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Silence cut like a razor, spilling blood by the gallon and filling the air with the pungent smell of iron. It was a massacre, taking place in an empty hall which told no secrets. It was a protest against human ingenuity – a strike against the great pioneers.
At the end of the hallway stood a nondescript door leading to a standard biological laboratory, where a balding white man in his early forties lay decomposing on the harsh concrete floor, his eye sockets black and hollow, his skin broken by small holes all across his body as if his innards had planned a vast exodus en masse. His lab coat was stained a sinister grey color, and that same liquid spread from his body to create a puddle around him on the floor. It had the consistency of blood, as well the smell.
On a usual day, the Willman Frontier Laboratory was not a quiet place. It was a place where eight hundred individuals – scientists, largely, along with their families – lived and worked in relatively close proximity, and where everyone seemed to be in quite a hurry to run from metal box to metal box, to share some step toward discovery.
But the silence had spread beyond the laboratory, through the hallway and out into the small colony. The living quarters were silent, no children played, no colleagues chatted in the dining hall. Instead, the dead populated the Willman colony. By the hundreds they lay, their eyes devoured, their skin perforated from the inside. They were many, they were all. There was no room for the living.
Alone, rocking back and forth almost involuntarily on the floor of a maintenance closet, Doctor Hector Russell tried in vain not to hyperventilate. The door was shut firmly in front of his face, shrouding him in utter blackness save for the dim light emanating from the gap at the bottom. Hector expected to hear footsteps outside, a rescue party or, perhaps, a colleague: come to tell him that none of it was real. But there were no footsteps. Only silence, and the man’s own ragged breathing. He kept rocking back and forth on the cold floor. He kept moving, he needed to, else the sensation inside him drive him to utter madness. If he stopped, he could feel them pull, outward. If he stopped, he could feel them crawl beneath his skin.
Event Horizon is an original science-fiction/mystery roleplay taking place in the year 2163. Humanity has successfully built manned shuttles which can exist for long durations out in space, and has already populated a good portion of the Milky Way galaxy. In space stations, on Mars, and in many other locations humans live good lives. They moved to make a fortune, or perhaps to get away from the clutter of Earth and her nearly ten billion residents, or perhaps for any of hundreds of other reasons. The mastery of space travel was like a gold rush for the scientific community, who began setting up outposts all over the galaxy and, in one instance, on the edge of the neighboring galaxy of Ursa Major.
The term “event horizon” usually refers to black holes, and references the point at which escape from the hole’s pull is impossible. It is, simply put, the tipping point: the point of no return. The destruction of the Willman Laboratory is humanity’s event horizon. It is the first page of the final chapter of our species’ history. But the folks in this story do not know that, not just yet.
Your characters will be among those sent to investigate the silence at the Willman Laboratory. They will be the first witnesses to the most important event in human history, and they likely will not live through it. I will say this now: do not expect your character to “win”; do not get your hopes up for them to have a happy life, growing old on some private estate on a corner of Mars. Your character will die at the conclusion of this story, as will mine, as will everyone’s – unless they prove extremely lucky. What I’m trying to say is, do not get too attached. Yes, they will die, but they will just be the first of many. We have reached the point of no return.
Interested?
It has now been one hour since contact ceased with the Willman Laboratory in Ursa Major following what was described by technicians as a “violent crash and static” on the other end. Government officials have not ruled out the possibility of some sort of disaster, but continue to insist that the cause is likely some sort of technical issue with the station’s transmitters –
At the end of the hallway stood a nondescript door leading to a standard biological laboratory, where a balding white man in his early forties lay decomposing on the harsh concrete floor, his eye sockets black and hollow, his skin broken by small holes all across his body as if his innards had planned a vast exodus en masse. His lab coat was stained a sinister grey color, and that same liquid spread from his body to create a puddle around him on the floor. It had the consistency of blood, as well the smell.
– laboratory was founded by Dr. Hector Russell, a giant in the fields of astrobiology and microbiology, for the purpose of studying the effects on known organisms in unknown environments, and for the discovery of unknown organisms –
On a usual day, the Willman Frontier Laboratory was not a quiet place. It was a place where eight hundred individuals – scientists, largely, along with their families – lived and worked in relatively close proximity, and where everyone seemed to be in quite a hurry to run from metal box to metal box, to share some step toward discovery.
But the silence had spread beyond the laboratory, through the hallway and out into the small colony. The living quarters were silent, no children played, no colleagues chatted in the dining hall. Instead, the dead populated the Willman colony. By the hundreds they lay, their eyes devoured, their skin perforated from the inside. They were many, they were all. There was no room for the living.
– a spokesperson for Russell Innovations will be addressing the public shortly regarding this situation, likely in an attempt to quell speculation. The government has already stated that, should the Willman Laboratory not contact Earth within the next four hours, a team will be dispatched to investigate what has unfolded at the most distant human settlement in all of the universe.
Alone, rocking back and forth almost involuntarily on the floor of a maintenance closet, Doctor Hector Russell tried in vain not to hyperventilate. The door was shut firmly in front of his face, shrouding him in utter blackness save for the dim light emanating from the gap at the bottom. Hector expected to hear footsteps outside, a rescue party or, perhaps, a colleague: come to tell him that none of it was real. But there were no footsteps. Only silence, and the man’s own ragged breathing. He kept rocking back and forth on the cold floor. He kept moving, he needed to, else the sensation inside him drive him to utter madness. If he stopped, he could feel them pull, outward. If he stopped, he could feel them crawl beneath his skin.
Event Horizon is an original science-fiction/mystery roleplay taking place in the year 2163. Humanity has successfully built manned shuttles which can exist for long durations out in space, and has already populated a good portion of the Milky Way galaxy. In space stations, on Mars, and in many other locations humans live good lives. They moved to make a fortune, or perhaps to get away from the clutter of Earth and her nearly ten billion residents, or perhaps for any of hundreds of other reasons. The mastery of space travel was like a gold rush for the scientific community, who began setting up outposts all over the galaxy and, in one instance, on the edge of the neighboring galaxy of Ursa Major.
The term “event horizon” usually refers to black holes, and references the point at which escape from the hole’s pull is impossible. It is, simply put, the tipping point: the point of no return. The destruction of the Willman Laboratory is humanity’s event horizon. It is the first page of the final chapter of our species’ history. But the folks in this story do not know that, not just yet.
Your characters will be among those sent to investigate the silence at the Willman Laboratory. They will be the first witnesses to the most important event in human history, and they likely will not live through it. I will say this now: do not expect your character to “win”; do not get your hopes up for them to have a happy life, growing old on some private estate on a corner of Mars. Your character will die at the conclusion of this story, as will mine, as will everyone’s – unless they prove extremely lucky. What I’m trying to say is, do not get too attached. Yes, they will die, but they will just be the first of many. We have reached the point of no return.
Interested?
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Silence cut like a razor, spilling blood by the gallon and filling the air with the pungent smell of iron. It was a massacre, taking place in an empty hall which told no secrets. It was a protest against human ingenuity – a strike against the great pioneers.
At the end of the hallway stood a nondescript door leading to a standard biological laboratory, where a balding white man in his early forties lay decomposing on the harsh concrete floor, his eye sockets black and hollow, his skin broken by small holes all across his body as if his innards had planned a vast exodus en masse. His lab coat was stained a sinister grey color, and that same liquid spread from his body to create a puddle around him on the floor. It had the consistency of blood, as well the smell.
On a usual day, the Willman Frontier Laboratory was not a quiet place. It was a place where eight hundred individuals – scientists, largely, along with their families – lived and worked in relatively close proximity, and where everyone seemed to be in quite a hurry to run from metal box to metal box, to share some step toward discovery.
But the silence had spread beyond the laboratory, through the hallway and out into the small colony. The living quarters were silent, no children played, no colleagues chatted in the dining hall. Instead, the dead populated the Willman colony. By the hundreds they lay, their eyes devoured, their skin perforated from the inside. They were many, they were all. There was no room for the living.
Alone, rocking back and forth almost involuntarily on the floor of a maintenance closet, Doctor Hector Russell tried in vain not to hyperventilate. The door was shut firmly in front of his face, shrouding him in utter blackness save for the dim light emanating from the gap at the bottom. Hector expected to hear footsteps outside, a rescue party or, perhaps, a colleague: come to tell him that none of it was real. But there were no footsteps. Only silence, and the man’s own ragged breathing. He kept rocking back and forth on the cold floor. He kept moving, he needed to, else the sensation inside him drive him to utter madness. If he stopped, he could feel them pull, outward. If he stopped, he could feel them crawl beneath his skin.
Event Horizon is an original science-fiction/mystery roleplay taking place in the year 2163. Humanity has successfully built manned shuttles which can exist for long durations out in space, and has already populated a good portion of the Milky Way galaxy. In space stations, on Mars, and in many other locations humans live good lives. They moved to make a fortune, or perhaps to get away from the clutter of Earth and her nearly ten billion residents, or perhaps for any of hundreds of other reasons. The mastery of space travel was like a gold rush for the scientific community, who began setting up outposts all over the galaxy and, in one instance, on the edge of the neighboring galaxy of Ursa Major.
The term “event horizon” usually refers to black holes, and references the point at which escape from the hole’s pull is impossible. It is, simply put, the tipping point: the point of no return. The destruction of the Willman Laboratory is humanity’s event horizon. It is the first page of the final chapter of our species’ history. But the folks in this story do not know that, not just yet.
Your characters will be among those sent to investigate the silence at the Willman Laboratory. Depending on your character's background and profession, you may have an extensive knowledge of the ongoing situation, or you may have just received a simple briefing. It will be up to you to decide whether or not to share the information you've been given with the rest of your team. The expedition will be the first witnesses to the most important event in human history, and they likely will not live through it. I will say this now: do not expect your character to “win”; do not get your hopes up for them to have a happy life, growing old on some private estate on a corner of Mars. Your character will die at the conclusion of this story, as will mine, as will everyone’s – unless they prove extremely lucky. What I’m trying to say is, do not get too attached. Yes, they will die, but they will just be the first of many. We have reached the point of no return.
Interested?
Character Sheet
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Profession:
Nationality: I would recommend stating both the specific nationality (Like, Japanese) and also the political bloc that country belongs to (I.e. American Alliance)
Birth Planet: Or station, in the case of the BASS or the Willman
Appearance: Please write a description. If you’d like, you may include a picture as well in the space above the “Name” section. Please do not use drawings or anime.
Strengths: You must have at least as many weaknesses as you do strengths, and no less than two.
Weaknesses:
Personality:
History: This may be as brief or expansive as you’d like it to be. Just remember, revealing and expanding upon events in a character’s life is far more powerful when done IC – and that when you write something here, and not in the IC, other characters won’t know anything about it.
Family: Does your character have a spouse, or children? Are their parents still alive? Here you may list the names and ages of the character’s immediate family, if you so choose. This is mainly here because, again, lots of death in act one. You may end up playing as one of these folks in act two, if you so choose.
Silence cut like a razor, spilling blood by the gallon and filling the air with the pungent smell of iron. It was a massacre, taking place in an empty hall which told no secrets. It was a protest against human ingenuity – a strike against the great pioneers.
It has now been one hour since contact ceased with the Willman Laboratory in Ursa Major following what was described by technicians as a “violent crash and static” on the other end. Government officials have not ruled out the possibility of some sort of disaster, but continue to insist that the cause is likely some sort of technical issue with the station’s transmitters –
At the end of the hallway stood a nondescript door leading to a standard biological laboratory, where a balding white man in his early forties lay decomposing on the harsh concrete floor, his eye sockets black and hollow, his skin broken by small holes all across his body as if his innards had planned a vast exodus en masse. His lab coat was stained a sinister grey color, and that same liquid spread from his body to create a puddle around him on the floor. It had the consistency of blood, as well the smell.
– laboratory was founded by Dr. Hector Russell, a giant in the fields of astrobiology and microbiology, for the purpose of studying the effects on known organisms in unknown environments, and for the discovery of unknown organisms –
On a usual day, the Willman Frontier Laboratory was not a quiet place. It was a place where eight hundred individuals – scientists, largely, along with their families – lived and worked in relatively close proximity, and where everyone seemed to be in quite a hurry to run from metal box to metal box, to share some step toward discovery.
But the silence had spread beyond the laboratory, through the hallway and out into the small colony. The living quarters were silent, no children played, no colleagues chatted in the dining hall. Instead, the dead populated the Willman colony. By the hundreds they lay, their eyes devoured, their skin perforated from the inside. They were many, they were all. There was no room for the living.
– a spokesperson for Russell Innovations will be addressing the public shortly regarding this situation, likely in an attempt to quell speculation. The government has already stated that, should the Willman Laboratory not contact Earth within the next four hours, a team will be dispatched to investigate what has unfolded at the most distant human settlement in all of the universe.
Alone, rocking back and forth almost involuntarily on the floor of a maintenance closet, Doctor Hector Russell tried in vain not to hyperventilate. The door was shut firmly in front of his face, shrouding him in utter blackness save for the dim light emanating from the gap at the bottom. Hector expected to hear footsteps outside, a rescue party or, perhaps, a colleague: come to tell him that none of it was real. But there were no footsteps. Only silence, and the man’s own ragged breathing. He kept rocking back and forth on the cold floor. He kept moving, he needed to, else the sensation inside him drive him to utter madness. If he stopped, he could feel them pull, outward. If he stopped, he could feel them crawl beneath his skin.
Event Horizon is an original science-fiction/mystery roleplay taking place in the year 2163. Humanity has successfully built manned shuttles which can exist for long durations out in space, and has already populated a good portion of the Milky Way galaxy. In space stations, on Mars, and in many other locations humans live good lives. They moved to make a fortune, or perhaps to get away from the clutter of Earth and her nearly ten billion residents, or perhaps for any of hundreds of other reasons. The mastery of space travel was like a gold rush for the scientific community, who began setting up outposts all over the galaxy and, in one instance, on the edge of the neighboring galaxy of Ursa Major.
The term “event horizon” usually refers to black holes, and references the point at which escape from the hole’s pull is impossible. It is, simply put, the tipping point: the point of no return. The destruction of the Willman Laboratory is humanity’s event horizon. It is the first page of the final chapter of our species’ history. But the folks in this story do not know that, not just yet.
Your characters will be among those sent to investigate the silence at the Willman Laboratory. Depending on your character's background and profession, you may have an extensive knowledge of the ongoing situation, or you may have just received a simple briefing. It will be up to you to decide whether or not to share the information you've been given with the rest of your team. The expedition will be the first witnesses to the most important event in human history, and they likely will not live through it. I will say this now: do not expect your character to “win”; do not get your hopes up for them to have a happy life, growing old on some private estate on a corner of Mars. Your character will die at the conclusion of this story, as will mine, as will everyone’s – unless they prove extremely lucky. What I’m trying to say is, do not get too attached. Yes, they will die, but they will just be the first of many. We have reached the point of no return.
Interested?
Character Sheet
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Profession:
Nationality: I would recommend stating both the specific nationality (Like, Japanese) and also the political bloc that country belongs to (I.e. American Alliance)
Birth Planet: Or station, in the case of the BASS or the Willman
Appearance: Please write a description. If you’d like, you may include a picture as well in the space above the “Name” section. Please do not use drawings or anime.
Strengths: You must have at least as many weaknesses as you do strengths, and no less than two.
Weaknesses:
Personality:
History: This may be as brief or expansive as you’d like it to be. Just remember, revealing and expanding upon events in a character’s life is far more powerful when done IC – and that when you write something here, and not in the IC, other characters won’t know anything about it.
Family: Does your character have a spouse, or children? Are their parents still alive? Here you may list the names and ages of the character’s immediate family, if you so choose. This is mainly here because, again, lots of death in act one. You may end up playing as one of these folks in act two, if you so choose.
The salty air is crisp, and cuts along a morning breeze, as you hear a few scattered gulls call from above. Somewhere behind you a bell tolls, back in the city, but your entire life is placed upon these docks. Even in the early hours the Port of London bustles: mariners pilot their vessels skillfully into slips, laborers unload valuable merchandise, and soldiers practice drills aboard a magnificent British warship. By contrast, your dock seems still. So far, close to forty people stand there, having already said their goodbyes to whatever family they may have. The captain, an Italian man of about forty, explains that he’s expecting around one hundred passengers total aboard his vessel, the galleon Nuova Scoperta. The majority will be English, he tells you, but certainly not all. You look out toward the water, past the Thames and out toward the ocean.
And you recall why you’re standing on this dock to begin with. You were promised wealth, or an escape – a new beginning, away from it all. You were offered a new life, and you took it. You’re headed for the New World.
This will be an alternate history RP set in the year 1617, though I hesitate to call it that. Essentially, nothing that happened before the year 1617 will be modified – it will all have happened in the game world as it did in real life. Columbus still reached the New World in 1492, Jacques Cartier still explored Quebec in the mid 1500’s, Alvarado and Pizzaro and the other Spanish conquistadores still succeeded in conquering much of Central and South America, and Jamestown was still founded by the Virginia Company in 1607. However, following the expedition of the Nuova Scoperta from the Port of London, history will continue along a different trajectory. There are some events which I have decided will not happen in this history, or may happen differently than it did historically. Others may happen just as they did, but our colony may now play a role.
You will play the part of a colonist – or family of colonists – who has paid for passage aboard this vessel. Your motivations are up to you – you may be a struggling aristocrat, with a dream of finding newfound wealth in the New World; or an unemployed family who is struggling to feed their children; or a criminal, who wants to put an entire ocean between them and the law. Your destination is the eastern shore of North America, within the border of the Massachusett tribe, and near the village of Naumkeag. There, you will found a colony under the oversight of the Canterbury Company, which is loyal to England. There will be around one hundred colonists, along with the Nuova Scoperta’s crew of one hundred and forty. The ship and her crew are instructed to stay with the fledgling colony for the first few months, before returning to England for fresh supplies and potentially more colonists. In the mean time, the remaining colonists will have to figure out how to survive and thrive in such an unfamiliar and, at times, hostile environment.
This is what I have so far! I've already thought quite a bit about the various scenarios and events which would take place during the RP, but I'm hesitant to say those just yet. In the next day or so depending on the interest I'll put up a map of the area, as well as some brief historical summaries of pertinent events or groups (such as the Massachusett tribe) to give some background. Let me know what you think!
And you recall why you’re standing on this dock to begin with. You were promised wealth, or an escape – a new beginning, away from it all. You were offered a new life, and you took it. You’re headed for the New World.
This will be an alternate history RP set in the year 1617, though I hesitate to call it that. Essentially, nothing that happened before the year 1617 will be modified – it will all have happened in the game world as it did in real life. Columbus still reached the New World in 1492, Jacques Cartier still explored Quebec in the mid 1500’s, Alvarado and Pizzaro and the other Spanish conquistadores still succeeded in conquering much of Central and South America, and Jamestown was still founded by the Virginia Company in 1607. However, following the expedition of the Nuova Scoperta from the Port of London, history will continue along a different trajectory. There are some events which I have decided will not happen in this history, or may happen differently than it did historically. Others may happen just as they did, but our colony may now play a role.
You will play the part of a colonist – or family of colonists – who has paid for passage aboard this vessel. Your motivations are up to you – you may be a struggling aristocrat, with a dream of finding newfound wealth in the New World; or an unemployed family who is struggling to feed their children; or a criminal, who wants to put an entire ocean between them and the law. Your destination is the eastern shore of North America, within the border of the Massachusett tribe, and near the village of Naumkeag. There, you will found a colony under the oversight of the Canterbury Company, which is loyal to England. There will be around one hundred colonists, along with the Nuova Scoperta’s crew of one hundred and forty. The ship and her crew are instructed to stay with the fledgling colony for the first few months, before returning to England for fresh supplies and potentially more colonists. In the mean time, the remaining colonists will have to figure out how to survive and thrive in such an unfamiliar and, at times, hostile environment.
This is what I have so far! I've already thought quite a bit about the various scenarios and events which would take place during the RP, but I'm hesitant to say those just yet. In the next day or so depending on the interest I'll put up a map of the area, as well as some brief historical summaries of pertinent events or groups (such as the Massachusett tribe) to give some background. Let me know what you think!
@Rio In that case, you're accepted! Also, just a tip, you don't have to make three posts in a row -- you can just edit the first one, it saves a lot of space in the OOC
@RioWait.. where did you make correction? It still just says fighting.. unless I'm missing something?
@Rio Mind explaining "fighting" a bit more under Advantages? For such a young character it'd be peculiar for them to even be average at combat.
@Remipa Awesome Finals week? I know that's been kicking my ass.
I'm gonna try to get a post up by tonight! Not that it matters much, I'm literally RPing with myself and myself 
@Wade Wilson
By the way, what town are Todd and Scout in and how much time as passed since the beginning?
All of the characters are currently in/around Wilmington, and a few weeks have passed.
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