The Kingston Road : Fallout Series Discussion

» Fri May 04, 2012 11:59 am

Seattle wasn't directly hit by a bomb, but was it still hit by something?

I'm wondering if there is rubble and whatnot or if its basically a pristine city cloaked in radioactivity. I've got a CS I've shown to Venix, but I still need to create a Bio/Personality section.

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:29 pm

I'm wondering if there is rubble and whatnot or if its basically a pristine city cloaked in radioactivity. I've got a CS I've shown to Venix, but I still need to create a Bio/Personality section.

i think it should be abit of both, some buliding should be nothing but rubble, others on the otherhand should be (fairy) intact, maybe with the power still working in some cases.

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:32 pm

Seattle wasn't directly hit by a bomb, but was it still hit by something?

I'm wondering if there is rubble and whatnot or if its basically a pristine city cloaked in radioactivity. I've got a CS I've shown to Venix, but I still need to create a Bio/Personality section.

Yeah, it got hit by Fallout! :tongue:

Seriously, yes, Seattle did get hit by something, but just not like to the degree of everywhere else. The biggest thing in Seattle is simply fallout that came from bombs exploding elsewhere (just not in Seattle itself), and the chaos that followed that. There's a couple naval bases if I remember correctly (there's at least one I'm positive of,) in the area across from Seattle, so no doubt they got hit hard when the bombs fell and things got shaken up. Seattle is in just as much ruin as anywhere else really, but not necessarily through bombs detonating in it (no bombs went off in Seattle proper, mainly just the outskirts at best). Earthquakes are a big thing in Washington, so there's no doubt that three or four large quakes could have rocked Seattle's buildings and sent some of them crumbling, and the others in dangerous enough condition that they're liable to fall down as well, when the bombs were going off.

Nothing is as it once was, that's for sure, everything has changed in one way or another.

» Fri May 04, 2012 10:07 am

Hey guys, was gonna do the IC but ita 20 past 3 in the morning and I'm knackered, I plan to start it up tommoro unles jonas or the doc wants do it tonight. If you leave it to me to start tommoro that's cool gives everyone a chance to finalise everything on their cs's.

» Fri May 04, 2012 6:25 am

Name: Michael Westin

Age: 22

Race: Caucasian

Gender: Male

Hair Color/Style: Jet Black/Shoulder Length.

Eye Color: Grey.

Skin Color: Light tan.

Facial Hair: A short messy stubble coming in.

Scars: None yet.

Height: 6'1

Weight/Build: 170lbs, average build.

Armor/Clothing: leather jacket, faded blue jeans, black boots, mirrored sunglasses, and a pair of dark leather gloves

Weapons: None.

Gear: 1 gallon of clean water, sleeping bag, blank holotapes, books, pork n' beans (x3), string beans (x1), compass, deck of cards, olive duffel bag.

Personality: An outgoing soul who is trying to survive the end of the world. Though Michael tries to help his youth and inexperience have caused him to make many mistakes in his short stay in the inhospitable wasteland. Normally Michael tries to resolve disputes without violence but his short time in the wastes have taught him that conflict is normally unavoidable. Aside from his obvious shortcomings Michael is a quick study, learns from his mistakes, strives to better himself, and can handle himself well in high pressure situations.

Bio: Michael was born to fanatical parents who feared the great war with a passion. Early in his life Michael's parents applied for access to one of the many vaults being built in anticipation for the conflict on the horizon. Having no special skills and failing a psychological evaluation Michael's parents were denied admittance to a vault.

Not to be detoured Michael's father began poring all of his funds into the construction of a bomb shelter underneath the families home. While his father focused on building a shelter his mother home schooled Michael in mathematics, science, reading, english, and history. After several years of excruciating labor the shelter was completed. Michael's parents stocked the shelter with food, water, and as many books and holodisks as they could.

On October twenty-third Michael wakes up early in the afternoon to find his parents have left to collect a few things in town. It was ironic that the day his parents decided to go out was the day they had spent almost their whole lives preparing for. Michael managed to reach the shelter in time hoping that his parents would be able to make it back. He cried himself to sleep for weeks until he forced himself to forget in order to survive.

The next months for Michael were a blur, his days consisted of reading, eating, drinking, and sleeping.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:58 am

Hope you like:

Spoiler

Name: Dalton Warner
Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 5’9
Weight: 125 lbs

Hair Style: Shaggy
Facial Hair: Light beard
Hair Color: Blonde/ Brown
Eye Color: Azure Blue
Skin Color: White
Body Build: Thin and Wiry
Appearance: Dalton is thin and mostly average looking university student. His eyes are sunken and he has big bags from lack of sleep, this was even from before the apocalypse as he was always up at night doing school work. His skin has paled from being in doors for 8 months, not that he’d tan anyways, his skin burns easily. His features are well defined, he has a strong jawline and his deep blue eyes are prominent on his sunken pale face.

Clothes:
-Blue Jeans
-Black T-Shirt
-Skate Shoes
-Windbreaker Jacket with Fur Lining
-Hoodie
-Scarf
-Fake Raybans
-A Silver Swatch
-Black Baseball Cap

Weapon(s): A Screwdriver
Gear: -Backpack
-University Level Textbooks
-Flashlight
-Assorted Snack Foods and Candy bars
- Bottle of Wine x2
-6 Pack of Beer x2
-Umbrella
-Air Filters

Personality: Dalton is a considerably stressed and angry person; even before the apocalypse he was constantly stressed and often angry. He had a quick temper and was always ashamed of it. In school though he became something of a social butterfly, he would always try to chat with everyone and be friends with everyone and care for everyone, but he ended up in high school being something of an outcast. He is quite smart, and his family means the world to him. He is especially protective of his younger brother Dylan.

Bio: Dalton was born 21 years prior to the Great War on September 12^th. His family lived in the eastern suburbs of Seattle and he grew up there, it was the only home his family has ever lived in. Dalton went his way through school like basically everyone else. He had a rough time in high school but it really wasn’t much of a hindrance. He was constantly getting his brother out of trouble and the pair were good friends, even though Dylan was 7 years his junior. He graduated high school and went on to University looking to get higher education.
On the 23^rd of October 2077, he was stopping off at a Smoke Shop when the air raid sirens went off. He and the owner and a few others decided to try and hide the basemant, the shockwave killed half the people in the store and the resulting earthquakes caused half of another building to collapse into the basemant. Dalton was the only one to escape to the intact, albeit, shaken up and titled first floor. He spent the next 8 months living off of liquor and snack foods in the shop. He found little of survival value and vaguely remembered hearing that after about half a year to a year it would be alright to go outside for some time. He is growing restless and wants to try to find food and maybe his family.

» Fri May 04, 2012 2:52 pm

http://www.nukepills.com/docs/nuclear_war_survival_skills.pdf It's a pdf file, I found online. You can find some useful and interesting info on how to survive a nuclear attack. Might come in handy concerning some of the RP aspects.

» Fri May 04, 2012 9:18 am

I am basing Cammy's knowledge along this video.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=to6GGq840uU

» Fri May 04, 2012 2:56 am

I think that we need to establish some ground rules here on what the nuclear conditions are actually going to be. Are we having a nuclear winter or summer conditions for example? The immediate pre-war situation in Seattle and-so-forth.

So the city hasn't been hit at all? Not even once, the White House got turned into a crater and yet the rest of Pennsylvania Avenue and the city was okay. Yeah that wasjust because of laughable poor design on Beth's part but the city could still have been hit once. I'm not an American but I always thought Seattle was a pretty big place.

» Fri May 04, 2012 2:07 pm

I think that we need to establish some ground rules here on what the nuclear conditions are actually going to be. Are we having a nuclear winter or summer conditions for example? The immediate pre-war situation in Seattle and-so-forth.

So the city hasn't been hit at all? Not even once, the White House got turned into a crater and yet the rest of Pennsylvania Avenue and the city was okay. Yeah that wasjust because of laughable poor design on Beth's part but the city could still have been hit once. I'm not an American but I always thought Seattle was a pretty big place.

Seattle really isn't that big of a city, it's more comparable to somewhere like Manhattan which is compact rather than spread out, than say somewhere like Los Angeles that is large and spread out. Seattle's just not so compact as Manhattan, but still compact enough. Think of Seattle not getting hit, like New Vegas didn't. It wasn't bombs detonating over New Vegas, that tore the place up, it was just the general collapse of society, which is basically Seattle's downfall.

Outside of the city however, there are as I said, a couple of naval bases across the water that would have gotten hit without a doubt, and they would have been hit hard so the fallout from those multiple detonations would have come into Seattle one way or another. Nuclear winter would have already passed possibly, and considering how everyone's dressed their characters, I think it's safe to say that nobody is thinking nuclear winter is happening anymore, and it's just a barren wasteland. If the three of us GM's had decided on nuclear winter being something we experience, we would have geared our character's up for it, and made it a point to mention so nobody gets confused. However, we didn't, so it's just warmer than usual conditions. That's not to say however, it doesn't still rain radioactive rain from time to time.

» Fri May 04, 2012 4:02 am

Outside of the city however, there are as I said, a couple of naval bases across the water that would have gotten hit without a doubt, and they would have been hit hard so the fallout from those multiple detonations would have come into Seattle one way or another. Nuclear winter would have already passed possibly, and considering how everyone's dressed their characters, I think it's safe to say that nobody is thinking nuclear winter is happening anymore, and it's just a barren wasteland. If the three of us GM's had decided on nuclear winter being something we experience, we would have geared our character's up for it, and made it a point to mention so nobody gets confused. However, we didn't, so it's just warmer than usual conditions. That's not to say however, it doesn't still rain radioactive rain from time to time.

Fair enough I guess, if Seattle wasn't hit then there'd be no reason for nuclear winter to be affecting that area; I'm not entirely familiar on how a sun-obscuring cloud of ash and dust would be affected by the wind but I wouldn't think it would be much or the theory wouldnt' hold much water IRL. Then again I guess the asteroid or super-eruption that killed caused the last great extinction - which works on exactly the same principle - only happened in one place... but yeah it's the GMs call.

I had thought a nuclear summer could be interesting though and a decent explaination of why most of the wasteland is like a desert, basically the temperature of the Earth rises by a few degrees because of the increased thickness of the atmosphere yet the nuclear war has burnt away some of the ozone which increases the hazards of UV rays from the Sun.

Black rain is going to be a [censored] though

» Fri May 04, 2012 3:56 pm

I suppose the blast that started at the sub bases could have reached Seattle and knock down a few buildings and complexes, and the sears tower took a good beating but could withstand it.

» Fri May 04, 2012 3:39 pm

I believe the black rain happened a week after the bombs fell for like 7 days, I may be wrong, but it should have passed. Unless, Seattle will still be a rainy place

» Fri May 04, 2012 3:25 am

Well after a nuclear war, the shock waves would cause mega tsunami's akin to that of the asteroid that caused the last mass extinction, nto too mention the earthquakes it would make. And regardless you'd still want to cover up so you wouldn't get radiation burns.

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:32 am

Well after a nuclear war, the shock waves would cause mega tsunami's akin to that of the asteroid that caused the last mass extinction, nto too mention the earthquakes it would make. And regardless you'd still want to cover up so you wouldn't get radiation burns.

Seattle isn't on a coastline where a tsunami could happen. Earthquakes, yes they're a big thing up there, but not a tsunami, the energy would be too split up by the topography, for something like that to ever happen.

But since we're on the topic of disasters happening to Seattle, I forgot to mention, but parts of the city will be flooded and difficult/unable to be explored. Mostly along the outside of the city where the water could rise the easiest and flood over.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:23 pm

Seattle isn't on a coastline where a tsunami could happen. Earthquakes, yes they're a big thing up there, but not a tsunami, the energy would be too split up by the topography, for something like that to ever happen.

But since we're on the topic of disasters happening to Seattle, I forgot to mention, but parts of the city will be flooded and difficult/unable to be explored. Mostly along the outside of the city where the water could rise the easiest and flood over.

Seatlle is right along a major inlet, these mega tsunami's could easily get to Seattle. They went many, many miles inland. Now if you say it didn't happen it didn't happen since you are teh GMs, I was just tryign to put out my 2 cents.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:00 pm

Seatlle is right along a major inlet, these mega tsunami's could easily get to Seattle. They went many, many miles inland. Now if you say it didn't happen it didn't happen since you are teh GMs, I was just tryign to put out my 2 cents.

Like I said, the topography wouldn't allow for a tsunami, the energy from such a event would be split up rather quickly, add to the fact that a tsunami happening in that area would be pretty rare occurrence since there's nothing to displace that much water (no plates rubbing against each other, or anything large enough falling into the water).

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:53 pm

Character Sheet
Name: Micheal Foster
Age: 26
Race: Caucasian
Gender: M
Height: 6'1
Weight: 182

Hair Style: Grown Out Buzzcut, after living in shelter
Facial Hair: Beard, after living in shelter
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Hazel
Skin Color: Beige/Pink
Body Build: Healthy semi-athletic

For the last year and a half Michael has worked for the Government as a "housekeeper," that is he would man a safehouse in case it might at one time be needed for "interrogations" or to hold sensitive prisoners. An ex Police Officer he hoped to quickly become an Agent and get out into the world, but has found himself trapped as a housekeeper.

That fateful day in October he came in for work like any other. He was seemingly just another man in a suit coming home. Clean shaven, sharp buzzcut, nice suit, nice shoes, and a nice hat to finish it off. He carried a simple lunch pail, presumably returning from whatever he did for a living.

As he walked in the housekeeper on the previous shift greeted him and caught him up on recent happenings. It didn't take long. Nothing happened, nothing ever happened. The man left and Michael settled in for another long shift. He went to the control room to check his weapon. One gun, (Glock .40 Model 23), two magazines, and 21 rounds (2 magazines with 10 rounds per magazine and 1 in the chamber). He opened his jacket and placed it into a simple shoulder holster (Uncle Mike's), rebuttoned his jacket, and quickly set about to doing nothing for the next few days.

In the refrigerator was a burrito from a week ago with zero possibility of being eaten, and other random leftovers. Michael emptied his lunch pail into the refrigerator and started walking through the halls to inspect the doors. All were secure and locked. He entered his partners password and reset them to his own.

Back in the control room he turned on the monitors, checked in on the phone, and started doodling in a notebook.

A few hours later the phone rang.

"Foster?"

"Yeah"

"Turn on your TV, you're gonna want to see this."

After a moment of disbelief he shoved everything on the desk and everything out of the refrigerator into the nearest trashcan and, dragging the can behind him, made a mad rush to the basemant kitchen.

"My god...they've finally done it."

*I tried to put most of it into the form of a post, he can shoot but not exceptionally well or anything. He has a simple small gun though it has the LEO extended magazine (allowing 10 rounds per magazine). Plenty of food down there, enough to feed 5 men and 1 prisoner for a month.*

» Fri May 04, 2012 11:24 am

When is the IC going to be up?

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:11 pm

When is the IC going to be up?

Agreed. I thought it was today, but now it's getting late.

» Fri May 04, 2012 5:57 am

Agreed. I thought it was today, but now it's getting late.

Exactly, Venix said tomorrow, yesterday, but Eastern Time, it's 9:23 PM.

» Fri May 04, 2012 10:37 am

Exactly, Venix said tomorrow, yesterday, but Eastern Time, it's 9:23 PM.

Yeah I'm eastern time too. 9:30

» Fri May 04, 2012 5:42 am

Sorry guys I'm doin it now, My ME3 came early and I forgot about everything else, even my college work

» Fri May 04, 2012 9:02 am

Oooh, sounds like your going to be in a tough spot then eh.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:28 pm

Nah it'l be ok, il just be lacking sleep but there is nothing new there haha it won't be up straight away but rest assured I am doing it and it will be up in the next hour or two do if you wanna get your opening posts sorted that's cool