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I have been actively roleplaying for around 18 years now, since age 15. Which, as you might have guessed, makes me 33. I've done most of my rping on forums, averaging 2 to 4 paragraphs. Though I also LARP, and have played D&D for about 17 years. Real life has become a larger part of my life though, so my activity has lessened. Even so, I don't think I'll ever stop rping. :)

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Zara had finished her arm, her coffee, and was now working on her bike. Normally fixing the fuel intake would be easy, the problem was that she didn't have a proper workshop or the proper parts to do so. So she had to make do with whatever she found in the wasteland. And considering how dangerous the place was, she didn't generally go very far either. She had gotten a lucky break not long ago though. A toolbox filled with all kinds of wenches, screwdrivers, and other such tools. So at the very least taking thing apart was easier now. However before she had removed everything in the way to get to where she needed to be, the alarm once again went off. The woman sighed and got up, almost deciding to not even check the monitor this time. It felt like one stray dog had made it his duty to harass her as much as possible by triggering the bunker's alarms at least once a day. But she was also expecting a client, so she didn't have much choice but to check what was going on.

However, to her surprise, this time it was a person. A completely unknown person at that. She quickly rushed towards her computer room, and pressed a few buttons on a panel. Sometimes random scavengers or other strangers came by, hoping to find stuff to sell. So Zara had fixed up one of the bunker's outside turrets to deal with such threats quickly. Outside at the door, a hatch above the door opened. And out came a worn down, but still very much functional machine gun turret. Two lights turned on, fixating themselves on the movement outside. And lastly, a speaker turned on as well. "You are trespassing on private property. You have ten seconds to leave." The woman spoke through a microphone from the secrecy of her room, her eyes scanning the man on her screen. He looked military, maybe. She wasn't too familiar with what the army looked like, though. But either way, she just wanted him out of there as soon as possible. All random passer-by got the hell out of there as they saw the turret. While any new client that had been sent her way would know to speak the password at this time. And if there was a third group, a hail of bullets could take care of them. Option three hadn't happened yet, though. And luckily so. As the only reason she could stay where she was in relative secrecy was because people didn't 'mysteriously disappear' whenever they walked in the area.
7 am, and suddenly sirens went off in a small bunker just outside of the city walls. A woman jerked awake inside, growling softly as she slammed the small table beside her. It had a button on it, together with a small monitor mounted on the wall. As soon as the button was hit, the bunker returned to silence. Still with her eyes half-closed the woman looked at the monitor, flipping to a few different channels before sighing deeply. "Fucking dog...I swear he's doing it just to annoy me..." She grumbled, slowly standing up. "One of these days I'll catch that mutt...I wonder what dog tastes like." She muttered as she stood, deciding that it was way too early to put on proper clothes. Then again, she barely needed to dress herself anyway. Unless she went outside. Which barely happened these days. All her time was spent online. The matrix had gotten so much better now that 99.9% of all people couldn't access large parts of it any more. And the few that did get to the deep web were either vampire nutters, or the very rare person that didn't want to interact with others. She had tried to talk to them of course, but they always immediately logged off. So after a while she stopped trying to communicate with anyone, doing her own thing instead.

As the coffee machine did it's thing, the woman decided to spend some time tinkering with her motorcycle. A 2029 KTM. It was pretty run down, and there was a problem with the fuel intake at the moment. But it was her pet project, and in the past it had helped her get around quite well. Better than any car, at least, since road maintenance wasn't that much of a thing any more. Especially since hover bikes and cars had become a thing for people that could afford it. The lights turned on in the garage, followed by an old heater she had salvaged from the wasteland. There were three of them in the bunker, since the building's own heating system had broken down over a year ago. As great as this place was for doing business and keeping relatively out of sight of the officials, it wouldn't exactly be fit for living any more if left alone. Not like she had much of a choice though.

As the room warmed up, and the coffee got ready, the woman sat down at her work table and took out a maintenance kit she had put together herself. Her cybernetic left eye didn't require it, but her right arm did. Just some basic cleaning and oiling, but if she didn't do so she'd find herself without a usable right arm within half a year. Black market models always seemed to come with problems. Still, without her cybernetics she would have probably been dead long ago already. People in the city didn't understand. She wasn't crazy, like the nutters. Sure, the craving for human flesh was still there, but she had it under control. And it wasn't exactly like the city dwellers did anything useful with dead bodies. But instead, she had to illegally buy something to eat from a back door near the waste disposal facility. At least it could also be worse. "That shadow guy better show up with some cash today...I'm getting hungry." She muttered as she worked on cleaning her arm.
That's quite the post... :P
Please do. :)
I think it would be more interesting if she doesn't have control over the adrenaline boost. But that she can keep it in check a little. And I plan to give her some augmentations. Maybe a cybernetic eye and arm or something. :)
No problem. :)
Sounds pretty explanatory I'd say. As for my character, I'm thinking of a woman just outside of a city. She used to be a hobbyist hacker, and managed to get herself into a small abandoned bunker. The place has a few defences still working. She makes a living by illegally selling software or information from the matrix that can only be obtained from a direct link. Though even the people that buy from her barely know what she looks like as she always keeps her face and such hidden when interacting with others. She can jack in directly because she's already infected anyway. And I was thinking, can de virus provide a large adrenaline boost when an infected gets hungry? Nothing superhuman, but one on one, people would have a lot of trouble fending her off if she was hungry. Just to add to the danger of the infected a little more. :)
Doesn't really matter to me really. :)
Did some quick reading on the setting. So, a fantasy-cyberpunk setting where magic and magical races exist. And in this case, where a virus has made people into psycho cannibals. The world's safe area's mostly consist of huge cities run by corporations with their own armies, and the world outside of them is basically a post-apocalyptic wasteland with cyberpunk mixed in, ruled by native american's who can control powerful spirits. Sounds interesting actually. I'm up for at least giving it a shot. :)
"Can't do anything with the rotting meat...and if I could I wouldn't want to. Using rotting meat for cooking doesn't exactly sound appealing..." Alakai spoke as he took the rotting meat, but then immediately deleted it. Some monsters dropped literally useless items. The rotting meat was one of them. Even shops didn't give any money for it, and with good reason in his opinion. The rune was a great addition though. And she too had picked up a few fish, and some more leather scraps. Those could be sold to players, as it was an early item for leather working. The leather armour he had found as well, as a leatherworker could de-construct them to get more materials. So far, everything that they could sell would be worth around 300 gold. A good start indeed.

Once Alakai had handed the cloth over, he started on cooking all of the fish they had gathered. He tried two at once first, and to his pleasant surprise it worked. So even though he was using the skill to cook the food, he apparently wasn't limited to one serving each time. So the second time he put 6 fish around the fire to cook, greatly speeding up his skill progression. Which would give them more time to fight after their break. "Since I'm still busy for a bit, why not try to make something with the cloth?" The man suggested, trying to optimize the time they had. He wasn't sure how long tailoring took, but if his cooking was anything to go by she would at least be able to do a little bit. Like preparing the tattered cloth into normal cloth, so it could actually be used to make something later on. Though that was about as far as his knowledge of the skill went, as he hadn't looked into higher skill levels.

Once all of the fish were cooked, Alakai's skill had gone up by 11 points. Each fish didn't quite give a full level, but it was still quite fast since the skill was still low level. Once he was done with the fish though, it was time for their actual meal. He took the deer meat and grabbed some seasoning, starting to prepare them as he waited for the fire to die down a little more. Then he put the cooking pot on, put some water in, and placed the meat inside. The first thing he wanted to buy once they were back in town was a grill so he could make grilled meat as well. Right now this would have to do though.
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