Coyotes in the Wasteland: Looking For Raiders & Captives

[Nymphadora]

We're officially recruiting!

Please see the top posts of this thread for rules and character sheets.

Drop-in questions as you have them!

[Amarlo]

I may have missed it, but how long has it been since the fall of civilization?

[Nymphadora]

22 Years. Full detail in Urbanzorro's first post.

[Amarlo]

-facepalms- You're right, there it is. Lmfao.

[Nymphadora]

Been there done that.

[Amarlo]

Pack Member

Character Name: Dog
Position in Gang: Raider? Wildcard?
Age: 28
Physical Details: Many scars litter her body, much of which have been used as a centerpiece within much of the colorful inks painting her flesh.

Personality: Deceptive, Cunning, Ruthless, Playful, Rebellious, Sarcastic, Adaptive, Wrathful, Dual-faceted, Amoral, Broken, Deranged, Scared, Loyal to a fault, Traumatized, Protective, Survivor

Dog is one crazy bitch, but she’s not a stupid one. Almost methodical in her insanity, she often contributes their past victories to a technique she likes to call ‘controlled chaos’. Which also seems to be her way of living in general. The woman can hardly stand to stay in one place long, let alone sit down for longer than five minutes. She’s almost always on the move, always doing something or someone in to keep herself from idling long enough to think deeper than the moment she’s in. When things are moving too slowly for her liking Dog is prone to wandering off - but she always comes back eventually. Loyal to a fault, she sticks to her pack, and while she may seem to hate every person in it at some point or another, she is also viciously protective of her own. Unless one of them prove themselves to be a detriment. Then all bets are off. Sorry, not sorry.

Bio: A mutt from the very beginning, Dog was never shy about her upbringing - depending on which version you got. But if you paid close attention, you could piece a few things together. As the prestigious daughter of a whore and one of her Johns; poverty, sex, drugs and violence made up the majority of Dog’s childhood. When her mother wasn’t blitzed out of her gord on some adverse mixture of uppers, downers and anything in between, she was being beaten by her pimp for one thing or another. Unfortunately for Dog and her three bastard siblings, he was the closest thing they would ever have to a father - and his version of love had little do with seeing their smiling faces and everything to do with what change they could bring him.

Often times their mother would forget to feed them, and when she did feed them it usually wasn’t something you wanted to ingest. To stay alive, to survive, Dog and her siblings had to learn to be resourceful at an early age. They had to learn to care for one another, to keep their world intact, to fend for themselves. Theft became commonplace for all of them, even to keep their mother alive. Most don't seem to realize it, but even the mistreated love their parents dearly. They had an unshakable loyalty fostered for their family by both their mother and each other. Nothing came before family, and so no one would ever know of their mother's failings. They protected her just as vehemently as they protected each other.

Still, none of them were killers. When civilization began to shatter the world’s transition into the madness was almost too easy. But, somehow, some way, Dog clung onto her humanity by the tips of her fingers. Even through the brutality, the deaths, the fear, the desperation… It wasn’t until she watched someone sink a machete into her big brother’s dome like it was a juicy honeydew that it happened. Maybe it was the red-honey that painted her face and tinged her tongue in copper? Maybe it was the horrifying screams of her little sister’s as they were being either hacked or rapped to death somewhere in her periphery? Whatever it was, Dog finally snapped.

Vehicle: The Buzzard
Weapons: Machete, Sharpened Stop-sign polearm, daggers, a bolas, and a longbow (Primarily for hunting)

Character’s Sexuality: Hetero-go fuck yourself-sexual

Player’s Limits: Oohs & Aahs

Additional notes:

History with The Pack

When Dog first joined the pack she was very much a broken woman. She was very impulsive and reflexive in her way of doing things. It was like she had no real will to live but survived on pure animalistic instinct. It didn't take her very long to establish her place as one of the dominant personalities among the tribe, even as a captive. She was quickly recognized as a fellow warrior and her transition into the social hierarchy as a Raider was practically accepted without question - barring a few entertaining challenges.

Throughout the years Dog has culled the herd more than a few times. Social stigmas seemed to have little to do with the consequences of her wrath, as pleasure slaves and even other raiders alike have died by her hands. In her earlier years many perished as she struggled with what originally seemed like an explosive temper. Many thought she was just sick and twisted, perhaps a little more than the general populace, and was acting out in sudden rages. However, someone with a keen eye might have taken notice that those killed seemed to have some eerie visual similarities - more often female than not to boot. Not to mention some of the questionable things she roared at her victims as she bashed their skulls in. It's very likely that a handful of their "pack" has had to pull her off someone, sometimes in groups, and had to physically restrain her. And if it didn't end with her skulking off angrily, some of these situation could have easily led to some rather primal sexcapades.

Past that, Dog currently keeps a single female slave to herself and has for several years now. While their relationship isn't sexual, Avery is kept as a beloved pet she has done worse things than simply kill for. If a player character would like to take Avery's place (They don't have to be Avery to do so), I'm open to negotiating it. So pm me!

[Nymphadora]

@Amarlo - Dog is approved.

I have started a character sheet thread for Urban and myself to post in once we have approved sheets. Please don't post there yourself.

Approved Sheets

Also, I just realised I forgot to include PLayer name in the sheets I am updating the codes now. If you are working on yours already no worries. :)

[Amarlo]

Yeeeeeesssssh   

[avarus]

Wow, you're quick xD I also adapted someone from an old game.

Captive

Character Name: Lisbeth Hervor
Owner: Unclaimed-communal
Age: 32
Physical Details: Slathered from the neck to the tips of her fingers, and end of her toes in tattoos. One of these markings -on her stomach- clearly singles her out as a betrayer to her former Raider Gang.

Personality: Ruthless, cruel, violent and vengeful. Masks this behind a deceptive façade of friendliness and meekness, she has however no compassion for others and will take whatever she can, preferably killing the one she is taking from in the process. Is not exactly a good teamplayer…
Bio: If you have not met the ultimate survivor yet, you probably have not yet crossed paths with Lisbeth Hervor. Only ten years old when the first bombs started to cascade down from the skies on the West Coast, she was miraculously the only one of her family to escape. Even now she cannot retell how she did or where she came from exactly, but her mere existence proves that she did. Being orphaned however in a quickly deteriorating world was no easy task. Irony had it that her late father however had been a survivalist and had taught her everything one needed to survive when there was nothing to rely on but your won perseverance. Avoiding settlements for as long as she could Liz lived in the wild, surviving by whatever she could catch with her makeshift bow and traps. Cruelty came easy to her. If a prey survived the initial encounter she would draw out its suffering, same for unlucky humans that crossed her path who had things of use to her.

For someone surviving alone in the nothingness she was quite lucky to survive this long. Eventually however, her luck ran out. One could after all only traverse the wastes for only so long until encountering raiders. At first Lisbeth tried to hide from them underneath a tarp in a hole, but she had the rotten luck that the raiders set up camp around her hidey hole. When dragged out she did not allow herself to be taken meekly and crushed a man’s arm with her club before she was offered to join their little band. Teetering on the razor thin edge between slavery and membership Liz rode with them for several years, earning a body full of tattoos for her excessively violent exploits.

This penchant for violence came back to her however when she got into a fight with the leader of the band who wanted to take her to his bed. She managed to slit his throat before being jumped by everyone present. She managed to avoid a lynching but was severely beaten and held down as the symbol for a betrayer was tattood on her stomach. As final punishment for her betrayal she was tied naked to a rock and left to die. This time however she came into a bit of luck, as a friendly stranger found her and untied her, for which she immediately thanked him by strangling him with the rope and took his things. Prowling the wastes now, she hopes to find those who wronged her and exact upon them her revenge.

Status: Uncaptured

Character’s Sexuality: M/f and f/f are both fine with Liz

Player’s Limits: O/O I’m fine with quite a lot, including the death of this character.

a few more as reference

[Amarlo]

I'm submitting this pending a potential stand in for her older brother. So it's not yet finished, mostly due to possible edits needed in the case someone takes the position of her brother.

Captive

Player Name: Amarlo

Character Name: Lizzie aka “Lizzard”
Owner: Her brother (Their relation is a secret) (Could be an NPC or PC, pm me if interested)
Age: 25
Physical Details: Anything not pictured that your character has that is important. Such as tattoos, piercings, scars, etc.

Personality: Witty, Playful, Traumatized, Fearful, Guilty, Eccentric, Stubborn, Willful, Genuine, Wary, Angry, Nurturing, Imaginative, Clever
Bio: When Elizabeth was born she was welcomed into her eccentric family with open arms and celebration. Tankards knocked against tankards, pipes were passed about, but none of them could have guessed what would come next. For as healthy as she seemed straight from the womb - perhaps it was something in the air? Perhaps it had been something she caught as she slipped through the birthing channel - but however she got it, it spread through her fragile little body like a wildfire. A simple fever quickly turned into a struggle for her little life; meningococcal meningitis. Elizabeth survived, but the damage was already done, and it seemed she would suffer from epilepsy for the rest of her life.

Her starting bad luck aside, Elizabeth grew up much like her older brother, in the throes of Ren faire tidings. Their family was big and diverse, and while most of them were not related by blood, they were no less important to their lives than any aunt, uncle or cousin would be. Where Elizabeth wilted physically due to her affliction, she thrived mentally. The little girl positively glowed with creative energy, often wowing her peers with the stories she could come up with. She ate up everything they could teach her, devouring the ways of surviving in a caravan in rough and diverse climates. The little girl wanted to hold her own, even despite her failings, and quickly learned to take care of those around her in any way she could. Perhaps that is why engineering took to her so readily.

Unfortunately, the world was only getting more and more tumultuous with time. At first their caravan seemed to survive the first onslaughts, but as everything crumbled and people became more desperate, Lizzie was forced to watch as her once loving 'tribe' slowly evaporated into the same barbarians they were trying to fend off. Inevitably they were swallowed in whole and she was taken captive by The Pack. There Lizzie was reunited with her long lost brother, and despite their time growing together, she found he was no longer the boy she remembered. A proud raider, he took ownership of his little sister and holds her under his protection. All while trying to keep both their blood relation and Lizzie's illness a secret - if not only for fear of abandonment, or worse.
Status: Captured, Valued Captive - Jury Rigger extraordinaire aka Engineer

Character’s Sexuality: Heterosexual

Player’s Limits: Oohs & Aahs
Additional Notes: I cannot stress this enough, but the blood relation between Lizzie and her brother is a secret. So is her condition. Past that I am looking for someone to play her brother, a particularly violent and brutal Raider among the Pack. Their relationship can be incestual, or it can be purely non-sexual. Either works for me. If no one is interested, I am fine with using an npc. (His name doesn’t actually have to be Gregory.)

Either that, or I could have her brother perish during the opening scene, opening her for new ownership. If someone is interested in this storyline, and taking ownership of her thereafter, I am very open to this. I am very interested in seeing how Lizzie attempts to integrate and survive among the pack after the loss of her last line of defense. I would like to see dark topics as Pandora's little box is pried open to reveal her disability, but with potential sparks of that little broken winged Hope fluttering about. Intimacy would be nice, and I think a fun contrast to the overall setting, but isn't exactly required. I would definitely like to find someone to plot with.

[Melkart]

Adding my previous character for consideration.

Captive

Player Name: Melkart
Character Name:Jill
Owner:Communal.
Age: 18
Physical Details: Tattoos around her left arm and lower belly, just above her pubic area. Nipples pierced.

Personality: Timid, shy and quiet. Jill does not like looking at other people in the eyes. New arrivals to the tribe may think that she is mute because she may spends days without saying a thing. On the other hand she is tough and resilient and would not cry openly or show her pain. Jill is also very curious and is always paying attention to what happens around her.

Bio: Jill is a feral child who survived alone in the wastelands for many years. When everything collapsed her family hid in an abandoned nuclear fallout shelter and managed to stay there in hiding avoiding the worse. Eventually the lack of food and medical help took its toll to the point that she ended up alone after her father died. The following years she managed to survive by hunting, fishing and gathering food. Her ability to keep a low profile and stealth helped her.

As the food became more scarce Jill was forced to move further and further away from the shelter. After a while she had become a wanderer of sorts as she travelled the wastes in search of food and water. During her wandering she managed to survive a few close encounters with raiders and cannibal clans thanks to her stealthy ways.  This went on until one day she came across the tribe’s encampment. Desperate for the lack of food she infiltrated the camp and stole some. Being successful that time she decided that since the scary people were staying she would stay too and repeated her exploit several more times before she ran out of luck and was caught. They were about to rape her and then kill her in a quite painful and picturesque way when one of the leaders asked her if she had stolen more food. Jill answered that four other times hoping that it would make so mad that they would kill her faster. The tribe leader laughed and said that maybe the tribe could use someone like her.

Jill is an expert scavenger. She is very good at finding food, wáter and useful things as she has managed to survived for many years doing this. She is very perceptive and stealthy. This skills and qualities have made her useful to the tribe. She has managed to get herself a mountain bike that she strap to the vehicles of those raiders with more friendly disposition. It's very light and rugged model. Super expensive when money could buy things. Well, it’s not exactly hers. In theory it belongs to the tribe (like Jill) but she is the one who asked if she could take it when she found it in the garage of an abandoned mansion. The bike is very useful to scout the area around the camp.

Status: Already captured.

Character’s Sexuality: Bisexual by obligation and necessity but she has found out that she leans both ways.

Player’s Limits: Scat, snuff, excess of gore. I’m open to extreme situations if they make sense in the plot.

[Nymphadora]

Avarus, Lisbeth is awesome! Love the strangling of her saviour part :) She will be interesting to watch!

Melkart, do you have any thoughts on how long you want it to be that Jill has been a captive of the Coyotes? I think her stealth abilities might very well make her valuable but still kept as a captive.

Just waiting on the final word from Urbanzorro then I'll post your characters up in the approved thread :)

Amarlo, How do you want to proceed when that final approval comes from Urbanzorro with regards to Lizzie? Do you want to give it some more time in hopes someone decides to work with you for her big bro? She can certainly be posted to the CS thread and if/when changes happen, the sheet can be updated.

I still have to get my Captive sheet done up but am in discussions about it.

Clio and Koekje both called out that they wanted to run captives as well which puts the number of captives potentially much higher than pack members so far with Urbanzorro working on his Leader of the pack and Amarlo's Dog until we hear from the others who spoke up.

I am going to call it for the moment.

No more captive characters will be accepted for the time being AFTER Clio and Koekje get their's up.

[Amarlo]

Amarlo, How do you want to proceed when that final approval comes from Urbanzorro with regards to Lizzie? Do you want to give it some more time in hopes someone decides to work with you for her big bro? She can certainly be posted to the CS thread and if/when changes happen, the sheet can be updated.

That works for me. I just didn't want to cause you two any extra work. But if the heart is willing, I'll take it! 

[Melkart]

Melkart, do you have any thoughts on how long you want it to be that Jill has been a captive of the Coyotes? I think her stealth abilities might very well make her valuable but still kept as a captive.

I guess that she has been a captive for about a year now. Enough time to make herself useful to the tribe with her abilities.

[Roman100]

If you're interested in another male raider, I'd be keen on giving this a try.

[Amarlo]

I know for certain they are interested in more male raiders.  So go for it!

[Nymphadora]

That works for me. I just didn't want to cause you two any extra work. But if the heart is willing, I'll take it! 

Nah, it's all good! She's approved as is and hopefully someone will take you up on the cool idea of playing her brother!

I guess that she has been a captive for about a year now. Enough time to make herself useful to the tribe with her abilities.

Cool! She's totally approved :)

Avarus, Lisbeth is approved as well.

Sheets will be going up in the CS thread shortly. Urban was working on his Leader sheet last night but must have run out of time.

If you're interested in another male raider, I'd be keen on giving this a try.

Definitely! As Amarlo said, we're looking. Male or female raiders totally welcome.

Once things get a bit more even we'll definitely look for more captives too. If interest is high enough...

[Nymphadora]

Double post, sorry!!

One thing that hasn't been mentioned specifically, I guess, is more useful captives.

In hindsight having useful captives (doctors, engineer types and so on) as opposed to merely slave captives for pleasure would have been better. Some of you have identified your captives as such.

So I'm back peddling a bit here and apologize for any confusion but as I posted the sheets to the thread it got me thinking that closing things off to captives was premature...

In other words: Come one come all! 

[Roman100]

I'm actually kind of interested in the brother idea that was broached before.  I -might- even be able to be talked into being known as the 'feared and deadly raider . . . Greg'.  Should I hold off on a character sheet until I've had a chance to speak with Amarlo about it?  What were you imagining for the character besides being brutal?  Because I -prefer- 'affably evil' where the character isn't really stoic or brooding but tends to just really enjoy being a murderous jackass.

[Nymphadora]

Awesome, Roman100 I hope you guys figure it out :)

[Clio]

Okay. I need to adapt my character from the other game.

[Amarlo]

I'm actually kind of interested in the brother idea that was broached before.  I -might- even be able to be talked into being known as the 'feared and deadly raider . . . Greg'.  Should I hold off on a character sheet until I've had a chance to speak with Amarlo about it?  What were you imagining for the character besides being brutal?  Because I -prefer- 'affably evil' where the character isn't really stoic or brooding but tends to just really enjoy being a murderous jackass.

I'll pm you later when I'm at my computer. ^^

[Nymphadora]

Okay. I need to adapt my character from the other game.

Sounds good, Clio! Been watchin for ya!

[Roman100]

Pack Member

Player Name:  Roman100

Character Name:  Greg
Position in Gang: Raider - Been with Coyotes for 15 years.
Age:  25
Physical Details: Scars from recovered injuries, burn marks from working in a forge.

Personality: Affably evil.  Joking, bantering, playful but also violence without having to be angry.  He's a raider and he really just loves his work, y'know?
Bio: Greg grew up the child of a traveling Ren Faire family.  His father made swords and axes to sell at three times the price as you could get online and with half the quality.  His mother did leatherwork but was actually pretty good at it.  Because of that, Greg has spent a lot of time wearing a cloak.  More importantly, however, is that his father and mother did a fairly good job of passing on their skills.  Unfortunately, he was separated from his family during a raider attack. 

As a captive, Greg was mostly kept safe because he knew metal-working.  As time wore on and tools and weapons started to break down, he was one of the few that could get them back in working order.  However, the first time he was allowed to go on a raid on a town he discovered something about himself: he liked it.  His knowledge of how to fight with an axe or a sword made him an eclectic expert of sorts, especially against opponents who didn't have a gun. The long hours of doing metal work had given him the strength to keep up with the toughest of raiders and his tendency to crack jokes and treat any violent situation as hilarious earned a measure of respect. 

Which he nearly threw away when he saw his twin sister again.  A captive.  Hiding his desperation he claimed her before someone else could and has been doing his best to hide their relationship, lest the others think he's soft, and her medical condition, lest the others think her a drain on resources. 
Vehicle: A Ford Escort station wagon.  Just, like, a regular one.  He stole it from a little old lady because it only had 39k miles on it and you can get the parts anywhere.  Well, not 'stole' because he killed her.  'inherited by default'?  Yeah, that's the ticket.
Weapons: Axes, swords, maces, crossbows.  Greg looks like he is equipped by sneaking into the props room of Game of Thrones.

Character’s Sexuality: Heterosexual

Player’s Limits: I am fine with most things, really.

[Roman100]

Oh, whoops, I forgot to add the picture.  I'm new to the site, any way to edit a post?