I'd just like to take the time to say that I will be making political updates on cities and such within the Capital Wasteland. For instance, if radscorpions attack a city and kill people within it, I'll post that up on the discussion thread and we'll go from there. Updates galore -- expect them.

I don't think you're allowed to have both a discussion thread and an RP going at the same time, but you could just put summaries up of events that are happening.

I'm note sure how it works on this forum, but in the TES forum there's an rp going and a discussion thread by the infamous ImmortBlood. They talk about updates and what they expect to do within the story. This was the inspiration for my rp as well.

Anway, I'll have a talk with Rohugh on the matter and square it away.

Do we have to have only Fallout skills?

Name: Shane O'Connell
Nickname: Shane
Ethnicity: Irish, full on.
Gender: Male
Age: 26

Mental Description: Shane is a traveler. That is just a fancy word for thief and killer. He has been every where, from the Hub, to Rivet City. Shane learned at a young age about charisma, and how important it is to a smooth talker. His slick aptitude has earned him many beatings from angry Mercs, or cheated women. Shane is only friendly, watch what you do though, cross him, and end up with 2 knives in your back.

Pet Peeves: Shane generally dislikes people with a mean attitude, and says the only way to win hearts and money, is with a smile. Weary of people with large weapons, such as mini-guns and bludgeons.

Hobbies: Shane loves to partake in a good round of drink, women, a nice murder.

General build: Shane is built around average, while a little muscle than others, he is not consider "Buff", 5'10, 180, good looks.
Eye color: Deep brown, almost black.
Hair color: Light brown, slightly past ear length.
Other: Light beard.
Armor: Red longsleeve undershirt, black sleeveless vest, stitched, black batting gloves, black stitched pants, boots. (Basically the Merc Adventurer outfit, but I didn't want to say just that.)

Weapon(s):dual 44. Magnums, Combat Knife, spiked knuckles.
Skills: Words, Knife etiquette, brawler fighting.
Location of Residence: Currently nowhere, drifts around the Capital Wastes.
Occupation: Smooth talking Merc.
Rank:

Short Bio: Shane was born on the west coast, somewhere bordering on Canada. At a young age he was always taught to be a nice person. When Shane was old enough to live on his own, his father taught him how to use those "People skills". At age 18, he was found by the NCR, and lived there until his 22nd birthday. After that he traveled the country, smooth talking, murdering, stealing, and loving. While his ways were what he used on the outside, to the world, his soul and mindset began to turn dark. People always bought into his voice and looks, and when they weren't looking, is when he either stole, or killed them. His style got him mixed up in the wrong crowd, and he would often fight his way out. Fists didn't do good enough, so when he stole a pair of .44 Magnums from and old Gun museum, he made sure to keep them in good condition.

He finally made it to the Capital Wasteland, and it proved a golden opportunity.

Nope. And I like the character sheet. We're dealing with a more harsh Casanova.

Harsh isn't strong enough...
Added my Bio.

So with Shadowstrike's character sheet and Mertophor sending his/her's in soon, we can get the official thread up now. Are we ready to begin?

Hers.
And I'm still at work.
But soon. I promise.
Sooooooon.
(SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT. ;3; )

Patience is key, Metrophor-san.

I've just been informed I can't post a discussion thread and the rp at the same time. I could've sworn ImmortalBlood was doing the same thing. Anyway, as soon as Metrophor posts her character sheet I'm afraid we'll have to close this thread and continue without it. I'm baffled that there isn't a way to keep a thread going on the side to keep ourselves organized. Just so everyone here knows we do not freestyle this story. Everything we post is thought out beforehand. We'll each tell a story from a different perspective with different characters. Some will coincide with others. Other characters will write and drive the story having never met anyone else. This is how it will go. The Unbecoming most be done with order and precision. I don't want grammar to besmirch the name. I'll boot you if your spelling is terrible. Your punctuation needs to be on-point. Realism is key. Disobeying this or anything else I've requested will result in a nice little shove out of the story and you will be replaced. I want you all to know that if you get tired of writing in the story because your character isnt meeting anyone, then feel free to create another. However many characters you feel you can handle, is how many will be allowed. If I feel you can't handle the amount you have I'm going to ask you to drop however many it takes for you to get back on track.

Well, Dren, IF someone didn't have another thread going, and IF that said person made one for the main thread, I don't see how that can be locked.

He said it's unacceptable to have a discussion thread running at the same time as the official even if I had someone else open it.

Well just post updates in the Rp?

Guess that'll work. With each new thread we use I'll post our character sheets so no one else will have to. I guess throughout the rp I'll update as you've suggested. So, are we ready to begin? It seems the other three are busy.

FINALLY. ;3;
God help me.
I did not expect things to be so busy at work today. I'm so sorry to keep you guys waiting like that.
Anyhooooooo....

Character Sheet

Name: Kain Sforza
Nickname: He doesn't have 'nicknames' so much as he does 'aliases', but people have been known to call him 'mantis' and/or 'manipulative [censored] behind his back.
Currently, the general public knows him as a trader/information broker: one 'Anton Reyes'.
Ethnicity: Caucasian (Polish. We assume. It's been a long time since anyone bothered trying to trace their ethnic heritage.)
Gender: Male
Age: 40

Mental Description: Major Sforza is a man of steel.
A bitter, jaded man of steel.
An obsessive workaholic, he can and will completely lose track of time when lost in a project… he’s incredibly focused, but unfortunately has completely lost the ability to multi-task.
His job description pegs him as belonging to ‘counterintelligence’; what this essentially means is that he vanishes into the Wasteland for months at a time, assumes an alternate personality and background, sets up shop in the nearest settlement and pretends he’s a local.
Nearly a decade’s worth of this type of study have made him much more open-minded in regards to the Wasteland and its inhabitants than one would expect, particularly from someone belonging to the Enclave. While he isn’t particularly vocal or upfront with his opinions (possibly one of the reasons he’s still alive), he is at least willing to talk to a civilian before shooting him (or her) in the face.
Kain doesn't smile often- not even when he's acting 'in character' (some people, not to name names, have jokingly speculated that it actually physically hurts him to be cheerful). The best anyone can hope for is either frigid cordiality or the oh-so-insincere half smile that has practically become his trademark. It's unknown whether he keeps his emotions on a very short leash or is actually incapable of connecting with people on more than a superficial level, but he clearly believes that it is better to be respected than liked.
But god help you if you lay a hand on the people under his command. He may be more cordial and amenable to reason than the average Enclave officer, but his loyalty to the organization as a while is not in question.

Essentially, his strengths and weaknesses play out as follows:

•Focused
•Efficient
•Adaptable
•Perceptive
•Eloquent and detail-oriented

But also
•Completely amoral
•Obsessive to a fault (although not compulsive... that we know of)
•Cold and generally humorless
•Manipulative
•Virtually devoid of a life outside of work


Pet Peeves:
•Loud, abrupt noises
•Impulsive people
•Interruptions
•Heavy fog or drizzle
•Questions whose answers are (to him) glaringly obvious
•Strong light
•People who call him by his first name (unless he's expressly given them permission to do so)

Hobbies: If anyone breathes a word about his weakness for pre-War musicals, they will be met with a swift and violent end.
(Also, old pulp crime novels.)

General build: Tall, lean, and sharp-angled.
Eye color: Grey
Hair color: Black
Other: Kain Sforza is a hard person to overlook, simply speaking. For one thing, at 6' 7", he is quite alarmingly tall. He stands out in a crowd for no other reason than usually he's head and shoulders above everyone else, which, unfortunately, comes with the twofold problem of a.) door frames, and b.) being the most conspicuous and tempting target in one’s unit.
His physiology seems to be attempting to make up for his height by simply... stretching him out. The end result is that Kain is not just very tall- he's also very thin, although because he tends to dress in layers it can be sometimes difficult to tell. He's not scrawny, precisely, as he leads a fairly active life and isn't the sort of person inclined to loss of muscle mass, but that doesn't change the fact that he looks a bit like a stick insect in a uniform.
His facial features are angular and sharp to the point of severity: narrow, faintly slanted eyes; visible temples and cheekbones; high, arched brows; a jawline that is nearly triangular at the chin. It's what is often referred to as a 'fox face', though honestly he has more in common with, say, a bird of prey than a canine.
A long, jagged scar runs from the right side of his jaw and up over the adjoining corner of his mouth, terminating halfway across the bridge of his nose.
Said nose is noticeably crooked, as if it were broken at some point in the past and not allowed to heal properly.

Armor: Generally civilian attire or combat armor, though he DOES have the training -as do all members in the EAF- to use power armor.
Personally, he finds the stuff clunky and inhibiting.
Weapon(s): Combat knife; standard-issue Glock 86 plasma pistol. Has enough field experience to use handguns and assorted other small arms.
Skills: Negotiation, deductive reasoning; sensitive to body language. Rudimentary first aid.
He's a fairly quick learner, so what he doesn't actually know, he can usually pick up on.
Unless it's something like, say, disarming an atomic bomb or performing oral surgery on a Deathclaw.

Location of Residence: Varies. Though he does own an apartment in Rivet City.
Occupation: Officer, Enclave Armed Forces
Rank: Major
Short Bio: While Kain hasn't seen it all, he has seen quite a lot.
Although at present his duties consist mostly of either sitting at a desk or gathering intelligence out in the Wasteland (which mostly consists of rumors, secondhand information and the odd radio station), in his youth he spent most of his time out in the wilds, ostensibly to determine the status of D.C. and its environs, any areas of tactical value, and locations where resources might be scavenged.
As far as he's concerned, his actual purpose is to study non-Enclave 'humanity' as a whole, determine its strengths and weaknesses, and keep abriast of current events... so that those weaknesses can be exploited, and the strengths turned to the Enclave's advantage.
In essence, 'learn everything you can. Talk to people. Plan for every eventuality. That way, you'll never be surprised'.

At the moment, he is posing as an information broker, who in turn masquerades as a wandering trader who deals in salvaged technology.
Because his physical appearance is quite striking, he usually operates through third-party sources, only venturing forth in person if it's absolutely necessary, he's under orders, or something particularly intriguing has caught his attention.

Good, and now...we lurk.

*Lurk, lurk, lurk*

If needed, I could make a hidden subforum on my private forums for us to use to plot and work on story so the story thread itself doesn't get cluttered and we don't have to rely on PMs only (which can be downright annoying).

That sounds like a plan. Could you possibly post a link for the 4 so we can gain easy access to it? I was just about to create the official thread and get the plot out there in the open. If so, I need you to do that as quickly as possible. If you wanted it wouldn't even have to be hidden. Anyway, now we wait for Kikai to create this forum for us to discuss our thread. Until then I'll just go ahead and post the plot here.

Our Story(As it were)

The year is 2277, the Capital Wasteland remains a battlefield for the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave, who've fought vigorously to see the end of one another. The ancient old Elder Lyons, leader of the Brotherhood sec in D.C, has devised one last strategy to hopefully cripple and destroy the Enclave once and for all. There have been open reports on the Enclave pvssyr waves of a Vault 101 escapee, who's travelled near and far in search of his father -- stopping at nothing to see him once more. He's even went as far as gunning down Enclave foot soldiers and risking the deep Wastelands. Elder Lyons is desperate to find this young adventurer, hoping to offer the Wanderer a chance to help bring down the Enclave and have his name praised till the end of time. Until then, Elder Lyons has sent a unit of informants, geared in fallen Enclave Tesla armor, in a group of three, to a base in the northwest corner of D.C. It's very well known that the Enclave hold scores of prisoners. It's hoped that the informant unit can free their captured allies and tear down the Enclave stronghold from the inside out, thus crippling the enemy a bit more.

To the 4:

This isn't the entire plot as I know many would get bored with this. We need to remember however that this is no typical rp/fanfic and that we need to refrain from trying to make grouping together our first priority. Now, there will be tons of side plots availabe, optional quests to undergo to further strengthen the Brotherhood/weaken Enclave, or even quests that are entirely for you character(s). Let's get some feedback on the plot. Tell me what you'd like to add/take way.

You'll have to all make an account. I'll send you all the link in PM.

EDIT: Oh yeah.. 10min limit between when you can send messages. Doh. Dren, you got it first, so you can send it to someone else. Mention who so I don't send the next one to the same person.

EDIT 2:

Sent PM to Metrophor

I'm sending one to Shadowstrike now.

Ahh bugger I just did, too! Oh well

To impersonate Rohugh.

:stare:

Buh?

I just posted the discussion thread so we need to copy and paste our character sheets there while I add the plot and things of that sort.

So I already took care of Scatmang Cornlioni, Shadowstrike, Kikai took care of Metro so now all we need to do is get everyones character sheet up on there so we can continue and get the rp/fanfic posted.