Rexraptor2000
02-16-2008, 04:49 PM
“Hello and welcome to the Verpax, combatants. Here you will face against creatures and opponents of all kinds from all corners of existence, on terrain that can either glorify or kill you, with allies who are completely alien to you. You can go it alone at first, but as the challenges become more difficult it is inevitable that you either accept help from the other combatants or end up dragon/werewolf/alien/etc. food. The reason you should fight? You don’t have a choice. Well you do in a sense, but dieing I would think is something that most, if not all, of you would prefer to avoid. At any rate, if you make it through all the matches then you’re set to go back to wherever you came from and pretend like this never happened. I don’t think I need to explain the implication of losing, so I’ll just say good luck and put on a good show.” - Sarv'lak, Verpax Grandmaster
The basic story is this: Your character, custom or pre-existing, has been taken from their universe to fight in an arena blood sport for the entertainment of the Sovonions, an advanced species who, obviously, have inter-universal capabilities. While this naturally wouldn’t go down well, being held at gun point doesn’t give you much in the way of options if you like living. The Verpax, the main arena for this sport, resembles the Roman Coliseum in design and is able to make its main arena simulate virtually any environment. The actually structure itself houses dozens of smaller arenas, holding cells for fighters just starting out, and a few barracks for housing fighters who have started to gather into teams.
The Sovonions themselves are a bipedal species that looks like a cross between a dinosaur, a bird, and some human characteristics, with a leg structure that is digigrade in design. The have long heads that gradually begin to feather as you start from the snout. The body is feathered, and they have long, three fingered hands with razor sharp claws. They bear a single curved claw in place of a big toe, similar to a raptor’s, and are all generally colors ranging from red to blue, black to white. They are amazingly fast for bipedal creatures, and generally their movements are fast and precise, which makes it look like their jerking their heads around at most times. They’re generally also very aggressive and mainly carnivorous, so it’d be a really good idea to avoid making one mad unless you can defend yourself easily. The ones you will be seeing, mainly guards, will be wearing armor specifically designed for their anatomy, while a few may even be, in a creepily familiar and comical way, will be wearing togas.
When I get enough people, I’ll start the RP. When we are through the orientation, I’ll create a list of matches from which your character can choose to be in.
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The rules of participation in this RP are standard:
No god-modding
Minimal Character Control (Starmark's said why more than enough)
No killing other PCs without permission
If you're gone for 7 days, then your character becomes an NPC until your return. (Starmark’s rules should just be put up in a rules thread or something)
Thread master controls all 'plot sensitive' NPCs
Two Characters Max
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Character Sheet Setup
Name:
Species: (Any, made up or otherwise as long as it follows the rules. If made up please explain in here or in bio)
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Weapons: (Any, made up or otherwise as long as it follows the rules. If made up please explain in here or in bio)
Bio: (If an existing character, either explain or link to bio. If custom, explain and provide info as to where they’re from)
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Name: Zionist
Species: Unknown; Nicknamed ‘VerseWalker
Gender: Male
Age: 101,217 (Appears 24)
Appearance: 6’3 ft tall human with a muscular medium build. Zionist has a dark iris, almost black but not quite with silver short cropped hair that doesn’t look as if it’s been combed in years. He is deprived of any form of fat, making him either muscle or bone. Zionist wears a body suit which has the color scheme of black and white camouflage.
Weapons: No apparent weapons
Bio: Zionist is a traveler so to speak, the last of a hyper-advanced inter-universal faring species that was wiped out by a genocidal war and virus. Other than that, you won’t really hear much else from him on the subject of his past. You will hear a good story or two from him though, having a good amount of travel and make them.
Overall, Zionist is a nice guy. He’s patient, respectful, playful, and wise. The only bad thing that could really be associated with him is the fact that he is the willing host for “a bio-mechanical virus that is able to use both organic and inorganic material to spread its matrix and melds both into one living organism which it controls, and a virulent, parasitic organism that thrives by infecting sentient lifeforms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability.” Not exactly the most pleasant two as you might imagine, but when Zionist was being hunted right after his species genocide they both came in handy in combat and counseling. Though they’ve outlived his need for them, he feels guilty just thinking about the notion of getting rid of them due to the fact that they’re the reason he’s still alive. However, they don’t take too well to being tools. It’s a mental war between he and them at most times, and occasionally it escalates to the point of making him very aggressive, shifting control of the vocal and automotive functions, or even temporary complete loss of vocal and automotive functions. Most of the time though Zionist keeps them under control though so it rarely becomes a problem unless he stays in one ‘Verse too long, and they virtually never show themselves short of infecting other victims.
On a completely different note, Zionist has acid blood, likes snow, playing piano, and helping people in need. He doesn’t like to stay in any one place for too long because of his hitchhikers, but will most of the time see a conflict through if he’s involved. Zionist was on a desolate frozen world looking for a remnant of his species technology when he was ‘invited’ to come and participate in the Verpax. He killed three of the Sovonions sent to capture him before he came quietly.
The basic story is this: Your character, custom or pre-existing, has been taken from their universe to fight in an arena blood sport for the entertainment of the Sovonions, an advanced species who, obviously, have inter-universal capabilities. While this naturally wouldn’t go down well, being held at gun point doesn’t give you much in the way of options if you like living. The Verpax, the main arena for this sport, resembles the Roman Coliseum in design and is able to make its main arena simulate virtually any environment. The actually structure itself houses dozens of smaller arenas, holding cells for fighters just starting out, and a few barracks for housing fighters who have started to gather into teams.
The Sovonions themselves are a bipedal species that looks like a cross between a dinosaur, a bird, and some human characteristics, with a leg structure that is digigrade in design. The have long heads that gradually begin to feather as you start from the snout. The body is feathered, and they have long, three fingered hands with razor sharp claws. They bear a single curved claw in place of a big toe, similar to a raptor’s, and are all generally colors ranging from red to blue, black to white. They are amazingly fast for bipedal creatures, and generally their movements are fast and precise, which makes it look like their jerking their heads around at most times. They’re generally also very aggressive and mainly carnivorous, so it’d be a really good idea to avoid making one mad unless you can defend yourself easily. The ones you will be seeing, mainly guards, will be wearing armor specifically designed for their anatomy, while a few may even be, in a creepily familiar and comical way, will be wearing togas.
When I get enough people, I’ll start the RP. When we are through the orientation, I’ll create a list of matches from which your character can choose to be in.
__________________________________________________
The rules of participation in this RP are standard:
No god-modding
Minimal Character Control (Starmark's said why more than enough)
No killing other PCs without permission
If you're gone for 7 days, then your character becomes an NPC until your return. (Starmark’s rules should just be put up in a rules thread or something)
Thread master controls all 'plot sensitive' NPCs
Two Characters Max
__________________________________________________
Character Sheet Setup
Name:
Species: (Any, made up or otherwise as long as it follows the rules. If made up please explain in here or in bio)
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Weapons: (Any, made up or otherwise as long as it follows the rules. If made up please explain in here or in bio)
Bio: (If an existing character, either explain or link to bio. If custom, explain and provide info as to where they’re from)
__________________________________________________
Name: Zionist
Species: Unknown; Nicknamed ‘VerseWalker
Gender: Male
Age: 101,217 (Appears 24)
Appearance: 6’3 ft tall human with a muscular medium build. Zionist has a dark iris, almost black but not quite with silver short cropped hair that doesn’t look as if it’s been combed in years. He is deprived of any form of fat, making him either muscle or bone. Zionist wears a body suit which has the color scheme of black and white camouflage.
Weapons: No apparent weapons
Bio: Zionist is a traveler so to speak, the last of a hyper-advanced inter-universal faring species that was wiped out by a genocidal war and virus. Other than that, you won’t really hear much else from him on the subject of his past. You will hear a good story or two from him though, having a good amount of travel and make them.
Overall, Zionist is a nice guy. He’s patient, respectful, playful, and wise. The only bad thing that could really be associated with him is the fact that he is the willing host for “a bio-mechanical virus that is able to use both organic and inorganic material to spread its matrix and melds both into one living organism which it controls, and a virulent, parasitic organism that thrives by infecting sentient lifeforms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability.” Not exactly the most pleasant two as you might imagine, but when Zionist was being hunted right after his species genocide they both came in handy in combat and counseling. Though they’ve outlived his need for them, he feels guilty just thinking about the notion of getting rid of them due to the fact that they’re the reason he’s still alive. However, they don’t take too well to being tools. It’s a mental war between he and them at most times, and occasionally it escalates to the point of making him very aggressive, shifting control of the vocal and automotive functions, or even temporary complete loss of vocal and automotive functions. Most of the time though Zionist keeps them under control though so it rarely becomes a problem unless he stays in one ‘Verse too long, and they virtually never show themselves short of infecting other victims.
On a completely different note, Zionist has acid blood, likes snow, playing piano, and helping people in need. He doesn’t like to stay in any one place for too long because of his hitchhikers, but will most of the time see a conflict through if he’s involved. Zionist was on a desolate frozen world looking for a remnant of his species technology when he was ‘invited’ to come and participate in the Verpax. He killed three of the Sovonions sent to capture him before he came quietly.