This War of Mine (OOC/Sign Ups/CLOSED)

[Terintania]

-App-
Name: Nadzeya (Naddie) Krupin
Age: 28
Appearance: Naddie is a rather tall girl, standing just under six foot, but not too muscular. She has a runner's body, slim and powerful, but not bulky. Her hair is shoulder length and naturally wavy, a chocolate brown. She's quite skinny, a little too skinny from lack of proper nutrition, but has enough body mass to be healthy. Her cheek bones are set quite high on her face and her ears are almost elvish in appearance, her chin is pointed and her eyes are a brown-green hazel.
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Russian
Occupation: Officially a secretary, but unofficially a thief.
Skills: Naddie's main skill is speed. She can run like the wind and her body is built to do it. Secondarily, she can be pretty resourceful with her speech, and is able to come up with things on the fly to distract people and get what she wants. By the same token she is able to pick up on language fairly easily too.
Weaknesses: Not very good at making friends, Naddie grew up as an only child that moved around a lot. This has made her pretty difficult to get close to and she often builds up a wall that doesn't let her show emotion. Naddie is also manic depressive to a point. One minute she can be very energetic and ready to get things done, but she is easily depressed which can be debilitating in certain situations. Also, since Naddie has only been in the country for three years, she isn't completely familiar with the ins and outs of the local people or culture. She know where all the streets and landmarks are though.
Personal Items: Naddie's only useful item that she was able to keep was her father's hunting knife with a wooden handle, which he used to carve up meat that he had hunted for dinner.
Bio: Naddie's family originally came from the Soviet Union. Her father was a farmer for the government and was moved around the country to work at different farms quite a bit. Her mother never worked, but was occupied caring for her sickly younger brother. She was 8 when her brother was born, they were living in Ukraine at the time. He was diagnosed with some disease she never cared to learn about, Naddie was very detached from everyone in her family except for her father. As they moved around from farm to farm, Naddie was never really able to make friends, she went hunting with her dad for fun. She never really got the concept of it, and never really got to hunt herself, but when her father died in 1989 of cancer, she got his hunting knife. For the next two years her life was a living hell. Her mother still refused to work for the sake of her brother who was on and off bedridden, and her father was dead. Naddie had dropped out of Secondary School to help out with farming when her dad had gotten sick, now she didn't have the education for a high paying job, and she couldn't very well work a field on her own. She resorted to stealing food for her family, the only good thing about the communist government was that because of their serf like status, the government payed for their housing expenses. Naddie trained every free moment she had on her running, and pretty soon she could steal basically an entire box of apples before the stand owner noticed. Then the best year of her life came, 1991. The Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell, she was finally free from her mother and her brother. Within a few months Naddie had moved to Vlavidonia and had rented a small apartment in Brestyiv. In the three years interlude between the fall of the Curtain and the war, Naddie was able to get a decent desk job as a secretary for a city official. She was able to get by, though it wasn't exactly her passion. The year before the war thing started to go south, but the government had stopped issuing visas for travel to Poland, and she sure wasn't going back east. Naddie was too late to get out, and then the siege started.

The only issue I see is it sounds like you're saying the war STARTED in 1994. I might be missunderstanding. But yeah, it started in 1992, and the siege started in 1994

[Ontorisa]

I presume soldiers serving in the occupying force are a no-no?

[Terintania]

I presume soldiers serving in the occupying force are a no-no?

Yes. I guess I forgot to mention in the OP that I will not be accepted and soldiers or rebels.

[Ontorisa]

I presume soldiers serving in the occupying force are a no-no?

Yes. I guess I forgot to mention in the OP that I will not be accepted and soldiers or rebels.

Alright, sucks though. I had a pretty sound and good idea on what my character would've been.

Also, what are the sizes of both the sieging and the occupying force? I'm assuming the city was of relatively large size (1-2 million large?), therefore the occupying force would probably be 3 regiments strong while the rebels would have a 5-6 regiment force sieging them while doing a couple of incursions here and there?

[Arana]

Yes. I guess I forgot to mention in the OP that I will not be accepted and soldiers or rebels.

Alright, sucks though. I had a pretty sound and good idea on what my character would've been.

Also, what are the sizes of both the sieging and the occupying force? I'm assuming the city was of relatively large size (1-2 million large?), therefore the occupying force would probably be 3 regiments strong while the rebels would have a 5-6 regiment force sieging them while doing a couple of incursions here and there?

Just out of curiosity, how would any of this matter, exactly? This isn't about the soldiers and rebels, it's about the people caught in between.

[Lendenburgh]

The only issue I see is it sounds like you're saying the war STARTED in 1994. I might be missunderstanding. But yeah, it started in 1992, and the siege started in 1994

I actually didn't know that, but there's a slight indication that the war started earlier than the siege. I'll change some words around.

[Terintania]

Yes. I guess I forgot to mention in the OP that I will not be accepted and soldiers or rebels.

Alright, sucks though. I had a pretty sound and good idea on what my character would've been.

Also, what are the sizes of both the sieging and the occupying force? I'm assuming the city was of relatively large size (1-2 million large?), therefore the occupying force would probably be 3 regiments strong while the rebels would have a 5-6 regiment force sieging them while doing a couple of incursions here and there?

I don't know, and I don't really care to figure it out because it has like, no relevance to this RP Our people wouldn't know. Why would it matter?

[Terintania]

The only issue I see is it sounds like you're saying the war STARTED in 1994. I might be missunderstanding. But yeah, it started in 1992, and the siege started in 1994

I actually didn't know that, but there's a slight indication that the war started earlier than the siege. I'll change some words around.

The War start in 1992, the siege started in 1994. So it did start earlier than the siege.

[Barboneia]

Ah, I thought the war started shortly before the siege. I have to change my app to say that he was working at the Ves branch for a shorter period of time.

[Ontorisa]

Alright, sucks though. I had a pretty sound and good idea on what my character would've been.

Also, what are the sizes of both the sieging and the occupying force? I'm assuming the city was of relatively large size (1-2 million large?), therefore the occupying force would probably be 3 regiments strong while the rebels would have a 5-6 regiment force sieging them while doing a couple of incursions here and there?

Just out of curiosity, how would any of this matter, exactly? This isn't about the soldiers and rebels, it's about the people caught in between.

To be fair, soldiers are not superhumans, and therefore they would have suffered immense stress and hardships, similar to that of the civilians caught in the crossfire. Although they may not be struggling to the point where they've split up into their own little groups, I was hoping to dive into the mind of one of the recruits who has been stuck in the city for quite sometime.

He would have seen death, destruction and not to mention brutality and no quarter from either side from his combat action. While you all may focus on the civilians, how they cope and so forth, I would've more focused on the fatigue, psychological impacts of constantly being underfire from the rebels on the outside and struggling to keep discipline and sanity.

Soldiers would have suffered in the siege, the rebels not so much.

Alright, sucks though. I had a pretty sound and good idea on what my character would've been.

Also, what are the sizes of both the sieging and the occupying force? I'm assuming the city was of relatively large size (1-2 million large?), therefore the occupying force would probably be 3 regiments strong while the rebels would have a 5-6 regiment force sieging them while doing a couple of incursions here and there?

I don't know, and I don't really care to figure it out because it has like, no relevance to this RP Our people wouldn't know. Why would it matter?

Just gives me numbers to base my posts off of, if I made an application. It would dictate the amount of times one would encounter either rebels or soldiers while scavenging and so forth.

[Lendenburgh]

I actually didn't know that, but there's a slight indication that the war started earlier than the siege. I'll change some words around.

The War start in 1992, the siege started in 1994. So it did start earlier than the siege.

Edits made

[Arana]

Just out of curiosity, how would any of this matter, exactly? This isn't about the soldiers and rebels, it's about the people caught in between.

To be fair, soldiers are not superhumans, and therefore they would have suffered immense stress and hardships, similar to that of the civilians caught in the crossfire. Although they may not be struggling to the point where they've split up into their own little groups, I was hoping to dive into the mind of one of the recruits who has been stuck in the city for quite sometime.

He would have seen death, destruction and not to mention brutality and no quarter from either side from his combat action. While you all may focus on the civilians, how they cope and so forth, I would've more focused on the fatigue, psychological impacts of constantly being underfire from the rebels on the outside and struggling to keep discipline and sanity.

Soldiers would have suffered in the siege, the rebels not so much.

I don't know, and I don't really care to figure it out because it has like, no relevance to this RP Our people wouldn't know. Why would it matter?

Just gives me numbers to base my posts off of, if I made an application. It would dictate the amount of times one would encounter either rebels or soldiers while scavenging and so forth.

As accurate as your point is, the game that this is based off of exclusively focuses on civilians, who are touched by the hardships far, far more heavily than the military, which has food to eat and weapons to defend themselves.

[Terintania]

Just out of curiosity, how would any of this matter, exactly? This isn't about the soldiers and rebels, it's about the people caught in between.

To be fair, soldiers are not superhumans, and therefore they would have suffered immense stress and hardships, similar to that of the civilians caught in the crossfire. Although they may not be struggling to the point where they've split up into their own little groups, I was hoping to dive into the mind of one of the recruits who has been stuck in the city for quite sometime.

He would have seen death, destruction and not to mention brutality and no quarter from either side from his combat action. While you all may focus on the civilians, how they cope and so forth, I would've more focused on the fatigue, psychological impacts of constantly being underfire from the rebels on the outside and struggling to keep discipline and sanity.

Soldiers would have suffered in the siege, the rebels not so much.

I don't know, and I don't really care to figure it out because it has like, no relevance to this RP Our people wouldn't know. Why would it matter?

Just gives me numbers to base my posts off of, if I made an application. It would dictate the amount of times one would encounter either rebels or soldiers while scavenging and so forth.

I'm going to assume you've never played This War of Mine. It's about the Civilians. Not the soldiers. People pay attention to the soldiers, not so much the civilians stuck in it. I won't be accepting any soldiers.

The ammount of soldiers you meet and what happens when scavenging will be decided by me.

[Terintania]

-App-
Name: Nadzeya (Naddie) Krupin
Age: 28
Appearance: Naddie is a rather tall girl, standing just under six foot, but not too muscular. She has a runner's body, slim and powerful, but not bulky. Her hair is shoulder length and naturally wavy, a chocolate brown. She's quite skinny, a little too skinny from lack of proper nutrition, but has enough body mass to be healthy. Her cheek bones are set quite high on her face and her ears are almost elvish in appearance, her chin is pointed and her eyes are a brown-green hazel.
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Russian
Occupation: Officially a secretary, but unofficially a thief.
Skills: Naddie's main skill is speed. She can run like the wind and her body is built to do it. Secondarily, she can be pretty resourceful with her speech, and is able to come up with things on the fly to distract people and get what she wants. By the same token she is able to pick up on language fairly easily too.
Weaknesses: Not very good at making friends, Naddie grew up as an only child that moved around a lot. This has made her pretty difficult to get close to and she often builds up a wall that doesn't let her show emotion. Naddie is also manic depressive to a point. One minute she can be very energetic and ready to get things done, but she is easily depressed which can be debilitating in certain situations. Also, since Naddie has only been in the country for three years, she isn't completely familiar with the ins and outs of the local people or culture. She know where all the streets and landmarks are though.
Personal Items: Naddie's only useful item that she was able to keep was her father's hunting knife with a wooden handle, which he used to carve up meat that he had hunted for dinner.
Bio: Naddie's family originally came from the Soviet Union. Her father was a farmer for the government and was moved around the country to work at different farms quite a bit. Her mother never worked, but was occupied caring for her sickly younger brother. She was 8 when her brother was born, they were living in Ukraine at the time. He was diagnosed with some disease she never cared to learn about, Naddie was very detached from everyone in her family except for her father. As they moved around from farm to farm, Naddie was never really able to make friends, she went hunting with her dad for fun. She never really got the concept of it, and never really got to hunt herself, but when her father died in 1989 of cancer, she got his hunting knife. For the next two years her life was a living hell. Her mother still refused to work for the sake of her brother who was on and off bedridden, and her father was dead. Naddie had dropped out of Secondary School to help out with farming when her dad had gotten sick, now she didn't have the education for a high paying job, and she couldn't very well work a field on her own. She resorted to stealing food for her family, the only good thing about the communist government was that because of their serf like status, the government payed for their housing expenses. Naddie trained every free moment she had on her running, and pretty soon she could steal basically an entire box of apples before the stand owner noticed. Then the best year of her life came, 1991. The Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell, she was finally free from her mother and her brother. Within a few months Naddie had moved to Vlavidonia and had rented a small apartment in Brestyiv. In the three years interlude between the fall of the Curtain and the war, Naddie was able to get a decent desk job as a secretary for a city official. She was able to get by, though it wasn't exactly her passion. The year before the war thing started to go south, but the government had stopped issuing visas for travel to Poland, and she sure wasn't going back east. Naddie was too late to get out. For two years the war stayed away from Brestyiv, and Naddie was able to keep working and living a semi-normal life. Though with the food shortages her stealing came in handy a few times. The media wasn't very informative of the war, but when shells started hitting the ground and sirens went off it didn't take a genius to know that Brestyiv was finally under siege.

Accepted

[Ava Ire]

Okay, I am back.
I shall begin work on my app now. Shouldn't take too long.

[Ontorisa]

Just gives me numbers to base my posts off of, if I made an application. It would dictate the amount of times one would encounter either rebels or soldiers while scavenging and so forth.

I'm going to assume you've never played This War of Mine. It's about the Civilians. Not the soldiers. People pay attention to the soldiers, not so much the civilians stuck in it. I won't be accepting any soldiers.

The ammount of soldiers you meet and what happens when scavenging will be decided by me.

I have. I thought this was a spin-off rather than a blatant plot rip-off.

To be fair, soldiers are not superhumans, and therefore they would have suffered immense stress and hardships, similar to that of the civilians caught in the crossfire. Although they may not be struggling to the point where they've split up into their own little groups, I was hoping to dive into the mind of one of the recruits who has been stuck in the city for quite sometime.

He would have seen death, destruction and not to mention brutality and no quarter from either side from his combat action. While you all may focus on the civilians, how they cope and so forth, I would've more focused on the fatigue, psychological impacts of constantly being underfire from the rebels on the outside and struggling to keep discipline and sanity.

Soldiers would have suffered in the siege, the rebels not so much.

As accurate as your point is, the game that this is based off of exclusively focuses on civilians, who are touched by the hardships far, far more heavily than the military, which has food to eat and weapons to defend themselves.

I have played this War of Mine, it's a pretty solid game. However, since the city is under siege, the military itself would have been strained and been woefully unprepared for such an extended period of time cut-off from its supply line. I mean, since this started in Spring (I'll just go with March since it's the start and no month was specified) and it's now Autumn (September-ish), that's 7 months without any fresh food or water, longer than one of the worst urban conflicts ever in history: Stalingrad.

So, looking at this from a realist's standpoint, no, the military would be functioning similarly to the civilians, scavenging for food and possibly for ammunition. Again, this is completely from my standpoint. However, Terintania, this does allow for some in-depth world-building, which is always useful.

[Terintania]

I'm going to assume you've never played This War of Mine. It's about the Civilians. Not the soldiers. People pay attention to the soldiers, not so much the civilians stuck in it. I won't be accepting any soldiers.

The ammount of soldiers you meet and what happens when scavenging will be decided by me.

I have. I thought this was a spin-off rather than a blatant plot rip-off.

As accurate as your point is, the game that this is based off of exclusively focuses on civilians, who are touched by the hardships far, far more heavily than the military, which has food to eat and weapons to defend themselves.

I have played this War of Mine, it's a pretty solid game. However, since the city is under siege, the military itself would have been strained and been woefully unprepared for such an extended period of time cut-off from its supply line. I mean, since this started in Spring (I'll just go with March since it's the start and no month was specified) and it's now Autumn (September-ish), that's 7 months without any fresh food or water, longer than one of the worst urban conflicts ever in history: Stalingrad.

So, looking at this from a realist's standpoint, no, the military would be functioning similarly to the civilians, scavenging for food and possibly for ammunition. Again, this is completely from my standpoint. However, Terintania, this does allow for some in-depth world-building, which is always useful.

Is it a blatant rip-off if I'm following what the game is about? No soldiers. Period. If you don't like that, you don't have to join.

[Arana]

I'm going to assume you've never played This War of Mine. It's about the Civilians. Not the soldiers. People pay attention to the soldiers, not so much the civilians stuck in it. I won't be accepting any soldiers.

The ammount of soldiers you meet and what happens when scavenging will be decided by me.

I have. I thought this was a spin-off rather than a blatant plot rip-off.

As accurate as your point is, the game that this is based off of exclusively focuses on civilians, who are touched by the hardships far, far more heavily than the military, which has food to eat and weapons to defend themselves.

I have played this War of Mine, it's a pretty solid game. However, since the city is under siege, the military itself would have been strained and been woefully unprepared for such an extended period of time cut-off from its supply line. I mean, since this started in Spring (I'll just go with March since it's the start and no month was specified) and it's now Autumn (September-ish), that's 7 months without any fresh food or water, longer than one of the worst urban conflicts ever in history: Stalingrad.

So, looking at this from a realist's standpoint, no, the military would be functioning similarly to the civilians, scavenging for food and possibly for ammunition. Again, this is completely from my standpoint. However, Terintania, this does allow for some in-depth world-building, which is always useful.

I'd like to point out that This War of Mine is based off of the Siege of Sarajevo... it lasted 3 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, making it the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. And in it, the military is largely seen as an antagonistic force, as are the rebels... both sides will shoot you, some will do worse.

This is about the civilians. No soldiers allowed.

[Kisinger]

Tag

[Ontorisa]

I have. I thought this was a spin-off rather than a blatant plot rip-off.

Is it a blatant rip-off if I'm following what the game is about? No soldiers. Period. If you don't like that, you don't have to join.

Yes, but I'm not joining so I'll hop out after this post

I have played this War of Mine, it's a pretty solid game. However, since the city is under siege, the military itself would have been strained and been woefully unprepared for such an extended period of time cut-off from its supply line. I mean, since this started in Spring (I'll just go with March since it's the start and no month was specified) and it's now Autumn (September-ish), that's 7 months without any fresh food or water, longer than one of the worst urban conflicts ever in history: Stalingrad.

So, looking at this from a realist's standpoint, no, the military would be functioning similarly to the civilians, scavenging for food and possibly for ammunition. Again, this is completely from my standpoint. However, Terintania, this does allow for some in-depth world-building, which is always useful.

I'd like to point out that This War of Mine is based off of the Siege of Sarajevo... it lasted 3 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, making it the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. And in it, the military is largely seen as an antagonistic force, as are the rebels... both sides will shoot you, some will do worse.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

This is about the civilians. No soldiers allowed.

I think that's already been highlighted a couple of times.

[Shadowwell]

I will get an app up later

[Terintania]

I will get an app up later

Alright.

*Sits here playing This War of Mine in the meantime* This game is not going very well....

[Berinnica]

Not quoting that post 'cause it's huge

I think you should make it, since she's a character. If you have issues with strengths, I can always help.

Well then, if we should make characters that are important in our own characters lives. Guess I should make the girlfriend then aye?

[Terintania]

Not quoting that post 'cause it's huge

I think you should make it, since she's a character. If you have issues with strengths, I can always help.

Well then, if we should make characters that are important in our own characters lives. Guess I should make the girlfriend then aye?

The only reason I said he should make an app is because his father and daughter characters are together. Your dude and his girlfriend are apart, so there's not much reason to.

[Berinnica]

Well then, if we should make characters that are important in our own characters lives. Guess I should make the girlfriend then aye?

The only reason I said he should make an app is because his father and daughter characters are together. Your dude and his girlfriend are apart, so there's not much reason to.

Ah I see.