OOC -- "Breakfast at the Whitney"

Character Profile Sheet​

Marcus Bennett
The Convicts
The Cops
The Overseers, Trainers, and Others
Civilians -- Sponsors, Fans, etc.
Descriptions and Motives of Both Teams
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The Convict Tour -- See the Arena from multiple locations with a dialogue between the Guide and the Convicts.​

Description and Maps​

-- They have the following in common:

-- If they succeed in reaching The Whitney before 8pm, Sunday, they get:

-- If they are captured or simply don't reach The Whitney on time, they will return to Death Row.​

-- Former Law Enforcement; some are on Death Row while others are serving life w/o parole.

-- They are competing for:

1. Do not spend a bunch of time making your profile perfect. Your host is one anal SOB and will edit the format (and maybe even a bit of content) in an attempt to make all profiles look the same ... so, don't fret over perfection.

2. Block and copy the profile sheet into a PM. DO NOT post the profile to the OOC or the Discussion thread.

3. Make your answers brief and leave some mystery concerning your character. As the game is played, we will learn more about your character.

4. PM the completed form to the Host, AnotherOldGuy.

5. After his OCD allows him to edit it properly, he will post it to the OOC and -- once we have enough characters -- we will get started.

6. OldGuy, as I will sometimes refer to myself -- to prevent confusion between the "RP Host" and the "BATW Host" -- recommends that each writer submits at least 2 characters. People are going to die; and at other times, people will simply be inactive, with nothing to post. If you want to have fun, have multiple characters.​

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"Bane" (John Blake) -- DeathsKnight.

"Kane" (Dean Smith) -- DeathsKnight.​

"Chica" (Elizabeth Nunez) -- southern_slut

"Harlequin" (Marie Blackwood) -- Darkened_Star

"Athena" (Gwen Harris) -- SweetAsSuga

"Ronin" (Hitomi Ozawa) -- emipet.

"The Model" (Lesliegh Greene) -- emipet
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southern_slut​

Elizabeth Nunez​

Chica​

PIC
Female, 24, Latina
Brunette hair, brown eyes.
Athletic body, 36c breasts.​

Homicide: 2 victims, her lover and his wife.​

Life​

Bubbly, talkative, slightly childish.

Willing to abandon allies to save herself, bratty, spoiled, extremely self obsessed.​

Raised wealthy in Los Angeles, went to college where she was having an affair with her Professor. When he failed to leave his wife for Elizabeth, she killed them both in a rage. She's been known to use sex to control others and even came to use this to secure herself safety in prison. As a coward, she's often used her body to win allegiances and pit others against themselves for either her own survival or even amusement.​

I prefer to make the sex scenes violent and graphic. If Elizabeth were to succeed, I'm expecting she will be beaten extensively. Any permanent scarring or damage would lead her to suicide, her looks are the only feature she cares about.

Host's Comment: I will take this into consideration when planning what may or may not happen to her in the Arena.​

Darkened_Star​

Marie Blackwood​

Harlequin​

PIC
Female, 27
Caucasian; White blond hair, icy blue eyes.​

Treason​

Life​

Mature and serious.

She knows that BATW is her last chance for freedom, and she doesn't intend to waste it by messing around.

She is impatient and short tempered and very strong willed.​

Marie was a Security Consultant attached to the President's office until he was assassinated. She was found guilty of conspiracy and helping to plan the assassination.

She is strong willed and has survived in prison through a mixture of attitude and street smarts.​

Not particularly, I'm fairly open about what happens.

Host's note: I am going to build up the audience's hatred for her as a traitorous anti-American. They're going to love hating her! The ratings are going to soar!​

"Introduction"​

1. The Convicts are written by the Writers. Writers are encouraged to write more than one Convict ... because people will die.


2. Through headsets, the Convicts are in visual and audible contact with one another, allowing them to see and hear anything they want that is being seen or heard by one of their cohorts. (The reason for this is simple: the writers "see" and "hear" everything that is posted in the IC thread, therefore it is only logical that I must allow the Convicts to do the same.)

3. The Convicts will not know where the Cops are until and unless they come across them or get attacked by them. Once a single convict learns the location of a Cop, all Convicts due (per step 2 above). However, ... once the Cop escapes viewing, were back to Marco...! Polo...!

4. The RP Host (me) will write the part of the Game Show Host and the Cops. Obviously, I could kill all of the Convicts by in the first two minutes simply by saying, You're all dead! ...and unleashing a hail of gun fire. But, where's the fun in that, right? The goal of the RP for me is not to win; the goal is to create the best RP you've ever participated in. So, no worries there; the Cops will kill and be killed, torture and be tortured, rape and be raped, etc and etc., just as with the Convicts.

5. Prior to the beginning of the competition, the Convicts will "take a tour" of the arena together. This is the writers' opportunity to ask questions about The Arena.

6. BATW begins Friday evening and ends Sunday, 48 hours later. The Convicts may attempt to finish the Competition at any point ... but, don't get impatient: The Convicts begin with the most basic of weapons and, I'm sorry to say, these do not include firearms. Weapons caches are "revealed" to the Attackers over the course of the 48 hours. In addition, Convicts can lay claim to any weapon they take from a Cop ... but be aware that some weapons are not as useful or dependable as you may first believe. (Think "duds" and "booby traps".)​

The source of the Street View images is very basic: Google fitted the roofs of cars with globes, filled with cameras, and drove them around town, recording everything in a 360 sphere. (I actually saw the car mapping Springfield, Oregon; it was a Volkswagen beetle, with a two foot (or so) globe filled with cameras sitting atop a mount on the cars roof.) In case you've never seen it done​

SweetAsSuga​

Gwen Harris​

Athena​

PIC
Female, 23
Brown, wavy hair; hazel eyes.
Petite, very fit and yet remaining feminine looking.​

Arson and homicide: Setting fire to three federal government buildings. The fires resulted in the loss of five lives.​

Ice queen. Willing to do anything and everything she has to in order to stay alive. If you stand in her way, you are going down.​

At 17, she got pregnant and dropped out of high school to raise her son. She was arrested in the middle of her son Mason's seventh birthday party. When Mason tried to stop the "bad men" from taking his mother, one federal agent hit the boy with the butt of his gun. Someone video taping the party caught it all on tape and the video went viral on the web. Mason is now trapped in foster care and Gwen will do anything to get him back.​

Gwen's in-game name comes from the Greek goddess of war. It symbolizes the fact that Gwen will take no prisoners in her fight to win her freedom and her son.​

Richard "Big Dick" Manchester​

(Coming)​

The Arena Perimeter

-- The Stationary Glass:
The Arena Wall -- Satellite View View -- The blue lines indicate where the 20 foot, razor wire-protected wall is built.
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The Convicts take a day time tour of The Arena. (OOC -- This is the writers' opportunities to ask questions about the arena.)​

Noon: The Convicts and Cops meet for a civil lunch, hosted by Marcus Bennett.

7 pm: The Pre-Show begins, introducing the Combatants. (The Pre-Show is aired on free cable as well as the Pay-Per-View channel, to drum up business from the prior for the latter.)

8-10 pm: Round 1, "Individual Combat":

10 pm - 12 am: "Midnight Rest Period"

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AnotherOldGuy (aka OldGuy)​

Richard Manchester​

Big Dick​

PIC
Male, 42.
6'2", 202#; very muscular
Shaved head (naturally dark haired); dark brown eyes.
A tattoo of an artistic "S" (for Samantha) fills most of the outside of his left upper arm).
Scars: 3 bullets, lower back, left; knife, right lower back, over his kidney.​

Murder (35 counts); Aggravated Rape (10 counts).​

Consecutive Life Terms without parole.​

Rowdy, loud, rambunctious.
Chauvinist, Sexist; believes that a woman who has sex out of wedlock should "part her thighs to any man who asks".
Brutal, unforgiving of criminals.​

Seattle Police Department, 12 years; the last 5 in Narcotics.

After his girl friend, Samantha, died of an overdose, he went on a rampage against drug dealers. In 12 incidents prior to the one that led to his capture, he killed a total of 18 dealers and raped 5 women, 3 of whom he killed; all of his victims were directly associated with the dealing end of the business. He took one of the women hostage -- a "mule" directly connected to the drugs that killed Samantha -- and raped her daily for three weeks before she simply died on him.

Richard never harmed an "innocent" person, including any of a number of drug addicted people he could very well have killed and/or raped, too. He was only going after the people dealing the drugs, the people he deemed responsible for his girl friend's death.

The Press was calling the as-of-yet unidentified killer and rapist "The Seattle Slaughterer" because of the brutality of the murders and rapes. But behind closed doors, others -- including some on the police force -- were calling the man a hero. Drug dealers were fleeing the city, and those who weren't were hiding so deeply that they could hardly do business. Street prices were rising rapidly, with polarized results: many drug users who couldn't afford the new prices were filling treatment centers, while others only ramped up their burglary habits to get the money to support their addictions.

Eventually, as the evidence began to point toward a cop, and finally toward a Narcotics Division detective, and as even he himself was questioned, Richard discovered the location of the Distributor who he was certain had supplied the drugs that killed Samantha. He stole a boat and slipped onto the man's island home in the San Juans, using a silenced pistol to take out the Distributor's guards and, eventually, take all those in the house hostage.

For six days, he held the home and the people in it. He tortured the Distributor in an effort to get names of contacts and locations of drug and money stashes. Before the Distributor's eyes, Richard raped the man's wife, a mule for the "family" business; Richard forced him to watch by threatening to rape the man's 14 year old daughter, who Richard was holding in a boat house out of the range of the screams, protestations, and on occasion pleading of her parents. During the six days, several boats arrived -- dealers and their associates -- and Richard killed those men and raped those women as well.

By the time the affair was uncovered and the island was swarmed by the State Police, FBI, and Coast Guard, as well as the Royal Canadian Police (due to the proximity to Canada and the mooring of Canadian registered boats at the island's dock), Richard had killed 14 men and raped 5 women. (The daughter was taken away, never having known of the horror Richard had committed.)

He was taken into Federal Custody and, after proudly admitting to every crime he'd committed, given 45 separate life sentences -- 35 for murder or manslaughter, 10 for aggravated rape, to run consecutively. Richard was never going to see freedom again ... until BATW came about.​

May 2028 will be his 7th BATW episode.

Richard has an undisclosed contract with BATW and the Federal Government. The terms include:

Richard -- whose performance name is "Big Dick" -- has killed 11 male Convicts and raped 6 females, 3 of whom he killed.​

"Breakfast At The Whitney"​

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Remember "Running Man", with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Similar ... but at the same time, radically different.

In the near future, as reality violence and prime time porn came to rule the sports/entertainment industry, "Breakfast at the Whitney" was born.

Convicts facing the Death Penalty were given an opportunity: survive a life or death, 48 hour "reality show" and win your freedom, a $1 million dollar prize, and a new start with a new identity.

The Convicts can attempt this feat working as a team or striking out on their own. But either way, standing in their way will be a better armed, better trained, more organized, and possibly more vicious and brutal team ... disgraced Cops, who themselves are facing Death Penalties or Life Sentences for a variety of illegal deeds and looking for a way out of their punishments.​

The Battle takes place in the "Arena", a 6 block, walled-off section of Detroit abandoned after years of economic decay and, more recently, a terrorist dirty bomb.

The competition begins Friday evening and runs, in battle and rest stages, until Sunday, 48 hours later. Some battle stages feature one-on-one fights while others feature team combat; early fights begin with a combination of non-leathal weapons while the later ones can include automatic machine guns, flame throwers and more.

And all the while, a world wide audience is watching on Pay-Per-view, as well as from stands and extravagant hotels encircling the Arena, some with Sky Bridges that allow the privileged to look right down into the battle areas.​

1. The Convicts, as well as some of the non-combatants, are played by the Writers. I recommend that each writer plays more than one character, a Primary Character and 1 or more Secondary Characters. Why? Characters die, and if you are only playing one and he/she dies ... well, too bad, so sad.

2. The RP Host (me) will write the part of the Game Show Host, the Cops, and some of the non-combatants. Obviously, I could kill all of the "Convicts" in the first two minutes simply by saying, You're all dead! ...and unleashing a hail of gun fire. But, where's the fun in that for me or you, right? The host's goal is not to win; the host's goal is to provide a fun role play, which isn't achieved by killing y'all off in the first few hours. However, don't take that as license to get stupid and run into a hail of gunfire. Convicts who get stupid tend to get dead!

3. The Arena is based upon a real neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, and writers need to be able to familiarize themselves with the neighborhood. We will be using Google Street View as our "maps". (There will be a full section on how to use Street View for the purposes of this RP.)

4. Prior to the beginning of the Competition, the Convicts -- which, of course, means the writers -- will "take a tour" of the arena. This is an opportunity to learn details about the Arena.

5. The battle begins Friday evening and ends Sunday, 48 hours later. The "Convicts" may attempt to finish the Competition at any point ... but, don't get impatient. They begin with no weapons and only get them by either making them from items they can scrounge, stealing them from the Cops, or waiting for weapons caches to be made available ... and all of this takes time.

6. The Competition ends one of three ways:

7. The Role Play itself ends when we are tired of writing it. Hopefully, that won't be until after the battle ends, but hey, you never know, do you.​

DeathsKnight​

John Blake​

Bane​

PIC
Male, 31.
6'11", weight?
Light brown hair, grey eyes.​

Murder (more below).​

Life​

Friendly to bad ass in a heartbeat.​

Has a girlfriend with a 5 year old daughter. BATW is his chance to get pardoned and return to his family.

He was found guilty of the murder of a State Attorney. He is innocent; he came across the murder, and an eye witnesses found him smeared with blood, a dead woman at his feet, and a knife in his hand. He was found guilty, but professes his innocence.​

He doesn't do rape.​

emipet​

Hitomi Ozawa​

Ronin​

PIC
Female, 25.
5', 3", weight?; Slender, though she looks stocky because of her smaller height. 34B-23-36
Heavily tattooed all over her body.​

Murder (2 counts), Assault (5 counts), Possession w/ intent to sell (multiple counts).

Violation of the RICO Act; Violation of the Patriot Act (as a member of a declared terrorist organization); Assault on a prison official (rape).​

Death Penalty; currently serving 10 years in Solitary for assaulting and raping a female guard. She is in her 3rd prison.​

Almost always frowning (at the world in general).

She is a bad ass from the time she wakes up to the time she goes to sleep.

She has taken to "Yakuza" idea in the extreme. This covers a very deep and buried insecurity and a self-hatred of her being a 'hot Asian chick'. She has turned this now venomous hatred out on the whole world. She takes what she wants and will beat up or kill someone to keep it.​

She was in the feared "Fire Tigers" Yakuza clan on the west coast of the US. She was the enforcer and second in charge of the "Spider Tigers", an all female street gang associated with the Fire Tigers. She was born into the clan in Tokyo but came to the US at 15.

At 17, she married an American to keep her resident status. They hadn't been together since their honeymoon, and when she was sentenced, he divorced her.

She has dealt drugs, prostituted herself, and in her role as enforcer, assaulted and killed many times over. The last murder charge was plead down from assassination.

She has a boyfriend, Toshiro Endo, Chief Enforcer of the US Fire Tigers, who were placed on the list of terror organizations as the result of dealing arms and buying drugs from the Far East. Her relationship with Endo includes rough sex, which helps her "get her jollies", her writer states. Endo is on his way up the Fire Tigers chain of command, and Hitomi hopes that being his girl will help her as well.

She is well trained in karate and use of the katana, as well as knife and guns. There is a photo of her beheading a traitor to the Fire Tigers.​

I figure Hitomi is one of the WORST of this lot. She will either win or die REAL early and in a thrilling and exciting manner. I will enjoy the 'ride' though.

Host's Note: Sounds like maybe I'll have to arrange a good fight for her.​

DeathsKnight​

Dean Smith​

Kane​

PIC
Male, 35.
6'7", 280lbs.
Brown hair, brown eyes​

Murder multiple counts.​

Death Penalty.​

Withdrawn bad-ass.​

Raised by his dad; mother died at childbirth.

His father was a "Survivalist" and trained Dean. Dean's father had one addiction: gambling. When he was 12, his father was killed by a group of people that he owed money too.

Dean was sent to a foster home. He taught the bigger kids very quickly that just because he was withdrawn it didn't mean that he was defenseless.

He continued studying all martial art forms that he could get his hands on. He was adopted at 15, but that ended badly as the step-father came home one night and, in a drunken rage, decided to take his frustrations out on Dean. The man ended up in hospital, and Dean slipped away and dropped from the radar.

Four years later, Dean emerged again when he went after the same people who killed his father. After brutal killings and near captures by the Police, he turned his attention to bigger game. By now Dean was deadly in hand-to-hand combat, combining all the techniques that he had learned over the years. In the time he spent out of the system, he trained himself as a crack shot with pistols and rifles.

During his vigilante spree he killed all types of people, but always made certain that they we're guilty; drug-dealers, prostitution rackets, rapists, murderers, and any type of law breaker he hunted down and killed.

It was when Dean went after a corrupt cop that he got caught during a drawn-out gun fight. He did get his man, but it had also given the Police SWAT teams enough time to shut down any escape. He had to give up or die. He gave up.

He admitted to all 125 counts of murder and got the death sentence; he showed no remorse for his actions.

During his wait for his execution, Dean actually helped the Prison Riot Guard to stop an attempted escape by 50 of the inmates. Again he left bodies in his wake, but helped any guard that he could. In light of these actions he was deemed still too dangerous to be part of society, but as he did show that he had mercy, the court would show mercy on him and make his sentence Life instead of death.

Host Note: Marcus is going to pull strings and get the Death Penalty reinstated because he wants this combatant for BATW.​

I don't do rape.​

AnotherOldGuy​

Marcus Bennett​

PIC
6'1"; 210#.
Brown hair (w/ the gray died away); gray-blue eyes.
Physically fit, but not muscular.​

Confident, bold, forward.
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Was a very popular boy and young man; good looks, charismatic personality, athletic ability, and family money helped him get ahead in life.

Valedictorian in high school; Dean's List at the University of Oregon and starting quarterback (all four years of eligibility).

He always wanted to be famous, as well as be a leader in his community:

NFL quarterback, 6 years (until injured). (See "Personal Background".)

Sports announcer; first for the NFL, then "blood sports" (cage fights, ultimate fighting, etc.)

Hosted "Cops and Robbers", a television show about manhunts; then, later, hosted "Ultimate", a show about death penalty cases.

Co-Creator, Producer, and Host of Breakfast at the Whitney.​

AnotherOldGuy (aka OldGuy)​

Vince Timms​

PIC
(Coming)​

Overseer; assigned to Gwen Harris ("Athena")​

Personable, friendly, happy-go-lucky.

Flirtatious; likes to interact sexually with his Charge, even though he knows it's against policy.​

Will add more later. Just wanted to get him up here.

Introduced here, in an "Interview Thread" with Gwen Harris.​

AnotherOldGuy (aka OldGuy)​

Ronald Burton​

Well-to-do business man and major commercial sponsor of Breakfast at the Whitney.

He is a Secondary Character whose sole role is to partake of "Ronin" (Hitomi Ozawa).​

PIC

(What you see is what you get; he is just a short term NPC)​

Polite in public; a charismatic businessman.

In private, though -- particularly in the bedroom -- he is domineering and demanding.​