First Contact [OOC/Open]

[Endem]

First Contact

( author unknown, but, I will not use this for any economically enriching activities )

Setting

An Unidentified Flying Object appeared on the radars of Area 87 on the dawn of 19th July 1964, it did not respond to any attempts of communication. Two missiles were dispatched and both hit its target. The UFO started to descend in a seemingly uncontrolled manner, it will soon hit the sands of Nevada. Soon, the object was no longer unidentified, well, we still don't know who it belonged to, but this is the same ship that types of it were seen in many different places of the Earth. Finally, one of them was crashing down to Earth. E.T.A, 16 minutes until the crash, when that happens the higher-ups are expecting at least nine full teams there and misinformation systems deployed, no civilian is supposed to know of it until we are able to translate Their language and make the official first contact... I wish you luck, the World will never be the same if you achieve this task.

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Discord IC

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How Things Work
You are either a scientist or guardsmen at Area 87, regardless you are military personnel and you are to follow orders of the base leader Major Abraham Scott. The plot will revolve around a certain crashed alien ship and the crash survivor

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Area 87
What is Area 87 you may ask, it is a fictional US airbase dedicated to testing aircraft I answer. There is a landing pad for helicopters and runway, a few hangars and some maintenance building. Well, that's the official part, only a limited number of people know about the tunnel complex built under it after spotting a UFO back in 1941 to eventually interrogate Them, it has everything, living quarters, a cantina, holding cells, labs, interrogation rooms and medbay

Them
We don't know how they look, how their ships look like, we only know they have a spherical shape and glow very bright light. Over the years many of them were spotted in various places of the world, officially classified as Alpha
Sentient Objects, but everyone that knows about them, calls them "They"

Timeline of events unknown
Warning, the timeline only covers discoveries and sightings by US citizens
In 1941 first of Them was observed
In 1942 Their ship spotted over Los Angeles
In 1947 multiple sightings of "Them" in Roswell, the ship too fragmented to be recovered, destroyed on site
In 1948 traces of a metal not found on Earth found near many famous building of the World ( example Stonehenge )
In 1951 sighting of Their ships in Texas
In 1956 definite cause of Tunguska Event found, proved to be of extraterrestrial origin
In 1957 multiple Their sightings
In 1964 a sighting was confirmed in New Mexico

1. My Word is Law
2. Co-OP's have the same powers as OP
3. If you get three strikes for bad behavior, you're out
4. Use the general NS etiquette, understood?

Code: Select all

[b]NS Name:[/b]
[b]Char Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b] ( a picture or a description )
[b]Bio:[/b]
[b]Role:[/b] ( researcher or security )
[b]Equipment:[/b]

[b][u]Optional[/u][/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Likes:[/b]
[b]Dislikes:[/b]


[Endem]

Roster

Micheal Doyle - Kaledoria

Dr. Anthony Jefferson Dale - Danceria

Dr. Philip Legg - Zjaum

Robert Allen - The Archipelago Territory

Jason Storm - Chronodosia

Nathan O'Leary - Rykil

[The Great Swedish Empire]

Intrested...

[Talchyon]

I am too. Tag.

[Endem]

Intrested...

I am too. Tag.

Great, I hope we will have a good time playing this RP

[Zjaum]

Hoping this bears fruit! Tag!

[Endem]

Hoping this bears fruit! Tag!

Me too, I'm the GM after all, how could I not hope that

[Danceria]

99% Chance this will tag...
...
...it's a miss...

WELCOME TO X-COM BOYS!

[Nea Byzantia]

Tag.

[Endem]

99% Chance this will tag...
...
...it's a miss...

WELCOME TO X-COM BOYS!

Nope, pretty sure the tag landed where it was supposed to land

Tag.

Hello

[Talchyon]

It's kind of fun looking through pictures of 1960s era scientists to see if any spark a thought for a character.

[Talchyon]

An app. All done.

NS Name: Talchyon
Char Name: Dr. Martin Oswald
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Bio: Martin Oswald was a brilliant, gifted young man growing up that excelled in math and structured activities, but was poor in athletics and social skills. It's not that he wanted to be asocial. It's more like he didn't understand social cues as well. With his thick glasses as a young man and his inabilities socially, Martin was often bullied and picked on as a child.

Growing up, Martin won a Rhodes scholarship and went to Yale. He again excelled in the classroom, his mental affinities bringing him to love advanced mathematics. Having a mind that could calculate complex numbers in an instant didn't hurt. He also picked up mechanical engineering, since the concepts were easy enough due to his consideration of it as basic as geometry.

Since then, Martin got 2 doctorates at MIT and Brown. He published several peer-reviewed articles and gained attention from the national government and the F.B.I. Hearing uncertain things about the loyalty of certain generals in charge, and looking to get an independent view on the alien spacecraft, Dr. Oswald was one of a few civilians at the top of the list chosen to examine the spacecraft further. He has been paired up with other Army mechanical engineers, and due to Martin's memories of his youth, his feelings of physical inferiority, coupled with the dedication of proving that brains were better than brawn, Martin has not had an easy time so far with his military counterparts.

Role: Researcher. Martin is an advanced mathematician with a mind like a lightning calculator. He also has a background in mechanical engineering. While the Army has their own mechanical engineers, the government wanted a civilian's input as well. The relationship between Dr. Oswald and his military counterparts have been less than ideal.
Equipment: Dr. Oswald has a 1961 Ford 4-door. He has and uses a slide rule, index cards, a briefcase, various files. He also has been assigned to an office that has various scientific and engineering tools.

Optional
Personality: Logical. Looks down on athletes, but mitigates that somewhat for athletes who are at least capable in their mental facilities. Struggles socially. Feels inferior in some ways. If pushed, he may explode in repressed anger coming out.
Likes: Logic and order. Rational explanations for all things. The music of Brahms (he has with him at the base several LPs of Brahms' chamber and symphonic works.)
Dislikes: Braggarts. Men strong in body but not in mind. Those who look down on intellectuals.

[Endem]

An app. WIP. OP, you sure you want personality as optional?

*snip*

Yes, I personally find making personalities for chars the hardest step for an app so, I decided to make it optional


By the way, for everyone to know, everything listed in the timeline was never given out to the public

[Talchyon]

Just so you know, OP - it's been a really busy week. But I'm still in this. I'll finish my app maybe this weekend or early next week.

[Endem]

Just so you know, OP - it's been a really busy week. But I'm still in this. I'll finish my app maybe this weekend or early next week.

Don't worry, I understand things can get quite fast in life. And unless I get a ton of new apps, we aren't starting any time soon so you have all the time you need

[Endem]

So, how are apps coming along?

[Kaledoria]

If OP has a plot, I have a character:

NS Name: Kaledoria
Char Name: Michael Doyle
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Bio: Born in Philadelphia, to a middle class family. Michael was a smart boy who passed high school with excellent grades, enough even to qualify for a scholarship. Looking at his options both concerting a college and possible careers, he realized that he should actually join the military - but not as a soldier but rather aim for an officers career and apply at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. His curriculum focused on Foreign Studies and Electrical Engineering. This split between social science and engineering payed of: Besides learning various languages he studied theoretical linguistics. The Electrical Engineering aspect of his studies specialized in radio technology and communications technology. He rounded this with a self-study of encryption and decryption techniques (Both in regards to radio and letter). With this kind of knowledge he was perfectly suited for the United States Air Force Security Service, a command that was especially selective of it's recruits. Due to his fluent Russian and the rising demand, Michael was assigned to the Soviet intelligence group for two years, where he was able to make contacts with some Russian natives and in 1963 he was able to acquire some secret files on the 1956 Tunguska event. When his superiors made the connection to the Roswell sightings, Michael was (alongside a promotion to Captain) transferred to the Area 87 command and his new superiors ordered him to get more stuff at any cost. Michael managed to acquire a material sample and the (partially encoded) Soviet's analysis of it, even though he had to sacrifice his contacts for it and had to flee Russia chased by the KGB. For the last three month, he assisted the Area 87 researchers in the decoding and analysis of the data.

Role: Research Assistant (Though Michael has the necessary small arms qualifications to be a security man, for the last months his knowledge in Russian and in Soviet encryption techniques made him best suited for the decoding and analysis of the stolen Tunguska files)
Equipment: Air Force stuff?

Optional
Personality: Enthusiastic, determinate, creative, gregarious
Likes: Riddles, puzzles, books
Dislikes:

Other notes: Age 27, Speaks English, Russian, Spanish, German and French fluently and bits of Japanese and Portuguese. Had no pilot training but knows general operation theory and systems checklist of the F-4 Phantom and the Blackbird. Judo black belt.

[Endem]

If OP has a plot, I have a character:

NS Name: Kaledoria
Char Name: Michael Doyle
Gender: Male
Appearance: (Image)
Bio: Born in Philadelphia, to a middle class family. Michael was a smart boy who passed high school with excellent grades, enough even to qualify for a scholarship. Looking at his options both concerting a college and possible careers, he realized that he should actually join the military - but not as a soldier but rather aim for an officers career and apply at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. His curriculum focused on Foreign Studies and Electrical Engineering. This split between social science and engineering payed of: Besides learning various languages he studied theoretical linguistics. The Electrical Engineering aspect of his studies specialized in radio technology and communications technology. He rounded this with a self-study of encryption and decryption techniques (Both in regards to radio and letter). With this kind of knowledge he was perfectly suited for the United States Air Force Security Service, a command that was especially selective of it's recruits. Due to his fluent Russian and the rising demand, Michael was assigned to the Soviet intelligence group for two years, where he was able to make contacts with some Russian natives and in 1963 he was able to acquire some secret files on the 1956 Tunguska event. When his superiors made the connection to the Roswell sightings, Michael was (alongside a promotion to Captain) transferred to the Area 87 command and his new superiors ordered him to get more stuff at any cost. Michael managed to acquire a material sample and the (partially encoded) Soviet's analysis of it, even though he had to sacrifice his contacts for it and had to flee Russia chased by the KGB. For the last three month, he assisted the Area 87 researchers in the decoding and analysis of the data.

Role: Research Assistant (Though Michael has the necessary small arms qualifications to be a security man, for the last months his knowledge in Russian and in Soviet encryption techniques made him best suited for the decoding and analysis of the stolen Tunguska files)
Equipment: Air Force stuff?

Optional
Personality: Enthusiastic, determinate, creative, gregarious
Likes: Riddles, puzzles, books
Dislikes:

Other notes: Age 27, Speaks English, Russian, Spanish, German and French fluently and bits of Japanese and Portuguese. Had no pilot training but knows general operation theory and systems checklist of the F-4 Phantom and the Blackbird. Judo black belt.

Accepted

[Ameriganastan]

NS Name: Ameriganastan
Char Name: Col. Mason Weller
Gender: Male
Appearance: 6'3, graying brown hair, mustache, eyepatch over right eye. Remaining one is brown.
Bio: Your typical all-American boy turned soldier, Mason Arthur Weller is a career soldier from a family of them. From his father who proudly served in the trenches of WW1, a Grandfather who fought for the Union in the civil war and so forth going back. The day he turned 18, Mason enlisted in the U.S. army, eager to serve. His wish came true startlingly quick, as a mere month after he completed basic training, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was launched. And with America swiftly declaring war, Mason soon found himself thrown into battle against the scourge of Hitler's regime. Mason distinguished himself in several campaigns across the western front, most notably during Operation Dragoon, where he lost an eye in combat but still saved the life of injured soldier Pvt. Steve Freeman. Once the war wrapped, Mason returned home minus an eye and plus a few medals. He attempted to be deployed during the following Korean War, but was denied due to his injury. Since then, Mason has drifted from base assignment to base assignment. His latest posting, Area 87, is about to prove eventful.
Role: Security.
Equipment: 1 Browning Hi-Power handgun.

Optional
Personality: The typical soldier personality. Fastidious, stern and kind of a killjoy.
Likes: Hunting, fishing, football (Never misses his beloved Cornhuskers, whether on TV or radio) and sewing.
Dislikes: Eggheads, commies, German, Italians, Japanese and pretty much anyone who isn't a soldier.
Misc: Married for 5 years to one Marlene Weller (Nee Prescott). Proud dad to twin daughters, aged 2.

[Neo-Unified Nations]

Tagging, because i'm getting Xcom vibes.


(Also hey endem, it's TRN here lololololol)

[Endem]

NS Name: Ameriganastan
Char Name: Col. Mason Weller
Gender: Male
Appearance: 6'3, graying brown hair, mustache, eyepatch over right eye. Remaining one is brown.
Bio: Your typical all-American boy turned soldier, Mason Arthur Weller is a career soldier from a family of them. From his father who proudly served in the trenches of WW1, a Grandfather who fought for the Union in the civil war and so forth going back. The day he turned 18, Mason enlisted in the U.S. army, eager to serve. His wish came true startlingly quick, as a mere month after he completed basic training, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was launched. And with America swiftly declaring war, Mason soon found himself thrown into battle against the scourge of Hitler's regime. Mason distinguished himself in several campaigns across the western front, most notably during Operation Dragoon, where he lost an eye in combat but still saved the life of injured soldier Pvt. Steve Freeman. Once the war wrapped, Mason returned home minus an eye and plus a few medals. He attempted to be deployed during the following Korean War, but was denied due to his injury. Since then, Mason has drifted from base assignment to base assignment. His latest posting, Area 87, is about to prove eventful.
Role: Security.
Equipment: 1 Browning Hi-Power handgun.

Optional
Personality: The typical soldier personality. Fastidious, stern and kind of a killjoy.
Likes: Hunting, fishing, football (Never misses his beloved Cornhuskers, whether on TV or radio) and sewing.
Dislikes: Eggheads, commies, German, Italians, Japanese and pretty much anyone who isn't a soldier.
Misc: Married for 5 years to one Marlene Weller (Nee Prescott). Proud dad to twin daughters, aged 2.

Accepted

Tagging, because i'm getting Xcom vibes.


(Also hey endem, it's TRN here lololololol)

Hello, by TRN you mean? I'm possibly familiar with the nation but not the abbreviation


Also, for anyone interested
WE HAVE A DISCORD SERVER! ( stock cheering sounds ) the invitation link to it is on the OOC

[Neo-Unified Nations]

NS Name: Ameriganastan
Char Name: Col. Mason Weller
Gender: Male
Appearance: 6'3, graying brown hair, mustache, eyepatch over right eye. Remaining one is brown.
Bio: Your typical all-American boy turned soldier, Mason Arthur Weller is a career soldier from a family of them. From his father who proudly served in the trenches of WW1, a Grandfather who fought for the Union in the civil war and so forth going back. The day he turned 18, Mason enlisted in the U.S. army, eager to serve. His wish came true startlingly quick, as a mere month after he completed basic training, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was launched. And with America swiftly declaring war, Mason soon found himself thrown into battle against the scourge of Hitler's regime. Mason distinguished himself in several campaigns across the western front, most notably during Operation Dragoon, where he lost an eye in combat but still saved the life of injured soldier Pvt. Steve Freeman. Once the war wrapped, Mason returned home minus an eye and plus a few medals. He attempted to be deployed during the following Korean War, but was denied due to his injury. Since then, Mason has drifted from base assignment to base assignment. His latest posting, Area 87, is about to prove eventful.
Role: Security.
Equipment: 1 Browning Hi-Power handgun.

Optional
Personality: The typical soldier personality. Fastidious, stern and kind of a killjoy.
Likes: Hunting, fishing, football (Never misses his beloved Cornhuskers, whether on TV or radio) and sewing.
Dislikes: Eggheads, commies, German, Italians, Japanese and pretty much anyone who isn't a soldier.
Misc: Married for 5 years to one Marlene Weller (Nee Prescott). Proud dad to twin daughters, aged 2.

Accepted

Tagging, because i'm getting Xcom vibes.


(Also hey endem, it's TRN here lololololol)

Hello, by TRN you mean? I'm possibly familiar with the nation but not the abbreviation


Also, for anyone interested
WE HAVE A DISCORD SERVER! ( stock cheering sounds ) the invitation link to it is on the OOC

TRN is the russian nations, from another RP eggs dee

For real though i'm prolly gonna apply 3 days later.

[Danceria]

NS Name: Danceria
Char Name: “My name is Dr. Anthony Jefferson Dale, but most people either call me Dr. Dale or A.J.”
Gender: “That’d be male, sir.”
Appearance: ”As much as I hate this photo, it’s the official one.”
Bio: “I’m from Riley, Illinois, which is a small little farming community a stones-throw northwest of Chicago. Being a farmhand, I suppose it’s only natural that I’d take an interest in how animals behave, or at least, a savancy. For all intents and purposes, my life was as boring as you can expect. Sure, I did good in school, studied in Harvard, you already have my credentials...even starred on the National Geographic Radio show about the “Great American Journey”. My “field” or rather what I specialized in is the interaction and effects of humanity upon wildlife populations and behavior. If you pardon my French, Major, I’m the guy who spent two weeks being crapped on by pigeons to figure out when, where, and why they do that. I’m not going to disclose too much of my family life, while I am an adamant defender of my country and it’s ideals, one of those ideals is the right to one’s own privacy and the protection of one’s family. You understand of course, after JFK-God rest his soul- made his promise about putting a man on the moon, I certainly wouldn’t want the Reds to try and intimidate me. Other than that, consider me a coworker.”
Role: “Officially? I’m an Ethologist. That means I try to figure out how animals think, how they act, and how certain large scale projects like developing military bases, or forced migration, affects them.”
Equipment: “Well, aside from the various textbooks I requested and my Colt Commander pistol, not much. The hardest thing about being a scientist is not being presumptuous, though I have to presume you don’t call an Illinoisan professor out into Nevada on a military base because the coyotes are restless.”

Optional
Personality: Is a rather upbeat individual around humans, and embodies the atypical “homely farmer” vibe, albeit in a lab coat.
Likes:
Dislikes:

[Endem]

NS Name: Danceria
Char Name: “My name is Dr. Anthony Jefferson Dale, but most people either call me Dr. Dale or A.J.”
Gender: “That’d be male, sir.”
Appearance: ”As much as I hate this photo, it’s the official one.”
Bio: “I’m from Riley, Illinois, which is a small little farming community a stones-throw northwest of Chicago. Being a farmhand, I suppose it’s only natural that I’d take an interest in how animals behave, or at least, a savancy. For all intents and purposes, my life was as boring as you can expect. Sure, I did good in school, studied in Harvard, you already have my credentials...even starred on the National Geographic Radio show about the “Great American Journey”. My “field” or rather what I specialized in is the interaction and effects of humanity upon wildlife populations and behavior. If you pardon my French, Major, I’m the guy who spent two weeks being crapped on by pigeons to figure out when, where, and why they do that. I’m not going to disclose too much of my family life, while I am an adamant defender of my country and it’s ideals, one of those ideals is the right to one’s own privacy and the protection of one’s family. You understand of course, after JFK-God rest his soul- made his promise about putting a man on the moon, I certainly wouldn’t want the Reds to try and intimidate me. Other than that, consider me a coworker.”
Role: “Officially? I’m an Ethologist. That means I try to figure out how animals think, how they act, and how certain large scale projects like developing military bases, or forced migration, affects them.”
Equipment: “Well, aside from the various textbooks I requested and my Colt Commander pistol, not much. The hardest thing about being a scientist is not being presumptuous, though I have to presume you don’t call an Illinoisan professor out into Nevada on a military base because the coyotes are restless.”

Optional
Personality: Is a rather upbeat individual around humans, and embodies the atypical “homely farmer” vibe, albeit in a lab coat.
Likes:
Dislikes:

Accepted ( we are three people away from IC everyone )

[Zjaum]

I guess I'll be one. Gimme a bit.