Darkoor

[theForgottenSoul]

is there dark spots in the hall way

and why is it circular?

[Shadow of the Fallen]

Right now, in the dome (which is why its circular), the light provided is from a high overhead source. Its more like stars in the sky that cast a dim aura of light instead of an actuall lighting source. They were dimmed so that it would be easier to see you if you came into view of the spot lights. Also, the men in the control room, the bunker that is placed where the giant '?' is, have evacuated. Everyone is ducking for any sort of cover that exists in the bare room (namely, the bodies of their fallen comrads) and are being killed where they stand. The doors have been opened in an attempt to get away from the madness, but Ariana is blocking off the escape routes.

 

Its basically all dark, considering its night time out, and the compound is not lit on the outside. Everything is indoors. The spotlights have been shut down, so you can ignore them now.

[Shadow of the Fallen]

OOO.... The technology post!

 

Actually, its an FAQ on what your character should or might know about technology. It also takes a few highlights from the futuristic technology that has been developed, and explains it a bit. On top of that, it tells about what your character SHOULD NOT know.

 

However, it is imperative that you understand this FAQ will only give you guidlines. Look around you, the advancements that we have today are impossible to be listed all together. Much less is it plausable for me to write out the entire listing of technology that is availible to you, that has been created in our real world, but isn't availible to you, and what has been created that surpasses real world level of technology. The list would be endless.

 

Thus, we have frequently asked questions, and, as always, live support from me. If you ever have questions, don't know about something, want to post but need more information, etc.... ASK ME! Thats what I'm here for!

 

I find it surprising that people will only post two paragraphs, not ask me about details, and then complain to me that there was not enough information to post on. I don't naturally see that unless I'm sitting in your shoes as a player, I need you to tell me when it happens. This hasn't happened with this group yet, but there have been smaller things that have come up. Talk to me, we'll work out all the details.

 

 

Now the real information you want:

 

Q: What would you find lying around in a typical outcast's home?

A: Furniture would include a beat-up old couch, perhaps some shelfing, maybe an old plastic hamper (remember, anything from the present would be "old" to these people). A bed of some sort, either a mat or cot/hammock, or something simmilar. There could possibly be a small table or worn rug, coatrack, etc. But not much else would be present. (milk cartons don't count as furniture). Think about going to a cheap hotel, and then removing half the furniture. Now add a little bit of dust and drab, bash random objects with a large rubber mallet, add half a dozen rats and you're good to go.

 

Somewhere in the room, or maybe on the owner of the room (and it would likely be a single room, very rarely two) would be a weapon of some sort. Be it a deadly *gasp* butter knife, dagger, knife, sword, axe, broomstick, chain, rubber mallet (the stuff did have to get beat up somehow :tongue2: ), or even a gun. Also, trash would be apparent, it really doesn't have a place to go, garbage trucks come once a month by the Emperor's workstaff and collect the cans from the street, but other than that, it just sits and accumulates. Old pizza boxes (yes, they do have pizza, and they can make bikes to deliver it on) might lie in stacks or strewn along the floor. Cigarette cartons, molding milk jugs, rat fodder, and other junk might lie among the owner's personall possesions.

 

What about appliances? Well, a small fridge might hold a few things, not much though. Rotting chicken, some fresher milk, water maybe. Most things would have to be cooked that day. Electric ovens are availible, but dont think the kind of stuff like that which you have in your own home in real life. Everything would be likely rusted to hell and dirty, hardly working. Microwaves and toster ovens would be more common. And since were keeping with the slums image, lets make them broken microwaves and toster ovens (*grabs rubber mallet*).

 

Clothes? You might have a set or two. Maybe three if your character has a steady source of income. Most dont. The economy is basically reduced to the barter system. Clans might pay their workers with basic living necessities, toilet paper and the like, or small services. The suits that the players currently have is basically "ub4r 1007", it wont be every day, if ever again, that you see them.

 

Q: What about weapons? What is availible to the common man?

A: Assuming that by "common man" you mean to say outcast, not much. If you can find it, and its pointy/dangerous, you just found yourself a new weapon. Often the weapons double over as eating untensils (in the cases of small knives, which are the most common type of weapon). Swords, axes, chains, and other melee weapons are more common then the rifles that people want to have. Even hand guns are hard to come by. Each is ancient technology (at least 300 years old), and has likely been handed down in ones family. There are men, like Oni's character, that have learned how to shape and fashion metal into works such as pyro's character's main weapon, the katar. Other people (theForgottenSoul) have procured rarer, perhaps "pre-fall" weapons, which have somewhat finer workmanship, though over the years (over 200 at this point, at minimum) these weapons would have decayed and would be dull, rusted, and very worn.

 

Again, if you have a gun, you are lucky. If you know how to use it, you have a distinct advantage over other outcasts in respect to survival on the streets. But ammunition is harder to come by than it may seem. You have to fashion your bullets yourself, which means finding the materials, and the tools, to create such things. Perhaps your services to a clan have been rewarded this way. Regardless, you are now away from such materials, and such tools, and unless you can make bullets appear at random while walking, you will eventually run out. There may even be times when they are taken from you, and not given back. You will have to make due.

 

Most of the weapons in circulation were, at one time, tools. Pitchforks are more common in farming towns, which produce just enough to scrape along and have enough left over to send to the cities. Travel is difficult, there are no good roads still in use. Most of the vehicles that the emperor uses hover, and therefor are not limited by the terrain. The common man has to do what he can.

 

Q: THEY HOVER?! Can I have a hover craft?

A: I just said that, and no. In fact, you dont have any vehicles. Peregrine is an exception, and I hope he has a good reason for it, cause he hasn't told me why yet. Thats a work in progress.

 

What will your characters know about hover vehicles? The emperor has them. Thats it, you dont know how to operate it, and if you were set in the seat of a car, you couldn't drive it. A bike maybe, you could ride a bike. Other things are a bit more complex. You might have trouble with unicycles, but tricycles should be ok. You dont have ATVs, though the level of technology is there.

 

Q: Ok, lets change the subject a bit, are there nanobots?

A: Its plausable. You dont have them.

 

Q: Can I have them?

A: No.

 

Q: How bout now?

A: No.

 

Q: So does the existance of nanobots mean that.... (fill in the blank)?

A: No. It doesn't mean anything else, it means there may be nanobots. No more, no less.

 

Q: But! I want my suit to be equiped with nano bots that heal all my wounds and keep me alive!

A: I dont care, no nanobots for you.

 

Q: Ok, ok. What about giant robots?

A: OOoooo.... We all love giant robots! (Who could resist?) But no. Why? Because I have no need of them, the world really doesn't have need of them. You dont have need of them.

 

Q: Fine, but would they be a feasable endevour?

A: Pre-fall, yes. It would have been very possible. Gundam wing could have existed in this world, if the politics were a little different. Things took a different path, however, as you will learn later.

 

Q: And just how much are you holding back for later?

A: A lot.

 

Q: So what kind of futuristic technology does my character have access to?

A: Nothing.

 

How do the crystals that Ariana gave us work? Nanobots?

Plausable, but no. You will find out soon. VERY soon.

 

 

 

I believe thats all I have in me to produce at the moment. Specific questions can always be directed to me, and if you have a question that you would like to see answered in this FAQ, PM me. I'll be sure to add it into the next edition.

[mrpyromania]

Q: Ok, lets change the subject a bit, are there nanobots?

A: Its plausable. You dont have them.

 

Q: Can I have them?

A: No.

 

Q: How bout now?

A: No.

 

Those are alwase the best parts of FAQ's. :cheesy: