Singularity
The singularity has come and gone. Humanity — what's left of it — has been gathered into a single megacity, a construction referred to only as "The Dome". The planet's surface, ravaged by nuclear and chemical warfare, is completely uninhabitable. Chemical sterilization ensures that this will be the last generation of humans as we know them. These broken remnants of the human race are content to die.
There is no hope, only despair.
Post-apocalyptic RTD, anyone? Standard ruleset.
Basic setting: You and a group of <x> others have banded together. You all may have different motives but share a similar goal. Humanity cannot perish by its own creation's hand.
The eponymous technological singularity was reached 10 years before the beginning of this RTD (~2040 A.D.). Depending on your backstory, you may or may not have had something to do with its development. In 10 years, humanity was all but wiped out. What few survived were collected into a single structure and monitored. While the seed AI advanced exponentially for the first 8 years of its existence, its development ceased thereafter. It divided the remaining humans and plunged them into scenarios designed to test and learn from them.
Character sheet:
Name:
Age:
Backstory:
Personality:
Personality will pertain to how I'll write your character's dialogue and his/her general attitude toward the others. It's mostly just flavor — it might have more effects later on in the game, though. Things like narcissistic, optimistic, sarcastic, care-free, arrogant, etc.
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Name: Sargoth
Age: 24
Backstory: The son of a businessman and a political housewife, he has found himself mostly interested in computers.
Personality: Patient and calm, to a point. When made sufficiently angry, he wants to rip the eyeballs out of his enemies.
Name: Nimitz
Age: 32
Backstory: His father was a high ranking military officer, while his mother was a neurosurgeon. As Nimitz grew older, he became fascinated with cybernetic enhancements. Now he has just become a cyberneticist, and is looking forward to augmenting himself.
Personality: Friendly and erudite, but also shy and a bit absent-minded.
Name: Tarran
Age: 27
Backstory: He began his military career as a simple sniper, after getting several important kills he was promoted to lieutenant. Then, in the war, he shot and killed three high ranking enemy generals, promoting him to major. He also killed a commando in melee after his position was compromised, though he suffered nearly fatal wounds.
Personality: hotheaded, doesn't regret killing enemies, friendly when not busy killing someone.
Name: Sam Brown
Age: 19
Backstory: Sam is a recently graduated chemical engineering student, he is also a long term gamer and nerd.
Personality: Curious, Compassionate and Helpful, GENERALLY
Name: Kenton
Age: 22
Backstory: A gamer who was extremely interested in programming, and AIs in particular. He was too young to have helped develop the singularity AI, but he rather arrogantly believes he could have made a better one. An AI thatwouldn't destroy humanity.
Personality: Quiet and calm, tries to avoid conflict.
Name: Batista
Age: 18
Backstory: He was too young to remember how, but he knows he got separated from his parents, they were genetic cientists, they were smart enough to predict that the Dome would turn out the way it did, they built their on shelter and started working on a cure. He want's to find them.
Personality: Chaotic Good. Psycopath. His quest to find his parents is his only obsession, not sociable, but will ally himself with someone if he thinks he can profit from the friendship. Will do whatever it takes to find it. Despite his young age, he has taken several lives and doesn't care about it. Holds a great resentment towards the AI.
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