The Pub Two | Now Serving Outdated Movie References

[Beiarusia]

Kinda new, but can I get a invite to the discord?

I also have an RP, and like the fish-monger I am, I'd like to hawk about it loudly. Whats it cost to have it offically sponsered on the Pub roleplay wall?

There should be a link to the Discord on the OP. Unless it no longer works...

[The Olog-Hai]

Kinda new, but can I get a invite to the discord?

I also have an RP, and like the fish-monger I am, I'd like to hawk about it loudly. Whats it cost to have it offically sponsered on the Pub roleplay wall?

There should be a link to the Discord on the OP. Unless it no longer works...

It broke. Because we moved discords, remember?
Tri, you've got 30 minutes.
Go

[Beiarusia]

It broke. Because we moved discords, remember?

Didn't know if that was fixed or not.

[The Olog-Hai]

It broke. Because we moved discords, remember?

Didn't know if that was fixed or not.

It appears that he may have fixed it? Idk

[TriStates]

There should be a link to the Discord on the OP. Unless it no longer works...

It broke. Because we moved discords, remember?
Tri, you've got 30 minutes.
Go

Got in. Said I can't post. Waiting period?

[The Olog-Hai]

It broke. Because we moved discords, remember?
Tri, you've got 30 minutes.
Go

Got in. Said I can't post. Waiting period?

I think you gotta be a patron to post... lemme flag down a mod for ya

[Zanera]

Sincerely hope it is for an extended time. School is winding down, and my social life was basically destroyed, so I have plenty of time for this.

As I live and breathe, Australian Antartica! Sorry to hear about your social life, but welcome back.

Salutations, newcomer! I know thee not, but I am sure we shall soon grow our acquaintanceship into a beneficiary friendship characteristic of RP group brotherhood! :3

AA was in the Pub when you were but a twinkle in your daddy's eye.

Ok, maybe not that long, but still, he's anything but a newcomer.

I meant put oldcomer as a pun, but I forgot and now I look like one of those people...
I'll just...

[New Grestin]

Y'all forget about me yet?

I thought you died, if I'm honest.

[Tayner]

As I live and breathe, Australian Antartica! Sorry to hear about your social life, but welcome back.

AA was in the Pub when you were but a twinkle in your daddy's eye.

Ok, maybe not that long, but still, he's anything but a newcomer.

I meant put oldcomer as a pun, but I forgot and now I look like one of those people...
I'll just...

'Twas but a joke, no need to use your desk to give yourself permanent brain damage

[Zanera]

I meant put oldcomer as a pun, but I forgot and now I look like one of those people...
I'll just...

(Image)

'Twas but a joke, no need to use your desk to give yourself permanent brain damage

No, my failure must be punished. I am a flaw unto a flawless universe, a stain on my nation's honor and a thorn in the side of perfection. My failure cannot be overstated. I must bring myself unto a justice the gods and my ancestors would accept. I must commit...

[Ruskland-Preuben]

Don't wanna interrupt stuff, but mah app b0ss.

[Anowa]

Don't wanna interrupt stuff, but mah app b0ss.

>Shitty Filthy Frank meme
Listen son. There's a time and a place.

[Deramen]

Don't wanna interrupt stuff, but mah app b0ss.

>Shitty Filthy Frank meme
Listen son. There's a time and a place.

Hey I gotta defend Filthy Frank here.

He's good b0ss.

[Australian Antarctica]

Y'all forget about me yet?

I thought you died, if I'm honest.

Only on the inside my friend.

[The Templar High Council]

5E is better in my opinion. Nice and simple with plenty of room for player choice, imagination, and all-round fun.

But it doesn't preserve the very heart of the DnD type game. At least it's better than 4E but that's not much of an achievement...

What's the "heart" of D&D then? I assumed it was questing with friends and having fun.

This is not the minmaxing I know, but this one also makes sense.

The minmaxing I know is maxing out a stat while minimizing all the others.

I accidentally minmaxed my first character, granted, it was a Warforged warrior, so minmaxing is required.

Oh shit that was your first?

Now I feel worse about not being able to actually run it...

[The Olog-Hai]

But it doesn't preserve the very heart of the DnD type game. At least it's better than 4E but that's not much of an achievement...

What's the "heart" of D&D then? I assumed it was questing with friends and having fun.

This is not the minmaxing I know, but this one also makes sense.

The minmaxing I know is maxing out a stat while minimizing all the others.

I accidentally minmaxed my first character, granted, it was a Warforged warrior, so minmaxing is required.

Oh shit that was your first?

Now I feel worse about not being able to actually run it...

Part of the heart of DnD is the fact that not every single fucking class has little spell like abilities. I glanced through a 4e player's guide we have in the house once, and it was horrible... too much like an MMO but tabletop.

[Kassaran]

Part of the heart of DnD is the fact that not every single fucking class has little spell like abilities. I glanced through a 4e player's guide we have in the house once, and it was horrible... too much like an MMO but tabletop.

"The great thing about this game with classes is that every unique class doesn't have things unique to it."
What?

If there's anything great about the newer versions, it's that they all have their unique flavors. How boring would the game be in reality if we had such limited amount of variety in each of the classes that we couldn't truly identify the flavors of each? How much more interesting has the game become in being allowed to give specialization to your characters, and have a name and dedicated way to get to that specialization? If I want a generalized character, I can utilize general abilities in its class, but if I want something specific I become as specific as needed.

[The Olog-Hai]

Part of the heart of DnD is the fact that not every single fucking class has little spell like abilities. I glanced through a 4e player's guide we have in the house once, and it was horrible... too much like an MMO but tabletop.

"The great thing about this game with classes is that every unique class doesn't have things unique to it."
What?

If there's anything great about the newer versions, it's that they all have their unique flavors. How boring would the game be in reality if we had such limited amount of variety in each of the classes that we couldn't truly identify the flavors of each? How much more interesting has the game become in being allowed to give specialization to your characters, and have a name and dedicated way to get to that specialization? If I want a generalized character, I can utilize general abilities in its class, but if I want something specific I become as specific as needed.

That's not at all what I'm saying.... 4e and 5e make the game like an MMO because they give everyone these little abilities each that are similar to MMO type abilities, with cooldowns and stuff. Effectively spells. That's not how a ranger or fighter is supposed to work. They each have their own unique thing, but it's not mean to be activated abilities...

[The United Remnants of America]

"The great thing about this game with classes is that every unique class doesn't have things unique to it."
What?

If there's anything great about the newer versions, it's that they all have their unique flavors. How boring would the game be in reality if we had such limited amount of variety in each of the classes that we couldn't truly identify the flavors of each? How much more interesting has the game become in being allowed to give specialization to your characters, and have a name and dedicated way to get to that specialization? If I want a generalized character, I can utilize general abilities in its class, but if I want something specific I become as specific as needed.

That's not at all what I'm saying.... 4e and 5e make the game like an MMO because they give everyone these little abilities each that are similar to MMO type abilities, with cooldowns and stuff. Effectively spells. That's not how a ranger or fighter is supposed to work. They each have their own unique thing, but it's not mean to be activated abilities...

That's your issue, you want to be a character that has some finesse.

Just be barbarian. Barbarian understands your worries, and stomps on you regardless.

[The Olog-Hai]

That's not at all what I'm saying.... 4e and 5e make the game like an MMO because they give everyone these little abilities each that are similar to MMO type abilities, with cooldowns and stuff. Effectively spells. That's not how a ranger or fighter is supposed to work. They each have their own unique thing, but it's not mean to be activated abilities...

That's your issue, you want to be a character that has some finesse.

Just be barbarian. Barbarian understands your worries, and stomps on you regardless.

No, I don't want to be a character that has some finesse. I want to be a character that's interesting without making it like an MMO.
For instance, archetypes such as these.

[Deramen]

Y'all lost me at D&D.

[Zanera]

Y'all lost me at D&D.

Let us leave these geeks to their 'D&D' while we discuss the 'I' in recognizing the Tower.

[The United Remnants of America]

Y'all lost me at D&D.

Let us leave these geeks to their 'D&D' while we discuss the 'I' in recognizing the Tower.

The Tower of Pimps?

[Zanera]

Let us leave these geeks to their 'D&D' while we discuss the 'I' in recognizing the Tower.

The Tower of Pimps?

http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Towers

[New Grestin]

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What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War?

"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."

Joseph Stalin

Out-of-Character Thread | In-Character Thread

A Pub RP
Theme Song
Mood Music

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The State of the World, circa 1963

The Revolution stands triumphant across the world. From the coasts of San Francisco, to the jungles of Burma, to the wind-swept tundra of Siberia, the liberation of the workers is complete. The German-led Axis has fallen to the dictatorship of the proletariat, as have the reactionary "Allies" and their imperialistic ambitions. Together, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union stand astride the world like colossi.

Even the United States has fallen to this Red Tide. In the West lies the United Socialist States of America, in the East lies the corpse of liberty, a shattered republic. This shall be the death knell of the American oppression, the final liberation of the oppressed American working class. The only thing the American peoples have to lose is their chains...

ГӉԐ STФRЧ

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Welcome to The Iron Curtain, an alternate history character RP taking place in a world where the Soviet Union has won the Cold War. It stands as one of the largest powers, commanding a vast army of puppet states across Europe and Asia. All is not well in the worker's paradise, however. The People's Republic of China, aligned with her Eastern comrades, stands against the Soviets, believing they have turned their backs on the revolution. With both powers competing in nuclear proliferation, the nations of the world stand on a razor's edge between survival and nuclear armageddon.

This is not that story. This is the story of you, a lowly member of the American resistance.

The United States is no more. The Great Experiment overturned and defeated by a Soviet-backed revolution in the West. What remains of the Republic in the East has been broken between separatists and opportunistic military warlords, effectively spelling the end of American liberal democracy. Or is it?

You have been enlisted in the American Liberation Front, a resistance movement seeking to rebuild the former United States and overthrow its enemies. Will you succeed, bringing down the Communist West and reuniting the Republic? Or will you fall, like all others have before. The choice is yours.

Welcome to the Iron Curtain.

ГHE LФRЭ

The story of Soviet ascendancy begins with the fall of the Tsarist regime. The Russian Empire, once a colossus stretching from Siberia to the Baltic, was in crisis. The Great War had brought Russia to the aid of the Serbians, and thus had brought German boots on to the soil of the Motherland. Faced with total defeat at a superior enemy, the Russian Empire was on the brink of collapse. Vladimir Lenin, exiled revolutionary, was sent back into the Empire by the Germans, who sought to upend their foe with internal strife. Little did they realize that, by October of 1917, Bolshevik forces would be storming the gates of the Winter Palace. With June of 1918 came the Russian Civil War; the White Army, bolstered by outside aid, came to battle against the Red. The War would last until 1920 with the defeat of the Red Army. The Revolution stood triumphant against imperialism, but it would remain to be seen if it could survive itself.

The first crisis of the new Communist government came with the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. Having suffered a history of strokes, he had long since retired from politics following the establishment of the U.S.S.R (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). His death paved the way for an internal power struggle between the two major ideological blocs of Communist thought. Leon Trotsky, an ardent expansionist, laid claim to the role of Premier. His rival, Joseph Stalin, sought to maintain their gains under the banner of "Socialism in One Country." This minor conflict would end with Stalin's mysterious death in 1925, having been murdered by one of his own aides with an ice pick.

Under the command of Trotsky, the USSR would become the supplier of socialist uprisings across the planet. Even Germany, near shattered by her defeat in the Great War was not safe. The political instability had paved the way for radicals, from the leftist Spartacists to the far-right NSDAP. A failed Communist revolt in Bavaria would be exploited by the NSDAP, under the leadership of Anton Drexler, who would later be invited by the German provisional government to take control as Chancellor. Alongside his second in command, the ambitious Adolf Hitler, Drexler reformed Germany under his violent, anti-semitic ideals. The German Reich would go on to threaten the stability of Europe once more, invading the Polish State and Czechoslovakia.

Drexler, allied with Benito Mussolini of Italy and Emperor Hirohito of the Japanese Empire, waged war against the former Entente allies. France fell quickly to the German onslaught, while the British Isles would pluckily resist German invasion for the duration of the conflict. The former empire remained in dire straits, however, as without the United States, the nation faced the threat of national starvation at German hands. The United States, having maintained a policy of neutrality, kept to their own hemisphere, picking at the bones of dead empires. Unable to recover from their economic collapse in the 1930s, the United States would remain an unstable republic for years to come. A situation not helped by the unimpressive presidencies of Alf Landon and subsequently Wendell Willkie in 1940. The United States was firmly divided, facing threats from racial tensions, communist sympathizers, and political discourse.

Drexler's regime would continue fighting the French in North Africa, as well as in the British Isles, until 1941. The Soviet Union had attempted to retake their claims in the Baltic, particularly Finland, and were entrenched in bloody, near-arctic warfare. Seeing their opportunity, the Germans launched a surprise attack into Western Russia. To their own surprise, they found the Red Army entrenched and waiting.

Trotsky's own paranoia over the rise of German fascism had paid dividends.

Despite technological superiority, the Germans were pushed back and into former Polish territory by 1943. By 1946, the Red Army had encircled Berlin. Drexler, fearing his fate at Communist hands, fled the country for South America. Adolf Hitler, now Chancellor of Germany, would lead a failed last stand at the Reichstag. His corpse would be paraded through the streets as the Reichstag burned.

The Great Patriotic War ended with the surrender of Italy in 1948. The Italian military, fearing Mussolini's claims that they would fight "until the end" executed their leader and made peace with the Soviets. A Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Korea, alongside the Chinese military, forced Japan from the continent and into their own humiliating peace deal. With the United States and the former Allies in economic shambles, the Soviet Union stood as the sole great power to survive the war relatively intact. They went about consolidating their gains, establishing puppet regimes in Eastern and Central Europe. The Italian military junta was quietly deposed in lieu of a Socialist state, despite French and British outcry. Rome, the seat of the Catholic Church, found itself pillaged once more. Not by barbarian hordes, but by the fists and rifles of its own people. The Pope would flee to Mexico, establishing a Mexico City as the unofficial home of the Church.

The echoes of the Communist victory ran out across the planet. Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communists, would be emboldened by the victory. His revolution would eventually depose the Kuomintang in 1950, creating the People's Republic of China. Similarly, Kim il Sung's Democratic People's Republic of Korea would be established following their independence from Japanese rule. Even Indochina was not safe, falling to Ho Chi Minh's revolution and subsequent formation of the Indochinese Socialist Union.

Other regions of the world not under Communist rule responded accordingly.

The Balkan states, fearing Soviet domination, formed a mutual federation to defend their soil. Similarly, Scandinavia and Finland would form the Scandinavian Concordat to counter Soviet aggression after the Winter War. The French Republic would eventually be deposed by a Soviet backed coup, alongside most of the continent. This left only Britain to stand against the red tide, and in the face of this threat, they crumbled into their own form of pseudo-fascism under the command of Prime Minister Oswald Mosley.

The Soviet Union would form the Warsaw Pact, a cruel mockery of the former Allied "Entente", made mostly of themselves and their puppet states. The PRC refused this alliance, believing that the Soviets had turned their back on the revolution and become imperialists themselves. They formed the Asian Economic and Defense Union, or AEDU, with the DPRK and ISU. This sino-soviet split would tarnish relations for decades.

Eventually, the revolution would come to the United States. In 1954, with the United States' economy only barely recovering, it faced the greatest crisis since the Civil War. The violent crackdown on a series of general strikes on the West Coast prompted widespread revolution. Funded by the Soviets and the Chinese, the so-called "U.S.S.A" would come to control most of the Western United States. At the same time, a revanchist Mexican government seized control of the Southwest, further shattering the union. It was only with a humiliating armistice signed in 1957 that the Second American Revolution came to a temporary close.

The end of the revolution brought with it the death of American democracy. The federal government collapsed, breaking apart into various warlord states and nations. So-called Resurrectionists rose up in the American south, preaching a gospel of racial purity and white supremacy, to reform the Confederate States of America. Curtis Lemay, a general of the United States Air Force, called the American experiment dead. His supporters within the army would rise up themselves to form a military dictatorship in the Midwest. Elsewhere, New England would breakaway, claiming to be a successor state to the United States. They would come under the protection of Canada, now under the command of reactionary, hyper-nationalist movements. In an act of absurdity, Missouri would declare itself a Kingdom under the rule of a Christian evangelist doomsday cult known as the "New Babylonians."

The fall left only Washington, a small republic formed around the few states on the East Coast that refused to secede. It survives as a memorial, a monument to the failure of the American experiment. It also remains the only territory in the United States actively harboring the American Liberation Front.

Development of Atomic weaponry continues, with the Soviet Union leading research into the field. Their first detonation of the "Tsar Bomba" in 1949 was a wakeup call to the world of the destructive power of nuclear weaponry. The PRC would detonate their first atomic bomb in 1955. The acquisition of German rocket scientists following the war would pave the way for the development of intermediate range ballistic missiles, and eventually intercontinental missiles. Chinese spies would go on to steal this technology, furthering their own weapons program by decades.

Today, the world stands on the edge of nuclear war. Chairman Guofeng of the PRC and Premier Khrushchev stand at odds, two titans whose conflict threatens to destroy civilization as we know it. Frequent border disputes and rhetoric have forced the Communist nations to adopt a policy of brinksmanship. Incidents like the failed Wonsan Bay invasion and the construction of the Lincoln Wall in the United States have only furthered tensions. It remains to be seen how the continuing "Long Winter" between the two nations will end, whether it be by peace, or by nuclear fire.

RЏLԐS AND ДPPLICATЇФNS

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• Don't be a dick.
• The Word of OP is law, the word of the Co-Ops is law unless otherwise stated.
• Poor Spelling, Grammar, and overall Poor writing ARE grounds for application denial.
• Not participating in the RP for any considerable period of time is grounds for character death.
• Inactive characters can be resurrected if the original writer returns; active characters killed during the story CANNOT be resurrected without GOOD reason.
• No, you cannot have a light machine gun, flamethrower, plasma rifle, etc.
• Don't go overboard with gore, violence, etc. Do things in good taste, basically.
• Starting equipment must be reasonable.

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