Interest Check - Sunset House [d/s, nc-maybe, post-apocalypse]

[Antisoul]

Sunset House

Sunset House Elluki (WIP)

[Sunset House] OOC Chat

Premise

  It's finally happened. Apocalypse, the year is 2024 only a decade after the end of World War III. Whatever the reasons, political or economic or something else entirely, the world was drug kicking and screaming into a third world wide conflict sometime in late 2012. The war was short but brutal and saw widespread devastation the globe over until finally the conflict culminated in a series of cataclysmic nuclear strikes that saw the end of the major world powers. Nuclear winter followed the conclusion of the war with no definitive victor and the surviving populace of the earth was forced to adapt. Local law quickly dissolved into the rule of strength with raiders and warlords rising and falling in the turbulent aftermath.

  Amid the ruins of the Seattle metropolis a small community has cropped up amid the wastelands sheltering behind a makeshift wall of ruins and debris. At its center amid a ramshackle collection of dwellings is the largely intact 'Sunset House'. The House functions as a lay over for the many people still wandering the wastes looking for a place to call home. It serves as a trading post, public house and brothel. With the wealth the House generates the small community in its shadow has benefited from the security that wealth has bought as well equipped mercenaries guard the walls and stand watch from the communities singular look out tower. A semblance of law has come about at the Sunset House, its owner Gideon Caron and the strength of his hired muscle enforcing his edicts and providing a fragile sense of stability.

The Game

  The Sunset House is best known as a brothel. Gideon owns a handful of slaves to warm the beds of passers by, for a price of course. He has laid down strict rules regarding the treatment of his slaves all of them enforced at gunpoint without exception. Between Gideon and the mercenaries in his employ the peace at Sunset House is kept.

  The game will focus on the lives of the denizens of the Sunset House and the surrounding community. A list of permanent characters will need to be filled for the most part with open recruitment for 'passers by' to serve as customers for the Sunset House. While the slaves owned by Gideon will be greatly restricted in their freedoms there will be plenty of roles for those wishing to play a more than less free character.

  Cast

Gideon Caron: Antisoul
Female Slave: Brok3nAng3l, dakabn, (Open)
Female Slave [FxF req.]: Aragem
Male Slave: subrob99, TastyBacon, (Open)
Male Slave [MxM req.]: Saerra
Mercenary: FallenFeather, dwellinthedark, (Open)
Mercenary Captain: Amazon
Sunset House Resident: (Open)
Bartender: FireFlights
Trader: (Open) [not a slaver]
 
  As I wish to appeal to as many players as possible, I won't be starting the game until I've filled both the FxF Female and the MxM Male. The number of slaves is open for now however I'd like to keep a fair mix of genders. There are about eight slots for Mercenaries and a dozen slots for residents (families will be NPCs). The other roles are singular in nature.

  As for customers/passers by. Recruitment will remain open once the game starts. I will however consider taking on roughly three customers before the game starts.

[Saerrael]

I might be interested in the MxM slave position.

Tentative interest flag planted to keep an eye on the thread.

[Le Immortelle]

I'm interested in playing a super-badass female mercenary captain! :D

[FallenFeather]

I'd be interested in being a mercenary as well :D

[Keaira]

I would be interested in a female slave role (preferably not fxf though to try a little in the future would be alright, just not a major part for my character)

[Haibane]

I'm curious about this. Being the community trader appeals. Had you plans to cover any action or storyline outside Sunset House involving perhaps wandering groups whether friendly or hostile, trade caravans, parties of mercs sent out to gather new slaves, that kind of thing?

[Antisoul]

I'm curious about this. Being the community trader appeals. Had you plans to cover any action or storyline outside Sunset House involving perhaps wandering groups whether friendly or hostile, trade caravans, parties of mercs sent out to gather new slaves, that kind of thing?

This seems like a good idea, would you like to PM me what you have in mind and how we could work it into the game? Mind wandering groups, & caravans would be NPCs. I'd certainly be willing to entertain the idea of a customer arriving with a new slave in tow to sell to the Sunset House.

[Haibane]

I haven't thought in more detail about any scenes or sub-plots I was just trying to understand the focus of the game more. I wanted to check if the game would be "inward looking" and focus all on the internal relationships and social order inside the Sunset House community or whether you had plans to have contact with outsiders (and if they are all NPCs that's fine though a player could play a captured slave sold on by a trader caravan or something).

I also have Fallout 3 stuck in my head on this which is probably a bit unfortunate but I can't help but see this place as being like Paradise Falls in that game. Would that be a mistake to think that way?

[dakabn]

I like the idea of being a slave, but would the trader "kidnap" someone to sell them to the house?

[Antisoul]

Fallout 3 & Fallout NV were big inspirations for this game. Though I wanted the technology available to be near future so I set it in a post-WW3 scenario.

And Dakabn, you'd have to work that out with Haibane. If she wants to have her character venture out from the safety of Sunset House to find someone to capture then I'm all for it. However kidnapping any of the permanent residents of Sunset House would not only find the kidnapped person not purchased by Gideon but also when discovered would land the kidnapper with a bullet in the brain pan.

[dakabn]

Venturing out was the thought.

If it doesn't fit with the setting, that's ok. If anything, I can work out something where an NPC had kidnapped her and tries to sell her to Gideon... but would Gideon feel sorry for her to purchase her?

[Saerrael]

Antisoul, put me up as the MxM slave, please.
Though I would like to see more characters still (male, for one..!), I find the concept quite interesting.

[Antisoul]

If it doesn't fit with the setting, that's ok. If anything, I can work out something where an NPC had kidnapped her and tries to sell her to Gideon... but would Gideon feel sorry for her to purchase her?

No it would fit just fine with the setting. However if you want it to be the Sunset House trader that kidnaps you, as I said you'd have to discuss that idea with.. well.. the Sunset House trader. If you want an NPC to capture her then the answer to your question is no. Gideon doesn't feel sorry for people, he somewhat of a sociopath but he keeps the community safe and makes sure people follow a handful of simple laws. Would he purchase her? Of course he would, Sunset House has plenty of room and even if he doesn't need another whore for the House he could still find a use for a new slave. Possibly as a gift to one of his mercenaries, or to wed a resident who's got no luck with the ladies. That's the best part about slaves, there is almost no end to what you can do with them.

And roger that Saerra. I'll try to encourage players to play their own genders, which may nab us a few more males but I won't tell people they can't cross-gender write if they're heart set on it.

[Saerrael]

Elliquiy holds plenty talented cross-gender writers, Antisoul. *plays with female writers often*

[Antisoul]

Of course, and as I said I won't tell someone they can't or shouldn't. Just I suppose ask would be a better word than encourage, that they consider playing their own gender. And even that would likely be only if we wind up terribly unbalanced between the genders of the slaves.

Though we do have the required MxM slave so once the minimum amount of players I'm looking for post their interest in whichever role I'll work on getting game threads going so that we can begin role playing while the other spaces fill up.

[dakabn]

No it would fit just fine with the setting. However if you want it to be the Sunset House trader that kidnaps you, as I said you'd have to discuss that idea with.. well.. the Sunset House trader. If you want an NPC to capture her then the answer to your question is no. Gideon doesn't feel sorry for people, he somewhat of a sociopath but he keeps the community safe and makes sure people follow a handful of simple laws. Would he purchase her? Of course he would, Sunset House has plenty of room and even if he doesn't need another whore for the House he could still find a use for a new slave. Possibly as a gift to one of his mercenaries, or to wed a resident who's got no luck with the ladies. That's the best part about slaves, there is almost no end to what you can do with them.

And roger that Saerra. I'll try to encourage players to play their own genders, which may nab us a few more males but I won't tell people they can't cross-gender write if they're heart set on it.

Well, if the in house trader wants to, fantastic. If they don't, I can NPC it.

I herefore officially put in for one of the female slaves.

[Saerrael]

Of course, and as I said I won't tell someone they can't or shouldn't. Just I suppose ask would be a better word than encourage, that they consider playing their own gender. And even that would likely be only if we wind up terribly unbalanced between the genders of the slaves.

Though we do have the required MxM slave so once the minimum amount of players I'm looking for post their interest in whichever role I'll work on getting game threads going so that we can begin role playing while the other spaces fill up.

*nods* Sorry, I can get slightly defensive if it comes to even hinting towards cross gender writing being something to be discouraged. I did not mean anything personal, of course.

I'll write a character up as soon as I see a sheet format.

[Haibane]

I'm glad you had Fallout 3 in mind as being an inspiration for the game, Antisoul since I had Moira of Megaton in mind when I thought of being a trader. However I promise my girl would never be that anoying. In addition to buying and selling food, clothing, weapons, ammo, techy bits and pieces and sundry equipment/junk and doing repairs and stuff I thought the trader could be a slave dealer as well. She would not go out and catch her own but would be well known in the region as a woman with contacts to whom several regular slavers brought their latest acquisition. She'd then strike a deal with either Caron or another Sunset resident.

My thinking was that while Caron is the boss of the place he's busy with the general management and politics and defences while my woman's speciality is dealing in humans so her know-how and contacts make her a valuable/useful person in the compound. Because she's useful to Caron she does not have her own bodyguard/merc for protection but borrows Caron's heavies as and when.

She could certainly be the first point of contact for an NPC slaver to bring in a player slave character to start that story off. I was thinking she has her own slave already as a general worker at her store and he could be an NPC or a player char.

[dakabn]

Then it would seem your character would be the first to interact with. :) I'm excited!

[Haibane]

I'm not going to force my character plan on people, I'm just putting some ideas out to see if they work. It is up to our GM if he thinks we need a separate slaver char to the trader. If we don't get enough players, I'm just volunteering to wear both hats.

Antisoul, you said you wanted modern or future technology so hence why the retro feel of Fallout isn't used, but can you give some more info please on what technology the game will have both salvaged/working now and lost/in the past?

[subrob99]

I would be interested in playing the male slave

[dakabn]

I'm not going to force my character plan on people, I'm just putting some ideas out to see if they work. It is up to our GM if he thinks we need a separate slaver char to the trader. If we don't get enough players, I'm just volunteering to wear both hats.

Well you can do that if you want. The NPC slaver was going to be a brief mention if mentioned at all. We could just start where your character buys her after the NPC dude leaves. But if you wanna play the meanie who catches her, I'm all for it. :)

[Aragem]

I'd be willing to play the F x F slave as long as she gets a chance for some cock. 

[Antisoul]

I'm not going to force my character plan on people, I'm just putting some ideas out to see if they work. It is up to our GM if he thinks we need a separate slaver char to the trader. If we don't get enough players, I'm just volunteering to wear both hats.

Antisoul, you said you wanted modern or future technology so hence why the retro feel of Fallout isn't used, but can you give some more info please on what technology the game will have both salvaged/working now and lost/in the past?

I don't want Sunset House to be a center for the slave trade. So sorry about that, just would make either too many players or too many NPCs for me to manage.

Technology wise, electricity needs generators. Sunset House (the community) is powered by diesel generators.
Running water comes from a well and is only available where Gideon or the community has taken the time and effort to lay piping.
Computers, PDA's, Smart Phones and all the electronic gizmos we have today would still work if you could repair them or find working ones, though the internet is toast wireless networking is still viable.
TV's and such are around and could be salvaged though only prerecorded media thats found could be watched as there is no television stations.

Weaponry and Armor, modern day equivalents except with better materials, so no ray guns or other future weaponry.
Some vehicles could still be viable given repairs and gas or electricity but nearly all the roads or major ones anyway are largely impassable. Save for on foot or with a bicycle (the kind you pedal). 

[fireflights]

I'll do the Bartender :)

[Antisoul]

Now that we have enough players to get underway I'll work on getting a elluki page for the game up sometime tomorrow or no later than Tuesday.

[Haibane]

Thanks for the info on the technology, that helps a good bit.

Going back to the slave trade issue I wasn't suggesting that Sunset House is a slaving centre in the way that, say, Paradise Falls in Fallout 3 was, but in order to find suitable people to sell as whores or to sell to residents you'd need some kind of buying/acquisition process in place, also some basic training too. Some would make the grade, others wouldn't and would need to be sold on. There would need to be some form of network with the outside for the setting to make sense even if the trafficking in humans was only on the level of one individual every month to two months.

Do you want Caron to look after this side of the social structure or another player char?

I ask because I think players need to have something for their chars to do, a little direction to head in to develop storylines. You have the leadership role for Caron planned obviously, but if you play him where he has too much responsibility it might stifle other players who'd like to have some more depth to their roles.

[Antisoul]

Sunset Hotel isn't a place where you can buy slaves, traders or slavers might sell one or two to Gideon here or there but other than that there really isn't wouldn't be hardly any traffic. The most I could see would be your trader character opting to purchase a slave brought in by an NPC and try to resell them but yeah.. I'm sorry but the trader is and was primarily meant to trade in supplies and arms as well as be the resident tinkerer etc. If that just ruins the game for you I'm sorry but I'm going to stick with this view of the Sunset House community.

As for other responsibilities well the mercenary captain would be dealing with both keeping order and repelling would be raiders or slavers.

The trader would need to see to the acquisition of Sunset's necessities like diesel fuel, food, clothing, weapons and ammunition, medicine
and such.

The bartender would handle the running of the Sunset House's establishment as lodgings, bar & whore house.

Residents could have a variety of things to do, one might be say a handy man or a 'prospector' going out to salvage junk. They might just live there but still be a vital member of the community. One might be the resident doctor.

The slaves when there are no 'customers' meaning folk coming into the game as one-shot characters could and likely would be servicing residents, mercenaries, & other characters.

Then there is just plain old fashioned drama that crops up in any group setting.

And in addition to all of that I plan to toss in plenty of external events to keep things moving along if the game decides to slow down.

Also just to reiterate, NPC's may bring a PC slave into Sunset House for sale, who buys them I really don't care. Slaves will not be sold within the walls of Sunset.

[Haibane]

The most I could see would be your trader character opting to purchase a slave brought in by an NPC and try to resell them.

You are being so wonderfully helpful and I thank you very much for this. That answers my question: there are passing NPC trade caravans that (among other things) occasionally sell slaves and my trader can make contact with them and do a deal. That's what I was asking about.
As I said I wasn't equating this setting to Paradise Falls at all.

Since we have players asking to play newly captured slaves to be trained up I was trying to see where they would first make contact with Sunset House and who they would interact with. I'm sorry if my questions were not clear.

Slaves will not be sold within the walls of Sunset.

That's interesting. How big is the Sunset House community and how would a resident go about acquiring a slave? It seems to me that human nature makes it so that whenever there is a market, buying and selling naturally occur, no matter what the commodity is.

[Antisoul]

I have a feeling the answers to a lot of the questions you have, and I thank you for them, will be covered once I get the games Elluki up and going by tuesday the 19th.

But to answer your immediate questions. Typically speaking the person a newly captured slave that needed to be trained up would likely first encounter Amazon our Mercenary Captain or if she decides to assign another PC merc to inspect caravans that pass through then they'd run into that person first.

The mercenary should then direct the traveling merchant to see Gideon which may have them waiting around at the Sunset House proper (the actual house). Where they would meet the bartender and whoever else is there.

Once Caron gets around to meeting with the trader (I use trader in the answer to this because Gideon wouldn't purchase an untrained slave from a slaver), this is the person the newly captured slave would ultimately wind up in the care of. What Gideon does with them at this point would vary based on the slave and his assessment of them.

One of Caron's standing laws is that anyone residing in Sunset House (which actually refers to both the community and the house proper) seeking to procure a personal slave will purchase them from Caron. This is how he manages the influx of the slave population. Remember that every slave the community buys and keeps is another mouth that needs feeding, another body that needs shelter and protection. Bottom line is every new slave costs Caron personally. This is the core reason why he so strictly regulates the trading of slaves in Sunset House, his resources are finite.

[A full listing of Caron's laws, collectively referred to as Caron's Creed, will be in the Elluki. (Don't worry there really aren't that many and each one will have both an IC and OOC explanation for its existence).]



Second question.

Sunset House, the community is comprised of Sunset House [floor plan linked at the bottom of this message], the resident Trader's (your character Haibane) two-story home/work shop [shored up and reinforced/constructed with salvaged building material like all the structures except the remarkably intact Sunset House], eight other two to three bedroom homes also patched together from the rubble of the surrounding wastes, a single three bedroom home with significant interior reconstruction which functions as a barracks for the mercenaries, a well, a thirty foot high makeshift tower with a platform and covering to hold a look out/sniper, one formerly two bedroom home with interior reconstruction leaving it open enough to function as a store room and to house the dozen or so diesel generators providing Sunset House with electricity and lastly a eight to ten foot wall constructed from the surrounding residential rubble and some busted down vehicles encircling the community with a southern and northern gate both of which remain typically open during daylight hours and remain shut and barred through out the night.

As for the population of Sunset House. It would be broken down into PCs and NPCs.
PC's are listed in my original post, but to go ahead and list it again here, there will be [when I stop recruiting permanent players].
Gideon, nine mercenaries (this includes their captain), the bartender, cook, trader, eight permanent residents, up to 5 female slaves and up to 5 male slaves. Thats a total of 31 PC characters if the game fills all the way up. And that doesn't include transient PC customer's.

NPCs - Families of the resident PCs if they have them, transient caravans, slaves, mercenaries, prospectors and the important Mystery Man [think someone like the blue suit from half-life, or your typical man in black]. This is a fluid number of people.

All told you'd be looking at a walled community roughly the size of a small neighborhood with probably one road running north/south that's home to no more than eighty people at any given time.

And for now, please Haibane hold onto further questions until this coming tuesday and then check out the Elluki I put up. After that if you still have questions then good on ya but please PM them to me.

Sunset House - Lower Floor

Sunset House - First Floor

Sunset House - Second Floor

[fireflights]

Erm, Anti where would the bar be then haha I looked at the floor plans and can't see where you plan to put my bar so I can be a big bad barkeep

[Antisoul]

Your bar is on the floor plan 1st floor, the Family Room, Kitchen, Breakfast Nook, Dining Room and Living Room as well as the PR., Foyer and both porches. And remember, its Caron's Bar, you work for a living.

You're also incharge of the second floor which utilizes the opt. floor plans so there are four bedrooms upstairs.

Gideon lives on the lower floor having transformed the rec room into a studio. So the bartender and cook share the master bedroom. Or I may remove the role of cook all together and let you handle it.

[fireflights]

lol....that's fine.

[dakabn]

I've seen some posts that make me concerned. Is my character idea no longer welcomed? (I can do another idea, but I'd love my original if it's still ok.)

[Antisoul]

No your still fine, except you're more likely to be writing alongside Gideon at first and not the community trader.
Also I'm working tonight and mostly tomorrow on the Elluki for the game which I believe should provide some more in depth information regarding the game.

[dakabn]

Awesome. :)

[Sarah Morgan]

Go ahead and put me down for another of the female slaves, although I can't decide if I want to be a new acquisition or someone who's been trained already.  Probably a new arrival though, unless the game gets coroded over with them, and then I can always think about something else. I'll look forward to reading more about the game when the detailed information gets put up.

[Saerrael]

Hm, if we can pick between newly arrival and having been around... I'd like to have my guy been around for some time.

[Sarah Morgan]

Go ahead and put me down for another of the female slaves, although I can't decide if I want to be a new acquisition or someone who's been trained already.  Probably a new arrival though, unless the game gets coroded over with them, and then I can always think about something else. I'll look forward to reading more about the game when the detailed information gets put up

[Aragem]

Really looking forward to this game now. 

[dwellinthedark]

Mark me down for a mercenary since it looks like you're still looking for some more.  I'll work out character concept properly and stuff tomorrow after I've had some sleep.

[Antisoul]

done.

[Haibane]

My intention was that the trader lady would have a male slave as her general helper. He'd assist in the store selling stuff to regulars (but not have the responsibility of bartering with passing caravans/outsiders) and would also help in the back room (the techy area) where the trader strips down equipment and fixes or modifies it, so he'd have got some technical knowledge from her as well. This slave would have been around a good while so that slot is open. If a player comes forward to take that role it is up to them whether there is a sexual relationship between the trader and her boy. I'd like the male slave to be young and pretty, almost girly, no more than teens please. If there's a sexual side to their relationship there will be an element of forced cross-dressing too (my traders main kink). If no-one wants the role it can be an NPC, I have no problem with that.

[Haibane]

Hi all

Following an exchange of PMs with Antisoul I have decided this game is not for me. Or rather, this GM is not for me. My apologies to those who wanted to play opposite my trader character.

[dakabn]

Well, personalities sometimes don't mesh. I suppose we just need to figure out what now?

[Antisoul]

Putting together the game's Elluki today, will have a link for it put up by the end of the day. The page will contain expanded information regarding the game setting, premise, game play (I.E. things to do.), a blank character sheet, a list of characters & NPC's (once the character sheets start to roll in.), information on area's surrounding the Sunset House community.

After reading the Elluki I ask that anyone with questions about its content or ideas where the game might be improved and any constructive criticism be directed to me via PM and I will do my best to work with you to make the game a better one for everyone.

Thank you for your patience folks, I know its been slow going getting this up and running.

[Antisoul]

Here is a link to the Elluki which is still heavily under construction but should provide some information in the time being. I'll be sure to post here as I update it.

Sunset House Elluki

[Saerrael]

Thank you! <3

[Antisoul]

I've added a link to the Elluki to the OP (Original Post). Also I've updated the Character Creation section with a basic character sheet. Please make sure you read that section thoroughly before submitting me a character. Additionally I have made a minor update to the Main Page with the beginnings of the Job Listings (for resident players).

By the end of today my goals are to have a proposed system detailed, get the player feedback section up so everyone can put in their two cents about the proposed system (please note I typically run free form games, but as I intend for this game to be as expansive as possible such as including the areas surrounding Sunset House and plenty of opportunity for characters to go off and do something dangerous that I feel there should be some sort of system to handle that).

And finally to make a forum thread for OOC chat where we can move this kind of posting and a Character Listing for approved characters.

As always I thank everyone for their interest and seemingly limitless patience, you really have no idea how grateful I am that you all are bearing with me on this.

[Aragem]

Take your time.  I understand the hassles of starting a group game.

[Saerrael]

Could you post here if you have an update on current history? I'm almost done with my sheet, but a bit stuck on my character's history and would love the input.

[Antisoul]

Put up the OOC thread for Sunset house, the link to it has been added to the original post. Please start making your posts there if they don't pertain to interest or player recruitment. That's also where I'll be posting my updates to the Elluki.

And yes Saerra I can work on getting at least a brief history up on the Elluki.

[Keaira]

I'll try and get a character sheet together before the end of the weekend for my slave. can't wait to get this going.

[Saerrael]

I'm sorry for being slow with my sheet, by the way. I always tend to think a bit longer about a character's background. I hope you can forgive me, Anti.

[Le Immortelle]

My character would be up soon. Been busy whole week, and was catching up with my other games in general.

[Aragem]

Sorry, been busy, but I'll get started on a character ASAP.