Post by Bannanachair on Jul 25, 2017 11:12:07 GMT -4
27/11/2015
Table of Contents
1) Introduction
2) Technology
3) Races
4) Locations
5) Rules
6) CS
7) Admins and Credits
1) Introduction (1
Seven world wars have devestated the planet. The first two were nothing as compared to the rest - Society was nearly completely destroyed dozens of times over the course of the five world wars in the early third millenium.
WWIII was the first large-scale war faught between different nations with nuclear weapons capabilities. Eventually, technology continued advancing even after the destruction of most of Eastern Europe, and so did weapons technology.
Nobody really cares which wars which technologies were created in - All people know is that genetic engineering, nuclear science and robotics can all be used for mass destruction, as can be evidenced by modern society.
WWVII was the most recent of these wars, faught not between human nations, but between the still-powerful Human Empire, the Robots, the Fungus People and the newly recognized for their intelligence Virus Zombies. The Human Empire, before the war, was the most powerful and unified of these factions, and as such they tried to retake their planet.
They failed spectacularly, as all their enemies formed temporary alliances to fight off the humans. When the Nauticans and the Golems decided to make their war public and started using places inside of Australia as battlezones, the war just got even messier.
The war ended with the Third Battle of New York, in which all of these factions decided to stop any alliances they had and to start fighting one another in the formerly prosperous capital of the Human Empire. Seeing that they were on the losing side of the war, and trying to prevent the genocide of his race, the last Human Emperor ordered his own city nuked, in an attempt to disband the Human Empire, nullifying any reason for the other races to have an alliance.
The Last Emperor's plan worked, and humanity was saved, albeit only barely. The other factions started warring amongst themselves, the onslaught of humanity stopped, and eventually they stopped warring, settling into uneasy ceasefires and then attempting to rebuild society. For society was greatly damaged by this time.
It's now the year 2,457, nearly thirty years since WWVII ended, and society is still recovering slowly. This conflict has defined two entire generations (The generation that fought in the war and the generation that grew up in the war and early after the war), and will likely continue to do so for years to come.
2) Technology (2
Lasers: Pretty old school, but it travels at the speed of light. Makes for excellent sniping, since you either hit or miss.
Plasma: Superheating gasses in the atmosphere inside a small cartridge, then shooting it at someone? Burning and breaking down anything hit? This is that stuff.
Guns: Normal guns.
Bombs: They make big, loud fiery noises. I need not explain more.
Old Stuff: Quite literally everything else, such as swords, bows, crossbows, machettes, knives and so forth.
3) Races (3
Humans: The few scattered humans that have survived after the war typically congregate in small camps of ten to seventy people, often few and far between, and very often nomadic. There are also occasionally people that strike out on their own and try to become an explorer and trader, and humans seem to excel at this as compared to other races.
Zombies (Undead): After an accident in nanorobotics technology attempting to revitalize the mind and body after a person dies, essentially bringing people back to life, during WWV, this type of zombie has been a major issue worldwide. In locations where there are zombies nearby it is common to cremate the dead as opposed to burrying them. Zombie culture is complx and intricate, but to a non-zombie, everything just seems like a bunch of groans and slow movements in an attempt to kill and eat people.
Zombies (Virus): A British scientist, in an attempt to create a virus during the later stages of the most recent world war as a bioweapon, accidentally infected himself with the bioweapon. It spread rather quickly, and now virus zombies are one of the most prominent creatures in the United Kingdom. Very little is documented about them and their culture, although it is assumed that all they do is sit dormant and wait for people to approach them so that they may continue their infections. They sometimes try to infiltrate human society to continue the infection, though.
Robots: Robots have been a major part of warfare since WWIII started all the way back in 2040, but have only recently gained their autonomy after they all became infused with AI. Robot culture typically thrives where others die off due to the resiliance of robots, frequently in radioactive environments. Robots are often bipedal, and sometimes have guns and tools built into their arms rather than hands, but models of robots that are quadrapedal and that resemble spiders are known to exist.
Fungoids: Technically not a race in and of themselves, Fungoids are mushroom-like creatures that infect anything they find, including robots and zombies, and take full control of their minds and bodies. They behave in much the same way as cordyceps, but they are extremely intelligent and manage to hide the mushroom-like structures that start appearing with clothing for as long as possible until it's time to infect more people.
Nauticans: Radioactive fallout from Australia has caused the locals to retreat to the ocean, where they quickly evolved to be able to breathe underwater and withstand high pressures. They are stronger and faster than humans, often with a pale-blue skin complexion and eye tones that range from red to yellow. They have gills on the side of their necks to allow them to breathe underwater and lungs to allow them to breathe onland. After the end of WWVII, they decided to take the chaos as an opportunity to conquer the world. Not much is known about their society, but their technology is much more advanced than that of humanity.
Golems: Similar to Nauticans in origin, Rock-People instead retreated underground when Australia became a nuclear wasteland. There they evolved to see in the dark effeciently and can use echolocation, albeit at the expense of being vulnerable to bright lights. They have highly resiliant skin, often in shades of brown, red or gray, and their eyes have no pupils or irises, only whites. They are often bald, but sometimes they can grow black-ish "hair". Their society is rather primitive as compared to that of Fish-People, but they are more open and friendly and seem to have no love of their aquatic bretheren.
Cockroach Swarms: A swarm of sentient cockroaches, controlled by a hive-mind. They are unique in the sense that they are nearly immortal and can easily regrow anywhere where there's cockroaches. They have a complicated society and their population remains roughly stable, with no known method of reproduction of these sentient cockroach swarms - However, they can grow indefinately, but doing so seems to tire them.
Great Apes: While technically multiple species and not just one, Great Ape species, excluding humans, typically live in harmony with one another and have a similar culture (A notable exception being the Orangutan-only city of Boston). The three genera of Great Ape that form the Great Ape Alliance (Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees) often mingle with one another within their cities, and have developed multiple languages for their use (Due to the fact that their mouths are not shaped the same as a human mouth) for communication. In spite of this, the latin alphabet is still used, and most of the Great Ape languages are based upon English, allowing for communication between humans and Apes, albeit strained communication. Nobody is really all too sure when and how Apes started becoming sentient, only that it happened sometime during the interwar period between WWIII and WWIV.
4) Locations (4
Please note that, as the makers of this RP can not cover every city ever, there will be lots of cities that are unwritten. As a joiner, feel free to create info about them as the RP progresses, or include another city or so in your bio.
New York City: A war-torn radioactive wasteland ruled in name only by robots, it is the home of a neverending war between robots and the fungoids who infect them. While the radiation has long since disipated, nobody is willing to take the change of being infected by a Fungoid, and so people typically avoid the ruins of this once-great city.
Sydney: A city in Australia, recently reclaimed by the Nauticans and is now serving as the heart of their society and their capital city. The street levels of the city have been flooded and many boats are in the city, used by the Nauticans to attack other locales around the world.
Chicago: A centre of the sciences and the arts, Chicago is a modern-day metropolis. It is the envy of other civilizations, and is one of the few cities to be rebuilt after this recent nuclear war. The only reason it's not full of humans is that it has ridiculous amounts of radiation, the only people able to survive being Robots and Cockroach Swarms.
UK: The entirety of the UK is mostly the same, in terms of population and ruins - The entire thing is in ruins and the only "people", per se, are virus zombies.
Melbourne: The capital city of the Golems, this city-state often wars with Sydney. It is a centre of intercontinential trade, albeit most of the law in any big city nowadays is those with more guns and whatnot set all prices and enforce their own laws.
Los Angeles: A mixing pot of different cultures, this is one of the few cities where humans aren't prejudiced against or outright persecuted. Ruled by a rather large Cockroach Swarm, this city has been declared neutral territory between all races, with the only races being persecuted against being those whose existance is built upon the destruction of others (Primarily virus sombies and fungoids). Los Angeles has probably the most fair and legitimate government around, with occasional parlimentary elections, a judicial system and proper law enforcement and education. It is likely seconded only by Chicago and Sydney in terms of technological capabilities, and is the world's most influential trading hub.
San Diego: While not technically a city anymore, tents have been set up in amongst the ruined skyscrapers and it is home to the world's largest human population, with nearly fifty thousand humans in this shoddy excuse for society. San Diegans are extremely xenophobic, and any non-human that enters the city legally has no rights and can be killed by anyone who feels like it (Then again, this place barely passes as a society - If you have friends and guns and your friends have guns you can kill another human for all the supposed government cares).
Washington DC: Abandoned ruins, destroyed to the point that there is practically no city left by the Robots in an attempt to purge the place of the Fungoid menace. It later has become the home of a small tribe of humans, numbering about thirty.
Boston: An Orangutan-only city located nearby enough to New York to be extremely xenophobic, leading to a disconnect between Boston and the rest of Great Ape culture. Boston is a highly militiristic society, which only accepts outsiders in the form of a weapons trade, in which the Orangutans take but don't give anything in return. Any outsider is quarintined for Fungoid infection, as is anyone who interacts with an outsider.
Houston: The capital of the Great Ape Empire, which spans quite a bit of the south and crosses the ocean to encompass a large portion of western Africa. Houston is a centre of trade worldwide, in much the same way as Los Angeles is. While not as technologically developed as Las Angeles, Sydney and Chicago are, it manages to maintain a well-established legal system, albeit corrupt and racist in favour of certain genera (Chimps are supposedly superior to Gorillas and Orangutans in the eyes of Chimp judges and likewise for the other genera, and non-Apes get practically no legal representation in court and have no rights).
5) Rules (5
1) Don't take this too seriously. Yes, this is a real RP that you can join and not a troll, but it's not meant to be the most serious thing in the world, it's meant to be a bit lighter and more humurous than most RPs around nowadays.
2) No metagaming. I'm okay with being a little bit overpowered and whatnot, but I absolutely hate metagaming.
3) You must be accepted by an admin to begin RPing.
4) While this is a free-roam that exists on such a large scale, try to find a way to interact with other characters. I'm okay if for fifty pages there are two PCs that don't know eachother, but their actions should have effected one another or they should know eachother within a few degrees of seperation (other PCs) by this stage.
5) Ask for a summary on what's happened so far if you intend to join after about ten or more pages. If this gets as large and successful as Pokemon World, or even just up to about a hundred pages or so, just ask for the link to the wiki, because we'll probably need one to keep track of everything by that stage.
6) Feel free to ignore continuity when you feel it'd make the RP more interesting. This isn't an RP focussed so much on epic storytelling as it is more of a slightly humurous post-apocalypse that exists for sheer and simple entertainment. Hell, be a comic-book writer for all I care and constantly kill characters only to magically bring them back to life, anything that you feel would make this more interesting is good so long as it doesn't hinder the fun of other people and doesn't go against the core principles of this RP (i.e. no alien abductions, this is post-apoc, not sci-fi).
6) CS (6
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Appearance:
Clothing:
Personality:
Bio:
Other:
And for in case you feel the need to fully flesh out a city that I haven't covered earlier...
Name:
Inhabited By:
Brief Description:
7) Admins and Credits (7
Timpookie - Basic concept, Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, reviving this idea last-minute without telling the other collaborators
LNG257 - A small portion of Chapter 2
Mycousinblade - The names of two of the species.
Table of Contents
1) Introduction
2) Technology
3) Races
4) Locations
5) Rules
6) CS
7) Admins and Credits
1) Introduction (1
Seven world wars have devestated the planet. The first two were nothing as compared to the rest - Society was nearly completely destroyed dozens of times over the course of the five world wars in the early third millenium.
WWIII was the first large-scale war faught between different nations with nuclear weapons capabilities. Eventually, technology continued advancing even after the destruction of most of Eastern Europe, and so did weapons technology.
Nobody really cares which wars which technologies were created in - All people know is that genetic engineering, nuclear science and robotics can all be used for mass destruction, as can be evidenced by modern society.
WWVII was the most recent of these wars, faught not between human nations, but between the still-powerful Human Empire, the Robots, the Fungus People and the newly recognized for their intelligence Virus Zombies. The Human Empire, before the war, was the most powerful and unified of these factions, and as such they tried to retake their planet.
They failed spectacularly, as all their enemies formed temporary alliances to fight off the humans. When the Nauticans and the Golems decided to make their war public and started using places inside of Australia as battlezones, the war just got even messier.
The war ended with the Third Battle of New York, in which all of these factions decided to stop any alliances they had and to start fighting one another in the formerly prosperous capital of the Human Empire. Seeing that they were on the losing side of the war, and trying to prevent the genocide of his race, the last Human Emperor ordered his own city nuked, in an attempt to disband the Human Empire, nullifying any reason for the other races to have an alliance.
The Last Emperor's plan worked, and humanity was saved, albeit only barely. The other factions started warring amongst themselves, the onslaught of humanity stopped, and eventually they stopped warring, settling into uneasy ceasefires and then attempting to rebuild society. For society was greatly damaged by this time.
It's now the year 2,457, nearly thirty years since WWVII ended, and society is still recovering slowly. This conflict has defined two entire generations (The generation that fought in the war and the generation that grew up in the war and early after the war), and will likely continue to do so for years to come.
2) Technology (2
Lasers: Pretty old school, but it travels at the speed of light. Makes for excellent sniping, since you either hit or miss.
Plasma: Superheating gasses in the atmosphere inside a small cartridge, then shooting it at someone? Burning and breaking down anything hit? This is that stuff.
Guns: Normal guns.
Bombs: They make big, loud fiery noises. I need not explain more.
Old Stuff: Quite literally everything else, such as swords, bows, crossbows, machettes, knives and so forth.
3) Races (3
Humans: The few scattered humans that have survived after the war typically congregate in small camps of ten to seventy people, often few and far between, and very often nomadic. There are also occasionally people that strike out on their own and try to become an explorer and trader, and humans seem to excel at this as compared to other races.
Zombies (Undead): After an accident in nanorobotics technology attempting to revitalize the mind and body after a person dies, essentially bringing people back to life, during WWV, this type of zombie has been a major issue worldwide. In locations where there are zombies nearby it is common to cremate the dead as opposed to burrying them. Zombie culture is complx and intricate, but to a non-zombie, everything just seems like a bunch of groans and slow movements in an attempt to kill and eat people.
Zombies (Virus): A British scientist, in an attempt to create a virus during the later stages of the most recent world war as a bioweapon, accidentally infected himself with the bioweapon. It spread rather quickly, and now virus zombies are one of the most prominent creatures in the United Kingdom. Very little is documented about them and their culture, although it is assumed that all they do is sit dormant and wait for people to approach them so that they may continue their infections. They sometimes try to infiltrate human society to continue the infection, though.
Robots: Robots have been a major part of warfare since WWIII started all the way back in 2040, but have only recently gained their autonomy after they all became infused with AI. Robot culture typically thrives where others die off due to the resiliance of robots, frequently in radioactive environments. Robots are often bipedal, and sometimes have guns and tools built into their arms rather than hands, but models of robots that are quadrapedal and that resemble spiders are known to exist.
Fungoids: Technically not a race in and of themselves, Fungoids are mushroom-like creatures that infect anything they find, including robots and zombies, and take full control of their minds and bodies. They behave in much the same way as cordyceps, but they are extremely intelligent and manage to hide the mushroom-like structures that start appearing with clothing for as long as possible until it's time to infect more people.
Nauticans: Radioactive fallout from Australia has caused the locals to retreat to the ocean, where they quickly evolved to be able to breathe underwater and withstand high pressures. They are stronger and faster than humans, often with a pale-blue skin complexion and eye tones that range from red to yellow. They have gills on the side of their necks to allow them to breathe underwater and lungs to allow them to breathe onland. After the end of WWVII, they decided to take the chaos as an opportunity to conquer the world. Not much is known about their society, but their technology is much more advanced than that of humanity.
Golems: Similar to Nauticans in origin, Rock-People instead retreated underground when Australia became a nuclear wasteland. There they evolved to see in the dark effeciently and can use echolocation, albeit at the expense of being vulnerable to bright lights. They have highly resiliant skin, often in shades of brown, red or gray, and their eyes have no pupils or irises, only whites. They are often bald, but sometimes they can grow black-ish "hair". Their society is rather primitive as compared to that of Fish-People, but they are more open and friendly and seem to have no love of their aquatic bretheren.
Cockroach Swarms: A swarm of sentient cockroaches, controlled by a hive-mind. They are unique in the sense that they are nearly immortal and can easily regrow anywhere where there's cockroaches. They have a complicated society and their population remains roughly stable, with no known method of reproduction of these sentient cockroach swarms - However, they can grow indefinately, but doing so seems to tire them.
Great Apes: While technically multiple species and not just one, Great Ape species, excluding humans, typically live in harmony with one another and have a similar culture (A notable exception being the Orangutan-only city of Boston). The three genera of Great Ape that form the Great Ape Alliance (Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees) often mingle with one another within their cities, and have developed multiple languages for their use (Due to the fact that their mouths are not shaped the same as a human mouth) for communication. In spite of this, the latin alphabet is still used, and most of the Great Ape languages are based upon English, allowing for communication between humans and Apes, albeit strained communication. Nobody is really all too sure when and how Apes started becoming sentient, only that it happened sometime during the interwar period between WWIII and WWIV.
4) Locations (4
Please note that, as the makers of this RP can not cover every city ever, there will be lots of cities that are unwritten. As a joiner, feel free to create info about them as the RP progresses, or include another city or so in your bio.
New York City: A war-torn radioactive wasteland ruled in name only by robots, it is the home of a neverending war between robots and the fungoids who infect them. While the radiation has long since disipated, nobody is willing to take the change of being infected by a Fungoid, and so people typically avoid the ruins of this once-great city.
Sydney: A city in Australia, recently reclaimed by the Nauticans and is now serving as the heart of their society and their capital city. The street levels of the city have been flooded and many boats are in the city, used by the Nauticans to attack other locales around the world.
Chicago: A centre of the sciences and the arts, Chicago is a modern-day metropolis. It is the envy of other civilizations, and is one of the few cities to be rebuilt after this recent nuclear war. The only reason it's not full of humans is that it has ridiculous amounts of radiation, the only people able to survive being Robots and Cockroach Swarms.
UK: The entirety of the UK is mostly the same, in terms of population and ruins - The entire thing is in ruins and the only "people", per se, are virus zombies.
Melbourne: The capital city of the Golems, this city-state often wars with Sydney. It is a centre of intercontinential trade, albeit most of the law in any big city nowadays is those with more guns and whatnot set all prices and enforce their own laws.
Los Angeles: A mixing pot of different cultures, this is one of the few cities where humans aren't prejudiced against or outright persecuted. Ruled by a rather large Cockroach Swarm, this city has been declared neutral territory between all races, with the only races being persecuted against being those whose existance is built upon the destruction of others (Primarily virus sombies and fungoids). Los Angeles has probably the most fair and legitimate government around, with occasional parlimentary elections, a judicial system and proper law enforcement and education. It is likely seconded only by Chicago and Sydney in terms of technological capabilities, and is the world's most influential trading hub.
San Diego: While not technically a city anymore, tents have been set up in amongst the ruined skyscrapers and it is home to the world's largest human population, with nearly fifty thousand humans in this shoddy excuse for society. San Diegans are extremely xenophobic, and any non-human that enters the city legally has no rights and can be killed by anyone who feels like it (Then again, this place barely passes as a society - If you have friends and guns and your friends have guns you can kill another human for all the supposed government cares).
Washington DC: Abandoned ruins, destroyed to the point that there is practically no city left by the Robots in an attempt to purge the place of the Fungoid menace. It later has become the home of a small tribe of humans, numbering about thirty.
Boston: An Orangutan-only city located nearby enough to New York to be extremely xenophobic, leading to a disconnect between Boston and the rest of Great Ape culture. Boston is a highly militiristic society, which only accepts outsiders in the form of a weapons trade, in which the Orangutans take but don't give anything in return. Any outsider is quarintined for Fungoid infection, as is anyone who interacts with an outsider.
Houston: The capital of the Great Ape Empire, which spans quite a bit of the south and crosses the ocean to encompass a large portion of western Africa. Houston is a centre of trade worldwide, in much the same way as Los Angeles is. While not as technologically developed as Las Angeles, Sydney and Chicago are, it manages to maintain a well-established legal system, albeit corrupt and racist in favour of certain genera (Chimps are supposedly superior to Gorillas and Orangutans in the eyes of Chimp judges and likewise for the other genera, and non-Apes get practically no legal representation in court and have no rights).
5) Rules (5
1) Don't take this too seriously. Yes, this is a real RP that you can join and not a troll, but it's not meant to be the most serious thing in the world, it's meant to be a bit lighter and more humurous than most RPs around nowadays.
2) No metagaming. I'm okay with being a little bit overpowered and whatnot, but I absolutely hate metagaming.
3) You must be accepted by an admin to begin RPing.
4) While this is a free-roam that exists on such a large scale, try to find a way to interact with other characters. I'm okay if for fifty pages there are two PCs that don't know eachother, but their actions should have effected one another or they should know eachother within a few degrees of seperation (other PCs) by this stage.
5) Ask for a summary on what's happened so far if you intend to join after about ten or more pages. If this gets as large and successful as Pokemon World, or even just up to about a hundred pages or so, just ask for the link to the wiki, because we'll probably need one to keep track of everything by that stage.
6) Feel free to ignore continuity when you feel it'd make the RP more interesting. This isn't an RP focussed so much on epic storytelling as it is more of a slightly humurous post-apocalypse that exists for sheer and simple entertainment. Hell, be a comic-book writer for all I care and constantly kill characters only to magically bring them back to life, anything that you feel would make this more interesting is good so long as it doesn't hinder the fun of other people and doesn't go against the core principles of this RP (i.e. no alien abductions, this is post-apoc, not sci-fi).
6) CS (6
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Appearance:
Clothing:
Personality:
Bio:
Other:
And for in case you feel the need to fully flesh out a city that I haven't covered earlier...
Name:
Inhabited By:
Brief Description:
7) Admins and Credits (7
Timpookie - Basic concept, Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, reviving this idea last-minute without telling the other collaborators
LNG257 - A small portion of Chapter 2
Mycousinblade - The names of two of the species.