Sons of Liberty-A 2nd American Revolution Quest

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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
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It is the year 2030, and America has been dead for some time. It is a husk of what it once was, with pieces cut off into independent states or corporate puppets. The federal government was once a body that, while having issues, was still accountable to the people. Now, the executive branch is controlled by Militech, and the legislative and judicial branches are a joke and a husk, respectively.

After the crash of 94 and the following economic collapse, coup attempts, and plagues the population was cut by tens of millions. America became reliant on outside economic forces as Arasaka ate up many of the smaller and mid-size corps and the Eurodollar took precedence as people lost faith in the US Dollar. And then the DataKrash hit and the world went even more to hell as technology regressed until the fragmented new net was finished with the completion of the Blackwall.

What was once a nation stretching Sea to Shining Sea now only had firm control over the corridor of cities from Boston to Washington and land past the Mississippi was a chaotic wild west ruled by gangs and nomad clans. Even in the "lawful" regions of the east, it is a functional dictatorship where the government hands out favors to the corps like candy on Halloween, a celebration you have only ever heard about.


This would not stand, this could not stand, you were born in 2010s and you grew up on books about the history of your country. From its War for Independence to the Civil War that eliminated slavery and the battles of WWII that defeated the Axis powers. You have decided to do something not too unprecedented, form an organization in an attempt to change things. But unlike some groups that try to look to the future for inspiration, because with how fast tech is changing why would someone not look to the future.

Instead, you are looking to the past, looking to people who believed in the cause of liberty and democracy even before America was just a collection of semi-independent states under the control of a body they have no say in, a situation that feels similar to the current state of things. You look to the old secret society, the Sons of Liberty for inspiration. They were the first revolutionaries and you want to follow in their footsteps.

But first before any of that, who are you?

Name
[] Only pick a first name.

Gender
[]Male
[]Female

How old are you
[] Write in your age (Preferably 18-21)

What do You look like
[] Describe yourself

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Background/Lifepath

[]Slum Kid- You are a kid who has lived on the streets your whole life. You never knew your family and if they are willing to abandon a child then maybe you are better off without them. You survived only out of the kindness of the local priest and as you grew up you became a religious individual. You had learned about the USA of old from local libraries and the church's book collection and those moments of joy when reading were some of the best of your youth. It was a hard youth but it was in no way a horrible one.

(Street Kid like Life Path, Gain trait Religious, Will have grown up in City)

[]Lost Farm-kid- From what people tell you your parents were farmers. Your family had been farmers for generations, but when your mom and dad died for reasons you can't seem to figure out as no one else knows, the local AgriCorp took control of the land through bribery. Without a home and only a young child, you became somewhat of a local project with everyone your parents helped, and it was a lot of people. You grew up learning about the USA from a few books but also the vibrant local storytelling tradition.

(Nomad like Life Path, Gain trait Storyteller, Will have grown up in a small town)

[]War Orphan- Your parents died in war a year after you were born, that is what the records told you. A local corp, trying to win public sympathy, built an orphanage for children of soldiers. For the first ten years, life wasn't too bad, the facilities were funded well enough and you received a good enough education, but eventually, the corp was bought out. The orphanage was de-funded and things went to shit, but you rallied the local kids along with one or two teachers who refused to leave and rebuilt. During your free time, you read stories about America from the library and whatever books you could get your hands on.

(Corpo like Life Path, Gain trait Organizer, Will have grown up in a smaller city)

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What Region of the Country did you grow up in as the diversity of this nation will shape you into different people depending on where you're from?

[]Minnesota- The land of 10,000 lakes, or to you home. During the multiple crisis of the 90' and till the present Minnesota was hit hard. The great lakes were polluted, and so were many of the smaller bodies of water. It was a land that was only barely controlled by the NUSA, their only presence being a base by Rochester to keep the Mayo Clinic open. And while the mayor of Twin City derives some legitimacy they barely provide him any support. But ten miles north there is little centralized control as independent farmers battle it out with AgriCorps for their independence.

[]Tennessee- Land of Music City, U.S.A and home to many of the largest musicians as inside Memphis songs are made in a manner not too different from a factory, churning out soulless pieces of mass media garbage. But outside of that bastion of money and music its just a swamp, or at least that's what the NUSA says. In reality there are many independent towns clinging together and working to eke out a living, but with all things in the current world the Corps are slowly moving in.

[]New Mexico- When people talk about the west of America being a wasteland there is no better example than New Mexico. There is a total lack of any organization or body even claiming to control the state. In this desert there is the Unified American Nation to the northwest of the state, a collection of native tribes that banded together after the collapse. There is the city of Albuquerque, that while having shrunk to a population of 50,000 it is a rest stop for any convoy across the nation.

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Where you are from is all well and good, but you are a revolutionary. And every good revolutionary needs an Idol to look up to and follow. Not to mention you should probably get a last name, so why not adopt one from your personal hero. But among all of America's leaders there are three that stand out to you the most. Who among them is the president you want to model yourself after.

(Each President Has a goal attached to their ideology, one you will want to follow in their footsteps to accomplish.You will also take their last name for yourself.)

[] Roosevelt- The legacy of Roosevelt is a two parted one, it is the legacy of both Frederick Delano and Teddy Roosevelt. Theodore watched over a breaking of the monopolies and a restriction of the large trusts of his day, a fact that makes you smile. While FDR saw over a mass program of government projects meant to improve the lives of everyday citizens and pull the people out of a depression.

(Goal Gained- "Breaking Business and Building Bureaucracy": You want to build a government that holds the companies accountable and works for the people.)

[] Lincoln- The legacy of Abraham Lincoln is a great one. A man often considered to be one of America's best presidents, he freed the slaves and reunited the nation before being cut down too soon. Like Lincoln you see people being held in bondage, not chattel slavery like old, but a new type of slavery. Where people will replace parts of themselves to be more efficient and have those parts repossessed once they are let go. One where people will become indebted themselves with no way of emancipation just to afford basic necessities, you would not have it, you will see people freed from this form of bondage.

(Goal Gained- "Those Who Deny Freedom": You have Seen the corporation force people into modern slavery. These are Americans and you will see them freed)

[] Washington- The legacy of George Washington, the legacy that would be hardest but most worthwhile to live up to. He was a flawed man, a man of contradictory beliefs, but he tried to make this country a better place, and in the end he did. He set preconditions, oversaw the birth of a nation and helped turn the office of the President into one that could be respected. He set the foundation for a free nation full of promise, and that is what you strive to do as well.

(Goal Gained- "First Citizen of a Reborn America": It is your goal to lead by example and reforge America, into the nation it once was and lead its people to greatness.)

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(I would like to say that you can not be a communist, in this world the cold war never technically ended, even if most people consider the soviets to be the winners in the end. Americans still have a distrust for communism, one that is a holdover from the cold war and modern Corpo propaganda, and you have adopted the dislike of it during your studies. But remember that Socialism does not equal communist, but a large amount of the population dislikes and fears both.)

Voting will open up at 6:45pm EST​

Update: I will use my veto on any attempt to make the character An expy. You can use reference images works but please be creative. I want to allow for creative discussion and but I don't want to write what amounts to a crossover fic. I dont mind if side characters are Inspired by other franchises, but this is the MC please be original.

 

[HydroG3]

Jonathan Lewis "Washington"​

Birthplace:Twin City Minnesota, Minneapolis district
Birthday July 2nd 2009
Age 21
Appearance: A 6'1 tall man with a slightly dark complexion and a pair of cybernetic eyes with gold pupils. Tall with a lean but still fit build he wears his hair in a buzz cut and keeps his face clean shaven. Having lost his right arm he wears an older but still functional mode of cyberarm in its place.

Spoiler: Appearance Image

Stats
Martial: 13+1-1=13
Diplomacy: 12+2+1-2=13
Stewardship: 16+3+1+3=22~cap of 22
Intrigue: 11+1-2=10
Learning: 20+2+1=22~cap of 22
Prowess: 10+1=11

Special Traits:

"The New Hero For An Old Nation": You desire to be a hero for the nation, a new Washington. You received what could be considered a top 1% education in the United States so like Washington you are a learned man with a desire for liberty. Through your studies, you now possess a complex understanding of how legacy and are able to use your knowledge to rally those who follow you. (Gain a +10 to all actions rallying and also get a +10 for any morale rolls when you are preent.)

"Meticulous Mastery": You are prepared when researching things you are skilled at. When researching a topic you are skilled in you can not crit fail and gain a +2 to research rolls.

Traits:
Just – You value fairness and seek a return to the rule of law. (+3 Stewardship, +2 Learning and Diplomacy, -2 Intrigue)

Diligent – You never give up and will always push on toward your goal. (+1 for all Stats, +1 Personal Action per turn)

Greedy – You are rarely satisfied with what you have and will always want more, sometimes to your detriment (+3 Stewardship, -2 diplomacy, -1 martial)

Spoiler: Skills

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Skills:

• Logistics: You have a keen mind for things like supply logistics but also manufacturing efficiency.

• Engineering: You know the basics of most fields of common engineering

• Refined Warfare: You know how to fight a battle using modern advancements like cyberware to its fullest

• Asymmetric Warfare: You understand how to wage a guerilla war

• Law: You have a keen legal mind, understanding how courts and bureaucracy works

• Macro Economics; You understand how economies work on Large scales

• Micro Economics: You understand how economies work on small scales

• Orator: You are a skilled speaker and can captivate audiences

More categories will be added as story progresses

 

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Character Census (Dramatis Personae)

Characters
Allies

Lauren Welch- Engineer and de facto leader of the engineers at the Orphanage

Spoiler: Appearance Image and Stats

Martial: 3
Diplomacy: 11
Stewardship: 18
Intrigue: 12
Learning: 19
Prowess: 6

Lukas Morrison- Netrunner and Techie, leader of the Netrunners at the Orphanage

Spoiler: Appearance Image and Stats

Martial: 7
Diplomacy: 8
Stewardship: 13
Intrigue: 17
Learning: 18
Prowess: 12

Titus Wu- Commander of the Militia and Sergeant at Arms for the Orphanage

Spoiler: Appearance Image and Stats

Martial: 17
Diplomacy: 8
Stewardship: 12
Intrigue: 11
Learning: 13
Prowess: 16

Neutral


Enemies

Mayor Anissa Hamilton, Mayor of Twin City

Spoiler: Appearance Image and Stats

Martial: 9
Diplomacy: 16
Stewardship: 13
Intrigue: 19
Learning: 13
Prowess: 11

Extra

References for what level of skill a stat allows

0-5: elementary school level of understanding (Telling an accountant to fix a car)
6-10: middle school level of understanding (Giving a teenager who shot air-soft rifles an AR-15 and uses it)
11-15: High school level of understanding (Asking a high school kid to do basic algebra, gets 75% right)
16-20: College level of understanding (Having an organic chemistry student synthesize chemicals)
20-25: Masters level of understanding (Getting an engineer to work on rocket engineers)
26-30: PHD level of understanding (Having a neurosurgeon perform brain surgery)
30+: a true prodigy

 

[HydroG3]

Organizations

Allied Organizations

???- No one knows about you at this time.

Enemy Organizations

Spoiler: Flag of the NUSA

The NUSA, the bane of your existence. A mocking parody of the USA built out of tyranny and blood, all in the service of a mighty few. You will never be their ally for they stand for everything you oppose. It will be a good day when they collapse. Ruled by "President" Elizabeth Kress they hold onto what limited power they have though force.

Spoiler: Flag of Twin City

Twin City- The combination of Minneapolis and St Paul in the late 90s to save both cities finances formed one of the only basis of "Modern" life in Minnesota and is considered the most important trade hub in the region, and to its leaders they consider it the only true city left in the state. It is currently ruled by Mayor Anissa Hamilton who seeks to expand the cities influence.

 

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Map of the Continental United States as of 01/01/2030


Types of Status

• Dark Blue- Full NUSA Control: This state is firmly under the control of the NUSA and it exerts full power

• Light Blue- Partial NUSA Control: NUSA military bases and their control over the larger cities in these regions give them significant influence but outside of the urban centers there is little Respect for the authorities of the NUSA

• Pale Blue- Nominal NUSA Control: The NUSA controls these territories in name only. With the occasional patrol by forces or the few and far between border watch posts the NUSA doesn't have enough resources to assert the power of these lands and the locals know it.

• Orange- NUSA Aligned State: These states are independent in all but name. But to keep shipments from the NUSA-aligned corporations and Militech they submit themselves to the NUSA. Under the control of Local Governors and Corps popularity of the NUSA is only middling.

• Red - Independent States- These states are completely independent, They are divided from the NUSA and consider themselves independent.

• Tan - No Controlling Bodies - In these states, there is no governing body that exerts or claims to exert any controlling authority. Local areas are ruled by a variety of leaders, from mayors to gang kingpins and everything in between. The NUSA may claim that this is their territory but everyone who knows anything realizes those are just empty words.

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Map of Minnesota as of 01/01/2030

• Blue- Area under control of Twin City, NUSA vassal State

• Red- Area under NUSA control, home to "Freedom" air base and the Mayo Clinic. The sole base of true NUSA control in the state

• Green- Area under the control of the Free City of Duluth, While the Great Lakes can't be used for much fishing it is still a good transport network. With a hidden and mobile series of SAM and air-to-ground missile batteries, Duluth has been able to maintain its independence from the NUSA and other powers

• Purple- regions under the control of Native tribes. The north of Minnesota was home to many natives and once federal and state control collapsed they began to live independent of old treaties now, while the regions they live in are not fully controlled by them, they still don't like trespassers.

• Tan- Land without any centralized control or large bodies living in it.

 

[HydroG3]

TBD

 

[HydroG3]

(These rules are subject to change)

Crit Rules

I will count natural 1, and natural 100 as Nat Crits. These are the best possible rolls and will give you amazing results or terrible punishments. Then if you have non-natural results that give you either <=1 or >=100 these are non-natural crit and will give you some bonuses, better than a normal success or worse than a normal failure but nowhere as extreme as a natural crit.

Also for a fun addition if you roll two or more d100s and any of the rolls are duplicated then there might be a fun bonus.

Omake Rules

This is where I will post the Omakes and their respective bonuses. There will be three types of Omakes, saving bonuses, ones with temporary bonuses, and ones with permanent bonuses. Depending on how well you wrote an omake from a certain prompt may determine if the bonus is temporary or permanent.

Saving bonuses are only gained by Omakes posts that were not on the bounty list and if they are good, a thing solely up to my discretion, then they can be saved to somewhat off-put the failure of critically bad rolls and just make them normal failures. I will probably not accept more than one or two a day, and please don't post them during voting times.

The Omakes with temporary effects give bonuses only once and during special circumstances. They can affect only one interaction or one event, like a conversation or the effectiveness of an ambush. They won't provide flat bonuses for whole chapters or events but could potentially turn the tide of a battle. They don't need to be long stories, short and sweet works fine, but longer stories may get better bonuses.

Then the Omakes with permanent bonuses are self-explanatory. They have a requirement to be slightly longer with proper grammar. But they can give you VERY nice long-term rewards.

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[HydroG3]

Hi there, Hydro here and do I have a deal for you. I'll give you all three omake bounties and If you fulfill them then your character will gain a skill for each one. They are open-ended but if they are well-written and all three are fulfilled then there may be a special reward.

Here are your three opportunities

[] An encounter demonstrating how the US dollar is now worthless Claimed by TechnoDragonHD

[] Write a story about the death of literacy in the NUSA Claimed by ArgoTheSkywing

[] Tell the story about how the current NUSA judicial system is corrupt beyond imagining Claimed by OldGlory76

Have fun writing. 👋

 

[HydroG3]

Scheduled vote count started by HydroG3 on Feb 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM, finished with 47 posts and 20 votes.

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  11 people have voted

  [X] Plan: Those farmers aren't gonna organize themselves
  -[X][Name] Jonathan
  -[X][Age] 21
  -[X][Gender] Male
  -[X][Appreance]
  -[X][Origin] War Orphan
  -[X][State] Minnesota
  -[X] Washington

  • OldGlory76
  • Jonny_boy
  • KingCrimson1081
  • thesarge7500
  • FrozenChosen
  • CaOp
  • Operator Bacon
  • aaronleeking
  • TechnoDragonHD
  • Jack727
  • Hopebringer7654

  10 people have voted

  [X] Plan: Rebuilding the economy
  -[X][Name] Charles
  -[X][Age] 20
  -[X][Gender] Male
  -[X][Appreance]
  -[X][Origin] War Orphan
  -[X][State] Minnesota
  -[X][Idol] Roosevelt

  • OldGlory76
  • zack omega24
  • Profilozof
  • SargentRex115
  • Sole_Survivor 77
  • Whumbly
  • geraldrold
  • KingCrimson1081
  • thesarge7500
  • FrozenChosen

  6 people have voted

  [X] Plan: Flag Carrier of the New Revolution
  -[X][Name] Liberty
  -[X][Age] 18
  -[X][Gender] Female
  -[X] A weary dirty-blonde teenage girl wearing a worn leather duster embroidered with the classic Betsy Ross flag
  -[X][Origin] War Orphan
  -[X] New Mexico
  -[X] Washington

  • OldGlory76
  • Jack727
  • Hopebringer7654
  • wanje
  • Traveller76
  • Nyx5

  1 people have voted

  [X] Plan: Daughter of war, Mother of the republic
  -[X][Name] Rosemyne
  -[X][Age] 18
  -[X][Gender] Female
  -[X][Drip]
  -[X][Origin] War Orphan
  -[X][State] Minnesota
  -[X][Idol] Roosevelt

  • Profilozof

 

[TechnoDragonHD]

"It's Just worthless Paper Now"

Ford Hughes was having a bad day. Well, it had been a series of bad days and they kept getting worse. A man in his seventies he had survived decades of crap after more crap. He had fought in Vietnam in his youth after being drafted and when he got home from the war he decided to enlist full-time after having found a family in the army. For eighteen more years, he served until he aged out and took his pension as a Staff Sergent deciding to retire by Kansas City where he grew up.

It was a good thing that he left when he did because things went from somewhat bad to a complete fustercluck soon after. The plagues, economic crisis, and ecological collapse wreaked havoc on his home as he saw the city and country he loved begin to rot from the inside out. He watched as the US government fell completely apart and was taken over by a corporate entity.

With the collapse of the NUSA claimed to be taking over the duties of the previous government in most cases they just didn't, and that wasn't more apparent than for the veterans. For most of the former service members their pension and disability payments stopped, and while some money was put aside for the vets that remained in the larger cities in the BOSWASH corridor that was the exception and not the rule. But for men like him out in the boonies there was nothing.

What was the most damaging thing was that many people during the collapses and crisis thought they if they just held their money in cold hard cash then they could avoid the collapse. That was the route Ford took, and it bit him in the ass. By the end of the 2010s, all his cash was worthless.

Now Ford finds himself riding inside a convoy headed from Lincoln Nebraska to Indianapolis. With a bit of cyberware, he was able to find himself a job as a caravan. As convoys of cars passed through the uncontrolled land he looked out the window and wondered what he would do with the pile of cash he had at home.

After all, It's Just worthless Paper Now.