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Twenty eight posts might seem over kill, but I'm not one to under do this kind of thing.

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1. Active - _____Empty 4: Upon Wings of Stone
   
2. Active - _____After the Last Tomorrow: Project Everlong
   
3. On Hold - ___Killing James Dean
   
4. On Hold - ___Abandon: The Big Picture
   
5. On Hold - ___Seven
   
6. On Hold - ___10:30AM
   
7. Side Project - Blood Red
   
8. On Hold - ___A Learners Permit to Doom
   
9. On Hold - ___Third Planet on the Left
   
10. On Hold - ___The Wrock Works
    
11. On Hold - ___Chronicals of Wander: Chapter 1
    
12. On Hold - ___Impact
    
13. Active - _____Is there anybody out there?

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After the Last Tomorrow: Project Everlong

A fairly unique post-apocalyptic world, the earth stopped, then got really hot, now humanity lives in domes on the dark side. Alex runs a team doing considerably stupid things for money, they are exceedingly good at this but sometimes the good jobs come from bad people, they were just unlikely enough to hit the mother load of bad things. Soon questions about project Everlong become the most important thing to them, and they might be on their way to saving the world.

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typed notes (unfinished):

The Halt –
One night nearly two decades into the second millennium a most peculiar thing happened, with a shudder that toppled buildings the earth came to a stop, no one ever really found out why or how but most of the world survived to live through the mass famine it caused, it took twenty years before anybody noticed that with out it's rotation to help cool it the earth was heating up at a deadly rate. By forty years the sun side of the earth was constantly molten and only a small area on the dark side was cool enough for humans to survive, but in that twenty years they had designed and built a series of shielded domes. Ninety years after that only a few of the domes have failed and humanity is going strong in their limited lives, fuel isn't much of a problem, the domes siphon heat from outside to run turbine generators.

One of the first and most disheartening things the Halt caused was the loss of the moon, it shot away unaffected by whatever stopped the earth. It didn't take long for the oceans to burn away and the ice caps to melt, then burn away


Humanity -
The earth stopping was a fairly massive blow to humans, but they faired pretty well and a hell of a lot better than any other species on earth, but even still by the time they had gotten all set up in the domes seven billion had died. The two and a third billion that survived the ordeal were rather wiped and population growth was slow. By 130 years after the Halt that initial generation had died off, leaving the world with just over one billion people, none of which knew a world with day light

NEXX -
NEXX are an odd group, they were born as humans but have since at some point in time become cybernetic creatures that range from beings with minor upgrades to the Primary, three units that are only tied to humanity by their highly augmented brains.

The NEXX get their name from the common opinion that they are the next stage of human evolution, they are also widely believed to be a myth. They do exist, their numbers are small but they do exist, favoring life in secret since most people think them monsters to be feared. This is partially true, the NEXX are split in two groups. The first group, by all means the primary group believes they were created to save humanity and work in secret to fix things where they can. The second group believes that humans only existed as a means to bring them into life, and now that they're here humans are worthless scum.

It's not really clear when the NEXX came into existence, they believe it was about thirty years after the Halt but that is only when the first were activated. In total there are about four hundred NEXX, in a handful of classes. Very few NEXX are allowed to interact with humanity, these special liaison units are the best of the best at whatever they're out there to do, and always travel in pairs, the specialist and a guardian. The guardian class got the short end of the cybernetic stick so to speak, in general their bodies are more mechanical than just about any other unit, and parts of their brains have been replaced to facilitate their effectiveness in combat at the cost of their humanity, or parts of it at least.


Project Everlong -
Figuring out what exactly this is is pretty much the plot of the story/RP, so I'm weary of publicly writing about this.

First off Everlong was super secret, absolutely nobody in the general populous has ever heard anything about it, even most of the important people are in the dark, and the NEXX are barely getting into it.

Project Everlong is the reason the earth stopped, totally by accident, it was really focused on a device that would stop time in a contained area as an alternative to cryogenics

Abandon: The Big Picture

I've tried to avoid making this, tooting my own horn kinda makes me feel like an a**, but I really think the concept of Abandon would make a great large scale RP, AKA a subforum RP, before I go about asking for one I plan to make a formal and detailed design of it.

more detail later but I will say it will probably span the eastern seaboard of America, a few cities around the Atlantic, and some locations in Asia, both cities and safe houses, separate where appropriate.

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Abandon TBP will be about more than just some runaways living on a mountain, one of the major changes would be that you could be just as much a part of the story as a human as you could as Abandon, and there might even be room for all of the Found to have a presence.

As I see it the small scale RP is "We have super powers, and people dont like us, woo, lets live on a mountain", the large scale one would be more complex, like this

Group A; no powers, huge population
Group B; strong powers, small population with no growth
Group C; mid range powers, growing fairly large population coming out of nowhere

Group A likes Group B, doesn't like Group C with a range from unspoken distaste to full blown persecution.

Normal humans run the world, this puts them in the best position to accept or reject Groups B and C. Some of them are against both and some are for both as well as the hand full of stances in between but for the most part B has been welcomed and C locked out in the cold.

Group B has no problems with anybody, for the most part anyways. They are naturally ahead of the curve, smart, fast, inventive, they quickly became empires of industry.

The Found were lucky, they could have just as easily been lumped in with the Abandon, and they realize this. Not to take their luck for granted most of them like to help the less fortunate.

Group C is the outcast. pretty much nobody in Group A likes them, but considering Group A is 6.5 billion strong 'pretty much nobody' is a fair amount of people. Overall most of Group A is close to neutral about them but there are extremists. Group C is reasonably hateful in return, sometimes unreasonably, and sometimes not at all, again its an average thing, but this mutual dislike has prevented many from Group C from finding any sort of regular life or place to settle, some hide what they are, and some forsake the normal life.

The Abandon are an entire people that has been displaced simply because they have some factor about them that you probably wouldn't find out about unless they showed you, other than that they have no connections, they were not a culture, a company, a race or breed, they just got some random half developed abilities. So they go from here to there avoiding judgment and trying to have the best life they can muster; or in some cases they sell their abilities as mercenaries.

The Abandon's feelings about the Found are very varied.

basically where the small RP is a small group with powers doing whatever, the large RP is about the world, and how it treats change, lots of social and political stuff, regional differences in treatment, I'm loosing my words now, last few bits seem halfassed, I should sleep.

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I'm gonna take this expansion as a point to introduce a new type of Abandon.

I'm currently calling them the Lost.

a very small number of Abandon fit in this group, and they all share one thing, they died, but they're still around. Their powers are the reason for this, buried under what they appear to be their powers cause their mind and soul, so to speak, to detach from the body, only a tiny handful have noticed this during their life but when the body dies the rest keeps going.

Most Abandon with the ability to become Lost have powers relating to the control of some material, giving them the ability to manifest a body once they've lost their original body.

There is no direct connection to loss of memories, mental capacity, changed personality or anything really, but the nature of the death can really affect a person.

Often Lost will be thought of as ghosts or demons and treated that way, so public knowledge of them is pretty small.

Often the powers of the Lost are weak, or obscure, preventing them from finding out about them in life and allowing them to live as normal humans.

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I'm thinking this should be based five to eight years in the future of the current make.

In that time the pushes by some of the more intolerant politicians has caused a limited rebellion of Abandon, they're not especially big and aren't looking to be the dominant race or anything, they just want to have their own country where they don't have to deal with people like that.

They have chosen to use military might to get this, and with their powers they are a force to be reckoned with.

I can't think of a good place for them to be based out of but it should be somewhere around the pacific near-ish to the equator, maybe and island. The population is almost wholly Abandon, humans are only allowed in by specific approval of the leadership. The colony isn't built to be a military installation, though it's well defended and fully capable of retaliation they aim to prove they can function as a country.

They have made a point of separating themselves form Abandon as a people but welcome newcomers with little resistance, they do after all have to clean out those who would be bad for the community, or spies and such.

13:30AM

Ten thirty AM on a day that I don't currently remember the date of (sometime in the early ninties), a hole ripped through existence, took a big chunk out of the twin towers in new york, and that was just the tip of the iceberg. Some months later a new, less violent hole of a different type opened up over a lake over by the rockies, the lake had a city, and the city had a news station. Jim Mc'Down worked for that station, did the traffic from a helicopter, boy was he surprised when highly advanced war machines stepped through the hole into the lake and claimed the world for Hitler. He was even more surprised when a ship scooped him up. So far I haven't got past that but hes gonna end up in a resistance base or something, the hole is a dimensional rift connecting worlds, there are lots of them connecting lots of worlds, and in one of them Hitler won the war, now he uses the rifts to expand his empire. One key point is that time goes at different speeds in these dimensions, the one Mc'Down comes from goes really slow.

A Learners Permit to Doom
Dr. Ness & The Ultramatron

Basically this is one of those 'boy meets girl, girl turns out to be super powered robot, s**t happens, they fall in love' or something like that. the boy is Dain, I'm thinking the girl can be Rama, named by Dain, Dr. Ness never bothered to give her a name meant for more than a computer, Ultramatron.

The writing thus far

It was a dark night in Southern California, no moon out and the local power station had gone out for some odd reason. Dain was decked out in all the ninja gear he could find with a toy light saber strapped to his back and a dart gun in hand as he crept out of his back door and hopped his fence to Alli's yard. Tonight the two teens were going to sneak into the abandoned mansion three streets down.

The mansion was a source of many ridiculous local rumors and legends, very few people have seen it's owner, known only by the name on the mail box, “Ness”. The house is Victorian style and looks like it could have come from before the civil war, complete with three turrets and a large wooden door. The yard kept in minimum acceptable order, though the fountain had been overrun by vines

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Yadayada the kids break in, immediately fall into a maze of trapdoors, sortcuts, and tubes, eventually leading to the laboratory where Dr Ness has recently given up for the night on his current, and most obstinate experiment, the Ultramatron. Ness doesn't notice them as he pops off for bed, and he had shut off the lighting around his experiment so they didn't really notice her. With the doctor gone and the lab otherwise empty the teen embark on several minutes of oos and ahs, eventually leading to several oops and eeps, followed by alarms, and a number of bangs.

With that Dain does what Ness could not, brings life to his machine! And the Ultramatron is born, though not exactly as Ness had envisioned her. Dain and Alli were hiding but the robot saw them anyways, though their introductions were interrupted by Dr Ness coming back to check out all the hubbub, noticing the teens hide harder Ultramatron decided to play dead, and as a robot she did it pretty well. A bit later Ness goes away, the two take a run for it and the robot attempts to find them.

The chase goes through the maze, randomly ending outside the mansion, believing they've lost the robot they split up and go home. When Dain arrives he climbs into bed, lets out a sigh of relief. Obviously it doesn't end there but I've lost a path for this linguistically

So Dain's all freaked out, Ult shows up in his room, he's out of places to run. eventually he calms down, some sort of conversation takes place, and she doesn't have a name; on her body somewhere is printed R.A.M.A., which stands for something, best I've got at the moment is Radial Artifact Magnetic Accelerator, it's a weapon or power source or whatever, it's like that thing that space stories always have that's really important, but actually meaningless because it's ether an FTL device, a doomcannon, or the next world saving energy source, the facts of it, and what it's called, don't contribute. so he starts calling her Rama, for lack of anything else.

You see, since he hadn't even gotten her to turn on yet he hadn't really built much of a skin layer to cover her mechanics; underneath she looks basically the same but with lots of technical notation and seams. Of course, she was wearing clothes, a sort of jumpsuit thing, because it would have been weird for some old guy to build a naked robot girl in his secret lab, even if only he knew

The Wrock-Works

somewhere theres this big island, maybe as big as a continent but for now it's just an island. Overall it resembles a pancake, most of the coast is steep cliffs with a few beaches. on the east coast of the island there is a giant uber-metropolis, a sparkling city of buildings that could probably touch clouds and cars so fast your there before you left; thats all an exaggeration but you get the idea, giant high tech city. The west coast is a barren desert but features the island's main port, monolithic transports run between the city and the port, stopping by the small towns that dot the landscape. The north is rather cold and the south is almost tropical but they stay in the average range.

In the middle of the island there is an odd mountain, it juts out of the middle with no lead up, its tall enough to have snow on the top year round but it doesn't have a very big footprint, making the island look like a pancake that has been impaled on a thin tall cone. Other than that the mountain has been colonized by the islands largest corporation, so its speckled with buildings built into its steep face, at night it looks like a christmas tree.

That corporation is the Wrock-Works. They make Gauntlets and the Wrocks that power them. A Gauntlet is a powered glove that has many uses from warfare to construction, they come in a plethora of models from generic multipurpose units to highly specialized tools. The Wrock are a power source like no other, it consists of a ball about twice as big as a cue ball and mostly clear. inside it's sortof like a cat's eye marble, colored bits sweep about in a seemingly random pattern with a dot in the middle that glows when power is drawn from the Wrock, brighter the more you take from it.

The Wrock is placed in a holder on the back of the Gauntlet (the Gauntlet is much larger than a normal hand)

Wrocks, who's name holds no particular importance, are what would be best called a Micro Fusion Device, micro both in that they are tiny, and that they aren't doing the normal fusion you and I think of. Instead of fusing atoms to create heavier atoms, they fuse subatomic particles, which releases nearly as much energy and produces a slightly different sort of subatomic particle that quickly degrades back to it's original state, releasing further energy in the process and allowing the wrock to function almost indefinitely, since it's fuel naturally reverts to it's original state after being used. Though, it is entirely possible for a unit to use up it's allotted fuel before any has reverted, limiting it's total output over short periods. Naturally there are more robust models that carry a greater amount of the fuel, but there are also models that can use fuel faster to produce higher energy outputs. Generally these two factors are combined for all all around more powerful device.

Were the wrock the engine, the gauntlet would be the power train. Responsible for directing the energy and converting it into motion, as well as controlling the aspects of that motion; is it more quick, or more forceful, or more refined. Higher quality gauntlets do their best to combine all of these aspects but much is left to the wearer as it's their skill and style that controls the actions themselves.

Gauntlets come in all shapes, sizes, sorts, and purposes, but generally speaking they are ether on or around a single arm (though both-arm models aren't uncommon), mounted ether to the bone, or by a harness at the shoulder. There are a small number of full body models but they generally prove impractical, ill-functioning, or unnecessary. Like how the bone mount is intended for the more serious and more forceful systems, the even more serious ones often involve replacing the bone with stronger materials, or even enhancing the muscle structure, though in total only 29 people have the later, and all of them are corporately sponsored fighters of the highest ranking. Roughly 1,000 people have the former. Most are well ranked fighters, the rest operate in heavy and dangerous industries.

There are numerous ways to make a gauntlet move, but generally it comes down to a few categories. The cheapest are pure mechanical systems, gears and chains, but they're very heavy, comparatively slow, and can't really use a lot of power, not to mention they're very inaccurate. Second best is hydrolics, and generally they're good enough. Not much lighter than gears and such but they respond much quicker and can handle many times more power, though they still lack in accuracy. Getting into the high end there are purely electric systems, they lack power but are extremely fast and extremely accurate, as well they more readily integrate computer control systems that help make the system more natural. Top of the line, and by several hundred thousand dollars the most expensive are Mag Field Interactors, or MFIs. Basically, take the energy of the wrock, use it to directly charge a bunch of plasma, and move the plasma around, the conflicting magnetic fields push and pull each other to create motion. It operates at a rate well in excess of the human response time and is capable of greater force than anything else and also produce a large readily available excess of energy that can be used for all sorts of things, as apposed to other systems that have to specifically generate energy for those purposes.

Because mechanical systems are so likely to fail catastrophically and harm the user, they are not permitted in the fights. Beyond that any fighter is allowed to build or buy any system of any type or design, so long as it meets safety standards, which are pretty lenient.

Even though gauntlets by in large are intended to be an exoskeleton for the arm, there are plenty of alternate designs, most often replacing the hand with an alternate gripping device, or rarely a static weapon, though most fighters prefer the versatility of having a hand to hold the weapon. The concept of the hand itself varies a lot, from the standard 4finger+thumb layout to the 10thumb radial, as well as all sorts of claws, clamps, and whatever else the builder or fighter thought would be useful.

By Official Gauntlet Fight Championship rules there are two ways to have a fight, the normal tournament everybody knows about, or a challenge fight; what goes on in the fight and what constitutes victory is decided between the fighters. Tournament fights are big fun things, this guy fights that guy then the victor fights somebody else until only one person hasn't lost. Challenge fights however are more random, and more serious.

To begin with, one fighter challenges another, the challenged is free to decline if they please. Once accepted the two fighters agree on a place, time, and the rules of the fight, though there is are standard rules that they can choose too go with, as long as the fight meets OGFC regulations, anything goes. The fight must have a registered Referee present to be valid, but they're a dime a dozen, and even most fighters are also refs. Additionally it must be properly recorded, but again, most fighters have that equipment with them any ways (it's actually provided as part of the registration kit). Since challenge fights are more random and between two people who intend only to fight each other they are more exciting to the viewing audience. As well, they have far more impact on ranking than tournament fights.

Fighting outside of a regulation battle is grounds for disqualification and deregistration.

Ranking. It's very important. The main point of ranking is to keep people of the same general skill level fighting each other, because having a pro fight a newbie is dangerous to both of them, additionally the newbie is likely to have inferior equipment that put against the pro's corporately sponsored leading-edge equipment will likely fail, potentially injuring both fighters. Ranking is pretty simple, everybody starts at 1000, the more fights you win the better your ranking is, but you gain less from fighters who are beneath you, and more from fighters who are above you, the loses has the opposite happen, they lose more points from losing to someone far beneath them than they would to someone far above them. If any fighter reaches 0 they have their registration revoked and are not allowed to reapply for at least two years and must complete a skill assessment. Currently the ranks go as high as 300,000~.

Impact

Four years ago John was found in the wreckage of a crash no person should have survived. Although he did it left him in a coma with no sign of coming out, until last week when he started having increased brain activity. Two days ago he woke up only to cause further dismay.