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#1 scifidude47

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 12:28 AM

Our Newfound World

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PLOT: Teldis. That was what they called it. The mysterious planet just outside of our current intergalactic border. It seemed much like our own, but no ship that has gone there has ever returned, nor were any traces of them recorded. Recordings of ships that went there would just cut to static at a certain point, seemingly as if by random. Nopony knows exactly what causes this, nor if any survivors remain from the ships that have disappeared.

 

Nopony, except for them…

 

On the planet, it has been almost five years since the first pony-led ship crashed, a cargo ship, with a fairly large crew. It had a name, but those who survived it’s crash have long since forgotten it, as it is mostly overgrown by the flora of Teldis, Many more have crashed on various areas of the planet, never to be seen again by those who dare not go near the planet. The first waves of stranded ponies survived mainly off of whatever rations they could scrounge from their own ships, or whatever nonperishable tins of food were left in the ruins of other crashed ships. When those ran out, which they almost all did, they went to work studying the life of the planet, working out what plants were edible, which were poisonous, most importantly, if they bit back…

 

While plants were plentiful for a while, many ponies were forced to do the unthinkable… to hunt the animals of the planet and consume their meat. While most would consider this act almost barbaric, or perhaps not even pony-like, it is almost commonplace for the denizens of Teldis. They hunted creatures with whatever firearms they brought or scavenged, but when their guns broke or when their bullets depleted, they soon went to work, gathering materials to make weapons, axes, spears, knives, or whatever weapons they could create to kill the deadly creatures of the planet.

 

While many ponies stuck together with those that they had become stranded with, many were forced to search out other survivors, as many that they had found themselves with perished. Tribes began forming, finding ways to become self-sufficient as they realized the inevitability of their captivity on the planet. Groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers dot the landscape, as well as many farming societies who attempt to stay where they are, or wherever the soil is most fertile to grow various plants. Many tribes are much more violent, attacking others for whatever supplies they can take. Nevertheless, the people of Teldis have managed to eke out an existence, albeit a rather dangerous one.

 

You are a member of a small group of survivors that has been on Teldis for almost a year. You live on a small coastal settlement nearby a large forest that nopony in your group has thought to map out or explore, with some large, jagged mountains with sparse vegetation jut out from across the water of the coastline, to this day unexplored. While there are many wooden buildings that have been constructed, you mainly sleep in the broken ruins of your old ship that has crashed on the shoreline, an old scouting ship meant to charter the galaxy. You survive off of a few plants within the forest, a few (fortunately) docile fish that you spear or fish from the shoreline, and a few animals that you are able to trap or hunt in the forest. You have not contacted any of the other surviving tribes on the planet, in fact, you are almost certain that you are the only ponies on this planet.

 

Today marks the 13th month since you had crashed on the planet. While it would seem like a normal day, perhaps even a day to celebrate the achievements that you and your friends have accomplished since being stranded, you feel that something is wrong, today.

 

Almost as if you are not alone…

 

RULES:
1. If you wouldn’t do it in another RP thread, don’t do it here.
2. Try to keep gore to a minimum. Excessive gore should be put in a spoiler, with a warning beforehand.
3. Fill out an app sheet and post it in the APP and OOC thread to join after I have accepted you.
4. Remember, you do not know much about the world you are in, and neither does your character, even if they aren’t with the group living on the coast.

 

CHARACTER APPLICATION:
Name:
Gender:
Race: (No Alicorns)
Picture and/or description:
Short Bio: (Keep it 1-2 paragraphs)
Starting Weapon: (No guns, keep it very simple; clubs, spears, knives, worn metal axes, etc.)
Is your character a part of the group that is living on the coast, a lone nomad, or a member of one of the tribes of the world?:

 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD:


(The information here is about as limited as I am willing to make it. More information will be added, but for now, you will only have what little information I’m willing to give. Remember, not much is known about this world.)

 

Plant Life: Most of the world is nearly covered in vegetation, spare for mountains, a few rocky deserts, and the coastlines, with pale sand. Much of it is edible, but most of the edible plants of the world take a long time to grow back their fruits, which is why many ponies resorted to the once unconsidered omnivore lifestyle. There are many plants that are a combination of animal and plant, some are simply able to move, some remain rooted in the ground, and many are actually predatory, attacking any creatures unlucky enough to get too close to them.  Traveling through forests, while the possibility of finding edible plants is great, is very risky, as many of the carnivorous plants are difficult to find in the thick vegetation. 

 

Fauna: Animals on Teldis are usually large, much larger than ponies, due to the fact that Teldis is around 3.5 times larger than Equestria. Even insects on the planet are about as large as dogs back on Equestria. The largest creatures are usually larger than skyscrapers, only moving once every few days in order to find food. Very few animals on the planet are docile, most of them being carnivorous, or at least defensive. Due to their size, many are difficult to hunt or kill. However, when one is killed, the reward is great. As ponies have had to become more resourceful to survive on Teldis, they have learned to use every part of the animals they hunt, meat is preserved with salt, carapaces are used for armor, leather for clothing, bones for tools, some bones large enough to be fashioned into several tools, like shovels, spears, axes, or knives. The most dangerous of animals lie in the oceans of Teldis, to the point that the backs of many have been mistaken for islands.

 

Character List:

1. Black Widow (scifidude47)

2. Light Spectrum (~HelixSpectrumTopazGamer~)

3. Bernadette (soundbreak)

4. Stardust (stephenisbest)

5. Wishmere (~HelixSpectrumTopazGamer~)

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(NOTE: Just because there are 10 slots on the character list does not mean that is the maximum. If this RP actually gets popular, I will make room, as long as it doesn't get out of hand. ALSO: I will do weekly cleanups of the character list, should a few members become inactive. If you don't post on a regular basis (i.e. 2-3 day waits between posts) then it is suggested that you do not join. If you won't be able to post for some time, make it known, and I will not remove your character.)

 

Thanks for giving this RP a look!

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Edited by scifidude47, 08 July 2014 - 12:54 AM.


#2 TemmixDaHelix

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 02:20 AM

Name: Light Spectrum (Calls herself Marsh)

 

Gender: Mare

 

Race: Pegasus

 

Picture and/or description: Orange coat, yellow eyes, rainbow mane and tail. No cutie mark.

 

Short Bio: Spectrum was born 2 years before the first expedition to Teldis. Her parents were supposed to be part of the expedition, but they didn't want to leave Spectrum on Equestria. Her parents, thinking the planet to be safe and benign, brought Spectrum with them on the expedition. When the ship landed on the planet, they started surviving. Spectrum quickly learned what plants were safe to eat and how to hunt. Her family survived for 3 years, before a beast found them. Spectrum's family ran, but the beast gave chase. Spectrum was separated from her parents, but eventually stopped hearing the steps of the beast. She tried to find her parents, but, after 30 minutes of searching, heard a loud painful scream from far away. She ran as far as she could, before she had to stop and rest.

     After that, Spectrum spent the next 2 years alone, surviving. She started losing her common sense and started acting more and more feral. She saw a ship crash land close to her, and moved her camp closer to watch and steal some items from the crew. She fears the survivors, but is not afraid to fight. Her main weakness is an edible berry, that causes her to become drowsy and she acts wild-like, so she may be fooled into a trap by having a net on one end, and a pony yelling and moving around on the other to have her try to escape by running into the net.

 

Starting Weapon: A special weapon that is an axe on one end and a spear on the other. (If this is OP tell me.)

 

(She explores, but has a small camp a little bit away from the coast group. If there are giant mushrooms, Spectrum lives on top of one.)

 

Also how do you make a spoiler?


Edited by ~HelixSpectrumTopazGamer~, 04 July 2014 - 02:20 AM.


#3 scifidude47

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 02:25 AM

Most of this seems fine, although the rainbow-colored hair seems a little cliche.

 

As long as the weapon is makeshift and could break eventually, it's fine.

 

In order to make spoilers, you do ["spoiler"] and ["/spoiler"] without the quotes, with the content you want in the spoiler in between. 

 

There will be large fungi, but the group lives close to a wooded forest, so if you're living on a mushroom, it'll be a fair distance from the main group.

 

Adding. 



#4 TemmixDaHelix

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 02:35 AM

Ok, I'll have her live in a tree. Also

 

Spoiler

 

Also Also Could you check out my new RP Project Restart?


Edited by ~HelixSpectrumTopazGamer~, 04 July 2014 - 02:43 AM.


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Posted 04 July 2014 - 06:16 AM

sounds fun but first things first can my character have an animal companion like a snake?



#6 scifidude47

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 06:38 AM

Yes, but don't expect to find many other snakes, and don't just use the snake as an overpowered weapon. Chances are, it won't do you too much good against the monsters you will face. 

 

Reasoning for this: Of course, on some ships, there were pets or other kinds of animals. Alone, however, a dog or cat will not last long in the environment of Teldis. For this reason, they are almost never seen without a pony nearby. 



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Posted 04 July 2014 - 08:47 AM

ok that works

 

Name: Bernadette "likes being called b"
Gender: female
Race: Pegasus

Age: 11
Picture and/or description:dark red coat that slowly darkens as its moves towards her legs, with short cut silver hair that shifts from silver to bronze when she walks.glowing silver eyes.
Short Bio: Bernadette was raised by a group of scientist not really having a "fun" childhood only going out side about once a week. She was trained to be a calculative master but ended up falling behind the time frame that they had set and ended up being replaced by another kid. One day b was outside and found a coiled up snake in the corner of the park where she was able to roam and brought it to her overseer who allowed her to keep it with much persuasion from her psychiatrist and that's when her friendship with Anima was born. After another year of mental and physical training she was put on the first expedition and when the ship crashed she went off on her own knowing that she would survive easier on her own along with Anima by her side but she stayed relatively close to the other ponies occasionally taking food and fresh water but primarily hunting and gathering her food. In a climate like that on the planet Anima grew to a rather large size so he is usually seen wrapped around B's mid section or right beside her.
Starting Weapon: stone climbing claws attached to her hooves.

Personality: cold, calculating, blunt with her choice of words, quiet only uses short sentences, will help only if she is needed

character: lone nomad


Edited by soundbreak, 05 July 2014 - 12:28 AM.


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Posted 04 July 2014 - 09:15 AM

Named: Stardust

 

Gender: Female/Mare

 

Race: Unicorn

 

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Short Bio: When my family and I crashed on Teldis we were all alive, but when we ate all our food on our first couple days we started to starve so my father went out to go find food. He came back with what looked to be berries and fruit we weren't sure about eating them, but we decided to eat them because we were starving. My father went out to hunt for food once again, 2 days passed and he didn't come back so me and my mother went out to go find him, we found a trail of blood we followed it and we found him dead. It looked like he attacked by a bear, but I wasn’t sure if it was a bear.

 

After my father was dead my mother and I were low on food once again, my mother roughly knew where my father got the berries and fruit so she went to go collect more food. When she came back, she had a rash all over her arms and legs and later that night it spread all over her body. Later on in the night she said she took a short cut through the rain forest and she fell into a prickly bush. By early morning when I woke up I found her dead. I am now surviving alone and I am paying attention to what the animals are eating and being careful. Everyday I keep on going further into the rain forest I see a mountain far away and my goal is to get there because I believe it will give me a better understanding about what is around and hope to see if there are any other civilization around. When I got up the mountain, after spending a few days up there I see a giant lake in the distance and that's where I'm going to go next hoping that its fresh water and there's fish for me to eat. After walking for about 2 days I finally arrive at the lake I drink the water because I'm thirsty and it seems fine and there a lot of fish so I will hunt the fish with my bow and arrow that I found on the ship. This will be my new shelter. I see lots of smoke in the distance I don't think I'm the not the only one here anymore...

 

Starting Weapon: Bow and 5 arrows

 

Character: Lone nomad

 

(My first proper Rp by the way)


Edited by stephenisthebest, 05 July 2014 - 12:31 AM.


#9 scifidude47

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 05:02 PM

You both are accepted, just keep in mind not to use run-on sentences, please.

 

Also, stephen, the bow and arrow is acceptable so long as you are aware that you will have a limited supply of arrows

 

In short, you could occasionally run out in a fight. 


Just an fyi: The RP will begin when there is at least one other pony with the group on the coast. I don't want it to be just my OC and a bunch of random background characters. 



#10 TemmixDaHelix

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 09:39 PM

Where is your character's app Sci?



#11 scifidude47

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 10:34 PM

I didn't really think I'd need one, considering I'm the GM, and you all pretty much new how RP apps work. 



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Posted 04 July 2014 - 10:46 PM

well we at least need to know what your character looks like and their name



#13 TemmixDaHelix

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Posted 04 July 2014 - 11:09 PM

Yeah...and their backstory...We really just want to know your character, cuz we all know how to make an app.



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Posted 04 July 2014 - 11:30 PM

yep plus my character is going to be around the area of other ponies on the planet just not interacting with them as much.



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:18 AM

Alright then, sorry :P

 

Name: Black Widow
Gender: Mare
Race: Unicorn
Picture and/or description: LINK (Not my art) (Her CM is a black widow spider's 'hourglass marking.'
Short Bio: Black Widow lived a lonely childhood life, living in an orphanage with very few friends. She was often described as 'weird' or 'macabre' by her caretakers. She barely passed high school, only excelling in magic classes, but just barely holding onto an A. She went on the expedition to Teldis as a way to get away from those who made fun of her, and she wanted to see the universe, now being an adult. She didn't believe in the rumors of Teldis, but that soon changed when her scouting ship crashed, and the pilot was killed.

 

On the island, she has found herself to be an excellent toolmaker, as well as a general craftswoman. Her skills lie mostly in hunting weapons, like spears or axes. She usually keeps to herself, only keeping a few close friends, despite her usual outgoing actions at the nightly campfires. She often wakes up earlier than her companions, so that she may watch the sunrise by herself. 
Starting Weapon: A knife made from a sharpened bone fragment and tied together with a piece of leather she got from a belt. 
Is your character a part of the group that is living on the coast, a lone nomad, or a member of one of the tribes of the world?: Part of the group living on the coast.


Edited by scifidude47, 05 July 2014 - 12:24 AM.


#16 TemmixDaHelix

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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:21 AM

...xD?



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:22 AM

ok that makes things easier on us



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:25 AM

sorry for submitting it uncompleted, I accidentally clicked post :P



#19 TemmixDaHelix

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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:28 AM

So are you going to post the main RP soon?



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:30 AM

The RP will begin when there is at least one other pony with the group on the coast. I don't want it to be just my OC and a bunch of random background characters. 



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:33 AM

You both are accepted, just keep in mind not to use run-on sentences, please.

 

Also, stephen, the bow and arrow is acceptable so long as you are aware that you will have a limited supply of arrows

 

In short, you could occasionally run out in a fight. 


Just an fyi: The RP will begin when there is at least one other pony with the group on the coast. I don't want it to be just my OC and a bunch of random background characters. 

 

Okay, I will just have 5 arrows at the start and thank you for accepting me. :)



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 12:45 AM

Can we have 2 characters?



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Posted 05 July 2014 - 01:47 AM

Sure, but no more than that.



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Posted 06 July 2014 - 02:03 AM

If nobody else joins the coast group soon, I'll just change it so that Black Widow was just a lone survivor, so we can start this. 



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Posted 06 July 2014 - 02:10 AM

If nobody else joins the coast group soon, I'll just change it so that Black Widow was just a lone survivor, so we can start this. 

 

Okay.



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Posted 06 July 2014 - 02:30 AM

mkay



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Posted 06 July 2014 - 02:47 AM

Name: Wishmere (Calls herself Whispermere)

 

Gender: Mare

 

Race: Unicorn

 

Picture and/or description: Cream coat, green eyes, dark blue mane and tail. A shooting star circling a Red Cross. Her talent is creating and using healing spells and potions.

 

Short Bio: Wishmere was born in Canterlot. She was a normal filly, except she didn't talk alot. She mainly studied hard in the study of medicine. When she was 13, she could recite many books worth of healing plants and recipes to make potions. In that year, as well, She was watching a hard operation, when 2 doctors crashed into each other. They dropped the medicine they were carrying and mixed them up. Wishmere quickly dashed in and asked them what medicine they needed. After getting a reply, she started maxing up a potion that would mimic the effects of the medicine. After finishing the potion, the doctors gave the potion to the patient, and it worked. Wishmere felt really happy, but was even happier when she saw her cutie mark appear.

     After that, she continued to train herself, becoming a world known nurse, however she still talked infrequently. At the age of 22, she signed up as a nurse for one of the missions to Teldis. When the ship crashed, she was suprised to find herself alive. Now, she lives near the same ship, learning about Teldis's flora and making new potions with them.

 

Starting Weapon: Stone morningstar (W/o the spikes)

 

A part of the group that is living on the coast


Edited by ~HelixSpectrumTopazGamer~, 06 July 2014 - 02:15 PM.


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Posted 08 July 2014 - 12:53 AM

Accepting.

 

Just keep in mind that there are NO samples of Equestrian flora on this world, so learning to make concoctions from them would be difficult.

 

Alright, let's get this show on the road, I'll post the RP thread and intro post in a little bit. 



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Posted 08 July 2014 - 01:06 AM

http://www.brohoof.c...-forum-rp-open/

here's the actual RP thread.



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Posted 10 July 2014 - 09:49 PM

Sci could you give me constructive criticism on my RP?

 

Its called Project Restart




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