A New World

[Lansfirestar]

Welcome to the discovery of a lifetime, a new continent has been found. Numerous adventurers have travelled the vast seas to claim the unknown world's riches. Some travelled to the new world because they have nothing to lose, others came here to seek adventure, glory, and gold, and others came for something else... freedom to do anything they want with no reprisals.

Hello and welcome to my first Role-Playing Thread. As read from above anything goes, so you can be of any race, you choose to be.

NOTE: As a precaution, please add a "Job" class to define their abilities.

 

[Lansfirestar]

Name: Marcus
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Job: Captain/Merchant
Transportation: Corvette (Majesty)

Marcus is a travelling merchant. During one of his expiditions to the western continent, his ship was beset by a raging typhoon. After a week of endless rain, they manage to dock in a stretch of land. Checking the navigational chart, Marcus was shocked to find that his ship is on a stretch of land not found in the map. Making up his mind, he set upon to explore this new continent.

 

[cats]

Ooc:

Basic questions. I am guessing elves and the like are allowed. Does that mean magic exists? I am considering playing as some aliens, who noticed a largely wild Continent on the planet and instead of fallowing the captains orders the entire trip home the character opts to be marooned there.

 

[Lansfirestar]

yeah, anything goes... oh yeah, i was thinking of adding giant robots into the mix, kind of like gears... but your idea is good. Which reminds me, my lead character, founds settlement which is near the sea... so... have fun. hope more people join us

 

[cats]

Mecha are always fun. Two questions. Is this the IC, and are w playing groups like civilization or are we roleplaying characters? (Do I need one character or a small group of characters.)

 

[Lansfirestar]

hmmm, This is the IC.... and also its okay with me if you have as many characters as you want but try to keep your main character in the story as much as possible. Just a question, you think its plausible that we use magic to power the mechas? or is it more that technology and magic grew up together...

 

[cats]

Magic spawned its own technology in response and so we have mana engines for mecha.

 

[Lansfirestar]

hmmmmm, great idea.... we need more people

 

[Tehtothead]

what is the restriction for races?

 

[Lansfirestar]

pretty much anything goes...

 

[Tehtothead]

Name: Therolin
Race: Hume/Serpent
Job: Rogue/Mercenary
Weapons: Two Khukuri blades, control of time. and flight

Past: Therolin is the bastard son of a god and a dragon cursed to walk though time immortally 18 never truly belonging anywhere. His wings are shown as tattoos covering his chest and back and he wears a 20 inch kilt sort of resembles a skirt.

 

[cats]

So before I make my character which will be perhaps the oldest or youngest character posted, I'm going seek approval for the crazy ass race I came up with. I apologies in advance for my long winded nature, let me know of any changes I need to make for the race.

You ever here about a person who kept getting promoted at work until they reached a point where they were completely useless, well that is essentially this race, except replace promotion with evolution and completely useless with surprisingly normal and you have the Suolt race.

First some history. The Suolt may very well be one of the first sentient races to pop into existence, unfortunately none of them have provided evidence for that claim, but they are reasonably sure it can be found on there home world, which may or may not still exist because none of the known Suolts can recall where it is/was. This has earned the race the honor of being the only sentient creatures to ever misplace their home world. But what is a Suolt, well at some point they were similar to humans... they think. After a time they discovered machinery, and eventually developed space flight, marvels in medicine, and machines so complex not even they are sure what they do. Well at the time this science was going on the universe was largely empty, so they had little need to be off world and kept to their home world occasionally sending machines into space to be misplaced and forgotten. During this period of staying at home two things happened that shaped their race. They increasingly relied on machines for everything and they needed larger brains to store their vast knowledge. At this point either threw a slow million year evolution or the crazy science only they would be foolish enough to unleash the modern Suolt came about. (Once more not even they know what happened.)

Your modern Suolt is pretty much one large brain like muscle wrapped around a mechanical skeleton. (The design of which varies from Suolt to Suolt.) The race is technically immortal, never dieing from old age. However each individual only lasts for 200 years or less. As early as 150 years of age the Suolt buds into two new members of the species each with its own personality scraped together from half the brain cells of their parents. On average they remember less then 1/3 of their parents knowledge. Over the years they have misplaced many important details, such the location of their home world and what all the junk they left around the universe is used for. Interestingly they all still understand how to make advanced cybernetic skeletons, which may be a function of instinct instead of memory. The race can also reproduce sexually, which produces similar children, but doesn't destroy the parents. A newborn Suolt grows to be on average the size of a human over 20 years.

Suolts are technically only one organ, which isn't enough to survive with. But they evolved they ability to shape their one organ into what is needed to survive. Which is pretty much a primitive digestive track and circulatory system. The specifics of this system are up to the individual and his or her needs, as a result the species is hard to mortally wound because redundant organs are common when a Suolt expects to need them. In addition to this a Suolt posses surprising power for their size, due to their cybernetic skeletons. Their intelligence and capacity of for learning is quite high, after all a Suolt is basically a giant brain.

Like most intelligent beings the Suolt race is full of character flaws. The most widespread of which is the fixation of their appearance, which is estimated to be found in some where between 99% to 100% of the population. A Suolt will build a skeleton to match the species it finds around them, so the vast majority are currently human shaped. They physically are a light blue grey color that in thin sheets is transparent, which obviously different from the color of other species, so they stain their outer layers colors to match, hair implants are also quite common. After all of this work they usually keep a look for a couple of weeks and decide they don’t like it and change things around again. A second flaw is lack of faith in hard copies of knowledge such as books and computers. The other common character flaw is a lack of common sense, and to much curiosity, which has made this relatively fast breeding species into a fairly rare sight.

Perhaps the greatest mystery of this race is how members of it came to be spread though out the galaxy. And like every good story involving the Suolt, they can’t recall how.

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Name: Genifur (Jennifer to humans)
Gender: Female
Race: Suolt
Age: 18
Job: First Mate
Specialties: She is highly skilled at the art of relaying messages and fallowing orders. Her fighting skills are coming around but average at best. Her main assets are her knowledge of machines and her ability to quickly adapt to new situations. She understands the workings of anatomy as well as any one who builds their own should. She also has some erotic skills she plans on never using again.

Equipment: Her skeleton is included with her physical description, but very useful none the less. Apart from that she carries a small computer and some basic tools for working on machines. A small Suolt makeup kit, which despite its name is the size of a grape fruit. A small phase dagger, a larger phase rapier, two ammo pouches, and two sabot pistols, (think single shot one handed shot guns,) her preferred round fires a small explosive rocket and she usually has one loaded in her left pistol at all times. She owns three different outfits, but would own more if she could afford it.

Physical Description: Standing straight up as she normally does she is a meager 5'3" and with out her skeleton weighs 100 lbs. The skeleton how ever adds another 115 pounds despite nicely fitting into what would be 120 pound human female. Her look has always been that of a human female but has otherwise varied greatly threw out her life, save from a small permanent mark of a "noble" house on the inside of her upper right thigh. She is currently sporting brown hair that stops 1/2 an inch above her shoulders, green eyes, and slightly tanned skin on a youthful, small busted human body. Her skeleton is an odd mix of scavenged materials all of which were pain staking cleaned before being incorporated into what was once a 50 lbs chassis made of over priced composite materials. While she has formed eyes out of her body she has also installed a camera she keeps concealed under her right shoulder, her left hand is bare and sticks out of her body but she hides it under a soft white glove, she is roughly 30% stronger with that hand which also includes a computer port incase she wishes to think at a separate machine. With out the glove the hand poses a strange sort of beauty not found else where on her body, all the materials seem to belong with each other and work in a symphony of plates and pistons that seem to slide on one and another with out friction.

Physiology: Her internal organs are symmetrical and redundant. She has two hearts, two lungs, and two filters for her digestive track which is otherwise very simple. Her Skeleton however isn't redundant. She controls it with a link at the spine between her shoulders, the mechanics of her left arm are more complex and a single camera is buried under her right shoulder, it is simpler for her to remove obscuring flesh and use this secret camera then it is to make a new eye, (a manner of minutes verses days).

History: Genifur was budded on a forest planet ruled by a crablike race. On this world one could come as a visitor and stay as a slave, and that is what happened to her mother about 25 years before Genifur was formed. She can't recall why her mother came to the world and no one ever told her, but she was essentially born a pleasure slave in the service of a "noble" house. Her mother before her served this role. At the same time she was born, so two was her brother who she imagines came into being as the result of her previous identities desire to do something, anything else. The houses lord wasn't stupid and had plenty of uses for a giant brain mechanic. Eventually her brother earned the name of budget and designed a crab like exoskeleton to better deal with his owners. She on the other hand inherited their mothers skeleton an over priced core designed to be very flexible and made of materials light enough one could move it with ease and yet durable enough to take a pounding, a rich persons toy really. This difference in lifestyle made her hate her brother immensely and he hated her back, after all that was his previous life as well even if he only recalled echoes and shades of memories.

By the age of ten she had stumbled on a way to short out her skeletons security device and made her escape. She managed to smuggle herself on a ship of rival house with the aid of the ships captain who then sold her to a mechanic. He fortunately was ignorant of the politics of these crab people and wasn't into humans. So she was put to work fixing all manner of machines and salvaging spare parts. During this time she slowly rebuilt her skeleton using salvaged parts no one cared about. It was a hard life, but she took pride in rebuilding her body and decided at least one part of her skeleton should show who she was, as she replaced parts of her skeleton she built her left hand from components she no longer needed else where in her skeleton. She views this as her quiet victory over the life she was born into. After about six years of this her owner died, and since he had no will she became the property of his bank. Once more in a stroke of luck the bank was started by abolitionists and she was suddenly free.

This third chapter was a two year long struggle for money. She had embrace her original occupation a handful of times and she isn't proud of it, and regrets taking the risk as all of her clients commented on her only permanent marking, the symbol of her original master. Eventually she turned to piracy and learned the basics as a ship mechanic.

She has become disillusioned with the life and ha decided she can't put up with the roudy crew f mercenaries and cut-throats any longer. She has been given an escape pod in place of her share of the spoils and left to live on the unused continent of a nerby habital world.

 

[Tehtothead]

when we get enough characters how is this thread going to start out

 

[Lansfirestar]

quite easy... I will start of at the shoreline where I "discovered" the island. You can start off at a ship heading to the town i built. while catts, can wonder around until she finds the town or something else

 

[Tehtothead]

are you starting a new thread for the story or is this it

 

[Lansfirestar]

new thread

 

[Lansfirestar]

we'll need 2 more people to get the story rounded... oh and if you want, you can add your own batch of people that has no direct relation to your character, since my character is a merchant, im adding 2 bodyguards, a driver, and a horse. Notice: Technology has yet to reach the island, so for the first few months its basically horses and magic.

 

[cats]

Or psionics in jenifurs case.

 

[Lookingforideas]

Name: Jadest
Gender: Female
Race: High Elf
Job: Healer
Age:32
Transportation: Portals


Jadest is a Healer and scorceress running from her home and a forced marriage she dosnt want. Was hiding in the cargo hold of Marcus's Ship.

 

[Lansfirestar]

Okay one more, just a note: Genifur is already in the continent, Jadest, is in my ship, and Therolin is where?

 

[Tehtothead]

Therolin is in a smaller selfmade boat in tow of your larger vessel.
He follows you after overhearing a converstion about your destination.

 

[Lansfirestar]

Hmmmm, think we should start the IC now?

 

[Lansfirestar]

bump...

 

[Lansfirestar]

began the story

 

[cats]

I will not have time to start the IC till tomorow. Also is it alright for me to have several pieces of technologoy from the landing pod?