<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Role Requests!</strong></span><br/><br/>Since we seem to be getting quite a few people wanting to play, I though it'd be a good idea if we had a place to put requests for roles.<br/><br/>** If there's a role you'd like filled, please PM wolfsgirl**<br/><br/><strong>wolfsgirl needs:</strong>Someone to play Harlan Soames, head of the rebel group currently operating out of The Pits to bring down the Florida branch (the main GenCorps laboratory).<br/>This role needs someone who is experienced, can co-ordinate rp and is willing to commit to the role.<br/><br/><strong>sinoraa needs: </strong>Someone to play the owner of her dryad charry.<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Current Characters:</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Human (rebel alliance)</strong><br/><br/>Dr. Tamis Dunsany: Assistant Chief Psychobiologist, GenCorps Labs, turned renegade (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2857389#msg2857389)<br/>Kirk Logan: Rebel activist (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2859844#msg2859844)<br/>Jasper Cleaves: Renegade biologist (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2863313#msg2863313)<br/><br/><strong>Human (company alliance)</strong><br/><br/>Dr. Thomas S. Steinman: Head Geneticist, GenCorps  (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2864103#msg2864103)<br/>Gretal Luxom: wife of Robert Luxom, CEO of GenCorps' distribution company (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2857389#msg2857389)<br/><br/><strong>GenMods</strong><br/>GC-472 a.k.a "Mother": terraforming, self-replicating GenMod (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2863892#msg2863892)<br/>A.S.E.C. 13A: Feline (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2861059#msg2861059)<br/>A.S.E.C. "Dionys": Satyr (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2861488#msg2861488)<br/>A.S.E.C. "Bambi": Faun (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2861564#msg2861564)<br/>Maya a.k.a. "Mia" : Canid (first natural born Mod) (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2862626#msg2862626)<br/>Athena Nine, a.k.a "Nine": Feline (Military Unit) (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2864122#msg2864122)<br/>Rhiyu: Feline (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2865958#msg2865958)<br/>120814099, a.k.a "Gia": Dryad (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=63682.msg2864269#msg2864269)<br/><br/><strong>Important-to-Plot NPC's: </strong><br/><br/>Harlan Soames: elusive leader/guru of the rebel faction.<br/>Dr. Guillermo: Rebel scientist reversing GenMod infertility.<br/>Gordon Frank: Head of SecCom's New Olympus sector.<br/>Baron Philop Van Pickle: Billionaire; Owner, Pickler's House of Pleasure<br/><br/>(I'm still working on this.. if I've missed player chars, apologies and please PM me >< )<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>New Olympus: Background</strong></span><br/><br/>It is the future, 2220 AD, on a horribly polluted Earth. There's very few natural resources. Most animals and plants have perished via human irresponsibility, disease and genetic sterility, a lot of the food is synthetic.<br/><br/>The world is mostly run by companies. "Civilised" people live and work in huge company buildings, like towers. Many live in physical isolation, all but married to work, communicating through neurally transmitted computer and phone signals. Life is very difficult for those who live outside the cities and do not work for a company.<br/><br/>Large companies can even form their own cities of employees. GenCorp, a company specialising in genetic engineering (and rumoured to be responsible for some of the disasters that made earth this way) is such a company, very powerful. Its city is called "New Olympus". Outside of this city are toxic swamplands, a very few lower level employee settlements and several illegal shanty-towns.<br/><br/>In response to the lack of animal life and plants,  GenCorp  created hybrid plant/humans. Fresh fruit is a rich man's luxury and these plants are extremely expensive, rich man's items. In time, the plants were given more and more human elements, as a kind of companion creature as well as a source of fresh produce. One of their earliest but still popular models was the FructaFille, a plant that resembles a woman's torso and face, albeit ending at the hips in a rootball that sinks into a vat of nutrients.<br/><br/>GenCorp has also conducted other experiments with animal dna, in which more human matter is evident in the "models" they produce. These experiments are/were extremely controversial, but there's a definite market for what they make among the monied classes.<br/><br/>The company has a secret lab where they're continuing hybridisation experiments, producing "dryads" like the FructaFille 9 (these later models are more woman-like) and satyrs, goatish men with vast sexual appetite, things like that. The object in this is to cater to the sex slave and companion creature market, though the experiments are still technically illegal. Money talks, though, and the officials are looking the other way as long as things are kept discreet, since the very people who can afford to buy such creatures are the ones in power.<br/><br/>A group of rebel environmentalists want to expose this and bring down GenCorps and like companies, who actually profit from the wasted condition of Earth and its natural species. They also object to the treatment of these new lifeforms. The rebels are seen as terrorists, and hunted down where possible. Some rebels actually work at GenCorps, while others hide out in the swamps and shanty towns outside the city. The rebels have taken to stealing GenMod critters, worth millions each, and setting them loose in the "wilderness", or what's left of it, or otherwise trying to give them freedom, since they are not deemed sentient and have no rights at all.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Gameworld</strong></span><br/><br/>- Climate change and political unrest in the past has changed the face of America.<br/>There are no longer "states" as such but corporate territories. Think of giant, complex, legal gangs.<br/>- There are no police, but contracted security companies which police areas and manage prisons.<br/>New Olympus is secured by SecCom, a company contracted by GenCorps.<br/>- The law is based around what does and does not support business.<br/>Human rights have taken a steady nose dive, but those who suffer from it know better than to protest.<br/><strong><br/>The City of New Olympus</strong><br/><br/>GenCorps' main North American city, New Olympus, is in Florida. It's named for its massive high-rise buildings.<br/>People live where they work. Marriage is no longer a valued institution. Single people are rewarded faster than those who live with partners<br/>so a lot more people live alone (this increases productivity, it was discovered).<br/>Everything is monitored here-- what you eat, what you weigh, how much time you devote to the company.<br/>Everyone can presume they are under some kind of surveillance at any given time.<br/>Smoking and alcohol, along with high-fat natural foods etc, are prohibited by company Law (health and fitness = better company commodities).<br/>Food is mostly synthetic, with natural supplements provided by GenMod grain grown in the company's crop sheds in other parts of the country.<br/>However, the extremely wealthy can afford "real food", meat, coffee and dairy produce for example, brought in from the world's very few remaining<br/>viable farmlands. Their consumption of these illicit luxury goods is never questioned. The highest levels of the corporate sector are above the Law.<br/><br/><strong><br/>Greentown</strong><br/><br/>West of New Olympus is the smaller settlement of Greentown, home to blue collar workers who cannot afford the city: janitors, food technicians, etc.<br/>Still very crowded, but there's a little more room out here. More like the old style cities of the 21st C, but rather run-down.<br/>It's not such a big deal if you live with a partner/family in Greentown. However, there's also less protection against pollutants and food<br/>and other supplies are sometimes unreliable. A term for being an outcast or slated for failure in the corporate world is "living in/being sent to Greentown".<br/><br/><strong>The Pits</strong><br/><br/>South of Greentown is a swampland (maybe once the everglades?) where criminals and other undesirables like to hide out.<br/>The name for this area is The Pits, after its dangerous sinkholes, quicksands and high pollution levels.<br/>One has to know where one is going, in The Pits. This is why SecCom is so reluctant to send security details into it.<br/>There's still some vegetation but it's sickly and diseased, lots of algae. Wildlife is almost all gone.<br/>There's still the occasional alligator or python, though these are rare. Starvation and sickness make them highly aggressive.<br/>Water filters and pre-packaged food are a must, to avoid contamination. If, that is, you don't know where to find clean water food.<br/>One or two unpolluted springs exist, and enterprising "highwaymen" waylay supplies intended for New Olympus. Including good steaks.<br/>Very few people actually dwell in The Pits, it's more a stop-over for those who need a refuge from the law.<br/><br/><strong><br/>Locations of Note:</strong><br/><br/><em><strong>GenCorps Laboratories</strong></em><br/><br/>- Psych Lab (where the critters are imprinted with desired behavioural traits)<br/>- Gen Lab (where the critters are made)<br/>- "Upstairs" - Nickname for the Upper Management Sector<br/>- "Dowstairs: - Nickname for the Restricted Area Labs<br/><br/><em><strong>Luxom Exports</strong></em><br/><br/>- Apartment of Gretal and Robert Luxom<br/>- Loading Sheds<br/><br/><br/><em><strong>SecCom High Security Facility:</strong></em><br/><br/>- Holding Cells<br/>- Interrogation Room<br/>- Prison<br/><br/><br/>(I'd like some ideas for locations in Greentown)<br/><br/><br/><em><strong>Francie's Place</strong></em><br/><br/>- a speakeasy and whorehouse deep in The Pits where alcohol, tobacco and a variety of other illegal substances are sold.<br/>It's said, "At Francie's, everything is for sale" - including weapons, explosives and even corporate secrets.<br/>A favourite haunt of decadent corporate types who like to "slum it"-- even though, among many other dangers, some type of blackmail is almost a certainty.<br/><br/><br/><strong><br/>~Some Notes On The GenMod Critters~</strong><br/><br/>In the present gameworld the World Genetics Council have decreed that genetic hybrids between humans and other species are, if developed according to legally specified standards, not sentient creatures and therefore are to be considered property.<br/><br/>GenCorps, however, are bypassing these standards, mainly due to customer demand for sex slaves and house servants that are capable of understanding speech and fulfilling tasks for which complex thought processes are necessary. There's also experiments being conducted to explore undisclosed possible military applications.<br/><br/>How they're getting away with it is making it policy that no GenMod may possess vocal chords. GenMods presented to WGC inspectors are not the same as those sold into that portion of the wealthy private sector which is willing to pay huge sums for creature who can think for themselves.<br/><br/>There are several levels of GenMod development:<br/><br/>1: Basic models like the FructaFille, which are responsive to carers but not truly sentient.<br/>2: Servile models, who display intelligence to the standard of a dog, gorilla or dolphin.<br/>3: A.S.E.C.'s (advanced, sentient experimental creatures) -the illegal variety of GenMod with the capacity for reason.<br/>4: GenMods designed for military applications - strictly classified, though rumour has it that some of the rejects from these programs are finding their way into the ASEC market.<br/><br/>Despite their intelligence, GenMods of type #3 are supposed to be hard-wired against acts of aggression of any kind. Neuroscience and psychobiology are essential GenMod production. But again, private sector sales (those wanting models more capable of acting 'dominant') and military apps require circumvention of these standards, too. So, some GenMods do not possess inbuilt "safeguards" against harming their handlers and can become extremely dangerous. This is why many liberated or "feral" units are shot on sight, the reasoning being that were they passive and dependant on humans, they would not have the ability to survive in the harsh environment outside of the city.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>~Possible roles here include: </strong></span><br/><br/>GenCorps scientists / Company honchos<br/>Security forces who hunt the rebels/recapture or exterminate the liberated GenMod critters<br/>Scientists who are leaning toward agreeing with/co-operating with the rebels<br/>Rebels in and outside of the company<br/>Rich GenMod critter owners<br/>Rebels who care for/shelter the liberated critters<br/>Advanced, sentient experimental creatures: dryads, satyrs, minotaurs, catpeople, whatevers.<br/><br/><br/>Just a note: I put this in “extreme” to allow for rp going that way, if necessary, but not all rp in this need be extreme, or even sexual. Please feel free to make more than one character, if you’d like to play them.<br/><br/>Post your char sheets here. Also, any ideas, questions, suggestions are very welcome.<br/>