Co-OPed by Khasinkonia
Welcome to 'Prefeton', my latest attempt at a character RP. This RP is a coming-of-age story where you will write a high-school aged character who will gradually develop extraordinary powers while, at the same time, you unravel the mysteries as to what makes your home town so... unusual. This is not a sandbox RP though the actions of your characters will have ramifications.
At the start of the RP your character's powers will be relatively weak; however, there will be major time-skips which it is assumed that you have improved your current powers or developed new ones.
The RP will be set on the fictional Prefer Isle, dominated by the small town of Prefeton where your character lives which sits off the coast of Maine.
If you've RPed with me before you will know that I have a habit of writing my RPs together, and this one is no exception (and will fit into the extended 'Andromedaverse'), though there is no need whatsoever to go and read any of my other extant RPs or do any background reading - in fact, I would thoroughly recommend that you don't!
Finally, the RP will remain open to newcomers right up until the final chapter and I am always happy to give you a potted summary of what is going on.
SETTING
Prefeton
Prefeton has a population of just over 12,000 people and a high school, which your character attends with a roll of about 600 students. The town is small enough that most people have some idea of who most other people are and you can reasonably assume that your character knows the others in the RP.
Prefeton is a relatively wealthy small town, with no family going without to any great extent. There is a ferry that takes people to the mainland which operates sporadically, though the locals do not tend to leave the island very often and supplies arrive regularly enough that people do not need to do without.
Geographically, the island is roughly circular in shape with a length and breath each of about 2 miles. The town takes up about half of this space with the remainder being deciduous woodland. Walking tracks lead out into this area, though the only road away from the main town is a gravel road that follows the coast. There is no large wildlife on the island (no deer, wolves, bears or the like), though there are plenty of birds, rodents and other small wildlife.
Ostensibly the town's main industry is fishing, though there are rumours of some kind of shady Government facility on the far side of the island, away from the town. There is definitely a fenced off area which is patrolled by military police and guard dogs, though nobody is entirely clear as to what goes on in there. The money that flows through the town also seems unusual for a town whose main industry appears to be fishing though people don't generally ask too many questions about it.
What is going on in Prefeton
It is the end of August, the summer holidays are drawing to a close and you have been invited to a perfectly normal beach party...
You, and a number of other high-school aged people in Prefeton have, over the last few weeks begun to realise you have developed extraordinary powers. You may have already realised this and experimented a little at home, or something might happen at this party to 'set you off' for the first time. Either way, your life is going to be forever changed.
THE RULES
And because it seems important to write these out, here are a few rules for making a better society:
- Decisions
My word and the word of Khasinkonia (and anyone else who gets apointed as Co-OP) is binding. If you don’t like a decision, you can, of course, ask for us to reconsider it. Once. If we made a decision you don’t like, complaining for pages and pages is not going to endear you to anyone. Not me, not the Co-OPs and not your fellow writers.
On that note, I intend to run this thread as an anarcho-communist cooperative. This is an unnecessarily complicated way of saying that my word DOES NOT overrule theirs. If there is an appeal and a dispute amongst the Co-OPs we will take a vote on the matter. - Post Quality
I don’t have a problem with short posts but please use proper spelling (I don’t care what regional variant), grammar etc.
Ideally also try to include a 'hook' when you write a post, which is to say something that gives other people something to respond to. If your post is something along the lines of 'Bilbo Baggins stayed in his room and read a book while the world was ending', don't be surprised if nobody responds to you. - Posting Commitment: Nothing is worse than making an RP only for it to die. Please try to make at least one post every 48 hours or so. If you find yourself unable to post, please let me know in the OOC thread. If it looks like you've abandoned a character in the middle of a fight scene I might decide to kill them off if I'm feeling particularly malicious.
- Posting Speed On the flip side, blitz posting can also be infuriating. So, especially during the important scenes, I recommend giving your fellow players a reasonable time to make a reply. We all have real lives. That being said, if someone leaves everyone waiting for over 48 hours, feel free to carry on the scene without them.
- OOC thread Manners
Nothing annoys me more than bad manners on an OOC thread (apart from that 'Look at my horse, my horse is amazing' song). Swearing, passive-aggressive sniping or any other rude behaviour are not welcome on the OOC. I will warn you once. If you can’t control yourself I will ask you to remove yourself from the thread. - IC thread Manners
Remember, we are writing a story together, not playing to win. - Character Death
Player death is possible in this RP, though will be quite rare and easily avoidable. Please don’t write that you have killed another character unless you have OOC permission from the character's owner to do it. Beat them into a pulp or take them prisoner, but don’t kill them. Having said that, if someone does something really stupid, I reserve the right to announce your character has got themselves killed. Likewise, if someone goes inactive in the middle of a fight scene without explanation and cannot be raised, I may decide to kill their character off. - Keep it PG13
Shouldn’t need to be telling you this really but keep the erotica and gorn off the thread. Hopefully you all know how to write forum-safe stuff. I will be extremely disappointed if the mods have to pay us a visit. - Banning Players
I really don’t want to be doing that but reserve the right to do so if you cannot follow the (hopefully, rather simple) rules above.
CHARACTER CREATION
Your Character
I am not going to tell you all the things that are going on in the plot, that's for your people to figure out. I like to give people the opportunity to be creative with their characters; however, in order that the RP works, there are a number of rules around character creation that I am going to put in place and which I will not deviate from under any circumstances:
- Your character is a normal human who is developing powers. You are not a fairy/alien/demigod.
- Your character is of high-school age.
- Your character lives on the island and has not been off it for six months or more. They might not originally be from there, of course, and might not even be American.
- Your character's parent/s might be involved with the military base. If they are, you have not been on it and know nothing about it, either through spying or your parent/s saying something indiscreet.
Super Powers
Keep. It. Simple. Stupid. While I encourage you to be as creative as you like with your powers, if I can't figure out what you are doing, then I'm not going to accept your app. Similarly I would like your powers to each to one thing. If it looks like you are trying to create an inspector gadget bag of tricks to let you waltz through any scenario, I'm not going to accept it. You are going to be part of a group and scenarios will mean that you need to work together.
When you develop secondary powers, I'm going to ask you to please make these powers ones which work with your other ones thematically. I'm not going to break the power sets into groups and force you to adhere to them.
Because I want to keep the RP fair and playable, any messing with time or mind control powers are not allowed.
For the sake of this RP, powers will come in three levels.
- Level One:If these are enhancements on normal human powers (such as strength, speed, dexterity) then you would be at the peak end of what might be expected for someone of your characters shape and build. People wouldn't immediately assume a super-power though they would be impressed. For more exotic powers (like throwing fire about), you would be at a similar level of threat to an enemy.
- Level Two:You are a significant menace to anyone who gets in your way. If your powers are enhancements you would be about double what a top human athlete can manage. Exotic powers would be of a similar threat level.
- Level Three:People with these powers are getting into the domain of the superheroes from the movies. Expect enhancement powers to be performing at 8x human capacity.
Super Strength (for a 17 year old in average shape prior to enhancement): Level 1 - Bench pressing something like 300lb, Level 2 - Bench pressing something like 1,400lb, Level 3 - bench pressing something like 5 tonnes.
Super Speed (for our average 17 year old again): Level 1 - Running at about 16 miles to hour over a sustained distance, Level 2 - Running at 40 miles per hour over a sustained distance, Level 3 - Running at 160 miles per hour over a sustained distance. Obviously you wouldn't be able to instantly accelerate to that speed though!
Telekinesis: Level 1 - Able to throw a 75 lb object across a room, Level 2 - Able to throw a 500lb object across a room (or scatter a group of people), Level 3 - Able to throw a 2 tonne object across a room.
Healing: Level 1 - A broken bone might heal in a week, Level 2 - A broken bone might heal in a day, Level 3 - A broken bone should heal within 3 hours.
Hopefully you get the picture!
Power Development
Because this RP, your powers will develop in stages, the app form will ask you to specify what powers in want in Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. I will tell you when these Phases happen.
If you decide mid-way through Phase 1 that you would rather have some different power than what you'd originally written in your app for Phase 2/3, that is totally fine! Just clear it with me first. Your powers will be in the following categories in the three Phases of the RP.
Phase One: One single level one power.
Phase Two: Allocated two more 'levels' to powers with no power going above Level 2. Practically this means either a Level Two and a Level one or three Level one powers
Phase Three: Allocate three more 'levels' to powers with no power going above Level 3.
Application Form
When filling in an application form, please delete everything in parentheses.
Character App
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[size=150][b]Character Description[/b][/size]
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[b]Appearance:[/b] [spoiler](Feel free to describe with text or put pictures in here. If you are using a picture, personally, I find it easier to picture a character who is shown in photo/realistic drawing though I'm not going to get funny about anything else. Unless it is your personal stick-man art. I might draw the line at that.)[/spoiler]
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[hr][/hr][size=150][b]Strengths and Weaknesses[/b][/size]
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[b]Skills[/b]: (Is there anything you are significantly better at than most other people? These are not super-powers... good at trigonometry would go here.)
[b]Weaknesses[/b]: (Is there anything your character is really rubbish at? Not essential you put anything in, but can be fun)
[b]Phase One Power[/b]: (Please indicate what they are, what level they are at and -specifically- what you imagine them doing)
[b]Phase Two Powers[/b]: (Please indicate what they are, what level they are at and -specifically- what you imagine them doing)
[b]Phase Three Powers[/b]: (Please indicate what they are, what level they are at and -specifically- what you imagine them doing)
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[hr][/hr][size=150][b]Background:[/b][/size]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Backstory[/b]:(How did you come to be here?)
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CURRENT ROSTER
This is the correct roster of characters in the RP (in alphabetical order by first name). Please note that this will be replaced by the Character Wiki down the line:
Allison Clark: Nachfolgia
Ascot Rider: Dragos Bee
Atalia Bayer: Dyelli Beybi
Bridget Reeves: Miekzhemy
Cecily Shauna Nevverling-Wijgaants: Khasinkonia
Harper Holiday: Kylantha
Henry Caldwell: Argonopolis
Izumi Rumiko: The Frozen Forest
Jack Brekker: Lessoni
Kristen Lane: Talchyon
Malcom Jule: Oppermenia (OP did say "looks generally fine so I assumed it was accepted)
Marshall Rowes: Theocretes
Maurice Williamson: Bingellia
Mukami Jemiriyah: Asardia
Nikolai Sapohznik: Europa Undivided
Rei Fujiwara: Nea Videssos
