I put more detail into his personality. I hope that his big flaw is obvious, as I will be implementing it, based on a real world disorder, I changed the name so it can be more relatable in fallout world.

Thanks I made myself think of something. It was tempting to just put in that being children is a flaw, but I decided to be more specific.

@ TheRealWolfman: Now that is a kick ass character sheet my friend.

@ Yttrium: Hey there. This should be interesting.

@ Ms. Skirt et al: Children? Interesting. . .and call me SentinetSurfer, Sent, Surfer, Surf, or Ishmael. Just not Mr. Surfer. Makes me sound too old, or like that peanut guy that wears a top hat and a monocle.

@ TickTock: Hope my bio is okay. I'd suggest that you allow everyone in the vault to interact to some degree so we all have the chance to speak to one another. You might also want to add some spacing to your bio. Its a bit of a text wall.

On Topic:

Amanda is my character. The second character is her eventual partner (and roommate) in the vault - Robert - he gets a slightly truncated bio. I will write both, but mainly Amanda. They are each other’s long term love interest so things don’t get weird between me and other RP'ers. They will Ying/Yang each other, as is my style.

Name: Amanda Hoernbeck

Age: 23

Occupation: Waitress

Abilities / Skills: Intelligent. Resourceful. Well read but not formally educated. Creative.

Personality: Selfish. Calculating / Manipulative. Anxious. Immature.

Reason chosen for Vault Experiment: Bottom of the control group based on the statics gathered from the 2076 U.S. census (height, weight, level of education, race, socioeconomic status). Amanda thinks she won the Vault Lottery and got a space in the Vault free of charge.

Physical Appearance: Caucasian. 5’6. Curly black hair. Big nose. Green eyes. 140lbs.

Habits: Nail biter. Drinker. Smoker. Likes reading fiction, dancing, and composing poetry.

Number in Vault 114: 1,985

Bio:

Amanda Hoernbeck’s mother was an English professor at CUNY (this is a NYC vault, right?) . Her father was in the army but he died of new plague when she was two and she has no memory of him. Amanda was raised by her mother until her mother died of briast cancer when she was a teenager. Orphaned, Amanda dropped out of high school and took up waitressing to make ends meet.

Amanda likes to write poetry in her spare time, but she never lets anyone read what she writes. She spends her weekends at nightclubs dancing – her other passion. She knows that she should be doing more with her life, but due to poverty and laziness, she has given up on pursuing higher education and a more steady job. She’s worked as a waitress for the Snow White Diner for the past three years and has no plans for the future.

Amanda was very close to her mother. She still wears a locket with her picture in it. She’s flirty and superficial when it comes to men. Her previous boyfriend dumped her, which devastated her for several months. She is currently single and she lives in a studio apartment with her cat, which she adores, a calico named Scruff.

To her friends, Amanda can come off as whiney and superficial. She is actually quite deep, but conceals that fact from those around her because she tends to associate with shallow people. She dreams to one day own a dog, a house on the beach, and to become a famous poet.

--and--

Name: Robert Johnson

Age: 27

Occupation: Janitor

Skills: Strong. Good at tinkering and mechanics. Rudimentary knowledge of robotics - enough to repair them and keep them running.

Personality: Friendly. Extremely self deprecating. Good natured.

Physical Appearance: African American. 5'10. 220lbs. Looks like a cuddly bear. Hairy. Has a scratchy voice. Thick legs and arms. Mustache.

Habits: Likes to sing (to himself) as he cleans. Enjoys music - jazz especially.

Reason chosen for Vault Experiment: Bottom of the control group based on the statics gathered from the 2076 U.S. census (height, weight, level of education, race, socioeconomic status). Robert thinks he won the vault lottery and got a space free of charge.

Rank in Vault: 1,984 (one above Amanda)

Bio:

Robert Johnson is a janitor who helps keeps the NYC subway system clean. He also keeps the metro protectrons up and running. His wife, Nikki, was killed during a botched robbery when he was 23. He has three sisters and four brothers and is very close with them and his mother.

Robert is known as a friendly outgoing guy, who can be a bit slow or "thick" at times. He is slightly embarrassed by his lowly profession. On his free time, he frequents jazz clubs. He had wanted to play the saxophone since childhood, but his family was too poor to provide him with one or with lessons.

Around women, Robert is shy. His skin is ashy and he routinely has bad body odor so he considers himself unattractive. He distains drinking and chem use because his father was an alcoholic who abandoned Robert and his family when he was a child.

Occasionally I regret having pursed so much higher education, myself. I tease, I tease. I still want to call you Mr. Surfer but I won't

Edit of seriousness post-fourth-cup-of-coffee:

I think they should definitely all get to interact with each other, otherwise there'd be no spirit of competition. The ones higher up need to see where they could live if they don't keep up to the standard, and those lower should be inspired to climb. ...and Leon demands a 2000-strong audience.

Outstanding, look forward to gettin this thing rollin. Other than myself, We get an elite group of writers here. This should be fun.

Added a couple more details to Tiberius.

I'm interested but unsure if I feel like rolling up a character sheet.

Hi there guys. Hope I'm not too late to join this one? Boys are better now, so I'll be active in the forums again.

Name: Hugh Larson
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Skills, Talents: Famous director and scenario writer in the pre-war world, best known for his science fiction movies. He’s also highly manipulative and rather charismatic. See history for more.
Ranking: 72
Position: Vault dweller, head of entertainment
Personality: Charming and funny, as long as you don’t screw with him. His charm works manipulatively, and he suffers from anger issues and is a narcist. He isn't very couragous. He doesn't care about the well-being of others at all, even though he appears to. See history for more.*
Appearance: Despite his age he is still physically fit. He looks quite handsome for a man of his age. In the Light, camera, gossip! entertainment magazine he was voted to be #63 on the list of ‘sixiest men alive’ (at this time Hugh was 32 years old). He is a bit muscular (thanks to his fitness program) and rather tall.
History: Hugh was born in California, not far from Hollywood. He started writing at the age of nine, and he finished his first professional film scenario at the age of sixteen. This scenario was accepted by one of the studios, and the movie was a huge succes. The science fiction genre had been dead for a few years, and many critics said that the genre had been reinvented by Hugh. After this, many movies followed, including Hugh’s dream: a trilogy. While filming the last part of the trilogy, Hugh was often arguing with the director. The arguing got so bad that Hugh had to be removed of the set, after threaths of violence. He then would never write scenarios again unless he would also be the director of the movie. His movies were still succesful, but actors and other crew members often complained about him, saying that he’s very unreasonable and demanding to work with.
By 2077, Hugh has retired after having written a great 21 movies, of which 8 were directed by himself. He had been diagnosed with anger issues and symptoms of narcissism, and retired after he got the advice from a doctor to do so. He payed a lot of bribes to make sure no one would ever find out (the bribes were succesful, even the government including the people of Vault-Tec don't know about it). He lives the life of a playboy, and appears in talk shows and commercials every now and then. Hugh has become an icon in the film industry.

* I want his narcistic traits to develop over time, making them grow worse and worse, so at the beginning of the story you'll hardly notice it.

Glad to hear, on all counts!

Yttrium, great to be RPing with you, it's been a while!

Tickchtock- I'm already starting on my character sheet. I'll probably be controlling another character along with my own but I'm not sure how much. If I'll be using him more than expected then I'll make a character sheet for him too, if that's okay.

Actually, I think I'll make both of them full blown out characters. I'm really liking the idea.

Outstanding, and looking forward to your activity.

Still not sure if I should make a character sheet for the other one, his son. Anyway, this is what I have


Name: Emerick Wyatt Tolstoy (Born just Emerick Wyatt)
Gender: Male
Age: 43

Skills & Talents: Incredibly intelligent; can play a wide variety of instruments including the guitar, piano, drums, and the violin though he really hasn't “mastered” any of them; and he's an incredible writer. He's able to pick up any skill with relative ease especially something that just requires memorization.
Ranking: 583

Position: Vault Dweller, Works with Tiberius as a columnist

Appearance: Handsome by many people's opinions. Emerick's facial features are very sharp and well defined. He doesn't have an athletic body but he does keep himself fit. His hair is jet black, neatly trimmed and combed back. His eyes are an amber type of color. He keeps his facial hair neatly trimmed and is almost always clean shaven.

Personality: Emerick is a serious man. He doesn't like people fooling around too much. Although he doesn't like snobbery Emerick hates ignorance with a passion and can sometimes be snobby himself, being somewhat of a hypocrite. Even with all his intelligence Emerick isn't very good socially and he doesn't handle relationships well. Because of his first marriage he developed an alcohol problem. Right now he keeps it under control but he can sometimes lose it.

History: Emerick's parents had worked most of their lives to live very different lives from their own parents. They tried their hardest to leave the poor minded society they had grown up in and when Emerick's mother was pregnant with their first son (Emerick's brother) they had finally reached what they thought was the top, they were finally middle class.

It was pretty easy to see how different Emerick was from other children his age, including his brother. He had already started reading before even entering school. When he got older his parents felt like his innate intelligence was being wasted with the school's basic curriculum so they decided to hire tutors to teach Emerick other things, such as music and philosophy. The price was pretty expensive for them but they would do anything as long as it helped out their child.

Emerick spent most of his early teens in libraries, reading novel upon novel, and he began developing a serious interest in writing. He began using Tolstoy as his last name because of writer Leo Tolstoy, one of his favorite novelists.

His parents weren't sure what to think of their son wanting to be a novelist, they kept seeing the mental picture of struggling writer who couldn't make ends meet, living a miserable life, but they stood behind his decision. If that's what he wanted, then he would do it, unlike themselves who had to give up some of their aspirations to get to where they were.

Emerick had a plan though, he began playing around in the stock market under his father's name for some time, a risky venture, but one that saw fruit. Once his father had found out what he was doing their wealth had multiplied exponentially, they had become millionaires. All Emerick wanted was a portion of that himself so he would be able to write novels without worrying about money.

He never became a world famous author, but he did have some success. He later got married but it didn't last long and he was left depressed heartbroken, and with a child, eventually developing a serious alcohol problem, which led to even deeper depression.

I do want to point out, Tiberius was highly publicized during during the events talked about after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor so y'all can talk and think about him in the rp if you wish.

@DB- Nice to see ya in another RP!

@Ishmael/Surfer-Nice to be Rping with ya.

I tried being gutsy here and taking a top spot with a prodigy, but a made him have a couple crippling weaknesses. I'm not sure how well done it is, a might need help to make it better. I think the history might be lacking.

Name: Abdul Heffernan

six: Male

Age: 22

Skills: A skilled scientist in the fields of: Quantum Physics, Quantum Chemistry, Nuclear Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, Electrochemistry, Plasma Physics, Kinesiology, and Raiochemsitry. He also studied unarmed combat to defend himself if needed. Has a photographic memory, memorizing material at a glance. Incredible high pain tolerance, he can in fact, block out pain. Fluent in eight different languages: English, Latin, Arabic, German, French, Russian, Spanish, and Hebrew.

Diseases: Schizophrenia, Bombay blood, and hemophilia.

Ranking: 1

Position: Vault Dweller: Scientist

Appearance: Natural good looks from a very mixed heritage(if his name didn't give that away), dark brown skin with hazel eyes, and dusty, shoulder length brown hair. Straight white teeth, with a muscular body build. Has a rough beard, that never seems to go beyond that.

Personality: High paranoia and anxiety has cause him to become a un trusting person. Slow to make friends he tries to keep to himself, but finds himself often observing other people. He is slowly becoming cold and emotionless, and sometimes just downright unresponsive to people around him.

History: If you were to say that people are born with the roll of a dice, then Abdul would seem to have gotten a seven.

Born a middle class prodigy, Abdul quickly showed signs of genius. He began reading at six months, high school classes by six years. Good genetics gave him a naturally strong body with a high metabolism, his cardiovascular system is especially good.

At fifteen he had already earned several medals in various marathons, triathlons, and decathlons.
At seventeen he was earning a degree in his third field of science, before taking a break to learn some martial arts, with a very special, personal teacher, in case he needed to defend himself.

At age nineteen he finished what happened to be his last field of science. It was one of the “hot” fields so to speak, the newly expanded Plasma Physics. After entering and getting his degree, he developed and eventually perfected the standard model plasma rifle.

Then...War broke out. Abdul was not worried, he was often a cushion position in a Vault for absolutely free. He had heard rumors of war happening time soon and stuck close to the Vault, in case he needed to get their quickly, which he did.

He may be a scientist in the vault, but he is completely separate from the Overseerer council. He rank may be a one, but that is liable to slip. Unfortunately for Abdul he was born with good genes for many things, including schizophrenia. He has convinced himself that he hasn't gotten it, but his mind is slowly degrading.

Another thing, a combination of hemophilia and Bombay blood has made a paper cut as deadly as any gun might be. Bombay blood is a very, very rare blood type where the subject can only receive blood donations from other Bombay blood types. Hemophilia is a disease where the body can not clot or clots slowly, meaning cuts will not stop bleeding for a long time. The combination of these two things is especially fatal and he has a stock of his own blood for emergencies.

Note, everyone, that we'll be starting soon-not now, but soon. I'll probably wait for at least a few more character sheets from others who said they would join.

If you mean interact with each other within the vault, then yes, they will. They're allowed to go where ever they please(with exceptions, at times), but have to live and use the public and private rooms of their rank/rank group(there is the top, the middle, and the bottom group). You're also allowed to interact before they enter the vault, but keep in mind that won't be for extremely long. More than a post for each member most likely, but still a brief sort of thing.

Surfer- I'll keep that in mind in future. :] Though I'm a little too tired and such to really bother with the first.
And good characters. I certainly see no problem with their character sheets.

Hircine- Well it doesn't have to be anything large or amazingly special-so long as it meets the basic standards when it comes to informing your fellow RPers, it'll be accepted. :] It'd be cool to have ya in the RP, in any case.


Kettle- Nope. This will be open to new character sheets at all times, and the RP hasn't started yet anyways. Awesome to see you joining. :]

Gre-nades- Interesting character. :] He's "accepted," for lack of a better word.

DB Assassin- You are allowed to play "minor characters" without a character sheet, if you really like. But once the boy starts becoming involved in notable participation, if ever, you'd have to whip one up for him. But it's up to you. As for the character sheet you recently posted, he's awesome. :]

I think everyone thus far is accepted, actually-I didn't see any real problems.

EDIT: I love the character, Yttrium. :] He'll provide an interesting conflict for everyone, especially the scientists. Who'll want to make use of his good genes, but would be wary of his obvious flaws just as much and will be on edge about him in general. Though all the characters have some obvious potential to cause the Council and Overseer serious strife, here.

I'll be making my second character either tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks Tickchtock, and don't worry, I'll make a character sheet for him if I start using him more than a minor character should be used. I just want to get a feel for the RP before I decide.

Name: Aaron MacBlain

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Skills, Talents: Aaron is good a talking to large crowds of people. He is charming and charismatic. Physically he is quite strong and in almost peak physical health.

Ranking: 1,285

Position: Vault dweller. Probably vault security or something similar for his job. Will there be security guards Tick?

Appearance: 5 foot 9 tall. Lean but well built physique. Short blonde hair and a short, neatly trimmed beard. His nose sits at a crooked angle due to it being broken several times.

Personality: Aaron is quite cheeky but he can appear arrogant at times. He is proud of his achievements before the war and likes to brag about them when an oppertunity arises. While Aaron isn't a bully, he is extremely confidant in his fighting abilities and will sometimes jokingly insult people "For a laugh", Knowing that if they take it the wrong way, he can most likely beat them in a fistfight.

History: Born and raised in Leicester, England. Aaron was seven years old the first time his grandad handed him a pair of boxing gloves. After an hour of playfully sparing with the old man Aaron knew what he wanted to do with his life. After much pleading the child convinced his grandfather to let him train in the old man's gym.

At age seventeen Aaron took the bronze medal for boxing at the olympic games. Dissapointed with this Aaron spent almost every waking moment for the next four years training. When he competed at the games for the second time MacBlain won the gold.

When he returned to the UK Aaron discovered he had become a media sensation. His face was on all the newspapers and all the tv chatshow hosts wanted to talk to him. The public loved his cheeky banter and his attitude to his training. Soon after the calls from the chatshows came several calls from sponsors offering to help him turn pro.

By age twenty five Aaron had won the world middleweight boxing championchip. He fought several title defences and moved to the US, conveniently escaping conscription before the resource wars.

Aged 30 he is now a four time, former champion. He is still a darling of the media, although he has come to expect it, rather than appreciate it.

His place in the vault was granted simply because of his physical attributes. While not stupid Aaron is in no way remarkably bright either.

DB- Understood. :]

Kettle- Nice character, as always. I'm glad to see people taking the liberty to make characters with special bits about their history and the like.
Naturally, you're free to play as him once the RP actually starts. I think we might be able to start tomorrow, though I might be still waiting for someone(gotta check here). Ignoring Hircine, who didn't give a definite decision. I don't want to start without waiting for those who said they were going to definitely join first, though-since it seems kind of rude/cruel in its own way.

Sure...I'll give it a shot. I've been in RPs before and now I know what to do

Name: Aiden Park
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Skills, Talents: A medical chemical, and genetic scientist, but specialized in biological warfare for both the U.S and the Chinese armies and even played a part in creating the FEV, although somewhat minimal. He's an experienced and very good marksman as well with nearly all rifles and pistols. A very logical and intelligent person. Fluent in Korean, Chinese, English, Latin, and German.

Ranking: N/A
Position: Vault Dweller, Scientist.

Appearance: Very smooth and charming facial features. 5' 10'', a little bit lean but very healthy looking build. A little short black hair, left natural. Nothing disfigured but has a couple burns on his arms from failed chemical experiments.

Personality: Aiden's usually a little bit of a fun type while still being very serious and ruthless when he needs to be. Usually, when nothing bad is happening, Aiden just goes around and maybe pull pranks on fellow team members or chat with them but when things are bad, he does everything in his power to prevent that from happening, whether it be moral or not. But other than that, Aiden doesn't care for what happens, so long as he keeps his family fed and safe. He has no quarrels about giving a country a deadly toxin and letting it loose on a village or what.

History: Aiden was born in one of the wealthiest families in Korea and immigrated to the U.S at a very early age, his father making a very successful medicine company based in Washington state. From there, he started to study medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and everything else needed to be a successful chemist.

At 15, Aiden was beginning to take an interest in guns, much to his father's delight. Later at 18, when he just got accepted into Stanford Med, he was already as knowledgeable about chemistry and medicine than the professors due to the tutors his father hired, and Aiden joined the school's firing team.

When the resource wars started, Aiden was already a certified chemist and medicine maker, which the U.S government loved. They put Aiden as one of the scientists responsible for the FEV but when he realized the FEV was doomed to fail, he immediately quit the team and instead went to another biological weapons division, where he dated and eventually married Evelyn Kim, one of the team's scientists.

Along the way, especially in the honeymoon to Korea, the Chinese government contacted Aiden and offered him a spot on the Chinese research team, given extraordinary pay and the best housing in China. Aiden declined, saying it would be bad for the family living in America so China simply called to him every once in a while for an "under the table" exchange of lethal chemical weapons and medicine for the soldiers in exchange for large sums of money.

Aiden, having connections with many governments and even the Robco CEO, Mr. House, he was given word of a nuclear war happening in late 2077. He immediately took the test for Vault 114 and got in with Evelyn, paying not so much for a spot.

He's part of the council but believes they are "incompetent like the politicians that started the Great War" and usually goes against their views unless it truly does make sense and it's the best course of action. Aiden was one of the few who got in whose genes weren't anything that special, but of course, he had the best education money could buy in both Korea and America so he still got in.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you need a ranking if your part of the Overseerers council.

Edit: I changed my rank to number one. A little pretentious? Maybe. But since surfer's at the bottom, why can't I be at the top? If anyone still wants rank one, I'll give it away no problem I just didn't think anyone was going to gon for it.

Yttrium would be correct on that one. For anyone within the Council(fifteen scientists), their ranking is "N/A"(see my first bio, as an example). More so, they never took the tests(thus not being ranked) and were not hired after the Vault was entered, but before-by Vault Tec. The scientists hired have medical and scientific type backgrounds, all having some decent knowledge in genetics. They know very well what the project is, what they're doing, and are willingly doing it due to the high pay(and/or because they just find the topic of experimenting on indirect genetics/genetics on the population worth their time). As a result, they never had to pay to enter, as it was their job to start the experiment and ensure people such as themselves continue it after they pass(if necessary).

Aside from that, the character sheet is good. :] Just fix that bit about ranking and his job.

He can be a scientist without being within the Council, as a note, if you'd rather him be that. In such a case, however, he'd have no idea about the project, and would never be working with the Council's scientists-who aren't even that obviously in power. Though the Council is known about, they don't know the people within it were not only never ranked, but were put there for their job. Which no one knows about, except those of the Council/the Overseer, either.

Alright, I changed it.

@Zerker: Aiden and Evelyn again? Your alter egos? I kid.

@TickTock: Looks like all the sign ups (sans Hircine) have posted. . .I think. . .I'm ready whenever you are, captain [salutes].

Surfer -- we all end up with at least a little self insert when it comes to RP...or fanfic...or....

Please let me know if there is anything in this that conflicts with the RP if you see something.

Name: Christopher H. (Herman) Graham
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Skills, Talents: Negotiation (Christopher worked for the police and had talked many criminals out of doing things they would regret later in their lives), Repair (Christopher was good at repairing things such as weapons and damaged cars), and from working on cars and other such things he became fairly strong from the heavy tools he had to use to do so.
Ranking: 437
Position: Vault Dweller, Security Officer/Negotiator
Appearance: Tall, Dark Brown hair with brown eyes, Tough looking with brown skin.
Personality: Charismatic, Proud, Paranoid (Starting to be paranoid anyways.)
History: Christopher had worked for the Police for seven years as a negotiator but had been injured by a criminal, he had gone to the hospital and there he heard rumors of a coming attack and started to worry. Christopher had decided to sign up to a Vault and had stopped working for the Police, a few weeks before he went to the Vault, he started to become paranoid and became worried about an attack. His friends and relatives tried to prescribe him some medicine but he was sent to the Vault before they could do it, everyone related to him was sent to different vaults or didn't go to one at all and Christopher didn't know that they tried to prescribe medicine to him, and is now in Vault 114 without medication.