Smokes and Mirrors

[elizar]

Smokes and Mirrors, a new RP proposal for this forum. It will be set in the Worlds RP forum.

The story is that for some reason, random humans from their world is being teleported to the Cars world, and they reappear as what is either their counterparts of the Cars world, or vehicles that they are attached to or have simply driven for a long time. There are even aircrafts among the teleported, but no boat has appeared so far. Teleporters are still appearing, and each seems to have a different story. Some were asleep when it happened and woke up here, some had some sort of accident, and some just went ‘bamf’.

When talking about X-Men in this context, it is noteworthy to tell that it seems that a high percentage has some sort of ability. Maxwell Eightses, a leader that never wanted his position has for instance what he calls ‘jedi mind trick’. The rest of the teleporters seem to know what exactly it is when spoken of. Liana Niner is able to tell when someone new comes, and immediately sends Maxwell or anyone of the others to go fetch them before they get into trouble. Since the teleporters appear somewhere in ten square kilometers, it is easy to find them, though some have gotten in trouble with the local authority.

That brings us to Stephen Stalker. The last name seems to be pretty fitting as his first encounter with the teleporters was with Maxwell, who was then at the time confused about what was happening. Without anything to stick on him except for a fine for driving on the Interstate without Interstate license, Maxwell was released from the impound. Maxwell quickly got in contact with a user, which is a common name for anyone who is able to wield magic. After some talk, the user was confident that Maxwell was telling the truth, and helped him setting up camp shortly after Liana appeared as well.

After letting the pair get their Interstate license and get them accommodated at a motel in a town nearby the teleport point, they quickly got the motel and a nearby grove as a base of operations, to figure out what is going on, and how to deal with it.

Maxwell, Liana and Stephen are all going to be my characters. The user is pretty much unnamed since I was hoping that someone would be able to pick up the ball there, either EbonyViper or IPD since Eva is unable to join this. If it happens that EbonyViper or IPD will not, I guess I will go with it.

Anyhow, this idea is still work in progress, but this is what has been pretty much mostly in my mind all the time. I guess since I am going to be the foundation for the RP, I will need a number of different characters with different personalities to have at least one likeable for a player.

Anyone can bring their own ideas and thoughts into this, I will consider ideas, though I do expect you to defend them as well. This RP does not have to be as fast as the Swept Away RP, I can be good with one or two posts per day, allowing some other players to catch up more quickly, and find the RP maybe more to their speed.

[fierano]

So this is sorta like the original "Trapped in Radiator Springs," only with special powers?

I've been meaning to get into that sort of RP though, with Andrea Diamanta (my long-lost Mitsubishi Endeavor character.) Maybe I can even start Rafey off as human, and send him to the Cars world as a pyrokinetic. XD

[elizar]

I did say a high percentage had powers, so it doesn't have to be everyone that does have powers. While I feel the pyrokinetic mentally unstable invidual has been done several times, maybe you can bring some new twist into it.

Once enough people respond to this thread, I will make a profile template for the RP and post my characters here. It may sound cruel, but I want enough interest being shown for this RP. I am just looking for just two-three more players, any takers?

[Tracker89]

I'm interested, although I'm not sure if I could keep up if the RP becomes too fast, since I'm busy and live in a completely different time zone from most of HH's users.

I'm glad you mentioned aircraft in your first post, since I now have the urge to make one of my two characters a helicopter...the other will be a car, although I'm not sure if I'll make him all-new or adapt one of my older character into him...

[elizar]

Well, the only ones keeping it busy is Eva and Ebony, and since IPD has shown no interest so far, Ebony follows her around, and Eva cannot join a new RP as of yet, it seems that it is going to be me and the others who are not in Swept Away.

I live in Iceland, which means that even now I am missing several interactions in the Swept Away. But while I have the key characters in my hand, I control the activity time and speed of Smokes and Mirrors. Like I said in the prep thread, I am good with 'one-two posts per day per player' RP, even less. I know I sound bit dominant here, but I will try to accomidate with the others. I have been in slow RPs before, and it will do me good to revert to those old ways. It will also give me time to think things through, where the plot is going and taking in informations and suggestions from other players.

It will also eliminate puppeting. Puppeting is done when a key player is missing, but if we accept a slow RP, that means that a key player should be allowed 24-48 hours to respond. That should be good enough time. It will give others the time to think their own posts through, and thus give perhaps a text rich RP.

Of course, this can give the leeway of a RP withering and dying. The slow RP I was in had several threads going in the same universe. It was college based, so the threads were marked by timestamp, location, and if it was open for all or two players wanted some private interaction. Some threads flourished, some withered. Then we have to judge that in that RP, no puppeting was allowed to any extend. And when in combat, which has happened three times in the RP's history of four-five years, it is suggestion based combat. You don't hit anyone, you swing and hope you hit, the other player will judge if the hit registered or not.

I don't really know what would happen with this one if it does go to the slow path. Thus I think that some puppeting is needed since it will most likely be one thread RP like the Swept Away. Maybe if some see that they will be away for a week or longer, they could post that to allow others to pick up the puppeting a bit sooner.

Anyway! To summarize the origional point, fast pace RP versus the slow one. This RP will most likely be a slow one due to some players being on at random times and conflicting with the other players. Puppeting should be allowed to some extend if a player is unavailable.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

I could use Destiny in this... Not quite sure what kind of ability she would have.

[elizar]

She can be one of those without an ability. Like I said, some percentage has ability. I will work on making a profile outline after work tonight and post my profiles as well.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

That would work- she's blind, so she'd be one of those uber-vulnerable characters.

[elizar]


[b]Name: [/b]
[b]Age: [/b]
[b]Make/Model: [/b]
[b]Human: [/b] Yes/No
[b]Arrival status: [/b] Only for teleporters. Either 'arrived' so introduction is not needed in a form of teleport, or 'to arrive' if you want the introduction via teleportation.
[b]Ability:[/b] Cars can also have some abilities, but the teleporters/jumpers are more prone to it. But there are teleporters without abilities.

[b]Personality: [/b]

[b]Description: [/b]

[b]History: [/b]


Copy paste and go define your characters. I will have mines up soon.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

Name: Destiny Johnston
Age: 19
Make/Model: GEO Storm
Human: Yes
Arrival status: To arrive immediately prior of an accident in which she is hit by a car while crossing the street.

Personality: Very shy and quiet, she hates to be a burden on others, especially because of her disability. If she needs something, she will most likely keep quiet if she can't get it herself; only until it is a dire need will she ask others.

Description: As a human, has shoulder-length brown hair and blue/green eyes, about 5'5" in height and average build. She is blind, so she carries a white cane.

As a car, she is a metallic teal GEO Storm, but still blind.

History: Raised in North Carolina, Destiny was a fairly average girl, until an accident in middle school left her blind for life. Regardless, she graduated from high school and was attending her first semester of college when a drunk driver failed to notice her at the cross walk. She heard the engine and someone yelling at her to watch out, but just as she felt the car collide with her everything went silent.


How's that?

[elizar]

Nice, now I feel bad for spending so much time on the back story.

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Name: Maxwell Eightses
Age: 28
Make/Model: Honda Legend '89
Human: Yes
Arrival status: Arrived
Ability: Medicore mind suggestion, 'jedi mind trick'.

Personality:
Open, good listener, able to think on his feet. He tries to understand people, though he may dismiss some extreme cases. He tries his best to radiate confidence even if the situation is rather perilous.

Description:
Light grey paintjob, blue eyes. He does have few dents that had been aquired when driving his own car back at his world. He does have a custom simple spoiler which blends in with his frame almost perfectly. He is also tuned, though that does not reflect on what he did to his car back home.

History:
Maxwell was named such to fit his last name by his parents. They were of the careless hippies when that was dying out, so he is one of the last of generation X. He dislikes his name since it has been the butt of some jokes, comparing him to the spy Maxwell Smart, as his last name does seem similar to 'eighty-six’. He grew up and managed to have a nice social circle which knew his opinion on his name. He never really got the worst of the others, giving him a pretty good upbringing except for one thing he tries his best to keep away from others.

Maxwell had unfortunately begun to live from his car. He was in California, so it wasn’t that hard to find a spot where the heat was right at times. He had lost his apartment to a landlord who had been taking his rent for himself, figuring him an easy target for such crime. Maxwell had found another apartment and paid for it, but couldn’t be in it until after a month, and hotel or motel was out of the question as he had paid all he had for the deposit.

There had been a storm that night. Maxwell wasn’t able to sleep due to the thunders, but before he could move his car to maybe less noisy place, a lightning struck it as he had been opening the doors. He was hit by it, and the next thing he remembered, was being his own car.

Confused and afraid, he quickly searched for a road and soon discovered he was in Nevada. He quickly found the interstate and went on it, driving erratically and thus got the attention of Stephen Stoker, a ’97 Mustang which was also a police car. Stephen was not impressed by his story, but the only thing he could get him on was the lack of interstate license, and the fine would have to be paid in a month.

After gathering some pieces, and get in contact with few that could help him, Maxwell got himself together. After the arrival of Liana, he figured that there would be more to come, and they were not alone in this.

[elizar]

Oh shoot, I forgot the space for an ability. It should come in after the Arrival status. Time for edits.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

Doesn't affect me any...

[elizar]

Yeah, I know. Though Fiero would have to need the space and anyone else who would want to join.

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Name: Liana Niner
Age: 20
Make/Model: Suzuki Grand Vitara ‘00
Human: Yes
Arrival status: Arrived
Ability: Specific Empath, able to detect recent teleporters/jumpers.

Personality:
Shy and inward. Will make effort to know people however if she deems them good. She hates seeing someone feeling lower than she is and may take the effort to help them.

Description:
Deep blue base color with green pearlescent on her hood and mirrors. Green eyes. Wears heavy duty tires though she sticks to the asphalt now at the moment.

History:
It wasn‘t until college was over that Liana retracted into herself. She had studied politics and media, and found herself working a pretty low level work at a news station. She made up for it by having a four wheel drive car that was suitable for her, one of those compact convertible Grand Vitara, and actually used it. She lived and worked in Virginia, and was given few oppertunities to seriously offroad.

During one such trip, alone as in most of them, her car got stuck and the dark was approaching fast. She had enough food for her to last few days, so she figured she could just fall asleep in her car, then head for civilization next morning.

She woke up in the Nevada desert, and managed to locate Maxwell before Stoker found her. He helped her adjust without resorting to trickery.

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Name: Stephen Stoker
Age: 24
Make/Model: Ford Mustang, ‘97
Human: No

Personality:
Appears cold and calculating on the surface, as it was a trait that he had to have during his past. He wants to know the answers as soon as possible, as long as it was within acceptable boundaries, such as it was legal to get that information as he is a police officer.

Description:
Mostly white, with enough black markings on him and a police emblem to identify him as a police officer. Tuned, but does not have a spoiler or any work on him visible on the surface. Grey eyes.

History:
Stephen was orphaned, though he thinks most of the time that he would have been better off living on the streets. His foster parents thought they could isolate him, thus taking away all rebellion so he would be the obedient quiet kid they wanted. He ran away when thirteen, but it quickly went south for him. He still had some morals, instilled from his foster parents, but he also had to survive. After getting enough money from stealing and smuggling medical supplies, he got himself tuned to also participate in racing, and be better at smuggling. He never touched any other stuff than the medical supplies, which went directly to the tuners, even though it was for a high price.

The doctor he worked for, who had lost his license in a malpraction suit, was soon found out, and the doctor set things up so Stephen would take the blame. Stephen protested, trying to resist arrest. But one of the officers on the scene decided to listen to the broken teenager, kept him close when in custody to teach him properly what had happened. Stephen came to look at him as a mentor and father, and the officer quickly repaid him by having the accounts of smuggling, stealing and resisting arrest stricken from his record, allowing him to have a clean state.

No longer burdened by a criminal record, Stephen joined up with the police force. There were some that doubted him as he was tuned, but he proved them quickly that tuners were indeed their equals. He never was proud of what he did, but took things with the same cold stride.

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Last one for a while, I don't have the user developed enough and still bit unnerved to be playing him/her. I would rather want someone more experienced in that matter pick that ball up.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Name: Martin Lebeau
Age: 20
Make/Model: 2001 Pontiac Sunfire
Human: Yes
Arrival status: To arrive
Ability: None in particular besides being a computer tech.

Personality: Shy, lame joker, but quite smart. Has a thick canadian french accent.

Description: (To be completed)

History: (To be completed)