Iron Island is a place that used to be something of a small paradise. A place run only by itself, its own electrical plant, its own farms, and above all its own society. It was a beautiful place, there were cities, towns, forests, and even a small spread of mountains along the eastern shore. Now this place has become deserted and pale. The forests have already begun rebuilding themselves, but the cities and towns were ripped apart by civil war and never recovered. The island stands quiet and uninhabited by all but the native creatures that survived the brutal massacre, and other darker things that hide in the shadows. The ruins of the cities lie undisturbed, left just as they were when they fell fifty years ago.
Now, ten people find themselves here. Each of them left in a different place, some without a clue as to how they got there. Five of them find that they were left with only food and water to last a week at most, and the others have been granted one weapon each of various design, but nothing more. Guns, bows, knives, something so simple as a wooden plank with a nail in the end. With each of these items, for both groups, was left a note.
Each note was hand written specifically for each individual. At the top was simply written “THE GAME” and below was a reason for their participation as well as the rules. And on the back was a map, only for those without weapons. The map had symbols, but no key.
“The Game” is simple, you either hunt, or are hunted. But then the game could always end up in a reversal.
(No, it's not Battle Royale.)
Rules:
(Don't be overwhelmed by the rules, it may look like a lot but it really isn't.)
RP rules:
Follow the Roleplaygatweway RULES
No godmodding
Do not ignore others
Romance and violence are expected, DO NOT CYBER IN MY FORUM
I don’t mind cursing, but don’t overdo it
Be LITERATE
-Use the third person
-Use “” for speaking, (()) {{}} or [[]] for OOC (or better yet, here in the OOC thread), and italics for thinking
-Use correct grammar and spelling (use spell-check)
-Do not use one-liners. Type at least a paragraph per post. (If you have writers block then talk about the surroundings, smells, feelings…talk about your characters thoughts or memories)
I’m going for long term, so if you decide to leave then please make a death post
Try to post at least three times a week, and try not to get too far ahead within a night
PM all profiles to me titled "Iron Island"
I have the right to add rules, everyone will be informed when I do so
Character Rules:
No invincible characters
Ages 15 and up
MUST be human
All races and sexualities welcome
All religions welcome
Modern Weapons (Whether they're primitive or not is up to you, but nothing futuristic)
Game Rules:
-Nowhere on the island is forbidden
-Items have been scattered about to aid anyone who may come across them (please ask me in a pm or the OOC thread before making a post to find something.)
-Don’t die
(Yeah, corny, I know)
Settings:
Iron Island
Forest
City
Town
Port
Cave
Other…added as story progresses
Profile Skeletons:
Username:
Character Name:
Age:
Gender:
Orientation:
Occupation:
Bio: (try for at least three sentences please)
Appearance: (anime pic or detailed description)
Hunter or Hunted: (if hunter add Weapon)
Accepted Characters-Hunters (Predators)
(1/5 available)
Username: Wolfsknight
Character Name: Mika Lanson
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Orientation: Lesbian
Occupation: Writer
Bio: She moved to London several years ago, she changed her name and got herself a fake passport and ID. It was easy enough with the people she had come to know. Her mother was an abusive drug addict, and her father was a perverted drunk. One day, they disappeared. Nobody knows what happened to them, except for Mika of course, she knows exactly what happened. And in a way the world does too, but who would take a story so seriously? It is fiction, isn't it?
Appearance: Short blond hair, mostly straight with a bit of wave. She looks tomboyish, but at the same time she is very feminine. She is average height and somewhat thin with pale skin from always being indoors. Her eyes are a very unique shade of blue, sometimes seeming as if they turn green. She wears a pair of skinny black jeans and a white v-neck t-shirt with a pair of black boots.
Weapon: Machete
Username: Mattyman24
Character name: John Horwitz
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Orientation: (I dont know what it means, but anyway) Not gay
Occupation: Shop worker
Bio: John was born in Bristol and lived there ever since, and when he was 11 he helped his brother and his uncle create a food, and clothes shop that they hoped to come succesful and they would become quite rich. In the end, they were very succesful and their dad, Mark Horwitz, with John's brother, Spencer, came up with a perfect name for it: Mark's and Spencers, John was annoyed that he wasnt it it but his father said they couldnt have, Marks and Spencers and Johns, but he got a job there and a raise and worked there since the year before he found himself on Iron Island.
Appearance: John is tall for his age, but handsome and has grown a moustache that he has to shave twice a day because he is such a quick moustache grower. He wears ripped jeans, because of a incident with a hive of wasps and a truck load of thorns. He also wears a nice shirt with the logo of Flipback on the side, his hair is spiked and has gone crazy since he arrived on the island, and he wants to return it to normal, but he cant because on the island they dont have gel.
Weapon: Pistol, short sword.
Username: OriginalSix
Character Name: Joshua Saint
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Occupation: ....whatever pays
Bio: Orphaned as a baby, Joshua never knew his parents. He grew up in a Catholic run orphanage, but was transferred to an institutional home after he beat another child into a coma. He tried to escape several times, finally managing to do so at 13. He fled into the city streets, doing whatever he could to make money, mainly making a living delivering messages, pickpocketing and occasionally drug running. A couple of years back, when a drug den he was delivering to was attacked by a rival gang, Joshua grabbed a gun off of one of the fallen, and once the smoke cleared, never let it go. He willingly entered the Game, under employ of a mysterious benefactor.
Appearance: Joshua is kinda short and almost painfully thin, with scrubby blond hair, and dark eyes. He dresses like anyone else, except he's almost always wearing a worn leather donkey jacket. His body is covered in scarring, but thats usually covered by his clothes; the only visible blemish being a tiny scar on his temple.
Hunter or Hunted: Hunter. His pistol, Ana, hangs in a shoulder holster under his left arm. Joshua's also carrying a couple of knives.
Username: SethGunn
Character Name: Thomas Riley
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Occupation: Freelancer (usually assassination or espionage, but will do most anything for money)
Bio: His whole life he was forced to be do whatever he could to get money, be it legal or otherwise. After living on the streets for most of his life, he has become rather callous. This does mean, however, that he is without emotion. He has just learned that he must do whatever necessary to preserve himself. So in the end, he mainly only cares about his own interests. He has done quite well for himself in his lucrative line of work. Thus, he is rather wealthy and very well off. He is a survivor and will do whatever he must do to remain so.
Appearance: He is approximately 6'2". He weighs about 190 pounds of mostly muscle. He's not Superman, but he is quite strong. He is very well cut. He has black hair (not jet black mind you) and dark brown eyes. He is caucasian with a pretty good tan. Not too dark, but still a tan. He has a little stubble beard going on. He frequents sports jackets and slacks with fedora-style hats and expensive Aviators. He has a flashing white smile and a special gleam in his eye.
-Hunted (Prey)
(3/5 available)
Username:
ReiRyuusei
Character Name:
Chicago 'Windy' Callavo
Age:
20
Gender:
Female
Orientation:
Bisexual
Occupation:
Singer-Songwriter for the band, Aurora Roses.
Bio:
With a name like 'Chicago', you were destined for stardom. You had to be; you were either going to have super rich, rockstar parents who had the right to give you such an otherwise ridiculous first name or you simply had to make it big yourself, no matter what the cost. Otherwise you were simply going to have to live a life of teasing and taunting or get it legally changed in court. Chicago, known to her friends and single mother as 'Windy' (a nickname created in middle school by her best friend, Charlie, taking it from Chicago City's very own nickname; the Windy City), is the singer and song writer for pop-punk/alternative rock band; Aurora Roses, a band which recently signed a contract with a top American record label and was about to release their first album and go on tour the day after when Chicago disappeared.
Appearance:
Link: http://i.luv-emo.com/wp-content/uploads ... -scene.jpg
Username: Wolfsknight
Character Name: Rikki Lancer
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Orientation: unknown
Occupation: Professional Stunt Woman
Bio: Rikki has always been quick on her feet, athletic and brave. She was always looking for something to test her limits, so much so that it’s amazing she’s lived so long. She has broken most of the bones in her body at least once, but she never even thinks twice before trying again. She is driven by the rush, the high, of the adrenaline. Sometimes she can seem crazy, but really outside of her fast paced schedule she is a normal person with a good heart.
Appearance: Short red hair, pale skin, freckles. Her eyes are green. She is tall and thin, muscular but not to a creepy point. She wears a black tank-top and a pair of dark green cargo pants.
Username:
Rigel Lake.
Character Name:
Elliot Gardiner
Age:
27.
Gender:
Male.
Orientation:
Homosexual.
Occupation:
Unemployed.
Bio:
The perpetual no-life. His school life was mottled by reports of sleeping all the time in class, he lived with his parents until they kicked him out at the age of 25, and he's currently homeless. One day he slept in the wrong alley... and when morning came, no trace of his habitation was there.
Appearance: Elliot's desperately underweight and quite short, weighing in at 85 pounds, 5'6. His skin is pale, as though he's never seen daylight. His teeth are decaying and multiple shades of yellow-or-brown. His hair is dirty, filled with unnameable things, but black under the crap.
Username: Treali Storm
Character Name: Tahira Ali
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: Wanted fugitive
Bio: On May 12, 1950, Elan Tahera Almontaser was born in Washington DC to two asylum seekers, Shasta Wadiri Almontaser, a Chinese Uighur dissident journalist, and his wife, Dr. Beatrice Anandini, a professor of Western philosophy in Communist China. At this time, the Almontasers’ older son, David, had recently graduated from West Nottingham Academy, and was enrolled at MIT as an undergraduate student.
The Almontasers were persecuted by Mao Zedong, and sought to escape his clutches in America; however, they possessed a certain sense of paranoia and so decided to take the entire family into hiding under various assumed names. The only family member exempted was David, of his own volition. The Almontasers approached Shasta’s half-sister, Sumitra, a Christian missionary to adopt Elan outside established legal protocols, as though the child were her own. Once Sumitra agreed to do so, she adopted assumed names on her and Elan’s behalf, and relocated to East Ánár Tynan (now Mutalistan).
Ánár Tynan was predominantly Moslem Arabs and Persians, with a few Pashtun tribesmen in the Northeast. Its government was an oligarchy composed of European Christians who imposed restrictive laws on the indigenous inhabitants. Sumitra (now Solara Asfah), relocated with the blessings of Hope International Missions, an Evangelical missions organization, with Elan (now Tahira Ali) in tow. Within a few weeks of her move, Asfah was sexually assaulted and impregnated. She gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Alia.
Alia Asfah and Tahira Ali were raised by Asfah without outside aid, as the missionary never married. Asfah was also socially ostracized in the conservative community as a direct result of her rape and bastard daughter. Alia possessed superior intellect, and was offered a scholarship to Tokyo International Academy, where she was a boarding student through her early graduation. In Ánár Tynan, Tahira Ali was offered a scholarship to the local Catholic school on behalf of Asfah’s work for Christ. She was a quiet student who rarely participated in class discussions, excelling in math, but performing poorly in the humanities. Tahira Ali graduated with average, if somewhat mediocre, grades in 1968.
In 1965, Tahira Ali met Carlos Hodgson, a young public official in Ánár Tynan. Their acquaintanceship blossomed into a quiet romance, kept in check by the conservative traditions of the community. In July 1986, Hodgson was appointed to the legislative body, a high council, of Ánár Tynan, during the high point of increasing tensions with anarchist rebels and terrorists threatening to overthrow the European ruled regime. The two last saw each other on August 3, 1968, the same day a full scale revolution broke out.
According to the subject, Tahira Ali fled Ánár Tynan later that day. She murdered a family of six, the Abdel Rahman family, and the American reporter, James Elliott, who was escorting the Abdel Rahman family out of the country, to avoid certain death at the hands of the violent revolutionaries. Within two weeks, the European regime disintegrated, Hodgson fled, and the nation was rechristened Mutalistan. In six months time, Sabir Uttar, a charismatic atheist, would take the reins of leadership and establish a dictatorship that fell thirty-eight years later, in 2006.
Tahira Ali took several trains to the Northwest, emerging in Germany a month later, where she murdered thirteen more victims, including US Senator Jordan Normandeau, who had been nominated for the presidency, Catholic Cardinal Srgjam Doshi, and Mohammed Ntamuhanga, the president-elect of Tanzania. She left Germany after another month, arriving in France where she murdered two women, before boarding a transcontinental flight to America under the name Fatima bint Batya.
It was shortly after this that J. Edgar Hoover decided to add Tahira Ali to the FBI Ten Most Wanted List, making her the first woman to be included in the relatively new program. The original reward for her capture was $1 million.
The subject arrived in New York City where she murdered two Americans, one a police officer, before traveling on foot across the country. After this date, the subject disputes which murders she actually committed. Tahira Ali is believed to have murdered at least two dozen others in at least eight other states before traveling abroad once more.
She has been implicated in a number of bombings of churches, synagogues, and interfaith meetings, both domestically and abroad. In 1998, Tahira Ali met with Usama bin Ladin in Pakistan, a meeting attended by Ibrahim El Ghamri, who later became a critical defector for counterterrorism operatives.
Appearance: Race: Caucasian, non-Hispanic
Ethnicity: Uighur (father), Italian Jew (mother)
Skin Tone: Olive
Height: 4'10" (58 inches)
Weight: 85
Build: Slim
Eyes: Gray
Hair: White, of length to just beyond bust
General Description: High cheekbones and a prominent Widow's peak, long nose, pale eyes have a slight almond shape with crow's feet.
Link to IC thread- http://www.roleplaygateway.com/the-game-t29022.html