The Hub (OOC)

[SinisterSpiders]

Hello and welcome to the OOC thread for The Hub

Housekeeping: This thread is the OOC tangent of a science-fiction, online role-play/collaborative story between DungeonsOfDread and SinisterSpiders. Whilst the role-play is currently closed to other participants ,we openly encourage people to read the IC thread and comment in the OOC thread. We would love your feedback and constructive criticisms are we dive into the deep and murky waters of the ORP ocean. This thread will also be used as a guide to the ORP, for character, world, organisational and other descriptions.

Physical Setting:
The capital city of human civilisation known as The Hub. This is a vast city with an immense population. This is where The Government first begun to take power. It was, and still is, the base of operations that controls the rest of the world.
The Hub is filled with neck-breaking skyscrapers clad in shiny glass. The streets are clean, safe and free of litter and graffiti. Whilst the traffic is quite bad, there is little noise as all of the hovercraft engines have been muffled with sound-deadening technology to encourage peace and quiet. The power for the building comes from a combination of solar and renewable energy and a back-up system of nuclear technology that has so many fail-safes that a disaster is improbable if not impossible.
The centre of The Hub is where the tallest building are. As the city spreads further and further out the buildings get lower so that, from the far south, the city appears to be a gargantuan pyramid made of glittering diamonds. The view from the north is quite different. On the northern outskirts of The Hub lies Old City, which was the capital before the creation of the Derivates. Now in ruins, Old City is home the failed genetic experiments from generations past and is the location for the known entrances to the Underground, a network of old train tunnels and sewers that used to keep Old City running.


Social/Political Setting:
The world contains two types of people. Citizens, who make up at least 95% of the population, and Derivates, who make up the other 5%.

One hundred and fifty years ago the attempts to genetically engineer a new breed of people with psionic abilities finally came to a head and the first Derivate was born. What ensued was a social and political backlash that threw the world into turmoil and human civilisation into anarchy. How was the human race to survive if the psionic Derivates bred and multiplied?

After years of fighting and discord the Derivates did indeed breed and multiply. It took less than a decade for the Derivates to gain momentum and continue their disruption of the status quo. Finally, and to the joyous relief of the Citizens, a powerful and promising organisation known as The Government began to come into power. Their motto was “Protect, Preserve and Perfect”. Their goal was to protect humans from Derivates and to protect Derivates from themselves. They aimed to preserve the way of life that people were used to enjoying before the Derivates were created, but most importantly they were determined to perfect the human race so that the Derivates no longer posed them a threat.

The normal population begun to thrive again. Order was not only restored but it was epitomized. Even though individuals were forced to sacrifice a great deal of personal choice and autonomy to create this order, there was very little resistance. Perhaps the complete and utter turmoil of the Decade of Derivates has left deep and long-lasting fear in the hearts of Citizens. Maybe it was that such a unified and mutually agreeable organisation such as The Government has never been seen before. It could have even been due to the fact The Government was the only real, and alarmingly final bastion of hope for human-kind. Regardless of the reason, over decades and decades the Citizens and the Derivates soon learnt their place. Society was controlled and compartmentalised to the extreme but it worked.

Now please remember; everything you have learnt thus far reads as it would if it had been written by a Government historian. That is but one truth in a world filled with millions of possible truths…

For the Derivates history would be written quite differently. Whilst the Citizens enjoyed the full civil and human rights preached and protected by The Government, the Derivates were forced to endure a completely different reality. Stamped, microchipped and stripped of almost all human rights bar those required to survive, Derivates were controlled by The Government and used to uphold the order of a society that they were not allowed to be a part of. The first generation of Derivates, those descended from the First, were rounded up and brought into the possession of The Government. Their psionic powers were tested and catalogued. They were studied, pushed to the limit (and sometimes beyond) and used for their extra-human abilities.

Every generation after the first generation were subject to the same treatment. However, they were not born of Citizens who had bred with Derivates. The following generations were born after being engineered and conceived in The Governments labs to fill vacancies in The Government’s ranks. Every being had a purpose.

Well, except for those that weren’t. Urban legend and conspiracy theorists often told of those special few Derivates who had escaped the muster. The ones who had hidden from The Government and joined together to form an underground organisation that would someday rise and take power back for those with psionic abilities. These Derivates are the ones who breed uncontrolled, the ones that haunt the nightmares of sensible Citizens, the ones that the naughty boys and girls are warned against… the ones that The Government pretends don’t exist and are forced to cover up to maintain the pretence that they have total and utter control of the situation.

One hundred and forty years after the Muster of the first generation Derivates, The Government’s leaders are slowly coming to realise that they no longer have as much control as they originally thought. The truth of the Underground Derivates is becoming undeniable and increasingly harder to cover up. The Crucial Operations team from the Department of Intelligence and Security has been honoured with the task of wiping these rogue Derivates out for good.

And this is where our story takes off…

[DungeonsOfDread]

Name/Designation: KC-847
Height: 190cm
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Eye Colour: Crimson
Build: Athletic
Age:25
Sex: Male
Distinguishing Features: Microchip implant on the back of the neck(Government Issue), Tattoo in the center of his forehead with the logo of The Government.
Abilities: Telekinesis-Level 5 (TK5)

Back Story: KC-847 is a human Derivate owned by The Government. He is currently being utillised in the Department of Intelligence and security(DIS) as a Derivate Retrieval Officer (DRO) in the Crucial Operations team(COT); his job, to locate, secure and possibly retrieve any potentially dangerous unregistered derivates for The Government.

[SinisterSpiders]

Name: Leah "Flit" Cross /Ava Parkes
Sex: Female
Age: 24
Height: 160 cm
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Hazel
Skin Colour: Olive
Build: Curvaceous and fit.
Abilities: Teleportation (unranked)
Distinguishing Features: Beauty spot on her upper right cheek an a light brown birthmark on her left foot.

Back Story: Leah Cross was born to two Unregistered Underground Derivates. When she was born Leah and her parents were given fake registration information by the Underground and have led double-lives ever since. At times Leah goes about life as a normal Citizen, with people never knowing she is really a Derivate. When time and safety allows she works tirelessly to infiltrate Citizen society and The Government to aid the Underground in their uprising.
When underground, to protect her identity, Leah is known only as "Flit". In the Underground everyone has a different alias to the one they use when they are in Citizen society. However, if you asked Leah what her name was she would tell you, without hesitation, that it was Flit. She got her name from her psionic power of teleportation and her seemingly short attention span. Despite this she is very strong-willed, independent and capable.


Alias:
Name: Ava Parkes
Sex: Female
Age: 28
Height: 160 cm
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Bark brown.
Skin Colour: Lightly tanned
Build: Curvaceous and fit.
Abilities: Teleportation (unranked)
Distinguishing Features: Beauty spot on her upper right cheek an a light brown birthmark on her left foot.

[SinisterSpiders]

Psionic Abilities

Teleportation: Ability to transport person/persons/items from one location to another instantaneously. Range depends on power and ability of individual.
Macro Telekinesis: Ability to move whole-object of varying sizes depending on power and ability of individual.
Micro Telekinesis: Ability to move/maniplate objects at the atomic, molecular, or mechanic level depending on power and ability of individual.
Telepathy: Ability to read the surface thoughts of indidivuals.
Telecoercion:Ability to suggest or alter the surface thoughts or emotions of individuals.
Postcognition: Ability to sense the past of individuals or items based of psychic aura.
Precognition: Ability to sense the consequences of current planned action and uses of individuals and items (respectively) from psychic aura.
Remote Viewing: Gathering physical/tactile information from a distance.
Suppressor: A person with the ability to suppress other psychic ability. This ability is purely theoretical as no Derivate has yet been found with the power to do this.

Psionic Ratings/Ranks
Psionic ratings were introduced by The Government as a way to rank, monitor and control the ability of Derivates. Each individual is assigned a rank from 1 through to 5.
A higher ranking not only means that the individual has more natural ability, but it is also a cap of their abilities. The true extent of Derivate power and ability remains unknown as The Government is reluctant to let any Derivate reach a point beyond which they could control. To stop an individual from reaching anything beyond rank 5, The Government uses microchips in the base of their neck. The microchips in Derivates not only caps the amount of force/power they can use, but it also monitors their physiological state and there whereabouts.

It is important to note that the Underground Derivates are not in the habit of ranking. They believe that an individual progresses in their power and potential at a unique level, and that measuring is of no benefit to them. Nor do they wish to control or impede an individual's development like The Government do. The progress of a Derivate is usually gauged by a series of milestones rather than tests, but this is all done in a very informal manner and only for informational purposes.

[SinisterSpiders]

The Government

Departments:
Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS)
> Critical Operations Team (COP)
Research and Development: Level 98 of Centre One.

People of Interest:
KC-487: Protagonist. Telekinesis-Level 5 (TK5)
Dr Yavin: Microkinetic, unranked. An Underground sympathiser that work in the main area of The Hub.
Jane: Research and Development , Leading Supervisor. Tall, blonde hair, brown eyes.
Christopher: Security/Reception, stationed on level 98 in the R&D HQ. Dark hair and dark eyes.
Jack: Research and Development, Immediate Supervisor.

Places of Interest:
The Hub: The main city and base if The Government. Ground zero for the initial Derivate uprising and re-civilisation.
> Centre One: The headquarters of The Government in The Hub. It is the tallest building in the city, and is in the centre of the pyramid-like metropolis.
>>Ground Level: Reception, with microchip readers and security.
>>Level 98: The level devoted to those who work in Research and Development.
Metro Five: A Government outstation, where "Ava Parkes" and "Brian Parkes" were stationed before being assigned to The Hub.

Clearance Levels
General Information: There are 10 levels of clearance within The Government, the lowest being 10 and highest is one.
> Ava & Brian Parkes: Intelligence Department = Level 2, All Other Departments = Level 3.

Underground

Teams:
Security
> Ensures the security of all Underground premises and peoples.
> Team members: Flit,
Intelligence
> The job of this team is to keep up to speed on the actions of Citizens, Derivates and The Government.
Control
> The people in the control team are the master-minds that plan and run the operations of the Underground.
> Separated into the Core Force and the Front Force
Fellows
> The individuals charged with the protection and day-to-day care of rogue Derivates and injured/rejected Citizens.
Health
> This group consists of doctors by profession as well as micro-kinetics who have the ability to heal wounds and diseases. Often these team members are allocated to other teams, but they have the responsibility of dual reporting.
Outreach
> The Outreach team is the group of people who go into mainstream society and locate, rescue and support individuals living amongst the Citizens and under control of The Government.
> Intelligence Outreach: The team that are equivalent to spies and double agents. The Underground Operatives are given a cover alias and they carry out their tasks under these aliases.

Supply
> The Supply team ensures that the rest of the Underground is well stocked with food, weapons, clothes and other supplies.


People of Interest:
Leah "Flit" Cross (Ava Parkes): Protagonist. Teleportation.
Rook: Male. Deceased. Flit's ex-lover.
Hawkeye: Male. Twenty-five. Green eyes, blonde hair. Flit's best friend, and son of someone in control. Remote Viewing.
Harmony: Female. Blonde hair, blue eyes, exudes friendliness. Late forties. Works in Control. Telecoercion.
Divvy: Female. Early thirties. Works in Control. Precognition.
Post-hoc: Male. Middle-aged. Team Leader of Security. Postcognition.
Swipe: Female. Blonde hairm blue eyes, early twenties. Macrokinetic.
Cogs: Female. Middle-aged. Part of the Security team. Microkinetic.
Tinker: Flit's mother. Works at the residence as a medic. Hazel eyes. Microkinetic.
Acumen: Male. Middle age. Works in supply. Telepathy.
Ratchet: Male. Late forties. Works in maintenance. Microkinetic.
Bookworm: Female. Short black hair and brown eyes, mid to late fifties.Telepathy.
Patch: Male. Son of Bookworm and brother of Link. Late teens/early twenties. Works in the Residence as part of the Health team. Precognition.
Link: Female. Daughter of Bookworm and sister of Patch. Mid to late teens.
Blinky: Male. Late twenties/early thirties. Works in Security. Teleportation.Skip: Works in Security. Telecoercion.
Hunter: Works in Security. Macrokinetic.
Stealth: Works in Security. Telecoercionist.
Madcap: Telekinetic. Known for gambling in The Hub and being open with his abilities.
Halt: Lead trainer. Telecoercionist. Male.
Lucky: Control. Female, dark brown hair.

Places of Interest:
The Warrens: The name given to the deepest tunnels of the Underground. They are accessed by a maze-like series of passages and, if one does not know their location, they are nigh impossible to find. This is where the Underground Core Force base of operations is located.
The Nest: A cavernous junction of sewers and train tunnels that is home to a large swarm of Mutant rats. Near the Northern limits of the Underground.
The Residence: The part of the Underground dedicated to housing injured and rogue Derivates as well as Citizens that The Government has rejected and left to fend for themselves.
The Lake: A large underground natural water source used by the people of the Underground for recreation.

[DeathsKnight]

The story so far is a good read. You two are really gifted writers.

One concern. Is all the precog based on aura intepretation or is there some that requires touch to sense the past or future?

[SinisterSpiders]

Wow DeathsKnight- you have made my evening Thank you for your lovely comment.

To be completely honest the details are still a little sketchy with some of the abilities- including precog. The one thing that we have agreed on so far is that it shows the consequences/futures of any current decision that the individual has made. Without getting all theoretical about it, the point is that no vision is 100% final. Things may still change if the decisions leading up to them change.
That said, we have sort of come to a consensus that postcog is touch based, so perhaps in all fairness precog will be too.

Perhaps Dungeons will come on here and say something completely different- but as I said it is still up in the air at the moment. We are just working out the kinks in teleporting and macrokinetics, so it is still early days

I hope you continue to enjoy the story!

[DeathsKnight]

Have a character with a type of post and pre cog in a novel I wrote. With her being blind she does need touch to derive her visions. Of course an added spin was that she could see what most decisions would bring. So I was just curious as I did notice that the microtelekenesis was touch based.

Well to be technical to tell somebody the future seen has a 80% of the ending being just as it was perceived as the choices to prevent said future leads to that point anyway, where if the person had not been foretold the choices made would have differed completely

Sands of the future and the stoneslab of the past

[SinisterSpiders]

Your novel sounds pretty cool DK I like the way you put the sand/slab thing as well

[DeathsKnight]

Pity is that the only way any of my work will ever see exposure is through the internet. I don't have the guts to publish my work

I leave for 5 days and you two write a page and a half of RPs...I was quite happy to get back and have so much fun reading.

[SinisterSpiders]

Haha- we can get a fair amount of writing done quickly if we really put out minds to it. Thanks for coming back

I would love to get something published one day, but I am very self conscious and unsure about everything other than fanfictions. Maybe one day I will write something I like enough to send out.... lol!

[DeathsKnight]

Well judging from the following my short stories got on one site I am still focused on the negative input. Mainly my grammar. So to rewrite a complete Trilogy due to bad grammar??? No way. I'd rather stick to the short stories then. Let the language buffs bitch and moan about those.

I am sure that if you put your head to it, you will write a great story. I want dibs on a signed copy

[SinisterSpiders]

Oh there are always the grammar sticklers. Even though constructive criticism is useful, I hate when they nit-pick without anything positive to say. In the end I always take any of that sort of feedback as positive. Even if all they say is "it's your not you're" it clearly concerned them enough to tell you... And if that is all they have to pick on?...

Rewriting is a particular favourite of mine. I find that I can write something and then have a desperate urge to edit/rewrite it due to style changes. That would be the worst thing about a published book- I couldn't change anything or take it back.

[DeathsKnight]

Heavens no. I toil long enough on one 200 A4 page book, to edit is just a better way to slice open my wrists. I mean it isn't like I am not using a grammar checker to make sure everything is perfect when I post it. On here I don't have that leisure as 80% of it happens on my phone, like right now.

[SinisterSpiders]

I hate the grammar checker- I find I just ignore most of those green squigly lines. I also type all of my work (as my handwriting is atrocious), so editing is pretty easy for me. I think the best thing of all is that I have a rotten memory- so after finishing a story I take some time off and it is like rediscovering a whole new piece of fiction
I hear you on the phone thing though. I have done a number of posts of my Nokia and it can be a massive pain in the butt.

[DeathsKnight]

Luckily I have a Blackberry, the Nokia typing is just too long and tedious, especially if you have a lot to say. And when it comes to writing a short story on the phone?? :O rather kill me and get it over with. Over 2000 words? Hah! I'd rather run after a year old sheep on a 45 degree Celcius day

[blackpenman]

May I just say, I must agree with what Death said earlier, that this is an amazing story. I read the entire thread yesterday, and I could barely tear myself away from it. You two really are gifted. But my i just suggest a couple things? If you already know this, than excuse me for saying, but if this RP is going to be sexual, make it not too sexual, at least less than half of it is sex, or else it should be a SRP, not n ORP. And also, I think it would be a great idea if, at some point in this RP, a Suppresser is found, and both sides are trying to get to it.

[DeathsKnight]

-facepalms-

Leave them be and let them write.

[blackpenman]

Hey, just a suggestion.

[SinisterSpiders]

blackpenman: Hey there Thanks for the constructive feedback/ideas. We have had a chat about the whole sex side of this already and decided that the main focus of this is the story- the sex is just an (enjoyable) extra As for the Supressor?..... Only time will tell! Glad you are enjoying it.

DeathsKnight: Thanks I only usually use my phone to respond to forum messages- the big story/writing things I leave for the pc! I'd rather not chase sheep on a scorching day either :P

[SinisterSpiders]

Just a quick note to say that DoD & I have started a new thread in the SRP forum to work off the sexual tension from The Hub.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthre...6#post42637216

It is World of Warcraft themed, but will have lots of different characters and situations. Feel free to check it out for something a little racier with almost-immediate gratification

[SinisterSpiders]

Hi there everyone (or should I say; anyone who is following this)!

This is just a quick post to see if we have anyone who is still following the IC thread! We are having a lot of fun with this so far and are hoping others are as well. We have a lot planned for the future of this story that we are really looking forward to sharing with others. If anyone has any comments or questions please feel free to ask!

P.S. If anyone that has been following is artistically inclined I would be forever grateful if you would be willing to perhaps try making a character sketch for Flit & Scraps. I am useless at drawing/painting and I have always wanted some art done of something I've written!

[DeathsKnight]

Oh you can bet your bum I'm still following. Of course still enjoying it as well, I will have a talk with a friend of mine who is a rather good artist. If he has time and if you don't get other feedback I will get that drawings to you

[SinisterSpiders]

So pleased that you are still with us DeathsKnight, and even more pleased that you are liking it still. The next few posts are really going to amp things up a bit, set the scene, give you a feel for what the true purpose of our lead characters is. We look forward to exploring the plot and sharing it with you.

And thank you kindly for your offer to chat to your friend. Your quick response and willingness to try and help is much appreciated.

[blackpenman]

Sorry for the late reply, but I am still following/enjoying this RP. It is a new idea for an old story. You made an original out of an overused idea. Congrats, and I applaude the both of you.

A Follower,
Blackpenman

And just for fun,