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Here's what it's about. We will be RPing as a character from our nation in Alfegos. In Alfegos, he has a secret underground "building" that has various tests. There are thousands of grey doors in a white hall (this is on the 1st floor; there's 3 of them), and in another is black, with doors that glow bright white. Our civilians are captured in the street from various nations as 'test subjects'. While not being watched, they are forced into the floor hallway - the elevator closing and with no buttons they can access, walk through the halls.

They come across one of the thousands with the words DOOR 2 - ENTANGLEMENT on it, and choose it, going from a white to a black hall. Again, thousands of doors, and they choose to go through DOOR 89C, which transports them into ancient Egypt, maybe 150 miles from the Sea and 200 miles from the Nile. With nothing but the cloths on their backs.

From there, they go. And they may end up coming across another portal which takes them to another place and time somewhere in the past. Maybe to the city of Rome in its height of glory, or perhapse in North America as the Vikings invade. Who knows... the adventure only starts here.

Anyway, signup here with the following:

Character Name:
Home Country:
Age:
Sex:
Religious Beliefs (if any):
Physical Description:
Their Personality:
About Them:
Any Additional Info/Comments:

This RP will start on Monday, Dec 17th (again, signups end the night of Sunday the 16th)

Character Name: Rowan Kellhem
Home Country: Cazelia
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Religious Beliefs (if any): None
Physical Description: Brown Hair, Red eyes, 7' tall
Their Personality: Emotionally strong, fearless, dark, troubled
About Them: Rowan was a mechanical engineer who was hired by the Kal'Har to find a rumored time machine in Alfegos, which could be used to stop the genocide of their people
Any Additional Info/Comments: He has lots of Government knowledge about time periods and aliens. Keep that in mind...

Character Name: Joshua Brown
Home Country: Ithsam
Age: 29
Sex: male
Religious Beliefs (if any): Christian
Physical Description: Brown semi long hair, 5.9, slightly athletic, icy blue eyes
Their Personality: Serious, loyal, hardened, cant stand to see friends hut when he can do nothing about it.
About Them: Josh grew up like any Ithsamnian with a dog and icy blue eyes like anyone else. A the age of 12 when he went to the mandatory 6 month long boot camp all males are required to attend before middle school he straitened out losing a lot of the childish immaturity he had. He became hardened but loyal but after the year of recovery he has had he has become a lot less like a hardened soldier.
Any Additional Info/Comments:

Character Name: Robert Johnson
Home Country: ViZion
Age: 18
Sex: M
Religious Beliefs (if any): Christian
Physical Description: 6'0, blonde hair, blue eyes, slight build
Their Personality: Outgoing, kind, loyal, jokes around alot unless the situation at hand is important - in which he becomes very serious
About Them: Growing up in Vitalita, ViZion, he attended the International School for Teens. He recently enlisted to join the Marines, and just exited his training. He is a very bright personal in business, is a leader, but hates math with a passion. He's also extremely close to God.
Any Additional Info/Comments: Making a trip to Alfegos with his family to celebrate officially becoming a ViZionarian Marine with his parents and younger 13 year old brother.

Character Name: Eduardo de la Cruz
Home Country: Gernish
Age: 19
Sex: male
Religious Beliefs (if any): Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Physical Description: Moderately tall, and very thin. Has hazy gray eyes, the color lost from them due to years of marijuana usage. The fact that he is thin hides his agility, which makes up for his lack of strength.
Personality: Deceptively cunning and knowledgeable in his own subjects, critical and cynical, rebellious, but not as much so as he would like to think.
About Them: Eduardo was born and raised in a small suberb of the capital city of Gernish to relatively rich parents. Because of their wealth he was able to be lazier than most citizens and soon fell in with a crowd of slackers who cut school and used pot. He just graduated high school (only because his father works for the MinisEd) and was walking around the city with no particular place to go when he was abducted for this experiment.
Any Additional Info/Comments: While he did spend countless hours getting high, he also has a deep knowledge of psychology and economic principles (one of very few classes he legitimately passed in school).

Character Name: Dan T. Macarthur
Home Country: the Beatus
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Religious Beliefs (if any): The Path of the Blessed
Physical Description: 5'8" thin, blue eyes, brown hair, glasses, white
Their Personality: Timid, bookworm, kind, friendly, intelligent,
About Them: Attended the Höfn Institute of High Education. Graduated three years ago with a degree in history and a minor in linguistics. Now working in Alfegos as an archaeologist excavating ancient ruins.

Character Name: Fredric Vircuzen
Home Country: Tornar
Age: 26
Sex: Male
Religious Beliefs (if any): Converted Hindu
Physical Description: White blonde hair, 6'4'' Medium muscles
Their Personality: A bit nerdy, doesn't like crowds, very smart, ambitious.
About Them: Fredric is the 3rd of 4 children, grew up in poverty, barely got through school, served two year in the army, left and got a degree in physics engineering from TIT (Tornar Institute of Technology), worked for the military as an engineer, then got a job as a military advisor.
Any Additional Info/Comments: He is Dyslexic. He all ways wears camo because he is paranoid that if a fight breaks out he can hide. He all ways carries a GPS in case he gets lost.

Character Name: Taylor Kent
Home Country: Amazonia
Age: 19
Sex: Female
Religious Beliefs (if any): Christian
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 108 lb
Physical Build: Slim Athletic
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Medium Brown
Their Personality/Traits: Dedicated, intelligent, understanding, social
About Them: Taylor currently is a sophmore at Amazonia State University studying political science and diplomacy. An academically gifted student, Taylor still is good in social interaction and a good athlete to boot. Living in middle class Amazonia, she lives a life of surplus and able to afford comforts along with neccessities.
Any Additional Info/Comments: Through various programs, Taylor has become quite good at languages, learning (besides standard Amazonian English) Chinese, French, and Latin.

Character Name: Sergei Brilev
Home Country: Vetalia
Age: 32
Sex: Male
Religious Beliefs (if any): Indigenous Vetalian

Physical Description: Slim, rather frail build with average height. Black hair, no gray but clearly thinning. He projects a calm face even when under exceptional emotional stress, helping to keep his appearance wrinkle free (although medical enhancements may also play a role). At the time of capture, dressed in a white laboratory coat with Cogent identification badge identifying him as a Level 4, the highest security clearance in Cogent.

Their Personality:

The very epitome of the absent-minded scientist. Good natured and polite, but willing to abandon normal standards of risk for significant gains. This makes him something of a rarity among the prudent Vetalians.

About Them:

Sergei Brilev is a researcher at Cogent Laboratories, a Vetalian company that pursues research in to many projects similar to those of the Alfegan lab. The two are long-standing rivals, both battling for VARPA funds as well as various contracts from both governments. As a result, he may be able to uncover additional knowledge about the facility or its operators that others would be incapable of knowing.

Any Additional Info/Comments:

Brilev will likely be more interested in gathering intelligence on the technologies used by his Alfegan peers for his own personal benefit as well as for that of Cogent Laboratories. As a result, he is not likely to be exceptionally interested in any kind of historical or cultural gains and may be quite untrustworthy if he feels it is a wise move.

Also, his knowledge of the workings of this technology may prove indispensible if the group is faced with a particularly intractible situation.

Character Name: Sinister man 01
Home Country: Alfegos
Age: unknown
Sex: M
Religious Beliefs (if any): none
Physical Description: Tall, black hair, shady-looking
Their Personality: Analytical
About Them: Joined Project 2 in 1991, and from there had his life and personality removed. He now works as an observer in tests upon individuals in the project, with an official level in the ministry of Alpha-5.


Any Additional Info/Comments: Is seen observing the people in the trip occasionally, but quickly disappears as soon as he is noticed. Sometimes seen holding a clipboard. Most of the time, is seen in a dark suit with a black tie, white shirt and black glasses. The locals to the era don't normally pay attention to him though.

Character Name: Sinister Man 02
Home Country: Alfegos
Age: unknown
Sex: M
Religious Beliefs (if any): none
Physical Description: Well-built, tall, blond hair
Their Personality: Brutal, violent
About Them: As above

Any Additional Info/Comments: Is found with 5 security drones herding the men into the elevator, and again observing them in the distance. Wears the same as the other man.

Character Name: Marcus Gaines
Home Country: Commonwealth of Free United States
Age: 14
Sex: M
Religious Beliefs (if any): Roman Catholic

Physical Description:
Height: 4'10"
Weight: 110 lbs.
hair: black (dyed dark blue)
Eyes: Blue w/ amethyst
Build: average, close to wiry

Their Personality: a good friend, exceedingly (sometimes wrecklessly) loyal, but also clumsy and a bit slow.

About Them: An average high school freshman who's main concern is grades and girls (or lack thereof). He is adept in science, history and languages, but inept in math to an embarrassing degree. Marcus has a veritable encyclopedic knowledge of things, and is often seen tinkering w/ the next gadget.

Any Additional Info/Comments: due to his knack of randomly disassembling perfectly good machines /technology, marcus always carries his trusty tool kit in his backpack, along w/ several tech. manuals.

OOC: Very interesting idea. I'll introduce a character as unlike any of the others as possible.


Character Name: Caitlin Davies

Home Country: Dyelli Beybi

Age: 23

Sex: Female

Religious Beliefs (if any): Church of Cyro (very similar to Anglican)

Physical Description: Short (5'3"), like most Dyellians, slender build, dark eyes, black hair falling to just below the shoulder. Very fine facial features.

Their Personality: Usually engaging, can become quite retiring when pressed about personal matters.

About Them: Supposedly a Dyellian working as a secretary in a small law firm of no particular note. Known to have a Sister in a Senior Possition in the Dyellian Foreign Office as well as two brothers. Supposedly speaks only English, but is also somehow fluent in Spanish and the Dyellian dialect of German. Appears to know a little bit more than she lets on about many situation. When presented with alcohol tends to be a poor judge of where her tolerance levels are...

Any Additional Info/Comments: Caitlin Davies is not exactly what she seems.

Character Name: David Skell
Home Country:Oily Prata
Age:37
Sex:M
Religious Beliefs (if any):Freethinker/Protestant
Physical Description:1.78 M tall. Quite fit from 2 years in a gym and 4 years in Boot camp and specialist training at 20. Body has unnatural addiction to cold, generating body heat several degrees higher than normal in frigid areas.
Their Personality:Regular,quite Extrovert,charming.
About Them:Likes his beer. Works in a middle-high position as personal assistant to the CEO of Global Power. Has been fined for outraging a woman's modesty while drunk at a pub.Owns a Glock 9mm
Any Additional Info/Comments:
As he spent 4 years in army instead of the usual one, he has learnt advanced survival skills and weapon handling in airborne corps before being discharged for unknown reasons.( Probably for romancing the CO's daughter, also serving in the same corps as a squad leader)Speaks English,Chinese, Arabic and Russian to a degree. In Alfegos on an assignment for Global Power.

Character Name:Alethia the Sojourner
Home Country:Isisopolis
Age:Unknown, but looks 20-30.
Sex:Female
Religious Beliefs (if any):Scarily eclectic
Physical Description:Slim, long straight dark hair. 5' 6"Dark blue eyes. Can look and sound very old at times.
Their Personality:Serious, but with a very dry wit. Devout and kind, but can be rather remote.
About Them:Found unconscious on the shore five years ago, she keeps house for the Seer of Isisopolis, Serena the Unruffled. Spends much of her spare time studying in the Temple of many Gods.
Any Additional Info/Comments: Does not know where she came from, does not remember much of her past, but has very clear glimpses of the future. Feels she is meant to be somewhere else.

Character Name: Marina Sandella

Home Country: Dominion of Ruthless Slaughter

Age: 25

Sex: Female

Religious Beliefs (if any): Catholic-Christian

Physical Description: 5'11" tall, shoulder length black hair usually pulled back in a braid or bun, blue eyes, toned musculature, attractive

Their Personality: While working she is very businesslike but off duty she is very approachable and good-natured. Realtively open except for certain parts of her personal life.

About Them: Patrol Officer in the Dominion Civil Authority (Police) from Haven City in the north. Relatively new to the area with little family.

Character Name: Danny Olafsson

Home Country: The Dominion of Irenicuz

Age: 27

Sex: Male

Religious Beliefs (if any): Unknown

Physical Description: Slender build, average height. Straight shoulder length black hair, slight facial hair. Blue ayes give him a cold serius look.

Personality: He's very serius, never laughs, but was seen wearing a cold smile on some occasions. He talks little and spends a lot of time by himself, but can be very loyal and helpful at times if he chooses so. He is very lazy and does something only if he deems it necessary.

About Them: He is intelligent but no one knows what he does for a living because there are very few people close to him and they aren't willing to tell. He rarely says all that wanders through his mind, he wants to keep his "mystery guy" reputation.

OOC: This will be my first RP (unless you don't want me), so please be tolerant. I've seen what novice players can do to a game (i mean ruin it like hell), cause i've read through a few rps, so I'll do my best.

I like the idea but keep it centralized to NS. I'd offer up my country in the past for you to visit

I like the idea but keep it centralized to NS. I'd offer up my country in the past for you to visit

Perhaps the countries visited should be based upon the nationalities of the characters involved.

Character Name: Kazu
Home Country: Vaurion
Age: 24
Sex: Male
Religious Beliefs (if any): None
Physical Description: Tall, muscular, black hair, blue eyes
Their Personality: Kazu is kind, smart, and compassionate. He is slightly arrogant though.
About Them: Member of the Vaurion's warrior class. He constantly trains to better himself and increase his already substantial abilities.
Any Additional Info/Comments: He always wears a katana, as is a requirement for all members of his class.

I like the idea but keep it centralized to NS. I'd offer up my country in the past for you to visit
Ya, it's definately going to be centralized here. You located in Egypt?

Perhaps the countries visited should be based upon the nationalities of the characters involved.
Hmm, interesting thought.

Where is everyones nations located in - that is, located in the past?

(ViZion started in Italy, so even though we aren't there anymore, that's where we'd be RPing if we do that.)

Dyelli Beybi is in an invented place but it's very heavily based on ancient Egypt and later a crusader State.

Amazonia started in Japan, but later experienced upheaval to Australia and New Guinea in the late 1800s (and proceeded to get a bunch of Europeans and Africans, as well...in fact, a majority of Europeans).

Character Name: Spencer Shives
Home Country: Angaor
Age: 18
Sex: male
Religious Beliefs (if any): Christian
Physical Description: Athletic
Their Personality: Funny, Smart, Caring at times
About Them: Spencer is currently a freshman at the University of Northern Caliana and is playing Quarterback. His parents were both a track star and Pro football player. He has three brother and has short temper.
Any Additional Info/Comments: ran in trouble with the law a few times

The Dominion started around the isle of Britain in ancient times then later on moved more toward where America is.

Character Name: Eric Bergstresser
Home Country: Andreman Empire
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Religious Beliefs (if any): Christian, Southern Baptist
Physical Description: Fit, heavy labor.
Their Personality: Cold, aloof, sarcastic, wiseass
About Them: Eric is employed as a Carpenter, and due to the current difficulties with the housing market in his province, has floated through several skilled trades, and is versed in many useful skills.
Any Additional Info/Comments: An avid knife collector, he is also a hunter, and is a fair shot with a bow, though he is admittedly better with firearms. His standard hunting bow has a pull of over 80 pounds. He commonly carries several knives for work, as well as a Leatherman Multitool.

Yeah, I can actualy provide images and descriptions for things he might have on his person whe he gets nabbed. The cutlery really does come in handy at work.

Vetalia is located in West Africa, but it's culturally Russian. It would pretty much be a tropical Russia in cultural terms, but a lot wealthier and advanced as per the overall trend of our national history.

Character Name: Friedrich von Rickenbacher

Home Country: Abruck

Age: 32

Sex: Male

Religious Beliefs: Lutheran - Abruck Synod

Physical Description: A tall, well-built man. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Friedrich is the spitting image of the government's poster-boy.

Their Personality: Friedrich is normally the friendly sort, but he certainly doesn't shirk away when things turn violent. As an Abruchisch Urfrabriker (a highly skilled factory worker), he isn't particularly intelligent, but he has enough brains to get by.

About Them: Friedrich, thanks to his idealogical zealotry, was sent to Alfregos as part of a covert program to inspire socialist sympathy in Alfregos. Unfortunately, Friedrich wasn't exactly as covert as he should have been, resulting in his capture by authorities.

Any Additional Info/Comments: Friedrich is an ardent supporter of the Abruchish Worker's Party, and is somewhat over-zealous in his support of the ideology. He is also highly skilled in canning food.

Looks like this could be fun... :-D

Ithsam has always been located in Romania

Abruck is a German-colonized Newfoundland.

Think of seventeenth century Abruck as a Germanic Jamestown. Anything before Abruck's colonization is just a lot of infighting between various groups of Skraelings (Native-Abruekers). The only really interesting event during that time was the establishment of the Beothuk League in 1135 A.D., which was formed to fight back a Scandinavian invasion.

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Is there any upper limit on time travel in this RP? I'd really be interested in setting any time travel to Vetalia during the Roaring Twenties, not the least due to the fact that it doesn't get more Vetalian that that period (not to mention it's also the time when the old Empire was at its most decadent). Not the least because I want my guy to show up in a picture from the period during his present time, perhaps hanging on the wall of someone's house or a nightclub...

Is there any upper limit on time travel in this RP? I'd really be interested in setting any time travel to Vetalia during the Roaring Twenties, not the least due to the fact that it doesn't get more Vetalian that that period (not to mention it's also the time when the old Empire was at its most decadent). Not the least because I want my guy to show up in a picture from the period during his present time, perhaps hanging on the wall of someone's house or a nightclub...

I'll consider it, I'd prefer to keep it much further back... but if we do it, it'll be a little ways down the road. Maybe going from one extreme to this extreme, then back or something.

I'll consider it, I'd prefer to keep it much further back... but if we do it, it'll be a little ways down the road. Maybe going from one extreme to this extreme, then back or something.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Different kinds of danger, especially if the party ends up caught in a government raid or something like that.

The portal system, as far as is known, is not restricted in time. There is one instance of travel back to about 320million BC, and one very short trip to 2190.

There is a map of portals that exists, and copies of it are given to agents in "the field" to allow for transport between eras. I may RP that in when you are trying to get back...if you understand it of course.

Hmm, alright, we'll probably involve that later on down the road. :)

There is a map of portals that exists, and copies of it are given to agents in "the field" to allow for transport between eras. I may RP that in when you are trying to get back...if you understand it of course.

My character will be able to understand it (he probably has a similar diagram for the Cogent portal system), but if he gets hold of an asset like that, he's not going to be keen on giving it back or sharing it with the group unless absolutely necessary. It'll definitely be a major issue; getting the Alfegan diagram would allow his researchers to completely reverse-engineer their rivals' system and thereby undercut them.

On the note of new technology, when my Intelligence Ministry gets wind that one our citizens is missing about midway through the thread and the nature of why is ascertained (The DIM is like an incredibly free CIA with only a few checks on their access to information) they'll definitely want to send an operative to check things out.
This is provided, of course I have your permission to do so, ViZion.

RS, that'll be fine assuming you can catch upto us and find the right doors (may be interesting if you go through a different door or something and a few portals down we run into eachother by pure luck... lol)

Tonight we will start this. Signups will be closed later at that point.

hey, what TZ we goin' by?

hey, what TZ we goin' by?
OOC:what time zone? PST... I'll get up the thread pretty soon... just RP your character in Alfegos' capital doing w/o. He'll post whatever he needs to to capture us...

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=545625 < RP Thread!

Umm, I'm almost totally lost. Who is where, with who, doing what. Rundown from someone please.

I'll give you a fairly brief but detailed rundown, good to see people trickling back from the hectic Holidays:

Everybody stuck in the desert, where you left off. Taylor and Caitlin went off to go shauf some food and clothes, Josh and Danny stood around building tents out of clothes, and a couple others are talkin' with some English-quibbin' Egyptian dudes. Now these other dudes, meanwhile, are from the 22nd century abd are trying to stop the Egyptian guys speaking English because apparently they're bad for some reason. Taylor and Caitlin get caught snitchin' shit from a merchant and farmer hut and Taylor kills a dude and they get the hell outta there as guards from Memphis (the nearby city/capital) go ballistic. They start coming back. It starts to rain...then downpour and storm. De La Cruz meets up with the two girls but then proceeds to simultaneously lose everyone else. Caitlin's now chillin' out while Taylor and De La Cruz go find peeps while Danny and Josh are chillin' in their tents. Nobody knows where anybody is besides the few two to three person groups. Think I covered everybody's characters...

Misunderstanding: those two are ministry agents, who are coming to track you guys around. Remember the creepy agents who abducted the people? These people are in charge of the project.