Wings of Freedom : (Air Piracy RP Interest Check, and Planing)

So, its been nearly a year since I have tried to run any story focused RP and the last one did not go well I will admit, but I kind of wish to try again, and this time I have a rather unique idea for one.

An RP about Air Piracy in a world of schizo tech on the level of fallout, you have Laser Weapons, AI, And Robots in a world where the culture is dated, the internet was never invented, and no one has bothered to advance beyond prop planes and dirigibles.

A world that is not earth, and makes no attempts to appear to be earth, beyond the presence of humans and human civilization, instead its a massive ocean world with a large helping of islands, little centralized government, and harsh terrain in those islands.... the perfect breeding ground for piracy, which is exactly what you all will be, pirates.

However, just like how carriers suplaced the battleship in real life, carriers have supplaced the cruiser as the ship of choice for pirates in this world as well, as a rag tag bunch of pilots and ship fairing personnel, your job is to make it rich, by looting what you can and avoiding all the dangers you will face.

What kind of dangers you may ask? Well despite the act that the governments are mostly splintered the naval fleets have a zero tolerance policy on any one who flies the blackflag, and would like nothing more then to see all of you hung, and that is not the least of your worries... just the one at the front and center.

The myths in this world, they are real... they may be rare as hell, but they are real, many a ship has fallen victim to the legendary kracken, who's sharp beak and vicious tentecals can tear through iron just as easy as they were able too wood. Gremlins? dont let there small size fool you these vicious little monstrosities love nothing more then to tear aircraft apart piece by tiny piece.

A couple things to note however, is that while I am letting you all chose to play ship crew instead of just the pilots, do NOT expect to be involved in the action much as a crew member, a carries life and blood is its aircraft, there the ones that are doing the heavy lifting, not the cook below the decks, and not even the mechanic on the runway, they may be important, but there not the people on the front line where the action is.

Also, I do not want to see any one ghosting or tanking damage, your fly airplanes, they do not have enough armor to tank, and ghosting is just poor playing, if your aircraft gets too badly damaged to fly... remember you have an ejector seat, no self respecting airman is going to try to shoot an ejected pilot....

Which... finaly, also applies to you as the players, pirates may be lawless but even they have a sense of honor, if you shoot down some one who has ejected, there will be re-precussions, not OOC no, since this can be fun if played out well, but IC you have just deemed yourself a soulless monster.

Are there any questions/any thing people would like to discuss? Heck is any one even interested in this thing? If so please let me know and we can talk about it here.

I'm interested, of course.

As I said to you before, definitely interested.

Oh, one relevant question that might help. What kind of races/classes can we play as, if there's a quantifiable sort of thing?

edited 10th Apr '14 7:57:55 PM by Raidouthe21st

This seems like an awesome idea. I'm in.

I'm interested in what I see. As for questions, I'm gonna just hold off for now while I try to think of some. If I can think of any, at least.

Humanoids and Robots are preferable Rai, sorry I am just trying to keep the tone here moderately serious in comparison to our other RP's.

If you WANT something from the mythological creature pool, I may allow it considering I can be reasonable, but it would kinda need a reason, and need to be checked with the other players since I am not the only one here.

As for classes, well the big one is Pilot, air combat is going to be the focus and the life blood of this RP, you get to fly around in custom hotroded planes, loot airships, and commit wanton acts of piracy all from the safety of your cockpit.... but when your not out and about you start to run into the ship crew which is also available.

People like mechanics, cooks, the medic and the quartermaster all play an important role even if there not front and center, but as there not the focus I will understand if no one chooses any of them, and relegate NPC's to those roles.

I kinda had a idea of small crew that fly little planes high above bigger plane or carries. they jump off and try to board bigger planes.

Are cyborgs cool?

That's totally understandable. I was asking because one of my character ideas when I heard this was a sort of uplifted mutated squid who operated in a bathysphere style support suit, but I'll come up with something less potentially silly.

edited 10th Apr '14 8:05:04 PM by Raidouthe21st

can you give them a 50's style to there prosthetic bits?

If so go ahead, keep in mind, the tech direction is HEAVILY inspired by fallout, just non-nuclear, so a general rule of thumb is if it would fly there, it would fly here.....

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Pun not intended.

Alrighty then. :)

edited 10th Apr '14 8:07:13 PM by Imca

Real 50's or SCIENCE! 50's?

Okay, I just came up with a couple questions, actually.

1) What are the scope of these myths? Are they myths that you would expect a pirate to know, like the Kracken, as you said, or is it possible for it to be more or less any myth (like the perpetuated myth of dragons and such)?

2) Would it be acceptable for a character to have come face to face with a myth, and lived to tell the tale?

this is interesting, i say i say

alright that's enough of that forever

Seriously though, this seems pretty boss.

Ah, what sorts of characters are allowed, though? I mean, could I lift a character from another work and just change a few details around to make them fit?

I'm so damn interested, that's for sure.

Would it be ok if my plane is an AC-130 expy?

@ Neon : SCIENCE! 50's, obviously.

@ Gameboy : I am trying to keep to salior and pilot myths, so things like the kraken, gremlins, sirens, mermaids and stuff are good.... Dragons not quite so.

@ Eldrich : As long as they can be made to work, I dont quite mind where you got the idea as long as some things are changed a little. :)

@ Kirb : Yes, but two things, 1) How do you plan on engaging air to air? Or are you going to be our airship buster.

and 2) It is going to need to be made a bit smaller, every one is cramed into a carrier, which while big dont have infinate space.

edited 10th Apr '14 8:15:37 PM by Imca

Okay, just wanted to make sure, because you didn't specify.

I'll see what I can do.

This sounds really cool!

It's definitely made to kill airships and taking out ground/sea targets but against fighters, it's sucks at that. Not to mention it maneuvers like a metal tub and a whale. It could take on fighters with front and rear miniguns but that's it.

edited 10th Apr '14 8:24:55 PM by MrKirb

Interesting. Not entirely sure what sort of character I'll do yet, but I like the idea.

Oh Please note....

If you chose to go with a pilot which most of you probaly will, please put as much detail into your plane as your charecter.....

Seriously, heavy focus on the aircraft and each of them are kinda unique to there pilots, this is not a formal military made of grunts. >.<

Assuming that I can go with "encountered a dangerous myth and lived to tell the tale", I think I'll go with a mechanic, actually. The idea with that is that he's too shocked from his encounter to want to really risk something like that again. I'll add more details if that's allowed.

If I didn't already have WAOA and WTB to deal with, I would love to join...

I'm guessing most people here are the WAOA crowd. The RP looks interesting but I think posts would be too fast for me.

Alot of them are yes, but thats mostly because that is the main RP I am in, and as such had been talking with them about this for roughly a week before this point about it.

>.<

I honestly have no idea what style I am going to use, or what speed I want to aim fore yet, and as such am waiting to see about outside intrest first.