The year 2010 was to be a terrible one for Earth. On the night of March 19, the sun set as normal on the entire United States. At approximately 4:00 AM EST the following morning, the Eurasian continent was struck by a mammoth asteroid at a rather precarious angle. The rock skimmed off the planet and back into space, but not before doing serious and irreversible damage.
Almost all life on the continent was eradicated within hours. Those in the more remote western regions, and islands such as Japan and Australia, escaped any direct harm. Their fate would be worse.
The asteroid had left Earth in its natural orbit around the sun, but had shifted and drastically slowed its rotation to one turn every several millennia. Those left alive on one side of the planet were now in eternal sunlight. The Americas and Canada were masked in eternal night.
Within only a few months, most the more sun-dependent plant life on the land masses were dead and attempts were put into effect to try and combat it. Minimal success was managed using a combination of sunlamps and greenhouses. It was a marginal success, as without solar energy and little way to import fuel only a limited number of greenhouses could be put into operation.
Vegetables grown were thusly limited, and mixed with agents to add more filling to the food product when they were shipped out. Fresh produce was a thing of the past, and all vegetables and fruits now came in tightly vacuum-sealed cans, good for single servings as a whole meal, or to split with someone over the still-common animal products being sold.
A further effect of the asteroid was that which its gravity had on the moon. The moon again rotates the Earth with one side always facing and the other always turned, but it was pulled to a certain degree in one direction, such that now instead of rising and setting in the East and West, it now swung around, seeming to orbit irregularly, so that at any given point in the Western Hemisphere it always seems to be moving about the horizon in a lazy circle. Those in the East would never see the moon again.
Five years later, it is 2015, August 10, Midnight. The location is New York, one of the last bastions of high-powered living in the Western Hemisphere with night lights that never shut off. People plagued by the darkness and strange skin diseases brought on by the total absence of sunlight turn more and more to illegal, often lethal, street-made drugs and law enforcement is at a minimum. The only safety is in the fact that low fuels mean low gun and weapon production.
You have managed to find a place to live affordably in a downtown apartment. The place is semi-rundown, half the windows boarded, and graffiti on most the walls. But there is surprisingly-clean running water and basic cable, though with the fuel crisis there is a very limited selection of channels.
It is in an apartment just like this, at the Robbed Cradle Complex, that you begin your story of life in eternal night.
rules
1: No cybering. If you an another want a 'fade out' (They turned off the light and fell to the bed in each others arms, and passed the hours away) then keep it, as in that example, non-descriptive. Anything over PG-13 won't be allowed.
2: No godmodding. Other players are fully capable of deciding what their characters can or can't do. As such, if you want to play for them then they need to give express permission that everyone can see.
3: Watch the language. I don't mind occasional swearing and all that, but don't let it be every other word you type. That's all I ask with this one.
4: Behave. Don't hassle me or anyone else outside the game. It's fine if your character is an a**, not fine if you are.
5: Have fun. Within the limits of the above and the Guild and Gaia ToS, have fun and just enjoy yourselves. This is, perhaps, the more important of the rules.
Locations of Interest They are merely places one might wish to start, hang out, or perhaps even work at. I may add to these as more locations come up in play, so check back often if keeping up on these happens to be your thing.
Robbed Cradle Complex
Eternal Twilight Bar & Grill
McNeely's Cafe
Hanson's Sports Bar
One-Stop Convenient Mart
Wong Brothers' Laundry Service (Two Wongs make it white!)
Madison Miles'Magnificent Mall
Sloppy Joe's Used Car Dealership
Half-Hour Return Chinese Buffet
Skinner's Warehouse
Vuja De Gentlemen's Club (I have the distinct feeling that somehow, somewhere, this never happened before)
this rp storyline and guide lines were originally made by Asellus Rosewater
CHARACTERS!
you must PM me to join.
do not post until your character is added to the list
ex.
Gaia Username:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Birthplace:
Job (If any):
Brief Background:
Brief Physical Description:
Picture (Optional):
Apt #: (101-110. 201-210, etc to 501-510)
PROFILES!
Gaia Username: Xlady-opheliaX
Name: Dawn
Gender: female
Age: 19
Birthplace: Kyoto
Job (If any): waitress at Eternal twilight bar and grill
Brief Background: Born in Kyoto. After the asteroid, her parents had given her to the government for testing. They conducted several experiments on her to see if they could make humans adapt to the new enviorment quicker, leaving her with a few quirks, which she often tries to deny or hide. She fled, and ended up in new york.
Brief Physical Description: short, slender, albino.
Picture (Optional):
Apt #:306
Name: Baylor
Race: Unknown
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Date of birth: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown
Height: Short-4'10"
Class: Outcast
Non-combat abilities: Flying, Cute boyish charm (lol), Making his wings "vanish"
Weaknesses: Lightning, Electricity, Sensetive remarks and insults
Appearance:
Items & weapons: Elemental sword, small dagger
Personality: A very sensetive boy, he loves animals as if they were his own. He also likes food such as cheese, apples, and anything else.
Historical biography: He never really had any parents when he was born, and no one really knows his origin. The only clue is a strange marking on his shoulder.
friend(s): Anyone he comes in contact with, although he feels as if the world dislikes him. But sometimes, it's as though he doesn't know the meaning of a "stranger".
Rival(s): Anyone he makes angry or somethingm along those lines.
Enemy(s): Anyone who dislikes him for one reason or another.
Occupation: Sort of a theif, but only when he needs to be; Vagabond
Abnormal traits: Black wings
Reasons for them: When he was smaller, he was in an accident and fell from a very tall height. As he was falling, he still had the will to live, and is cellular structure changed and he mutated wings in order to save himself
Gaia Username: phoenixrebirth_13
Name: Vincent
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birthplace: Prague, Czech Republic. Moved to New York shortly before the asteriod hit
Job (If any): Peacekeeper/Merc
Brief Background: Vincent was born in Prague and only barely missed being killed by the asteroid that hit Europe. He roams the streets of New York, a sword carrying vigilante upholding his own values of whats "right'
Brief Physical Description: Tall, dark haired, light skinned
Picture (Optional):
Apt #: (101-110. 201-210, etc to 501-510) 415
Gaia Username: crystllicious
Name: Elia
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Job (If any): McNeely's cafe (waitress)
Brief Background: Elia's parents died from a rare skin cancer due to the lack of sun light when she was 13. She moved to New York in order to try and start her own life.
Brief Physical Description: pic
Picture (Optional):
Apt #: 401
Gaia Username: keru_the_dragon
Name: Jordan menfou (men-fo)
Gender: male
Age: 17
Birthplace: New York
Job (If any): police officer
Brief Background: after the meteor hit earth, Jordan felt that he needed to help people. he went to a police acadamy and applied. needing police, thay put him into training immediately. now a 5 year cop, he is a justice seeking police member who will take down any criminal.
Brief Physical Description: seriously toned from years of training. always carries a pistol on his side and has an AK-47 slung over his back.
Picture: http://www.bin.sh/drow/images/wolfwood.jpg
Apt #: 402
Gaia Username: Valentine_Rp
Name: Dimitri Valentine
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birthplace: Hartford, Conneticut
Job (If any): McNeely's Cafe
Brief Background: He was a journalism student at Yale University in Conneticut. After he graduated early, Because he took night and day classes and graduated early in high school, he moved to New York. He is working at the nearby cafe to help pay for his apartment and food until he could find a newspaper to work for. He is happy here despite the death of his girlfriend who was in Russia visiting family during the hit of the meteorite
Brief Physical Description: Always been considered to be a good looking young man. He has dark brown eyes, short jet black hair, and smooth light brown skin.
Picture (Optional):
Apt #: (101-110. 201-210, etc to 501-510) 510
Gaia Username:The Ultimate Teddybear
Name: Caitlin
Gender:Girl
Age: 7
Birthplace: ?
Job (If any): none
Brief Background: orphan
Brief Physical Description:Little Girl dressed in rags that lives right outside of the apartment in a box that used to carry a refrigerator.
