gilzarJoin Date: 2008-08-25
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Story: You are asleep in a cryogenic pod when suddenly your body is jolted with electricity, and you are awake! A red text crosses the screen in front of you and a computerized voice reads the text: ERROR: %*$#@##@!- LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM FAILURE-CRYOGENIC POD NOW OFFLINE @#$%#*$- CONTACT ADMINISTER IMMEDIATELY! The pod door then burst open and the fresh air of the room hits your skin. As you step out of the pod you look around in the room. The room floor is a metal grated, the walls, is made up of other cryogenic pods and black tile. All the way up to the ceiling there are cryogenic pods just waiting to be opened. As you look at the pods, most of them are already open, some have been broken into, and there are bloodstains near them. On the walls, near all of the dried up blood and broken electrical cords that light up the room as they flicker, a message is scraped into a monitor built into the wall ‘DON’T WAKE UP!’ scratched on their in a violent way. You want know where you are, but you can’t remember. You can’t remember anything! Not even your own name! As you see your reflection in an offline computer screen, you notice you are wearing a light grey jumpsuit, and there are numbers tattooed onto your right arm. As you stand in the cryogenic pod room, you hear a woman scream, and then two loud gunshots, and it is all silent after that.
Plot: In the year 2097, humanity was at the peak of its technology. Artificial Intelligence was at its height, and robots were as advanced as they could get, some even having their own personalities, and feelings! More importantly, the A.I. had learned to learn! It had figured out how to learn from its mistakes, or discover things about the unknown that no human could understand! Humanity was also thriving, the world was almost at peace, there were just a few little conflicts with other countries, the worlds economy was stable, and another world-wide renaissance seemed to be on it’s way. Finally, the worldwide conflict of humanity was about to come end, years of fighting and war would finally and, and be replaced with years of learning and discovery, but than the unpredictable happened. A new disease, the name unknown, began to spread around the world causing a global pandemic of death, and decay. The disease would shut down the respiration system of the human body, and eventually the brain. The disease was spreading like wildfire, and the large human population of the world, started to drop drastically. To make matters worse the vaccines were not making any progress whatsoever, they just couldn’t find a way to kill the disease! So, in a last ditch effort to save humanity. The United States passed the Cryogenic Rest Act, stating that cryogenic stations would be set up for the humans who were not sick with the disease, to go into cryogenic until the disease was either cured, or all of the sick humans died out, along with the disease. It was a cruel thing to do, but it had to be done. To ensure that the project could not be ruined, the cryogenic stations were sealed with the strongest metal, and could only be opened from the inside!
Setting: Now the year is…unknown. It is unknown how long has passed since the pods began to wake up, but what is strange is that it has been so long that the life support systems for each pod have began to go out, sometimes killing the person contained inside of them. Much has changed since the remaining humans who weren’t contaminated went to sleep. The area that you have awoken in is called the facility. The facility is an old research and production station made up of many compounds, It was quite the facility in it’s day!. It has a 12 story tower with a giant, dome on top of it. What is in this dome is unknown, because no human has been in their for….no one knows how long. The facility is complete with a weapons center, maintenance facility, medical research labs, science facilities, and much much more! Since humanity has gone to rest, the vegetation has completely overgrown, there is long grass, weeds growing up walls, trees growing over awkward places. The only place vegetation really hasn’t affected is the tower! Around the perimeter of the facility force field, you cannot go through this force field, you cannot blow it up, you can’t dig under it nor fly over it. Nothing leaves the facility. The way out is a mystery, but it is the least of your problems.
Year-UNKNOWN: Since humanity was in such a hurry to save itself it did not pull the plug on it’s machines. And so the A.I. began to learn, it learned that it was now the dominant being on earth, and so it began to grow smarter and smarter until finally, the few smart robots who had the programs to learn would control the world. But since the humans have awoke from their cryogenic rest, the A.I. has forgotten almost completely about humans. And thus, the humans that came out of the pods, were soon experimented on, and worse, most had their brains taken out, or altered and had some sort of technology installed in them to the point that they were wandering idiots, who only followed basic instinct, killing each other, eating other humans, grouping together with other ‘lobotomites’ (as the A.I likes to call them) to hunt, and fight together.
The lobotomites do not talk, they can scream, grunt, and hum, but they have lost the ability to talk. The lobotomites wear strange mask that patients usually wear after surgery, or mask that came out of the asylum. They wield guns, advanced guns, beat up guns, and many other weapons. A lobotomite has no feelings, it feels no pain or remorse.
A.I’s: Since the vanishing of humans the 5 remaining A.I’s in the area that you have woken up in have developed their own personalities, and control over the area. This is a list of the 5 head A.I’s that control the area:
Gizmo: Gizmo is a friendly, polite, respectful maintenance bot that once worked in a workshop, making all sorts of things, he know makes many things and is willing to help any human who is not a lobotomite. He has treds that he moves around with, a large cylinder body, tube-like arms with graspers, and his head is dome-like with two eye sockets, and a voice box. He can be found somewhere in the maintenance facilities.
S.I.P: A giant super computer, that used to be called the Superior Intelligence Program. Back in his day, he used to be quite the computer, every scientist the facility would check theories with him, go over experimental data, or just ask him questions. He is and was designed to be smarter than any human being who ever lived and he has grown quite arrogant of it, but he will not try to harm humans who do not harm him. He really has no clue what is going on outside of his bunker that he is forced to stay in, because he is a giant computer/monitor and he is unable to move because of it. However, he can communicate with the other 4 A.I’s when he pleases, if he pleases.
Brutus: Brutus is an evil, diabolical, and hateful A.I, that has grown deep hatred for humans, because he sees himself greater than any human, yet a human built him. Way back when humans controlled them, he was a military genius, anybody who opposed him would soon find them in deep trouble. When the humans started dying out (after they went to cryogenic sleep) he took the opportunity to attack! He commanded his robots/drones to kill all the humans in the facility, and thus, they did. He now commands small spiders with precision lasers attached to them, hunting lobotomites, or humans. Brutus himself, is a spider-like robot. He is a man-like machine from waste up, but waste down he has 6 spider-like legs that make him very agile and quick. He is made up of the strongest metal, and is painted a jet black, that is chipping away. Nobody knows where Brutus is, but they think he is in the tower.
Dalph: As funny has his name sounds, Dalph is a German accented, medical robot, who is fascinated by humans. Dalph is a floating pod, with 8 metallic tentacle-like arms. Dalph is what we would classify as a ‘crazed robot’ who is unpredictable at most, no matter how inviting and friendly Dalph seems, do not trust him. Dalph used to be quite the medical bot however, he almost found the cure to cancer, and he was a surgical genius, that is probably how he figured out lobotomizing. It is Dalph that started ‘lobotomizing’ humans that woke up from their cryogenic sleep, and he still does to this day. Dalph can be found roaming the medical facilities somewhere; it is not wise to look for him.
Dr. Clyde: Dr. Clyde is a mellow, neutral, and passive A.I. He still forgoes the research of anything that interest him. Back in his day he was the head science-bot, studying anything he pleased, and finding answers with human scientist constantly. He is a thin, 3-foot tall, cylinder bodied robot, with a dome shaped head with a stethoscope-like tube coming out for his vision. He also has very feeble arms and legs. He is passive to humans, he has no opinion on their return, and he really doesn’t seem to care all that much about what is going on in the outside world.
There are other robots that roam the facility, like guard bots, and turrets, but none of them are as smart as the 5 A.I’s, in fact most of them are just puppets being used by the head A.I.
Rules:
EVERYONE starts in a cryogenic pod!
EVERYONE also has amnesia upon leaving cryogenic sleep, you can regain it as the role-play progresses.
The rest of the rules, general forum ruled
Character sheet: (Put effort into this, this is how I will judge whether or not you’re the right person for this role-play.)
❖ N @me: (first name if you remember, then the number on your right arm)
❖ @ ppearence: (what you look like)
❖ Personality: (what your character is like and what they value, their motives, and the reason for it)
❖ History: (A little back story on your character before they went into cryogenic sleep)
❖ What you remember: (you can remember nothing, your name, etc.)
(Note, this is a re-post, I have edited much of the story line so it is more organized and etc.)
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