ZiPeppe
(Human colony)
A somewhat unwelcoming landscape greets you as you wake up - a dry, rocky area, deep crags cutting through the ground and tall, stone pillars rising tens of meters into the air. You can't see any vegetation larger than some bushes and clumps of ugly, dry grass and moss growing on the rocks. And it's rather cold, though not below freezing.
In the distance, you can see what looks like a small town - many small, prefabricated structures, what looks like a small spaceport and a small open-pit mine. You'd estimate a population of ten thousand, at most. Probably less than that. Looks like a backwater dump, but there's nothing else in sight.
Daraken
(Citadel)
You're greeted by the sight of a dark, rather dank and poorly lit corridor. At first glance, you'd think it was some kind of an abandoned underground facility, but the sounds of a city, coming from behind the door at the far end of the corridor don't quite mesh with that. The door at the opposite end seems to be locked, so with no other option, you head towards the noise.
The doors slide open as you come close and you are greeted by an otherworldly sight - quite literally at that. It opens up to a narrow balcony over a wide walkway. Beyond the walkway is a deep canyon of metal between two lines of skyscrapers, flying cars racing between them. And above… four arms, kilometers wide and kilometres long stretching out from a colossal ring. No, five, you're on one of the arms. You can see the lights of a city on each, and beyond, the warm glow of a nearby sun, and thousands of twinkling stars, shrouded by the haze of a nebula.
KnightDisciple
(Illium)
As you wake up, you're sure of one thing - this isn't Earth. If there were cities like this one on Earth, you're pretty sure you'd have heard about it. From the empty balcony you can see towers titanic towers all around you, each as tall as Burj Khalifa, at minimum and vastly more massive. Thousands of small car-like aircraft race between the buildings, massive aircraft that you're sure shouldn't be able to fly with or without wings float above the city, rising into the sky or descending to land.
Definitely not Earth.
Jemnite
(Khar'shan)
The first thing that hits you as you wake up is the smell. The stench of smoke, garbage and putrid water. As you get back to your feet, you become aware of your surroundings - the room of a building, three or four storeys tall, the roof's concrete looking old and cracked in places. Around you is a slum. Buildings similar to this one and various haphazard constructions of plastic and plywood stretch towards a nearby bay, spaced as tightly as possible. Garbage lies in the streets and putrid water pools in the corners and crags of the cracked pavement. You can see ships in the bay, naval and space-capable both, all looking aged and worn.
In the narrow streets, you can see crowds of people going around their business - workers, small-time traders, homeless. Most belong to a four-eyed humanoid species you can't identify, but there are also a few others in the crowd, likewise unknown. You see maybe three humans, total.
As you turn around, you see a stark contrast in the distance, beyond the slum - a city of gleaming, white towers lies beyond the slum, ships coming to ground or rising into space from it.
Usandru
(Asuka - Generic Awful Hellhole)
There are a few words to describe the place you woke up in - words such as "awful", "smelly", "hellhole", "ruined" or "terrible". It looks like a war or some natural disaster rolled through the place a long time ago and no-one ever quite got around to fixing the place up, completely - new buildings are intermixed with old, ruined ones, the roads have been broken and patched a hundred times. The people here are not human. Maybe a third of the people you see are humans, the rest are quite clearly aliens, a lot of them four-eyed humanoids. And evidently poor.
It doesn't take you long to notice other details, such as there being two moons, the light from the sun being blue, the gravity being seemingly weaker and the atmosphere being thinner than you're used to and somewhat hard to breathe.
alguLoD
(Omega)
You wake up on a hard surface, to a distant cacophony of unfamiliar sounds. The floor is damp, and the air is moist, and you can hear water tapping as droplets crash on the floor. Slowly, you get to your feet, and find that you're in a narrow passageway, illuminated by a dim, baleful red light. Why are you here and how, you've no idea, but it isn't what you would call a welcoming sight.
"Oi. Human." someone call from behind you, and you turn to see a strange, four eyed, but still somewhat human-like creature staring at you and pointing some sort of object. "Not your lucky day."
There's a flash from the opening at the end of the object, and suddenly something hits you in the gut with enough strength to send you tumbling back and almost sprawling to the floor. You regain balance… only for a second shot to sound and send you sprawling to the floor, in a quickly gathering pool of your own blood.
YOU DIED
You're not sure how long it takes for you to come back to life. There's no bonfire. Most of your equipment is gone, along with the four-eyed bastard. You're down to a few items, strewn all around you and the clothes on your back.
(You have the equipment you bought. Other items may appear as plot demands.)
OoC Thread
(Human colony)
A somewhat unwelcoming landscape greets you as you wake up - a dry, rocky area, deep crags cutting through the ground and tall, stone pillars rising tens of meters into the air. You can't see any vegetation larger than some bushes and clumps of ugly, dry grass and moss growing on the rocks. And it's rather cold, though not below freezing.
In the distance, you can see what looks like a small town - many small, prefabricated structures, what looks like a small spaceport and a small open-pit mine. You'd estimate a population of ten thousand, at most. Probably less than that. Looks like a backwater dump, but there's nothing else in sight.
Daraken
(Citadel)
You're greeted by the sight of a dark, rather dank and poorly lit corridor. At first glance, you'd think it was some kind of an abandoned underground facility, but the sounds of a city, coming from behind the door at the far end of the corridor don't quite mesh with that. The door at the opposite end seems to be locked, so with no other option, you head towards the noise.
The doors slide open as you come close and you are greeted by an otherworldly sight - quite literally at that. It opens up to a narrow balcony over a wide walkway. Beyond the walkway is a deep canyon of metal between two lines of skyscrapers, flying cars racing between them. And above… four arms, kilometers wide and kilometres long stretching out from a colossal ring. No, five, you're on one of the arms. You can see the lights of a city on each, and beyond, the warm glow of a nearby sun, and thousands of twinkling stars, shrouded by the haze of a nebula.
KnightDisciple
(Illium)
As you wake up, you're sure of one thing - this isn't Earth. If there were cities like this one on Earth, you're pretty sure you'd have heard about it. From the empty balcony you can see towers titanic towers all around you, each as tall as Burj Khalifa, at minimum and vastly more massive. Thousands of small car-like aircraft race between the buildings, massive aircraft that you're sure shouldn't be able to fly with or without wings float above the city, rising into the sky or descending to land.
Definitely not Earth.
Jemnite
(Khar'shan)
The first thing that hits you as you wake up is the smell. The stench of smoke, garbage and putrid water. As you get back to your feet, you become aware of your surroundings - the room of a building, three or four storeys tall, the roof's concrete looking old and cracked in places. Around you is a slum. Buildings similar to this one and various haphazard constructions of plastic and plywood stretch towards a nearby bay, spaced as tightly as possible. Garbage lies in the streets and putrid water pools in the corners and crags of the cracked pavement. You can see ships in the bay, naval and space-capable both, all looking aged and worn.
In the narrow streets, you can see crowds of people going around their business - workers, small-time traders, homeless. Most belong to a four-eyed humanoid species you can't identify, but there are also a few others in the crowd, likewise unknown. You see maybe three humans, total.
As you turn around, you see a stark contrast in the distance, beyond the slum - a city of gleaming, white towers lies beyond the slum, ships coming to ground or rising into space from it.
Usandru
(Asuka - Generic Awful Hellhole)
There are a few words to describe the place you woke up in - words such as "awful", "smelly", "hellhole", "ruined" or "terrible". It looks like a war or some natural disaster rolled through the place a long time ago and no-one ever quite got around to fixing the place up, completely - new buildings are intermixed with old, ruined ones, the roads have been broken and patched a hundred times. The people here are not human. Maybe a third of the people you see are humans, the rest are quite clearly aliens, a lot of them four-eyed humanoids. And evidently poor.
It doesn't take you long to notice other details, such as there being two moons, the light from the sun being blue, the gravity being seemingly weaker and the atmosphere being thinner than you're used to and somewhat hard to breathe.
alguLoD
(Omega)
You wake up on a hard surface, to a distant cacophony of unfamiliar sounds. The floor is damp, and the air is moist, and you can hear water tapping as droplets crash on the floor. Slowly, you get to your feet, and find that you're in a narrow passageway, illuminated by a dim, baleful red light. Why are you here and how, you've no idea, but it isn't what you would call a welcoming sight.
"Oi. Human." someone call from behind you, and you turn to see a strange, four eyed, but still somewhat human-like creature staring at you and pointing some sort of object. "Not your lucky day."
There's a flash from the opening at the end of the object, and suddenly something hits you in the gut with enough strength to send you tumbling back and almost sprawling to the floor. You regain balance… only for a second shot to sound and send you sprawling to the floor, in a quickly gathering pool of your own blood.
YOU DIED
You're not sure how long it takes for you to come back to life. There's no bonfire. Most of your equipment is gone, along with the four-eyed bastard. You're down to a few items, strewn all around you and the clothes on your back.
(You have the equipment you bought. Other items may appear as plot demands.)
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