by Insidious » Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:31 pm
- Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
- Weapon: Oxidating Laser
Just in time for Christmas, survival horror comes to the Seibertron RPG!
I keed.
Well, not really. But I've been mulling around what exactly the Decepticon Justice Division will be up to next. And, spurred on by some seeds tossed out by other players, I've figured out what.
In short, the DJD will be heading to Nebulos to arrange the pickup of a Decepticon under Turmoil's care who has unwittingly (or very wittingly) found themself on the infamous list. Somehow while there, they're going to run afoul of some nasty Monsterbots and some chaos will ensue.
Now, I could just leave the story there and see what happens, but it struck me that it might be fun to open this little tale up to whoever might be interested. So, to accomplish that and still have it fit within the confines of the story, I thought perhaps the DJD ship has stopped by a Decepticon outpost and picked up some specialists to perform some maintenance of various areas of the ship to keep the Peaceful Tyranny running in prime condition. Myself and the other DJD players are going to be creating fanmade characters that will make up this random fanmade crew of frontline characters.
So, for you reading this, if you happen to want to take part in this Resident Evil...Ridley Scott "Alien"-esque tale, that's your way in. Whip up a basic Decepticon who can be a part of the crew of Decepticons were picked up.
Now, since this is an out of the way story that won't really affect the other threads (at least for a good, long while) I'm going to play with some slightly different rules. These fanmades need to be your basic Decepticons. Front line guys. Probably some special skills in certain areas, but I don't want any uber special abilities running around, especially since these characters aren't going to go through the normal app process. No Cybertronian equivalents of the Avengers or the X-men. Now, where the rules get a little different, if you offer up a fanmade to take part in this story, you need to do so with the understanding that the character probably will be killed before the story is finished. They might survive the story, they might not. I just want to leave it up to what feels right in the story in that moment. Basically think of it as signing a deal to appear on Game of Thrones or the Walking Dead...no guarantee that you make it to the next episode, much less the next season.
Now it would kind suck to put all the work into fleshing out a profile just for them to get scrapped, yah? So I don't want thorough profiles. Just a name and a basic function. For example, one of my fanmades for this story will basically look like this:
Name: Lookout
Function: Communications Repair
Will he survive? Likely not, but I'm just leaving it open and seeing where it goes. And since I've invested nearly zero creative energy in making him, it will be no loss to me if he dies. BUT, as a creative writing challenge of sorts, I want to see if I can make myself care about the character (and perhaps some other people too) before that happens.
Anyway, that's the gist of it. If you're interested, drop me a pm with your character name and function so I can make a handy list to keep them straight for a while and then just keep an eye on the Nebulos forum. There should be some new material popping up there soonish.
Hope you enjoy! I think it'll be quite a fun, dramatic and scary romp before all is said and done.
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