{M} Lost Angeles [OOC]

[AngelDellaNotte]

(Rated mature for possible adult themes including: language, violence, sex, alcohol and drug use)

Game Currently Not Accepting New Characters

History:

By the year 2123, the world’s population had grown to alarming levels, the scientific community came to the conclusion that unless something drastic happened within a couple generations the population would vastly exceed the sustainability of the planet. Russia was the first nation to pass laws similar to China restricting the number of children per family to one. Japan followed shortly after along with a few other nations. But it wasn’t until the United States passed “One Child Polices” that the rest of the world began passing them. With the exception of the African Nations every country in the world passed some sort of population control laws.

In the year 2197, the laws put in place to lower the population growth were showing little affect, with projected numbers beginning to show it would not be enough. A fringe group in the scientific community calling themselves the Omega Group began spreading literature proposing unleashing a population culling virus on the world to reduce the population. Most of the world shrugged them off and laughed at them no one taking them seriously. What the world didn’t know is the Omega Group produced more than just literature for their radical ideas; in secret they worked on their virus.

The Omega Group unleashed their virus at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve 2199. They had operatives in every major continent, country and city across the world. Each of these operatives infected themselves with the virus and joined in the New Year’s Eve celebrations. The Omega Group scientists projected that the strain of their virus based on the eradicated small pox virus would only affect 40% of the population and the remaining would population would have a natural immunity to the virus. The Virus was dubbed the Omega Pox by the media after several manifestos were found detailing the spread of the virus. Pharmaceutical companies scrambled to produce vaccines for small pox but their efforts were in vain the virus had been designed so the vaccine didn’t work on the strain.

Left unchecked the Omega Pox spread through the world, in several short weeks the remaining members of the Omega group realized their projections of the spread of the virus were wrong, instead of a projected 60% of the population with the immunity only 10% of the world had it. Within three months the majority of the world was sick with the Omega Pox. Those that weren’t sick were unable to keep up with the demand, hospitals were over populated, without workers power plants failed and by 2201 the world had degraded into the standards of a third world country.

Plot:

The year is now 2443, over two hundred years have passed; the world’s population has slowly began recovering from the Omega Pox. However society has not, the world has entered a second dark ages. Modern conveniences like electricity and running water are nothing more than a myth told to young children. People live in small villages, surviving by hunting, and farming. They avoid the ruins of cities of old, having grown up on tales of the sickness that spread through them. They are known as forbidden zones and avoided by all. Until recently when signs of the dreaded Omega Pox began showing again. In the Mirrored Valley a short distance from the forbidden city of Lost Angels regional leaders have come together calling for souls brave enough to venture into the City of Lost Angels to see if there is a cure to the Omega Pox hidden within.

Character Creation:

Our story focuses on those selected by their communities to venture into the city of Lost Angels (formerly known as Los Angeles). Technology wise will be very primitive, think melee style weapons, horse drawn carriages and rustic style housing. No guns will be allowed. People may have them but ammunition has been gone for over a century and the guns unusable due to age and degradation. If someone has a gun they will not use it for the purpose it was meant. That is the same for most technology. Likewise, education levels are low as there are very few formal schools, most villages will have a small school house with maybe one or two teachers who instruct the children on the basics before they select a trade and began training for it. The majority of people cannot read or write and history is passed down orally. However I am allowing people to play as literate characters as long as it is relative to their bios. If you are a healer, teacher, community leader or something of the likes you can have a basic understanding of reading and writing. Think around a 6th grade level though.

The Mirrored Valley is the ruins of an old solar farm outside of Los Angeles, you don't have to be from there but it will be the starting point of the story. Keep in mind if you are from another area you have to travel there either by foot or horse so it will be very unlikely you are from somewhere like New York. Try to keep it a reasonable distance but feel free to make your own villages to be from or you can be from the Mirrored Valley.

Weapons wise, as stated above no functional guns allowed, you can have them to be used as clubs or have blades attached to them or whatever you can think of aside from actually being able to shoot them with bullets. Primary people use melee style weapons, swords, axes, knives, bows and arrows etc. Many weapons may be created out of things that no longer function so get creative if you want.

To start with I will allow each player to have two characters, this may change later on depending on how the game goes. So without further ado the character sheet:

Name:
Age: (Keep it reasonable, no six year olds being selected to go off on a dangerous quest)
Gender: (Or whatever your character identifies as)
Appearance: (Text and / or picture allowed)
Weapons: (Remember kids no guns)
Trade: (Your character's occupations in life, warrior, farmer, teacher, politician, etc.)
Village: (As said above feel free to create one)
Personality: (At least a paragraph helping us get to know your character)
Bio: (At least two – three paragraphs telling us about your character)

Spoiler: Rules: 

1.All standard RPA rules apply.
2.Please no fighting in the OOC, if you have a problem try to be mature about it.
3.No god modding, or power playing.
4.Romances are allowed but please fade to black if you get extra amorous.
5.I will be guiding the story but I want the players to have control over the story as well so have fun though if you are planning to do something drastic run it by me first.
6.Let the creative juices flow and have fun.
7.Lastly add your favorite flavor ice cream to the end of your sheet to show you read all the rules.

Accepted Characters:

Active:
Enigma - Google Taenaka
AngeldellaNotte - My'kl Kagame
Ebb&Flow - Evelyn (Eve) Reinhart
ASplashOfMusic - Aaron Powell
Dnafein - Curtis
SoulReaper - Layna Valmera
SoulReaper - David Fortis

Inactive:
EloraGuinivere - Thomas Jaimé Espinoza
Kicks - Alistair Makani
Kicks - Salim Genysis
IejirKothar - Rafe
Cfavano - Solomon Nasai
Argon Jaden - Aleck Aquila

IC Thread Link

[Cfavano]

so, this is kinda like into the badlands but no cars in regards to style?

[AngelDellaNotte]

More like the Grounders from the 100.

[EloraGuinivere]

Joining as promised ^.^

Name: Thomas Jaimé Espinoza (goes by Jaimé)

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Spoiler: Jaimé 

Dark hair and dark eyes are the first features to be noticed on Jaimé, followed by lightly rippling muscles just under his skin as he works in the hot sun. His skin is rather rough, especially his hands because he is always using them around heat and metals. He has a few minor wounds from sparring, mainly around his ribcage and his triceps. His skin is always radiating heat it seems, even if he doesn't feel warm. His everyday clothing consists of leather pants and a regular black tank. During the cold season, he has a a zip up sweatshirt, found by a friend of his on a scavenging trip a few years back. It's very worn.

Weapons: A steel longsword and dagger, both holstered to a large belt on his waistband

Trade: Weaponsmith—Specializes in knives and swords

Village: Riverside village, just a few miles east of what used to be Anaheim

Personality:

Kind | Outspoken | Simpleminded

Jaimé's personality is always compared to that of a horse—gentle, trusting, free, and always looking to run off somewhere for a few hours. He doesn't always agree with this, considering he is just as happy to be working with metals and a furnace to help out those in his village. He is softspoken and not much of a leader, but is still well trusted by almost everyone and has a strong moral compass.

To Jaimé, the only things that matter in this world are what's already here and what's yet to be. Aside from a trinket or two, he pays no mind to the ways of the past, because to him, the ways of the past are what lead to the ruined cities and the virus in the first place. This is not to say he isn't mindful of history repeating itself—he is mindful of that with news spreading of the once again active Omega Pox.

One of the things that he has been warned might get him in trouble one day is how he trusts everyone he comes into contact with. He is always willing to give someone a chance, but if they abuse it he certainly reconsiders extending his hand to them. Giving them a chance in the first place, however, could prove to be a grave mistake if he is not careful.

Aside from these main points, he has a love for sparring and running around barefoot so he can feel the blades of grass on his feet. He dislikes writing and reading, though he has the ability through a first grade level; he will engrave words for people as long as it is something he knows how to spell, which is typically no longer than four letters.

Bio: The entirety of Riverside Village speaks predominantly Spanish, and this was the first language Jaimé ever learned. Every week, when a scout, teacher, healer or trader came passing through, they would take time to teach English to the young children so that as they grew, they would be able to continue to communicate with the other neighboring villages. Jaimé was slow at picking up the language, not being able to effectively communicate until the age of 14.

As the son of a weaponsmith, his future in the same trade was already predisposed. From a young age, he enjoyed sparring with other children and helping work the furnace, inheriting his father's technique but developing his own art style as he grew into a young man.

Jaimé fell in love with the chief's daughter at the tender age of 17 after he helped her when her mare spooked, causing her to be reared off and fall hard on her back. He came to visit her every day until she healed, and the two continued to go on walks together. When he was finally ready to ask for her hand in marriage, it was revealed that she was to be married to the chief's son in a different village. Both grieved and vowed to always hold a place in each other's hearts, even if it was not meant to be. He has not seen her since but hopes to be able to at least speak with her again one day. Every once in awhile he is reminded by his parents that the time is well overdue to find a wife, but after the heartbreak he experienced he put his work first.

At 27, the furnace was officially handed over to Jaimé. The steel used for the weapons created are scavenged from large metal structures of old, from a park labelled as "Disney Land." His best friend was one of those scavengers, until an accident one day at the park when one of the remaining structures finally fell, crushing his legs. Jaimé, using an old design that had been drawn out, made a makeshift wheelchair for his friend and began experimenting different ways metal could be used. He was told that he would benefit from one day visiting the city of Lost Angels to get ideas to bring back to the village, but Jaimé is hesitant to bring in inventions of the past, believing there to be a corruption surrounding it that made the city uninhabitable. But still, the thrill of adventure lingers deep in his soul every once in awhile...


I'm lactose intolerant, but I like cookie dough blizzards from Dairy Queen ^.^

[ASplashOfMusic]

I'd like to reserve a spot.

[AngelDellaNotte]

I like him Elora, one quest his name is it pronounced the American way with a J sound or the Spanish with an H sound?

Also he is approved.

Splash it is reserved. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[Enigma]

I'm working on a character, this should be interesting.

[EloraGuinivere]

Yes I'm so glad you're asking this question x3

It's the Spanish way with the H sound

[Kicks]

Ohhhh heck yes. I want to join this!
I'll get started on a sheet!

[Kicks]

Name: Alistair Makani
Age: 27
Gender: Male

Appearance: Since he does most of his hunting at night, he wears old and worn pieces of black cloth. This makes it easier for him to blend in with the night, though that makes it harder during the day to keep himself hidden from the wild.

Spoiler: Appearance of Clothes 

As for his actual appearance, Alistair is a well built men due to his trade. Many hours spent in the wild and even more bringing back wild game for the trade center left him well built and fit.
Alistair has dark hair and tan skin (whether from the dirt or by exposure of sun); he has dark blue eyes.

Spoiler: Physical Appearance 

Weapons:

Spoiler: Bow and Arrow 

It is the bow he uses daily for his hunting. He is skilled in the mastery of archery. Having found parts from the old world, he used these old pieces to create his bow and arrows.

Spoiler: Appearance of bow 

Spoiler: Appear of arrows 

These arrows he specially designed to shoot but release its hooked spears into its prey to kill or capture with elegance.

Spoiler: Bear Claws 

Lovingly given the name of "Bear Claws" Alistair took his time with these weapons. This weapon he had received the inspiration from nature. Bears are dangerous creatures and strikes from their claws could be fatal. It was after an encounter with a bear that he took old knives and a weird piece of metal to make these bear claws.

Spoiler: appearance 

Trade:
Hunter- as part of his native village Alistair works as a hunter. He ventures into the wilderness and brings home food for the village's trade center. It is there he sells the capture of the day or week for a fair trade of the village currency (nuts). It is because of his trade he is a skilled hunter and trap-setter. And though he finds ease with hunting and trapping, fishing is not a skill he hones. He lacks the patience to sit around near a pool of water for hours to gain fish.

Village: Dark Lake
This is a small village West of Mirrored Valley by some 13 clicks (kilometers). It holds a tiny population of some 300 people of all ages. It has a small trade center where most of the "shopping" and trading is done. Their currency is in nuts (actual nuts, whether peanuts or almonds). Each different nut is worth a different "value" depending on protein content. Protein is a valuable nutrient in their village because it keeps the hunters from getting weak and the fishers from falling asleep by getting weary.
Most of the men in this small village have fishing as their career because of the lake they are located on. Fewer men engage in hunting while most of the women make clothes and take care of children.

Personality:
Alistair is a laid back individual who prefers promoting peace over war. Despite his attitude towards war, he is skilled in combat and has no problem in defending those he cares about.
He enjoys observing people over interacting, but when interacting with people comes off as teasing, confident, and friendly.
He's fairly easy to get along with but spares no feelings when it comes to having been insulted.
He is confident in who he is and perfectly at peace with his own being. He can be blunt, but otherwise tries to remain polite (though sometimes that escapes him). He does love to tease people though.
He can be playful, lazy, and even irritated if you rub him the wrong way.
If you get on his bad side, it's hard to get off of it. He holds grudges until the person can prove themselves otherwise to not be a complete waste of space.
Though he'll try to come off as 'manly' and state himself to be such a man, he loses that touch of himself when finding children.

Bio:
Alistair was born in Mirrored Valley. It is where his mother had given birth to him, but due to extenuating circumstances and the desire for change she had moved the two of them West to Dark Lake where Alistair then grew up under the influence of a hunter. It was under this hunter's influence that he grew up under his trade.

His mentor taught him to trap prey and how to shoot a bow. Later he discovered he would be expecting a little sister between his mentor and his mother. But successful births were rare in their village due to the harsh winters and lacking nutrients for the mother. He lost his younger sister and his mother due to the birth.

That winter his sister was to be born, his mentor had been taken victim by a bear. It was this encounter with the bear that Alistair was inspired to make his cherished weapon "bear claws". His mentor died protecting him. Because of this Alistair grew to be stronger and more cautious with the wilderness. He soon began to understand that everything in nature had a part to play and they were all part of a bigger chain.