The Console Wars: Blackout Sign Ups

[ATMLVE]

Here we go, sure was fun to write this up.

Name: Dek
Age: 16
Faction: Unknown as of yet

Description: Dark long hair, with an unhappy, sunken looking face. Very strong, allowing him to parkour much better than an average person. Dek survive long falls, heal at a faster rate, and posses tougher skin. This allows him to withstand bangs and scratches, such as banging into brick walls or scraping is hands along them, though certainly not stop bullets. Always wears gloves and dark clothes, and usually covered in scrapes. Also hates microsoft with a passion.

Weapons: Carries a combat knife at all times, but no guns. His best weapon is his durability and ability to parkour extremely well, run fast, and jump high.

Bio/Backstory: Dek was born to a lower class mother, who was under the employment of a rather large and powerful Microsoft office building. His father had long since abandoned them and Dek, knowing him only by his mothers rather distasteful account, has never and will never ever have a desire to see or know him. This is quite the opposite with his mother; Dek cares for and loves her very much, for she has always done the same for him. For the first 15 years of his life, Dek lived a not-so-great life; he went to school, but he was unpopular and uninterested in making friends anyway. His only comforts were his loving mom and the ability to free run.
One unfortunate night, a man came to his house and told him his mother had been killed in a car accident, and that Dek needed to come with him. Dek noticed, however, that the man was not a police officer, but that he was wearing a Microsoft agent suit. What was even stranger, however, was that [i]his mother hadnt even taken the car that day[/]. Knowing something was wrong, Dek grabbed a knife from his drawer and jumpd on the mans back when his back was turned, tackling him, the knife to his throat. Dek demanded the truth, and after much yelling, Dek learned that his mother had actually been killed by a her drunken boss, both of them working late in an empty office, apart from eachother. The murderer would be payed off to stay quiet, should the need arise, and the whole story would be covered up to avoid all economic problems the story would create. Absolutely furious, Dek killed the man who had brought him this news and ran off into the city, vowing to stop at nothing to avenge his mother, and hating microsoft with a burning passion.

- Writer -
Previous Forum RPG experience? Not really
Been in TCW? Not yet, though Ive read a ton of the past ones.
Story writing experience? A little.

[butter-kicker]

Name: Alex Hawkins
Age:24
Faction:Microsoft
Discription: Tall and Mysterious, He Always seems to have anger on his face
Weapons: 2 double action Pistols and A Longsword
Bio/Backstory:
Former War Agent that was Wounded in battle and Then Handed in his resignation. But this War has called him Back against his own will even though He isn't Known To be the Loyaliest of people and What Grudge does he Hold to Some Of his fellow teamates and Whats this Rumour of a Freindship between Him and A Nintendo Warrior.
Only the future will tell
- Writer -
Previous Forum RPG experience?no
Been in TCW? no
Story writing experience? yes

[nerzdadestroyer]

ok, here we go.

name: Ivan McChow
age: Unknown
faction: sony
description: tired and worn out. looks of regret and shame because of his past. short, average height and unfit.
weapons: a stick. no but its a very good stick.
bio/back story: lived life in a fat camp because his mixed-up family insisted that he was fat. ran away from fat camp at 14 and spent his teenage years in a small village, where he invented a chimney cap. and object that stops smoke from coming out of chimneys. he applied these to every chimney, thinking he was doing good, when it actually led to a massive explosion and swamped the village in black smoke. he then ran away again and tried to seek redemption by signing up to the war. soon after he fell into a deep pit on the front line. he lived in the pit for a day until someone found him....

Writer
never been in a forum game
never been in TCW before
a little writing experience, but dont expect genius.

[sheepysean13]

Here's a photo reference of Captain William's facial features if any one needs it for story purposes.

[abyssalassassin]

Codename: "Ziggy"
Real Name: Unknown
Age: 21
Faction: Sony
Description: Long chocolate brown hair, wiry but strong, tall, intelligent, pessimistic, hardened expression, almost unnaturally dark blue/verging on black eyes, pale skin tone.
Weapons: M4, med kit, combat knife, Desert 5.
Bio/Backstory: Ziggy was quite frankly the best medic in Sony’s arsenal, she just didn’t know it yet. Born in London, to a patriotic father and an overprotective mother, she was a pacifist at heart but of course, her dad never took that for an answer. Soon afterwards, Ziggy found herself enrolled in Sandhurst, training for a job she didn’t even want in the first place. No-one ever asked if she had wanted to be a soldier in later life, they just assumed. In reality, she had expressed a desire to go to university and eventually become a Game Designer. It certainly didn’t help when every time she went into town with her squad mates, the bus passed by MM Towers. Ziggy reasoned with the fact that if she couldn’t fulfil a lifelong dream, that didn’t mean she couldn’t end up doing something different to what they wanted her to do, or more accurately he. And what was the polar opposite of killing people? Ziggy talked to her commanding officer about transferring to a Field Medic course, but the places were all taken. Later in the week, she had gone out on an exercise with the squad, the first time everyone was using live ammunition, and it had backfired horribly, a soldier with the codename of Wolf had been hit by sniper fire. With only minutes to save his life and sparse medical supplies, somehow Ziggy had prevailed in the face of insurmountable odds. And after that, the sergeant had somehow “made” a place for her. The next day that same soldier who nearly died at the hands of an ally’s gun, came up to her, defying protocol and saying his first name was Jak, yet mysteriously Ziggy had discarded her first name and only uses her codename now. After graduation she was exported to America, in a peacekeeping team based on the outskirts of Texas, near Microsoft’s HQ, seeing as the city was in a state of virtual collapse, due to the aftermath of the worst war the world had ever seen. ((Think Console Wars IV)) And like every peacekeeping force in English history, it had failed drastically, everyone splitting up to a different faction, only Ziggy and Jak going to Sony, everyone knowing deep down that one day, if they ever had each other in their sights, they would have to pull the trigger. After an endless stretch of mind-numbing war, and seeing comrades all around her die unnecessarily, Ziggy came to the conclusion that she just wanted to run as far away from her camp, run away from her life, but was now too deep in this pointless little battle to back out now. Her squeaky clean black and white morals had morphed into twisted, indistinguishable shades of grey. Ziggy’s eyes were originally a beautifully crystal clear sapphire, but now were a deep whirlpool of midnight blue, almost an abyssal black. Some people had even been calling her Abyssal and she hated the name, it reminded her of the fact that she had changed in ways she had never wanted to or could possibly stop. But every day she pushed herself out of bed, hastily grabbed the M4 assault rifle on the side table and spent another day running through war torn battlefields; healing soldiers just so they could get killed again when she was tied up with another casualty. If there was a place called hell, Ziggy was convinced she was living through it.

- Writer -
Previous Forum RPG experience? NO
Been in TCW? NO
Story writing experience? YES

EDIT: Think I should rename Jak seeing as only a c is separating him from Outlaw's character?

[Merc]

Alright guys, it would seem that we have 11 people now, (12 including myself) so i was thinking we should go for starting up on saturday so everyone has a chance to post, seeing as it's the weekend, so hurry up and start writing those opening posts for your characters! (Try to get us hooked on your end of the story )

Also, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD AND THE OFFICIAL THREAD WHEN IT'S UP, I cannot stress this enough guys. I want you to be able to know when you're needed for posts and when i post important announcments.

One last thing, for any new applicants, please consider being Nintendo or Microsoft, we've got a few too many Sonies. (again.)

[abyssalassassin]

Alright guys, it would seem that we have 11 people now, (12 including myself) so i was thinking we should go for starting up on saturday so everyone has a chance to post, seeing as it's the weekend, so hurry up and start writing those opening posts for your characters! (Try to get us hooked on your end of the story )

Also, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD AND THE OFFICIAL THREAD WHEN IT'S UP, I cannot stress this enough guys. I want you to be able to know when you're needed for posts and when i post important announcments.

One last thing, for any new applicants, please consider being Nintendo or Microsoft, we've got a few too many Sonies. (again.)

Already subscribed, and I've written my first few posts about 4 months ago, so I'll try and continue 'em tomorrow maybe. EDIT: Just looked back on the stuff I wrote, it's pretty good reading but atm seems a bit drastic. *SPOILER* It turns New New Natal into New New New Natal if you get what I'm saying? *SPOILER* So, would anyone recommend changing that?

[Outlaw-Jack•]

*SPOILER* It turns New New Natal into New New New Natal if you get what I'm saying? *SPOILER* So, would anyone recommend changing that?

Seeing that I'm probably the only Microsoft guy here, yes. Perhaps a new capitol would be better in my situation...

[Dragonvarsity]

Alright guys, it would seem that we have 11 people now, (12 including myself) so i was thinking we should go for starting up on saturday so everyone has a chance to post, seeing as it's the weekend, so hurry up and start writing those opening posts for your characters! (Try to get us hooked on your end of the story )

Also, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD AND THE OFFICIAL THREAD WHEN IT'S UP, I cannot stress this enough guys. I want you to be able to know when you're needed for posts and when i post important announcments.

One last thing, for any new applicants, please consider being Nintendo or Microsoft, we've got a few too many Sonies. (again.)

Well, I can switch over to Microsoft if you'd like, although not like I've ever really played on Xbox, maybe once at friend's place, but I spose that doesn't matter in the end. Good idea to tell others to subscribe, definitely dont want it ending up where a third of the people forget to post again, although, just because I never check something like that, and just check Forum Games a lot of times each day, hope you don't mind if I just continue on like this, works better for me. ^^ Oh, and good idea starting on Saturday

[Merc]

Well, I can switch over to Microsoft if you'd like,

I'm not forcing anyone to swtich here, In fact i don't want anyone to switch, i just want new applicants to consider Microsoft or Nintendo as it makes for a more balanced game.

[Whalio Cappuccino]

Well if it helps, I'm not Sony.

[sheepysean13]

I'm ok with Saturday, just finishing up my first post.

[Dragonvarsity]

I'm not forcing anyone to swtich here, In fact i don't want anyone to switch, i just want new applicants to consider Microsoft or Nintendo as it makes for a more balanced game.

Okay, but if it gets to where there are too many Sony members, maybe you should put in O.P. or title saying that Sony slots are filled.

I'm ok with Saturday, just finishing up my first post.

Yeah, I should really get started on my first post aswell...

Hope it's alright if I have sort of a flashback with it, just to build on some to the Bio to make things clearer.

[butter-kicker]

Maybe We Can Name the Microsoft Capitol,Kinect Central

And Im Trying to see If I can Intertwine My Story With a Fellow Microsoft.

Anyone want too

[Merc]

Maybe We Can Name the Microsoft Capitol,Kinect Central

And Im Trying to see If I can Intertwine My Story With a Fellow Microsoft.

Anyone want too

1st of all, the MS capital is New Natal, second if you don't intertwine with other characters than you're basically not participating in the FRPG.

@DV, Please do include flashbacks, I quite enjoy them, infact, i've got like 3 in my first post.

[abyssalassassin]

1st of all, the MS capital is New Natal, second if you don't intertwine with other characters than you're basically not participating in the FRPG.

@DV, Please do include flashbacks, I quite enjoy them, infact, i've got like 3 in my first post.

2nd of all, I'm thinking of blowing New Natal up. A lot of people seem to want a new capital, but I'm still unsure whether this is a good idea. :/ Then some people on the M$ team can rebuild it to their requirements. I think that it'd make more sense that way, but it'd be good to know if anyone strongly opposes this... And in my current drafts the bomb is shaped like a Bob-Omb, (the idea is Sony is trying to make Nintendo the scapegoat for the attack) so, yet again, I'd like to know if all you people on the Nintendo faction are okay with this?

[gdn001]

2nd of all, I'm thinking of blowing New Natal up. A lot of people seem to want a new capital, but I'm still unsure whether this is a good idea. :/ Then some people on the M$ team can rebuild it to their requirements. I think that it'd make more sense that way, but it'd be good to know if anyone strongly opposes this... And in my current drafts the bomb is shaped like a Bob-Omb, (the idea is Sony is trying to make Nintendo the scapegoat for the attack) so, yet again, I'd like to know if all you people on the Nintendo faction are okay with this?

That's a big decision. And Sony needs a reason to blow up New Natal and blame Nintendo. However, that is not going to happen to soon (no need to rush the uber destruction), and I can come up with a reason for that attack if you don't have one already.

[sheepysean13]

I attack a small MS outpost in Libya with a small squad in my first post (Don't wanna give too much away, though) But it's not a major war changing attack or anything.

[Testudini]

Guys, you have to realize that currently all three factions are at peace. They need to reason to suddenly attack each other (though that may be explained in Merc's opening post)

[Merc]

2nd of all, I'm thinking of blowing New Natal up. A lot of people seem to want a new capital, but I'm still unsure whether this is a good idea. :/ Then some people on the M$ team can rebuild it to their requirements. I think that it'd make more sense that way, but it'd be good to know if anyone strongly opposes this... And in my current drafts the bomb is shaped like a Bob-Omb, (the idea is Sony is trying to make Nintendo the scapegoat for the attack) so, yet again, I'd like to know if all you people on the Nintendo faction are okay with this?

I attack a small MS outpost in Libya with a small squad in my first post (Don't wanna give too much away, though) But it's not a major war changing attack or anything.

No, and no.

I am aiming for a more peaceful approach between the factions this time, there will be no major assaults on eachother in the first little while, we can work out reasoning for attacks a little later, but for now, remain peaceful with the other factions and don't go in too heavy with assaults. (except for being attacked by non player squads which i will explain later.)