The quintessential mechs versus zombies role-play is back ...again
But not in it's entirety yet. Working behind the scenes since the last threads, and having realized how we've made our name on the board before, we have decided to not go full-on head first into the new thread. Instead, we're starting slow and making a thread to gauge interest and ideas. Swing by with your two cents so we can help make this into a reality again.
So what is GAMA?
GAMA started way back in 2013. A user named Quavv started an Anime RP interest thread where a lot of players weighed in on what they had wanted to see done in a sort of Anime style. The unanimous story idea was a "
Global infestation and United Nations genetically engineered teenagers in mechs", so that's what we got. Augmented teens in mechs fighting in a zombie apocalypse scenario. Since it's inception, GAMA has gone through a lot of changes. Quavv himself had to dip out to attend to life, and I stepped up to head the RP for another two years or so. After the first thread had died out, I tried to reboot in a different setting but was unsuccessful at getting it off the ground. So, with this all in mind, we're going to take a look into it more in-depth. Don't worry, this won't be on the test.
So what's the story?
The story of the universe of GAMA is two pronged: The story of the invention of mecha and of the zombie apocalypse. I will give you the cliff notes version since most of the canon is given in old thread OPs. A Russian researcher invents the mecha and brings his idea to the Russian government, hoping this technology would be given out. Instead, Russia keeps it and said researcher defects to spread the technology to the West in retaliation, all the while improving on it. The UN steps in and then heavily regulates the use of these mechs down to a single international PMC-type organization. It was at this point that (for plot reasons) it was discovered that the mechs didn't suit human control well unless given an extra source of stress mitigation. So this new organization, GAMA, recruited (and made) teenagers and souped them up with nanomachines (son) to be able to pilot the mechs without any real detriment.
Then the zombie virus breaks out in 2050. Like usual, it starts slow but snowballs before anyone can really organize a decent military response. Turns out some religious cult whackjobs, known collectively as Proteus, are responsible for the outbreak and facilitating its spread across the globe. So, naturally, they have to be stopped. Well in the present day of the canon, in the year 2077, most of Earth has succumbed to the virus. But GAMA is still going strong and is hellbent on bringing humanity back from the brink of extinction.
So what's the plan?
The plan for this is to get GAMA back into it's former glory with new ideas and new blood. The story I have just given out can be subject to change along with much of the rest of the RP. We're still keeping the anime-style mechs vs. zombies though. That's what GAMA was built on and I don't see any need to change the original premise. That said, I'd like to gauge what people would like to see, what kind of ideas we can toss around, and what we can work in to make this better. One thing we're doing is downsizing. The original mechs were usually Gundam sized (about an average of 20 meters in height) and that made fighting tiny human-sized zombies kind of dull. We're going to cut it down to a fourth or fifth, give or take, to create more of a tension when fighting through zombie hordes. This way I don't have to make huge zombie amalgamations to create an actual tense fight. Back to the story, we're toying around with ideas of our own for the story, but we want to hear from you on what you think.
So where do you come in?
Well if you made it this far and nothing has bored you yet, I must have done something right. At this point, we'll give out the old threads for you to read in-depth or skim over at your leisure, just to get an idea of what has been done in the past already and the feel we're going for. Take your time to put in your two cents, and we'll see where we can go. I'm not expecting to get the reboot up within a week, not unless we're ready for it.
Old threads:
The first interest thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=233026
The first OOC: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=234556
The second OOC: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=241948
The first episode: viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=31&t=234665
The second episode: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=288782
The old archive: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=356864
