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RPG Description: Set in a steampunk-inspired city controlled by an extremist social/communist government, a group of people believe in personal posession and individual wealth, and relentlessly attempt to take from the State and give to themselves in order to experience true freedom.
The common folk of the City are satisfied, being taught from a very early age that the State is absolute, and the only thing that stands between them and utter chaos and anarchy. These folks work day in and out without questioning the State's functionability. The more efficient you work, the more credits you gain. Credits can be spent at stores to receive little extra's in life. Whoever doesn't work effectively gets nothing more then the necessary food and cloth coupons. Housing is completely State-controlled.
However, there's a group of people who've lost their State-IDs, people who have fallen through the nets of the usually flawless System. The Numberless gather in abandoned buildings, always bringing whatever they still possess. Together they live and try to survive, until their hideout is discovered by State officials. Numberless get taken away, and their fate is unknown. Some say they get killed, others say they're put in prison. Most likely though, they are put to work in the very core of the System, never again seeing the very relative freedom given to the rest of the city's denizens.
A few Numberless have begun revolting against this unjustice, they will not accept their government punishing its people for mistakes they couldn't help but make. Having settled in the very outskirts of the immense City, they remained undetected for many months, slowly expanding their wealth by nightly raids on government-controlled stores and warehouses. Indeed, they have built up a realm of individual prosperity. Recently however, government officials have begun appearing near the outskirts of this Rogue State, and their hidden lives are no longer safe of the iron grip of the State. The RP revolves around this group of Numberless, led by the enigmatic Jack Sheppard. (who I will be RPing as.)
These Numberless have gathered under the banner of Liberty, and seek nothing more but the right to live their lives according to their own beliefs, not by those the State wants them to.
RPG Era: Historical, steam-driven society.
RPG Plot: The idea is that Jack Sheppard and a few of his most trusted thieves known as ''The Rogues'' tactically gain ground against the government, ever stating their only wish; freedom from the System, independancy if you will. The plot is about Sheppard's struggles. The Rogues believe in a philosophy which simply states that personal development and enrichment is the most important thing in the world. They go to great lenghts to ensure a good life, free of State doctrines and Numberless poverty and fear. The players will first need to plan and execute raids on specific targets to build up their ''headquarters'' (located in the desolate and abandoned outskirts of the City, remains of a world before the Great Revolution) before it's discovered by the State, and in further chapters defend it from State incursions.
RPG Leader(s): Me and Mike_.
The RP would have an Informational subforum in which you can read up on history, lore and background, a Rogue HQ subforum in which character can be created, and a RP section in which there'll be things like a Story topic in which we plan raids and other things, and execute them. There can be other topics too, about building up the headquarters or other, lesser raids that have little to do with the main storyline.
Edited by Matias, 14 July 2008 - 07:38 PM.
