SyrianHamster

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Hyperdrive said
@SyrianHamsterJust wondering, when you wrote "Guns" on the resources, you meant Muskets only right?

Musket-grade weaponry. They can be rifles, or a box of pistols etc - so long as we have no widespread use of automatic weapons or MG-42s.

Of course, with the light steampunk influences, I will allow for some weapons to have 'revolving' mechanisms, but the mainstay of the armed forces should be the simple, run of the mill musket. You know, the slow firing thing that murders people at range and has trouble operating in rain.

Why, has someone given their guys death rays? *goes to check IC*

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Pathfinder said
Well colored me interested.

I erm, I ... wait is that a racist riddle?

Joking, before anyone flips their sausages. Thanks for showing interest, OOC is going up soon.

Stefan0620 said
I'll be back in, with Kyrtaar if that's fine

If it was accepted by Primal then I can't see it being a problem. I will be going over all entries just to make sure we're cool, but it's just a formality.

Rockette said
Definitely interested.

Definitely got good taste.

Grothnor said
I'm interested. Also, Hey SyrianHamster.

Hello matey, good to see you've come to witness my GM marathon.

GuySenpai said
Looks interesting.

It sure does.

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OOC will be going up within the hour, after I've given things a final glimpse over.

Stranded - A Freeform Survivalist NRP

Thinking of making a spring off RP called "Stranded OOC Death Match" where everyone chooses weapons and fights to the death over the various aspects of usable/drinkable water.

As Grothnor said, and perhaps this is my fault for not being more descriptive, the water purification equipment allows survivors to streamline the creation of drinkable/purified water. It also allows for the removal of poison, and yes whilst most bacteria and viruses can be boiled to shit, there are some that leave behind toxic by products. Makeshift filters using sand and rock (like you did in school, if you live in a country where they teach you things only relevant to a nuclear fallout), will remove sediments etc. The purification system does all this and more, and quicker, allowing survivors to fully disinfect and purify water for drinking.

That was the intent, anywho.

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Pepperm1nts said
Should have gone with Iran and tried to recreate the Persian Empire.

Me and Iran have issues. Plus I'd probably get cock blocked at Thermopylae by a renewed Sparta.

Besides, Syria has strong links to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, and Lord knows I love me a bit of Ṣalāḥ.

EDIT: Thinking about it, at the risk of civil war, I could lean towards Israel. Westernise to the max. Having read more and more Syrian history, civil war seems inevitable no matter what I do. Like, as messed up as it sounds, military dictatorships are the only thing that kept the country stable for any period of time. Meh.

Like, it's not even the rival factions of Islam are are causing the beef as in Iraq. It's tribal too. Maybe a "wise" dictator, who only holds power so he can transform the country until a time it is ready for democracy... then again I'm fairly sure that's how all permanent dictatorships start.

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Syria insignificant? Just you wait. Watch out Israel, Muslim super power coming through!

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Grothnor said
How does this sound: since I don't have the high enough quality water for a steam generator, my Life Carrier can only travel so far (say, 5 regions) before having to stop to clear the system of gunk and replace the water, a process that would take several hours, as opposed to the high quality water which would allow me to travel to any destination on one stop.

Sounds good to me mate.

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HatershateHatinghaters said
May I join

Yup.

OOC isn't up yet, just leaving this interest thread out to soak in criticisms or suggestions for a while.

Can expect the real thing to go up tomorrow.

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Steel fist said
Hamster, I still didn't finish to read everything, but it's obvious you've done great work! I'm most certainly interested!I will send a CS during the weekend :)About anti-god-modding policy, I agree with it. But of course we'll need to decide what would be the limitations on abilities like: regeneration and on advanced armor.P.S. What's old? (I'm 30, how old are you?)

You're in a coma, that's how old you are in relation to me.

Hahaha, but nah I'm a steady 25. Damn, YOU OLD.

I find God modding monitoring is usually done most effectively by the players as a whole. If the GM has to play Mr. Policeman over powers, it can cause problems as people start to perceive false favouritism or bias. I think if we just all keep an eye on everyone else's comings and goings, and bring forwards our concerns as we go, then we'll be okay.

Of course I will vet character entries, and bring any grey areas forwards for democratic opinion, but as far as IC actions go, we'll have to go with the majority opinion.

I mean, regeneration is not a problem to me; that liquid terminator could regenerate, didn't do him a lot of good in the end though did it? I believe that a character can be as powerful as it wants to be, but only if it matches this power equally with weakness. An example would be a huge hulking barbarian, who can sustain many hits and pull people's arms off - but he is slow, and can't use magic so well. Or a mage, whose power is absolute in spell craft, but hasn't got the means of stopping a crossbow bolt from sailing into his face.

It's a bit of balancing act, but people are usually reasonable and I only really get on their case if I sense a "winner" in our ranks.

A winner being someone who wants to, for some fucked up reason, WIN the Rp. As if it's a computer game. These people bear the brunt of my GTFO policy.

We're all agreed that an RP is a story composed of several authors, right? Sometimes on this forum I wonder if my understanding is outdated lol.

Battle Stations! - Castle Rivergate

Antonius stalked the alley. A child's sobbing echoed from wall to wall; becoming louder, trembling the tiles beneath his feet. The sun had dissipated, shrouding the scene in darkness. White fog was pouring up from the ground, and to the wizard, it seemed things were growing more surreal by the second. He had it in him, to end the Emperor's Bane, he was certain of this. He felt no vast ocean of power - there was nothing preparing to consume him. He was being shown Rinack's start in life, or perhaps, the start of his troubles. A wizard, Antonius was curious by nature, and decided that he wanted very much to see what had ultimately damaged his homeland so severely.

The shadows at the far end of the alley cleared as he approached, and there he saw the lifeless body of a pregnant woman. A shabby man, swaying with drink, stood over her. Hunched on the ground, cradling the woman's head, was a boy - perhaps twelve or thirteen winters - and despite everything being an illusion, Antonius could sense a great power in those hateful eyes.

"I grow impatient," the wizard said, eyeing the scene with irritation. "Show me what you mean to show me, or I will end you."

Antonius, ever carrying the youthful visage of a handsome thirty-something male of princely qualities, had dropped his disguise. With a hunched back, his face appeared heavily aged and shaggy with innumerable wrinkles. Great bushy grey eye brows inclined to form a gnarled frown, and his toothless mouth twisted in anger.

"Show me, Emporer's Bane, show me why it is many thousands died cursing your name," he rasped.

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The Magnus had vanished. Erich was unsure if this was good or bad, but did not stop to ponder. The left flank was buckling under the tremendous weight of thousands, and he needed to prop it up like he needed to win this battle. He galloped at full speed, pursued by his flustered praetorians, until he arrived at the rear of the left-most centuries. Men were screaming, as their savage enemy tore into the shield wall and dealt death and destruction with the wide arcs of their oversized weapons. Bones crunched and organs exploded; priests and physicians carried out the wounded, but the dead were left to form the mattress of battle.

Positioning himself at the head of the reserves on the second line, he ordered them forwards. They advanced in organised pace, and blended effortlessly with the besieged flank. Whistles sounded, horns blasted, and through a miraculous manoeuvre worthy of an Imperial Legion, the soldiers of the first line slithered through the reinforcements and began a brief march to the rear of the battle. There they would rest, ready to renew the onslaught.

The line straightened, and then advanced. With renewed vigour, the Imperial left flank pushed back its enemy, threatening to envelope the centre mass.

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camillethegnome said
Still interested, even with the changes. No anime teens? You wound me ಥ_ಥ. Should I come up with a new character?

I grew up when the anime revolution was taking its roots, and I didn't get it then. Now I'm old, and I still don't get it. Just a bunch of goofy cartoons to my eyes, and peoples' obsession with them baffles me. But, like I say, I am old, so naturally anything that wasn't mainstream during my school years sucks balls.

It's not that I have anything against people liking anime, it's just I find them unconformable to anything that doesn't focus on a bunch of sexy teenagers with massive eyes doing bizarre stuff.

Anyway, moving on from my senile view of things, if we can I'd like to keep the characters nitty gritty rather than cartoonesque elaborations.