Electrical Power]

Courtyard

Courtyard x2

Medium sized courtyards with soft earthen grounds exposed to the open air and sunshine. Stairs and hallways leading to various parts of the building run through these courtyards making them often traveled spots. As they are however they don’t have much use besides a good place to sunbathe or hold a really claustrophobic game of baseball. However with some water, seeds, and back breaking labor they could potentially be turned into garden areas.

Sewer Space

Sewers x2

Down in the pond there are two large tunnel pipes which lead into the underbelly of 2Forts underground offices. On the way to the offices there is empty space. A few control panels for technical equipment that no longer has a purpose sits down here. The space is open and could be used for many things, however the fact you end up up to your knees in water makes the usage of this space problematic...

Waiting Rooms

Waiting Room (Red and Blu)x2

Once these rooms acted as resting and preparation areas for opposing mercenaries who murdered each other over briefcases. Now they go unused, with little more than empty supply cabinets and cubbies to show their previous purposes. The cleans floors and walls however make these rooms ideal for potential infirmaries, provided some beds and medical supplies can be acquired.

Unused Space

Unused Space





Halls, empty spaces, these spaces are unused but still within the borders of the ‘town’. This is where many of the current towns folk sleep. Just pick a spot, pull up a pile of the hay that’s just kind of laying around, and sleep on the cold hard ground. At least it’s safe.

Who Believes In Fairytales?

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I swear on the lives of my cute, adorable kittens that I will not go Rip Van Winkle on everyone's characters with my magic bullets.

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Thanks for the offer, but I'd like to give a shot at playing him. I actually had most of his character sheet written up already. :/

I'll post it tonight asap.

@Riflebird

Damn it. Now I'm imagining Rip Van Winkle curving bullets through people's heads like someone out of Wanted.

Also I apologize. I didn't know you were nearly finished with the character. I just offered to play him since I wasn't sure if you wanted to play two characters or not.

As for the Gingerbread man. He's beautiful. I love the puny "John Dough" and "Bread Winner" name and the fact you managed to make a mischievous cookie man into a rotting, cannibalistic monstrosity worthy of being a crime lord.

The only problem on his sheet is that you state his headquarters being back in the Homelands. Now I don't know what Drag thinks of this, but from the start we've kind of been implying that the Exodus was sort of a one way trip. Very few if anyone stayed back in the Tale's Homeland and while there may be some means to go back, it'd probably be too much of an undertaking to go through simply to set up a crime headquarters.

Drag has the final word, but I'd prefer Mr. Dough's crime HQ to be set somewhere in Taletown. It can be well hidden though.

Test

And in an instant it was all gone.

The fabric of reality buckled like a book case collapsing in on itself. Dimensions, entire planes of existence never meant to intertwine were crushed on top of one another until they began to crumble. Planets were pulled apart as the very laws that held them together, that allowed them to exist at all, ceased to function.

When "The Event" stopped all that remained were broken remnants. Pieces of the underwater city of Rapture, fragments of the alien invaded Reach, the Arklay Mountains near Raccoon city, and the bits and pieces of countless other worlds all drifting through the ethereal void of nonexistence. They were like islands with the people, places, and things on them perfectly preserved.

Unable to move, unable to think, unable to perceive what had happened or what would become of them.

All of existence could have ended there, but something began to happen.

Bit by bit the fragments began to bunch together. Entire chunks of once whole planets packed together with lands, locales, and buildings of various worlds piling on. Mass and particles were drawn together, forming a star and eventually a moon.

Light shined, gravity pulled, and time began to move forward as a new set of rules was formed from the remaining shreds of other realities.

As the sun rose over the new, patchwork world for the first time the people, creatures, and entities that had been carried along with the fragments awoke to found themselves displaced.

Citizens, soldiers, survivors, test subject, knights, were presented with a twisted world filled with wonder they had never dreamed off...and horrors they never could have imagined.

Undying monstrosities of pestilence, vicious cold hearted mercenaries, alien zealots, blood thirsty robots, and deformed genetic drug abusers were just a fraction of what they found themselves contending against.

So people ran, wandering and desperately trying to survive. In the new world there was no law, no established rule, no one to keep them safe but themselves. Yet they continued to move, over rolling hills, across vast stretches of water, and through landscapes they dared not put to word. They searched hoping to find a safe place, a sanctuary.

What they found was a place called 2Fort.

Mistaking it for some kind of town people began to settle down and tried to make it into somewhere they could live.

This is where our story begins.

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You get all that?

Long story short, this is a role play that revolves around the mass crossover of various video games into a single world. It focuses on an original plot of survival, struggle, and adaption to the bizarre patchwork world they're all stuck living on.

The roleplay will put emphasis on randomized loot and building up the 'town' of 2Fort.

Starting off the 'town' will have very little to offer and will be vulnerable to attack from countless horrific enemies. The town of 2Fort will grow and prosper, or wither and die at the actions of you and your characters.

Player characters that can't simply find food, ammo, armor, weapons, and items whenever it's convenient for them. Instead a large loot table made up of things from the countless video games involved will be used to determine what you find.

Now you're probably asking what series are involved in the roleplay.

Here's a list of games I chose as a base to start from. However more games can be added at player request. If you wanted to play a character from Metroid, or Final Fantasy, or simply felt having elements of a game in the RP would add to things then that game could be added. The Items, enemies, and various elements/locals from that game would be incorporated into the lists/tables I have.

However there are some rules regarding what games can and cannot be allowed into the roleplay:

#1: The video game can't be spun off of an existing piece of media. So nothing tied to anime, comic books, novels, or film. If I didn't have this rule it'd be total chaos even if it would give me an excuse to ruse RWBY Grimm Eclipse.

#2: The game needs to be reasonable for the setting of the role play as a whole. A game where characters can casually blow up planets would not work here for example.

#3: The game needs to be suggested for the right reasons. I don't want people trying to powerplay or metagame. If you want to stroke your ego and game the system to be the strongest, then don't bother joining this rolplay. This is meant to be about the adventure and the narrative we craft, the excitement of adventure and the struggles of making do with what we can scrounge up.

And that's pretty much it. Here is the list of games the roleplay starts off made up of:
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Base Series of this Roleplay

Overwatch
Team Fortress 2
Metal Gear Series
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid: Metal Gear Solid 5
Left4Dead
Left4Dead2
Portal
Bioshock Series
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Bioshock Minerva's Den
Bioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea
Resident Evil Series
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil
Resident Evil Outbreak
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 6
Halo Series
Halo Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo 2
Halo ODST
Halo 3
Halo Wars
Halo 4
Halo 5
Borderlands Series
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands Pre-Sequel
Tales from the Borderlands
Gears of War
Gears of War
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 3
Gears of War 4

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Note: I'm allowing Original Characters from established game universes to be apped alongside canon characters, but please don't abuse my leniency here.

Who Believes In Fairytales?

@Crosswire Oh nice. Should we do a three-way?

@Oddsbod

Yes I think that might work out well. What do you think Drag?

@Drag Is Taletown a thing? I'd love for it to be a thing lol.

@Lexicon

Taletown is a PERFECT name for where the Tales Community Lives. That's fantastic :D

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Sounds good. For the Gingerbread Man, would it be easier if I took him as a second character? Are we allowed two?

Also, Swan isn't immune to curses, only resistant to them. Thus if the curse was powerful enough, it could affect her. She only has resistance to low-mid level curses, stuff like jinxes, hexes and vooodoo spells (i.e. long term enchantments on her mind/body/soul). Wards, shields and direct attack spells (fireball!) still affect her.

@Riflebird

I absolutely LOVE Swan. Her backstory, appearance, and personality are wonderful. Giving her a re-chambered Lemat revolver is really cool since I have a love for the gun and have been using a re-chambered version in one of my own stories. My only concern is about how the gun 'always hits it's mark'. I guess it balances out since she's useless in close quarters combat due to her shitty physique and every seventh shot is doomed to screw her, but I just want a promise you won't abuse the gun to brain everyone's characters.

You could totally make the Gingerbread Man as a second character, but I feel Swan would work better if she had someone to bounce off of. If you don't mind the Gingerbread Man potentially dying in the future, I could make and play as him.

Who Believes In Fairytales?

@OddsbodI think Drag was gonna have Crier walk into Red's Goody Basket to grill Red on the murder, but we could probably do a collaborative post :D

World Warriors: The Nomadic Fist (Quirky Fighting Game Influenced Roleplay)

@Mr Allen J This roleplay is the perfect storm. I found it JUST as I was hungering for a Street Fighter esque roleplay. I've had to put up with badly run, no effort, bullshit roleplays for so long I couldn't hold any positive expectations anymore. Then I found this roleplay, got a chance to use Brown, and got to interact with and play with some absolutely amazing people. I've never been in a roleplay where people are so interested in one another's characters and creative with things.

So thanks for making this Mr. J. It's been a pleasure beyond words.

I love all of you guys.

Who Believes In Fairytales?

@UtraxYaaaaay! I'll post shortly after I get some grub in me.

Who Believes In Fairytales?

@Utrax@Drag Post wise I replied to you two. Drag are we waiting for everyone to post once or can we post/reply as necessary?