This roleplay will begin before the Great War and, as you can guess, will feature the pre-war Think Tank as the characters we will be playing as. As it is a while before the war the Big MT facility is different to what we see in Old World Blues as Doctor Klein (or possibly Doctor Mobius) hasn't yet blown the top off of the facility. Some of the facilities in the add-on (such as the Boom Town testing ground) aren't there yet, but can be added as the RP continues.
Rules.
1. I, the GM and Blackhand, the Co-GM will direct this plot. I will have the final say, but if any of you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them and will try to incorporate them into the story I have in mind.
2. I have no problem with people posting multiple times before I do. For example, if one of your characters are conversing with another, you’re free to continue the conversation. However, I do ask that said individuals do not post more than four consecutive posts, so others can jump in. Hopefully this will be a good compromise between the RPs character interaction while keeping it somewhat easy to follow the overall plot. Though if a conversation is taking place in a location where only a certain amount of RPers are interacting, Ignore this rule.
3. Do not God-Mod your character. I expect to see some weaknesses, etc.
4. If you’re going to be gone, give us a heads up. After a weeks time, I will have the right to either auto or kill off your character if you have not notified us via PM or this thread.
5. In the instance where a fight is to occur between two characters, decide between you who will win first. Though if you cannot agree, as per the first rule. I will have final say if there are any problems.
6. If you made it down here, congrats. The last thing I want to add is have fun. That’s why we role play. If I came off as strict from above, that’s not my intention. They only serve as a fail safe to keep the role play enjoyable for all.
Accepted Character Sheets.
Doctor Klein (Thekettleison)
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Name: Dr Sebastian Doyle.
Code name: Doctor Klein
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Skills: Organization. Motivating his fellow scientists. A working knowledge of all aspects of research within the Big MT facility. Coming up with ideas and finding the right team to make them happen.
Appearance: Doyle is in fairly robust health for a man of his age. His hair has long since turned from grey to white and matches his neatly trimmed beard in colour. He is a very neat man and will very rarely be seen in anything but his pristeen white, smoothly ironed labcoat and scrubs.
Likes: Orders being followed, hard working employees, inquisitive natures in his staff, money.
Dislikes: Anyone he considers to be of lesser intellect than himself, when his research and/or methods are called into question. Human rights laws.
Personality: Doyle is a strong willed, authoritive man who is used to his orders being obeyed. He is very confident in his abilities and can be dismissive or even derisory when dealing with his underlings, this doesn't (usually) extend to the other members of the "Think Tank" who he considers to be (almost) his intellectual equals.
Brief History: Doyle was amongst the head research team employed by West-tek, working quite closely with the development team behind the early stages of the "Vault project". He enjoyed his work on the project and even had a few social experiments of his own design incorporated into the design stages. But after a few years of this work he was approached by a secretive group connected with the government who asked him to head up a new research and development facility, with a crack team of scientists of Doyle's choosing. The facility would be called the Big Mountain Research and Development Center or Big MT for short. As it was housed within the mountain it shared it's name with the group assured Doyle that he would be able to operate "under the radar" and carry out any and all experiments that he and his team saw fit, without having to worry about the prying eyes of the outside world. Doyle immediately accepted and set about recruiting the brightest scientific minds America had to offer.
Code name: Doctor Klein
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Skills: Organization. Motivating his fellow scientists. A working knowledge of all aspects of research within the Big MT facility. Coming up with ideas and finding the right team to make them happen.
Appearance: Doyle is in fairly robust health for a man of his age. His hair has long since turned from grey to white and matches his neatly trimmed beard in colour. He is a very neat man and will very rarely be seen in anything but his pristeen white, smoothly ironed labcoat and scrubs.
Likes: Orders being followed, hard working employees, inquisitive natures in his staff, money.
Dislikes: Anyone he considers to be of lesser intellect than himself, when his research and/or methods are called into question. Human rights laws.
Personality: Doyle is a strong willed, authoritive man who is used to his orders being obeyed. He is very confident in his abilities and can be dismissive or even derisory when dealing with his underlings, this doesn't (usually) extend to the other members of the "Think Tank" who he considers to be (almost) his intellectual equals.
Brief History: Doyle was amongst the head research team employed by West-tek, working quite closely with the development team behind the early stages of the "Vault project". He enjoyed his work on the project and even had a few social experiments of his own design incorporated into the design stages. But after a few years of this work he was approached by a secretive group connected with the government who asked him to head up a new research and development facility, with a crack team of scientists of Doyle's choosing. The facility would be called the Big Mountain Research and Development Center or Big MT for short. As it was housed within the mountain it shared it's name with the group assured Doyle that he would be able to operate "under the radar" and carry out any and all experiments that he and his team saw fit, without having to worry about the prying eyes of the outside world. Doyle immediately accepted and set about recruiting the brightest scientific minds America had to offer.
Doctor 0 (Blackhand)
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Name:James Thaddeus
Code name: Doctor 0
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Skills: Extremely good with robots... not so much with people.
Appearance: Short black hair that is combed to the left, a goatee, and white skinned.
Likes: Robots, coffee, clean coffee cups, and collecting bottle caps.
Dislikes: Mr.House, being looked down upon, Mr.House, lack of coffee, Mr.House, people getting his code name wrong, and Mr.House.
Personality: Insecure, which in turn leads to being quite cranky.
Brief History: After having his hopes crushed by the cancellation of a scientific project meant to occur in Vault 13 that he would be involved in, Dr.Thaddeus found himself working at Big Mountain amongst other... unique scientist.
Holding a seething hatred for Mr.House throughout his entire career, a hatred that had only been bolstered when funds for the Vault 13 Project were transferred to some stupid poker-chip idea that House had come up with, Thaddeus is very well known around Big Mountain for being the underdog of the group. All though he is good with robots, none of the other scientist truly respect him.
At least he has coffee.
Code name: Doctor 0
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Skills: Extremely good with robots... not so much with people.
Appearance: Short black hair that is combed to the left, a goatee, and white skinned.
Likes: Robots, coffee, clean coffee cups, and collecting bottle caps.
Dislikes: Mr.House, being looked down upon, Mr.House, lack of coffee, Mr.House, people getting his code name wrong, and Mr.House.
Personality: Insecure, which in turn leads to being quite cranky.
Brief History: After having his hopes crushed by the cancellation of a scientific project meant to occur in Vault 13 that he would be involved in, Dr.Thaddeus found himself working at Big Mountain amongst other... unique scientist.
Holding a seething hatred for Mr.House throughout his entire career, a hatred that had only been bolstered when funds for the Vault 13 Project were transferred to some stupid poker-chip idea that House had come up with, Thaddeus is very well known around Big Mountain for being the underdog of the group. All though he is good with robots, none of the other scientist truly respect him.
At least he has coffee.
Doctor Mobius (Yes Man FTW)
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Name: Nathaniel Mobius “Dr. Mobius.”
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian Male
Height: 5ft 8in
Age: 36
Appearance: http://www.1039rxp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Wash-and-dinos.jpg
Skills: Robotics, Robotics, and Robotics. He has knowledge particularly in Radar and Artificial intelligence, but has always had fascination in chemistry.
Likes: Immense Fascination in SCIENCE! If he finds something to be interesting he will not do anything else until he will crack it, generally speaking this has caused problems with supervisors but the “Think Tank” should be different. If there’s anything robotic he’ll sit for hours just marveling the piece, he has a knack for the occasional sophisticated bit of sarcasm, productive in research, but often terrible if he doesn’t find the subject interesting, he has a bit of a drinking problem that can cause him to go on drunken ramblings.
Dislikes: He cannot stand anything boring, he doesn’t appreciate people who are too orderly about their research, he absolutely hates hand-writing for some odd reason.
Personality: Enjoys the unique and different people in the world, he cannot understand people who are strict however and often uses this as an excuse for his odd ramblings in a lab. He has immense fascination to how human's react to actions and if he is curious may simply ask odd questions just for a reaction, highly intelligent and speaks his mind, he often finds that if he did something to someone and it had negative consequences he must face them as well.
History: He studied for years in a scientific field and often would ask many questions that most college professors would be scrambling for articles on. When he was about 20 his research paper on cybernetic animals and their application to military fields was highly controversial and while some held it as a scientific masterpiece others called it animal abuse or maiming of a species. He married his wife who’d unfortunately be murdered in New York City, this caused a drastic shift in Mobius and he turned to the bottle, hitting rock bottom. After three years he finally got back in a lab and began working on how cybernetic implants could be used to morph with organic tissue to say restore sight to the blind or hearing to the deaf. His controversial research continued and he was eventually offered a position at the Big MT Research Facility, a place where his research could be conducted in peace and quiet without the press breathing down his neck
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian Male
Height: 5ft 8in
Age: 36
Appearance: http://www.1039rxp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Wash-and-dinos.jpg
Skills: Robotics, Robotics, and Robotics. He has knowledge particularly in Radar and Artificial intelligence, but has always had fascination in chemistry.
Likes: Immense Fascination in SCIENCE! If he finds something to be interesting he will not do anything else until he will crack it, generally speaking this has caused problems with supervisors but the “Think Tank” should be different. If there’s anything robotic he’ll sit for hours just marveling the piece, he has a knack for the occasional sophisticated bit of sarcasm, productive in research, but often terrible if he doesn’t find the subject interesting, he has a bit of a drinking problem that can cause him to go on drunken ramblings.
Dislikes: He cannot stand anything boring, he doesn’t appreciate people who are too orderly about their research, he absolutely hates hand-writing for some odd reason.
Personality: Enjoys the unique and different people in the world, he cannot understand people who are strict however and often uses this as an excuse for his odd ramblings in a lab. He has immense fascination to how human's react to actions and if he is curious may simply ask odd questions just for a reaction, highly intelligent and speaks his mind, he often finds that if he did something to someone and it had negative consequences he must face them as well.
History: He studied for years in a scientific field and often would ask many questions that most college professors would be scrambling for articles on. When he was about 20 his research paper on cybernetic animals and their application to military fields was highly controversial and while some held it as a scientific masterpiece others called it animal abuse or maiming of a species. He married his wife who’d unfortunately be murdered in New York City, this caused a drastic shift in Mobius and he turned to the bottle, hitting rock bottom. After three years he finally got back in a lab and began working on how cybernetic implants could be used to morph with organic tissue to say restore sight to the blind or hearing to the deaf. His controversial research continued and he was eventually offered a position at the Big MT Research Facility, a place where his research could be conducted in peace and quiet without the press breathing down his neck
Doctor Ouroborous (Tiber Septim)
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Name: Dr. Joseph Smith
Code Name: Dr.Ouroboros
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Skills: The leading researcher in the fields of Genetics and Cybernetics.
Appearance: Joseph's face is covered with a thick mustache. He has Short black hair
Likes: His dog Gabe, America, and Gene Splicing
Dislikes: Richie Marcus, Betsy Bright, Communism, and Communists
Personality: Loud and Obnoxious Smith always speaks in a loud voice.
Brief History:Joseph Smith was a child prodigy. As a teenager Smith was bullied by Richie Marcus at America High. Betsy Bright the person he had a crush on, refused his invitation to prom, and went out with Richie Marcus instead. In fact his only friend was his dog Gabe.
He quickly became the top scientist in the fields of Genealogy and Cybernetics. After a few years he was invited to join the Big Mountain Reasearch group.
Code Name: Dr.Ouroboros
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Skills: The leading researcher in the fields of Genetics and Cybernetics.
Appearance: Joseph's face is covered with a thick mustache. He has Short black hair
Likes: His dog Gabe, America, and Gene Splicing
Dislikes: Richie Marcus, Betsy Bright, Communism, and Communists
Personality: Loud and Obnoxious Smith always speaks in a loud voice.
Brief History:Joseph Smith was a child prodigy. As a teenager Smith was bullied by Richie Marcus at America High. Betsy Bright the person he had a crush on, refused his invitation to prom, and went out with Richie Marcus instead. In fact his only friend was his dog Gabe.
He quickly became the top scientist in the fields of Genealogy and Cybernetics. After a few years he was invited to join the Big Mountain Reasearch group.
Doctor 8 (Lt. Andronicus)
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Name: Dr. Edward Wilson
Code name: Doctor 8
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Skills: Highly specialized in the field of sonic and lightwave technology. Dr. Wilson (8) has been a leading researcher in both fields for many years and has worked on various government sponsored programs involving laser based weaponry and sonic emissions.
Appearance: Wilson is something of a frail and pale looking individual (although not necessarily unhealthily so) with a balding head and slight combover and wears a glasses. Due to him being something of an obsessive compulsive, his labcoats and clothing is always neat, pressed, and sterilized.
Likes: His technology research, an ordered and organized environment to work in, and cleanliness.
Dislikes: Anything being out of place or out of order. Anyone attempting to tell him how to do work in his own field.
Personality: Wilson is shy, timid, and usually reserved with a soft spoken tone of voice. He doesn’t like confrontation and prefers to simply be left alone to his work. He’s more than willing to follow orders and doesn’t question or do anything that would put himself at odds with those in charge. Wilson has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and among other things, one of his quirks is that he likes to have everything in groups of even numbers. The number eight being his favorite.
Brief History: After graduating in the top of his class and earning his Doctorate, Dr. Wilson immediately began to work for the government on various projects related to his field. This included development and work on the YK32 Pulse Pistol for the Yuma Flatts Energy Consotium, Sonic Emitters used on Robobrains, and some work with regards to laser based weapon including the A39 Laser Rifle. On these projects he was often commended for his diligent work and ability to achieve successful results consistently, partly due to his work ethic, and perhaps partly due to his own quirky personality and OCD. While working on these various projects, he was eventually recommended to Dr. Klein for inclusion in the “Think Tank” of Big Mountain, to serve as the Sonic and Lightwave energy expert. After receiving his request to join the Big Mountain group, Dr. Wilson happily accepted, hoping that Big Mountain would prove to be a bastion of like-minded fellows and a place for him to carry out his work without interference.
Code name: Doctor 8
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Skills: Highly specialized in the field of sonic and lightwave technology. Dr. Wilson (8) has been a leading researcher in both fields for many years and has worked on various government sponsored programs involving laser based weaponry and sonic emissions.
Appearance: Wilson is something of a frail and pale looking individual (although not necessarily unhealthily so) with a balding head and slight combover and wears a glasses. Due to him being something of an obsessive compulsive, his labcoats and clothing is always neat, pressed, and sterilized.
Likes: His technology research, an ordered and organized environment to work in, and cleanliness.
Dislikes: Anything being out of place or out of order. Anyone attempting to tell him how to do work in his own field.
Personality: Wilson is shy, timid, and usually reserved with a soft spoken tone of voice. He doesn’t like confrontation and prefers to simply be left alone to his work. He’s more than willing to follow orders and doesn’t question or do anything that would put himself at odds with those in charge. Wilson has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and among other things, one of his quirks is that he likes to have everything in groups of even numbers. The number eight being his favorite.
Brief History: After graduating in the top of his class and earning his Doctorate, Dr. Wilson immediately began to work for the government on various projects related to his field. This included development and work on the YK32 Pulse Pistol for the Yuma Flatts Energy Consotium, Sonic Emitters used on Robobrains, and some work with regards to laser based weapon including the A39 Laser Rifle. On these projects he was often commended for his diligent work and ability to achieve successful results consistently, partly due to his work ethic, and perhaps partly due to his own quirky personality and OCD. While working on these various projects, he was eventually recommended to Dr. Klein for inclusion in the “Think Tank” of Big Mountain, to serve as the Sonic and Lightwave energy expert. After receiving his request to join the Big Mountain group, Dr. Wilson happily accepted, hoping that Big Mountain would prove to be a bastion of like-minded fellows and a place for him to carry out his work without interference.
Doctor Mandala (Amateur Explorer)
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Name: Dr. Katherine Mandala
Code name: Doctor Dala
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Skills 'n stuff: Dr. Dala is great at studying things like medicine and mineralogy, her subject fields. She will often ask questions nobody will think of, and will really get into anolyzing things--now, what that might have to do with the actual research at hand is debatable. Also, while she decently likes (sort of) interacting with people, she will often fall into odd and wacky questions that'll turn them away.
Appearance: Mandala is in good health and looks visibly younger than some of the older scientists. She has very short, black, contained hair and a somewhat rounded face. She will usually wear her white labcoat and will allow it to get a bit messy, but she has a teddy bear pin she wears sometimes.
Likes: Teddy bears, biological organisms, people's habits, noodles, fashion, questions; Mandala also has an odd fascination with how things move and behave.
Dislikes: Rules that are too strict, things that are too perfect around the edges, methodicalness, forks.
Personality: Mandala is a curious woman who likes to branch off and use other ideas as springboards of her own. While not very authoritative and will often follow orders--she isn't exactly a the most solitary person around and will continue to do what she's doing until her curiosity is satisfied. She values ingenuity and sees her curiosity as a strength and an integral part of SCIENCE! She tends to overreact to things in joy or fear, and will often overthink simple actions.
Brief History: Dr. Mandala has always been interested in SCIENCE! ever since she stared through a microscope and watched these little squiggly things move, but since Dala was also interested in fashion, people tended to take her less seriously when she spoke about science, and often the only thing she talked to about it were her teddy bears, with whom she developed an obsession. As she grew older, she began to shift between multiple sciences branching off from the human body, due to her curiosity, which left her constantly shifting between sciences. Eventually she became a decorated scientist of mineralogy and the medical sciences, and despite her sporadic nature, she was recruited with the Big MT to conduct research pertaining to the war.
Code name: Doctor Dala
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Skills 'n stuff: Dr. Dala is great at studying things like medicine and mineralogy, her subject fields. She will often ask questions nobody will think of, and will really get into anolyzing things--now, what that might have to do with the actual research at hand is debatable. Also, while she decently likes (sort of) interacting with people, she will often fall into odd and wacky questions that'll turn them away.
Appearance: Mandala is in good health and looks visibly younger than some of the older scientists. She has very short, black, contained hair and a somewhat rounded face. She will usually wear her white labcoat and will allow it to get a bit messy, but she has a teddy bear pin she wears sometimes.
Likes: Teddy bears, biological organisms, people's habits, noodles, fashion, questions; Mandala also has an odd fascination with how things move and behave.
Dislikes: Rules that are too strict, things that are too perfect around the edges, methodicalness, forks.
Personality: Mandala is a curious woman who likes to branch off and use other ideas as springboards of her own. While not very authoritative and will often follow orders--she isn't exactly a the most solitary person around and will continue to do what she's doing until her curiosity is satisfied. She values ingenuity and sees her curiosity as a strength and an integral part of SCIENCE! She tends to overreact to things in joy or fear, and will often overthink simple actions.
Brief History: Dr. Mandala has always been interested in SCIENCE! ever since she stared through a microscope and watched these little squiggly things move, but since Dala was also interested in fashion, people tended to take her less seriously when she spoke about science, and often the only thing she talked to about it were her teddy bears, with whom she developed an obsession. As she grew older, she began to shift between multiple sciences branching off from the human body, due to her curiosity, which left her constantly shifting between sciences. Eventually she became a decorated scientist of mineralogy and the medical sciences, and despite her sporadic nature, she was recruited with the Big MT to conduct research pertaining to the war.
NPC's
To be added later.
Locations and Projects.
Y-17 Medical facility
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(Projects include the Y-17 Trauma harness and making improvements in Auto-doc and Mister Orderly programming) Lead Scientists, Doctor Mandala & Doctor 0.
X-13 Research facility
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(Projects include reverse engineering the Chinese Stealth armor captured during the recent push into China and applying our findings for the good of America) Lead Scientist, Doctor 0.
Z-14 Pepsinae Splicing lab
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(Houses the “Cazador” project.) Lead Scientist, Doctor Ouroborous.
Z-9 Crotalus DNA Preservation lab
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(Houses the “Night Stalker” project) Lead Scientist, Doctor Ouroborous.
X-42 Robo-Warfare facility
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(Houses the “Robo-Scorpion” project) Lead Scientist, Doctor Mobius.
Y-0 Research facility
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(Houses the “Self Contained Matter Transformation” or “Sierra Madre Vending Machine” project) Lead Scientists Droctor Klein and Doctor Mobius.
X-22 Botanical Garden
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(Houses the Beauveria Mordicana and Spore Plant projects as well as the study of plant life and it's possible military applications in general) Lead Scientists, Doctor Mandala and Doctor Ouroborous.
X-17 Meteoroligical Station
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(Contains the highly experimental Weather Manipulation program) Lead Scientists Doctor Klein and Doctor 8.
Z-43 Innovative Toxins plant
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(Holds the “Sierra Madre Defensive Screen” better known as the “Cloud” project) Lead Scientist Doctor Klein and Doctor Mandala.
Z-38 Lightwave Dynamics Research center
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(Contains the “Sierra Madre Security Hologram” and “Valence Radii-Accenuator” projects) Lead Scientist, Doctor 8
More to be added...