With a violent fireball, the Earth ends. Then, you wake up yesterday... again.
This is a four-to-five person roleplay. The goal is to figure out what's making time loop, why only a few of you can remember why time is looping, what causes the apocalypse, and how to stop any of the above.
Mechanics:
Every twenty posts (that is, at the start of every page), the Earth blows up, time resets, and it's yesterday again.
No cramming several posts into one giant mega-post.
You will die many times.
So will everyone else.
Finally, if there's something that seems like your character should know, but you the player doesn't know, ask it in OOC. The OOC is your space to talk about the game, talk about your group's plans, discuss theories, decide what to do, get info, and (obviously) ask questions about mechanics or anything else you might not be sure of. If you need to know what the heck Simmons Lab looks like so you can write your post, hit me up in the OOC and I'll let you know.
I plan for the worldbuilding to be pretty collaborative, so if you think there ought to be, for instance, a bait-and-tackle place named Bubba's, then there's a bait-and-tackle place named Bubba's.
And, seriously, don't hesitate to ask questions in the OOC.
Setting:
It is modern day United States.
You live in the small town (pop. ~10,000) of Seneca Glen in New York State. The town is built around a single Main Street. There are few side streets with houses, an elementary school, a police/fire/mayor's office, and whatever other buildings you might expect to see in a small town. The main employers are: Simmons Lab - a federal arboreal research laboratory; Melakron Plastics - a manufacturing plant for medical devices; and Hayt General store, a moderately-sized department store that sells everything: guns, gas, cheetos and t-shirts. Aside from that, Seneca Glen is close to Seneca Lake, a popular tourist destination. Seneca Lake is well known for its many wineries as well as hiking and water sports.
If you'd like inspiration, I recommend looking at Corning, NY or Watkins Glen, NY. Alternatively, you can poke around any of the many other small towns near Seneca Lake to get a feel for it.
Seneca Lake
Corning, NY
Watkins Glen, NY
Please note that this is a small town, so likely everyone knows everyone else. Definitely everyone knows someone whose brother knows everyone else.
Rules:
0. Site rules apply. 1. Don't break the game. -Aside from general roleplay etiquette (don't godmod, no Mary Sues, etc), please let people know if you need a break, decided to leave, or real life is rearing its ugly head. -If you have an issue with another player, please take it up in PM's, not the OOC. 2. I have final say if anything weird happens that isn't covered by rules 0 and 1.
Applying/Character Sheet:
Fill out this sheet and post it in the OOC. When I approve you, post the sheet in the characters tab.
The following fields are required: [u]Name:[/u] [u]Gender:[/u] [u]Age (roughly):[/u] [u]Job:[/u] [u]Special Skills:[/u] [u]Relationship to Other Party Members:[/u]
Special Skills -> Are you pretty good at firing a gun? Can you read the land? Are you actually very smart? Relationship to Other Party Members: -> Obviously you'll need to talk to the other players to come up with this. Everyone knows everyone in this town; the party members especially so.
The rest of these fields are optional. If you want to create fields of your own, or leave out ones I've suggested here, feel free! It's your character sheet. [u]Bio:[/u] [u]Appearance/Picture:[/u] [u]Theme Song:[/u] [u]Where You Start the Day:[/u] [u]Secret Mission:[/u] [u]Flavor:[/u] [u]Genre:[/u]
Palpatine is in cahoots with Anubis. Or is it the other way around?
Renatus arrives, notes the presence of other ships.
Moonreaver eats some dirty, no-good, Terrans and then arrives.
Kearsarge is in the middle of battle, gets destroyed-except, no, now it's in a different universe.
Solomon ends up in another universe mid flip-and-burn.
Eggman and Sonia and Oglivie arrive in the Egg Carrier
Faith of Heart appears, broken slightly
Daedalus appears, with Lt. Sheppard in tow
Andromeda, somewhat damaged, gets the hail about Atlantis. They counter-hail, and threaten to board.
Renatus asks if everyone could please introduce themselves. Peacefully.
Moonreaver introduces itself and notes that they were pulled from their own universe
Egg Carrier arrives.
Kearsarge introduces itself, and then defensively asks whether Andromeda is threatening another Earth ship
Renatus confirms weirdness, is mildly suspicious of Zerg similarity to Wraith; proposes a face-to-face
Daedalus wants peace and science!
Andromeda stands down their threat, but is confused at the lack of wave motion tech, and just wants to go home. They also have no transport to get to another ship.
Moonreaver realizes that alternate universes are in play, and then offers to send an away team to Renatus
Renatus agrees
Faith of Heart continues to vent plasma, and launches a runabout
Egg Carrier convinces itself the Imperials are Overlanders; Imperials threaten Egg Carrier, believing it to be Separatist. Combat ensues. The Imperials are boarded, and a Star Destroyer is captured.
Solomon goes on alert, realizes that multiverse shenanigans are afoot. They inform the others about the multiverse theory.
Kearsarge sends a transport over to Andromeda to shuttle people over.
Andromeda agrees to Kearsarge's transport plan
Daedalus sends the protaganists from SG:A over to the Rentus; Anubis notes the new ships as the Others' plan to thwart him
Renatus lowers shields to allow people aboard
Faith of Heart's runabout warps in
Moonreaver sends over the broodmother, a couple of hydralisks, and an infested terran to Renatus. They're somewhat fleshy organic horrors.
Egg Carrier encounters Assimilator-Class Star Destroyers: SD's with better shields, better weapons, and better hyperdrive. Egg Carrier mines their captured SD for a pitiful amount of data and then books it.
Renatus hosts foreign crews! Thus begins discussions as to why they were all brought here.
Kearsarge picks up Andromeda's people, and lands at the Renatus.
Moonreaver notes that everyone is weirdly Terran. Out loud, they propose travelling to a different system to contact the locals.
Renatus is down for that plan.
Faith of Heart's runabout spies on the rag-tag fleet. It initiates contact, asking for help because they're lost.
Daedalus plots an escape route, just in case, and returns Faith of Heart's runabout's hail. Meanwhile, on the Renatus, the away team agrees that they need to seek answers elsewhere.
Faith of Heart is surprised Daedalus is from Earth, and then asks for coordinates to beam in.
Egg Carrier meets some Separatists/resistance-movement-ists (led by Bromb Krashtal) and makes friends.
Moonreaver's delegation is curious about the Daedalus claiming to have seen something like this multiverse-ness before.
Earth is destroyed in a massive fireball. There's nothing you could possibly do to stop it.
And then you wake up yesterday again, memories intact.
You and your fellow RP'ers are caught in a time loop. At the end of the loop, Earth is destroyed. It's up to you to figure out how Earth is destroyed, why time keeps looping, and how to stop it. Everyone else doesn't seem to notice the time loop.
You live in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. The biggest industries of the town are: Simmons Lab - a federal arboreal research laboratory; Melakron Plastics - a manufacturing plant for medical devices; and Hayt General store, a moderately-sized store that sells everything: guns, gas, cheetos and t-shirts.
Mechanics: Every 20 posts, the apocalypse happens, and time resets. This is conveniently equal to how many posts there are on a page; every page is the start of the same day. *No cramming several posts into one giant mega-post *You will die many times *So will everyone else
Any interest? I'm looking for four, maybe five people.