Nipton Rebuilt - IC Thread

Post » Wed May 30, 2012 11:27 pm

The year is 2283 a year after the Courier, apathetic to the concerns of the people, destroyed the securitron army and then single-handedly pushed the Legion (now under the command of Legate Lanius) and the NCR out of the Mojave. A month after the second battle for hoover dam a mysterious figure with an old world flag on his back walked into the Lucky 38, since then neither he nor the Courier has been seen or heard from.

Without the Courier to install fear into the various factions that inhabit the land the Mojave has been besieged by problems. The Powder Gangers still terrorize the I-15 at the areas around Goodsprings and it is only the firm grip of Sheriff Meyers which keeps them from overrunning Primm. The Brotherhood of Steel have taken control of HELIOS One and patrol I-15 and Highway 95 confiscating any advanced technology they find travellers with. The fiends have taken control of outer Vegas and only the brave or foolhardy dare traverse their lands. The Kings attack any NCR citizen the walks into freeside without protection.

In addition to these problems both the NCR and Legion have mobilised armies which seem to be ready to take the Mojave at any time, NCR Rangers have been spotted making outposts and the Legion has retaken their base at cottonwood cove and have launched raids against passing caravans.

To escape the multitude of problems which have burdened the other towns many seek to create a new settlement, the ruins of Nipton seem to be the ideal place for a new settlement which could perhaps become a safe haven in the Mojave...


Character Sheet

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Age:

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Race:

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Physical appearance:

Personality:

Weapons & armour/clothing:

(Previous) Occupation(s):

Faction (NCR, Legion, BOS, None. Etc):

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In regards to factions try not to go overboard with them, I don't want to have half the town secretly working for the NCR or something.

Securitron 1C 3C R34 M
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Name: James Burns

Age: 33

six: Male

Race: Human, Caucasian

Skills: Trained and experienced in the use of guns. He’s pretty good at surviving out in the wastes for long periods of time. He’s also fairly experienced using melee weapons.

Physical appearance: Tall and skinny, light brown hair and blue eyes

Personality: (I’ll fill this in later)

Weapons & armour/clothing: Trail Carbine w/scope, .44 Magnum w/heavy frame and a switchblade. US Army General Outfit and a Desperado Cowboy hat

Previous Occupations: Bounty hunter, deputy sheriff of Ashton, guard for the Followers of the Apocalypse.

Faction (NCR, Legion, BOS, None. Etc): Used to do guard duty for the Followers of the apocalypse but for now, none.

Backstory: Was born on in a town on the outskirts of the NCR where he was trained to use guns and to live off the land. At age 16 he left his home town and found work catching criminals for the NCR, he did this for many years, never once being injured by the men he captured or killed. At age 25 James tracked a criminal into the Divide where a new community was being formed, James played cat and mouse for several months in the abandoned military bases, during these months James found the general uniform he wears, he also made friends in Ashton who helped him track down and kill the target.

After the target was dead James stayed, becoming a deputy sheriff in the town and for several years helping drive off criminals and mercenaries hired by the NCR to ‘encourage’ the residents of Ashton to be annexed by the NCR. James also helped fend off attacks from the Legion and had chased off some of the legion members into the Mojave when the Courier brought an old world package to one of the military bases, destroying the town. James, unable to head back to the divide went to Vegas, seeking fame and fortune. While passing through freeside James was stabbed in the back by a freeside thug with a switchblade, James was able to kill the thug and go to the Mormon fort to seek medical attention. After being patched up by the followers James offered his services as a guard to the followers, keeping the switchblade that was only inches from killing him.

At the second battle of Hoover dam James helped defend Mormon fort from the violence which was taking place outside. After the battle James became stressed by constant attacks on the Mormon fort. One month after the battle of hoover dam James saw a familiar person walking through towards the strip, an old friend from Ashton, after James had talked to him he left and went into the strip. James never heard from him again. A few months later James left the service of the followers and wandered the wastes, eventually coming upon the ruins of Nipton, where he decided to stay.

OldRPG'sAreGood
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Name: Jack Mulder

Age: 26

six: Male

Race: Human, Caucasian

Skills: Science, mathemathics and other calculations particularly. Chemistry as well. Not much of an combatant, at least when not in chems.

Physical appearance: Skinny, weak and of medium height. Short cropped, black hair and a light beard. Hazel eyes and lips that make him look like he's smiling all the time.

Personality: Jovial, also has an obsession of calculating everything. Addicted to chems in general, most chems can provide him his fix.

Weapons & Clothing: A rusty, old Varmint Rifle and a kitchen knife and a NCRCF guard uniform with the NCRCF tags scratched off.

Previous occupation: Jack was among those PGs who attacked Primm, but was lucky enough to evade the Courier onslaught.

Faction: ex-Powder Ganger, isn't a part of them anymore but has good relations with them.

Back story: Jack was a model citizen of the NCR once, a teacher of sorts, wandering from town to town. But when he taught some villagers from a small village with no name in the art of chemistry, he himself was taught by the villagers to make chems for non medical purposes, the villages own variant of Hydra. Jack was first very wary, but when he tried this Hydra variant, he became addicted and that led to a petty crime spree of thefts and assaults. But then it escaleted to murder of an scavenger, who had the ingredients that Jack needed to make his own Hydra variant, and Jack was caught and shipped to the NCRCF, where he took part in the prison riot.

While incarcerated, he learned to brew various chems, including the Mojave hydra. He also took part in the assault of Primm, and when the Courier came to drive away the PGs, Jack was inside a toilet stall brewing his chems, thus avoiding death. After finding his former comrades dead, he ventured to Nipton where some PGs had gone after Primm assault, where he found only more death, but it inspired him to stay in Nipton, to rebuild it to its former glory. And to have a home again....

xHawksx
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Name: Ollie James

Age: 26

six: Male

Race: Caucasian

Skills: Agility, Survival skills, Stealth, Hand to hand fighting, Archery, Repair and Jury Rigging

Physical appearance: 6ft with athletic build, fair skin, short brown hair and green eyes

Personality: A cocky sarcastic character but has an uncompromising sense of the line between right and wrong.

Weapons & armor/clothing: A dark green colored leather suit with a hood to keep the sun out of his eyes. Ollie carries a 9mm pistol which he mostly uses as a back-up weapon. He uses a bow and self-made arrows as his primary.

(Previous) Occupation(s): Back when he lived in a vault he would help with security but since his time out in the wasteland he has been mostly a wanderer who settles in towns for a short time to help the local law.

Faction (NCR, Legion, BOS, None. Etc.): None

Backstory: Originally born in a vault where he spent most of his days with his parents. Ollie worked as a private investigator for the vault security until one day a band of raiders broke into the vault and massacred most of the vault including the parents of Ollie. After the event, having nothing left for him in the vault he left to wander the wasteland to find his place in this new world. Ollie spent time in numerous settlements always helping to protect the citizens against the local thugs, legion forces and occasional NCR soldiers. He now finds himself in Nipton where he has devoted his time to helping rebuild the devastated settlement.

Fritz8084
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Name: Karl Kliesmann

Age: 22

six: Male

Race: Caucasian

Skills: Guns of any type, unarmed combat and fixing things.

Physical appearance: Around six and a half feet tall. Looks like a old soldier, muscled, scarred, tanned and smelling of whiskey.

Personality: Quiet, sad and angry, made worse by alcohol and traumatic experiences.

Weapons & armour/clothing: Riot shotgun, 44 magnum revolver and combat knife. Dressed in old Van Graff combat armor and cowboy hat.

(Previous) Occupation(s): Farmer, Mercenary and Prospector.

Faction (NCR, Legion, BOS, None. Etc): Ex-NCR Mercenary but has no connections with them.

Backstory: Karl Kliesmann was always an quiet and sad man but after experience in the terrible arts of war he became a shell of a man with no reason to return to Freeside. Instead he wandered to Nipton and saw a place to start anew. After he stocked up on ammunition and whiskey in Vegas he began the long trek to Nipton, this time to stay.

Magus the Red
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Name: Alexander Winter

Age:52

six: Male

Race: Caucasian, Human

Skills: Guns, Speech, Unarmed.

Physical appearance: Black and grey hair, blue eyes, 6'2ft, lean, slightly crooked nose

Personality: has a warm personality and is welcoming to others, however is cold and calculating if in a fight.

Weapons & armour/clothing: Veteran Ranger Armour, Pre-war suits, Ranger Sequoia, Anti-Material Rifle Doesn’t use it much, Hunting rifle-scoped, custom bolt and extended magazine.

(Previous) Occupation(s): Veteran Ranger, 1st Recon- he will be like Boone for the town guarding it from raiders and others.

Faction (NCR, Legion, BOS, None. Etc): NCR has friends in the military.

Backstory: Alexander was born in the boneyard and had to fight to survive he joined the NCR military as soon as he was old enough and impressed the trainers with his skill with marksman weapons and was recruited into 1st recon where he served admirably before holding a small raider army of with a Hunting rifle which he still has, he then served with the Rangers gaining the "Black Armour" and serving for twenty years before retiring after the 2nd battle of hoover dam as a captain at the age of 51, then he heard about Nipton and has come to start out a new life.

Rules:
1. No being OP
2. Got a question, ask in OOC thread
3. If you want to point out something in your post (example, your character has a bloodstain on them) but feel you can’t fit it into the post naturally then but it in brackets, example (OOC: My character has a bloodstain on them)
4. Edits may be made to your character sheet regarding backstory, but not to skills or equipment (unless they have been learned/found in the course of the RP)
5. No character controlling (unless you have permission from both a GM and whoever it is whose character you are controlling)
6. Four lines minimum for each post.

Other notes:
Various events will happen that characters will have no control over but will affect the town. The nature and effect of the event will be given via the reports of Mr. New Vegas, who I will control in regard to major events.

Also I’m looking for a co GM so if you want the position post in the OOC thread
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 2:28 am

James Burns
East of Nipton


James wandered slowly down the road, carefully looking out for any dangers that the path ahead might carry. He pulled out his scoped Trail carbine and scanned around the cliffs above him, this seemed like the perfect place for an ambush, he edged forwards, keeping his back to the cliff wall, trying to simultaneously watch the tops of the cliffs in front of him and the apex of the corner. Suddenly James caught a glimpse of movement on the cliff edge in front of him, he aimed at the spot where he had seen the movement and saw the fairly well camouflaged outline of a human. James took careful aim at the figure and then fired, there was a loud bang and then the sound of smaller cracks and smacks as the raider’s corpse tumbled down the cliff.

James kept still for a few moments, he couldn’t hear anything else, it seemed the raider had been alone. He went over to the raider’s corpse, he was wearing a mash up of NCR and Caesar’s Legion armour, and he was armed with an NCR Service Rifle and a Legion Machete. Obviously looted from the casualties of the battle of Hoover dam.

James continued forwards, still carefully listening to any of the sounds around him, just because no one else was here did not mean the Raider did not have friends that might come looking for him. Eventually the cliffs on either side of him sloped down, eventually meeting with the ground. Relived of having to constantly check for ambushes James took a look at the road ahead, he saw a town not too far away, a quick check through his scope showed that it had been abandoned. James checked behind him one last time before setting off to this new town.
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 3:01 am

Jack Mulder
West of Nipton

Jack woke inside the gas station just a bit north of the Mojave Outpost, rubbed the tiredness out of his eyes. He had seen a nightmare again, the Courier starring in it. Everytime the dream was the same, Jack would peek out of the toilet stall and the Courier would kill him. The dream was the reason he had decided to stay in this gas station for this long, he was afraid. It seemed that only hydra could bring him calm sleep these days and he had run out of it.

"I must move soon..." Jack thought and yawned. He was now much more comfortable with the idea, for yesterday a trader had stopped by, telling him that there had been no sightings of the Courier lately. And the need for hydra and other chems was another motive. "I have to start making again..." Jack thought and searched for his old varmint rifle. "But I need a place for the fungus.." he whispered in solitude, and found his varmint rifle, the rusted old thing that it was. "One, two, three, four, five, six dents." Jack counted in seconds, his eyes moving wildly, scanning the rifles surface. Then he picked his ammunition box and started counting his rounds, his count coming one short of yesterdays count. "But no time to worry about that now!" Jack thought happily, checked that he had his knife at his waist, picked up his little backpack that was packed with just food and water, and a little plastic back filled with tiny things that looked like seeds. Then he stepped outside.

The sun was bright, and it stang Jacks eyes. He shielded his eyes with his right hand, looked at the horizon. There he spotted Nipton, his destination, where some of the Powder Gangers had gone. "They're dead now." Jack knew it, for the news of the Legion attack had not missed his ears. Jack checked his gear one more time and started to slowly walk towards Nipton, his new home-to-be, a place where wouldn't have to worry about the Courier. Or at least so he hoped.
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 3:31 am

Karl slowly walked the road towards Nipton, ducking as he heard a gunshot. He proceeded even more slowly, unholstering his magnum as he continued to walk between the two cliffs to the remnants of Nipton, his new home. He was weighed down with ammunition, food, whiskey and hopes of the future.
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Post » Wed May 30, 2012 4:58 pm

Ollie quickly broke down his camp and made sure to not leave any evidence that he has stayed in the area. With his pack on his back and bow in hand he moved west along the road toward the town of Nipton. While coming around a curve in the canyon Ollie heard screams from up ahead. He quickly notched an arrow and turned the corner to see two raiders who have ambushed a young couple. Ollie with arrow drawn to rear yells stop. Both raiders turn with surprise to see a bow pointed their way. One of the raiders draws his 10mm pistol and points it at the hooded archer with deadly intent. Before he can get a shot off Ollie lets his arrow loose and it finds it's mark lodged in the barrel of the raiders pistol. He fires his pistol but the blockage causes the round to go off in the chamber and sends shrapnel into the raider's face. The other raiderer stands frozen by the exchange as Ollie loads another arrow and sends it through the man's skull. With both threats dead Ollie walks towards the man and woman but before he can check on them they run off frantically as if afraid of Ollie. "You're welcome! "He yells after the two. "Some people are just so ungrateful." He says to himself with a sigh. Ollie does a quick once over of the bodies find few bottlecaps but nothing else of value and continues on his way to Nipton.
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 4:37 am

Alexander Winter- west of nipton
Alexander squinted through the scope of his hunting rifle before lowering it and leading his brahim carrying his belongings towards nipton, he passed what looked like an old raider hideout it had been slept in recently from the looks of it, he slung his hunting rifle behind his back and led his brahim towards nipton he looked down at himself, he was wearing a pre-war fedora and his Veteran ranger armour, he continued onwards until he reached the town, he found a seat in a pile of junk and sat on it resting for a while.
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Post » Thu May 31, 2012 7:22 am

James Burns
East of Nipton

James stopped for a moment; he had seen someone entering Nipton from the opposite end of the town so he hid himself, hoping he could get a better look at the person entering the town before he made himself known. James crept to one of the houses; he couldn’t help noticing that there were lots of ash, burn marks and charred skeletons that were littered about the town. He wondered how these things came to be, his question was almost immediately answered as he stepped on a Legion flag.

Still, James had no time to think about the history of the town, he still had to find out with the man who had just entered the town was a threat to him. He moved around the corner of the house he was crouching behind until eventually he could see the other man, sitting next to a Brahmin, wearing… Veteran Ranger armour? The NCR were sending Rangers here? Why? James pulled back a little and holstered his revolver and instead pulling out his Trail Carbine, if he was quick he might just be able to kill the veteran and get away with it.

Instead James stood up and moved round the corner in full view of the veteran, keeping his gun aimed at the Ranger.

“What are you doing here Ranger?” James questioned
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