Tabernacle City

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First some facts.

Tabernacle City is located around pre-war Utah. It's a religious independent city-state led by Governor Aaron Clay. The city gets its name from the Tabernacle, a large plain looking structure that functions as the city's main meeting hall and church gathering point. The city is heavily religious, and is known as a trading outpost connecting the 'settled lands' in the West (i.e. NCR, Redding, New Reno, etc.) and the 'Wastelands' (midwest United States.). In fact, it IS geographically the Western most civilized city before you reach the twister infested Mid-West. Currently, the city is up for grabs, and NCR wants to add it into their borders, they've even built an embassy there to increase their influence.

The culture itself is one of hard work and humble devotion to God. Their religion bears a slight resemblance to the Church of Latter Day Saints, but it deals mostly with Protestant Christians in general. Rumors and propaganda surrounding the city include that they are polygamists, which is absolutely a fraud. The city is dominated by working class citizens that do lead humble lives.

Their police force consists of a volunteer system, and their cops are called constables. They can wear any type of street clothes, and their only identification that they are officers of the law is a blue foraging cap on their head.

I think this setting would be an interesting location to begin a story, at least to have a origin to begin stories. Well, that is all for now, I don't think I want to start playing yet, but it'd be nice for people to start posting their characters. You don't have to reveal background story, just appearance, outer demeanor in public, and some other general info.
 
Ok i just wanted to express a couple of my thoughts and ask a question

1) My question
We prety much destroyed one of mister Ts posts a while ago. It was mainly my high tech stuff. I was new to roleplaying and was using a stealth boy. Is everyone happy about me using my power armour. fang sometimes arrives in a leather jacket when he doesn't want to be recognized as a memeber of the BOS. Should i have him wear this. There would have to be a good reason. ohh and T i have become quite a bit better at roleplaying and i think i'm ready to use power armour and not ruin everything

2) My Thoughts
I think we should enter already as a group. I mean Reptile, Insane, Will and all the other characters that know each other. it gets a bit weird that coincidentially the same characters always meet. If they started off together it wouldn't be another thing like that.


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I'm completely for your idea, T!

Fang: You don't absolutely NEED to use the same character over and over in every thread, in fact it's much better if you do NOT. Get your creative juices flowing and make a deep character.

Mister T (or should I say Douglass/Macon? I'm Sgt Chain and Beamer Cadillac myself): I would really like to join your story, kick this board into some more serious gears. But I just want to know: should we be able to control everyone's characters, or just what our own character does? I'm for the latter system.

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Well the problem with everyone controlling their own characters are:
Cons:
1) If a person isn't here, what happens to him or her?
2) Usually nothing goes perfectly for anyone character, so scenes will usually be very hectic and a bit mixed up.


Pros:
1) No stepping on each other's toes. We won't have to get permission or fear stepping over the line, because everyone control's their own character.
2)A group agreement will be reached, so like major combat decisions and just major decisions in general will have more input. We won't have much, "Now, me and my friends bust into the main entrance of the base, even though we have a pacifist in our group."

Those are the major advantages and disadvantages to playing with individual control. Now, group playing:
Pros:
1) Nice scenes, if done correctly. If someone decides it would be cool to advance the plot in a certain direction, or think that a scene between certain characters would be cool then that person writes every character in it.
2) More flow. Combat, dialogue, and everything will be done and every person will have a hand in them or have the ability to have a hand. This in turn makes the story goes faster, or at least get more things doen.

Con:
1) Godmodding: This will inevitably happen, as one dominant character will start. I personally think godmodding has its place. If every single character is godmodded OR if only one godmodded character is allowed with regular characters, then there isn't much problem with the story. Based on my experience, when there are two or more god modded characters, and the rest are regular characters, then there is a problem. The godmodded characters go off on their large save-the-world type quests, and they drag the regular characters. It ends up the godmodders do all the major events, and the regulars become sidekicks...or worse. If there is one godmodder, then he will act as leader, while the team will support him. If everyone is a godmodder then that works too, because everyone is equally strong and can equally bash bad guys, so no story inequalities will arise.
2)Sometimes the story flows too fast. If someone disappears for a month, and then comes back, the person will be obviously lost among the events that occurred.

Well, there you have it. Also, think about what Tabernacle City needs, where we will go, east, north, or what?
 
Um... What DOES Tabernacle City need?

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Bush is a chick
Albright's a guy
This poem is sick
And so am I
 
It needs a body. It needs a story. It needs to be filled with structures, those structures populated with the wearied beings of the wastes, and those beings endowed with an attitude and an atmosphere characteristic to the environment that you feel is in the greatest need of excavation. Flesh it out and make it a tangible entity.

"Nil Desperandum"

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What's wrong with one charcter becoming like a leader. I used to be a like a leader, It didn't interfere with the story though. And in South of The Border Will took charge which brought up a mini story thing that fang wanted to be the leader. It didn't make them enemies but it affected some of the scenes giving them a a little extra something. Anyway i'm working on some story for this city. I'll post back when i'm done.

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Yeah, you like being a leader, Fang. I've noticed that. :)

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RUNE, the Arch-Norwegian
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Bush is a chick
Albright's a guy
This poem is sick
And so am I
 
And...

There's also another danger associated with multi-control. Sterotyping. And that WILL happen.

You just can't get to know a deep character enough that you can foresee his/her every move. I've seen this on the Interplay boards, where really good characters (not mine) have been reduced by the other players to just fit in the "nerd" or "tough guy" category.

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RUNE, the Arch-Norwegian
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Bush is a chick
Albright's a guy
This poem is sick
And so am I
 
RE: And...

Well i have tried both multi-control and single-control.
and i must say that single is better in that way that it makes up much more rpging when one player alone just cant pass by a whole city to get to kill somebodey.
But if the posting rate is to slow it will take ages only to get to know each others when u usualy cant write much whitout turing every dialoge to a monologe.
But lets trie teh single-control thing now ok? if u have to control others use npcs....

And i'll try to make up a whole new character...

Reptile [the man who can't spell]
 
Research

Well, after Yamu's suggestion I did some research on the Internet and my local library. I've only skimmed some info, but it looks promising. Utah currently has 60-70% of its people living from Ogden to Provo. Salt Lake City itself holds a majority of the population. 2/3 are Mormons. There are 6 military installations in Utah. Two I have info on are Hill Air Force Base, and some chemical testing Facility. Oh ya, Utah is also the West's only major source of coal. Neat, huh? Well, I'll try to read up and give more info tomorrow.
 
RE: Research

How about trying both. If something goes wrong we can always chose to ignore it. And if you all have Icq we can simulate the coversations over that and one of us can post them. I live near london so i guess i'm GMT. Time might be a bit of a problem. Anyway we can probably work something out

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Captivating people.

I've noticed that everyone did talk about how their characters would appear in Tabernacle City. Well, my post; The Ulrich Cougar one, explains how my character gets there so I'm just waiting for this thing to open up.
 
RE: Captivating people.

This seems damn fun but I've a couple of questions.......

So is it that:
Only control own char and in times of need, use NPCs?
As low-tech as possible?
Say how ya char get to the city?

And:
Open a new post for char introduce and story?
Is the story mainframe done?
This post happen b4 "South of Border" ?
 
RE: Captivating people.

This post happens after South of the Border. Therefore we know each other (Most of us) and are good friends. That means that some of us can enter together on the thread already created. I'm going to do so now.

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RE: Captivating people.

Since Ulrich Cougar never made an appearance in South fo the Border I'm fine.
 
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