Raiders in the Wasteland [N/C, Post-Apocalypse, Dom/Sub]

[Montagne]

I'm also playing a new arrival!

Ah yes! One more to throw into the net!

[Clio]

I figured I’d play a captive who’d been with them for a long time so she can be sort of like a ‘mother’ to the other slaves and captives. She knows how it works, and is protective.

[Dashenka]

I'm open for Alannah to already be in a tribe, or being just picked up.


Are the raiders in this game all from the same tribe? Or multiple tribes?

[Urbanzorro]

If anyone would like their character to be the one who reignites Will’s fire shoot me a message and we can make some story plans

[Montagne]

I'm open for Alannah to already be in a tribe, or being just picked up.


Are the raiders in this game all from the same tribe? Or multiple tribes?

All the raiders are part of the same tribe. Slaves will either be already integrated into the tribe or they'll be in the process of being captured as our story begins. At the moment we have Carly, Clio & LadyMalabranche as slaves who have already been captured and Dashenka, LostWind & dicequeer about to be hunted down, assuming all the players are happy with this.

I figured I’d play a captive who’d been with them for a long time so she can be sort of like a ‘mother’ to the other slaves and captives. She knows how it works, and is protective.

That's the exact feel I got from her, she should be a very interesting character, something of a guide for the other women.

[Montagne]

If anyone would like their character to be the one who reignites Will’s fire shoot me a message and we can make some story plans

Urbanzorro, just to confirm what genders is your character interested in for the character listing.

Also, our characters can totally bond over being the last old men left.

[Urbanzorro]

I’d say he’s interested in any/all provided they they have a place he can stick it and yeah, they would be the oldest two wouldn’t they.


“Remember lingerie?”

[Dashenka]

All the raiders are part of the same tribe. Slaves will either be already integrated into the tribe or they'll be in the process of being captured as our story begins. At the moment we have Carly, Clio & LadyMalabranche as slaves who have already been captured and Dashenka, LostWind & dicequeer about to be hunted down, assuming all the players are happy with this.

If lostwind and dicequeer are ok with 'volunteering' that being a slave is better than starving to death, they can be of the same group and then we can all write in the same scene. Easier for everybody to get started I suppose. Upon the group's return, the slaves can be distributed?

I haven't really read their profiles and not sure if they are okay with this. Up to them :)

[LostWind]

I'll roll with whatever helps get the story off the ground as well as flesh out the profile a bit more.

[Montagne]

If lostwind and dicequeer are ok with 'volunteering' that being a slave is better than starving to death, they can be of the same group and then we can all write in the same scene. Easier for everybody to get started I suppose. Upon the group's return, the slaves can be distributed?

I haven't really read their profiles and not sure if they are okay with this. Up to them :)

This was basically what I was thinking/hoping for our start. The characters can also be brought along by friendships, inertia, just a fear of being left behind, even if their doubtful of the overall plan. So there is scope for different feelings about the oncoming raiders and their roaring engines.

LadyMalabranche, what gender pairings are you interested in?

[LadyMalabranche]

I'm open to any pairing

[dicequeer]

If lostwind and dicequeer are ok with 'volunteering' that being a slave is better than starving to death, they can be of the same group and then we can all write in the same scene. Easier for everybody to get started I suppose. Upon the group's return, the slaves can be distributed?

I haven't really read their profiles and not sure if they are okay with this. Up to them :)

Yeah that super works for me! My character wouldn't originally be from the group he's currently at, but I don't have a specific idea of how long he's been there.

[Clio]

Oh btw, Anna is a useful captive. Not a pleasure slave. I just saw that in your list. She’s used for sex too, but she does more than just that for them.

[Montagne]

Oh btw, Anna is a useful captive. Not a pleasure slave. I just saw that in your list. She’s used for sex too, but she does more than just that for them.

Oops! Thanks for reminding me. I'll move her over.

[tobisquestion]

Question that occured to me - what are the most likely prospects for pairings as regards the 'useful captives'? Do they have the rights to interact with the pleasure slaves? Are they equally likely to form pairings with raiders? Are they generally kept together and therefore more likely to form pairings with each other.

I'm gonna initiative a few discussions with other players but I wanna make sure if I plot stuff it makes sense to the RP! I'm also quite content for my medic character to form no pairing at all if it ends up making more sense. I'm mostly in it for the story! 

[Montagne]

Question that occured to me - what are the most likely prospects for pairings as regards the 'useful captives'? Do they have the rights to interact with the pleasure slaves? Are they equally likely to form pairings with raiders? Are they generally kept together and therefore more likely to form pairings with each other.

I'm gonna initiative a few discussions with other players but I wanna make sure if I plot stuff it makes sense to the RP! I'm also quite content for my medic character to form no pairing at all if it ends up making more sense. I'm mostly in it for the story! 

Useful slaves is probably something of a blurry category, because it really depends on how "useful" they are and the interpersonal relationships that character has formed within the tribe that provides them more autonomy within it. If you have a useful skill but are brand new to the tribe you might still be treated like the absolute worst of society. If you can get yourself into the good books of some people that gives them some more lateral movement within the tribe. These three categories are not really formalized definitions but lose groupings within the power structure that can change depending on their role.

Take you character, 6 years of service within the tribe, a doctor which makes him incredibly valuable and likely he's saved several raiders lives and they're going to remember that. I would imagine that would give him about as much ability to move through the society as possible for a slave. Now of course given that he is unwilling to use violence in a very violent society, that means that if someone wanted to they could enforce their will on him. Are they going to want to do that though? Especially if other powerful raiders have developed a rapport with Felix and would come to his defense? He has no formal protections, but I imagine a lot of informal ones, unless you want to play his history as very different to what I said above. (Disobedient, bad at making friends, regularly tries to escape. All these things might worsen his position in the tribe.)

So have a think of where you want his position in the social strata to occupy. He could certainly have relationships with the other slaves, but he also might not be able to protect them from the advances of violent raiders, if you wanted that to be an interesting plot point between three players. He could also have relationships with the raiders, whether with them initiating that relationship, or perhaps a more romantic event where he bonds with them (maybe while they heal/recuperate).

The TLDR being, the system of slavery isn't formalized and institutionalized, so the degree of ability a slave character will have in achieving autonomy is going to be a mixture of their ability to form interpersonal relationships with those who wield power, and their usefulness to the tribe which will help them build those relationships and encourage the raiders to treat them well. If you're a newly captured slave at the start of the story you're probably in the worse position in the hierarchy. I'm happy to let players set the bounds of their character as makes sense in the world.


Hope all that makes sense, feel free to ask me more stuff if you want me to be clearer on something.

Yeah that super works for me! My character wouldn't originally be from the group he's currently at, but I don't have a specific idea of how long he's been there.

So just to confirm, you've bumped into Dash's character on the way as an independent traveler, you weren't part of her initial town/village. (Just checking I've understood correctly).

[tobisquestion]

Awesome, thanks for that clarification. I actually really like the idea that Felix is largely protected from violence because he is too useful to the tribe and he relies heavily on this. He might be inclined to form relationships with people, but he's reluctant to because his nonviolent nature means that if someone wanted to hurt him, they could do it by hurting someone he had an attachment to.

[Gremgoblin]

The TLDR being, the system of slavery isn't formalized and institutionalized, so the degree of ability a slave character will have in achieving autonomy is going to be a mixture of their ability to form interpersonal relationships with those who wield power, and their usefulness to the tribe which will help them build those relationships and encourage the raiders to treat them well. If you're a newly captured slave at the start of the story you're probably in the worse position in the hierarchy. I'm happy to let players set the bounds of their character as makes sense in the world.

Oh, this reminds me; I'd written that my character moved up from a useful slave to a raider, but I hadn't checked with you how possible this would actually be. I assume that useful slaves have some degree of social mobility and can move either up or down, but that pleasure slaves are more or less chained down as a pleasure slave unless some raider decided to be benevolent and 'raised them up,' so to speak. But, how would one go about becoming a raider if they were previously a slave? Is that something you even see as possible?

[firepyre]

Name: "Ink" or Gregory to his Sis.
Age: 32
Position in the Tribe: Raider. Other than the usual murder and pillaging, Gregory is in the recovery business. He tends to haul off wrecks, strip them for parts, and otherwise keep shit from falling apart. He's also known to be somewhat unscrupulous, more than willing to get his hands dirty with the odd side job.

Time in the Tribe: Since the beginning
How do they feel about their position in the tribe: Nobody in their right mind would want a leader like Gregory, not even a raider. For the most part, he's pretty okay with that. Long as you don't fuck with him, he'll usually leave well enough alone.

IC Pairings: Open. Though he might have taken possession of his long lost sister to keep her out of harms way - or perhaps just to use her to his advantage... Either way, he's never taken an interest in incest, and just as well, because his twisted tendencies run dark indeed.

Ideally, I'd like to find the perfect, twisted little maniac to complement him. The harley to his joker.

Personality Something of an extremist within the tribe, Gregory has a penchant for anarchy that was apparent even before the collapse. As long as he can do what he wants, he's not too bothered by what anyone thinks of it. Not only does he have a twisted streak, but he's only too happy to indulge in it. There's no sob story behind it... some people are just born evil.


History Even before the collapse, Gregory was bad news, already serving time at just seventeen. It didn't take him long to join one of the mobs escaping the prison, and without pesky cops to deal with, he only got worse from there.

Before that, there was a time with his sister and parents, travelling with a renaisance fair. Even then, there were signs of a disturbed personality in the making. It was there he first learned to fight and steal, and more than one "fair maiden" found herself subject to his whims before he was finally packed off to juvy for the first time.

Vehicle: A heavily modified 6x6 wrecker. Done up rat rod style, it might look like a piece of welded together junk at first glance, but it's packing some serious power under the hood, enough to overhaul most victims, and do a little something he likes to call fishing.

IC Ons: Women who aren't afraid to fight and swear. Women who try to fight him. Brutalizing said women. Bondage, degradation, objectification. Painsluts. Bodymodification(tattoos and piercings mostly). He admires defiance, but demands submission.
OOC Ons: Same as IC

IC Offs: Pandering, overly submissive slaves. Girly girls. Girly boys. Other fucking men getting in his way.
OOC Offs: Same as IC

What do you want to see from this Character: I'm mostly here to go with the flow, embrace my inner bad boy a bit, and maybe write some smut. Happy to just sit back and see where the game takes us.

[Montagne]

Oh, this reminds me; I'd written that my character moved up from a useful slave to a raider, but I hadn't checked with you how possible this would actually be. I assume that useful slaves have some degree of social mobility and can move either up or down, but that pleasure slaves are more or less chained down as a pleasure slave unless some raider decided to be benevolent and 'raised them up,' so to speak. But, how would one go about becoming a raider if they were previously a slave? Is that something you even see as possible?

This would be highly variable from tribe to tribe. Through many years, if a slave showed themselves to be useful and a vicious fighter they would slowly lose this negative social status until they were effectively no different from any of the other raiders. This could start from a moment of urgency, when the tribe is under attack by a superior force and a gun is tossed to him to help defend the tribe, which he shows a willingness to do. From then on slowly building trust. It could occur from exceptional moments of action, such as saving the leaders life or their master being killed.

I liked your idea in the character profile and what I would suggest is that he had earned a reasonable amount of trust within the tribe (for whatever reason you think is appropriate) before the killing. He had shown himself to be trustworthy, competent and not trying to undermine the group. Then when his master is killed in their fight that in effect released the tribe from the final social factor that really stopped them from elevating him. From there he was allowed into the bottom rung of that inner circle of raiders and continued his integration into the group to whatever point you see him at now.

I'm imagining being recognized as a raider provides you certain privileges, like a share of the spoils of conquest, much like the crew of a pirate ship.

Raiders recognize that they are going to lose their fellows and if they want to remain fighting fit, and maintain control over the slave population the tribe cannot become too bottom heavy with loads of slaves and no raiders, less they face revolt or defeat be another tribe. Thus the way new raiders are integrated would either be through two tribes amalgamating together, or through this process of elevation, that would take years, but wouldn't be totally uncommon, especially after major losses in the group.



I asked earlier but it might have been missed in the thread. What gender characters are you looking to play with?

[Gremgoblin]

This would be highly variable from tribe to tribe. Through many years, if a slave showed themselves to be useful and a vicious fighter they would slowly lose this negative social status until they were effectively no different from any of the other raiders. This could start from a moment of urgency, when the tribe is under attack by a superior force and a gun is tossed to him to help defend the tribe, which he shows a willingness to do. From then on slowly building trust. It could occur from exceptional moments of action, such as saving the leaders life or their master being killed.

I liked your idea in the character profile and what I would suggest is that he had earned a reasonable amount of trust within the tribe (for whatever reason you think is appropriate) before the killing. He had shown himself to be trustworthy, competent and not trying to undermine the group. Then when his master is killed in their fight that in effect released the tribe from the final social factor that really stopped them from elevating him. From there he was allowed into the bottom rung of that inner circle of raiders and continued his integration into the group to whatever point you see him at now.

I'm imagining being recognized as a raider provides you certain privileges, like a share of the spoils of conquest, much like the crew of a pirate ship.

Raiders recognize that they are going to lose their fellows and if they want to remain fighting fit, and maintain control over the slave population the tribe cannot become too bottom heavy with loads of slaves and no raiders, less they face revolt or defeat be another tribe. Thus the way new raiders are integrated would either be through two tribes amalgamating together, or through this process of elevation, that would take years, but wouldn't be totally uncommon, especially after major losses in the group.



I asked earlier but it might have been missed in the thread. What gender characters are you looking to play with?

I had in mind that he'd be a lowly raider, definitely compared to the other raider characters, hence his driving a dirtbike rather than a car. So, in that sense, I'm not opposed to being an underdog/being put behind the other player raider characters, because I think it'd help build the character/put an interesting twist into the RP. In that sense, being put in the bottom rung of the raiders is perfect for me. :)

And yes, I'm sorry, I think I missed it, there were a lot of new replies today and I think I'm in a timezone others aren't in (GMT+1). I'm looking to play (primarily) with females but am open to playing with men if it advances the building of my character -- in which case it'd be for plot reasons and not as much gratification OOC. Does that make sense?

[Montagne]

I had in mind that he'd be a lowly raider, definitely compared to the other raider characters, hence his driving a dirtbike rather than a car. So, in that sense, I'm not opposed to being an underdog/being put behind the other player raider characters, because I think it'd help build the character/put an interesting twist into the RP. In that sense, being put in the bottom rung of the raiders is perfect for me. :)

And yes, I'm sorry, I think I missed it, there were a lot of new replies today and I think I'm in a timezone others aren't in (GMT+1). I'm looking to play (primarily) with females but am open to playing with men if it advances the building of my character -- in which case it'd be for plot reasons and not as much gratification OOC. Does that make sense?

No worries, I'm a fellow GMT person so if you guys have a question for me and you post it in US time you might not get an answer till the morning. His position as the underdog makes a lot of sense given the history. Is he some kind of scout given the dirtbike?

[Montagne]

Our first piece of useful organizing! The Approved Characters Thread - https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=309497.0

If you want to make any alterations to your characters let me know. A few people still have histories that conflict with the timeline of the crisis IE - the fall happened around 15 years ago. So if you are in your 20s you wont remember the pre-crisis era except as a young child. If you could update that it would be great.

[Gremgoblin]

No worries, I'm a fellow GMT person so if you guys have a question for me and you post it in US time you might not get an answer till the morning. His position as the underdog makes a lot of sense given the history. Is he some kind of scout given the dirtbike?

I imagine he would perform a dual role -- yes, as a scout, but also as a close combat type of guy that can take a slave/raider on the back of his bike and get them to jump onto other vehicles, for example.

[Montagne]

I imagine he would perform a dual role -- yes, as a scout, but also as a close combat type of guy that can take a slave/raider on the back of his bike and get them to jump onto other vehicles, for example.