Introduction
After aliens invade earth and threaten to take over and destroy the humans, this roleplay focuses on the resilience of the survivors and their determination to maintain their humanity when all else has been destroyed. It is a tale of endurance, commitment and courage in which everyday people are called upon to become heroes. They may be outmatched, outnumbered and outgunned, but nothing can beat the human spirit. Most of all, something that the alien invasion showed humans was the ties that bind people together in the most difficult of circumstances whether it be death, love, betrayal, war, and conflict.
The ruined state of Massachusetts is where this roleplay takes place. A large group of survivors have band together in many of the states and have established a military within each society to help fight against and protect themselves against the aliens. They have started to try to recreate their home state and banish the alien menace from their planet, yet have had to endour many obstacles in their pathes along the way. This certain group has named themselves the 2nd Mass, standing for the Second Massachusetts Militia Regiment.
Within the 2nd Mass their lies a very important socail status of feudalism, as every civilization has come to need in order to be successful, even in ancient times. The list goes sort of like this:
Overlords (Espheni): They use harnesses to command humans and skitters-their enslaved subjects- and appear to have designed the Mechs and Crawlies. OVerlords are tall humanoid bipeds with smooth gray skin, standing roughly twice as tall as a human and three times as tall as a skitter, though compared to a human the body is skinny and elongated. Their graceful gait indicates that they are able to move about easily in Earth gravity. Overlords are deaf and mute without the use of a harnessed helper, or at the very least incapable of understanding and emulating human speech without assistance. It is also revealed that their intelligence and mental capacity are incredibly advanced, meaning they do not rely on computers for data storage or processing, they store it all in their heads. Despite their frail appearance and perference in not to fight, they are physically very strong and can hold their own in a fight easily.
Skitters: The Skitters have spider-like bodies and incredible strength and agility. Skitters are functionally nocturnal and communicate using radio waves. They are able to use harnessed children to communicate with humans. A skitter can not fight with a gun or knife, but can wound a human with a blow from one of its legs. Skitters have vaguely reptile-like but also several insect-like features. Skitters walk on six legs, but have a roughly humanoid torso with two clawed arms (for a total of eight limbs).
Harnesses: The aliens control captured children, through bio-mechanical harnesses but have yet to reveal their ultimate plan for them. The harnesses are actually a type of parasitic mechansim that are placed onto the spinal cords on the backs of the children. The Harness or as they are really named chemlocks, begin to embed and grow roots into the child's skin and connect to it nervous system. The harnesses will gradually transform kids into skitters, a process that can continue even if the harnesses are removed. They are extremely hard to remove and if removed they often give the child long term side affects such as imporved and increase in vitality and health. For example a harnessed child with scoliosis would be completely healed off it, and in additiion they have the odd ability to say do 102 pushups or jump-rope continously for three hours.
Mechs: The deadly, robotic Mechs stand upright and can shoot bullets from their arms. Destroyed Mechs are entirely mechanical inside, so theres is no "pilot", implying that they are unmanned drones. Ones who control mechs can put them into guard/patrol mode, give special orders violating their usual protocol and assign priority targets. These commands are followed even it the commander is dead, implying that they have a primitive A.I that allows them to some extent think on their own. Mechs produce a distict mechanical moan evry now and then for unknown reasons. They can shoot bullets and rockets from their arms and have a multi-laser targeting system they use to triangulate their enemies. The lasers are orange while targeting but once locked on their target, they turn blue. Additionally they can fire an energy beam to stun humans, especially children in order to harness them.
Crawlies: They are deployed when the Overlords need to infiltrate a position to take it by surprise instead of their more typical frontal assaults. Crawlies have vaguely arachnid-like features (with six insect-like limbs instead of eight). They are about the size of a human hand and are a dull grey color with blue strips along their torso. They have two small eyes and a flat head with a broad mouth structure similar to that of a skitter. These jaws are strong enough to eat through metal. Crawlies appear to be natural burrowers, small enough to slip into enemy structures unnoticed through vents and air ducts, and with time they can boer their way through barriers they may encounter such as doors. While durabe against melee-weapons, they can be killed by gunfire without too much trouble. However, they appear to be pack hunters, deploying in large numbers and using swarm tactics to overwhelm oppostion similar to Army Ants. When attacking they can rear up on their four hindlegs and use their pair of forelegs like a Preying Mantis. They are very durable and can withstand about 10-13 hits with the butt of a rifle before dieing.
Airships: Airships or as the 2nd Mass call them "beamers", are used and controlled by skitters for deadly aerial assaults, designed for close and long-ranged combat to help support their ground troops. These ships are almost always found where the skitters roam and if not present then they can be called and summoned within a matter of seconds. They are armed with two laser cannons and neutron bombs that are capable of killing at least seven armed men and even whole cities. However the beamers are seen as bio-mechanical unmanned drones and have no significant weaknesses but can be taken down with machine guns.
Beginning
We will start off by all the characters getting to know each other and then we will start the real fun by the colonel announcing that the militia will be going on a special mission and has the need of accquiring some civilians and citizens of special skills (this is optional for the characters who aren't neccessarily part of the actual military group). Upon returning there will be a surprise that will start to change the story line.
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