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WarBrood
05-04-2005, 2:01 AM
Storyline: The year is 3056 and earth is in utter chaos. Countries no longer existed after the great revolution, but now the earth is ruled by the dictatorship of the tyrant Julius. Civil was has broken out in several parts around the earth but most are simply crushed by the iron fist of the families. Still some rebels exist, mostly hidden, waiting for a chance to strike against the dictators and stir freedom. As for the rest, well poverty has struck the world at every inch, side from the few fortunate enough to be born into the family of Julius. He is the only left wealthy man. But that is all because of the game…

Sitting in the pub, Colossus, men of all shapes and sizes come right after watching a brutal act. As the holographic television fades away the cheer and mourn of men is easily heard. They have just finished watching the game, a brutal sport involving two men. The game puts the two men against each other, giving each one a weapon of their choice, side from any projectiles, and puts them an enclosed arena. The game allows two men to enter, but only one may exit. Marcus Jules was once a historian, a normal person with a normal job, but he came up with the idea of the game after looking into roman gladiators. The game spread fast, it was a hit. People loved the intensity of a life or death situation, but mostly they liked the gambling on the winner. The game was such a success nobody paid any attention to all the other sports and they just became, obsolete. With no sports to contend to, Jules brutal sport became known sonly as the game. Jules became a very wealthy man and eventually changed his name to Julius. Over many years to come the game was a huge hit. And with the contestants’ not lasting more than three games, it left the odds in betting excellent. Even though the game was a huge hit, gladiators where hard to find, people would rather watch the games and bet on them, than participate in them. Due to a lack of volunteers, Julius started using convicts in his games that was the birth of the twenty-win rule. The twenty win rule states, if a gladiator wins twenty matches he is considered a free man. To this day no gladiator has won over six. But the convicts in the earlier days didn’t put on as good of a show; most of them dead beats in for petty crimes. The odd game that hosted a murderer posed a fine show, but they never lasted for more than three fights. Now the new convicts fight for freedom, they are stronger, smarter, braver, and more popular. This brought about a new age of gladiators, the present day of gladiators. Since the gladiators were such a good show Julius disallowed killing, knocking the opponent out was good enough, and lossing a fight added one more win you had to have in order to become free (aka. if u lost one fight you had to win 21 fights instead of 20.) this allowed gladiators to last but sometimes a rare occasion occured when a gladiator didnt make it

Current setting-- everyone starts withing the pub Colossus where a fight breaks out and everyone gets arrested and thrown into jail.

Character-- You start off as a gladiator, teams will be assembled in rp and they will be ever changing for the crowds pleasement.

PM me your character sheet if interested

Name: (remember this is not set back in roman times but in the future, meaning Alexander the great is not a good name to choose)

Gladiator nickname: (come up with a name the suits your pericular strength)

Age: (please no one under 20)

Gender: (male or female...no aliens or animals)

Physical Appearance: (again no aliens or animals)

Weapons/Armor: (Guns not allowed so choose things such as swords, katanas, crossbows, bows, describe. You can carry mulitple weapons but no more than four)

Attributes: (Intelligence, Agility, Strength, Marksmanship. put them in desending order acording to how ur character will act)

Skills: (ex. Swimming, forestry, fletching, trap-laying, etc. The gladiators don't always fight in open floored rooms, they also are sent into forests, mountains, deserts, anywhere you can dream of. Choose one attribute from the start and this will expand further into rp)

Background: (Make it interesting, and have it leading up to the bar fight


Rules-- no god mod!! also no flamming or spamming

Notes-- im looking for assistant GM to help me run the show

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My character:

Name: Taris Swualback

Gladiator nickname: Dead-eye

Age: 34

Gender: Twi-liek errr i mean male

Physical Appearance: Standing at a solid 6 foot average size muscle for a gladiator. But has very broad shoulders assisting him in holding his bow

Weapons/Armor: Two 14' swords incases of melee combat, but relies heavily on this compound bow in which he made himself

Attributes: Marksmanship, Agility, Intelligence, Strength

Skills: Fletching

Background: Growing up on the outside of the cities taught Taris how to fight. Bandits appeared almost daily looking for food from Taris's family farm. Taris spent most of his time using them as target practice for rifle. The times he wasnt shooting men full or gunpower Taris enjoyed wrestling with his older brothers who where much bigger than Taris himself. Taris had to rely sonly on his reflexes to survive total slaughter, not to mention he was naturaly smarter than his brothers. But the time came when Taris family could no longer offerd to run the farm and they had to move into the city leaving everything behind. Living in the city wasnt so bad, the fact that death waited around every corner did not even phase Taris, he was tough. He soon fought his way into a factory job along with his brothers. It didn't take long for this factory to fall apart as well. It literaly fell apart. Due to poor upkeep the factory collasped killing hundreds of men, including Taris's brothers. Taris coming a cat hair away from losing his own life stood shocked. Wondered how things could get so bad that even factory owners couldnt offerd to hold up thier factories. The answer easlily came to Taris, Julius had all the money. Angry and planning action agaist the tyrannt Taris went to the pub Colossus to cool off.

Nickodemus
05-04-2005, 9:04 AM
Name: sorry, mind slip, anything asian here.. somebody jump up and help with it? please??

Gladiator name : the Old man

Age: 48

Gender: Male

Appearance: He is a smallish old man, standing 5 foot tall at best. he wears simple monk clothes and carries a staff.

Weapons: A simple staff is all he carries

Attributes: Quickness and inteligence are his most valuable assets having studied many years

Note: He accels on many forms of the arts. having mastered Akido as his primary art. he learned many little variations on moves in his travels

Background: Having grown up in a monastary in Tibet for most of his life he learned many diferent martial arts in his spare time. He recieved a vision to go wander the world one day and was in the wrong place at the wrong time when some Skin heads picked a fight with him ( imagine that? )

<OCC> i hope thats ok?? should that work then?

WarBrood
05-04-2005, 9:38 AM
Name: you need a name in here


Gladiator name : the Old man

Age: 48

Gender: Male

Appearance: He is a smallish old man, standing 5 foot tall at best. he wears simple monk clothes and carries a staff.

Weapons: A simple staff is all he carries

Attributes: Quickness and inteligence are his most valuable assets having studied many years

Note: He accels on many forms of the arts. having mastered Akido as his primary art. he learned many little variations on moves in his travels

Background: Having grown up in a monastary in Tibet for most of his life he learned many diferent martial arts in his spare time. He recieved a vision to go wander the world one day and was in the wrong place at the wrong time when some Skin heads picked a fight with him ( imagine that? ) and at the end of the fight, he was the only man left standing in the room of twenty guys. He was brought in and forced into the games. He didn't want to participate at first but upon being told that he would die if he didn't he quickly changed his mind. He does hold julius responsible for the worlds plight and plans on bringing the point up with him if the oprotunity presents itself.
I want everyones background leading up to the scene of the bar fight, not already in the game

Calibur
05-04-2005, 12:08 PM
Little advice Warbrood you might want to add a list of rules for posting so things don't get out of control, you can find some preatty good examples in the different Rps around here.

As for joining I'll see how things start off and if more and more people get involved I'll give it a shot.

ZeroCross
05-04-2005, 5:10 PM
I dunno. First of all, this seems a bit too much like that Schwatzeneggar (spellcheck) movie back in the 80's, er, 90's at least, "The running man". o.0

Not to sterotype you or anything, but no one here has ANY assurance whatsoever that you will even finish this RP. There are only about a dozen people here, who actually post, and most anyone new who comes in here, stays around just long enough to get everyone's interest then leaves. I am sorry, but if you expect me to join your RP, get your postcount above 100, and stay around here for at least a month, then I will think about it. Sorry if this seems unfair, but I have seen far too many people who start posing a charicter sheet, then one of two posts then completely leave the RP. I learned my lesson with StarCraft: After Broodwar.........

WarBrood
05-04-2005, 6:56 PM
ok maybe i should stick around awhile b4 starting one up...this rp will be postponed for reasons listened above...later after more posts i will start it up again. I like the idea of this rp, so if anyone wants to take over ownership, anyone with more experiance that its. pm me