Limbo, An Afterlife with Guns and Rollerblades Options

[Sparrowsmith]

Well I haven't read past my last post yet but...

We found some weird shit in the factory, the thief had taken a drug (as described above) which caused him to 'manifest' nightmares and introduce an impossibility factor. This is an issue which will be used very scarcely throughout the RP, I just wanted to introduce it (and some other stuff) early on, because we will tackle it later... This is a pretty well mapped out story (the first half anyway) and I intend to bring lots of NPCs in that we can use, as well as some more elaborate nightmares which (I hope) will genuinely scare you.
Anyway, once we dispatched the thief, the nightmares disappeared and we got the map, but we're surrounded by other people who want the map, and we have to hold out in the factory until it's turned into dust (just a little while longer) is there anything specific you need clarifying?

Also, the thief mentioned something about having killed Graym. I could explain this in game, or just here, I'm undecided unless someone accuses me of making an 'immortal' character. I was planning on explaining it in detail, characterization and the like, but if anyone's curiosity is peaked I can explain it now. Graym, and all of Limbo, are products of a story I'm toying around with at the moment, much like Section Seven was, so it's all quite developed and interlinked, and there are rules I haven't revealed yet However, if being kept in the dark is uncomfortable for you guys, I will gladly reveal some of the upcoming story...

[Ryuga]

I, for one, trust your judgement Sparrow. I'm fine with being kept in the dark for now. Just do your best to tie up all the loose ends before this RP inevitably dies...

[Nicsp]

surrounded by other people who want the map, and we have to hold out in the factory until it's turned into dust (just a little while longer)

Yes, see that's the thing, according to latest posts, the building already turned to dust, so i'm rather confused as to where I'd put Addo now. >_<;;

[Ryuga]

surrounded by other people who want the map, and we have to hold out in the factory until it's turned into dust (just a little while longer)

Yes, see that's the thing, according to latest posts, the building already turned to dust, so i'm rather confused as to where I'd put Addo now. >_<;;

Well, I expected to have more than one building in the factory area, which is why I kind of posted that... Sorry about confusing everybody.

When in doubt though, go with Sparrow's suggestion.

This post has been edited by Ryuga: Jan 18 2012, 09:22 AM

[Sparrowsmith]

Yes there are several parts to the factory, each could be called a building.
The original was "The group drew closer and closer to the factory. It eventually became apparent there was a line, a street of some kind, running down the centre of two separate buildings, each whirring away at their own pace with bridges crossing between them." but it seems to have developed into a more elaborate set up of sections within those buildings.

Also, Bill Nye, if you are reading this, how much do you have planned for this woman you have introduced? I'm perfectly happy to let you work a story alongside the main ark, in fact I encourage it, but she would also fit quite neatly with an ark I intend to cover (much) later. It's up to you

Also, everyone, concerning the "one thing your character was told/shown upon arriving in Limbo":

Upon waking in Limbo you found yourself with something new in your head. For some people in was a sentence, or a memory, or a song, but whatever it was it revealed something. Everyone knows something that haunts them. Some of us know exactly how we'll die (or die again in some cases). Some of us know man's one true weakness. Some of us know the meaning of life. Some of us know the reason we all deserve to rot in Limbo forever. Whatever you know, it's best not to share it. Knowing one of these things is enough to haunt you forever, knowing two is just being rotten.

I would like to bring up now that this thing, in case it wasn't too apparent earlier, is an absolute fact. If you learned, for example, that you must kill a rabbit before you may leave Limbo, then you will not be allowed to leave until you do such a thing. If you learned, for example, that you are doomed to walk the sand until death, then there is pretty much no way you'll ever leave (I say pretty much, because we will explore the concept of breaking these 'rules' towards the end of the story... If we get there.)

Well, that's all for now.

[Bill Nye]

I've been thinking about it, if you already have an idea i'm happy to let you take over the role of the part mechanical woman Maria.
Also, even i'm starting to get irritated at all the shit happening, Robots, Brute, Some madman (At this point, the guess is he died in the building).
Giant effing worms? I mean, damn Nicsp. Even i didn't see that coming. And now raiders, damn we got problems, lots and lots of problems.
Also, what's with the guy who posted in the RP? If i missed something please let me know.

[Sparrowsmith]

Is there still room for new characters? If so, I would like to join.

Name: "Priest" (he can't remember his real name)
Picture: Found here: Found here.

A few things about him:

He remembers little about his past, except that he came to Limbo by choice, in hopes of bringing some sense of hope to a hopeless world.
Other than his robe and collared shirt, he carries a faded knapsack, with his personal effects, and a simple staff.

He is a wandering healer.

This guy.

I'm afraid the game doesn't contain magic, per se, so the healing thing will have to be retconned out. I thought you meant like a doctor, not a magician Other than that the introduction was fine. The RP does (or will) feature stuff which seems magical, but it's not quite as simple as healing a wound by praying. Sorry about that. Unless you edit your post (he can bandage the wound?) then we'll have to ignore it.

I've been thinking about it, if you already have an idea i'm happy to let you take over the role of the part mechanical woman Maria.

Well I'll give a few spoilers then. Later (quite a bit later) we will encounter a group of people who live in the 'impossible zone'. It's an area that ALWAYS has an incredibly high impossibility factor. They've used this place to bend the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology to their limits. They've invented drugs which can alter the world (manifesting), created towers that float in the sky, and some have even tried to create (or alter) living organisms. Maria could easily be one of their experiments that escaped.
Similarly, I have toyed with the idea of bringing a clockwork robot into the RP (he is in the story concept). By all laws he should just be able to move, but somehow he acts intelligently and with a personality. Just a weird result of Limbo. People can build things in impossible places that shouldn't function, and they continue to function outside of these impossible places (Laet's sword and Elder's hat are both examples of this. One can cut through almost anything, the other almost always hides his eyes).

Anyway, I'm giving away far too much However, when the time comes, you can decide whether or not maria is the result of these experiments. We've got a long way to go before then though.

[BulletVixen]

Hey um.... i noticed someone else started a bit late so :// i was wondering if i could too? I kinda even have a way to excuse my lateness? <.> ^^ anyways please let me know if i can/can't join in. Here's my character:

A Name: No one knows but she has NIKKO written on her back and she seems to respond to it
A Description or Picture:

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One or Two things about them: She seems to either no longer be able to speak, or just doesn't because no one can understand her, but she communicates with hand signals and, if someone just can't seem to get her fast enough, her long mechanical arms can spout a small screen that quickly translates what she's saying into the viewers language.
She has a mechanical tail known for helping her burrow deep into the sand. She carries a long sword and a strange large piece of copper with detailed curves. She also sports large mechanical animal ears on her head, her real ears seem to be gone and she can move the mechanical ones at will.
-edit- please ignore the human hands in the photo as my character will only have the mechanical arms. ty ://

This post has been edited by BulletVixen: Feb 1 2012, 08:37 AM

[Sparrowsmith]

I'm perfectly fine with new people joining, just have to cover a few things first.
Only people arrive in Limbo. Anything out of the ordinary about them probably happened here, and happened in a specific way. For her to have mechanical arms they would have had to have been done to her here (then again, I've never explicitly stated WHEN characters come from, so it's possible she comes from a time when such things are possible... I never really thought about that). Anyway, I'd appreciate it if there was an explanation for her arms, general silence, strange translating spray, that was related to Limbo. For example:

Well I'll give a few spoilers then. Later (quite a bit later) we will encounter a group of people who live in the 'impossible zone'. It's an area that ALWAYS has an incredibly high impossibility factor. They've used this place to bend the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology to their limits. They've invented drugs which can alter the world (manifesting), created towers that float in the sky, and some have even tried to create (or alter) living organisms. Maria could easily be one of their experiments that escaped.
Similarly, I have toyed with the idea of bringing a clockwork robot into the RP (he is in the story concept). By all laws he should just be able to move, but somehow he acts intelligently and with a personality. Just a weird result of Limbo. People can build things in impossible places that shouldn't function, and they continue to function outside of these impossible places (Laet's sword and Elder's hat are both examples of this. One can cut through almost anything, the other almost always hides his eyes).

You don't have to state if this is the reason she has those traits, and you don't have to use the reason I've listed above, I'm just trying to introduce some consistency to the RP before it ends up a little bit too random (then again, random is good) so long as everything has some kind of explanation, that you plan to reveal, then I give you the go ahead

[BulletVixen]

Actually I have reasons for all of those. As long as it's ok that my person is from a somewhat future/alternate world. She is human, it'd just be more like upgrades? And whether they were from before or after Limbo i will post in the Rp. Hope that's alright and thank you.

[Sparrowsmith]

all seems fine to me. I see no reason for this afterlife (if that is what it is, spoilers and all that) to be timeline exclusive.
Anyway, I think we're just about done at the factory (this was supposed to be a quiet part of the story...) and ready to move on to the next place.

This is where you guys come in (awesome right).
Now there's only a few conditions for the next place:
1) It's short and static. That means we just pass through, we don't have to stay there very long at all (it doesn't move throughout the day).
2) It's has a path. This could mean it's a river, or lake, and we go through on a boat. Or a path through a jungle. Even a town or city (though we will be addressing a very big city pretty soon and I'd like not to repeat similar locations). It could just be a nasty part of desert, up to you guys.
3) It has to be dangerous. Graym said so. That could be nightmares, other people, a mixture of the two, high levels of improbability, dangerous environment, or any combination of these. It just has to be dangerous.
4) It can't be a supermarket, that's the next stop after this one.

So yeah, if you can come up with a location that fits these requirements, then you can run that location in the RP (temporary dungeon master ) if I don't like any of the suggestions, then we'll run with the jungle/lake/whatever I feel like, but I would like to bring you guys in on this if possible.

One more thing, if it is nightmare infested, lets keep it to generics (seeing as I haven't introduced any others yet) unless you have an idea for something REALLY creepy. (For example, as the RP progresses we're going to tackle nightmares that represent genuine fears people have. Not of things, but of concepts.)

[Ryuga]

Eh, things don't go so well whenever I'm in charge. Thought I do have an idea in mind if no one else wants to really do something.

[Nicsp]

...Well...As soon as Sparrowsmith mentioned the idea for a river we follow on boat, I immediately though of a sort of Rivery Styx thing. Where we'd have to make our way down the river in a small steam boat, while the water we are in are filled with nightmares that are basically hands that will try to keep dragging people out of the boat. The further we go down the river, the higher the impossibilty factor becomes and then stronger the currents that take the boat become.

[Ryuga]

...Well...As soon as Sparrowsmith mentioned the idea for a river we follow on boat, I immediately though of a sort of Rivery Styx thing. Where we'd have to make our way down the river in a small steam boat, while the water we are in are filled with nightmares that are basically hands that will try to keep dragging people out of the boat. The further we go down the river, the higher the impossibilty factor becomes and then stronger the currents that take the boat become.

I had a different river senario in mind, but this sounds far better.
I second Nicsp's suggestion.

[Sparrowsmith]

I'm quite fond of the suggestion too. It's similar to mine, but seems a whole lot more creepy.
If I might make a suggestion, lets discuss (at least a little) what we find BEFORE we go in there. I'd like to know if another worm is gonna come out of nowhere

I do have an idea for these nightmares though, if anyone else likes it, and that's that some of them (or all) play off of guilt. They try to drag you in, but some of them take the voices (or faces) of our regrets. The idea that the nightmares could just be people too, quite creepy of course, that won't stop us, but allows for some character building. Up to you guys.

[Nicsp]

Sounds good by me, to be honest...Though now i'm gonna have to think up of something which could affect Addo enough to make him get off the boat...Other than alcohol, that is.

[Sparrowsmith]

It isn't necessary for us to force our characters flaws they don't have I feel there'd be a better dynamic if guilt ridden characters were made weaker here, maybe not suicidal, but distracted, and other characters had to pick up the slack. Then at some later point, we'll see the effects of dependance/addiction and Addo will have his chance

Of course, if you think of anything, use it

[Ryuga]

Well, since the factory portion of the RP has essentially wrapped up and we've agreed on the next area, who is going to initiate the transition?

[Sparrowsmith]

I think we'll let them rest a moment. The next area is gonna be short, but they still need to lick their wounds and walk there. I think we'll do it gradually, like last time, with each of us bringing it in closer as we walk.

[BulletVixen]

Hey guys i just wanted to let you know real quick i'm gonna be gone for about two days, have a doc's appointment in my old town two hours away and will be staying with my mom in order to visit my little sister. So i won't be able to respond till sunday prolly. ^.^ sorry bout that.