Welcome to... Yes, we are Open. That means you can and want to apply! *Be warned: this RP contains motherloads of violence, profanity, substance abuse and other indecency. If any of these offends you, you might want to think twice before applying/reading this. Then of course, you're in P2TM, so you probably enjoy these things. Episode One - Tits Hills | Episode Two - The World's End | Episode Three - The Deep Sands | Episode Four - Pseudosunrise I've had this idea floating around my mind for a while now (a day, to be exact). The idea is to have a survival/exploration/general goofiness character RP in the groove of Indiana Jones meets Borderlands meets spaghetti Westerns... in space! Instead of the traditional RP structure of dividing the roleplay into chapters, acts or books, this would move forward somewhat like a TV show: the action would be divided into "episodes," each having a predetermined goal the players would be trying to reach. This is to divide the RP into easy-to-handle bits and to have clear objectives that keep it going. So without further ado, here's the intro I whipped up:
—(••÷[ тнє ѕтσяу ѕσ fαя ]÷••— Hiram Dupont is abandoned by his crew of Vagabonds. Out of money and stuck with his IFV, Lucy (since nobody on the planet has the money he expects to receive for her), he wanders around aimlessly until arriving at the borderland town of Twixt Hills, where he manages to recruit a new team - a ragtag bunch of misfits - with promises of a great prize his group found before they retired. Upon exiting the bar where they held their meeting, the group is confronted by one Harlaw, a local businessman and small-time crime boss, whose goon overheard their conversation. Harlaw wants to muscle in on their quest and take the spoils for himself, and rather than submitting, Hiram shoots him, resulting in a shootout and panicked escape from the town. In their hurry, the new Vagabond team is unable to obtain any supplies for the trip. Hiram decides to make a detour through The World's End, an outpost and motel at the edge of the Deep Sands. However, they get lost as group member Severine Fields tries to use GPS to direct them (such a system is fickle at best if most satellites in orbit have been smashed into pulp). Instead, our heroes end up at an abandoned ranch somewhere in the desert, but fortunately they find a map that shows their position there. After these shenanigans, the group gets to The World's End, an outpost at the edge of the Deep Sands, the last bastion of civilization before the wastelands. The group rests and recuperates for a while, resupplying and buying new equipment. Eira joins them, effectively replacing Thomas, whose corpse is found in Lucy's crew compartment by Elsha, having died of a fatal stealth suit malfunction. The suit is almost enough to cover their expenses, and Andrei Voronov, proprietor of The World's End, offers the Vagabonds a deal to clear the rest: attack Sandman's Gorge, a bandit camp, and bring a local clan's leader, Dildozer, to him. The group accepts Andrei's offer and ride into battle. Their first contact is machine gun-armed technicals in the dunes between TWE and the Gorge, who they take out easily due to them having a tank. They capture one and start using it for their own, Sev later naming it "Lil'bit." The Gorge itself proves too narrow to deploy Lucy, so the crew continue on foot, eventually smoking the bandits out and capturing Dildozer. WIP |