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Most of you have probably seen the film Jurassic Park, or are familiar with its concept. I decided to start an RP based on the movie. The basic plot is this: For years, top scientists and researchers in Breitenburg have been working on a way to bring extinct animals back to life. After many years of painstaiking research, they have made a breakthrough, and are now cloning extinct animals. On a remote island owned by the government of Breitenburg, a zoo/theme park/biological reserve has been set up. A group of a few select people have been selected to tour the island before it opens to the public.


Your character(s) can be from any walks of life. They can be native of any nation, both real or one made for NS. They creation sheet is this.


Name: (Your character's name)
Age: (Your character's age)
Height: (How tall they are)
Weight: (How heavy they are)
Nationailty: (What nation they are from)
Eye Color: (Blue, Green, Brown, etc.)
Hair Color: (Red, Brown, Black, etc.)
Appearance: (Clothes and any other noteworthy features, like scars, etc.)
Equipment: (What your character is carrying, no weapons)
Occupation: (Your character's job)


There will only be a few characters who will carry guns (security personnel). However, once the outbreak occurs, the survivors will be able to make primitive weapons out of materials around them.


The first part of the RP will involve the group meeting each other and going on the first part of the tour. During the tour, a problem will occur, which will strand the group in the wild. The group will then try to survive, as well as make it back to the island's heliport to escape.


The island is broken up into several different areas, each one with a different enviroment. These enviroments were made to facilitate to the needs of the animals that live in them. The areas are as follows.


Main Area: (This Area contains no animals. It is here humans stay on the island. It contains the heliport, the hotel, Vistor Center, and Security Center.)

Plains Area: (This area is a vast, open area, similar to a savannah. Large herds of giant dinosaurs, like the sauropods (brontosaurus) and ceratopsians (triceratops) roam. Large carnivores such as Allosaurus, and packs of smaller ones like Dromeosaurus (raptor) also roam here.)

Jungle Area: (The Jungle Area is home to the most feared and mighty predator on the island, the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Althoogh this area also contains alrge herbivores, like the hadrosaurs (duck bills), they do not roam in large heards like those on the savannah.)

Mountain Area: (This area contains fewer dinosaurs than th other areas. Instead, it is filled with prehistoric mammals. Large Mammoths, fierce Smilodons (sabre tooth tigers), and other strange beasts live here.)

Desert Area: (The harsh desert enviroment houses several strange dinosaurs, like the sail backed Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus (sail backed duck bill). Animals often gather around the many large oasises, but even these are not safe, as giant crocodilians lurk just beneath the surface.)

Aquatic Area: (A large, man made sea. This area contains giant seabeasts that hunt endlessly for the smaller groups of animals that inhabit their world. These sea monsters included the giant shark Megalodon, and the serpent like killer whale Basiliosaurus.)

One note. If you stop RPing, I will send you a TG. If you don't respond to it in at least a week, your character will be killed. I will make my characters later today.

Name: Lieutenant Colonel Jason Strongarm
Age: 35
Height: 5'11"
Weight: (How heavy they are)
Nationailty: TAP'ian
Eye Color: Green Rim, with Steel blue core
Hair Color: dirty blonde
Appearance: Usually wears collarless button ups when off duty. He wears tough jeans, and usually has a rough, though comfortable pair of jeans on. His head is covered by a clothcap. He wears tough boots, and carries a backpack that he uses to hike with.
Equipment: Backpack (Internal Frame), Leatherman Multi-Tool (one inch knife), five days worth of clothes, ten days worth of socks and underwear, wallet with ID, three debit cards, and three hundred dollars, Mountain Bike and helmet, Walking Stick, Portable Wind up Radio and Headphones
Occupation: TAP Marine Corps Biological Research Division

Lt. Col. Strongarm is here to evaluate your results, and report back to the President about whether or not we should look into it in terms of setting up our own similar park with your help. He is the nation's foremost geneticist, and has been looking into a similar project himself. He is looking into the use of them as a training program, and plans to go on a trip through the plains section on bike.

Some characters for me.

Name: Rick Breitenstine
Age: 27
Height: 5'11
Weight: 159 lbs
Nationailty: Breitenburgian
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Appearance: Usually dressed in jeans, a band T-Shirt, and Converse Chuck Taylors. Has very messy, curly blonde hair. When he arrives on the island he is wearing a black Queens of the Stone Age Shirt.
Equipment: Wallet, Cell Phone, Glasses and Case, MP3 Player, Notebook, Pen, Backpack with clothes, about 400 dollars.
Occupation: Paleontologist

Rick is one of the world's leading minds in paleontology. Being a native of Breitenburg, he was formally invited to attend a tour before the park opened in order to see first hand the creatures he has been studying in the flesh.



Name: Max Harris
Age: 36
Height: 6'2
Weight: 186 lbs
Nationailty: Breitenburgian
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: Has a large, fresh scar just under his left eye. He usually wears a safari/walkabout style gettup.
Equipment: Nothing on him right now. Everything he owns is in the Security Center.
Occupation: Head of Island Security

Max's past remains a mystery. He is the head of security at the park, and a usually quiet person. However, he is very prtective of people he cares about, and knows a thing or two about survival.



Name: Emily Fleck
Age: 26
Height: 5'7
Weight: 130 lbs
Nationailty: Breitenburgian
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Red
Appearance: A very attractive woman, with long red hair. Emily ususally wears casual clothes, but on the tour she wears a safari like gettup, similar to max.
Equipment: Like Max, her equipment is not with her, but in the Visitor Center.
Occupation: Island Tour Guide and Head of Visitor Services

Emily is a natural for the job of tour guide. Always talkative and cheerful, she recieved the job because of her past services to the government of Breitenburg during national festivals and concerts. She leads the group on the guided tour throughout the park.

My main character, others to follow (per further TG's with Breit).

Name: Capt. Hector Vincenzo Nelson
Age: 33
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 205 lbs.
Nationality: Arthurian
Hair: Variable, fades from dark black to ruddy brown after prolonged sun exposure, kept short
Eyes: Grey
Appearance: Often mistaken for a human wall, Nelson is well muscled and looks the part of a lumberjack. He wears durable clothing, preferring jeans with relaxed inseams to give him a wider range of motion without catching on underbrush when not wearing army fatigues. He carries a backpack with tightly rolled clothes to save on space, and generally wears sunglasses for times when in sunlight. He wears an international standard size 14 shoe, and prefers durable boots with a static rubber sole that greatly increases traction.
Equipment: backpack with internal structured compartments, four days worth garments, two weeks worth undergarments and socks, three total pairs of sunglasses, collapsible umbrella, multitool, combat knife, hatchet. Additionally, his walet contains his international driver's license, pilot's license, military ID, two debit/credit cards, and two hundred fifty dollars in cash.
Occupation: Arthurian military survival school, master-instructor.

As part of a collaborative deal, Capt. Nelson has been invited to observe how prehistorical and artificially engineered environments can be studied to improve survivalist education for military special forces and advance guard units.

My main character, others to follow (per further TG's with Breit).

Name: Capt. Hector Vincenzo Nelson
Age: 33
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 205 lbs.
Nationality: Arthurian
Hair: Variable, fades from dark black to ruddy brown after prolonged sun exposure, kept short
Eyes: Grey
Appearance: Often mistaken for a human wall, Nelson is well muscled and looks the part of a lumberjack. He wears durable clothing, preferring jeans with relaxed inseams to give him a wider range of motion without catching on underbrush when not wearing army fatigues. He carries a backpack with tightly rolled clothes to save on space, and generally wears sunglasses for times when in sunlight. He wears an international standard size 14 shoe, and prefers durable boots with a static rubber sole that greatly increases traction.
Equipment: backpack with internal structured compartments, four days worth garments, two weeks worth undergarments and socks, three total pairs of sunglasses, collapsible umbrella, multitool, combat knife, hatchet. Additionally, his walet contains his international driver's license, pilot's license, military ID, two debit/credit cards, and two hundred fifty dollars in cash.
Occupation: Arthurian military survival school, master-instructor.

As part of a collaborative deal, Capt. Nelson has been invited to observe how prehistorical and artificially engineered environments can be studied to improve survivalist education for military special forces and advance guard units.

Sounds like our guys are there for the same reason. Maybe they can talk shop about this on the tour.

Name: Anya Kazimirez
Age: 30
Height: 5'8''
Weight: 130lbs
Nationality: Kulikovian
Hair: Short, black
Eyes: Blue
Appearance: Very outdoor-oriented clothing, hiking boots, cargo pants, shirt.
Occupation: Investigative Journalist. (She's writing a story concerning the research facility).

Name: Weston Clairk
Age: 32
Height: 6 foot
Weight: 175lb
Nationailty: Clarkingtonshire
Eye Color: half blue half green
Hair Color: black
Appearance: Jeans,heavy jacket,a Turtleneck,short hair,and a distinctive moon shaped scar on the back of the hand
Equipment: climing gear,spare clothes,camping gear,Gernman sheperd(trained security dog), and a consealed uzi and ammo
Occupation: Billionaire inventor(payed 5 Billion to see the park before anyone else)

Name: Rex Davis
Age: 27
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 168
Nationailty: New Genoese
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: Five o'clock shadow, with a serious demeanor. Rex hardly ever smiles, or laughs.
Equipment: backpack with extra clothes, cell phone, wallet
Occupation: Graduate student paleontologist

Name: Trevor Maxwell
Age: 26
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 160
Nationailty: New Genoese
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: bald
Appearance: Wears jeans, jacket, and baseball cap bearing the emblem of the New Genoa Greyhounds NSMLB team. Has a thin goatee.
Equipment: backpack with extra clothes, cell phone, wallet
Occupation: Paleontologist

okay, things are going well. After a few more people join, I'll start the thread.

One thing though. Sentient Beongs, no uzi. And the german shepard will probably die at one point.

Also, there will be animals in this RP that were not real, but have appeared in movies and such. There will only be a few of these creatures though.

another thing, whenever the group encounters a new animal, I'll give you a quick bio on it.

Interesting idea, but it is in my opinion that if you're going to host a spinoff of a movie...it's best to not duplicate the scenario and setting seen in the movie...

Ya gotta come up with something different at the least...

Interesting idea, but it is in my opinion that if you're going to host a spinoff of a movie...it's best to not duplicate the scenario and setting seen in the movie...

Ya gotta come up with something different at the least...


I'm open to suggestions.

The use of the park as a wildlfie reserve, on par with a Kenyan National Park, is new, in the Book and movie, the Park was more like a Zoo.

Also, the OP has shown that there is more Bio-Diversity in the park, with more Chronological Diversity as well.

The park was exactly like a zoo, actually. That was John Hammond's whole idea, a $5000/day zoo for the rich and curious.

The Federation of Glorious Humanity is a combination of FT and PM technology. They're in transition right now, so while some pieces of technology are incredibly advanced, others are not that different from what we use today. If it's a problem, I can always shelve any FT equipment and stick to modern gear.

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Name: Cliff Acheson
Age: 37
Height: 6'0" (182 centimeters)
Weight: 220 lbs (100 kilograms)
Nationality: Federation of Glorious Humanity
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: Hair is cut short in a crew cut. Clean-shaven and in excellent physical shape. Wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt reading "University of Dulles, Caselbad". Boonie hat on his head. Brown hiking boots on his feet.
Equipment: PDA (Used for logging finds and for finding oneself with the onboard GPS), comm bead (basically a fancy miniature cell phone and earpiece all in one), survival tool (basically a swiss army knife), digital camera (slightly better than modern technology, but in function exactly what you'd expect a camera to do).
Occupation: Paleontologist

Dr. Acheson is one of the Federation's top paleontologists, and has worked on finds all over the world under the sponsorship of the University of Dulles, based in the Federation capital. Because of the university's proximity to the center of Federation politics and diplomacy, it's not uncommon for its scientists to be sent on fact-finding missions that are politically as well as scientifically motivated.

Because of the unique nature of this assignment, Dr. Acheson was selected to go see this park, and evaluate the creatures in it. He was chosen for his broad field of knowledge, and particular specialty in the late Cretaneous/Early Cenozoic eras.

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Name: Doctor Andrew Levine
Age: 27
Height: 5'10" (177 centimeters)
Weight: 185 pounds (84 kilograms)
Nationality: Federation of Glorious Humanity
Eye Color: Gray
Hair Color: Blond
Appearance: Decent shape, but not really fit, black slacks and button-up shirt, black shoes, "Loren Lions" baseball cap displaying the running lion logo of that soccer team.
Equipment: PDA, comm bead, camera, candy bar
Occupation: Geneticist

Unlike Dr. Acheson, Dr. Levine is a corporate man, and has worked for Genecorps Incorporated his whole professional life. He is one of the foremost geneticists in the Federation, and his work was one of the factors that launched the "genetic boom" in the Federation. His specialty is cloning, and for Genecorps he has pioneered "parts cloning", the long-dreamed of procedure to clone individual organs for people in need of transplants. He has also done work on complete human cloning, and developed a procedure that could do so, but Federation cloning laws prevent him from testing his procedure.

Given his expertise, it's unsurprising that Genecorps has sent him here. Where Dr. Acheson is interested in the product, Dr. Levine wants to see the process, learn about the cloning procedures used here, and inquire about the possibilities of purchasing (or otherwise acquiring) the technology and procedures that were used in this experiment.

cool. with all the characters, I think I will start the RP thread tomorrow. Once it starts though, no new characters can be admitted, so if you are thinking about joining, join now.

Note: NOVA Corps is an Ultranationalist Private Military Contractor that operates out of the city of Tortuga. Though not officially listed as a Terrorist organization by the government, many have labelled them as being seperatists. I got the idea for them from the movie Swordfish if you want to see the original source. However, unlike in the movie, they have a medium-sized corporation backing them for financial reasons, as well as extensive contacts within the RSB.

Name: Eddie Carr
Age: 24
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 150 lbs
Nationailty: TAP'ian
Eye Color: Green Rim, Red Core
Hair Color: Died Green and Brown
Appearance: Spiked hair in various directions, black button up shirt, black jeans, hiking boots, backpack, diving watch.
Equipment: Backpack with room for 36 embryos, Mini-SD converter and slot, Palm Pilot (Includes orders from the CEO to steal the gene sequencers and embryos if possible), Leatherman, SlimJim (Used for opening locked car doors), Lock Picker, Lock Breaker, Electronic Lock Bypasser, Modified iCache (used to print permanent EM codes onto cards in stead of temporary ones, $7,000 in bribe money, shaving kit, camouflage paint kit, digital camera, satellite phone w/ modem, thirty blank key-cards.
Occupation: Industrial Espionage

NOVA Corp has dispatched Eddie Carr to the Island to attempt to steal the dinosaurs for use in Bio-Warfare against either TAP or the nation's enemies.

Sounds like our guys are there for the same reason. Maybe they can talk shop about this on the tour.

I thought your guy was a geneticist, and did outdoorsman stuff as a hobby. Mine is the guy that writes for those "Worst Case Scenarios" books about being trapped out in the wild, mostly since his profession is teaching Spec Ops recruits about wilderness survival.

I thought your guy was a geneticist, and did outdoorsman stuff as a hobby. Mine is the guy that writes for those "Worst Case Scenarios" books about being trapped out in the wild, mostly since his profession is teaching Spec Ops recruits about wilderness survival.

Well, while he is a geneticist, he is more like Robert Neville from I Am Legend. And he has been trying to get more funding so that he can introduce them as part of the training for new soldiers. He is going to ride his mountain bike through the plains as a way to evaluate the training himself. It helps that he spends as much time in the outdoors as he can. And he probably has a couple of your books stashed at home seeing as he is into the outdoors so much.

Name: AJS-32875 (Acinonyx Jubatus Sapien) aka Hailey Rapture
Age: 43
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 145lbs
Nationailty: Vulpes Vixenis
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Yellow with black rosettes
Appearance: This anthropomorphic cheetah rarely wears anything other than is required by law and modesty, and only that when around humans. She is rarely seen without a pair of glasses perched firmly upon her muzzle, however, nor the small satchel she carries on her back.
Equipment: Small backpack containing a sketch pad, note pad, writing utensils, several bottles of water and cherry flavoring powder, a pocket computer, and a small, very worn, very ragged catnip mouse.
Occupation: Geneticist specializing in synthesis and construction of warm blooded animals

Hailing from a nation peopled by genetic creations, her presence should be no surprise. She was born prior to the revolution which freed her kind, and thus tends to answer more quickly to and list herself as the serial number she first knew for a name than the moniker she later adopted. She served the foremost geneticist of Timor prior to its fall, and now is one of Vulpes Vixens' leading minds in the field. She tends to be reserved, prefering to gather as much information as possible prior to forming an opinion. Her lithe form is toned and trim due to her weekly exercise regimen and her genetic heritage. In unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations, she tends to react based more on instinct than thought. She is generally shy when meeting new people, but her temper and tongue quickly flare when met with prejudice.

post the link 2 the real thing in here please.

vulpes, I'm going to have to ask that you either make your character a human or that you don't RP in the thread. The thread is MT, with a slight possibility of FT, and an anthropomorphic cheetah doesn't fit into the RP very well.


I will post a link to the IC thread later today, possibly around 6 PM Eastern Time.

here's the IC thread

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13337158#post13337158

OOC:Breit, I TG'ed you about possibly joining and some other things.

Name: Harry Johnson
Age: 29
Height: 6'2
Weight: 231 lbs
Nationailty: Calizorinstani
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Appearance: Wears standard camo BDU's, sometimes wears jeans and a white t-shirt reading "UH-1 Hueys forever"
Equipment: 12 days worth of clothes and underwear, 8830 Blackberry World Phone, 10 megapixel digital camera, notepad.
Occupation: Calizorinstani Marine Corps Foreign Biological and Life Division

^you're in

^you're in

Okay good! I shall RP shortly..

vulpes, I'm going to have to ask that you either make your character a human or that you don't RP in the thread. The thread is MT, with a slight possibility of FT, and an anthropomorphic cheetah doesn't fit into the RP very well.


I will post a link to the IC thread later today, possibly around 6 PM Eastern Time.

I'm not quite sure what MT or FT are... but I'll just go on and make a human.

Edit: Thinking about it, MT and FT are modern time and future time, aren't they?

Name: John Malcolm
Age: 36
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 143 lbs
Nationailty: Vulpes Vixenis
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Red
Appearance: Skinny, but toned; not exactly pasty, but not tanned; freckles
Equipment: Man-purse - Notepad, clipboard, writing utensils, camera, extra batteries, laptop, disposable contacts, pda; Duffle bag - one set of sweatclothes, two pairs of shorts, two pairs of slacks, four button-up shirts (two long sleeve, two short sleeve), one pair of running shoes, several sets of underclothes
Occupation: Primary Assistant to Dr. Hailey Rapture

One of the few humans who chose to remain in Vulpes Vixenis after the Revulotion, John Malcolm is Dr. Hailey Rapture's primary assistant. He has come to take notes prior to her arrival. He is not exactly an authority on genetics, however he can hold his own in basic conversation. His main function is performing research for Dr. Rapture's experiments and ensuring that said experiments run on time. As such, he tends to be somewhat pedantic and becomes easily frustrated when time tables are not kept. He is always punctual and always sharply dressed.

If this is acceptable, I'll hop in next chance I get.

I'm not quite sure what MT or FT are... but I'll just go on and make a human.

Edit: Thinking about it, MT and FT are modern time and future time, aren't they?

Name: John Malcolm
Age: 36
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 143 lbs
Nationailty: Vulpes Vixenis
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Red
Appearance: Skinny, but toned; not exactly pasty, but not tanned; freckles
Equipment: Man-purse - Notepad, clipboard, writing utensils, camera, extra batteries, laptop, disposable contacts, pda; Duffle bag - one set of sweatclothes, two pairs of shorts, two pairs of slacks, four button-up shirts (two long sleeve, two short sleeve), one pair of running shoes, several sets of underclothes
Occupation: Primary Assistant to Dr. Hailey Rapture

One of the few humans who chose to remain in Vulpes Vixenis after the Revulotion, John Malcolm is Dr. Hailey Rapture's primary assistant. He has come to take notes prior to her arrival. He is not exactly an authority on genetics, however he can hold his own in basic conversation. His main function is performing research for Dr. Rapture's experiments and ensuring that said experiments run on time. As such, he tends to be somewhat pedantic and becomes easily frustrated when time tables are not kept. He is always punctual and always sharply dressed.

If this is acceptable, I'll hop in next chance I get.

sounds good

The whole Cat that behaves like a human thing is possible with modern day science, but it is highly unlikely that it would work that well so that you could have an entire nation of them in MT. In PMT it could be argued to work, but not in MT.

The whole Cat that behaves like a human thing is possible with modern day science, but it is highly unlikely that it would work that well so that you could have an entire nation of them in MT. In PMT it could be argued to work, but not in MT.

It's not "cat that behaves like a human". They're genetically engineered, much the same as the dinosaurs on the island. They're genetic splices between human and animal DNA, which would arguably be easier than completely reconstructing creatures millions of years dead from fragmented strands.

Also, with some of the tech that people seem to be bringing in, I'm willing to argue that it's more near furture than modern times. Air cars, after all? I won't go any further than to point out that rather glaring pinhole in the timeframe.

It's not "cat that behaves like a human". They're genetically engineered, much the same as the dinosaurs on the island. They're genetic splices between human and animal DNA, which would arguably be easier than completely reconstructing creatures millions of years dead from fragmented strands.

Also, with some of the tech that people seem to be bringing in, I'm willing to argue that it's more near furture than modern times. Air cars, after all? I won't go any further than to point out that rather glaring pinhole in the timeframe.

No, we have enough that we could re-create the Dinosaurs, using Avian and Amphibian DNA if neccessary. However, you are trying to combine Human (Sapien) and Cat DNA. It is very hard to do in our times.

As for the Air-Car, the Moller Skycar exists, and can fly as per the way I have stated in the thread. Nothing too fancy, but the ability to lift off and land.

http://www.moller.com/ for more information on the vehicle

As for the Air-Car, the Moller Skycar exists, and can fly as per the way I have stated in the thread. Nothing too fancy, but the ability to lift off and land.

http://www.moller.com/ for more information on the vehicle

Well that's something else. I want one!

Well that's something else. I want one!

Get in line buddy, there are three hundred orders placed, and they don't have mass production in Earth-1 yet

They say bad things come in threes... lost my job, lost my mate, and then my computer blew up all within a span of a week... On a friend's long enough to post this. I really do appologize... Trying to get myself up and running again... Please feel free to consider my char inactive, and just move on with the story...