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"Technology is quite wonderful, isn't it? There are so many things that we can do now that our predecessors never even dreamed we'd be able to achieve. For instance, the ability to grow limbs from borrowed and cloned cells from an invalid's body, cloning an entire human to walk as a double, and one of the most novel creations - the organometallic substance commonly known as tenadium which will bond readily with just about any organic tissue and allow for biological processes to continue unhindered, even replacing some tissue and performing necessary tasks that the tissue would. It really is most astonishing, especially considering that even a minute layer is nearly as strong as a 5 inch steel sheet, but it will flex a bit as well. Lucky that it can be used in such small quantities though. It can be weighty if a great deal is used."

An older gentleman paced pompously around, almost as if parading himself before the younger eyes watching him from the raised dais on which their seats and desks stood. A few were paying close attention to the gray-haired lecturer as he went on and on in his history lesson, but most of them simply fiddled with their computers, much smaller than the average laptop model from our day and age.

"As you should well know, most of our newer automatons and androids utilize tenadium in both their inner and outer workings, allowing for the growth of flesh and other living tissues, to make them all the more pleasing to look at and allow them to blend beautifully into the population. This is especially true in the new Effigy and Marionette models, created by IBM. Despite all of these advances in technology, many of our laws and regulations have remained the same. No doppelganger may be created of another citizen without his or her express consent, no cells samples may be taken to be used for research or any other reason unless they are donated freely by the owner, tenadium is to be used sparingly on fully biological creatures, and genetic alteration before, during, or after birth is strictly forbidden except in the cases of dire need for the survival of the individual. And for good reason. I'm sure you all have heard the stories of genetically altered individuals reeking havoc and, unable to be tracked, causing as much chaos as possible."

After this he began to mumble a little and his volume dropped so that the students found it hard to hear much of what he was saying anymore. If they'd really cared, they might have spoken up to ask him to speak more clearly, but the period was almost over and they were anxious to leave. Besides, all of this was old news. Who really cared about genetic alteration anymore anyway?

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Plot!

As you might have guessed, this roleplay will take place a bit of distance in the future, but not far enough that things aren't still similar to the way they are now. People take advantage of and for granted the technology that makes their lives so much easier and after clearing up a few incidents with the hazards of genetics, they don't fear the science of cloning. It's this way in most of the super powered countries (the U.S. Russia, Japan, Great Britain, and India), with the rest of the world running along at their heals. As a result wonderful and terrible things have happened. Wars are more vicious and bloody than ever with the new weaponry that has been created. Although a great deal of the fighting is left to automatons (robots, much like droids, which have no consciousness and must follow a programmed order) and androids (robots which have personalities and can think and feel much like a human does, as well as rationalize), still nothing can replace living intuition and wit. Volunteers are still taken to join the ranks of the military in all positions, but the easiest and fastest way to fill the ranks, especially of infantry, is to use clones volunteered by their donor. Generally, like the "doppelgangers" available to rich clientel, infantry clones are altered at birth with chips made from tenadium. They are inserted in the brain to try and overpower the clone's sense of self and free will by impairing their thinking patterns if they begin to think too much about concepts they have not been taught, which primarily in this case would be concepts dealing with battle.

However, many radical groups have begun rallying in protest to the use of the clones and the androids in this warfare. Despite being silent for a while, they're angry that the government would have the nerve to take a human being's right to think for him/herself away from them, and essentially turn them into little more than automatons. Of course, they protest much the same thing with the doppelgangers, but they've had more luck with the clone infantry because of the bloodshed involved. The androids are some what of a different matter, but if they can really feel like a human, why shouldn't they be treated as such as well?

Nevertheless, with all of the heat coming from the civil rights groups, the military has decided to go in a new direction to get the super troops they need in the current war against India. They plan to violate most of the laws set up in order to protect citizens from the new procedures developed. If word gets out too early or they fail, a nationwide riot and panic could very well be on their hands. Their plan: to create the ultimate non-human super soldiers, like the world hasn't seen in billions of years, using pre-historic DNA found in "mummified" portions of ice and earths crust in various places around the world.

I don't know/have specific details for the plot like I do the other information above, since like I stated before, this is partly to help me brainstorm and partly to see what other people will take and make of this setup so that I can bounce ideas around. The general layout I have is this: We'll start a few years into the project at the lab that has created all of this biological weapons of mass destruction, that way most of our characters should be reaching maturity, or at the very least be teenagers. Most of their training will be complete and they will have been allowed to socialize with each other, but only for limited amounts of time and mostly during practice missions. This way they will have ties to each other, but they will not be terribly strong yet so that they will be able to focus on their masters' orders and think of little else, giving them as little chance to develop free will as possible. In addition, it dissuades the tendency toward rebellion against them since they cannot share ideas or opinions easily.

As we start up, NPC human masters (which I'll probably double as here and there) will give them their assignments, which will vary as time goes by. At first the reconnaissance team will be in charge of gathering information as well as completing other covert missions including some assassinations. These will go back and forth for a while and then we will gradually move to more public operations, such as raids and moving into a time when they will be used in the front lines for the war effort, after their existence is revealed to the public. I plan on ending the rp with their escape from their human captors sometime later in the story, perhaps after a character death, though since I don't really have a specific plan to follow, this is open. No nitty gritty details that I have set to follow, so if you have an idea for a change of pace in the story, or a new, interesting direction for it to go in, just let me know preferably via pm and we'll discuss it.

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Rules and Stuff

This roleplay will mainly be to help me flesh out ideas that I'm trying to work out for a story that will be very similar to this and include the character I will be playing, Bandit. If I can work out the details that I seem to keep getting stuck on and decide to continue writing it, I will not include your character or any plot information that you come up with unless I have your express permission. I'm not a thief, I'm just hoping to bounce some ideas around and get those creative juices flowing in my head again. This is an advanced roleplay, so if you have little or no experience and/or cannot give at least a medium sized paragraph for most, if not all, of your replies then I wouldn't recommend joining. Standard roleplaying rules apply, however:

-Minor to moderate swearing will be allowed, but be reasonable about this. If you hesitate when putting it in your post, it probably doesn't really belong there.
-There WILL be violence. I don't want it to be too graphic (i.e. intestines spilling from a gaping hole in the abdominal cavity mixing with bodily fluids, etc etc.) If it would make a 16 year old reasonably uncomfortable, it's not allowed.
-There will probably be character death. All character death will be discussed and thought out well in advance, if possible, and no character will die without the express consent of the player/owner or against said player's wishes.
-I don't have the plot completely worked out, so if you have an idea for a direction we might want to go in, feel free to suggest it! I'm cool with improvising.
-If you have any questions, are confused or think I've forgotten something, give me a shout and ask.

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On Characters

We will all pretty much be playing pre-historic beasts - dinosaurs mostly. Though in my story I have it set up a certain way, I'll let you chose what dinosaur or other pre-historic creature you want to be. Just remember - these will be super soldiers and I'd like many of them to be a part of a small, elite tactical team for special operations, particularly those requiring a certain element of espionage. It should go without saying that a Tyrannosaurs Rex isn't all that stealthy, so they really couldn't be part of that team I'm thinking maybe 4 of 5 will be on that team and the rest will be affiliated with them, but simply be more of the front line warriors.

A little more about our super soldier characters: They'll be derived from older DNA, as you know, and they will be genetically altered in many ways, both to enhance their own natural abilities, intelligence, physical appearances, etc. In addition, they'll be equipped with tenadium in some areas, and probably have a few chips in their brains as well, though the chips won't work the same way that they do on the clones. They'll be to further enhance higher brain function, coordination, communication, rationalization, reasoning, etc. I'd like most of them to be able to speak in English, at least, in addition to the way they would normally communicate with their own species. Other than that, you're at liberty to customize your character with other things to help make it your ideal super soldier, just be reasonable and try not to God mod with it.

What I will require as far as a bio goes:

Name:
Approximate Age: (it can be close to the others, or a little farther away, just nothing ridiculous like 10 years difference)
Species:
Approximate Height:
Approximate Weight:
Appearance:
Modifications:
Personality:
Backstory: (If interesting/different from the average and everyone else's. This should be pretty similar, so you don't necessarily have to include it; the personality block is a bit more important.)

Your bio can have extra information in it, it can look different or be in a different set up, you can give me exact numbers if you want. I really don't care so much about the format so long as that basic information is in there somewhere.

I'll be playing Bandit.

-General Info-

Name: Bandit
Pronunciation: That should be easy enough to figure out…
Meaning: Thief, robber
Nickname/Alias(es): Ban, Bandy
Pronunciation: Look above
Nickname Meaning: None
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Genus: Velociraptor
Species: Mongoliensis
Gender: Female
Age: A few years
Scent: Decay, death, lizard-like
Personality/Temperament: Coming soon

-Physical Traits-

Scale Color: Black with sanguine strips
Eye Color: Sanguine
Height: 4’ 2”
Weight: 210 lbs.
Length: 6’ 3”
Claw Length: 7”
Claw Color: Black with sanguine tips
Scars/Markings: Fang shaped scar on the underside of her left wrist.
Extras/Modifications:
---Physical/Genetic: Bigger, stronger, faster, color (black and red), featherless, regenerative capabilities, tenadium tank (skeleton and vital organs coated in tenadium for protection), vocal chords grown to accommodate speech, some bone structure altered to allow for better movement and flexibility at her new height and weight, enhanced resistance to harmful chemical and biological substances, brain stimulation to allow for less use of chips and to unlock more potential out of total brain capacity
---Hardware: Several chips inserted to aid speed in learning, reasoning, rationalizing, etc.
---Skills: Knows over 20 different languagues and several dialects for each, has been taught several styles of combat, but was never allowed to master them, taught to adapt them and mold them for her own use, can read

One of the most unique aspects of Velociraptor is the "Killing Claw" it has on each foot. Each inside toe has a large (about 5 inches for a regular velociraptor, but Bandit’s is 7 inches long) hooked claw that is controlled by a strong tendon. This claw is held upward when the animal is walking or running. However, when it attacks, the tendon snaps tight and the claw snaps down with great speed and force, slicing deeply into the victim. Not a very pretty picture, but an effective way to inflict a serious wound.

Velociraptor was a pack hunter, which would have allowed it to attack prey much larger than itself. It also had a very large brain relative to its size - it was one of the smartest dinosaurs. It was very light and very fast. Recent thinking is that it was also very close to being birdlike, and that it had feathers that it used both for display and insulation. It had very strong arms and claws, which were effective weapons by themselves. It had sharp, recurved teeth in its long mouth. (Taken from the Velociraptor entry of the Jurassic Park Institute website before it shut down.)

-Family/Social-

Pack: Elite
Rank: None
Home/Lands: The U.S.
Dam: Unknown raptor donor female
Sire: Unknown raptor donor male
Brother(s): Many other failed and successful raptor experiments
Sister(s): Many other failed and successful raptor experiments
Other Family: Other failed experiments
Closest Friends: She doesn't really have what you'd call friends...yet
Interest(s): She's interested in no one
Courting/Courted By: No one.
Mate: None
Spawn: None

-History-

Place of Birth: The lab
Past Injuries: Plenty, but they heal quickly
Backstory: Not important for this roleplay

Name: Rasputin
Pronunciation: razz-PUTE-in
Meaning: Fighter
Nicknames: Razz, Razzy (but hates being called Razzy!) XD
Approximate Age: Around 5 years
Species: White-bellied Sabertooth Tiger
Approximate Height: Around 3 feet high from paws to tips of the ears
Approximate Weight: 300 pounds
Approximate Length (from nose to tail): 5 feet
Length of Sabertooth Fangs: 8 inches
Fur Color: Light tan with blood red on tips of each hair
Eye Color: Toxic Yellow (and they glow at night, giving him night vision)
Claws Color: Black on tops, silver on bottoms
Other Markings: Has black stripes that start at his eyes and travel perfectly at his sides and meet at the tip of his tail.
Personality: Doesn't back down from a fight, likes to tease, but is usually very solemn, doesn't joke around alot, and overly confident in himself.
Scars: Crescent-shaped cuts on the underside of his neck, slashed left ear
Other: Vocal chords altered so he can speak and understand English, Spanish, Italian, French, African, Mandarin and Feline, has built in steel caps over claws for protection (but he can bring them in and out as easily as his real claws), fangs have been injected with alsironite, making them stronger and more resistant to damage, has robotic elements built in the underside of his skull that allow him to rapidly cover and uncover his head in an iron and steel helmet, chips accurately placed so he is capable of learning, reasoning, rationalizing, etc.
Family: Unknown
Weaknesses: Has no protection underneath his belly besides his ribcage, not very smart (but not dumb either), and doesn't like working as a team (because he believes he can do everything by himself).
Backstory: Not important

Hope you like him and just saying I think this is a very clever idea for a roleplay!

Accepted. Nice character ^.^

Also, since Suka had a question, I'll go ahead and post much of what I told him here, with a little extra:

I don't know/have specific details for the plot like I do the other information above, since like I stated before, this is partly to help me brainstorm and partly to see what other people will take and make of this setup so that I can bounce ideas around. The general layout I have is this: We'll start a few years into the project at the lab that has created all of this biological weapons of mass destruction, that way most of our characters should be reaching maturity, or at the very least be teenagers. Most of their training will be complete and they will have been allowed to socialize with each other, but only for limited amounts of time and mostly during practice missions. This way they will have ties to each other, but they will not be terribly strong yet so that they will be able to focus on their masters' orders and think of little else, giving them as little chance to develop free will as possible. In addition, it dissuades the tendency toward rebellion against them since they cannot share ideas or opinions easily.

As we start up, NPC human masters (which I'll probably double as here and there) will give them their assignments, which will vary as time goes by. At first the reconnaissance team will be in charge of gathering information as well as completing other covert missions including some assassinations. These will go back and forth for a while and then we will gradually move to more public operations, such as raids and moving into a time when they will be used in the front lines for the war effort, after their existence is revealed to the public. I plan on ending the rp with their escape from their human captors sometime later in the story, perhaps after a character death, though since I don't really have a specific plan to follow, this is open. No nitty gritty details that I have set to follow, so if you have an idea for a change of pace in the story, or a new, interesting direction for it to go in, just let me know preferably via pm and we'll discuss it. Until then, that's all I've really been able to come up with so far. If I think of something else, I'll add it in with a notification post like this one.

-General Info-

Name: Graer
Pronunciation: (GRAYER)
Meaning: "watchful"/"guardian"
Nickname/Alias(es):
Pronunciation:
Nickname Meaning:
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Infraorder: Tenanurae
Micro-order: Maniraptora
Family: Aves
Classification: Archaeopteryx
Gender: Male
Age: Roughly 10 years
Scent: None
Personality/Temperament: Follows orders, but is not built to be a fighter. At first sign of danger, he will naturally try to escape unless his orders state otherwise. Knowing that he can easily get out of almost any situation, he can be cocky and enjoys teasing for laughs, but is all business when it comes to his mission. His specialties are reconnaissance and stealth objectives, though he often also serves as an interpreter and tactics relation. When the situation is dire, he is often crude and flappy, shouting orders and directions into his headset, he can forget his own surroundings and situation.

-Physical Traits-

Dominant Color: Light brown with darker stripes of brown along his back (see picture)
Eye Color: Green
Height: 1’ 3”
Weight: 5.75 lbs. (with equipment)
Length: 3’ 6”
Claw Color: Black
Scars/Markings: Nothing significantly noteworthy.
Extras/Modifications:
---Physical/Genetic: Bigger, stronger, faster, stealth capabilities, noise reduction devices, vocal chords grown to accommodate speech, some bone structure altered to allow for better movement and flexibility new height and weight, enhanced resistance to harmful chemical and biological substances, altered lungs to fly at exceedingly high altitudes
---Hardware: Several chips inserted to aid speed in learning, reasoning, rationalizing, etc., headset, and light backpack for his communications equipment
---Skills: Knows over 35 different languages and several dialects for each; his equipment allows him to detect body movement and he can also interpret body language and temperature; his flying skills are also unmatched, able to reach a top flying speed of 25 meters per second.



I hope this is suffice for now. As we make progress, I may add more stuff on. ^_~ Thanks for including me, Aniu. I'm reeeeeeeally hoping we can keep this one alive.

Accepted, and yeah me too. Hopefully it'll draw in interest.

Thanks Aniu for accepting Rasputin, and I hope we can keep this one alive, as it is a very good idea (why didn't I think of that?) Lol

*bump*

I sure hope this one stays alive!!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Bambiraptor.jpg


-General Info-

Name: Min
Pronunciation: Min
Meaning: Clever, Sharp
Origin: Chinese
Nickname/Alias(es): Minnow, Mini, Minute
Pronunciation: Minnow - Min-no. Mini - obvious. Minute - Min-oot.
Nickname Meaning: Mini - Small, Tiny. Minnow - Small Fish. Mini - Small, Tiny.
Preferred name: Min
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Superorder: Dinosauria
Order: Saurischia
Suborder: Theropoda
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Genus: Bambiraptor
Species: B. feinbergi
Gender: Female
Age: around 6-7 years
Scent: Young, Feathery, Bird-like
Personality/Temperament: Due to having one of the largest brains on a Size:Brain ratio, Min is very smart and facts often come tumbling out of her mouth at the worst times. She cannot help but recite anything she knows about anything, unless she is ordered to be silent. He endless blabbering only ceases during battle or training, and also whilst she is concentrating hard (or sleeping). Often called 'Mini' or 'Minute', she always strives to do well in battle to show that her size does not hinder her skills.
Backstory: Not important.

-Physical Traits-

Feather Color: A light blue
Eye Color: Amber
Height: 1'1
Weight: 4.4 lbs; 2kg
Length: 2'4
Claw Color: Brown, starting light brown at the tip, getting darker Brown at the base
Scars/Markings: One scar on her leg, and one small scar on her jaw
Extras/Modifications:
---Physical/Genetic: Size has been enhanced, but only slightly, strength has been enhanced, but that also slightly as speed is the main factor that Min has. Speed has been enhanced also, and colour has been altered to an un-natural blue. A failed attempt to make flight possible has stiffened her feathers on her arms, making them quite sharp. Tenadium coated skull enables her to headbutt her opponent.
---Hardware: Several chips inserted to aid speed in learning, reasoning, rationalizing, etc.
---Skills: Knows many different languages, including how to read them, knows facts on many irrelevant things, and can often read body language to tell what mov eher opponent will make next, but only if she has fought with them long enough to learn their technique.

Speed and sharp, long claws aid her in her battles, and her downy feathers, which are like those of a young birds, aid in keeping her warm. Her long, sharp sickle-claw on the back of each foot stay sharp, due to being retractable. Keen eyes are able to rotate forwards and focus on a target well, and are also large.

Seeing in the dark is a trait of which she has, although she is no longer nocturnal in this future, far from her ancestors whom were mostly night creatures. Although feathered, she is not a bird, nor does she have wings. Her arms have a strange range of movement, almost like that of a birds wing, and her arms are feathered, but she cannot fly or glide.

Quick sideways movements are easy for this creature to achieve, due to a stiffening rod in the tail which gives her balance like a tightrope walker.




Size scale (in comparison to a human)

Accepted.

When can we start? :]

Well, four should be good enough to get us going for now. However, I'll still be accepting new players up to 6 at most, probably. Later on I may allow us to double up, if we need to. The only thing we really need to do before we start is decide what the ranks should be among our characters, that way we have some sort of inherent pecking order among them. It would probably be easiest if one of my characters were the leader, but the problem is that Bandit isn't really the leader type at this point (I don't really even know if she's developed that much into that sort of position now...) If one of you thought that your character might be more suited, I'll get with you and plan some things out so that we can start, but if not I can whip something else up. Also, if you guys have any good plot ideas in addition to what I have, I wouldn't mind hearing them. We can work on some details. After we get all of that going, I'll start and NPC some humans so that the rp goes a little more smoothly. If you guys would like to NPC some humans as well, you're more than welcome to, just try not to hand out any big missions or things like that unless it's important to your character's development, or you have an idea and I approve it.

We should start soon. If we don't get this going, it could die in the roleplay's more early stages. We definitely don't want that.

Somewhere off in a separate wing, a tiny dinosaur kept busily to himself in a glass cage many times bigger than was necessary to house such a creature. Squatted underneath a halo of light gleaming down from an overhead lamp, the little dinosaur was quiet save for his distant mutterings and the clanking of metal parts int had strewn all around it. Hunched on the floor, it had its back turned on a group of observers watching it through a one-way window. On the other side, a young scientist cranned his neck to try and get a better view of the feathered creature. "What's he doing?" he asked.

One of the senior scientists grunted and didn't shift his eyes away from the figure. "Upgrading."

Suddenly, the bird-like dinosaur snapped his neck back and squawked irritably at his reflection in the one-way window. The scientists stared. What stared right back was an Archaeopteryx with light tan feathers and brown stripes ringing around the slim neck and tips of the wings and tail feathers. Contained in the thumb of his wings was a metal part, and judging from the scene, it'd have looked like the tiny dinosaur had fallen upon robotic prey and teared it to shreds. A headband containing large magnifying lenses was pulled over the dinosaur's eyes making them look significantly larger than the size they actually were. "Quiet, you dolts," he shouted in as human and English a voice as he could. "Can't you see I'm tying to work here!"

After a few seconds, an intercom reverberated through the cell. "Sorry, Graer. Continue on."

The bird-like dinosaur named Graer glowered at the window for a little while longer before growling to himself and turning back to his work. He grabbed another nearby metal piece with the sharp talons of his feet and carefully placed it into a mullet of a small machine with straps that looked and weighed small enough to mount on the dinosaur's back. For every piece he gently placed inside, he savagely tore one out, as if ripping the innards away from fallen prey, which he mindlessly tossed away, making a clatter on the floor.

"Each of those parts costs a fortune," the young scientist hissed at his older colleague.

"Just give the little guy what he wants."

Graer huffed and briskly turned back at the window. "I have sound-amplifying devices attached to that window," he snapped. "You're all just jealous at being shown up by a dinosaur sixty-five million years past his expiration date. Now for the last time, shut up and let me work!" He snatched a sautering tool nearly and once again poured over his project.

The young scientist almost whispered, "He's crude."

"He's essential," the senior scientist replied, eyes still locked on the small dinosaur.