Fallout New York Wastes (recruiting)

[AmbrosiaPudding]

New York City, the headquarters of the United Nations before it became disbanded in 2063 is all but an untouchable myth to many of those who call the wasteland home. Too many buildings close together, places for Feral Ghouls to hide. Beacons of radiation some of them, the glow attracting Ghouls, feral and ‘normal’ alike for miles around. Much like the Underworld, in D.C a city of Ghoul’s has arisen. They keep their feral brothers and sisters locked safely in the basement, walking aimlessly, continuously, providing power to the small city with the treadmills they are tied to. Dozens maybe a little over 70, another one or two caught a week. Better to be doing good, than out there killing humans to trade with the Mayor of Ghoul City says.

Across the ways a bit from Ghoul City. Boarded up tighter than a clam with security detail at every entrance lies the ‘Vegas’ of the East. Luna Park, in what used to be Coney Island, has been taken over by what used to be a small time raider, now a prolific entrepreneur that’s taken Robert House’s securitrons and turned them into his own programs has created an amusement park/casino haven for those willing to travel to New New York and visit the wonder that is Luna Park. Along with the securitrons roaming the outside, protecting the perimeter from Deathclaws, and other creatures of the wasteland, what used to be petty fiends run the rides, and casino loving their lives of money, sex, and drugs.

Outside of Luna Park, a small city of those not able to live the high life has settled. Little Luna, much like the city of Megaton, Freeside, or Rivet City. This is just a touch of what New York has to offer to those, including the Courier, who has traveled to New New York. With only a few camps of the NCR, barely touching the edges of New New York, the small towns, and big towns, make their own laws and enforce them.

No one says anything to the slave trading in Statue of Liberty, or the Whores of Luna Park. The drug abuse, or anything. That's not where the fun begins, or where it ends. There are many different places to visit and see within the New York Wastes. There are many whores to be had, bottle caps to win, and drugs to try. Though many do not venture past Ghoul City, deep into the ruined City building's and Super Mutant's have overrun, taking the building's for their own away from the Masters influence.

Links
The World Building page has a more descriptive section for each.
OOC Thread
Character Thread

Character and Player Information

We will use the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system, which if you'll follow the length you'll learn more though in a nut shell is, strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility, and luck. Each of them with their own perks. A basic combined score is 35. Completely average in all ways. Adjust the points as you see fit for your characters.

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[b]Name:[/b] (Full name)
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Race:[/b] (Human, Ghoul, Super Mutant
[b]Sexuality:[/b] (all welcome)
[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Build:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Occupation:[/b] (If you have any questions I'll be glad to give you a list)
[b]Weapon of Choice:[/b]
[b]Background:[/b] (I would like how you came to be in New New York included)
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Endurance -
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My Character Sheet

Name: Serena Evans
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Sexuality: Bisexual
Height: 5’9”
Build: Average/Curvy
Personality: Serena is a bright adventurous woman with a penchant for sarcasm and whiskey. Serena has a moral compass that points more northeast than north. Take no prisons attitude she prefers to assess situations but doesn’t mind asking questions later.
Occupation: Relic Hunter/Techie for hire
Weapon of Choice: 10mm handgun
Background: Serena was born and raised in New New York to a nerdy twig of a man and a giant of a woman, Winnie. Though Serena’s mother hadn’t been much to look at, and honestly hadn’t been the smartest woman around, something about her simple and sweet demeanor had drawn the attention of her father Harold. Harold had been a computer whiz and a history buff, studying any book that he could get his hands on. Harold and Winnie had been blessed with three children. Twin boys who strongly resembled their mother and then finally Serena who according to Harold looked exactly like his own mother. Serena was raised in a small little complex along with four other families.
Harold taught Serena how to work old terminals and how to use and even hack into Pip-Boy’s as he had come from a vault himself. Harold also imparted his love of the old world to her. Winnie taught Serena that appearances could be deceiving and kindness could be a strength but could also be a curse. Her brothers both left and joined up with the New New York City Police Department.
Serena left her family home to make her own way in the world. To her knowledge Serena’s parents are still living happily in their little complex with a new brahmin and mole rats poking around. Serena spent some time outside of the old New York area and even went down to Boston. It is rumored that she did some work with the Railroad though when asked about it Serena just shakes her head. Serena made her way back to New New York a little over a year ago and has spent most of her time fixing up an old shop to live in not that far away from Luna Park.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L
Strength - 3
Perception - 5
Endurance - 4
Charisma - 6
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 6
Luck - 4

[AmbrosiaPudding]

With the new Fallout show coming out I figured there might be a bigger interest in a Fallout style game. It will be a bit sandboxy but I do have specific plot moving ideas that can help push things forward in the story.

[AndyZ]

Just finished the TV show.  No spoilers beyond that I mostly enjoyed it.  I’m curious what you may have planned; part of me had been considering trying to run a Vault style game.

[Ixy]

I admit that I had the same notion-- how much fun a Fallout game would be!-- and I blame the show for reigniting that spark.  If the group's willing to collaborate for some fun character combinations, that'd be great.  And if people don't go cray-cray with their SPECIAL levels, that'd be sweet too :D

There are a couple of ideas I'd like to play in a freeform game like this. One would be a chem-loaded 'freelance journalist'-- sort of a sexed-up femme Hunter Thompson.

Anyway... hope this works out and generates interest.

[WhatLiesAbove]

I played in a Fallout game when I first joined this site so many years ago...and I absolutely loved it! Consider me intrigued once again :D

[Primarch]

Just finished it. Did a bunch of Fallout RP back in the day, would love to bring back an old character.

[MetroFallout]

Marking my interest. Did not like what I heard about the Fallout show though personally.

[Empyrean]

I'd be interested in playing. I sort of have an idea for a brilliant tinkerer and inventor type.

[Cosima]

I'm definitely up for some Fallout shenanigans!

[AmbrosiaPudding]

I'm glad to see the interest in the game. I will work on my character sheet so others can see the balance that I am looking for in them. 

[The Green One]

This is a great idea, the series is fantastic!!! Good luck with your game and I'll keep an eye on this thread in case I get a spot for more words.

[Aiden]

I'm interested, thinking either a leader for a group of raiders...or other questionable activities (protection rackets, security, etc.)

If I can call dibs on a face claim - JDM

[AmbrosiaPudding]

Alright everyone I have edited the first post to reflect my character sheet and the kind of things I am looking for. Please submit your character sheets to me for approval! Once I get at least four approved characters I will create an OOC thread. 

[Primarch]

If we're doing face claims I'll throw mine down on Tom Hardy.

[MetroFallout]

I'm reserving Ryan Gosling for my former New Canaanite Desert Ranger.

[Cosima]

Reserving Nadia Hilker, please.




In addition, basic concept is she's a courier that moves information and goods between various individuals/factions. I'm thinking fairly neutral alignment, but if anyone is interested in mapping out connections or shared history please feel free to send a PM my way!

[Empyrean]

I'd like to reserve Anastasia Kvitko as my face claim.

[AndyZ]

So, let me ask: I had the idea for a sort of bartender who owns a small tavern somewhere that’s often used as a place to congregate.  Would that work for this game or would it be too powerful to have a place of business?

[Empyrean]

Name: Tara Cates (goes by the divine name Aphrodite)
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Race: (Human)
Sexuality: Bisexual
Height: 5'10"
Build: Curvaceous
Personality: Tara is brilliant and she knows it. In a time before the bombs she might have joined the Think Tank or the C.I.T. She carries herself with a seductive, knowing air. She dresses in clothes that are tight, skimpy, and only half-worn, struts with confidence, and teases outrageously. She enjoys getting attention, positive or negative she doesn't care. At the same time, she knows how to defend herself, being a veteran raider who grew up in the raiding lifestyle. She enjoys the contrast between the appearance of sophisticated beauty and dangerous violence she's capable of.
Occupation: Techie. She maintains the defenses of the Olympus complex and innovates new ones.
Weapon of Choice: Plasma Pistol
Background: Tara was born into the Raider lifestyle. Her mother Luci was a veteran raider who led her group (the Luciferans) to pillage and rape their way through the ruins of northern New Jersey. She had ambitions of building a raider empire, but one night after celebrating a little too hard with her crew, she fell pregnant. Not one to let that stop her, she continued to lead her raiders up to and through her delivery. Having a child changed Lucy slightly. She wanted to create her empire and leave it to her daughter. Tara grew up absorbing the "values" of the Raiders: take what you want and screw anyone who said different. It was a wild, chaotic upbringing and she wouldn't trade it for the world. Tara always had a fascination with technology and mechanics, and whenever Luci hit a caravan or a small town, Tara could be found tinkering with anything technological they "acquired". As she grew, the self-taught mechanic and technologist turned the crude weapons of the Luciferans into more advanced gear: laser pistols, plasma weapons, and the like. She upgraded her family from simple Raiders into a technological powerhouse. Maybe not Brotherhood of Steel quality, but she always figured it was a matter of time. Then came the big raid. Luci pushed from the Luciferans's stronghold in Jersey into New New York, and they came across a strange man in front of a beautiful statue. Luci would have killed him, but he swayed her with stories about the ancient Gods, and how they could use those stories to rule a wider section of the Wasteland. The Luciferans were on board with being worshiped as Gods and Goddesses. Luci became Hera, and the then sixteen-year-old Tara became the new Aphrodite for her seductive, sexual ways. Tara brings to the Olympians what she brought to the Luciferans: keen technical know-how and an enthusiastic love of the Raiding lifestyle.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L
Strength - 3
Perception - 3
Endurance - 3
Charisma - 10
Intelligence - 10
Agility - 3
Luck - 3

[Mythril]

I just started watching fallout and never played any of the games. I love the post-apocalyptic feel of it though.

I am interested.

[AndyZ]

I just started watching fallout and never played any of the games. I love the post-apocalyptic feel of it though.

I am interested.

If you’re a gamer and choose to play the games, you don’t have to play them in any order.

If you’re a casual phone gamer, there’s a game Fallout Shelter on the phone.

[AmbrosiaPudding]

So, let me ask: I had the idea for a sort of bartender who owns a small tavern somewhere that’s often used as a place to congregate.  Would that work for this game or would it be too powerful to have a place of business?

No that would be perfectly fine with me! If you can find a good picture and a description I'll be happy to add it to a list of places. 

[AmbrosiaPudding]

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[b]Name:[/b] Tara Cates (goes by the divine name Aphrodite)
[b]Age:[/b] 18
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Race:[/b] (Human)
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Bisexual
[b]Height:[/b] 5'10"
[b]Build:[/b] Curvaceous
[b]Personality:[/b] Tara is brilliant and she knows it. In a time before the bombs she might have joined the Think Tank or the C.I.T. She carries herself with a seductive, knowing air. She dresses in clothes that are tight, skimpy, and only half-worn, struts with confidence, and teases outrageously. She enjoys getting attention, positive or negative she doesn't care. At the same time, she knows how to defend herself, being a veteran raider who grew up in the raiding lifestyle. She enjoys the contrast between the appearance of sophisticated beauty and dangerous violence she's capable of.
[b]Occupation:[/b] Techie. She maintains the defenses of the Olympus complex and innovates new ones.
[b]Weapon of Choice:[/b] Plasma Pistol
[b]Background:[/b] Tara was born into the Raider lifestyle. Her mother Luci was a veteran raider who led her group (the Luciferans) to pillage and rape their way through the ruins of northern New Jersey. She had ambitions of building a raider empire, but one night after celebrating a little too hard with her crew, she fell pregnant. Not one to let that stop her, she continued to lead her raiders up to and through her delivery. Having a child changed Lucy slightly. She wanted to create her empire and leave it to her daughter. Tara grew up absorbing the "values" of the Raiders: take what you want and screw anyone who said different. It was a wild, chaotic upbringing and she wouldn't trade it for the world. Tara always had a fascination with technology and mechanics, and whenever Luci hit a caravan or a small town, Tara could be found tinkering with anything technological they "acquired". As she grew, the self-taught mechanic and technologist turned the crude weapons of the Luciferans into more advanced gear: laser pistols, plasma weapons, and the like. She upgraded her family from simple Raiders into a technological powerhouse. Maybe not Brotherhood of Steel quality, but she always figured it was a matter of time. Then came the big raid. Luci pushed from the Luciferans's stronghold in Jersey into New New York, and they came across a strange man in front of a beautiful statue. Luci would have killed him, but he swayed her with stories about the ancient Gods, and how they could use those stories to rule a wider section of the Wasteland. The Luciferans were on board with being worshiped as Gods and Goddesses. Luci became Hera, and the then sixteen-year-old Tara became the new Aphrodite for her seductive, sexual ways. Tara brings to the Olympians what she brought to the Luciferans: keen technical know-how and an enthusiastic love of the Raiding lifestyle.
[center][b]S.P.E.C.I.A.L[/b]
Strength - 3
Perception - 5
Endurance - 4
Charisma - 10
Intelligence - 10
Agility - 3
Luck - 7[/center]

You're going to have to adjust the S.P.E.C.I.A.L on your character. I did point out that I wasn't going to easily accept anyone with a combined score over 35 and currently your scores sit at 42

[Empyrean]

No problem! How's this?

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Strength - 3
Perception - 3
Endurance - 3
Charisma - 10
Intelligence - 10
Agility - 3
Luck - 3[/center]

[AmbrosiaPudding]

That's perfectly fine. 

[Mythril]

Name: Nikola (Nik) Stephenson (some call him the Fixer)
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Height & Weight: 6'3"/205
Build: Mighty
Personality: Nik is pretty down to earth and those who do not know him suspect that he is there to break someone in half. He will if he has to, but he prefers to read or fix things if he isn’t designing some kind of contraption. The child of engineers, he was named Nikola after Tesla. He wears jeans and t-shirts, with boots. He is very confident, calm, and would rather threaten someone and not fight then actually fight. He fights well with his hands, knees, and feet, but is generally peaceful.
Occupation: Techie. He goes from place to place repairing things if he isn’t scavenging for parts and tools.
Weapon of Choice: 10 mm Desert Eagle
Background: Nik was born to a pair of engineers who were in one of the vaults. Nik wanted to see the world and left when he was nineteen. Now he wanders the world, having made few enemies since he knows to kill them and hide the bodies if he can’t avoid the fight. His father was Alexander and his mother Susan. He’ll drink but avoids drugs.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L
Strength - 8
Perception - 3
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 3
Intelligence - 9
Agility - 3
Luck - 3

[AmbrosiaPudding]

Name: Nikola (Nik) Stephenson (some call him the Fixer)

Nice! Now that we have some characters rolling in I will probably be making the OOC threads. 

[AmbrosiaPudding]

Here is the link to the OOC thread.

Fallout New York Wastes (OOC) (elliquiy.com)

[Ixy]

Name: Kitty Hawk
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Sexuality: Pan
Height: 5'6
Build: Slim, pert, lanky
Personality: Adorer of retro music, culture, and literature. Kitty's attention span is minute and her curiosity is limitless.  High more often than not, she is a purveyor of the unique and a libertine at heart.  
Occupation: Junk collector and gonzo freelance writer.
Weapon of Choice: .45-70 lever-action rifle
Background: Born on a tato farm outside the Commonwealth, Kitty was raised to work the ground, shoot molerats, gather scrap, and fix the fuck out of anything that broke.  Kitty's parents were decent folks, but Kitty's real joy was art-- listening to the radio, painting the fences with wild designs-- their wind generator was always on the fritz, and when she went to Diamond City, she could pore over old books, magazines, comics, and all the music she could stand. 

She had crazy ideas, created technicolor patterns that hurt the eye, made up songs that made no sense-- her parents often wondered if, maybe, taking Daytripper to get through her difficult birth might have had a lasting effect. Trader's stories and rumors about a city to the Southwest permeated the teenage Kitty like arrows through a radroach's ass-- filled her up with ideas about dozens of radio stations, massive old museums, and the world's largest library.  So she ran away-- and found that her journey was to be plagued by exactly the kind of horrors one can expect in the wastelands.  

S.P.E.C.I.A.L

STRENGTH ♥ 3

PERCEPTION ♥ 5

ENDURANCE ♥ 7

CHARISMA ♥ 3

INTELLIGENCE ♥ 7

AGILITY ♥ 7

LUCK ♥ 3

[AmbrosiaPudding]

Kitty will be a fine addition!

[Mr BadGuy]

Hi all ^_^ Ambrosia messaged me to see if I'd be interested in joining this game or contributing to the world building! I am quite interested and may be participating both ways if she permits it.

I might be playing as a former Follower of the Word (the guys in the New York Library), figuring it out in the PMs with her.

[AmbrosiaPudding]

We are still recruiting and looking for adventurers, mercenaries, and runaway paladins to join in the toxic wastes! 

[Mr BadGuy]

Here's my character ^_^ No face pic as of yet.

Name: Travis Thatcher
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Sexuality: Bisexual with a preference for women
Height: 5’10"
Build: Slim
Occupation: Scavenger, unofficially a courier, sometimes a guide.
Weapon of Choice: A makeshift spear and a .308 bolt-action rifle. Ammo's expensive so he prefers not to use the rifle unless it's absolutely necessary.
Personality: Insecure, resourceful, introverted. Travis gets nervous in tense situations, and knows he isn't the toughest or strongest around. He's spent a lot of time alone so he's not very good in social situations, preferring to shy away from people he deems intimidating. This can lead him to not sharing ideas for problems when he has them because he's afraid of being shut down. When he does feel like he can open up, he'll go on and on when he talks, rambling about the things he's learned and what he's observed in his life in the wasteland. He often doesn't know he's doing it.
Background: Travis was born to former "students" of Bronx High, scavengers, and once he was seven, they sent him there to live with the other surviving kids of New New York, figuring that there was a better place for him than the Wasteland that they needed to venture into. They told him, once he aged out they should come back and find them in Little Luna.

He left at fifteen, deciding that Bronx High wasn't for him. When he went back to Little Luna to find his parents, they weren't there anymore. Through asking around he found out that his parents had never come back from a scavenging mission near Nightstalker Park. Figuring that they were probably dead, he tried to move on, not confident enough to search for their remains.

He inherited some of their skills and the goodwill of the people of Little Luna, and moved on to the Library. There he became a Follower of the Word, before the Brotherhood came in and raided the library. He enjoyed reading the books there, and one of the Followers figured out how to access the old computer system and see memberships, what books were checked out to who and their address. They determined which books were valuable, and Travis volunteered to go rifling through those addresses to look for them. If the buildings showed promise, that was. He skulked alone, looting as he went and collected books to return to the library. He liked the comics the most.

After the BoS raided the library and sent them scattering, he went back to Little Luna, scavenging nearby and delivering messages between there and the other settlements in the area. He typically did scavenging requests, having become familiar with the area from his Follower days, and was known for being able to find just the thing you were looking for. In the last few months he's taken to wearing a hood and mask, saying that he got a wound on his face during a scavenging mission and that it hasn't healed properly.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

Strength - 4

Perception - 7

Endurance - 4

Charisma - 3

Intelligence - 5

Agility - 7

Luck - 5

[MetroFallout]

Name: Kenneth “Driver” Reyes
Age: 43 
Gender: Male
Race: Human 
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Height: 6ft
Build: Athletic
Personality:


Usually going by his family name of Reyes, he is a rather reserved and quiet individual, prone to staring off into the distance in thought when not concentrating on a task. When asked what he’s thinking about, he typically snaps back as if he was listening to some unheard music.
Generally stoic but is known to have breath-takingly extreme fits of violence when faced with unavoidable confrontations with hostiles within the bounds of his rules of engagement as dictated by his contracts.

Occupation: Mercenary/Caravan Courier for large packages

Weapons of Choice:
Custom .45 ACP long slide pistol with laser sight “Red-Eye” (holstered on right hip, right-handed holster),
Wattz 1/600 “Red Glint” recharger laser revolver (holstered on hip, right-handed holster cross-draw on left-hand side, functions like a six-crank laser musket in pistol form with recharger ammo)

Background:

Born in New Canaan to a moderate Mormon family, Kenneth had a relatively unremarkable childhood as a New Canaanite. As was common in children, he yearned for adventure and chafed in school, longing to go on his Mission that was traditional for New Canaanites to go on. Still, he excelled regardless and when it came time for him to venture out into the wastes as a missionary, he did so with enthusiasm, his trusty “Red-Eye” on his hip.

When he returned from his Mission, Kenneth  was a changed man and his faith had shifted away from Mormonism. While he kept his Christian Faith and most of his beliefs, having first-hand experience of the world beyond the immediate area around what used to be the Utah state border opened his eyes to what things were like beyond his community.

Setting out into the world after declaring his intention to live apart from the other New Canaanites, he eventually joined the Desert Rangers to fight for true Old World values like freedom,justice and emancipation from oppressive tyrants rather than staying cloistered in their little enclave.  This put the Rangers squarely into conflict with Caesar’s Legion, being that they are a society of slave-driving, misogynistic, genocidal, and fanatical fascists. During this time, he came across his fair share of Pre-War tech in the search for game-changers to the conflict, the most significant of which being V.A.L.E.R.I.E Unit 07 ( Variant Assaultron for Long-range Extended Reconnaissance and Intelligence Extraction), his partner in the Wastes ever since he managed to re-activate her after spelunking in the Sierra Army Depot at the Experimental Robotics Lab.

Unfortunately, as time went on, the Desert Rangers could not hope to fight even a guerilla war against the massively numerically superior Legion and had to find backup. This backup came in the form of the NCR Rangers. Under the Ranger Unification Treaty, the Desert Rangers would be folded into the NCR Rangers’ ranks in exchange for protection of the Mojave from the Legion.

While he understood the reasoning behind the signing of the treaty and had nothing against the NCR, it was not something that he’d signed up for and he left the Mojave after attempting to work things out with the NCR and ultimately deciding that it wasn't for him, eventually ending up on the East Coast with V.A.L.E.R.I.E by his side.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L

Strength - 5
Perception - 7
Endurance - 6
Charisma - 3
Intelligence - 7
Agility - 10
Luck - 5

[AmbrosiaPudding]

Awesome guys let's make sure we post them on the character thread it's linked in the OOC page. 

[Mr BadGuy]

Awesome guys let's make sure we post them on the character thread it's linked in the OOC page.

Sorry about that! I missed that thread. Posting now.

[AmbrosiaPudding]

Not a problem at all!