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Jul. 28th, 2015 03:37 pmNPCs
Thelonius Rex, your handsome dino commander-in-chief
Inspector Rex, his best buddy and head of police (he's a German Shepard and likes belly rubs)
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orbituary
Thelonius Rex, your handsome dino commander-in-chief
Inspector Rex, his best buddy and head of police (he's a German Shepard and likes belly rubs)
PCs
fuckin nobody
easy fricken peasy
go join
orbituaryIt's a big round spaceship called THE ORB. Any time you mention THE ORB by name the lights dim and some very bad dramatic thunderstorm SFX echo around you. Maintenance says they're working on it.
Contrary to popular belief, the dinosaurs weren't wiped out via comet strike. The only extra-terrestrial activity around that time was THE ORB from the dinosaur homeplanet coming to pick up its colonists after the discovery of a deadly amoeba that would have made them totally sick for, like, a month. Super lame.
Anyway. Fast-forward a few millennia, earth time, and with a HHGTTG-esque plot twist the earth is set to go boom. In fact, this is a phenomenon happening across the multiverse. Since dinosaurs are conservationists by nature, they're collecting everyone. From everywhere. Your stay on THE ORB is indefinite. You will remain until the dinos figure out why everything is going bang.
THE ORB itself is a master of relative mass. While aboard, every species is more or less the same size. even a dinosaur appears to be no more than ten feet tall. Sometimes the relativity gets a little hinky, but maintenance is working on it. We promise. Anyway, nobody's died from it yet; you'll be fine.
COMMUNICATION
You will be given several options for communication. There's the subliminal implant, which is super handy for loudmouths (like dinosaurs) who don't want to be roaring all over the place; unfortunately, until you practice with it a bit you may find your innermost thoughts projected into conversations. There's the Cretaceous Tablet, which operates on both text-to-speech and speech-to-speech translation methods; it's a little less convenient than the implant, but easier to initially control. Thirdly, there's always charades or straight-up learning every language on THE ORB. The power is YOURS!
HOUSING & CURRENCY
When first rescued, all refugees are allocated dorm-style housing. This consists of two three-tier single bunks to a room (so a total of six beds), with a small lounge, kitchenette, and bathroom shared between four rooms. There are larger versions of these areas on various levels, as well as other rec areas such as gyms and theatres.
Space on THE ORB is technically infinite. However, mounting wage bills for the maintenance crews in charge of managing the mass relativity means that anybody wanting to open up a business or move into a single apartment has to pay for the privilege. Currency on-board the ship is generally simple barter between residents; for formal currency, there are Tickets. Tickets are earned by completing one's sticker chart by doing various small, helpful tasks that lessen the burden on the crew and resources - e.g. helping another resident carry a comically large pane of glass, doing your roommate's dishes, helping out in the hydroponics section. Tickets can also be earned by playing video games in the rec centre, as these help calibrate certain computing processes and also provide useful data about the various new residents.
Each refugee will be allocated a digital chip card that stores their currency information. All Tickets earned will project as a holographic image from the card until its owner marks them as read (so it's possible to go on a gaming spree and have a string of holographic tickets trailing you down the corridors).
POWERS
All non-physical powers will be negated on board THE ORB. However, the suppressor has been known to randomly malfunction. Maintenance are working on it, get off their backs already!!
Contrary to popular belief, the dinosaurs weren't wiped out via comet strike. The only extra-terrestrial activity around that time was THE ORB from the dinosaur homeplanet coming to pick up its colonists after the discovery of a deadly amoeba that would have made them totally sick for, like, a month. Super lame.
Anyway. Fast-forward a few millennia, earth time, and with a HHGTTG-esque plot twist the earth is set to go boom. In fact, this is a phenomenon happening across the multiverse. Since dinosaurs are conservationists by nature, they're collecting everyone. From everywhere. Your stay on THE ORB is indefinite. You will remain until the dinos figure out why everything is going bang.
THE ORB itself is a master of relative mass. While aboard, every species is more or less the same size. even a dinosaur appears to be no more than ten feet tall. Sometimes the relativity gets a little hinky, but maintenance is working on it. We promise. Anyway, nobody's died from it yet; you'll be fine.
COMMUNICATION
You will be given several options for communication. There's the subliminal implant, which is super handy for loudmouths (like dinosaurs) who don't want to be roaring all over the place; unfortunately, until you practice with it a bit you may find your innermost thoughts projected into conversations. There's the Cretaceous Tablet, which operates on both text-to-speech and speech-to-speech translation methods; it's a little less convenient than the implant, but easier to initially control. Thirdly, there's always charades or straight-up learning every language on THE ORB. The power is YOURS!
HOUSING & CURRENCY
When first rescued, all refugees are allocated dorm-style housing. This consists of two three-tier single bunks to a room (so a total of six beds), with a small lounge, kitchenette, and bathroom shared between four rooms. There are larger versions of these areas on various levels, as well as other rec areas such as gyms and theatres.
Space on THE ORB is technically infinite. However, mounting wage bills for the maintenance crews in charge of managing the mass relativity means that anybody wanting to open up a business or move into a single apartment has to pay for the privilege. Currency on-board the ship is generally simple barter between residents; for formal currency, there are Tickets. Tickets are earned by completing one's sticker chart by doing various small, helpful tasks that lessen the burden on the crew and resources - e.g. helping another resident carry a comically large pane of glass, doing your roommate's dishes, helping out in the hydroponics section. Tickets can also be earned by playing video games in the rec centre, as these help calibrate certain computing processes and also provide useful data about the various new residents.
Each refugee will be allocated a digital chip card that stores their currency information. All Tickets earned will project as a holographic image from the card until its owner marks them as read (so it's possible to go on a gaming spree and have a string of holographic tickets trailing you down the corridors).
POWERS
All non-physical powers will be negated on board THE ORB. However, the suppressor has been known to randomly malfunction. Maintenance are working on it, get off their backs already!!
