Casting Call: Extreme Endurance- Alpine Challenge

[Trey Fitty]

The Extreme Endurance: Alpine Challenge is, essentially, a race. Contestants will start on the summit of one mountain and race each other to the summit of another mountain, about a weeks journey from the start point. There are very few rules to follow in the challenge, and they are as follows:

1) Come prepared: each contestant is allowed one mode of transport should they choose, provided that it is not powered. (If you really had your heart set on a snowmobile, for instance, you might have to try a dogsled instead.)
Remember, you will be trekking over snow, rivers, cliff faces, trees, etc.

2) Every contestant is allowed one firearm (nothing more powerful than a pistol) and one close combat weapon of choice.

3) Checkpoints: You must reach each checkpoint in correct order. There are five along the way. To avoid anyone getting ridiculously ahead of the pack, you may not continue your post past a checkpoint.

4) You are granted full immunity from the law whilst participating in the challenge, so ANYTHING goes.

5) You may enter alone or in a team of 5 or less. You can form alliances or teams with other players, you can form feuds, anything.

I will introduce a few characters whose sole purpose is to try and prevent the challengers from succeeding, so be careful!
I will also be controlling the environment, expect the unexpected.

Hope to start seeing some challengers!

 

[Trey Fitty]

Non Player Characters (NPC'S)

Here are the characters that will be trying to stop you. Each of them is a winner of a previous challenge.

Manson:
Manson is the survivor of four Extreme Endurance Challenges and the winner of last year's Desert Challenge. He won through pure violence, killing half of the other competitors in order to gain victory.
Nationality Australian.
Transport: Manson is riding a custom snowboard; It has a pole on the front with handlebars, and four large wheels which can be lowered to the ground on patches without snow.
Weapons: Glock 9mm and a staff with a bayonet at either end.
Style: Brute force and hunting fellow players.

The Osaka Twins
Yuri and Yuki, winners of the Oceanfaring challenge. Their understanding of each other enabled them to man the best-organised boat and sieze the prize
Nationality: Japanese
Transport: Two-person bobsled with swivelling pistol-mounts
Weapons: Yuki carries twin PPK handguns and Yuri carries twin hunting knives.
Style: Speed and cooperation

Athena
Winner of the Deep Forest challenge, Athena laid traps all over the course, slowing her opponents down and enabling her to win.Nationality British
Transport: none, except her snowshoes.
Weapons: Hunting bow. She is also an expert at trapping, using whatever is available.
Style: Making sure everyone is accounted for, preferably in one of her traps.

The Dream Team A team of five ex soldiers. This team has won two previous Alpine Challenges. They are led by Sergeant Bones.
Nationality: American.
Transport: Racing skies.
Weapons: Each member has a Smith & Wesson. Amongst the team are also: Hand grenades, tear gas, Sedative dart gun, flash grenades and Bones carries an unloaded rifle with bayonet.
(This is allowed as the rifle isn't loaded, and has the sole purpose of supporting the bayonet)

The NPC's are not allowed to permanently maim competitors untill beyond the fourth checkpoint and not allowed to kill untill beyond the fifth. However competitors are allowed to do either to the NPC's and each other the entire length of the challenge.

 

[PmTick]

So is this kind of like Wacky Races? Only not that wacky.

 

[Trey Fitty]

LOL yeah, but for big kiddies!

 

[Dark Warrior]

Sounds like something a little different, so I'll join. Any problems with my character, feel free to tell me.

Troy Derrecks

Troy is a bit of a mystery, revealing little of his personal information. He is a divorced 31 year old who has recently been discharged from the army, and the reason he joins the competition (His first) is two-fold: He is an adrenaline junkie, for one, and also he feels he has nothing left to live for. However, he believes suicide to be below his morales, and would like to go out in style. Another reason is that he is Agnostic (In case you don't know, if someone is Agnostic it means they believe there is some sort of "higher being", like a god, but they are unsure who or what it is), and feels that if he lives, he must still have something to live for, but if he dies, he feels that his time has come. As such, despite his death wish, he will still try his hardest to survive...

Nationality: Australian
Transport: Skies
Weapons: A Bereta (I'm not an expert on guns, but I'm pretty sure that's one hehehe), and a Combat Knife (Army style).
Style: Will avoid combat as often as possible, concentrating on winning the race.

 

[Trey Fitty]

Great! Hope we get some more competitors. Might give the casting call about a week, see if it takes off
*Fingers crossed*
BTW, Just cos I'm a Sydney boy, don't think I'll go easy on ya!

 

[PmTick]

I'm in, I'll post a character soon.

 

[Dark Warrior]

Hehehehe
Fuckin' Sydney Poofta
j/k

I'm a Perth bloke myself.

OI, and no-one take the piss out of aussies, or I'll snap ya in two hehehe

 

[poohlive]

Craig and Baer.

Long time friends who had decided to take on the challenge. Baer is, as the name states, a bear of a man. Really tall and gruffly, with lots of hair on his body. Craig's short and skinny, and wears glasses. Not a nerd though, he's fairly muscular as well.

Weapons: MP5 Navy. This is an automatic weapon. Very similiar to the AK47. Unlike the AK though, this weapon is far more accurate, especially for farther ranges. All in all, it is not accurate for more than a couple hundred yards. It's mostly a short range gun, if you can see it with your nake eye, you can take it out.


Mode: Bicycles that have been specially designed to have attachments that make it a powerless snowmobile. The wheels go off, and this two ski attachment for each tire.

Oh, and their Canadian. Just thought you'd like to know.

 

[Trey Fitty]

Westie.
*Also j/k*
Yeah Poohlive, I'll have to trust you on the mp5... we Aussies don't know much about guns. We use pure muscle in our country.
Awww hell, throw another shrimp on the barbie, grab a four X and lets not be Aussie drongos and get our kids back from the dingoes before the koalas start masturbating in our backyards, eh mate?

Fuck, don't know what got into me there...

 

[Dark Warrior]

I was just waiting for someone to say sumthing like that, but I wouldn't have expected it would be another aussie hehehe

 

[PmTick]

Semi-colon and !

Semi-colon and ! are brothers from England. They keep themselves disguised in white body suits with goggles, a doctor's mask, and of course the appropriate ; or ! on the front of their unifroms to distinguish themselves.

The brothers are performance artists who feel that by completing the race they will make themselves famous. They have constructed their own transportation out of scrap metal, old tires, a sail and various pieces of garbage.

While racing they intend to tag various pieces of property to spread their names around wherever they go.

Nationality: English
Transport: The Metal Windsock
Basically a metal sled with retractable tires, a sail, and a parachute. When the tires are used, they are powered like a bike.

Weapons: Semi-colon favors spray paint while ! loves to use stink bombs. Each of them also have a crowbar.

Trey are we allowed to have two teams? I have another idea for a team but if I can't have another team I would like to submit it to you as a NPC.

 

[Trey Fitty]

Well, ok I guess another team is okay, As long as you can be bothered posting for both of them. But maybe you should try and avoid the two teams meeting each other too often, unless you have a better idea already. I like the first team though!

 

[PmTick]

OOC: I don't mind posting at all. I just took some NyQuil so excuse me if I tend to ramble here. If you think this character sucks or violates the rules, tell me and I won't use him. I just thought it would be interesting because I'm really into Art from this era.

Name: Leo DaVinci the IV

Country: Italy

Transport: Flying Machine

Leo is the ascendant of the famous artist and inventor Leonardo DaVinci. He entered the contest to show the world that his descendant was the best inventor ever. To prove his point he uses actual flying machine created by DaVinci.

In case your not familar with this, it's a seat with wheels and a sprial sail that DaVinci thought could propell the driver. It's powered like a bike connected to wooden gears (that is what I thought might be a violation) If you need a further description I think I can hunt down a pic if you need me to.

I'm not sure what I want him to use as a weapon yet, I'll have to get back to you on that.

 

[Trey Fitty]

PMT
How about using some kinda glider instead?
(This way you can't just fly over everyone, you have to actually get off and launch it again from a higher point)
Or at least could you introduce some kind of design flaw to the machine?
Let me know. Thanks.

 

[PmTick]

Oh yeah it's a total flaw, you would have to peddle pretty fast to really fly. Mabye have him hop no bigger than 20ft in the air? If not then I will go the glider route.

 

[Trey Fitty]

Yeah, sounds good.

Just a couple more days until I launch this thread... Get in on it now if you want to be a part of it!

 

[PmTick]

Wait, yeah the hard to use machine or the glider?

 

[Trey Fitty]

sorry dude

Yeah, you can have the machine.
Remember, no more than 20ft...
thanx

 

[PmTick]

20 ft. No problem. Thanks man.

 

[poohlive]

Just so we can break up this two man team stuff, I've decided to add on a Monkey to my team.
His name is Nibbles, and among other things, he's been trained to sabotage anything he touches.
Including weird flying contraptions. lol.

 

[PmTick]

Masked men, flying machines, gremlin monkeys this thread has all the working of a great American classic novel. Either that or the Wizard of Oz. Can't wait

 

[Trey Fitty]

Why do so many threads I'm in end up with monkeys?!
LOL ok, no prob.
I like monkeys anyway.

 

[Trey Fitty]

Final Call!

I'm gonna attempt to get the thread running by tomorrow. If anyone still wants to join the thread, now is the time!

 

[Trey Fitty]

Final call

(OK actually this is just so Siren can find the casting call thread)