Dust and echoes
Ghost of Shitposts Past
- Location
- Fortuna Penal Colony
LETS BE HEROES
Welcome to Sunburst city, we're happy you've come to visit!
As we're sure you've been notified by our friendly border guards, Sunburst Island is a firearm-free zone, making for safer communities and happier lives! Already our violent crime rate is the lowest in not just the Pacific Northwest, but the entirety of the United States thanks in part to Haven Industries generous donation of its security force to help out our brave police officers! In fact, Haven Industries has benefited our little community in many ways since they built their HQ right here on Sunburst Island; including helping fund our schools, local government, community activities and programs, increasing our imports and exports and creating hundreds, if not all jobs for the residents of this beautiful island.
We thank you for your business, and please tell your friends about our little island out here. Remember, the security is here to keep you safe.
Have a Sunny day!
>You have [1] unread email<
>opening...<
You, yes you. Have you ever wanted to be a hero? Don't give me that look, what, you're going to believe all that shit from Haven Industries that this cities the "safest on earth?" Hell no. That's just a facade. Truth is, Haven Industries can't even make its own company safe. It and this city is rotten to a core, rotten enough that another round of "corporate re-assessment" isn't going to fix shit. Sunburst city needs heroes. Real heroes, not fucking bought out, tight-clad advertisement either.
Our docks are crawling with smugglers and gangsters, our streets are plagued by back alley deals and illegal goings on and our government? Unfixable. We need someone to shake things up. It's going to be rough, sure, but what is surgery if not bloody?
You got a bat? Grab it. A family sword? Better. A bandana? That works. Ski mask? Even better. You smart enough to make yourself some nifty gadgets? More power to you.
Most importantly, have you got what it takes? You're not some paid off, namby pamby police officer, and you're not a Haven Industries Security-bot either. You're a Hero.
Time to start acting like one.
Meet me in warehouse 17 in the industrial district tomorrow if you think you've got what it takes.
-Your new best friend
Boring OOC stuff:
Hey there, so as stated, in this rp you're going to be playing as a small group of vigilantes. I'm looking for around 3 relatively active people. Note that you will not be starting the game with superpowers, but later…well….let's just say that anything can happen.
This is going to be using the Fate Core system. A link to the rules will eventually be Here (hopefully)
Note that this is my first time gming a game using this system, so please please please point out if I make a mistake. This is partly an exercise for me to try out different systems, as well as break my bad habit of railroading my rp's.
Character sheet:
Name: (provide characters name and their alter ego if they have one)Appearance : (basic description of your character. Please provide age, gender, and heroing garb.)
Age: (pretty self explanatory)
Years of Experience: (your experience in vigilanty-ing. Won't affect any skills other than your IC badassery and how familiar the police force is with you.)
Background and personality: (how did your character find their way to Sunburst Island? When and how did they don their alter ego, and why? How do they do righteous, or not-so-righteous, combat against the forces of eeeevvviiilll?)
Aspects:
-High concept
-Trouble
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Skills:
+4(choose one)
+3(choose two)
+2(choose three)
+1(choose four)
Stunts: (make 3 for now, or trade in one refresh for two more)
Fate points- 3(default, you can trade two in for two more stunts)
Physical Stress[ ] [ ] (add one more if you have +1 or +2 physique, and two if you have +3 or higher physique)
Mental Stress[ ] [ ] (add one more if you have +1 or +2 will, and two if you have +3 or higher will)
Consequences
1. 2. 3.
Current inventory:
(Whatever your character has on them, from nick-knacks to weapons. You can take guns, but remember that that firearms are banned in Sunburst city, and who knows what trouble would descend on your head should you be found out.
Feel free to assign stats you think are fair to your weapon, just don't go overboard. I'll change it if I think its to powerful. Keep in the +1, +2 range.)
Example Character Sheet
Name: December Donovan (alter ego: Tag)
Appearance Tall and thin, with short cut black hair. She usually has paint splattered somewhere on her, usually hands or face. At night she dons a paint-stained tee and cargo shorts, as well as a similarly stained ski cap and bandana.
Years of Experience: 1
Background: December grew up in the grey streets of the Sunburst City Industrial district. The buildings were grey, the sidewalks were grey. The people were as grey as the rain that fell on them from the grey clouds above.
December was a Gray.
From an early age, December was commited to not being grey.
From early age she began taking different routes to school, first just simple detours. A left instead of a right, this street instead of that one.
But soon after she began exploring. First back alleys, then the underground, but one route fascinated her above all else.
The rooftops.
December wowed her friends with her newfound freedom of movement, which is one of the few things she could wow them with, since her grades were pitiful.
Not that her parents cared.
Her parents hadn't cared for a long while.
December struggled through school, somehow graduated, and moved on. Lacking the money, or job to leave, she remained in the industrial district. Now, however, she decided to make a difference. She was hired as a Haven Industries-contracted building painter, and while the flat colors were not as bright as she wished, she loved the height involved in the job and the simple feeling of making money.
On weekends, however, she made a difference.
December became the queen of graffiti. A vigilante of color. A bandit of vibrancy. Splashes of vandalism began to appear across the rooftops of the industrial district. Simple messages, doodles, landscapes, all laid out in a rainbow of colors. In her paint-splashed clothing she was a rainbows shadow across rooftops of Seattle, fighting an eternal crusade against the grey that dominated the first half of her life and the last half of her name.
Aspects:
-High concept: An agile rebel
-Trouble: acts without thinking
- Freerunner
- Needs more color…
- Delinquent
Skills:
+4(choose one) Athletics
+3(choose two) Burglary, Deceive
+2(choose three) Fight, Provoke, Stealth
+1(choose four) Notice, Physique, Will, Empathy
Stunts: (make two for now):
And it's a home run….
-September breaks her current melee weapon across the head of her opponent. +2 to attack, but weapon cannot be used again
I'm just like you, only cooler
-Septembers costume matches what a raver would wear to Sunburst Cities active night life. +2 to stealth checks in populated areas during the night
Fuck this, I'm out
+1 to attempts to escape combat when outnumbered
Fate points- 3
Physical Stress [ ] [ ] [ ]
Mental Stress [ ] [ ] [ ]
Consequences:
Baseball bat (+1)
3 aerosol cans of assorted paint colors
Name: December Donovan (alter ego: Tag)
Appearance Tall and thin, with short cut black hair. She usually has paint splattered somewhere on her, usually hands or face. At night she dons a paint-stained tee and cargo shorts, as well as a similarly stained ski cap and bandana.
Years of Experience: 1
Background: December grew up in the grey streets of the Sunburst City Industrial district. The buildings were grey, the sidewalks were grey. The people were as grey as the rain that fell on them from the grey clouds above.
December was a Gray.
From an early age, December was commited to not being grey.
From early age she began taking different routes to school, first just simple detours. A left instead of a right, this street instead of that one.
But soon after she began exploring. First back alleys, then the underground, but one route fascinated her above all else.
The rooftops.
December wowed her friends with her newfound freedom of movement, which is one of the few things she could wow them with, since her grades were pitiful.
Not that her parents cared.
Her parents hadn't cared for a long while.
December struggled through school, somehow graduated, and moved on. Lacking the money, or job to leave, she remained in the industrial district. Now, however, she decided to make a difference. She was hired as a Haven Industries-contracted building painter, and while the flat colors were not as bright as she wished, she loved the height involved in the job and the simple feeling of making money.
On weekends, however, she made a difference.
December became the queen of graffiti. A vigilante of color. A bandit of vibrancy. Splashes of vandalism began to appear across the rooftops of the industrial district. Simple messages, doodles, landscapes, all laid out in a rainbow of colors. In her paint-splashed clothing she was a rainbows shadow across rooftops of Seattle, fighting an eternal crusade against the grey that dominated the first half of her life and the last half of her name.
Aspects:
-High concept: An agile rebel
-Trouble: acts without thinking
- Freerunner
- Needs more color…
- Delinquent
Skills:
+4(choose one) Athletics
+3(choose two) Burglary, Deceive
+2(choose three) Fight, Provoke, Stealth
+1(choose four) Notice, Physique, Will, Empathy
Stunts: (make two for now):
And it's a home run….
-September breaks her current melee weapon across the head of her opponent. +2 to attack, but weapon cannot be used again
I'm just like you, only cooler
-Septembers costume matches what a raver would wear to Sunburst Cities active night life. +2 to stealth checks in populated areas during the night
Fuck this, I'm out
+1 to attempts to escape combat when outnumbered
Fate points- 3
Physical Stress [ ] [ ] [ ]
Mental Stress [ ] [ ] [ ]
Consequences:
- 2. 3.
Baseball bat (+1)
3 aerosol cans of assorted paint colors
Factions and Trivia
Built in 1995 off the coast of the northwestern United States, it was a poor and unassuming city until Haven Industries set up its HQ there in 2008. Afterwards, population and income boomed, especially after a grant was given by the US government to turn Sunburst city into a test bed for a "Weapons free city" which, with the help of Haven Industries, has been overwhelmingly successful, if it weren't for several mob families operating out of the Cities docks. This reform has also, however, come with a few compromises, including the legalization of many a recreational drug, and the lowering of the legal drinking age. Regardless, Sunburst city has been hailed as the "City of the future." Electronic billboards advertise a wealth of products (usually sponsored by Haven Industries), Drones zip every which way in the air, delivering packages or taking pictures. The cities night life is equally vibrant, with posters for all sorts of bands, raves, parties and other events plastering nearly every alley and signpost.
Haven Industries
A company formed in 2006 by the (now deceased due to cancer) Alexander Haven, it at first dealt with robotics and set up its HQ on the small island community of Sunburst. Since, it has grown into an industrial giant. If there's a product out there, you can almost guarantee Haven Industries has their own alternative, and that its usually better quality and cheaper than its competitors. Since it's founding, Haven Industries has acquired several major companies, including Microsoft, Ford, and Apple. The legitimacy of these merging is still being debated in court, though talks have mysteriously stagnated.
The Yurinzi Family
A family of the Japanese Yakuza, they have been an alleged thorn in Haven Industries and anti-gun activists side for years(though if rumors are to be believed, they have a good amount of stake in Haven Industries, and may have paid them off on multiple occasions.) The family is run by the "Dragon Queen" Mariza Yurinzi, who has been involved in several weapon smuggling deals and other crimes around the cities eastern docks. Their only main competition is…
The Bzordov Family
The other main party of mobsters on the relatively small island, the Bzordov's are a well respected family of the Russian Brevta, which is why it enrages their patriarch, Nikolai Bzordov, so that not only has the Dragon Lady managed to produce more income on this tiny island than his family has, but she has recently –through a series of shrewd and unfortunately all-too-legal deals- acquired much of the Bzordovs territory in the Sunburst Cities southern Industrial Dockyard. There has been no open combat between the two families yet, but the dockyards are primed and just waiting for a spark.
(will add more upon request)
Players list:
1. Alistair Little AKA "Jabberwock" @erlking
2. Jason Black AKA "Watcher" @ThePremise
3 .Kurasagawa Natsume AKA "Tengumusume" @SailorMidgard
4.Sixth Risin AKA The Faceless One @Mithrandir
WAITLIST
1.Jamie Fey AKA white rabbit @edmantgoog
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