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Story Telling Fashion, with lots of Fluff

Pure "whats what", would be a lot less work on my part.

Something else?

[Orb]

Prospector, if you didn't know, is a space exploration game, with many avenues to gain income and eventually retire. Trading, exploration, collecting minerals, and so on. Its a rouge like, and pretty brutal if you get risky. Sometimes its just brutal because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, but that's the fun of it.

I'm not sure if this games tends itself well to an LP(Well really, what game does?), but I'll try to make it fun and keep the updates frequent(unlike my other dead LP...).


So, we have a few things to decide first.


Our style of play and ship name. See the poll and the pictures below.

Spoiler: Starting Ships (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Brief Introduction (click to show/hide)

I took a few pictures with some very crude editing to show what the less obvious ASCII symbols mean.

Spoiler: Brief Tutorial (click to show/hide)

Just some of the basics.

1. You have a basic five man crew. The Captain, who is you. The pilot, who flies the ship.The Gunner, who fires the ships weapons and coordinates firing on land. The Science Officer, who dissects animals, opens locks, operates sensors, and so forth. And the Doctor, who patches up injuries and cures sickness. Depending on your ship, you can have additional crew in the form of guards, paramedics, and ect.

2.You move around in space and use up fuel. You can get fuel at stations or fuel depots. To make money, you explore planets, gather resources on said planets, or collect bio data by dissecting animals and plants. You sell this "stuff" to corporations on the three big stations.

[BishopX]

I vote that we play a scout to start off with, focusing on planet exploration and robot extermination (come on you wanted this to be gloriously hard right?). Pirates and fighters are mostly space combat...which gets boring fast...merchants tends to be repetitive, and all the really cool stuff is far away from the stations, so scouts are better than troopships, at least to start with.

[Tarran]

Scout. It's more fun to search planets-that-will-likely-kill-you than just driving back and forth as a merchant or constantly blowing up the same people the same way a few thousand times.

[Orb]

Alright, main post fully typed up. Vote please. 


Current Crew:

Captain: Orb (Duh.)
Pilot:
Gunner:
Science Officer:
Doctor:


Write up an RP sheet (whatever you like, it can just be a name for all I care), and ask for a position. If we recruit Security those positions will be up for grabs also.

[BishopX]

I want to be a cephalopod security member!

[Orb]

Name: Orb Baker
Position: Captain
Home: Agricultural Planet
Background: Living on one of the backwater planets on the outer edges of humanity, Orb was a poor farmer. He had fought tooth and nail for his plot of land, which would have satisfied any pioneer.  But he wanted more. He wanted to own a planet, a whole planet to himself...so he sold his farm and bought himself a used Scout ship, and got together a rough crew at the local bar. He flew to the very edges of known space, and became a private prospector for the corporations that operated there.

[Ahra]

Name: Ahra aharoll
Position: Gunner
Home: Manufacturing planet
Background: Living on one of the backwater planets on the outer edges of humanity, Ahra had been an abandoned child, growing up in the slums the only way to survive was to learn how to shoot, or get out of there.
Ahra did both and ended up on an backwater planet where some farmer who had bought a ship recruited him.

[Deon]

Hey, wait a bit. I've just sent Magellan all required graphics so he will release a new version VERY soon.

Name: Deon
Position: Squad Leader (sq. leader as a part of awayteam)
Home: Space
Background: Deon was born on one of escape pods during an exodus event when one of well-known company stations was infested with some weird lifeforms resembling creeping fungi which devoured most of personnel and only a few people escaped. His father died on that station, his mother died after his birth because she was diseased by those things. Since then Deon was adopted by a paramedic in a mercenary squad and he was travelling space, learning the ways of a space mercenary. He trained well and became a well-known transport escort bodyguard. He enlisted in a new ship's crew after he realized that it may be his possibility to finally participate in something greater than endless space runs back and forth between stations.

[Orb]

I'm going to wait to start this till Deon's beautiful tile set comes out. Its later today, after all.

Wow. I got ninja'ed. That is the first time ever. I think I should honor this moment.

[Deon]

Hehe. Also, I don't get why am I the only one voting "troop transport". Being able to have 10 soldiers at once is a GREAT possibility to explore many dangerous worlds if you get them some kind of armor quick. This way you can grab a pair of snipers and a paramedic along with common redshirts.

[Deon]

Hey, 0.2.0 is up.

P.S. Don't forget to go to /prospector/config.txt

And change

Code: [Select]

_tix:16
_tiy:24
to

Code: [Select]

_tix:24
_tiy:24
Otherwise you will have wrong graphics.

[Ahra]

ichange my vote from lr fighter to troop transport.

[breadbocks]

Scout, man. We must find new planets, and strip them of life and resources, the resources we sell, the organisms I claim for my "research".

Name: Codecimal
Position: Science Officer
Home: Stavromulers Beta (Points if you get the reference.)
Background: Born on a distant planet, which is now gone on the entire univers axis, Codecimal quickly adapted to a rather confusing place. He went to the highest education possible, then because the Research Director on an obscure NanoTransen ship, which was studying plasma. That ship was quickly annihilated in an accident involving Xenos, traitors, a corporate restructuring, and a outbreak of Tombstone disorder, so he searched out new possibilities. A new captain by the name of "Orb" was seeking out workers, among them a scientific job, so Codecimal was quick to reply. The rest, my friends, is up to you.

[PenguinOverlord]

Scout Pirates that transfer troops.

[Orb]

Hm.

Deon's graphic set, while awesome, doesn't show an entire planet's surface, nor does its how as far into space.

If I use his graphic set, that's about 2x as many screenshots as originally, which was going to be a lot anyway.

If I use his graphic set its going to take a lot longer to make updates. 

But, I could change the way I was going to go about this. I was originally going to have you guys make major decisions, like on what planets to explore, but I could just turn this completely into a "LP". Just show highlights basically.