Battleworld 2.0 (Signup Thread)

Oh. Thanks!

I will! Don't worry. They'll be a chunkless group, okay?

Erm....

You do know Chunkless groups don't get military forces to command, right? Won't that be kinda necessary for a group like C&C RA Soviet Union?

Oh.

Okay. Sure.

(I thought he meant Millennium.....)

Actually, the Soviets wouldn't work. The style of gameplay used for the games wouldn't fit.

Dude, edit your post instead of posting again.

• Shrugs*

Felt kinda embarrassed.

It might have been fun to introduce nazi's just as a race war is breaking out, haha.

Erm

No

No it would not.

Oh come on, both sides would be on with their rhetoric "Mutants are the superior race!" "We must enact genocide for the safety of humans!", then suddenly nazi enters the room and both sides get quiet. That might just be my sense of humor though.

Millennium soldiers ate babies.

I am not joking. They ate newborn children.

Along with 3 million Londoners.

All on the orders of The Major. He killed over 3 million people just to kill Alucard, aka, Count Dracula.

If Millennium did show up, it would be all out hell. The Major would do everything he could to wipe out Castlevania.

And I do mean everything.

Lets just say I'm not in a joking mood about this. Can we drop this? This goes for everyone.

I'm not in a joking mood myself actually. I just had to quit the other RP because of time zones getting in the way. Feel kinda sad.

Are there any spots for me? I'm interested to join.

edited 7th Jun '16 2:47:23 PM by Ore-O

We've had a couple of players recently drop, so yes we have some spaces. Who are you thinking of using? Helps to tell me before you write a long signup only for an issue to crop up.

I was thinking either some of the Teufort Nine, the Courier's Companions, or some of Overwatch

Hmm. I'll leave my feelings about Overwatch's over-promotion at the door, that does not factor here.

Regardless all three could work (Might need some handwaving to justify the Courier's comps without them, not much else binding them together) I assume Chunkless is the plan for all three ideas?

Yep. I think I might go with the the Courier's Companions since I can't use all of the Teufort Nine and Overwatch came out too soon. I might just say that the Courier brought them all together early and did not align themselves with the major factions. They might get together, albeit begrudgingly, but, Rex and ED-E might have to get the shaft.

Ok, so long as you make the explanation believable I'll let them in with no issues, baring unlikely nerfs (Most of them being base humans with guns)

If you have any spots open, could you reserve one for me? I think I want to play as the Institute.

So long as you understand "Completely inaccessible beyond using technology only we can access" ain't gonna cut it. The Cure will render them accessible via mundane methods of travel through whatever means are necessary.

These guys are a doozy so please tell me if anything here needs to be nerfed. Spoilers ahead.

Main Character

Supporting Cast

Chunk

• Name of the World: The Institute

• Description:
  • The Institute was once known as the Commonwealth Institute of Technology (CIT), which was founded in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its heyday, the CIT was one of the world's top universities, and a leader in physical sciences, engineering, and countless other schools of thought. When the world was destroyed in 2077 by nuclear armageddon, researchers and staff of the CIT fled to underground facilities deep under the campus to survive, becoming the shadowy Institute.

  • The Institute made great advances in science after the destruction of the world, but their breakout achievement was the creation of Synths, androids made to mimic human beings. With Father's help, a new generation of Synths were created that were almost completely indistinguishable from regular human beings. While the Institute once claimed to be mankind's greatest hope and the future of humanity, their actions have caused centuries of misery for both the people of Massachusetts and the inhabitants of Mount Desert Island, committing acts such as mass kidnapping, creating a strain of Super Mutants, and outright warfare. In general, they have abandoned humanity and even tried to rewrite history itself favor of their own experiments. Before arriving elsewhere, the Institute's top priority was the retrieval of the Mass Fusion Beryllium agitator, which could power the Institute's nuclear reactor indefinitely.

• Contents/Locations:
  • Institute Proper◊: The Institute consists of a series of clean laboratories, apartments, and tunnels underneath the ruins of the CIT building. The Institute is divided into four divisions, each with specific areas of expertise. All divisions answer to the Directorate, composed of the division heads plus the Director (Father), who leads the Institute. Father is the nominal leader of the organization, whose main purpose is to ensure proper cooperation between the divisions so that the goals of the Institute are properly met. These include Robotics, responsible for Synth creation, BioScience, which studies the creation of biomechanical life and bridging the gap between organic life and robotic life, Advanced Systems, which focuses on the Institute's most vital technological research and development, and the Synth Retention Bureau, which is supposed to recover lost Generation 3 Synths, but acts more like a military/secret police force. The Institute also owns a working radio station that can broadcast as far as Maine from its original location in Cambridge.

  • Teleporter Array: One of the Institute's greatest assets is a functional teleportation system, which can be used to relocate up to 5 troops in and out of the Institute via radio waves. The teleporter's range works best in the area immediately surrounding the Institute, cannot be used to warp into indoor locations, and requires a significant amount of energy, limiting the speed of transactions. The teleporter's range is also limited to areas the Institute has fully mapped out.

  • CIT Ruins: The abandoned ruins of the CIT Rotunda are inhabited by a small tribe of Super Mutants who kidnap or eat anyone unlucky enough to fall in their grasp. Since the Institute lies very deep underneath the CIT building, there is not much of note inside the ruins aside from a large amount of books in poor condition.

  • Sewers: One of the easiest ways into the Institute aside from teleportation is through an abandoned sewer network that empties out into a river bank. The sewers lead directly to the relay control room, where the Institute's central network terminal exists along with entrances to the other departments.

• Population: The Institute is populated by dozens of scientists and their families. Assisting the humans in their duties are an army of Synths, which come in various forms. Generation 1 and 2 Synths are clearly robotic and unintelligent, and are used as cannon fodder or as menial workers, while Generation 3 Synths are nigh-indistinguishable from humans and are thought by some to posses human emotion and feelings, and are typically involved in the Institute's more sinister plots. A small portion of Generation 3 Synths are trained to be Coursers, who are elite agents designed for high-risk missions and possess the ability to teleport. A small tribe of Super Mutants live inside the ruins of the CIT Rotunda, and are hostile to anyone who isn't a member of their species, but typically stay inside their home in the CIT ruins. Several silverback gorillas also live in the BioScience department as part of a pet project.

edited 15th Aug '16 4:49:02 AM by TailsDoll

Ok, I find the addition of a sewer entrance acceptable to my demands for a secondary entrance.

More issues that will need to be addressed.

Teleporter-This is going to be nerfed. Limit of 5 people who can use it at any one time (Should not be a major issue I never recall more then like 3 people ever using it at once anyway) Rapid fire use is not allowed unless you are within the bounds of your chunk, assume the power drain is too much for rapid use outside the limited zone of the ruins. This also means any trips are one way for a while and extractions cannot be followed up by redeployment right away. No teleporting to indoor locations, and I expect the Institute to have some difficulty at first teleporting outside of their chunk as I assume they'll need time to remap the surrounding areas and such.

Super Mutants-I expect them to remain within the bounds of the chunk, bar the occasional raid or encounter with a lone mutant outside the border (and any such event must be approved by the player on the other side beforehand) These guys are worse then Orks in terms of violence and I expect them not to be abused.

Generation 3 Synths-Due to the potential for issues of these things, I expect their numbers to be very limited. Creation of a synth replica of any character is not to be done without player and GM consent, and do be kind enough to inform any players if you intend to send a synth infiltrator to their chunk. I do not want to see you throwing these things at every chunk simultaneously, and if I sense abuse of these things I am going to slap you down and slap you down hard.

Is all of the above understood? If so, have you reviewed the map in the OP of the signup, and if so, where would you like to be placed? The areas of OKB Zero, Youkai Mountain, and Meridan City are currently set to be removed and so those areas are open.

edited 7th Jun '16 7:35:01 PM by Meanken

I had a feeling the teleporter would be nerfed. I'll edit the signup accordingly.

I don't have any major plans involving the Super Mutants. They're just there as a trap for anyone who tries to attack the CIT building head on.

And I'll be sure to go through all the necessary hoops and limitations if/when I plan on introducing a Synth infiltrator. I don't want to make things confusing and I definitely don't want to get kicked from the game. As for chunks, I think Meridian City looks nice. Will the "danger level" of the chunk be changed when my faction is introduced or will it remain the same?

Here goes nothing. Spoilers for Fallout New Vegas! This is your first and only warning!

• Name: Arcade Gannon
• Age: 35
• Appearance: For Auld Lang Syne
• Personality: Despite his snark and evasive attitude towards background, he is by far the most idealistic and intelligent of the group. One would not mistake it for weakness since he does understand that sometimes a plasma bolt is more helpful than a speech.
• Skills: He is a skilled medic which can help others heal more effectively. On top of that, he can use energy weapons with ease.
• Equipment:
  • Plasma Defender: Fires plasma rounds which can punch through weak armor with ease, but it fires slower than a laser pistol.
  • Ripper: A chainsaw knife that has the properties of a regular Chainsaw, but lighter and with shorter range.
• Backstory: Arcade's past was not an easy one. He had lived with the Enclave Remnants ever since the destruction of the Poseidon Oil Rig and had lost his father, but they had to go into hiding after repeated NCR and Brotherhood of Steel prosecution. He had joined the Followers of the Apocalypse to put his skill to good use until the group convinced him to join.

• Name: Craig Boone
• Age: 26
• Appearance: One For My Baby
• Personality: Cold, distant, accurate. That's Boone if you're not in his crosshairs. He's usually quiet about his past and guns down any of the Legion for a good reason. He still believes in the NCR's cause despite the issues they have.
• Skills: His experience with the 1st Recon has made him a very competent sniper and spotter.
• Equipment:
  • Hunting Rifle: His sniper rifle can deal impressive damage over long distances and do well at medium range.
  • Machete: Whenever the enemy is too close for a bullet, sharpened steel will do nicely.
• Backstory: Once a fine soldier in the New California Republic, Boone had retired to Novac after the incident where civilians of the Great Kahn tribe were gunned down by his unit due to miscommunication. He had a wife and a kid on the way until Jeannie May Crawford sold her to slavery and Boone had to put the poor girl down. Along the way, he got a hint from an unknown source and ended Crawford's life. He then joined the companions who provided him with the source.

• Name: Lily Bowen
• Age: 203
• Appearance: Guess Who I Saw Today
• Personality: Despite her looks, she is rather friendly and well behaved, which came from being in Marcus's care. She also mistakes some people for her grandchildren
• Skills:
  • Invisibility: All Nightkin have an innate ability to cloak themselves and Lily is no exception, though she can only use it when she is not attacking
  • Superhuman Physicality: All Nightkin (and Super Mutants in general) have greater strength, endurance, and agility of a human, and Lily is no exception.
  • Leo: All Nightkin have a split personality due to said innate cloaking and Lily is no exception. Leo is an imaginary "friend" which can send Lily into psychotic rampages if "he" feels like she is in trouble, attacking friend and foe alike. To counteract this, Lily has a medicine to calm "him" down.
• Equipment:
  • Vertibird Blade: Like it says, it came from a downed Vertibird and works like a sword.
  • Assault Carbine: If the need for range is apparent, she will switch to this despite Leo's protests.
• Backstory: In Vault 17 during the Master's time, Lily was just a simple grandmother until the Master's mutants dragged her out and made her into what she is now. After the Master's defeat, she along with a group led by Tabitha met up with Marcus and established a society until the two had their falling out. Marcus later established, Jacobstown, and assigned Lily as a bighorner farmer, until the group convinced her to join them. Presumably because she mistook one of them as her grandson.

• Name: Raul Tejada
• Age: 234
• Appearance: Crazy Crazy Crazy
• Personality: He is as loyal as he is sarcastic. There's a lot of history behind this ghoul and it shows.
• Skills: He is a skilled repairman and a crack shot with a revolver, but the latter is dampened due to his age. He also has higher radioactive resistance due to his ghoulification.
• Equipment:
  • Magnum Revolver: This pistol packs a big punch towards some more fleshier targets.
  • Lead Pipe: Useful for smashing others heads in if needed.
• Backstory: He's been around before the bombs fell in Mexico City in Hidalgo Ranch, with refugees flooding in. Unfortunately, the ranch can only hold so much and things became too much when the house was burned down. He and his sister had escaped, but were the only survivors. He went to Mexico city, never knowing about the radiation, donned a vaquero outfit, and became a legend, which attracted the wrong kind of attention, namely the kind that killed and violated her sister. He found peace with someone else, but it was not to last. Later, he spent his days in Black Mountain doing repairs for Tabitha until he is freed and joins the group out of gratitude.

• Name: Rose of Sharon Cassidy (Cass for short)
• Age: 37
• Appearance: Heartache By The Number
• Personality: With or without her whiskey, she is crass and crude, but her heart is in the right place. She has a lot of grit and attitude and can definitely back it up.
• Skills: She is skilled with all sorts of conventional weaponry as well as a mighty liver.
• Equipment:
  • Caravan Shotgun: Her preferred weapon, like many, it is deadly from close range, coupled with extra penetration through lighter armor.
  • Combat Knife: In case of missing ammo, she uses this.
• Backstory: Her father left her at a young age, she had grown up and toughened up. She founded Cassidy Caravans, but it was erased by competition. Now, she spends her days downing whiskey and slugging punks at bars until she took off and checked out the wreckage herself and others that have met the same fate. She knew that Crimson Caravan and the Sliver Rush were to blame, but she had to get help since she's just one person. She had recently heard of a sniper in Novac and started her search there.

• Name: Veronica Santangelo
• Age: 23
• Appearance: I Could Make You Care
• Personality: She has a sense of humor and quirky personality and lots of wit, as well as liking pretty dresses. She also takes joy in punching things and mechanics. However, she feels disillusioned by the isolationist policy the Brotherhood has taken.
• Skills: She is capable at repairs and knowledgeable on technology, given her class as a scribe.
• Equipment:
  • Power Fist: She enjoys punching things and the glove she has definitely helps.
  • Pistol: Fires 10mm rounds, but uses it reluctantly.
• Backstory: Born and raised into the Brotherhood of Steel, she served them as a Scribe. Despite her close ties, she wanted to ignore the Codex in favor of their survival, something they believe is unthinkable. She serves as a procurement specialist in order to not spread rumors that can prove damaging to the brotherhood. She had met up with the team, although wary of the NCR, she came along with them, to relieve the stress.

edited 7th Jun '16 8:32:21 PM by Ore-O