JFK

Walking the Abyss | Advanced | Large Group | Horror/Fantasy

The arc will not dictate outcomes — only pressure.

@Elitenoob

chatgpt? is that you?

"La Brea" TV series inspired RP

Could be interesting. I like to be as accurate and realistic as I can feasibly be. Can we get a specific time and place that our characters will end up in?

Lunar Dome 10

@Expendable It may be prudent for us to agree on what sort of prohibitions our characters will face as prisoners. I.e. I was intending for Arthur to be blacklisted from authorised alcohol sources. Perhaps our characters are limited in their ability to contact people outside of the dome? Arthur definitely isn't allowed to use official communication channels.

I got the impression your character isn't a villain, but was framed. If you want to leave the details vague, that's fine. However, in my mind, Arthur was trafficking advanced tech to anti-corporate terrorist organisations. Perhaps if Yev really was involved with SWARM, maybe our characters did business pre-incarceration?

Do you think Arthur would be afforded more privileges because he's a technician and not an agriworker?

In The Black (A Clean-Up Crew RP)

The War Criminal

Name: Stephen Stokes (born Viktor Bakalli)
Age: 50
Nationality: Yugoslavian - Kosovan - Ethnically Albanian
Appearance: In a word, Viktor is scraggly. He's about 5'10. He sports a long beard salt & pepper beard with a full moustache. He keeps the hair on his head buzzed down to a fine dark grey fuzz. Normally he wears a faded set of cold-war era fatigues.
Branch: Field Research
Role/Occupation: Mission Supervisor & EOD
Skills: Expert at mine clearance, seasoned combat veteran, expert driver, combat first-aid experience, guerilla warfare expert, knowledge of criminal operations, ties to the south Slavic underworld, basic rotary aircraft operation ability. Speaks fluent English with a slight unplaceable accent. Fluent Albanian speaker. Passable Serbo-Croat language speaker. Flawless eyesight. Generally intelligent, broad knowledge based, quick learner.
Weaknesses: Pacemaker, double knee replacement, mild hearing loss, fear of explosives, currently living under a false identity, wanted by the Hague for atrocities in the early 2000s. Deep prejudice against Serbians.

Background/Biography: Stephen was born into conflict. Facing ethnic violence from birth radicalised him and he turned to Kosovan nationalism. At age 15 he joined the KLA and participated in the initial raids against the occupying Serbian police. Despite losing many friends, and much of his family he survived this tumultuous time. After the official end of the war, he continued to stoke the flames of insurgency on the Kosovan border, inciting violence against Serbian 'peacekeeping' forces. These activities and various incidents of killing Serbian settlers resulted in drawing the attention of international law enforcement. As the insurgency wound down in 2003, most of the key players in the insurgency were either killed or taken prisoner. Viktor was fortunate to escape the hangman by exploiting ties within the extensive Albanian criminal underworld. After establishing a new identity and escaping the Balkans via sea journey, he established himself for a decade in the UK, earning a place in Excalibur International as a grunt technician, due to his experience handling explosives. During this fruitful decade he managed to rise to a middling rank by nature of him surviving (that's the way the money goes in DC). Stephen has lived a life surrounded by better and more heroic men. But as he has discovered, the best men aren't the men that survive. In 2015 he defected from Excalibur on amicable terms and was taken in by Acheron in a trade deal. Excalibur was happy to be rid of him, as paper pushers within the organisation had noticed irregularities within Stephen's paperwork and realised the people investigating Viktor Bakalli weren't far behind. The clandestine transfer to Acheron's US offices have thrown the team off of his trail for sometime. Since 2015 Stephen has been acting in Acheron mainly as a training officer, with only occasional mission deployments. Due to the nature of his existence, it is unrealistic for him to ever lead a normal civilian life. For him to maintain his liberty it is imperative he lives in the shadows. DC is one of the few industries that he can operate within. His loyalty is ensured by the quiet understanding of who he really is, and what he is running from. His continued operational usefulness ensures his safety within the bowels of Silent Mountain.

Lunar Dome 10

Arthur Eel | Convict Machinist

Appearance: Hunched, ethnically ambiguous, he has a medium tan and blemish covered skin, the hair on his head has mostly thinned away. He has a short grey beard and a sparse crown. His eyes have been heavily augmented. They aren't visible behind a heavy set of goggles. He is only ever seen wearing his enhanced jumpsuit, despite the heavy oil stains.
pin.it/65RApgSnE
5'5 | 65 | Heavily Cybernetically Enhanced | Roboticist, Expert on 3D Printing

Relevant skills: Excellent learner, highly independent, mentally resilient. Capable of maintaining and repairing a wide range of machines. Expert on maintaining, repairing, upgrading, and designing 3D printers. Skilled at using advanced equipment to design and construct things.
Undesirable traits: Arthur is believed to harbour strong anti-establishment beliefs. During official interrogation and questioning he is incredibly closed off and guarded. It would be logical to assume he has in-depth knowledge in achieving illegal goals. He is suspected to have widespread ties within the international underworld. Ultimately: he cannot be trusted due to a his proven anti-authority nature.
Biography: Very little is officially known of Arthur Eel's life. He managed to spend most of it out of the eyes of anyone who could record anything notable. This alone is remarkable given the death of privacy in a global age. At age 56 he was arrested in Queensland, Australia after being pulled over on the road. The investigating officer searched his car on a hunch and found him to be in possession of some highly illegal cloning equipment.
The Australian investigation was initially stalled by an inability to identify him. But it was only a matter of time. After diligent effort from a specialist team aided by cutting edge tech, they managed to dig up Arthur Eel's file from a South African Orphanage. He had been institutionalised there at birth. He passed through the school system, barely, and virtually vanished at age 18. He got the standard sentence for his crime and went to prison in Australia. But the investigation continued, authority had caught onto his scent and it would be difficult to shake now they were interested. During his relatively short stay he was initially investigated the the South African Department of Tax. Then multiple other bodies and countries linked him to cases of fraud. After his sentence was increased, he was passed to another country's justice system. While spending his time in South Africa for fraud he set a new record on the prison aptitude tests. Finally the investigations finished. 8 years later. He was implicated and found to be the central figure in decades of arms smuggling, arming numerous terrorist organisations across the globe, and facilitating a large portion of the world drug trade at one point in time. He operated most of it out of an expansive but out of the way warehouse situated conveniently near the Suez canal. But a handful of other safe houses, bushland airstrips, and quiet port warehouses were slowly discovered. After spending half a decade being passed around international courts and being found guilty for anything they could find against him Arthur was posited an offer: either he could spend '600' years being passed around the worst possible prisons on the planet. Or: he could take up the Concern's offer and be sent on 'provisional internment' working as a maintenance man on LD-10, with high surveillance and low risk of recidivism. Arthur is on a shortlist of criminals that have been 'Universally Banned' from society. In reality what this means is he can not participate in banking, but he wasn't really doing that anyway. He hasn't been causing much trouble on LD-10. This is basically paradise for him anyway, few people, a big workshop, and no money worries. It's a lot better than rotting away in some wretched hole in Russia at least.

Bizarrely, Arthur has instructed Holiday to only ever refer to him as "His Majesty, King George the Fifth".

On paper, one of the rooms was assigned to Arthur. Or Arthur was assigned to one of the rooms. Whoever was meant to be monitoring him isn't doing a very good job. Some people whisper they've seen him asleep in trees. Most probably he just sleeps in an office chair in one of the dome's various quiet books.

The Cauldron

The Cauldron is the largest maintenance bay. The large warehouse sits embedded into the lunar surface, under the dome's rim, it's big enough to fit two of the dome's largest vehicles. A ginormous open ramp leads into it. The Cauldron is Arthur's main workspace. The space is equipped generously with an extensive array of equipment, at a range of scales. Much of the dome's maintenance routines are fully automatic. Any happening that has been encountered, or theorised, a contingency has been designed for. This means that things will usually keep ticking along without intervention. Arthur's preoccupation is doing a daily inspection of the functions of a few critical large-scale 3D multi-material printers. Other than the 3 main printers, he occasionally assists Holiday in specialist repairs. He spends most of his time tinkering about benignly, or sneaking around Holiday with mixed success.
The Cauldron connects with a lot of the dome, especially the parts under the surface.

In The Black (A Clean-Up Crew RP)

The War Criminal

Name: Stephen Stokes (born Viktor Bakalli)
Age: 50
Nationality: Yugoslavian - Kosovan - Ethnically Albanian
Branch: Field Research
Role/Occupation: Mission Supervisor & EOD
Skills: Expert at mine clearance, seasoned combat veteran, expert driver, combat first-aid experience, guerilla warfare expert, knowledge of criminal operations, ties to the south Slavic underworld, basic rotary aircraft operation ability. Speaks fluent English with a slight unplaceable accent. Fluent Albanian speaker. Passable Serbo-Croat language speaker. Flawless eyesight. Generally intelligent, broad knowledge based, quick learner.
Weaknesses: Pacemaker, double knee replacement, mild hearing loss, fear of explosives, currently living under a false identity, wanted by the Hague for atrocities in the early 2000s. Deep prejudice against Serbians.

Background/Biography: Stephen was born into conflict. Facing ethnic violence from birth radicalised him and he turned to Kosovan nationalism. At age 15 he joined the KLA and participated in the initial raids against the occupying Serbian police. Despite losing many friends, and much of his family he survived this tumultuous time. After the official end of the war, he continued to stoke the flames of insurgency on the Kosovan border, inciting violence against Serbian 'peacekeeping' forces. These activities and various incidents of killing Serbian settlers resulted in drawing the attention of international law enforcement. As the insurgency wound down in 2003, most of the key players in the insurgency were either killed or taken prisoner. Viktor was fortunate to escape the hangman by exploiting ties within the extensive Albanian criminal underworld. After establishing a new identity and escaping the Balkans via sea journey, he established himself for a decade in the UK, earning a place in Excalibur International as a grunt technician, due to his experience handling explosives. During this fruitful decade he managed to rise to a middling rank by nature of him surviving (that's the way the money goes in DC). Stephen has lived a life surrounded by better and more heroic men. But as he has discovered, the best men aren't the men that survive. In 2015 he defected from Excalibur on amicable terms and was taken in by Acheron in a trade deal. Excalibur was happy to be rid of him, as paper pushers within the organisation had noticed irregularities within Stephen's paperwork and realised the people investigating Viktor Bakalli weren't far behind. The clandestine transfer to Acheron's US offices have thrown the team off of his trail for sometime. Since 2015 Stephen has been acting in Acheron mainly as a training officer, with only occasional mission deployments. Due to the nature of his existence, it is unrealistic for him to ever lead a normal civilian life. For him to maintain his liberty it is imperative he lives in the shadows. DC is one of the few industries that he can operate within. His loyalty is ensured by the quiet understanding of who he really is, and what he is running from. His continued operational usefulness ensures his safety within the bowels of Silent Mountain.

Weltraumflotte: Imperialism in Outer Space

I hope this sees more interest. Coilguns and railguns are fun.

Lunar Dome 10

Here's my application. :D

Arthur Eel | Convict Machinist

Appearance: Hunched, ethnically ambiguous, he has a medium tan and blemish covered skin, the hair on his head has mostly thinned away. He has a short grey beard and a sparse crown. His eyes have been heavily augmented. They aren't visible behind a heavy set of goggles. He is only ever seen wearing his enhanced jumpsuit, despite the heavy oil stains.
pin.it/65RApgSnE
5'5 | 65 | Heavily Cybernetically Enhanced | Roboticist, Expert on 3D Printing

Relevant skills: Excellent learner, highly independent, mentally resilient. Capable of maintaining and repairing a wide range of machines. Expert on maintaining, repairing, upgrading, and designing 3D printers. Skilled at using advanced equipment to design and construct things.
Undesirable traits: Arthur is believed to harbour strong anti-establishment beliefs. During official interrogation and questioning he is incredibly closed off and guarded. It would be logical to assume he has in-depth knowledge in achieving illegal goals. He is suspected to have widespread ties within the international underworld. Ultimately: he cannot be trusted due to a his proven anti-authority nature.
Biography: Very little is officially known of Arthur Eel's life. He managed to spend most of it out of the eyes of anyone who could record anything notable. This alone is remarkable given the death of privacy in a global age. At age 56 he was arrested in Queensland, Australia after being pulled over on the road. The investigating officer searched his car on a hunch and found him to be in possession of some highly illegal cloning equipment.
The Australian investigation was initially stalled by an inability to identify him. But it was only a matter of time. After diligent effort from a specialist team aided by cutting edge tech, they managed to dig up Arthur Eel's file from a South African Orphanage. He had been institutionalised there at birth. He passed through the school system, barely, and virtually vanished at age 18. He got the standard sentence for his crime and went to prison in Australia. But the investigation continued, authority had caught onto his scent and it would be difficult to shake now they were interested. During his relatively short stay he was initially investigated the the South African Department of Tax. Then multiple other bodies and countries linked him to cases of fraud. After his sentence was increased, he was passed to another country's justice system. While spending his time in South Africa for fraud he set a new record on the prison aptitude tests. Finally the investigations finished. 8 years later. He was implicated and found to be the central figure in decades of arms smuggling, arming numerous terrorist organisations across the globe, and facilitating a large portion of the world drug trade at one point in time. He operated most of it out of an expansive but out of the way warehouse situated conveniently near the Suez canal. But a handful of other safe houses, bushland airstrips, and quiet port warehouses were slowly discovered. After spending half a decade being passed around international courts and being found guilty for anything they could find against him Arthur was posited an offer: either he could spend '600' years being passed around the worst possible prisons on the planet. Or: he could take up the Concern's offer and be sent on 'provisional internment' working as a maintenance man on LD-10, with high surveillance and low risk of recidivism. Arthur is on a shortlist of criminals that have been 'Universally Banned' from society. In reality what this means is he can not participate in banking, but he wasn't really doing that anyway. He hasn't been causing much trouble on LD-10. This is basically paradise for him anyway, few people, a big workshop, and no money worries. It's a lot better than rotting away in some wretched hole in Russia at least.

Bizarrely, Arthur has instructed Holiday to only ever refer to him as "His Majesty, King George the Fifth".

On paper, one of the rooms was assigned to Arthur. Or Arthur was assigned to one of the rooms. Whoever was meant to be monitoring him isn't doing a very good job. Some people whisper they've seen him asleep in trees. Most probably he just sleeps in an office chair in one of the dome's various quiet nooks.

The Cauldron

The Cauldron is the largest maintenance bay. The large warehouse sits embedded into the lunar surface, under the dome's rim, it's big enough to fit two of the dome's largest vehicles. A ginormous open ramp leads into it. The Cauldron is Arthur's main workspace. The space is equipped generously with an extensive array of equipment, at a range of scales. Much of the dome's maintenance routines are fully automatic. Any happening that has been encountered, or theorised, a contingency has been designed for. This means that things will usually keep ticking along without intervention. Arthur's preoccupation is doing a daily inspection of the functions of a few critical large-scale 3D multi-material printers. Other than the 3 main printers, he occasionally assists Holiday in specialist repairs. He spends most of his time tinkering about benignly, or sneaking around Holiday with mixed success.
The Cauldron connects with a lot of the dome, especially the parts under the surface.

Lunar Dome 10

Silent Running

@Expendable

I couldn't remember the name of it. But thought that immediately as well. Thank the lord you reminded me.

Austin Is Dead

@LanaStorm
How rare was Austin? Was he among the first people to discover and reveal his power?
What's his occupational designation? Was he a vigilante? A superhero?
Where is Elysian Heights vaguely? West Coast US?