How's ME3? I played the early demo and it was pretty fun.

I want to get it but I'm scrambling trying to find a collector's edition because I didn't preorder.

Ok IC is up, a couple hours later than what I said, sleep caught me. Im really enjoying ME3, I was lucky and mine got delivered a day early.Hircine if your in the UK you can try Shopto, Play, Blockbuster, I even heard rumours Argos have stocked the CE however if your outside the UK im afraid I cant help : (

I'll post later.

Oh and lol. Everyone's character is Caucasian! I'd like to change my characters race to African American and Caucasian, so mixed.

Hell have a smooth tan

[censored] just realised I didn't put your cs in the character list mr smiley, I forgot we had a sheet on page 4. When I gethome from College I will add you in sorry.

speaking of flooding , is mercer island underwater? i have an idea for it

going to be rather busy this weekend but should be-able to get a post up either late tonight or tomorrow.

Such as? Most of it might be, but maybe not all.

Andrew (my chr's) house.

I picked out a spot bang in middle of island, "8802 Southeast 61st Street" if that's not okay/totally flooded i'll switch it somewere else

I'm ill + feeling like dog at the moment, If I don't post some time tonight Ill get something up tomorrow.

I'll have an initial post up once I've finished a post for my fan-fic. Does anyone here know any of Seattle's more upper class areas?

Good question, anyone know any of Seattle's lower class areas? Hehe, thanks Enclave.

You might have trouble getting to the city through the bridge, which would likely be broken down.

Ill post late tonight, around 11 Pacific.

Everyone in this RP is tall...hehe. My CS submitted for approval:


Character Sheet, Skirt with a weapon

Name: Helen Raindancer (Helen York)
Age: 31
Race: Human, Native Canadian
Gender: Female
Height: 5’ 2”
Weight: 180lbs pre-war, significantly less by time of emersion from shelter

Hair Style: Braided and long, the ends of her hair coming down to her mid-back pre-war, nearly to her waist by time of RP
Facial Hair: None
Hair Color: Deep brown, almost black
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Tan
Body Build: Full-figured.
Appearance: Helen is only one-half Native Canadian but bears a number of the “typical” features: high cheekbones, high forehead, darker than Caucasian skin tone. She has full lips and large, pretty eyes, but is not more or less good looking than average. She is short and was quite overweight before the bombs dropped, but months in a shelter and very picky, ration eating, have caused her to lose a lot of weight. Once she emerges from her shelter, she still bears full hips but an average bust, causing her to have a distinctive pear shape.

Clothes: Light brown cardigan that ties at the waist, navy-blue t-shirt, khaki pants, sneakers. Also has a denim skirt and a couple other t-shirts, bras, and a pair of “fashion” boots. Beaded necklace in the “Native American” style that she keeps with her clothing but never wears.
Weapon(s): Butter knife.
Gear: A couple bottles of water, about a dozen packages of dry foods (cereal, snack cakes, biscuit mix, rice), bedroll, and a small suitcase with the clothing items detailed above.

Personality: Helen is fairly intelligent, reserved, and not very industrious. She is reliable to a point and doesn’t think much more beyond taking care of herself, and only doing the bare minimum to do even that. She is friendly and approachable, but simply not very outgoing and charismatic.

Bio:

Helen York was the only child of Arnold and Patricia York, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her mother was Native American who had moved to the city to improve her employment prospects and worked in a deli owned by Arnold’s parents. Circumstances would have it that Arnold and Patricia would frequently work the night shift together and soon found themselves falling in love. Helen was born less than a year after they were married.

As an only child of parents who weren’t overly wealthy, but weren’t lacking for anything, Helen grew up never having to exert much effort in order to get anything she wanted. Smart enough to float through school doing the bare minimum, she found herself in university with little career aspirations or any kind of direction.

The population of Native American people in Canada was dwindling, particularly as many of them fought to keep the Americans, newly occupying the country, from destroying their lands further and [censored] the natural resources off the land. As their numbers died off, martyred for their cause, a country-wide outrage began to swell as Canadians opened their eyes to the genocide of their Native peoples.

The American government established the Department of Cultural Preservation and began to “protect” those they were so easily slaughtering out in the field in an attempt to save some face and placate the already unruly Canadians. In her final year of university, set to graduate with a social science degree and no job lined up (or even thought about), Helen found herself approached by a government representative of the DCP and offered the chance to be protected for the rest of her life.

“You are a national treasure,” she was assured. “Your heritage and your culture is important to America, and we would like to ensure your longevity as a member of the government.”

With no other aspirations in mind, Helen merely shrugged and went along with whatever the DCP wanted. They changed her name from York to Raindancer, to sound more “authentic.” Despite the fact she had been raised in the city, and knew nothing of her Native American heritage, she was dressed in “traditional” garments and flaunted around at various patriotic events in the spirit of government goodwill.

She was also referred to as “Native Canadian,” in an attempt to appeal to the Canadian patriots.

For the next few years, Helen didn’t have to worry about a thing. She was flown all across the country to participate in these events with a dozen other “representatives” and never had to do more than get dressed in what they provided for her, eat, and sleep. She ate well. She gained nearly a thirty pounds in the first two years. By the time the panic erupted, when it was clear that nuclear war was on the horizon, she had gained nearly a hundred pounds. The government simply had her clothing tailored over and over to fit her widening girth.

Her final event appearance took place in August of 2077. By then she was one of only three other Native Canadians who still participated in the program. The world had begun to prepare for the onset of nuclear war, and many officials from the government had started to disappear – most speculated they had moved into the fabulous fallout shelter Vaults. The letter came to her modest apartment in Seattle, where she received the worst news of her life.


Aimless, though not entirely penniless, Helen found herself drinking whiskey on the rocks at the nearby bar. Her friend Travis, the bar’s proprietor, offered her a job part-time. Patronage had increased but most of his employees had quit for various reasons, and he could use the extra hands.

By October 2077, Helen had left her apartment and began living in the basemant suite below the bar. She hadn’t realized that Travis had been fortifying the property for several months. When the earthquakes began, Travis locked them both inside.

HAHA, Cammy is taller than someone, yay!!!

I plan on using a boat or making a raft of somesort, Andrew is an engieer so could probably make one(not going far any way) or fix a broken ship.

@enclave:I think it's mecer island, I don't live in Seattle or american for that fact so can't be sure, it did however look fairy nice on google street map so i decided to have my guy house there regardless

Looks good, Skirt. Everything looks in order.

Can i still join? If I can here's a CS, it's not great but i'm tired so any changes needed will be made tomorrow, if it's accepted then i will post tomorrow.

Crap...I apparently failed to push the Post button last night.

It usually saves it, although now that you've made a new post it might of been overwritten.

Sorry guys, I've been so damn sick these past two days so I haven't been able to make a real adequate post. I will be making one tonight though, as soon as I get my pain meds that'll allow me to think clearly and post well. I hate this so much.

I see there's a map of Seattle, which is quite informative for the general geography. I'm wondering if the GMs could possibly decide on the more social layout of the city pre-bombs? For example, we can likely assume that the area around the university would be inhabited mainly by students (i.e. high density but lower income). The rest of the areas don't necessarily have to reflect what it is like in the city in "real life", therefore, perhaps for example the north west was an industrial area so the cheapest housing (i.e. poorest people) had a sort of ghetto there, maybe the rich people lived on the easternmost areas of the city to be as far away from the industry (and poor people) as possible.

These are suggestions to just give an idea of what I am talking about. It would help initially place characters (such as mine, as you may have noticed I was non-committal regarding where in the city she was living). It would also give an idea of the social landscape, suggest what kind of loot might be found where (an affluent area would likely have a high-end grocery store carrying more gourmet items, and a poorer area might only have a number of convenience stores full of generic canned goods and junk food.

I hope this isn't rambling.

Why not make it easier on yourself, and just say which part of town you want your character to start out from, either by flat-out, "She looked in amazement at the old rundown neighborhood, made even more so by the past months," or by another way of detail? People will get the hint if you just specify exactly what's surrounding your character. Since we're all relatively average people, I don't expect anyone to come crawling out around some high class and once nicely kept houses, but suburbs and the like. Then, if you want to take your character to the more rich areas, say, "she started off towards where those who had money once lived," or, "she walked aways, stumbling upon one of the finer neighborhoods of Seattle, wondering about what might be inside?" something like that will do well enough. Seattle is mostly made up of suburbs anyway.

If not, look at a map like Google Maps. Simple enough, it'll show you where the industry and other things are.

Okay -- so basically you just want us to follow the layout of Seattle of 2012 and our world. That's all I was asking. You're giving the players all the artistic license...