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Sithdarth
03-07-2005, 11:29 AM
A bet you thought I forgot about this didn't you; well I didn't and here it is:

A small group of strangers, I haven't decided the exact number yet, awake to find themselves trapped in a very special maze. It's a maze of only one room but many temporal streams. To navigate this maze they will have to determine whats the past and whats the future, and most importantly avoid the dangers along the way. All they can remember off the pervious day is metting someone new and making it home. After that everything blurrs together into a surreal dream of black clad figures and hushed voices.

When they awake they find themselves dressed as they had been right after their return home and alone in a large empty room. All around the room metal doors stand closed. 15 of the doors have a small numbered plate on them. The plates read: 16, 183, 1002, 3277, 7008, 10011, 9010, 3433, 6007, 8009, 6007, 2913, 911, 169, and 15. The rest are undorned and look quite useless. At their feet is another numbered plate; the number displayed depends on the room in which the person is in currently. The numbered doors bear a striking resemblance to the doors normally found on a submarine. In fact the entire room has the feel of a submarine or other large navy vessel. Metal is everywhere, bolts and flanges stick out at odd angles and that sterile metal smell is almost smothering.

Here is the sign up:

Name:
Age:
Race: (As in Black, White, Native American)
Occupation:
Description:
Personal Items: (The few personal effects that you could carry on you/in pockets only. Sorry no bags.)
Bio:

This might move slow as every time someone decides to leave a room I have to describe where they are going. It's also going to take a some thinking to solve the puzzle behind the maze, which will give you a very easy way of finding the exit. Towards the end of the maze all possible paths converge to one so there is little chance you will never see another person. I will PM everybody with which room they are in and I ask that no one share that piece of infromation. (It would make it far to easy to find each other, if it looks like things aren't going good I'll start pushing people together.) Oh and I suggest looking through a door before walking into a room. You can open a door and look through so take adavantage of this gift I have given you for it may save your life.

Here (http://forums.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?t=8147) is a link to the intial intrest thread which has a bit more info in it.

TheBlindMime
03-07-2005, 12:54 PM
I am so in.

Name: Alex Simmons
Age: 20
Race: White
Occupation: Store Clerk for Radio Shack
Description: An adult in terms of age but a kid at heart. His hair is often messy, and he has a half full goatee which he refuses to shave in the belief that it will fill in soon enough. He wears black dress jeans with black sneakers and a white shirt with a red vest over it. His name is conveniently printed on the name tag on his vest. He also wears thin rimmed glasses.
Personal Items: Swiss army knife (5 inch blade, 3 inch blade, scissors, bottle opener, flat head screwdriver, phillips screwdriver, corkscrew, useless litle scissors and a nail file.), 72 cents in change, empty wallet (except for his ID's and single credit card), and an extra replacement button that came with his dress pants.
Bio: Alex is a slacker to the bitter end, he's been working at radio shack since he was 16 and he still hasn't been promoted once. He knows alot about electronics and how to take them apart and and rebuild them incredibly quickly. He's always loved puzzles but hasn't been able to solve his rubix cube since he got it over a decade ago. He's very paranoid and pragmatic about his problems, and does his best to plan his victory before he even makes his first move.

Mintaro
03-08-2005, 04:10 AM
Name: Ashley J. Williams (Ash)
Age: 23
Race: White
Occupation: S-Mart manager
Description: Handsomly devilish and devilishly handsome. Pompador hair, Clean shaven but with a bit of scruff. He wears brown kackies and a blue buttoned up shirt. With Dark brown boots.
Personal items: A leatherman and a maglight. A wallet with his ID and variouse cards. As well as about 50 bucks in current money. and his lucky 1919 penny.
Bio: Ash is a clever man. He is a solid worker, but has no real drive to succeed. Ash knows a bit of everything. He knows about Electronics, and machinery. As well as how to make explosives from common items. He is a good driver and Great with an ax and or chainsaw. Not a bad shot with a shotgun as well.

Funka Genocide
03-08-2005, 08:18 AM
ha ha! behold the temporal shenanigans of a physics major! I hope my sanity remains intact after this ordeal Sith!

Name: Bobby Bastion
Age: 22
Race: Hispanic/Caucasian
Occupation: Rock musician

description: No outfit too flamboyant, no hairstyle taboo, in the pursuit of the cutting edge of rock fashion he's worn everything from a pink velvet blazer to leather chaps (hasn't quite gotten around to the assless variety yet though) At the moment he's wearing a brown leather jacket and a paisle print shirt in yellow, with straight leg jeans and some butterscotch leather dress shoes. and of course, designer sun glasses. (Versace if you must know ;) )


objects: Zippo lighter with "hard rock cafe Yokohama" written on it, dime bag of the finest chronic, and some handcuffs. (You know those groupies can get kinky sometimes!) Money clip with about three thousand dollars in hundreds, a gold plated pen (for autographs!) and a drivers license. Pack of camles, 17 cigarrettes remaining. Cell phone, worn old guitar pick, Comb. Some loose change.

Bio: Rock is an attitude, a look, a cliche. Bobby's all of these, despite his desires to the contrary, he was swept up in the heady mixture of raw adoration and unreal luxury. He'd fashioned himself as an intellectual when he started his journey to stardom, but the road will change any man, the drugs will do it faster. He's not down and out, but he's on his way to being something less than what he desired. His original message of rebellion against tradition and wider perspectives lost in a sea of pop infused trash. He's losing his identity to the beast of fame. Grasping at his fading lines of sanity and normalcy, he's made a homecoming to his birthplace, Chicago Illinois. He sees more truth in his aging mothers eyes as he walks through the door than he has in three years, and he realizes his soul is ready for a change, for a return...



okie dokie, there is teh bio! Try to be gentle with my fragile psyche Sith!

Bailey
03-08-2005, 09:38 AM
Name: Dan Thomas
Age: 18
Race: white
Occupation: just going into college, the only thing that could fit here is that he's a life scout who only didn't make eagle because nobody helped with his project; he's got all the merit badges, all of them, but he's bad at getting people to help him.
Description: 5'11", 140 lbs, scout pants, green t-shirt with nothing written on it, brown shoes, short haircut, brown hair, brown eyes.
Personal Items: leatherman, matches, random pieces of paper, some paperclips, a roll of duct tape (on his belt), some pens, wallet with no cash, just travelers checks, various forms of id.
Bio: Dan always gave things his all, and so got all of the merit badges pretty quickly, but his people skills sucked and so he never managed to finish his eagle project.

haha! I am the only person with a reasonable explanation for having duct tape! watch as everyone else edits their character sheets to include this most wondrous of items!

Funka Genocide
03-08-2005, 10:09 AM
not to be a whistle blower... *blows whistle*

I'm wondering if Mintaro's character might not be a tad too close to one Ash of Evil dead fame? hmmm??!!

Originality goes a long way my friend, I guess thats all I'll say about it then.

:)

Sithdarth
03-08-2005, 10:31 AM
Well he isn't going to be seeing any zombies and no way is there going to be any guns laying around so I think he is safe. The difference in the situation should induce enough of a difference in the way the person acts to make him unique.

My Lead Airbag
03-08-2005, 10:52 AM
We call the token black guy spot. Sheet up after school.

Mintaro
03-08-2005, 04:06 PM
Its called an Hommage. One un original character out of the 20+ I've put on this site isn't any thing to worry about. and hes almost EXACTLY like him

Inbred Chocobo
03-08-2005, 04:27 PM
I think I want to make an off the wall character too. It is an Anime-Fan. Cuuld he happen to have com from some type of con so he is fully dressed like Ruroni Kenshin or something like that? I'm going to wait till after this question is anwsered to post the bio (To avoid heavy editting.)

Sithdarth
03-08-2005, 07:29 PM
As long as he isn't carrying any actual heavy weapondry he should be fine. Anything that could be used as a substantial bludgeoning instrument is out.

On a really off topic note I just got linux and the thing spell checks everything as I go. So you shall no longer see any mistakes.

Dante
03-08-2005, 09:04 PM
Name: Ashvin Ashford
Age: 22
Race: Eurasian of Indian extraction
Occupation: Combat medic
Description: A thin, wiry, dark-skinned man.
Personal Items: MP3 player his cell phone and his wallet
Bio: Ashvin was originally from Singapore, but he went to the States on holiday. After a wild night of partying, he ended up ina hotel room with a sexy stranger. The next day, he awoke to find himself in a strange room...

Raiden
03-08-2005, 09:43 PM
Name: Thomas Kalvin
Age: 20
Race: Caucasian
Occupation: Part-time Janitor/Full-time Student
Description: A stocky (not fat, not muscular, not husky, stocky!) man with shaggy blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Wears tennis shoes, a white t-shirt, jeans, and a leather jacket.
Personal Items: CD Player, Game Boy Advance, GBA games, batteries, wallet, watch
Bio: Thomas is simply a college student trying to pay for tuition with his janitor job. He brings his GBA with him everywhere. He sometimes finishes work early, and spends the rest of the time playing GBA until it's time to get back to his Dorm and finish studying for classes. Until he got back to his dorm room one day, and found that he had a new roommate. When he went to bed, he woke up the next day in a place he normally wasnt.

The Mirror Emperor
03-08-2005, 10:03 PM
Name: Jack Dyson
Age: 28
Race: White
Occupation: Police officer
Description: A 6'1'' man with a shaved head and a barely visible scar on his forehead. Is often seen with a brown jacket, black shirt, jeans and sneakers.
Personal Items: Cell phone, Bic Lighter, a half-empty pack of Newports, and a wallet containing only his identification card.
Bio: Jack is a quiet man that only speaks when he sees necessary, but he is quick to be angered. Sort of an anti-social at most times but is determined to do what he thinks he must do.

Thaumaturge
03-09-2005, 07:57 AM
Name: John Highbarrow
Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Occupation: Programmer
Description: John is roughly average in height, slight of build, with dark hair and brown eyes. He wears grey knee-length shorts with two sets of pockets on each leg, the lower pair having zips, and a green t-shirt.
Personal Items:
- A small penknife (small blade, longer blade, two screwdrivers, bottle and can openers, small scissors, a corkscrew, and a small hole-boring tool - at least, that's what it gets used for, since he's never figured out what it's supposed to be for.)
- A digital wristwatch, with alarm, timer, and countdown functions
- a small notepad and pen
- scientific calculator
Bio: John is friendly, if often quiet around new people. He studied Computer Science at university, and is interested in technology, physics (albeit a layman's interest), and science in general. He enjoys a mental challenge, and can easily become lost when faced with a sufficiently interesting puzzle.

The last thing that John remembers clearly was being at an employer's workplace, where he had been hired to code and install a simple system. He got up to go to the toilet (taking his calculator to prevent it going missing), and almost collided with a man in a suit. After that, everything is fuzzy...

Incendius
03-09-2005, 08:30 AM
Name: Michael Sorum
Race: white
Occupation: Video game maker
Description: 6'3'', very thin has glasses. Brown curly hair. Brown eyes. Is wearing jeans and a t shirt.
Personal items:
-Pencil and a pad for writing down ideas
-a candy bar for when working overtime
-A game boy advance SP with several prototype games he is working on
-pager
-cell phone
-wristwatch
Bio: Michael is friendly and has an introspective personality. Since he designs games he is an expert at puzzles and enjoys throughouly confudling his friends.

Michael remembers meeting a new member on the game design team and discussing what they were working on with him. After this Michael remembers working for at least three hours on "cram time" on the game which was scheduled to come out next month. Everything after that was blurry.

My Lead Airbag
03-09-2005, 11:16 AM
Name: James Robinson
Age: 40
Race: Black
Occupation: Guidance Counseler
Description: A semi-built man, he looks like a man who used to be greatly athletic in his prime but years of wear and work have wittled away his chiseled figure. Stands a tad over 6 foot, with greying hair.
Personal Items: Gum and antacid (TUMS)

Sithdarth
03-10-2005, 03:36 PM
My internet connection cut out yesterday but I swear this will start by tomorrow. So don't lose heart.

Thaumaturge
03-11-2005, 08:31 AM
My apologies for any inconvenience that this might incur, but I'm afraid that I won't be online tomorrow (Saturday), but I should be online on Sunday morning (around 11am to midday my time - GMT+2).

Sithdarth
03-11-2005, 01:41 PM
It should be ok since chances are you won't be interacting with anyone for a little while. I'll get to pming with room numbers right now I think before I forget.

Inbred Chocobo
03-11-2005, 02:04 PM
Name: Henry Crevings
Age: 19
Race: White
Occupation: Runs a comic book store
Description: Henry is one of the biggest fans of anime you can imagine, He attends pretty much every Anime-Con ever seen, fully dressed in some strange outfit.
Personal Items: He just came from a con, and so he is dressed in an outfit exactly like Rurouni Kenshin. He has a sword sheath with a fake handle sticking out, and is starting to break after a long day, he has his car keys, his wallet with 40 dollars, his drivers lisence and a few credit cards. And he also has an amulet that looks like the clock thingy from Chrono Trigger.
Bio: Henry is your average lazy man, and has always been. He got into video games in his youth, and about the time he was playing Chrono Trigger, he started getting into Anime a lot, well too much actually. Ever since then, his life has revolved around anime and stuff like it, so he opened a comic book store at the age of 18 to help fuel his addiction.

Sithdarth
03-11-2005, 11:16 PM
There all 11 PMs have been sent and you all know your starting rooms and know enough not to share them. The - then a number afterwards is for me to keep track of where you are and they won't be showing up in any of the rooms unless I decided it will make my life easier to put them in. The actual RP should be up sometime tonight. I hope.

Here is the link to the RP thread. (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?t=9249)

This is the discussion thread for chapter one now.

The Mirror Emperor
03-12-2005, 09:27 PM
Err..sorry Sith, but I have to drop out of this RP. It's a little too far ahead for me to catch up and a little late for me to post, so I have to drop out. Sorry.

Funka Genocide
03-13-2005, 05:56 AM
I'll be posting as soon as I can catch up, been a little busy the last couple of days. But don't worry, I'll post sooner or later!

Mintaro
03-13-2005, 05:57 AM
I think Sith has us waiting for you guys to catch up ATM

Sithdarth
03-13-2005, 07:13 AM
Yeah a fixed it so everyone can catch up.