[M] A Single Step : Chapter 1

**Mary Sue** · 01-07-2012, 02:18 AM

Rated M for violence, sexual content, strong language, and all that good bad stuff.

::HISTORY::

The Archonians are a race of people from a whirlpool galaxy they called the Ninorian Galaxy. 150 years ago, they lived on Archon V, indicating that they had survived five planet wide hardships. Unfortunately, Archon VI has yet to be named as a Super Nova destroyed the Yilan Solar System. The approaching disaster forced the Archonian people to build a fleet of massive star ships that could safely support the majority of their population.
When the super nova destroyed the solar system, the fleet of star ships set off in different directions looking for new planets like Archon V to colonize.

::RULES::

1. No Godmodding - It is NATURAL for some players to be better, stronger, faster, or smarter than others. A teenager won't be as experienced as an older man/ woman. Be reasonable in your actions, or be able to logically explain them.

2. No Railroading will be tolerated - This means you cannot try to steer the RP in a direction that the GM did not intend or approve.

3. No Power Playing please - If I see anyone using OOC information IC without having learned it IC, they will be warned and if it happens a second time, I'll remove them from the RP.

4. Contribution is a encouraged! - I am totally open for taking suggestions and opinions on what the players would like to see IC. If I use your ideas, I'll be sure to add it to the reference guide for future use as well!

5. Three Character Limit

6. Post Requirements - I prefer 1 - 3 substantial paragraphs. Give players posting after you something to go off of to keep the story moving. Posts should also be as grammtically correct as possible. Everyone makes mistakes, and English is difficult, but do you're best.

7. Commitment - If you join this RP, I expect you to make a commitment and stick with it. This means a ONE POST MINIMUM each week. If you are going to be absent for more than a few days please inform the group in the OOC so we can take the proper means to move your character along.

8. NO SPEED POSTING! - For the love of all that is good. Just don't do it. It leaves people out.

9. Expect the Unexpected - Things may happen to your characters, and while I will never do something to someone's character without their permission *, everyone should know that signing up for this RP means that I will discuss with you some scenarios when the time comes.

* The expection is if someone disappears from the RP. At that point I will do something (relocating, killing, etc.) to your character to get him/her out of the RP so we can move on.

10. Recap - Make sure you read all posts since your last post before you make a new one.

11. Use the Refernce Guide - It's still being fleshed out, but the reference guide will contain any and all important information to the RP so you can look at it later. The link will be posted at the bottom of this post.

12. PM me your character sheets, and follow the character skeleton.

13. Do not join the RP before you have been approved.

14. All RPA Rules apply (some have already been covered)

15. All Mature Rules apply.

16. No matter how your character acts IC, always be kind and respectful OOC.

17. Please use easy to read font colors. Nothing super bright. And be sure to use no more than two fonts. Reduces eye strain.

17. I reserve the right to add or change rules if I see the need in order to create a more enjoyable experience. You will be informed OOC if I make any changes. I have the right to deny profiles if I feel they are not acceptable, and I have the right to ask anyone to leave if I feel they are not following the rules or are being unpleasant OOC. I sincerely hope it never comes to that however!

:: CHARACTERS ::

You can play whoever you want to on the ship. Just like in any city or town, there are thousands of jobs, thousands of lives, and thousands of different experiences. It is my job to weave you all together, so if you want to be a kid in school you can. If you want to be a military pilot/ scout you can. If you want to own the most popular night club on Jericho - X7 BY ALL MEANS go ahead!

:: Character Skeleton ::

Name:
Age:
Subculture: Pure, Colorful, Cyber, or Shifter
Appearance: I would like a detailed description over all. You may add an image if you wish, but place it in a spoiler. I would prefer no anime pictures please, but any other picture style is fine.

Social Standing: How influential are you on the Jericho-X7?
Profession: Goes hand in hand with social standing. Keep the two related.

Personality:
Short Bio: A little paragraph or two about your character's life on the ship up to the start of the RP.

:: CAST ::

Spoiler: Thato Newlan - Played by Troy Barnes (Pure)

Spoiler: Odel Wuu'nai - Played by Wattz

Name: Odel Wuu’nai
Age: 29
Subculture: Pure

Appearance: Odel has boyishly short hair white hair and the frame of a woman who clearly works out, her muscles defined and prominent. Her gray eyes are almond-shaped, and her mouth is often set into a coy smile. She has exceptionally angular features that would border on androgynous if it weren’t for her tight clothing. She usually wears white or very light clothing with little splashes of color.

Social Standing: Owns the second most influential nightclub on Jericho-X7 called Supernova and is currently on a rise to the top through any means necessary.

Profession: Nightclub Owner

Personality: Odel used to be unable to control her OCD urges, but soon found that she could vent in the form of exercise. This also helped her become less angry and far more outgoing, though she often finds that she needs to exploit these tendencies to get what she needs or to threaten people for information. She’s made a business out of being nosy, and has all kinds of gossip and vital information about Archonians from all walks of life.

Odel has remained a Pure Archonian due to her OCD tendencies. As a savvy club owner, one would think she’d be a perfect candidate for alterations of a sort, but her crippling phobia of all genetic alteration has kept her as is.

Short Bio: After she just about lost her mind working a desk job, Odel decided it was time for a change of scenery. She used the rest of her money to start a business, first a restaurant that slowly evolved into the popular nightclub Supernova. For the longest time, Odel was at the top of her game, once the best rated owner on Jericho-X7. Through this, she made a living off entertaining people and gathering information. Her place is a hot-zone for anyone seeking information, and for the right buying and selling prices, Odel and company will tell you just about anything.

Unfortunately, her business split in two when one of her employees had a difference of opinion on how the club should be run. Talina went on to create The Shooting Star, which quickly rose to the top of the lists through various means of extortion. Infuriated, Odel has set about sabotaging Talina’s business and has made it her goal to take back her rightful place at the top of Jericho-X7

Spoiler: Mareth Hordal - Played by Zenteer

Name: Mareth Hordal
Age:29
Subculture: Cyber

Appearance: He wears a plain clean gray shirt, with a sleek, black overcoat over it. The coat is usually button up to hide a protective vest underneath his coat. Hidden in the inside of his sleek overcoat are two small pistols and in his beat-up steel tip boots is a knife. Also in his overcoat is a small smoke bomb. He wears black sunglasses that hides his eyes. His sun glasses are enhance to let him see further and give him a few other feature. His ears however are actually cybernetic and gives him the ability to hear at a distances, plus it acts like a cell phone. It looks like a normal ear, except on closer inspection it appears to look metallic. His right arm, is also cybernetic giving him an increased strength. He doesn't bother to hide it. The right side of his chest is also robotic, from getting shot. The robotics also serve as armor. His face is contains two scars, one coming down from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth. Another one is straight down the side of his right cheek. His nose looks like, it has been broken numerous times, and his eyes always have a dangerous glint in them, and seem to say Don't mess with me His hair naturally white, along with normal pale skin. His hair is spiked up and reaches to his shoulders.

Social Standing: He is mostly unknown in the ship, but in the small criminal underworld of the ship he has a reputation of being dangerous man to cross.
Profession: He is a gun runner in other words he sells and deals in weaponry. He has never been caught before and his merchant name is "The Boomer"

Personality: He is a cautious person, always looking behind him and slightly paranoid that someone is a "Bluecoat" (Slang for the peacekeepers). When he wants to be, he can be persuasive and nice, but usually that is an act.
Short Bio: His grandfather had boarded Jericho seeking fame and fortune. He received a small amount of each as he started dealing in guns and other weaponry. He pasted it down to Mareth's father and his father pasted it down to Mareth. Mareth soon earned himself a small reputation and a growing amount of money.

Spoiler: Mathie Martin = Played by V

Spoiler: Tanaur Anaun - Played by Red Falcon

Name: Tanaur Anaun
Age: 27
Subculture: Pure
Appearance: Tanaur stands at a height of 5'7" weighing about 165lbs. His muscles are well defined, with an athletic body. He has short white hair that fades from nothing to a few inches of neat straight hair on top of his head.

His uniform is a darker blue coat than that of the enforcer's signifying the tie between the two, with a red trim along it with a neck, black trousers, and white gloves. All of which are designed for him to perform his job well and effectively for maximum maneuverability, though form the jacket is form fitting to give the appearance of looking sharp at all times.

Off duty he wears long sleeve shirts with comfortable pants and a pair of running shoes.

Social Standing: One of the few personal body guards to the Grand Maiden.
Profession: A body guard specializing in the protection and well being of higher authorities, especially in the care of the Grand Maiden herself.

Personality: In order to lead you must be able to follow. That is how Tanaur is in a nutshell. On duty he seems a bit short with people, keeping his focus on following the scene, orders, and the wishes of the person he guards.
Off duty, he is a respectful guy who does what he can to unwind and have a good time. He always puts everyone before himself, and will hardly ever be caught in a bad mood, upset, or broken.
Short Bio: Taraun always felt, even as a kid, the most important part of the government was the voice of the people. It gave people a purpose to do what they could for themselves at the governments expense, as the government could not always see how things affected the people from high on their pedestal. At the same time, he was not naive. He knew someone somewhere would always want to do away with this person of freedom, especially one so religious.
He was raised with the values of respect by any means. Some people respected you by your kind actions, and some people responded to a form of violence, even if it was just defending someone else who was being abused. He took these qualities, and excelled in the enforcers, doing what he could to be a leader of those who needed guidence. after a few years, he requested to join up for guard duty, where he was accepted, trained, and assigned to guard the Grand Maiden along with a few other elite enforcers. He is still junior grade as a guard, but he works hard at his job and believes he does it well.

Spoiler: Terra Giomoni - Played by Xannak

Name: Terra Giomoni
Age: 20
Subculture: Shifter
Appearance: Terra is a quiet normal looking young woman with common white hair, grey eyes and pale skin. She is about 5"2' tall and has bright red lips. Her most characteristic feature is a black cat tail as well as black cat ears on her head. She usually wears black which makes a huge contrast making her look even paler. Her normal clothing are tight, black, shiny leggings, a black top and over them a long, black coat with a hood as well as high-heeled black boots.

social standing: Terra is quiet well-known in Jericho, but not with her own name, but as Animum. She poerforms as a dancer in clubs and bars of Jericho. But on the other hand she is also know as Yami, a professional assassin in the underground of Jericho whose true identity is known by nobody.

Profession: Dancer, Assassin

Personality: Childish and selfish, she always wants something and if she wants something she also gets it, in one way or another. When dancing, she acts flirty and cold. While working as an assassin she acts calm and quiet, without saying a word to anyone.

Bio: Terra was born in the prison of Jericho after her mother had killed her father. Her mother was allowed to live only to give birth to Terra and after that, she was executed. Terra was put into a adoptiv family without childern and chance of getting own children becuase of infertility. She was grown up in normal surroundings, but for some reason, in age of 15 she started to move in bad company, thiefs, dealers and other shadowy folk. In age of 17 she run away from her "parents" and made the genetic shift to herself. She started to work inside the underworld of Jericho, always in the shadows, always wearing black never talking or revealing herself and always finishing her job. After a year she was known as "Yami", the Darkness. About in the same time she started to dance in some clubs to cover up her trails. Even thought her shifts she was popular and gained reputation and fame. She doesn't want her "parents" to know about herself so she uses the name Animum while performing.

Spoiler: Brees Zixan - Played by Miss Spelling

Name: Kaya "Brees" Zixan
Age: 24
Subculture: Colorful
Appearance: Battling between two different life styles, the only features that stay the same are Kaya's thin, less than perfect eyebrows that regularly need trimming to subdue the 'bushy nature; small, slightly pouty lips; round, deep set eyes; and large, slightly pointed ears. Her skin is usually kept the normal pale coloring, save for patches of skin beneath her clothing that generally consist of multi-colored, thin stripes or faded 'polka dots' similar to her current hair color -often seen only when dancing in skimpy clothing or nude. Bright to pastel hair colors or even neon-rainbow is not uncommon for her, and her hair usually reaches passed her waist when straightened or to her shoulder blades when in loose curls (or bouncing upon her shoulders in ringlets). She's a fan of curls, and a fan of sky blue or pink eyes fading to gray away from the pupils. Nothing is too bright or too gaudy for her unless it is the color yellow. She is short with narrow hips and an over all thin body structure.

Her hair is currently sky blue with random Mint colored highlights and deep blue eyes speckled green.

Social Standing: Not well known by her real name unless by close friends and family members, she prefers surrounding herself in books instead of people; very well known in the underground by the name "Brees," rumor has easily spread that she currently works at the SuperNova nightclub.

Profession: SuperNova Cage Dancer/Private Stripper; Part time librarian

Personality: Kaya's personality is split in two, but not as others might consider a mental illness. As Kaya, she is a studious, meek girl with simple tastes and an almost non-existent social life with people outside of her small circle of family and few close friends. Even as Brees, she tries to keep the amount of people close to her as small and unimportant as possible, especially if her secret life managed to leak into the public. She would be disowned by her Pure Archonian family, who already disapprove of her Colorful preference. She has a part time job as a librarian as Kaya, one that she doesn't let interfere with her other lifestyle.

As Brees, her ambitious, outgoing, flirtatious other half, she knows what she wants and she knows how to get it - one way or another. Constantly changing her appearance is an addiction, one that she hides from her family members on the rare occasions she sees them. Sexually adventurous and dominant, she has little problem switching into her submissive mindset, if the reward is good enough.

Short Bio: She hails from a very conservative Pure Archonian family, one that doted on their darling older daughter till her rebellious streak kicked in, and she decided to change her appearance in the slightest as to not look like her twin little brother and sister. Her parents were anything but pleased with the sudden personality shift in their daughter. She blamed the boy she was seeing at the time, and was forbidden to see him again. Since the major argument with her parents, she has decided to live on her own to avoid further conflicts with her parents. Her younger siblings are now the apple of her parents' eyes, and she's satisfied with their suffocating attention on her scholar-worthy siblings.

When she took the job as a librarian, she was still seeing her boyfriend, thus her reason for ties in the underground. He's the reason she got into dancing, colors and exploring her sexuality. Because of that, he couldn't handle being around the sex-addict that he created. He could have informed her parents, she know he would have, except his own place in the underground would be exposed by doing so. She's not one to avoid throwing someone under the bus if she feels her safety is threatened enough - and it is never physical harm that she's afraid of.

Eventually, she caught the interest of a less than honest gang leader. With him by her side, he spoiled her so long as she stayed loyal to him and only him. He enjoyed having men swoon over her, and she didn't mind the occasional jealous streak he had, which often ended up her spending the night with him to nurse his fragile ego.

:: NPCs ::

Ship Captain

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Grand Maiden

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:: STORY THUS FAR ::

Star Date - 150Y - 99D
One Hundred and Fifty years.... it's hard to believe it's been so long already. And yet only a small few know exactly how far we've actually gone. Thinking about it, it doesn't feel long at all.

Just a few generations before us, our ancestors stood in the halls of this massive ship. They stared out it's windows, and watched it's screens, as our sun expanded and swallowed our solar system. It was...the end of our world.... and the beginning of our greatest journey.

I have hope for our people. And on the eve of our exodus from Archon V, the entire populous of the Jericho - X7 is getting ready for a celebration.
A new year is beginning on our journey to find a new home.

Grand Maiden Alena

Reference Guide: Click Here
IC : Click Here

**Wattz** · 01-07-2012, 02:43 AM

J-J-J-JOININGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

**Mary Sue** · 01-07-2012, 02:47 AM

YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

**SandQueen** · 01-07-2012, 02:55 AM

Can you tell us anything about the technology levels of the campaign? Spaceship large enough to support life for multiple generations and travel deep space does carry certain implications but I would like to know some specifics.

**Mary Sue** · 01-07-2012, 03:01 AM

Well... I thought the fact that the Jericho- X7 was a massive, self sustaining space colony would speak for itself....

But.... Agricultural floors are climate controlled to keep the biomes as similar to the natural biomes as possible.

The ship runs on Hydrogen, which it harvests directly from space, and the "waste" is pure, drinkable water.

Weapons are gun combinations of reinforced metallic bullets made from the super strong metals of Archon V and lazers (typical Star Trek/ Star Wars kind).

Do these help?