Hey guys, MDS here, thanks for having a look at my new RP Skyline! If you're strapped for time feel free to just skim this and you can put in a character submission. Otherwise I hope the idea is intriguing to some of you and I've love to have another awesome RP going, so if you think this might suit your interest, please don't be afraid to sign up! Thanks again!

 

-MDS

 

 

Story Overview

 

2015, the modern day. Your lives were everything you thought them to be just yesterday. Dreams, aspirations, work, friends. The day-in-day-out routine of modern life. There were things to be counted on every morning you woke up; the place you lived, the people you knew, the person you were. Today that all changed. You didn't wake up in your home, nor your town, nor your country. You woke up in The City, and today your life changed.

 

Skyscrapers dot the landscape in various sizes and shapes, and the crisscross of roads is reminiscent of most of the huge metropolises of the world, but there is something different about The City from any urban area you've ever seen; it's pure white, from the buildings to the roads to the parks, and it's entirely empty. Only a select handful of people appeared in The City this morning, but beyond that there is not a soul in sight. The shops are empty, the buildings abandoned, and the streets eerily quiet. There is however, a dark foreboding in the air, as if  something darker and more malevolent lurks just beneath the chalky pavement; waiting.

 

But you arrival here changed not only your surroundings, but you as well. The City is not simply a stagnant husk, for you have the ability to change it. You have been given, or discovered within yourself, an Ability of Creation. In small ways at first, and soon in greater amounts, you can change The City. Perhaps you have the power to morph bits of building and road into weapons, maybe you can change the streets into a vehicle to move around in, possibly you can form keys and badges to unlock hidden areas. Each Ability of Creation will differ and match the person from whom it derives. And not only can you create from the foundation of the city itself, but as you do, you change its very fabric. Where you build colors spring and spread to nearby buildings and sidewalks. And as you complete certain strange challenges spread around the various districts the effects of your actions bring even more life to the white empty world. Bit by bit you can begin to bring The City to life.

 

And as you all wake you receive a strange message that seems to resound from within your mind itself. It is a woman's voice, but there is an odd element about it you can't seem to pinpoint. Something... wrong you sense as her voice seems to whisper in your ear.

 

"Welcome to this place. The City. You have many questions I am sure, and I am sorry to leave you in such a state of mystery, but some things must be discovered with one's own eyes, and this City holds many truths you must discover. You have gained powers unlike any human has ever known; the ability to shift the very foundation of your reality and build anew from it. You must use this power to bring life to this blank metropolis, district by district, overcoming obstacles and coming to understand many harsh realities. I shall be your guide through this place. My name is Q, and I will show you the way.

 

Welcome to The City."

 

Whatever the reason you are in The City, you have the tools and desire to discover it, and oppose the forces that may seek to destroy you. And you shall have people to fight alongside - and possibly against- as well, and together you may discover the nature of The City, your powers, and the reason you were sent here in the first place.

 

Structure Overview

Skyline is an open-world roleplay about creation, discover, and companionship. Players will be brought into The City in various groups, and from there can consult a world map (which will be provided and constantly updated in the RP thread) and travel to different districts to overcome challenges there to bring The City to life and discover the truth about both the place itself and about themselves. All throughout several mysterious characters may come into play, slowly unraveling the truth as they interact with the players. Players are free to move to various districts in their groups and contest the various challenges at each area to further the story. They can also switch between groups if two happen to come in contact. Overall, as the City will come to life, the story will come to light.

 

Rules

 

-No over-powered abilities; keep your powers reasonable and in check. They can grows as you all get more powerful, but never so much that you can effortlessly overcome another player.

 

-No taking control of other players

 

-No explicit sexual content. Romance is totally fine.

 

-One character per-player (The point of this rule is to force a player to focus on the actions of a single character so all the characters have a lot of relevance)

 

-Only five posts per-person between every updating post I make (basically any time I post as an NPC or detail a challenge) This is just to make sure we don't have rampant over-posting.

 

-Keep out-of-character chat generally relegated to the Signup/Discussion thread to keep the RP thread mostly on-point.

 

Character Template

 

(Quick note here: get creative with the Ability of Creation, if anything goes too far I'll let you know and you can dial it back, but the more intriguing the better)

 

Name:

 

Ability of Creation:

 

Age:

 

Gender:

 

Appearance:

 

Personality:

 

Background:

 

 

 

And with that, I look forward to seeing everyone's submissions! The signups will be up for approximately a week before the RP starts, I can't wait to see what kind of characters you all come up with and I look forward to getting this RP going!

Edited February 14, 201510 yr by MDSVeritas

Question then why are we from different univreses?

From what i've seen so far most trials have been up against these individuals, which may just be Q's "Siblings" and the like, so my theory is that she's sending us on a manhunt on them without us knowing, all with the reward being information about why we're here and all, but I find it suspicious that everything we do to thee districts give "life" back into them.

 

Could very well be that every district we "bring back" gives Q more power and control over the city, I find it oddly suspicious, maybe she intends to use us and then simply...delete or absorb us when we're of no use for her anymore.

 

In short, Q is searching for power, which will be gained by killing these targets of ours and who knows what she'll do then. Unknown challenges are Anomalies, something only the Doktor may known, as Q doesn't seem to know much about it herself, she said they are a manifestation of the city's will? maybe theres more to it than we thought

 

 

Only one.....

You said humans, but Yuki's a Saiyan. Sooo....Try explaining that for me?

 

Individuals, doesn't have to be specific humans, for all we know we might even be just AIs and we don't know it yet.

Edited April 22, 201510 yr by Scrapmaster

Only one.....

You said humans, but Yuki's a Saiyan. Sooo....Try explaining that for me?

Considering the OP insinuated that the RP was focused only on humanity, their lives on Earth, and wherever the City is, I am assuming a Saiyan was never a part of the plan.

 

Also, take into account that MDS said to take out the part about Saiyans when he first quoted your post (which assuming you changed his backstory to fit having no Saiyans in the RP) I am led to assume that Yuki is actually a delusional human, broken by the stress of an environment and clinging to the only thing that helped him in his life on earth, the fictional universe of Dragonball.

 

 

And Sora.... Why would we be from different universes? So far, none of us are from a different universe than the one that we the players know.

Considering the OP insinuated that the RP was focused only on humanity, their lives on Earth, and wherever the City is, I am assuming a Saiyan was never a part of the plan.

 

Also, take into account that MDS said to take out the part about Saiyans when he first quoted your post (which assuming you changed his backstory to fit having no Saiyans in the RP) I am led to assume that Yuki is actually a delusional human, broken by the stress of an environment and clinging to the only thing that helped him in his life on earth, the fictional universe of Dragonball.

 

 

And Sora.... Why would we be from different universes? So far, none of us are from a different universe than the one that we the players know.

Let me dream.

Yokay. No problem.

But then, how do you know you're dreaming? when you don't even know where your character is and what is happening to her...maybe "real" self? how do you know we're not just Ais created by Q? by analysing the real world? how can an AI be able to capture humans anyway? 

Edited April 22, 201510 yr by Scrapmaster

Okay......

 

All of that might make sense for Yuki, but I don't think MDS had a problem with the Saiyan part. After all, he let me keep his tail. But still...I don't think I changed his backstory at all. MDS didn't tell me to do that.

My god... How much did I really miss while I was on holiday?

 

I like the power idea (it just couldn't be too powerful). The one thing is that for the City, for the purposes of the plot, all the characters are like a normal person would be in the modern day, thus half-Saiyan wouldn't really work as that's derived from DBZ mythos.

 

 

I rest my case. Perhaps he has changed his tune since then, but since I have not seen any new information on the matter since then, I was led to believe that you followed the request of the GM and changed your character accordingly.

My god... How much did I really miss while I was on holiday?

 

Not a single thing thing have been slow on not only this Rp but some others too. Welp ample time to catch up I guess.

You...Have a point. But still, he let me keep it. But I'm really hoping he was somehow pulled from his universe to this one. But either universe travel or human theory will work for me.

 

But that raises a question. HOW did we end up in the City? Did we get transported? Were we captured? Did we disappear? HOW?

But then, how do you know you're dreaming? when you don't even know where your character is and what is happening to her...maybe "real" self? how do you know we're not just Ais created by Q? by analysing the real world? how can an AI be able to capture humans anyway?

That stuff you said oddly goes with this song.

Anyway, may I join this RP? (I forgotten my RP Persona on here.)

What about the fact Q said I wasn't part of his-her plan?

You...Have a point. But still, he let me keep it. But I'm really hoping he was somehow pulled from his universe to this one. But either universe travel or human theory will work for me.

 

But that raises a question. HOW did we end up in the City? Did we get transported? Were we captured? Did we disappear? HOW?

 

He let you keep the tail officially. The other changes he left to you.

 

As for how we all got here, we don't have enough information for that quite yet. Potentially, Q is powerful enough to pull us into this data world simply by us accessing the internet. Or, another faction working against the Doctor and for Q captured us and threw us in there.

 

 

Sora, you probably weren't part of the plan either because the Doctor put you into the City but didn't give you any information upon insertion, or you were taken into the City later than the others so she simply hadn't planned for you coming at all.

He let you keep the tail officially. The other changes he left to you. As for how we all got here, we don't have enough information for that quite yet. Potentially, Q is powerful enough to pull us into this data world simply by us accessing the internet. Or, another faction working against the Doctor and for Q captured us and threw us in there.  Sora, you probably weren't part of the plan either because the Doctor put you into the City but didn't give you any information upon insertion, or you were taken into the City later than the others so she simply hadn't planned for you coming at all.

Adding in, maybe it wasn't a perfect pull. Maybe the fact Yuki and Sora have tails shows that Q's pull was not as smooth as she thought, and accidently glitches her code. With Yuki Prolly being at a DBZ convention dressed as as Saiyan, and Sora in her foxmaid outfit at work, that could explain the tails and Sora's additional ears.

Adding in, maybe it wasn't a perfect pull. Maybe the fact Yuki and Sora have tails shows that Q's pull was not as smooth as she thought, and accidently glitches her code. With Yuki Prolly being at a DBZ convention dressed as as Saiyan, and Sora in her foxmaid outfit at work, that could explain the tails and Sora's additional ears.

Nice theory actually.

Okay. good theory. VERY good theory. I just wonder how MDS handles this. Keeping Yuki as a real Saiyan or making him a human in real life....It catches my attention. After all, so far, Yuki is the most interesting character being a Saiyan and all.

Okay. good theory. VERY good theory. I just wonder how MDS handles this. Keeping Yuki as a real Saiyan or making him a human in real life....It catches my attention. After all, so far, Yuki is the most interesting character being a Saiyan and all.

 

Well who is the most interesting is subjective.

 

I think its le chef, no one can withstand the power of his culinary skills!

 

Not that Maxwell cares though...

Okay. good theory. VERY good theory. I just wonder how MDS handles this. Keeping Yuki as a real Saiyan or making him a human in real life....It catches my attention. After all, so far, Yuki is the most interesting character being a Saiyan and all.

 

Simply being a Saiyan doesn't make you interesting. What makes a character interesting is how their backstory and personality combine to form their actions and storyline during a game.

Simply being a Saiyan doesn't make you interesting. What makes a character interesting is how their backstory and personality combine to form their actions and storyline during a game.

 

Precisely. What makes a person interesting is how they came to be who they are. While what they are can make someone interesting; focusing solely on what they are and who they can lead to flat, uninteresting characters. People like seeing growth. We like to see development and change.

.....Somehow Caroline, you're always shooting me down.

But yeah, I get the point. Maybe the next MDS RP I'll try to come up with a character that might get people's attention.

I did not mean to say that you are not interesting, just that your basic reasoning for being interesting isn't really reasoning at all.

Best way is to make a character you like, don't make a character to get people's attention, do I care that no one gives a damn about Maxwell? I dont, neither does he

Shade is important because she isn't.

So much good advice! Thanks guys.

 

But back to the City topic, what is the purpose of the City? And why and how are we involved in this?