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

i think its a bit dead in the water, unfortunately

Beyond the Storms

@Atrophy@Vicier@Caits

just out of curiousity, totally not planning or anything

of the following, which interests you all the most? ill try to be as un-spoiler as possible

in alphabetical order:
-ancient race of magic
-ancient race of tech
-exploration, ad ifinitum
-political conspiracy
-political intrigue of factions
-time travel

I have an idea in my head of how all this is gonna go, but i realized that it might not be as interesting to others as it is to me, so ive come up with options

whatever it is, we're making steady progress here, and we're getting to the more interesting part of things: that's why im trying to map out the road now

Beyond the Storms

Previously...

Maxine Holloway crooked an eyebrow at the proceedings, but made no move to stop them. "Come, come, Constance," she said, rising and ringing a minute bell she pulled from her person. "I shall show you the lavatory. I daresay you've no need to freshen up at all, but I shan't fault you for an attempt."

They had almost made it out of the room when Edward burst in, Raymond in tow. "Sorry to intrude, honest," Edward began, cheeks flushed. "Constance, Luna--Conway's just landed down at the coast. We've be asked to regroup at the Endurance and wait for him there. The people here: they have automobiles which should get him here within the end of the day. No working airplanes, if you can believe that! But that's not all."

Raymond rushed to Juliette, taking especial care not to look Maxine in the eye. "Juliette!" he mumbled, and a stream of Ghalari followed. Edward assumed he was asking if she was okay. Probably was.

Maxine made an equally careful show of ignoring him entirely, her eyes fixed on the other two men. "I beg your pardon?"

Edward shuffled from foot to foot, excitement dancing in his eyes. "Plummet! They have an obelisk here! Honest to God obelisk, like the one at home. But it's dead somehow, like a broken power line. I don't know how to explain it, because they just explained it to me. Come on, then!" He didn't know about the others, but this had been his whole reason for coming out of the U.I. "Collin and Raymond have agreed to take us to it, even!"

"Nonsense, Mr. Samick," huffed Maxine, "Constance is to begin familiarizing herself with the Holloway brand, and those who work alongside it. She has no time for such a trip to ye-la'spiekr."

Now it was Edward's turn to turn an arched eyebrow to Constance. She was many things, and not all of them pleasant, but he hadn't known her to let anyone else tell her what she was allowed to do. "I...see?"

"Certainly not with Mr. Geralt traveling such to see her. Arn!" Maxine smiled at the young man when he peeped his head in. "Ring Mr. Geralt, would you? He shouldn't be far. I believe he is in town currently on business of some sort."

"Wait, Geralt?" Edward stopped short on his quest to drag everyone out the door. The name sounded oddly familiar, but...

"Joseph Geralt? I'm sure someone on your little island must know of him, yes?"

"Joseph Geralt died," Edward said flatly. "Some thirty years ago, he flew some high-tech aircraft out into the storms surrounding out home. He never returned, and we heard no more communications from him.

Maxine tossed her head, nostrils flaring. "Then I suppose the Joseph Geralt Ghalari fishermen found thirty years ago, clinging to a wooden scrap in the middle of the ocean, that was imagined, then?"

Edward shook himself slightly. "Oh, my apologies, Mrs. Holloway. I did not mean to imply disrespect. Geralt is a sort of mythic figure back home. People, myself included, would be surprised to find that he survived, that's all." Before she could inhale more breath, a thought occurred to him. "Geralt was in his mid-thirties when he left. Wouldn't that mean he's--"

"Geralt is somewhat aged, this is true." Maxine's eyes flickered almost imperceptibly to Constance's face, but Edward had become excellent at reading such minute details. "But he is fit, intelligent, and witty to a fault, I assure you. I can also assure that he would be most interested to meet you as well."

"Of course, but...we really must be going now. We have only the day to reach the obelisk and back, and we can't fly in our aircraft." He glanced at Constance, and a pang of something flashed through him. Like her or not, they'd gone through multiple hells together, and it felt wrong to abandon her here, even if it was where she was most comfortable. He shrugged. "We'll be outside for a few minutes while Collin tracks down an jitney." He turned and went to the door. "Come on, Ray! Juliette can come too, of course."

Then he stepped outside. It looked like the sun was still rising. So they had a good amount of time left before Conway would expect them to be back at the Endurance. Still, he didn't really trust time to give them the benefit of the doubt. It didn't matter how long you had, time always found a way to slip out of your fingertips.

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"Arms in, head straight. Don't move, and try not to scream. Clock in once you hit the ground. Good luck."

'Safety Statement for The Drop, Doherty Outreach Center'

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[ S T O R Y E V E N T S ]

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CURRENT TIME: 9 Days Since Departure on May 15th, in-world time.

4/8/2017

The intrepid explorer's crew of the UIS Garrloch has made contact with a strange new world, right in the middle of apparent festivities! For better or for worse...

2/20/2017

Having just barely survived an attack by an impossible monster, the crew of the Garrloch is back at sea, using a strange, futuristic map discovered during their explorations.

10/31/2016

The Garrloch has landed. First night outside the Ring of Thunder, and things aren't all sunshine and rainbows, unfortunately.

10/22/2016

The Garrloch has survived the Ring of Thunder. There was a few close calls, and a freak lightning strike tore a hole in the ship's main deck, but aside from that, everything is just fine.

As a matter of fact, land has just been discovered by the Garrloch's prototype VTOL aircraft. Who knows what might be out in the brand new world?

A while back

The UIS Garrloch has just launched from the DOC! Aboard the brand new exploratory vessel is an experimental new piece of aircraft technology, alongside a smattering of non-government hitchhikers and explorers.

The first order of business is to get outside the Ring of Thunder, but the storms are not likely to let our intrepid adventurers through without a fight.

Stay tuned...

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[ P R E M I S E / I N F O ]

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You are a member of the newest expedition chartered by the UINC, an agency created by the United Isles council to explore the oceans. The United Isles are a collection of floating islands, surrounded by a never-ending ring of storms that makes traveling by air impossible.

No one really knows how the islands float or where the storms originated, but it's generally accepted that the massive Obelisk on one of the islands is the cause.

The United Isles Ship Garrloch is heading out on her maiden voyage into the unexplored ocean world, in an attempt to figure out just what in the hell is out there. The crew of the Garrloch is as varied as they come: practically anyone with a will or a reason to explore could be on it. That's you.

Welcome aboard.

Traveling down to sea-level is accomplished through the Doherty Outreach Center. It's basically a giant elevator. Around the outside of the elevator is a series of harnesses and storage containers. That is the Drop, and it is essentially a controlled free-fall toward the ocean when you need to get down there fast.

The time period is about 70 years back from today in our world. The United Isles is a fairly anachronistic world, however. Let's say about 1940s in our world, with some differences. Before the construction of the Outreach Centers, ship technology was largely constrained to lakeboats. Yachts, fishing boats, etc, with long-range shipping barges and warships being largely useless in a floating world. Instead, aerial transport was invented early, with gliders being first, parachutes close behind, and motor-powered aircraft being invented almost in sync with automobiles.

In other words, ship technology is not very well developed, while aircraft technology is far more advanced for the time, with helicopters already being used frequently, airplanes being far more optimized, etc. Just try to imagine how life might be different if humanity had evolved for 2000 years floating in the sky.

Some history is below, if you're interested. It isn't really required.

The History of the United Isles

[ T H E U N I T E D I S L E S : A B R I E F H I S T O R Y ]

Some two thousand years ago, as near as any historian can tell, some of landmasses of the world broke free from their tectonic plates, somehow rising into the sky without explanation. In defiance of all logic and the laws of physics, hundreds of islands floated above the ocean at dizzying heights.

To add further confusion to the rapid shift of geography, a ring of freak storms surrounded a group of the floating landmasses. In the span of roughly one month, five large isles (as well as numerous smaller surrounding islands) had been cut off from the rest of the world, unable to even see past the seemingly endless sheets of rain, and the torrents of thunder and lightning.

Humans, as humans do, survived through tenacity and adaptability. For two thousand years, the people of the five isles lived, worked, and evolved. Aside from the storm ring, the fatal drop, and the floating, not much else had changed for the inhabitants. Gravity still worked, plants still grew, and human ingenuity continued to shape the world. Somehow the rivers and lakes of the floating planets stayed full, with frequent rain from the storm ring replenishing the water supplies as fast as they drained. For two thousand years, mankind grew better, smarter.

Yet through all that time, one question never stopped being asked: why?" Why had the islands been torn away from their rightful home? What kept the isles aloft? As more time passed, and the five islands remained cut off from the rest of the planet, another question formed as well. What was out there? Perhaps answers. Perhaps more humans.

After the first brave inventor put their parachute to the test, long ago, humanity has been working since then to get back to the ground. The Isles came together on common ground, the United Isles, working for the betterment of everyone within the Ring of Thunder, as they had taken to calling it. The United Isles Naval Coalition was chartered some eighty years ago, and began work on a series of massive elevators, which would finally allow the people of the United Isles to reach the ground.

It was slow going. Fifty years of hard work and experimentation and construction, but eventually the first of the lifts was finished. Christened the "Doherty Outreach Center", humans were finally able to safely travel to sea level and back, and more importantly, large quantities of cargo were finally able to be moved as well.

Alongside the construction of the Outreach Centers, UINC also worked to create new ship technology. Pleasure Yachts and little lake-craft were well established on the islands, but few bodies of water were large enough to accommodate exploration ships, which were massive by comparison. The construction of these ships really only could begin at sea level.

To shorten the story, the world is in a state of constant excitement. An earlier ship expedition found another obelisk beyond the storms, and now everyone and their mother is trying to go out and explore. Great caches of valuable materials--gold, silver, cotton fields--have also been discovered, and everyone wants a piece.

Anyone can use an Outreach Center, provided they reserve use of the lift in advance. Unfortunately, this can often mean waiting years, as there is a large backup of requests. However, on short notice, anyone who is deemed fit enough can take the Drop.

You are on the Garrloch. For whatever reason, you and your fellow crewmates want to see what is out there. Gold, glory...answers from the past. Who knows what could be waiting?

THE CHARACTER SHEET IS IN THE CS SECTION. SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION. PLEASE POST THE CHARACTER SHEET HERE, IN THE OOC, OR PM IT TO ME, BEFORE POSTING IN THE CHARACTER SECTION.

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The Hub Planet - Vasishka - Open

@The Harbinger of Ferocity
Thanks for the clarification. I'll look into the character submission

The Hub Planet - Vasishka - Open

I would recommend starting with a character submission here, @Mercenary Lord. Given you seem to want to make multiple characters and an unofficial group, you can fill out one sheet for them all and focusing on their leader. Once approved, this is in fact the right place to pose those sort of questions and see just who you can get involved as well as make your attempts to do so.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Thank you. I think I was just trying to clarify whether such a concept of such magnitude would be acceptable within the constraints of this world, before I attempt to make any characters or groups which relate to such a story.

The Hub Planet - Vasishka - Open

i'd like to create a story about a group of disillusioned individuals attempting to take control of one of the major cities of this planet

idk if this is the proper place to ask this, but is that something that's doable/acceptable?

Mahz's Dev Journal

how many co-gms does it take to change a lightbulb

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

Every "school for Gods" RP I see is about Greek Gods.

What's up with that?

@Mr Allen J

people probably know the most about them, or think they know the most about them