Island of Elysium Recruitment Thread (LGBT friendly sci-fi sandbox)

[jeflint]

Sounds good. Thank you. 😊

I'm think about making her a bar owner. Someplace stable, but just a little trashy. Like Quarks from DS9. "What you spend your credit on outside of murder is ok with me. Take that outside." 😜

[Vergil1989]

No problem and I actually liked Quarks despite not being a huge Star Trek fan lol.  I'm down with that, but I'm a fan of the Mos Eisley cantina as well as the Chora's Den.  In general, I like my seedy bars so you're definitely barking up the right tree here lol.

[jeflint]

Well... Don't tell anyone but I LOVE me some Babylon 5 but I know way more about Star Wars than Star Trek. 😊

Think I'll lift my inspiration from the Thrawn Trilogy. There's a nice bar there that was think veiled as a smugler and gambling den.

I should have something for you by evening. Gotta couple of hours to come up with more for my Liz futa.

[Supias]

I'm liking this concept too.  I'm going to keep watching and have a few ideas floating about already.

[jeflint]

I've been wanting to play a bar owner for awhile and this seems a good place to try. Now if she keeps the bar through the course of the story well that's something we'll need to wait and see. 😜

[Vergil1989]

Babylon 5!  Great Maker I'm not the only one on E that loves the show after all?!  Lol while I haven't gotten through the entire series yet, I think I stopped around season 3 or 4, I absolutely love Babylon 5 nearly as much as Star Trek and Star Wars, as well as Farscape and a few others.  Almost Human, the cop and android partner show that was unfortunately canceled after only one season, was another awesome show that I'm kinda drawing inspiration from for this.  But yes, B5 will always hold a special place in my heart.

Lol okay, nerd gasm aside, welcome to the party Supias.  You're still pretty early into things so there's no rush.  Take your time and we'll be here.

[Dhi]

I think my sheet is done, to the best of my ability to finish it.

[jeflint]

Hey... Quick question. Can I have a description of the dark plot contains so I know if I want to involve my character... Hesitantly it seems like that'd be natural for my character.

[Vergil1989]

You DO need one more ability if at all possible, either just a hobby she's exceptionally good at or something along those lines at least, but other than that and adding a bit more to her history if at all possible, I think you're pretty good to go.  Welcome to the party Dhi.  ;D

As for the Dark Plot that's in the works Jeflint, I honestly don't have much of a plan at the present time other than litlte incidents involving various players.  Maybe someone starts shooting up your bar for some reason or someone tracks down Dhi's girl to exact a bit of justice of their own, or someone from SEGI pays her a visit for her hacking activities.  That and I can't do much of a Dark Plot until we get a full group anyway because it'll depend on who we get and who'd be willing to get involved in the first place anyway.

[jeflint]

Fair enough.

[Vergil1989]

Having said that, EVERYONE will at least hear about some of the things that happens during the Dark Plot at some point or another, so even if it's just background stuff that pops up occasionally, everyone will still hear rumors and what have you.  :D

[Dhi]

I'll give it some thought. My hope is to tempt others to make characters with Veronika.

I'd like to work on an alien too, but, the difference between alien ladies and the monster girls you say you don't want is to my mind razor thin. What are you looking for specifically when it comes to aliens?

[Vergil1989]

Just more humanoid aliens mostly.  If they have slight animal like traits like the puazi and their cow like ears and horns, that's one thing and something I'd be more than alright with.  If it's a more straight up lizard person, that kinda is where I draw the line if that makes sense since it strays a bit too closely to monster girl stuff.  So just more humanoid like people if that helps.  Anything from the Imogen from the show Defiance, to something a bit more exotic like the Luxan or the Pilots, (also called Servicers), from Farscape.  So while the Pilots are a quite strange in appearance, they're still at least loosely humanoid in appearance, at least in my opinion they fit what I'm looking for if that helps.

[Dhi]

I don't understand where the sweet spot lies and it makes me afraid to try to create an alien. Between an alien who's just a woman of unusual color and a Farscape pilot there's a great rift of difference you could conceivably fit just about any kind of monster girl into, and vice versa, could disqualify anything as being too like a monster girl. I don't know what could pass veto.

[Vergil1989]

When I think of monster girl, I typically jump to those seen in Monster Musune and what have you.  Aliens in general would be fine, so long as they don't look like anime knockoffs of the kind you'd see in anime is really what it amounts to lol.  Sorry if I seem to be a bit picky about that, but as I said before, there's plenty of other games where monster girls are readily accepted, even encouraged.  There are PLENTY of aliens you can choose from across the board and I'd more than likely be okay with it.  If it helps, you can send a few pics my way or post them here of whatever you're thinking about before getting a profile started.

[jeflint]

I guess i should sorta check before i go hog wild... Furry's ok? I said lizard girl. So i was operating under the idea that she was an alien but I could use my furry art for my character.

[Vergil1989]

Lizard aliens are easy to find, I'm pretty sure there's at least two in Star Wars alone that popped up in the Clone Wars about midway through the series, but it's when they look like something that'd fit in an anime that I'd have a problem.  Furries are good too as a substitute, but not this.

Mostly SFW

Aliens should look like aliens, even the most 'human' of them still have SOMETHING otherworldly about them.  Monster girls though are too 'human' even when they have wings, horns, and whatever else that makes them what they are.  Does that help?  :D

[jeflint]

This was more what I had in mind until I got the finished comission for the character.

Totally Safe for Work

[Vergil1989]

That's not bad all told.  But after your character I'll likely encourage people to stay kinda away from that kind of critter as well in the future since, again, there are other games where anthros and furries are much more common.  That and we already have Gardsorm and I think one other person doing something somewhat similar to your lizard girl here, but for now it's good.  ;D

[jeflint]

We're in the future right? We can do all sorta cool things like have robot puppet bodies right?  8-)

[Vergil1989]

Lol while I actually DID like Surrogates, the idea of uploading your brain into a robot body like that seems just a LITTLE too farfetched even for me to easily accept.  Cyborgs, androids, things like that I'm all for, but Surrogates?  I'd believe VR technology so real you swear its the real thing rather than a bunch of ones and zeroes first and foremost since you're still in your own body, more or less, yet something about jacking your brain into another body entirely is just....bleh lol.

But other than that one aspect, you can certainly have robots wandering around, AI or just simple VI constructs, people with cyborg parts, whatever comes to mind.  ;D

[Metraxa]

ANd here we go, a fun little character. About time I got to use this picture for something.

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Player Name: Metraxa

Character Name: Vivian Hynatt

Age: 26

Species: Human

Gender:  Female

Sexual Orientation & Status: Straight / Virgin  / Single

Job: Runner/Courier/Delivery-woman

Personality: Ultimately Vivian is not that complicated of a person. She is proud in her abilities, determined in accomplishing her goals, and loyal to her friends and her employers. She strives to do her best in whatever task she sets for herself, and is not afraid to talk herself up in the areas that she is particularly skilled. She also prides herself in her commitment to her clients, and holds herself to a code of honor that she will not sell out the people she works for, as a way to demonstrate her own reliability for potential customers. Though this could make her enemies, she doesn't mind too much. As long as they don't tell she won't ask, and she lives it at that. Besides, she might be a bit of a danger jjunkie even if she doesn't admit it

Off the clock she is much more relaxed, an individual who wouldn't mind curing up in front of the tb with some food for a calm night, or going to out to a party. Isn't much into the idea of romance, if only because she thinks that she's too busy for that sort of thing. You have to make a living after all.

Appearance:

Further Pictures

PLACE FURTHER IMAGES HERE

History: Vivian was born in Chicago as the second oldest child. She grew up there for a short period before her family relocated to Elysium because of her fathers work. It was the place to be if you were part of a tech company after all. Other than that her initial childhood was boring. She went to school, performed to an average degree, nothing that was markedly interesting.

As she grew older though things began to change. She couldn't help it honestly, but an independent streak began to emerge, one that was more than a bit rebellious and willing to engage in the things that the city had to offer. She didn't do anything truly stupid, but there were some close scrapes, and some that were even closer than her parents found out about. Eventually there was an intervention, and she was put back on to a relatively straight path, one that channeled her energy into more friendly pursuits. This was around the time when she began to learn martial arts, among other things.

Eventually she went off to college, and things seemed to swing back the other way. Her relationship with her parents deteriorated to the point where contact was basically nonexistent, and her relationship with her siblings wasn't much better. She did manage to graduate whilst running with parts of the wrong crowd, if only because she wasn't completely as stupid as she had been in the past. But then she ran into the brick wall of Elysium. Unless you had technical skills or were specialized, it was actually kind of hard to find a job with how many people were there, and with automation as it was.

But those ties she had made came in handy at last, and she was able to find some odd jobs that tided her over until she could get something more stable. She refused to rely on her parents or turn to them for help, determined to succeed on her own efforts. That she did, more or less, and now here we are

Her main employment is for a shipping company that delivers across Elysium, but she gets supplemental income as a runner/courier for those who might need such a service. The hours are weird and the job is fast paced, but she doesn't mind at all

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral - She doesn't think of herself as particularly good or evil, but considering some of the stuff she does, she doesn't want to go to jail

Abilities:

• Kickboxing - A stand up combat style based around both punching and kicking, like Muay Thai and full contact karate. This is Vivian's main style of fighting
• Parkour - A practiced style of movement based on getting from one point to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible without assistive equipment.
• Navigation - Vivian has an acute sense of direction that extended in three dimensions as a result of her typical activities, even without using GPS or the like
• Painting - Most of the time this doesn't consist of tagging or graffiti, but Vivian does have some skill in regular paiting as well.
• Lockpicking - The ability to pick locks. Because sometimes clients leave their doors locked. Honest.

Flaws:

• Pride - She's very confident in her abilities, and may not pull back because of it until it's too late
• Ignorance is bliss - Has this tendency to keep her matters to herself without caring too much about larger facts that could have an impact on her life.

Character Relationships:

N/A

Associated NPC's:

• Jessica Hynatt - Vivian's older sister, currently working in the xenology sector. They haven't spoken in a while
• Hector Martique - A guy that Vivian met back in university, one with ties that know how to make things happen. He helped her out in the past, and she does the odd job for him when he needs it

Character Ons: She'll get back to you on that

Character Offs: Extreme stuff for sure, other than that she'll get back to you.

Player O/Os: Link

Dark Plot Participation: Yes

Other Characters:N/A

Current Scenes: N/A

Planned Scenes: N/A[/list]

[jeflint]

Lol while I actually DID like Surrogates, the idea of uploading your brain into a robot body like that seems just a LITTLE too farfetched even for me to easily accept.  Cyborgs, androids, things like that I'm all for, but Surrogates?  I'd believe VR technology so real you swear its the real thing rather than a bunch of ones and zeroes first and foremost since you're still in your own body, more or less, yet something about jacking your brain into another body entirely is just....bleh lol.

But other than that one aspect, you can certainly have robots wandering around, AI or just simple VI constructs, people with cyborg parts, whatever comes to mind.  ;D

K, thank you. :)

[Vergil1989]

ANd here we go, a fun little character. About time I got to use this picture for something.

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Player Name: Metraxa

Character Name: Vivian Hynatt

Age: 26

Species: Human

Gender:  Female

Sexual Orientation & Status: Straight / Virgin  / Single

Job: Runner/Courier/Delivery-woman

Personality: Ultimately Vivian is not that complicated of a person. She is proud in her abilities, determined in accomplishing her goals, and loyal to her friends and her employers. She strives to do her best in whatever task she sets for herself, and is not afraid to talk herself up in the areas that she is particularly skilled. She also prides herself in her commitment to her clients, and holds herself to a code of honor that she will not sell out the people she works for, as a way to demonstrate her own reliability for potential customers. Though this could make her enemies, she doesn't mind too much. As long as they don't tell she won't ask, and she lives it at that. Besides, she might be a bit of a danger jjunkie even if she doesn't admit it

Off the clock she is much more relaxed, an individual who wouldn't mind curing up in front of the tb with some food for a calm night, or going to out to a party. Isn't much into the idea of romance, if only because she thinks that she's too busy for that sort of thing. You have to make a living after all.

Appearance:

Further Pictures

PLACE FURTHER IMAGES HERE

History: Vivian was born in Chicago as the second oldest child. She grew up there for a short period before her family relocated to Elysium because of her fathers work. It was the place to be if you were part of a tech company after all. Other than that her initial childhood was boring. She went to school, performed to an average degree, nothing that was markedly interesting.

As she grew older though things began to change. She couldn't help it honestly, but an independent streak began to emerge, one that was more than a bit rebellious and willing to engage in the things that the city had to offer. She didn't do anything truly stupid, but there were some close scrapes, and some that were even closer than her parents found out about. Eventually there was an intervention, and she was put back on to a relatively straight path, one that channeled her energy into more friendly pursuits. This was around the time when she began to learn martial arts, among other things.

Eventually she went off to college, and things seemed to swing back the other way. Her relationship with her parents deteriorated to the point where contact was basically nonexistent, and her relationship with her siblings wasn't much better. She did manage to graduate whilst running with parts of the wrong crowd, if only because she wasn't completely as stupid as she had been in the past. But then she ran into the brick wall of Elysium. Unless you had technical skills or were specialized, it was actually kind of hard to find a job with how many people were there, and with automation as it was.

But those ties she had made came in handy at last, and she was able to find some odd jobs that tided her over until she could get something more stable. She refused to rely on her parents or turn to them for help, determined to succeed on her own efforts. That she did, more or less, and now here we are

Her main employment is for a shipping company that delivers across Elysium, but she gets supplemental income as a runner/courier for those who might need such a service. The hours are weird and the job is fast paced, but she doesn't mind at all

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral - She doesn't think of herself as particularly good or evil, but considering some of the stuff she does, she doesn't want to go to jail

Abilities:

• Kickboxing - A stand up combat style based around both punching and kicking, like Muay Thai and full contact karate. This is Vivian's main style of fighting
• Parkour - A practiced style of movement based on getting from one point to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible without assistive equipment.
• Navigation - Vivian has an acute sense of direction that extended in three dimensions as a result of her typical activities, even without using GPS or the like
• Painting - Most of the time this doesn't consist of tagging or graffiti, but Vivian does have some skill in regular paiting as well.
• Lockpicking - The ability to pick locks. Because sometimes clients leave their doors locked. Honest.

Flaws:

• Pride - She's very confident in her abilities, and may not pull back because of it until it's too late
• Ignorance is bliss - Has this tendency to keep her matters to herself without caring too much about larger facts that could have an impact on her life.

Character Relationships:

N/A

Associated NPC's:

• Jessica Hynatt - Vivian's older sister, currently working in the xenology sector. They haven't spoken in a while
• Hector Martique - A guy that Vivian met back in university, one with ties that know how to make things happen. He helped her out in the past, and she does the odd job for him when he needs it

Character Ons: She'll get back to you on that

Character Offs: Extreme stuff for sure, other than that she'll get back to you.

Player O/Os: Link

Dark Plot Participation: Yes

Other Characters:N/A

Current Scenes: N/A

Planned Scenes: N/A[/list]

She looks good.  ;D  Lol I can already imagine how her relationship with Telpono's going to be if they ever cross paths.  "Oh come on!  You only see that stuff in movies!" As Viv is clamoring down the side of a building like a spider, jumping from balcony to balcony.  "I'll get you yet kid!"

Lol but jokes aside, we actually need a few guys honestly.  We got plenty of women already and while I'm not against a couple more, I'd still like a few guys to balance out all these beautiful ladies.  ;D

[Peripherie]

Lol but jokes aside, we actually need a few guys honestly.  We got plenty of women already and while I'm not against a couple more, I'd still like a few guys to balance out all these beautiful ladies.  ;D

Err... so is it too late to see if this character image/type would be okay then:


(She would be semi-aquatic.)

I can look around for a male character type just in case.