Star of Penumbra
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The thread will be based (loosely) on a GURPS game I was in a while ago.
Basically, the setup is this: About a thousand years in the future, mankind has taken to the stars in an attempt to find a new planet, since Earth has been fucked up so badly from pollution and wars that it is now all but unlivable. Only a few ships exsist anymore, and contact with each other is sporadic, since they've all taken off in different directions and use Earth (or rather, what's left of it) as a relay station.
One of the ships (each ship being about twice the size of Rhode Island) encountered an electrical storm that it was unable to avoid. A few of the crew members and the captain board an escape pod (an escape pod being about two by three city blocks accross and about fifty feet high, not counting the landing legs) and attempt to escape, since it's obvious that the storm will seriously fuck up the ship.
Unfortunately, they were unable to get away fast enough, and got sucked into a wormhole that they had failed to detect (as the storm interfered with the sensors).
The trip through the wormhole killed most of the people on board, and the survivors have no idea what happened to thier ship, or where they are.
The ship was attacked almost immediately by Kaa, an advanced race of xenophobic snakelike beings. Though the escape pod was larger, faster, and had better weapons than the Kaa ships, they eventually were shot down and crashed on a planet inhabited by a primitive race that resembled a cross between Sleestax (the lizard guys from Land of the Lost) and Greg, Alex's copilot in The Last Starfighter.
A few of the children, having seen the ship land, decided to investigate, despite the fact that the ship crashed in a forbidden area.
That's where we come in.
I'll be playing one of the children and the other characters that show up along the way. I need one or two (but no more than two) other people who can and will check the thread at least once a day.
Any takers?
Basically, the setup is this: About a thousand years in the future, mankind has taken to the stars in an attempt to find a new planet, since Earth has been fucked up so badly from pollution and wars that it is now all but unlivable. Only a few ships exsist anymore, and contact with each other is sporadic, since they've all taken off in different directions and use Earth (or rather, what's left of it) as a relay station.
One of the ships (each ship being about twice the size of Rhode Island) encountered an electrical storm that it was unable to avoid. A few of the crew members and the captain board an escape pod (an escape pod being about two by three city blocks accross and about fifty feet high, not counting the landing legs) and attempt to escape, since it's obvious that the storm will seriously fuck up the ship.
Unfortunately, they were unable to get away fast enough, and got sucked into a wormhole that they had failed to detect (as the storm interfered with the sensors).
The trip through the wormhole killed most of the people on board, and the survivors have no idea what happened to thier ship, or where they are.
The ship was attacked almost immediately by Kaa, an advanced race of xenophobic snakelike beings. Though the escape pod was larger, faster, and had better weapons than the Kaa ships, they eventually were shot down and crashed on a planet inhabited by a primitive race that resembled a cross between Sleestax (the lizard guys from Land of the Lost) and Greg, Alex's copilot in The Last Starfighter.
A few of the children, having seen the ship land, decided to investigate, despite the fact that the ship crashed in a forbidden area.
That's where we come in.
I'll be playing one of the children and the other characters that show up along the way. I need one or two (but no more than two) other people who can and will check the thread at least once a day.
Any takers?
