TheMadAsshatter

All Quiet on the Middle Eastern Front

Interesting. Tied to the enemy, how?

All Quiet on the Middle Eastern Front

It's no problem. It doesn't really have to be anything specific, I don't think. Imagine a bunch of pickup trucks with recoilless rifles and heavy machine guns, and bad guys with RPGs and AKs, just seeing a group of 3 or 4 humvees rolling across the desert, or a small outpost, or a flight of helicopters, and deciding to make an aggressive push to take them out. And then our characters pop out and are like "Welp, we're boned. Time to leave."

Sorry if that sounds a bit dark. I do like your idea as well, but I'm trying to think of how to work something like that out.

All Quiet on the Middle Eastern Front

Name: Russ Waters

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Age: 28

Branch: Army

Rank: Sergeant

Role: Rifleman

Height: 177 cm

Weight: 70 kg

Primary Weapon: M4A1 w/ACOG scope (8 mags)

Sidearm: M9 (3 mags)

Notes: Sgt. Waters is on his third tour in the Middle East. He has sniper/spotter training, but was mistakenly assigned to an infantry unit on his third tour. His superiors were going to work the debacle out, but in the meantime he was to stay with his assigned unit. After a month, he decided not to continue to contest the issue and chose to stay with the unit for the remainder of his tour. As it turned out, his additional training served him well in the unit, and he even earned a leadership position for a brief time.

All Quiet on the Middle Eastern Front

I had meant that to be a list of how our characters originally found themselves in the "shit's fucked, we gotta leave" situation, but I like where you took that. I don't think it makes much sense for the plot to involve a vice president, though. I would think they'd send, like, special forces into that sort of thing, not just a bunch of grunts who happen to be in the area. And besides that, Abu Dhabi is a pretty developed city. Even if the airport were completely taken over, it wouldn't be too far to Dubai, which has an airport of it's own. You wouldn't really have to go far to be back in a non-hostile environment.

Unless, of course, the government of the UAE were behind all of it. *gasps*

Also, I didn't notice it before, but I love the title you gave this.

Also also, I got my character posted.

All Quiet on the Middle Eastern Front

Alright, I feel like we should agree on how to start this thing, out of the scenarios that I listed, and what ideas you may have as to how to do that. What do you think?

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

Okay, that notwithstanding, there are certain people who are unarguably complete asshats when they drive. Like, if anyone would see them drive, it would be almost universally accepted as fact. In the entire time I've been driving, I can only recall a few instances where I actually encountered one of these types.

Oh, and then there's those people who you get around when they slow you down, you get back up to your base speed, and then they pass you and get in front of you again, only to slow back down again. I swear to god, those fuckers need to take a good long look inside themselves and wonder, "Am I just that dumb?" Like, whenever I pass someone, I make a concerted effort to consistently widen the gap behind me, every damn time, because I don't want to be that guy. It even annoys me if I try to pass someone, and they start accelerating in the other lane. The only reason I can think of to do that is if you realized you're going slower than you'd like, but then why aren't you paying better attention to your speed to fucking begin with?

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

The only thing I can think of to bitch about is, HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT FOR PEOPLE TO NOT SUCK AT DRIVING!?!?! For fuck's sake, you're basically driving a missile that weighs anywhere between 500 and 4000 kilograms, why wouldn't you be more invested in not being a jackass and keeping your missile from hitting another, or doing something that causes one missile to hit another?

And then there are those that are too cautious. Either that, or too stupid to realize that if there's a line of cars behind you, several of whom are opting to pass you, you're probably driving too slow, and arguably being just as much a danger as an over-aggressive driver.

Sci-Fi/Post Apoc/Military RP?

I'll do that in a bit. I'm on my phone right now.

Sci-Fi/Post Apoc/Military RP?

Looking for a partner interested in any sort of sci-fi, military, or post-apocalypse sorts of RPs. Not looking for a slice of life sort of thing; more like something with an eventual end. I have a couple of ideas, but we can brainstorm stuff at a later time. I will say, however, that if you know anything about me I will go for STALKER stuff, or anything like it, without a second thought.

Post Your Pikcha

I feel like if I were actually trying, I would look good in a dress.