Fallout Equestria- recruitment open!

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Levi

"Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria...

…there came an era when the ideals of friendship gave way to greed, selfishness, paranoia and a jealous reaping of dwindling space and natural resources. Lands took up arms against their neighbors. The end of the world occurred much as we had predicted -- the world was plunged into an abyss of balefire and dark magic. The details are trivial and pointless. The reasons, as always, purely our own. The world was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing; a magical spark struck by pony hooves quickly raged out of control. Megaspells rained from the skies. Entire lands were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Ponykind was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the ambient radiation that blanketed the lands. A quiet darkness fell across the world...

…But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue for another bloody chapter in pony history. In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters known as Stables. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them."
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Stable 54 weathered the centuries well, a utopia where every pony had a satisfying job and equal food. In the last week, however, life has changed for the ponies of Stable 54. The great door of the Stable has opened, and for the first time the ponies within have been exposed to the wasteland without.

While many of the Stable ponies found the wasteland hostile and intimidating, you and your group took to heart the Stable's schooling that you would have to rebuild, replenish, and repopulate this dismal land before you. Others like you surveyed the land around the Stable and planned for farms and a village. You were part of a group of the more adventurous ponies who were on a daily patrol, scavenging for food, supplies and information, when your patrol was attacked by a horrifying group of ponies who enslaved most of you and killed others. When the slavers traced your trail back to the Stable, the majority of the other Stable ponies outside made it back inside the Stable's great, gear-like door and once more sealed it against the horrors of the world outside.

The Stable is sealed. The communications and access panel outside is damaged and even from a distance the more technical among you could tell it couldn't be repaired without parts.

There is no telling if, or when, Stable 54 will reopen its door.

You are not alone among the ponies enslaved by your captors, but the other slaves are native wastelanders, ponies born into this terrible world. They are slow to trust you, but as a group you've begun to quietly draw up your plans for escape.

*Direct quote from Fallout:Equestria by Kkat

I will be GM and Chanticleer will be helping as a co-GM with more FoE information as he's read more than me!

Player characters can be ponies from Stable 54 or wastelander ponies who were captured by the slavers previously. Pegasi must come from inside 54 (it was a mixed stable focused on equality and harmony) so wastelander PCs can only be unicorns or earth ponies. No gryphons or zebras, sorry!
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Levi

Character sheet:

[float=right][img height=200 Padding=10][/img][/float] optional pony generator  https://www.dolldivine.com/mlp-fim-pony-creator.php

[B]Name[/B]
[B]Sex[/b]
[B]Sexual orientation[/b]
[B]Cutie Mark[/b]: include picture if you want or just say what it is
[B]Pony type[/b]: Earth/ Unicorn/ PegAsi
[B]Appearance[/b]: added scars or any alterations to IMG provided

[B]Personality[/b]

[B]History[/b]

[B]Details of cutie mark[/b]: what is the character good at?

[B]Player name[/b]

[B]Ons/offs.[/b]
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Chanticleer

#2
Hello everyone!

I thought I’d add my two cents just to help fill in a few blanks. This will be a freeform game, not a system game, and you don’t need extensive knowledge of the background at all.

While this game certainly welcomes players who are familiar with Fallout and with MLP (and bonus points if you’re familiar with Fallout Equestria!), it does NOT require knowledge of either! So if you think cute cartoon ponies in a grim post apocalypse setting is an entertaining idea, but don’t know much about either, we’re happy to welcome you; the Wasteland, after all, is largely unexplored and the history of the past is largely forgotten in the struggle by the living to just survive and thrive in the remnants of a war-torn world.

I thought I’d add a little bit about the background of this campaign, as we’re not going to be playing exactly in LittlePip’s or Blackjack’s backyards. This will be something of a more South Sea post-apocalypse! Palm trees, coconuts, pineapples, mai-tais, zombies (the non drinkable kind!), scary tikis, mutants, cannibal headhunters, buckshot and balefire bombs for a more relaxing vacation from reality than the standard desert post-apocalypse…

So without further ado, welcome to...






The archipelago of the Mareianas Islands was one of the southernmost outposts held by Equestria before the great war, only a few hundred miles southwest of Zanzebra and the Atori islands. The Mareianans are primarily ponies who historically spoke a rather lilting, beautiful dialect but today mostly speak Equestrian. The largest military installation was Kuneigha, located on the largest of the Mareianas islands not far from Honeighlulu. Three stables were built on the main island, with Stable 54 (the player characters’ Stable) located a little ways inland from Honeighlulu.

Wastelanders will know that both Kuneigha Naval Base and Honeighlulu are now dangerous ruins in the wake of balefire bombing and other terrible zebra weapons. Stable 54 is the last Stable to have opened on the main island, with the first opening almost eighty years ago and the second opening about twenty years before. While some of these Stable-dwellers and their descendants survive, the Mareianas are still wild and dangerous.

Some ponies make a living fishing in seaside villages, but this is hardly the safe and relaxing life one might expect. The oceans are just as deadly as the land, between Atori zebra raiders, pony pirates, and terrible monsters of the deep…Which sometimes come up on shore, so surf fishing isn’t safe, either. The deep jungles have regrown over the scars of war, and are at the very least difficult to explore. At their worst, rumors speak of terrible creatures, ancient zebra and pony weapons that defend long-lost outposts, and cannibal pony and zebra tribes! Explore ancient sunken shipwrecks, ruins of a forgotten pre-war past, mysterious secrets and voudou legends.

Don't forget to bring an aloha shirt and sunglasses!

My current O/os (need work)

Lustful Bride

*plants interest flag* :)

I love MLP and I love Fallout, so there's no way I can ignore this ^_^  I haven't read the actual Fallout Equestria fanfic though I do know some of the main details of the setting.

Levi

Quote from: Lustful Bride on November 24, 2018, 08:54:27 AM
*plants interest flag* :)

I love MLP and I love Fallout, so there's no way I can ignore this ^_^  I haven't read the actual Fallout Equestria fanfic though I do know some of the main details of the setting.

Yay! Welcome
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Raven Rawne

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I may be interested as well, yes. Do I assume correctly that the RP involves feral characters, as in the show proper? Just a clarification, I've been doing feral pony RP's for a while now so, not a problem for me.

Also, here's a rough sketch of a character I would be interested to play, critique appreciated:

Name Bright Idea
Sex Female
orientation Straight, occasionally bi-curious
Cutie mark: A light bulb with two wires forming a circle around it
Pony type: Earth Pony
Appearance: She has a lean statue, slightly wider at the hips. Apparently, given well enough nutrition, she would be a big lass. She's average in height, for a mare, and sports a gunmetal grey coat paired with a somewhat unruly, loosely kept middle length combover chestnut mane, as well as a rather short tail. It covers what it should have, but not much more. Glaring from under her flowing locks of hair, are her golden eyes.

Personality: Bright Idea is sweet on the outside, and bitter on the inside. She knows it's tough living in the wasteland, and mares have it even more uphill. still, she's all too keen in giving the odds a hefty buck in the teeth as she manages to pull through. Naturally she appears as a sweetheart but it's mostly an act - deep inside, she's a mean bitch who wants to get ahead in this miserable pile of scrap she calls home. She may try to use or seduce others for her ends, with varying degrees of success, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have some cards up her sleeve to get what she wants anyway.

History: Born and raised in a little coastline hamlet, Bright Idea lacks any form of formal education, of course. Her folks taught her what they knew, and she wings the rest. Surrounded by scrap on all fronts, she learned she has a knack for salvage and generally fixing things, even if she can't really tell what she's doing at times. But hey, it works most of the time! Having reached adulthood, she took her bag of tools, and sought a life of a wandering scrapper - a pony who lives off finding salvageable items for sale, and also offering her hoof as a repairpony and general fix-it.

Details of cutie mark: It means she's an intuitive problem solver, despite lacking the proper understanding of many things she's dealing with. She knows how to make a lightbulb shine when she wires it to a generator, but she doesn't know even basics of physics to understand what electricity is.

Player nameRaven Rawne

Levi

Quote from: Raven Rawne on November 24, 2018, 09:59:42 AM
I may be interested as well, yes. Do I assume correctly that the RP involves feral characters, as in the show proper? Just a clarification, I've been doing feral pony RP's for a while now so, not a problem for me.

Also, here's a rough sketch of a character I would be interested to play, critique appreciated:

Name Bright Idea
Sex Female
orientation Straight, occasionally bi-curious
Cutie mark: A light bulb with two wires forming a circle around it
Pony type: Earth Pony
Appearance: She has a lean statue, slightly wider at the hips. Apparently, given well enough nutrition, she would be a big lass. She's average in height, for a mare, and sports a gunmetal grey coat paired with a somewhat unruly, loosely kept middle length combover chestnut mane, as well as a rather short tail. It covers what it should have, but not much more. Glaring from under her flowing locks of hair, are her golden eyes.

Personality: Bright Idea is sweet on the outside, and bitter on the inside. She knows it's tough living in the wasteland, and mares have it even more uphill. still, she's all too keen in giving the odds a hefty buck in the teeth as she manages to pull through. Naturally she appears as a sweetheart but it's mostly an act - deep inside, she's a mean bitch who wants to get ahead in this miserable pile of scrap she calls home. She may try to use or seduce others for her ends, with varying degrees of success, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have some cards up her sleeve to get what she wants anyway.

History: Born and raised in a little coastline hamlet, Bright Idea lacks any form of formal education, of course. Her folks taught her what they knew, and she wings the rest. Surrounded by scrap on all fronts, she learned she has a knack for salvage and generally fixing things, even if she can't really tell what she's doing at times. But hey, it works most of the time! Having reached adulthood, she took her bag of tools, and sought a life of a wandering scrapper - a pony who lives off finding salvageable items for sale, and also offering her hoof as a repairpony and general fix-it.

Details of cutie mark: It means she's an intuitive problem solver, despite lacking the proper understanding of many things she's dealing with. She knows how to make a lightbulb shine when she wires it to a generator, but she doesn't know even basics of physics to understand what electricity is.

Player nameRaven Rawne

Ons/offs. She's way past being modest if it means she has a cap or two more in her bag. She likes to use sex as means of furthering her agenda, getting a discount or just to blow off steam if the stud is harmless enough. Life in the wasteland can be short, so, why bother? She can get along with a lot, as long as she's in control, or at least thinks she can kick her mate in the teeth and go someplace else.

Thank you for submitting a character! myself and chanticleer will look it over and get back to you promptly :)
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Chanticleer

Quote from: Lustful Bride on November 24, 2018, 08:54:27 AM
*plants interest flag* :)

I love MLP and I love Fallout, so there's no way I can ignore this ^_^  I haven't read the actual Fallout Equestria fanfic though I do know some of the main details of the setting.

Hi LB!

Given your familiarity with Fallout and MLP, you should do great, and we'll happily help fill in any gaps. A lot of information about how the war started (and ended!) is lost to history (and finding it out is part of the game). The wastelanders know more about the current time, the Stable-dwellers know more about the time before the bombs fell. Do you plan on doing a Stable pony or a wasteland pony?

Quote from: Raven Rawne on November 24, 2018, 09:59:42 AM
I may be interested as well, yes. Do I assume correctly that the RP involves feral characters, as in the show proper? Just a clarification, I've been doing feral pony RP's for a while now so, not a problem for me.

Also, here's a rough sketch of a character I would be interested to play, critique appreciated:
REDACTED

I like her! She seems extremely practical. Yes, we're doing 'show style' feral ponies, as hinted at in our splash banner. Of course, some ponies are more feral than others...



We haven't really talked about sex in the context of the game, but my personal vote is that we set up a separate forum for it and sex in the main game thread just 'fades to black' so that it doesn't bog down the adventure part of the game. That seems like a common way to handle things, and as crazy as it sounds to say it in so many words, a lot more people seem to be okay with cartoon pony violence than with cartoon pony sex.
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Raven Rawne

Thanks Chanticleer, I figured a wastelander pony would be rather barebones as far as morality goes, and besides, every good character needs room for growth. In her case, it may be acting less greedy and selfish, and manipulative... you get the hint.

Also, I see your point on smut content. I just thought that, since the character sheet contained sexual orintation and O/o, I was being obligated to make a stance on the matter. Either way, I am quite content in making a smut free roleplay, if other players agree they would be willing to go in this direction. Fading to black and making things happen in a separate thread also works, at least in most cases.

Levi

The ons/ ofs is more for either linking your own or stating what is or isn't acceptable i.e.vore, gore and so on its so that should you wish your charcter to have a sexy scene the person or persons writing with you know what to avoid :)
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Raven Rawne

For that purpose, I suppose the filled up preferences matrix on my profile should suffice. Give me a sec to edit out the O/o out of my post then.

Levi

Quote from: Raven Rawne on November 24, 2018, 11:54:20 AM
For that purpose, I suppose the filled up preferences matrix on my profile should suffice. Give me a sec to edit out the O/o out of my post then.

Yes that's fine. :)
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Chanticleer

Quote from: Raven Rawne on November 24, 2018, 11:45:07 AM
Thanks Chanticleer, I figured a wastelander pony would be rather barebones as far as morality goes, and besides, every good character needs room for growth. In her case, it may be acting less greedy and selfish, and manipulative... you get the hint.

I'm inclined to think that it depends a lot on their situation in the wasteland. If they're part of a productive village, they will probably have a lot more of what we consider 'typical' morality than a raider will, but even a raider will have some internalized system or code of behavior...Even if it's as simple as 'Don't argue with the big pony unless you're strong enough to accept what happens. Don't let other ponies push you around or you look weak. Weak ponies only have whatever strong ponies allow them to have.'

Totally agree about the need for growth. The only thing I'll say (and I'm gonna say it not because I'm concerned about you, but because it's kind of a 'this needs to be said once in any thread where you have lots of PCs from disparate backgrounds and belief systems') is 'make sure all characters can work with the party.' Doesn't have to be 'work well,' but definitely 'work.' :)

Quote from: Raven Rawne on November 24, 2018, 11:45:07 AM
Also, I see your point on smut content. I just thought that, since the character sheet contained sexual orintation and O/o, I was being obligated to make a stance on the matter. Either way, I am quite content in making a smut free roleplay, if other players agree they would be willing to go in this direction. Fading to black and making things happen in a separate thread also works, at least in most cases.

I think those fields just get almost reflexively tagged on in most games on E, even if the game doesn't have a big focus on smut. :) It's useful to know what people do/don't enjoy if the situation arises, although sometimes people find new situations they don't like which they hadn't thought to list, so I tend to think of 'off' lists as "their offs at LEAST include what's here, but always best to ask about anything unlisted...unless it's specifically listed as an 'on'". In the end run the rules of the site provide the ultimate fallback (when someone says 'Stop,' OOCly...everyone does). It's also useful sometimes to point out if a character has different ons/offs from their player!
My current O/os (need work)

Chanticleer

Addendum re: character sheets, I'd kind of like to see any musical themes that people think fit their characters. If you can't think of something, that's cool, but if you can, I enjoy seeing/hearing it!

My current O/os (need work)

Levi

w.i.p

Name Ocean Breeze
Sex Female
Sexual orientation Bi sexual
Cutie Mark:
Pony type Unicorn
Appearance:

Personality

History

Details of cutie mark: Ocean Breeze specialises in a type of magic that allows her to swim underwater without equipment.

Player name Levi

Ons/offs. A working progress
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Empyrean

It's an interesting concept, this game.

I'm familiar with Fallout, having played 3, New Vegas, and 4, but I haven't seen MLP: FiM since season 2 nor have I read the Fallout Equestria story. Off the top of my head I have an idea for some sort of Pegasus who was famous for her beauty, dancing, and diplomatic skills inside Stable 54. That's why she was selected to be part of the initial expedition to the surface, to negotiate with the locals. Being enslaved was not what she signed up for!

Levi

Quote from: Empyrean on November 27, 2018, 03:23:51 PM
It's an interesting concept, this game.

I'm familiar with Fallout, having played 3, New Vegas, and 4, but I haven't seen MLP: FiM since season 2 nor have I read the Fallout Equestria story. Off the top of my head I have an idea for some sort of Pegasus who was famous for her beauty, dancing, and diplomatic skills inside Stable 54. That's why she was selected to be part of the initial expedition to the surface, to negotiate with the locals. Being enslaved was not what she signed up for!

Hi there, thank you for your interest. Now in regards to the character concept I believe and chanticleer may correct me if I'm wrong but the ponies have one skill their good at so it would have to be dancing or diplomatic skills.

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Empyrean

In her case, I'd go with diplomatic skills. She was quite skilled at using words, looks, and charm to get her way in the Stable. Probably also the queen of the Stable social scene.

Levi

Quote from: Empyrean on November 27, 2018, 07:05:19 PM
In her case, I'd go with diplomatic skills. She was quite skilled at using words, looks, and charm to get her way in the Stable. Probably also the queen of the Stable social scene.

Oh ho! Sounds like a little diva! I look forward to seeing the C's
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Chanticleer

Just touching base here, folks. I have had a somewhat busy week, but I'm looking forward to seeing what people are coming up with.

Has anyone been using any of the PonyCreator type software? Or finding any other inspiring images?
My current O/os (need work)

Mac84

ooo, very interesting! I'll follow this.

Chanticleer

#21
Alright, let’s see…

Some quick feedback on characters so far:

We’ve got Bright Idea pretty well set up. Looks good, although I’d say that in most parts of the wasteland bitterness concealed sweetness rather than the other way around. I guess that says something about the town situation Idea came from. Then again, if she’s roving town to town, she has to be amiable enough for them to want to let her in the door.

Lustful Bride, did you have someone in mind?

Empyrean, your diplomat sounds interesting indeed! Having said that, a bit of a word seems to be in order about cutie marks, Virtues, and destiny (cue musical number).

These three things are terribly important in FOE. The cutie-mark is usually reflective of something the pony does well and is unusually good at. If we were playing this as a Pathfinder game it’d likely be a skill or trait, but it can be far more circumstantial than that. A big theme in FOE stories also tends to be the real meanings of cutie marks…Often they are more subtle than they seem. The revelations about what LittlePip’s and Blackjack’s cutie marks really represent at the end of their respective novels are all the more amazing because the evidence was all there, it fits how the CMs have been working up to the point of revelation, and even the pony owning it hadn’t figured it all out...The cutie marks did give them a talent with A, but also unlocked A^2 once they were in the right circumstances to realize it (Both of them make perfect sense, but they're definitely different sides of the coin...LP's CM is obviously an element of grand destiny that brings hope to the Wasteland...BJ, on the other hand, holds a different sort of destiny and it's terrifying!). So your pony might be a good seamstress and have a needle and thread on their flank, but it’s possible that somewhere along the way they might find themselves sewing something unexpected and realize that their actual talent is even more amazing.

So, Empyrean’s pegasus might have a cutie mark which seemed to be about dance, but isn’t diplomacy a rather careful sort of dance, when done well? Feel free to come up with interesting things about your ponies' cutie marks if you want to. It doesn’t have to be something as simple as ‘Breaks rocks.’ Rares is a good example from the show. Her CM seems to be all about finding gems, which'd suggest she'd make a great miner...But what is her passion, her calling?

And then there are virtues. Generally speaking, ponies spend much of their lives trying to figure out what their virtues are. Again, they are things which become apparent in the last few chapters of the books (although in many cases the reader has a better idea about them). If the cutie mark is what the pony can do best, the virtue is a core element of who the pony is. It's who they are when the chips are down, what they exemplify, where they take their stand. The Elements of Harmony provide a nice guiding example of this: RD’s cutie mark suggests spectacular atmospheric displays, but at her core, she’s not just a damned fine flyer, she’s the most loyal pony around and doesn't hesitate to defend her friends (even when they don't need it). Again, in the show, we usually see ponies getting into serious mental trouble (ranging from depression to seemingly sociopathic rage) when their virtues are challenged or they act against their virtues.

I kind of feel like virtues should be things which come out in play, the sort of thing where after a while of playing the character, you realize 'okay, the way they took that stand in that situation...That's a core part of who they are, going forward.'.

Destiny. Well, I suppose that’s for Levi to know and the rest of us to figure out. Hopefully we’ll feel our characters building towards some grand goal, and we’ll know our parts when the time comes. That’s what glorious adventure is all about, right?
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Raven Rawne

Duly noted, Chanticleer - I consider the short summary of Bright Idea as nothing more than a basic sketch, something to roughly get the shape in. Once the RP will seem like it's about to roll, I will, of course, make a fully fleshed out and refined bio, with amends to her seemingly sociopathic nature. Unless, you'd prefer to have a complete picture done and reviewed while we wait for more players?

Chanticleer

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Quote from: Raven Rawne on December 01, 2018, 03:56:10 PM
Duly noted, Chanticleer - I consider the short summary of Bright Idea as nothing more than a basic sketch, something to roughly get the shape in. Once the RP will seem like it's about to roll, I will, of course, make a fully fleshed out and refined bio, with amends to her seemingly sociopathic nature. Unless, you'd prefer to have a complete picture done and reviewed while we wait for more players?

Note that my remark was about what was 'typical' not what was 'necessary,' so don't feel any urgent need to change the sketch up on my account. :)

We don't seem to be in a huge rush, and it's about the time of year when college types (and teacherly types) are doing a lot of panicking, grinding, and running around. I don't see any reason to push for speed at this point. I figure when you're ready to post it, you'll be ready to post it. :)

Quote from: Mac84 on December 01, 2018, 03:28:32 PM
ooo, very interesting! I'll follow this.

Hey there! Welcome, and please let us know if you have any questions.
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Levi

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