Goodknight - A Text Adventure Thread
Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 8:46 pm
To get down to the nitty-gritty of this thread, it's like a few I've done in the past. I will be describing the events occuring and the actions of the character, you lot will decide what the character does. It's pretty simple, right? Depending on the number of responses I get, I'll either go with the suggestion that gets the most vote, pick multiple suggestions if they're compatible, or just pick whichever sounds most interesting if there's no consensus. These first few posts will be sparse as I explain the setting and get you guys to vote on the character.
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The year is 2251. Your name is Madison Swift, and you are an Assassin, not born but created through a combination of biological and cybernetic growth. You were born today. You have the figure and mental maturity of someone in their early twenties. You were created by the Raztoran Syndicate, to serve as a tool of enforcement. You're standing in a sparsely furnished studio apartment looking out over the bustling metropolis of Moras on the planet Aphroditis, the window open, a cool breeze blowing across your bare skin. You look down at yourself, idly tracing a finger over the faint alphanumeric brand placed above your collarbone. What does it say?
Choices:
APCU-410: Anti-personnel combat unit, Model 410. The absolute latest in combat cyborgs, you're uniquely suited and indeed built for murder, roughly 50% biological and 50% cybernetic, your chassis contains multiple hidden weapons systems, including dart missiles, FM Blades and precision lasers, along with increased physical speed, strength, endurance and stamina.
IPU-X11: The eleventh prototype of the Infiltration Personality Unit, you are the first of your type to ever be deployed. Largely biological, with only a handful of small cybernetic enhancements, your design is absolutely top-secret. You were designed to approach targets and befriend or seduce them, and are equipped in multiple ways for such a task. Amongst your more unique features are limited shape-shifting, allowing for minor alterations to height and build, and significant alterations to facial structure and other identifying features, enhanced sweat glands that can be altered at-will to produce potent pheromones, and other glands which can produce a multitude of different toxins.
EOU-136: As an Excessive Offence Unit, you were designed with one ultimate goal; to cause utter destruction whenever and where-ever you strike. You are not a creature of stealth or subtlety, and it would take more than one miracle for you to ever pass as an unaltered human. More than 75% of your body is artificial, and almost every inch of it is encased in thick carbo-fibre skin or armoured alloys. Your most subtle weapons are FM Blades that extend from your arms, and they're large enough that describing them as 'subtle' seems almost humorous. And yet, your other weapons consist of high powered particle cannons, micro-missiles with antimatter warheads, and hyperspacial dispersion cannons. Any mission you're sent on is likely to be a slaughter rather than a precision strike.
RSG-000: You are a Razor Stealth Gynoid. You have no truly biological components at all. You are in fact the first fully sentient artificial lifeform to have been developed on this planet, and you were created to kill things quickly, quietly, and without fuss. Your body is made of incredibly lightweight materials and looks like the apex of human beauty in every respect. You are capable of rendering yourself almost completely invisible on every appreciable EM wavelength, with only hyperspacial technology being capable of reliably detecting you. Your only inbuilt weaponry is a single FM Blade that is stored in your left leg and ejected when needed for a job. You are unsuited to direct confrontation, and also possess an experimental displacement device, allowing you to teleport yourself or others up to 1000km in any direction, though it has a 1 in 200,000 chance of catastrophic failure when used, it is otherwise perfectly safe.
SSS-5410^7: Apparently a Standard Synthetic Slave, you are one of millions of a lower-class of citizen, created and typically used as servants and slaves, regarded as being sub-sapient and common everywhere. You are a slight improvement upon that, given more intelligence than the typical SSS unit and slightly enhanced physical capabilities. Your only true advantage is how unnoticeable you are due to seeming to be an everyday slave unit, and you've been fitted with a small neural lattice that will allow you to transmit your mind to safety in the event your synthetic body is destroyed or your cover is compromised.
Or is there something else on you instead? Perhaps you guys have some other suggestions, if you don't want to vote for one of these options. Let's see how this goes, eh?
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The year is 2251. Your name is Madison Swift, and you are an Assassin, not born but created through a combination of biological and cybernetic growth. You were born today. You have the figure and mental maturity of someone in their early twenties. You were created by the Raztoran Syndicate, to serve as a tool of enforcement. You're standing in a sparsely furnished studio apartment looking out over the bustling metropolis of Moras on the planet Aphroditis, the window open, a cool breeze blowing across your bare skin. You look down at yourself, idly tracing a finger over the faint alphanumeric brand placed above your collarbone. What does it say?
Choices:
APCU-410: Anti-personnel combat unit, Model 410. The absolute latest in combat cyborgs, you're uniquely suited and indeed built for murder, roughly 50% biological and 50% cybernetic, your chassis contains multiple hidden weapons systems, including dart missiles, FM Blades and precision lasers, along with increased physical speed, strength, endurance and stamina.
IPU-X11: The eleventh prototype of the Infiltration Personality Unit, you are the first of your type to ever be deployed. Largely biological, with only a handful of small cybernetic enhancements, your design is absolutely top-secret. You were designed to approach targets and befriend or seduce them, and are equipped in multiple ways for such a task. Amongst your more unique features are limited shape-shifting, allowing for minor alterations to height and build, and significant alterations to facial structure and other identifying features, enhanced sweat glands that can be altered at-will to produce potent pheromones, and other glands which can produce a multitude of different toxins.
EOU-136: As an Excessive Offence Unit, you were designed with one ultimate goal; to cause utter destruction whenever and where-ever you strike. You are not a creature of stealth or subtlety, and it would take more than one miracle for you to ever pass as an unaltered human. More than 75% of your body is artificial, and almost every inch of it is encased in thick carbo-fibre skin or armoured alloys. Your most subtle weapons are FM Blades that extend from your arms, and they're large enough that describing them as 'subtle' seems almost humorous. And yet, your other weapons consist of high powered particle cannons, micro-missiles with antimatter warheads, and hyperspacial dispersion cannons. Any mission you're sent on is likely to be a slaughter rather than a precision strike.
RSG-000: You are a Razor Stealth Gynoid. You have no truly biological components at all. You are in fact the first fully sentient artificial lifeform to have been developed on this planet, and you were created to kill things quickly, quietly, and without fuss. Your body is made of incredibly lightweight materials and looks like the apex of human beauty in every respect. You are capable of rendering yourself almost completely invisible on every appreciable EM wavelength, with only hyperspacial technology being capable of reliably detecting you. Your only inbuilt weaponry is a single FM Blade that is stored in your left leg and ejected when needed for a job. You are unsuited to direct confrontation, and also possess an experimental displacement device, allowing you to teleport yourself or others up to 1000km in any direction, though it has a 1 in 200,000 chance of catastrophic failure when used, it is otherwise perfectly safe.
SSS-5410^7: Apparently a Standard Synthetic Slave, you are one of millions of a lower-class of citizen, created and typically used as servants and slaves, regarded as being sub-sapient and common everywhere. You are a slight improvement upon that, given more intelligence than the typical SSS unit and slightly enhanced physical capabilities. Your only true advantage is how unnoticeable you are due to seeming to be an everyday slave unit, and you've been fitted with a small neural lattice that will allow you to transmit your mind to safety in the event your synthetic body is destroyed or your cover is compromised.
Or is there something else on you instead? Perhaps you guys have some other suggestions, if you don't want to vote for one of these options. Let's see how this goes, eh?