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In Character / Forum RP: Just sum nigga beatin his meat on the C17 sidewalk
« on: December 05, 2017, 09:59:20 PM »
8am... You're walking to work and he's just stroking his dick out there by the bus stop?

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General Discussion / Skopa, Pile of shit
« on: June 17, 2017, 02:32:02 PM »
:steamhappy:

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In Character / Dude with a rifle and he's out to kill
« on: June 26, 2015, 09:23:23 PM »
A guy with a sniper rifle is taking potshots at people from his heavily fortified apartment. React accordingly i.e. be killed or maimed (preferably killed)

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In Character / Cop Killer
« on: June 21, 2015, 07:50:25 PM »
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517WVJNdO5g" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517WVJNdO5g</a>

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In Character / Clive Montgomery character profile
« on: March 13, 2014, 12:58:51 PM »
Clive Montgomery's Character Profile

Gender/Sex: Male

Character Full Name: Clive Bernard Montgomery

Known aliases: Any expletive preceded by "old", "wrinkled," or "wrinkly"

Citizen Identification Number (If Applicable):

Character background:
 


Physical description: An elderly man with wild tufts of hair and a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp. He sports a pair of disgusting mutton chops that should have been killed off by razor a long time ago. He's covered in wrinkles and wears a pair of circular spectacles.

Eye color:  Blue

Scars: None, what a lucky old shit he is

Facial features: Wrinkled; droopy cheeks

Hair Style & Color: White hair that's completely out of hand, who knows what he's trying to do with it

Approximate age: Seventy something, all the booze and drug filled nights haven't been good for Clive's memory

Country originated from: England, United Kingdom

Current location: City 18

Accent: Devonian/Devonshire accent



Mental good and/or bad skills:
Good:
+ Keeps sharp for an old bastard
+ Witty
+ Incredibly insulting at times

Bad:
- Has a hatred for the Combine as he believes them to have 'stolen' his multiple pensions and bank accounts
- Incredibly insulting at times
- He's a snobby bastard

Physical good and/or bad skills:
Good:
+ Gives a good punch, at least he thinks he can
+ Gets some easier treatment because of his age

Bad:
- Needs his walking stick most of the time
- Frail
- Poor eyesight without his glasses

Character look-a-like image:
Spoiler for Character Look Alike:

Character fitting music and/or song:
Spoiler for Character Theme:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-fIn2QZgg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-fIn2QZgg</a>



Clothing and/or protective armour and markings (bruises, scratches, etc) on the limbs:

Head:

Torso: Wears a pair of braces over a white vest with a hole-ridden retro styled jumper on top. Wears his fatigue jacket to cover the abomination.

Arms/Hands: Has a pair of mangy cotton gloves if it ever gets too cold.

Legs/Feet: Wears a plain pair of jeans. If he's his apartment he favours to stride around in his pants (the UK version).

Weaponry: His issued walking stick is good for swatting plebs and his sharp wit cuts through people like a hot knife through butter (at least Clive thinks so).

Lost and/or replacement limbs or parts?:

Skills, perks and/or traits of the character:

-Good vocabulary of insults

Weaknesses and/or severe flaws:

-His health is deteriorating
-His tongue gets the better of him
-Doesn't like to be helped as it makes him feel old - he can't really comprehend being a pensioner

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Accepted / Alastair Cruickshank's Metropolice Force Application
« on: March 01, 2014, 09:35:00 PM »
Alastair Cruickshank's Metropolice Force Application

OOC Name: Lewis

IC Character Name: Alastair Cruickshank

1) Please write a minimum of 3 paragraphs OOC'ly detailing why your character wishes to join the Metropolice Force and what lead your character to do so.
My character doesn't have some sob story nor is he some fanatic that completely sides with the Combine and listens to their word like it is a message from the heavens. Instead, he's doing it to escape from the poverty stricken lifestyle of the average citizen and to try to gain a foothold of power under the Combine regime. Alastair believes it's completely pointless trying to oppose the Combine as he'll just end up in a body bag. He believes it's also pointless trying to praise the Combine as he'll end up being subject to the ridicule of other citizens or with a brick through his window. These two extremes only leave the option of living in eternal paranoia and fear from the thugs of the CCA - why would he want to do this when he could instead join their ranks?

Aside from his fear of being beaten up by a) the CCA, b) the CCA and c) the CCA, Alastair also wishes to join to try and help his family's situation. He doesn't know if they're alive but if they are, he knows they may be better off with him in the CCA, as they may be subject to more lax civil judgement and better living conditions. While it's not strictly within the guidelines of the CCA, he aims to try and find a way to contact them or at the least know if they're alive and well. This is one of his main driving forces behind his choice to volunteer for the CCA, as he's always been a caring family man.

Now that his personal fear and family man lifestyle has been covered, the only other reason Alastair wants to join is for a change in the daily grind, for something new and exciting. Most of his life he's been doing the nine 'til five desk job and even though the Combine has defeated humanity and put its strict regime in place, he's still doing the same thing, except instead of typing on a computer and sorting spreadsheets he's stamping shoe boxes. Rather than continue with this monotonous life, Alastair opts to join the CCA to have some exciting new experiences and maybe, just maybe, die in a Hollywood-esque gunfight rather than die of malnutrition in his dingy apartment.

2) Please detail your characters traits. (Eg, Pure, Lawful, Trustworthy)
Alastair conducts himself as a relaxed person and is clear-minded, instead keeping his worries about his family and friends to himself. He believes himself to be witty, sharp-tongued and generally good with banter. He shows loyalty and respect to those who deserve it even if he harbours a dislike for them. He will most likely try and hide his more positive emotions when on the job, as not to catch the unwanted attention of his superiors. He isn't particularly decorous at times.


3) Please provide 2 paragraphs about what you are expecting the Combine Civil Authority to be like for you and your character.
I never really got to experience much of the CCA as I got to the well respected and incredibly high rank of recruit. I really can't remember too much about it aside from it being somewhat disorganised. Personally, I'm hoping it will be more like HL2, with random searches and CPs generally harassing and bullying citizens about, rather than following a bunch of guidelines right to the dot and acting like some paramilitary force. Even if it hasn't changed a great deal since the earlier days, it'll still be a learning experience since I can't remember shit about my previous time in the CCA.

For Alastair, it'll be a huge change from his previous life as a citizen and there'll be a lot of information for him to take in and process. It'll be hard at first but his motives behind him joining will surely drive him to climb up the ladder and live a better life as a unit serving in the CCA. There'll definitely be a learning curve but he's going to do whatever it takes to try and stay in the force, for the better of himself and his family.


4) Please provide a detailed back-story from an out-of-character perspective on your applying character. This section must be detailed and consist of a minimum of 300 words.
Alastair was born in 1968 to a working class family on the outskirts of Glasgow. His family life had no troubles, his father being a train driver and his mother being a dedicated housewife - they all got along just dandy. Alastair didn't particularly excel at school but he wasn't a complete waster - he was plain old average, as were most things in his life. He took a particular interest in computing during a presentation at his secondary school, when the mathematics department purchased two Commodore 64 computers. He left secondary school with Cs and Bs in his Higher examinations. His interest in computing dwindled away as he entered the world of work.

Alastair spent two years after leaving school juggling a variety of jobs that he wasn't too fond of, ranging from: construction worker, milk man and chip shop worker and many others. Feeling dissatisfied with the direction his life was heading in, Alastair decided to go on to further education, taking up a course in information technology at university. It was a world away from the more practical computing he did at secondary school but it was better than frying chips and mixing cement - it was however, still rather boring to him. Graduating a year later with a degree in something he had not learnt to love, but rather despise, Alastair returned to the world of minimum qualifications work until he could sort something out. A few months later when the market was beginning to boom, Alastair secured a desk job where he had the wonderful task of sorting customer details into pretty formats. Why he wasted a year to get a degree for this sort of job, he didn't know.

It was at this point in the early nineties, Alastair was beginning to feel old - he wanted a family. For some reason, the booze-fueled,  one night stands were not enough for him. He wanted something long term, something secure. After unsuccessful attempts to woo his female coworkers over, he met the girl he would soon marry at the grand unveiling of some spreadsheet software he couldn't give a toss about. She was a secretary in some other boring telecommunications company and she too, not unlike Alastair, despised the job. The two got along just fine and after two years of courting they finally married, in 1993. They both chucked away their brain-numbing jobs and pooled together their money, aiming to set up their own café together - the two had a passion for food. It took them a year to even turn back a profit on it, but it caught on - a family run business, home comfort food and good banter all around. While he was still managing spreadsheets and number crunching, it was a lot more enjoyable than his previous job. Deciding they were economically steady enough, the two tried for a child and nine months later little Alexander appeared thanks to the combined efforts of Alastair and his wife, Susan.

Life was completely dandy afterwards. Alastair and Susan's café raked in enough for them to have a comfortable amount of expendable income and it continued like this for years. Alexander was doing well at school and the three were playing at happy families. The Portal Storms stirred up some commotion but they were largely unaffected by them - it was a complete shock to them all, however. Something they would never forget for as long as they lived. Just as life was going back to normal within the confines of their quiet neighbourhood, the war broke out. Great ships dotted the sky, coming out portals akin to the ones they saw years ago. The family huddled together in the loft as the war broke out. They grimaced at the orchestra of gunfire and explosions and watched from the window as the city was completely won over by the Combine. The assault lasted for hours but then the attack stopped, rather suddenly. They watched with panic as a shell-shocked BBC news team told of humanity's surrender to the extraterrestrial empire. The next few weeks flew by - they were processed like cattle, the unfit and unneeded killed. The survivors were completely split up, sent to cities which had seen the least fighting. The last time Alastair saw his family they were taken away to who knows where on a rickety train.

After four long years of worrying about his family, various transfers to different cities, being beaten by the thuggish paramilitary police force, eating some make believe porridge for breakfast lunch and dinner and generally wasting away, Alastair volunteered to join his local Combine Civil Authority.

5) Have you ever had a MPF character here at Catalyst Gaming?  If so, explain why it was removed.
Yes, it got removed after I went inactive for a while.


OOC Details

1. How long have you played on role-playing servers in general?
Late 2010

2. How long have you played on serious servers?
Since I joined CG, in April 2011

3. How long have you played on Catalyst Gaming?
Ditto

4. What Time zone are you in?
GMT

5. In what country do you live?
Scotland

6. How old are you?
16

7. What's your most memorable quality RP experience?
It was an event on a STALKER RP server used to introduce the military faction to the server. At the start of the event, we were all sitting in the plane, ready to parachute out. This allowed us all to ICly get to know each other, which was a neat idea. We then parachuted out and regrouped while curious STALKERs scoured the area for us. Having snuck past them, we effectively kicked Duty out of their own base with nonviolent methods and set up shop in there. For a few hours after, we went around menacing the local populace (because we were all insubordinate cunts), such as stealing their weapons and chaining them to fences.

8. Do you consider yourself a good listener?
Yes



IC Section

Full Name: Alastair Cruickshank
CID: 60756
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Height: 5 feet, 9 inches
Hair Colour Greying brown
Eye Colour: Blue
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Weight: Somewhere around 155-160 (I'm unable to get an accurate measurement)
Mental Distinctions: Good sense of judgement; easy-going; tolerant
Mental Defects: None, as far as I'm aware
Mental Advantages: Quick-thinking; optimistic; laid-back; level headed
Notable Qualities: Respectful; honest; considerate


1. Have you ever been detained or apprehended for a Sociostability Infringement before? If so, explain?
I previously worked at a garments (specifically shoes - I labelled the boxes) factory in C8, prioer to my transfer to C18. When production for the day finished, there was always a count to make sure none of the products were missing. One day, a fellow worker messed up the stitching on a set of shoes and discretely disposed of them rather than face a beating. When it was discovered a set were missing, he didn't own up to it, resulting in the entire work force being subjected to a one cycle imprisonment. I'm unsure if it was even put on my file.

2. Do you regularly eat Combine Civil Authority Issued Rations?
Yes.

3. Are you willing to give your life to the cause of the Universal Union?
Yes - if it comes to it, I suppose I will have to.

4. Do you as a Citizen and future Civil Protection Member accept ALL actions performed by you and those under your command as your OWN responsibility?
Yes, I do.

5. Will you remain loyal and faithful to the Universal Union as long as you live?
I will.

6. Why do you want to join the Combine Civil Authority?
To seek personal fulfillment in my life and also because it is a means to serve the Union. I believe donning the uniform and keeping the streets clean is a better way of aiding the Union than the compulsory work shifts. Admittedly, the perks of the job are also a reason I wish to join - the better living condition for my family (wherever they are) and myself are a temptation I cannot resist.


Please sign the attached oath using only blue or black pen.

I, Alastair Cruickshank hereby swear my mind, body and soul to the Universal Union forever so long as I draw breath. I do so knowing that my actions will be held accountable to me and solely myself. I also declare my knowledge that as a Member of The Universal Union that I will be required to perform tasks above and beyond as well as perform ANY task ordered to by ANY commanding person(s). I hereby acknowledge the fact that as a Civil Protection Task-force Unit that I will be losing most, if not all, communication and or past relationship with anyone outside of the Universal Union's operational bounds.

edit: edited that fucked up apostrophe in Q7 it was doing my tits in

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Accepted / Lewis's Tool Trust Application
« on: March 01, 2014, 03:26:45 PM »
Lewis's Tool Trust Application

Age: 16
Time in HL2RP: Been w/ CG since April 2011,  so roughly 3 years

Character Name(s):
Francis Kelso


What will you use Tool Trust for?
Using props to create a more visually appealing RP environment rather than having to use a barebones, empty apartment.

Have you ever had Tool Trust removed? No

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Creations / poses and shit
« on: February 27, 2014, 03:13:29 PM »
Click to see the original size.

have a pose maybe some more later

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What the title says, really. I left my car's engine on at about 90% fuel, came back about fifteen minutes later and it was down at about 20%. Cars already use fuel quickly (it's understandable because OCRP isn't all super realistic) but when a car uses up nearly its full tank while idling for a short period of time, it doesn't even make any sense.

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Fixed Bugs / Drug dealer's text has an error in it
« on: May 09, 2013, 08:23:59 AM »
What happened when the bug occurred?
I realised that there was a mistake on the drug dealer person's text in his trading menu - it reads "Hover over an item to get it's information." It's not really a big deal nor is it really a bug but it's one of those things that once you notice it, it sticks out like a sore thumb and annoys the shit out of you

What was supposed to happen?
It should read "its" instead "it's"

Picture/Console Errors:
Click to see the original size.

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"Ask Me Anything" / ask a fellow human stuff
« on: April 02, 2013, 07:02:57 AM »
ask me anything you want apart from "hello lewis i am retarded what's your real name????"

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"Ask Me Anything" / weeeeee bandwagon i.e. Ask Lewis Anything
« on: August 10, 2012, 10:12:06 AM »
Title, I'm bored as shit and late to the bandwagon party.

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Accepted Authorizations / 'Akanado''s Authorization Application
« on: March 30, 2012, 12:15:11 PM »
Player Section

Steam Name: Lewis
Age: Fourteen
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): About a year and two months
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: Coming up to a year in about two weeks

Character Section

Authorization(s):
A character from the Yanomami tribe that dwells in Brazil and Venezuela in the Amazon; a bow and three ready-made arrows; hunting and tracking skills.

Name: 'Akanado'
Age: Twenty-nine
Gender: Male
Affiliation: None

Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
   The man awoke with a start, his palms sweaty and his forehead covered in beads of sweat. He looked around at his surroundings, and was rather frightened to see a large hand press down on his forehead.
            
            “Rest, sacred one. The forest spirits have spared you, for whatever reason,” spoke the voice, helping to untangle the recently-awoken man from his tangle of bedcovers. “You are in safe hands now.”
            
            The man sat up slowly, turning towards the older man who had helped him. He began to speak, although he was stopped by the older man, who began to speak again.
            
            “Most of the forest is gone, o’ sacred one, but luckily we were too deep in the forest for the spirits to find us. They have burnt most of it down and it is advisable you get out and stop them.”
            
            The man who was sitting down was simply known as Akanado – his small section of the Yanomami tribe hadn’t even heard of the concept of using surnames – and was a member of the Yanomami. He was born into a hunting village which had allied itself with another village that was in the stages of shifting cultivation. This was good, as they frequently traded with each other, Akanado’s – known as “Akan” among his fellow villagers – home village trading meats and the other giving crops. Sadly, it didn’t go on for more than a few years, as the Yanomami were known as quite a violent tribe and many disputes evolved between the two trading partners.
            
            From an early age, Akanado was trained in the ways of the tribe, in his earliest years, he was taught on how to create small traps using the limited supplies which they had, such as branches twisted to form a pliable rope, pieces of wood and plants that were quite an acquired taste to the animals. He was taught to be independent, and if he didn't get his own food, he would have to rely on the pity of his fellow tribesmen, which sometimes didn't work. Akanado enjoyed his life there, as he had known no other. The only people from outside the tribe he had ever seen were the men used the river every month or so, and the one occasion a group of people with cameras came, and stayed a few hundred metres away from the camp, coming in each day, filming the tribe. The older men, such as the shamans and the chiefs spoke to the camera-wielding people as he was forbidden to talk to them. They left after a few weeks and Akanado grew to know that was a once in a lifetime occasion.
            
            At the age of eight, Akanado began learning how to craft his own work tools, such as fishing rods, knives, along with apparel like headdresses and some techniques involving mixing paints, and the correct methods to apply them. It was around this stage that he was taught how to fish, which went on for about a week or so, before the training stopped and nobody was teaching him. It took him a couple of days to realise, but he had to use his previous training to make his own fishing rod. He spent countless days and nights creating his rod, a carved piece of wood, arcing ever so slightly, painted with symbols and colours. Rather than having a piece of string on it, and a hook, it was simply just a hook at the end, but Akanado was supposed to use the rod and a piece of woven rope at the same time; using the net to drag in the fish, and the rod to hook them out.
            
            This was how he fed himself for three years, eating fish. The only thing that he got for free was the imported vegetables; everybody got a share of them. At the age of fifteen, Akanado began his final piece of training before he would officially become a hunter for the village. He, with no knowledge, except his past training years ago, was instructed to construct his own bow, quiver, and set of twenty arrows. He spent countless nights in the workshop, filing away at the wood, gluing, filing some more, bending the wood, filing again, decorating, and filing. It went on for six months, until he was actually happy with what he had. He had scrapped it multiple times, beginning again each time from scratch. When he had finally finished the bow, arrows and quiver, he had to present them all to the chief, and if the chief was happy with his job, he was part of the hunters. It was a triumph for Akanado; the chief was happy with his work. And so, from the young - yet not unusual for the tribe - age of sixteen, he was part of the hunting party. Akanado continued hunting for the village for seven years, until that fateful night...
            
            Akanado pushed himself from the bed, feeling sticky with drying sweat. He towered over the old man and was given back his bow and spear. It was odd to think that he was the sacred one, he always thought he was that unimportant boy… or was he really the one who would defend his tribe from the evil spirits? He shook his head in disbelief, ducking under the doorway, into the bright light of the day. The people of the village looked quite sad and tired, most likely from the presumed attack of the spirits. He couldn’t even remember what had happened last night. People of the village stared at him, was it awe, jealousy, or even anger? He made his way through the forest clearing, using his spear to help himself walk. Once he made it through the clearing, he looked around at his surroundings in horror. The forest, for at least a kilometer around, was scorched to the ground, with tree stumps dotted around, still smoldering. In the middle of the clearing there was a strange piece of scorched material. It was lighter on one side and rather soft, and on the other, hard and metallic-like. He prodded it with his spear and waited for a reaction.
            
            “Must be a dead spirit,” thought Akanado, poking it with his spear.
            
            Unbeknownst to Akanado, it was a single unit of the gargantuan Combine army. Unbeknownst to Akanado, the Combine were already here. Unbeknownst to Akanado, the Combine would get him.
            
            The trees around him began to rustle, the leaves began to shake off, then some branches and eventually part of a tree cracked off with a blast of light. A flying object swooshed over the trees with five more following it in a straight line. The last object turned around, presumably sighting Akanado. It shot near him, although most of them hit the trees behind him. It took him a minute to realise it was trying to shoot the trees behind him, and then it took him a second to realise fragments of a tree were flying at him.
            
            Two men dressed in blue clothing stayed low in an alleyway, one of them prodding a third man lying on the ground with his right index finger.
            
            “Blimey, those CWU guys threw him out after he didn’t wake up, I guess,” spoke a man in a thick Londoner’s accent.

            “He was the one in that coma, right?” asked his Chinese companion.

            “Yeah,” replied the Londoner. “Well, come on, give us a hand, we can’t just let him lie here.”
         
            The two men grabbed the man – Akanado – and quickly carried him away. They moved into a building opposite the alleyway, worked their way through the crowd and into a ground floor apartment, and dropped Akanado onto a couch.
         
            “Say, have you ever noticed how suspicious it is to drag around a lifeless man?” sarcastically jibed the Chinese male.
         
            His companion said nothing, instead peeking out of the window, watching the early morning street. It was fairly empty.
         
            “I’m betting this one – “spoke the Londoner, pointing to a masked figure wielding a long metal baton and was leaning again a wall, “is probably sleeping, and that one, and that one.”
         
            “You’re so cocky, but either way, we need to get to the other district, because I’m not being caught with some comatose who is bound to wake up any time soon and will probably go ape-shit,” replied the Chinese man.
         
            “Right, right, give us a minute.”
         
            The Londoner left the room, and returned a few minutes with a cleaning cart with the letters of ‘CWU’ painted on the side of it. He, along with the help of the Chinese man, dumped Akanado in the cart and covered him in dirty cleaning rags. They slowly pushed it out on to the street, and to their joy, nobody even glanced at them pushing the cart along. Gradually they began to increase their speed as they came to a large bluish structure between two buildings.
         
            “Here comes the fun…” mumbled the Londoner, beginning to push the cart a lot faster than before.
         
            They pushed it right through, running at full speed while pushing the cart, before they turned off, the cart freewheeling ahead.
         
            “Hold it right there, citizens!” came an almost robotic voice.
         
            There was a stamp of boots as two figures emerged through the gate and pursued the two men, leaving the cart to roll down the hill beyond the gate. Two gunshots rang out, then all was silent. It tumbled down the hill, and luckily, for its ‘passenger’, hit a wall and stopped. The cart lay for a few hours, before its passenger climbed out, rolling onto the ground. He coughed heavily, looking around. He was outside of a garage, in the outskirts of a city.
         
            This was all too much for him. Akanado resided in the garage for a few days, creating a den of sorts, in the storage room. He wasn't going to last without food, he believed that he could possibly hunt out where he was; he knew barely anything about outside of the Amazon, only what it looked like and now he was here, with no knowledge of what to do. Akanado began to try and recreate his tools from when he was a hunter in the village, starting with his bow. He began almost immediately, gathering up anything he could.

            He ventured outside for the first time in days, moving towards a building he saw on his way to the garage. It was a block of apartments, with scaffolding up one side; it was obviously in the middle of being repaired. He took a few minutes, examining the planks of wood, taking the two straightest pieces that he could find, before he went back to the garage. Akanado took his time, carving away at the wood with the tools inside the garage, trying to make the best bow he could.
            
            As the wood didn’t have a natural curve, Akanado had to do his best to curve it artificially, by putting weights on the side and ever so slightly increasing the payload, so that it wouldn’t snap. In the end, it was quite primitive and badly made, but considering the circumstances and materials he had now, it was the best he could do. Akanado moved away from the garage after a few more days of picking through the rubbish for food, taking cautious and slow steps to observe his surroundings as he moved through the derelict streets of the outer area of the city. He brought with him a cart of tools and spare materials from the garage, stowing it in a warehouse. Akanado spent a few careful nights (taking his time in case any of the ‘spirits’ heard him), cutting the sharp, spear-like tops from the spiked fencing outside with anything he could from the collection of tools, until he had ten or so of the spikes. Using the remainder of his wood, he carved pieces down, until the number of spikes and wood were the same. He spent another day adding to his arrows, decorating them and adding the finishing touches.

            Having finally gathered up tools, Akanado began to head further into the alien countryside, his stomach rumbling and his mouth dry. He took long routes and tried to move slowly and carefully when possible, as he still believed the spirits to be on his tail, watching his every move. He caught a few small animals and gratefully ate them on his weeklong journey, trying not to use his bow in case it broke.
            
            It was one day while venturing across the barren industrial areas he had came across a large group of people walking down a road. They were laden with supplies, and appeared to be talking something about “heading to the mountains” and “catching up the others”.
            
            Akanado, not really paying attention to the danger he could get himself in, began to follow the men, as they would probably know the place better than he did. As he followed them along, he would make sure at night he stayed at least a few hundred metres away, although that left him having to get up earlier in the morning to catch up on them. The environment began to change drastically. Water treatment plants turned into mountainous ridges, warehouses turned into shacks and villages, stinking canals into V-shaped valleys.
         
            After a while, Akanado eventually broke off from following them and went off the beaten path, moving through forests (that were, unfortunately, not rainforests). He stumbled upon a town with a vandalised and worn-out post. He struggled to read it, as it wasn’t even in English. It was something along the lines of “Beies”, or maybe “Bels”, he wasn’t too sure.
         
            With his bow and primitive utensils in hand, his face and body decorated in traditional paints and his stomach rumbling, Akanado stands at the entrance to Beles, trying to decipher the post…
         
            From here, his story takes off into Outlands at the current in-chat time.


What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
A method of killing small game, coupled with hunting skills which would aid this killing.
Possible means of defence/intimidation against people if it comes to situations that dire.
Has some skill with making primitive tools and surviving with fancy technology, so he knows how to survive (in the right environment and conditions, of course).


Defects
Doesn't know a word of English and only speaks the language of Yanam.
The Yanomami are quite a violent and hostile tribe that don't just fight other tribes, but fight amongst themselves, so Akanado is quite violent and hostile.
As he doesn't know any English, he may intercept some messages wrong and possibly get annoyed.
He's only been living in a single environment (the Amazon) for all his life, so it's a drastic change to be in a different place.
He only has three good arrows, so if they break, all he'll have to use are stones for arrowheads, unless he can find materials.
His bow isn't a state of the art hunting bow and it's not made for taking down elephants, so it's not extremely durable, meaning it'll have to be repaired quite a lot.
Just because he has hunting and tracking skills, there might not even be any animals that are alive.
Akanado has bad social skills as he's been isolated from modern society for all his life.
He barely understands modern technology; the most he could do is probably turn on a television.

What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
I want to try and bring fear back to the Outlands, really. Since OTA require an owner's permission to deploy, people just walk around without a care in the world, like it's a wonderland. While I'm not going to be all "/me shoots man in the neck with arrow, he dies.", I'm going to try and make people scared again by being a territorial, technology and socially incapable man who uses primitive tools to survive and defend himself, while keeping a rather violent attitude towards people. With this, I'm going to try not to hurt people IC, but if what they do IC causes my character to react violently in a way, so be it.

Will anyone else need these auths? (If so, list OOC and IC name(s))
Nope.

Which server does this apply for?
Outlands

Extra Notes (optional):
I'm not asking for a crossbow btw, it's an IC weapon that I'm applying for.

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Accepted Authorizations / Ciprian Buscan's Authorization Application
« on: February 18, 2012, 01:34:24 PM »
Player Section

Steam Name: Lewis
Age: Fourteen
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): About a year, really. I played Fallout RP on IG back in January, but I was pretty much a newbie and had no idea of what to do.
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: Ditto.

Character Section

Authorization(s):
Blacksmithing skill and experience
DIY experience
Metalworking skill and experience


Name: Ciprian Buscan
Age: Sixty-seven
Gender: Male
Affiliation: None

Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
Ciprian Buscan – born Horea Dovij – is the ‘accidental’ offspring of Augustin Dovij and Ana Gilca. By “accidental”, we’re meaning that two lonely youngsters in a city public house got a few drinks, and well, one thing led to another. His mother left after birth, instead leaving the hard-up – in the sense of money – Augustin Dovij to care for the child. Augustin left the family home in his late teens/early twenties, believing that he would make it rich. Ciprian was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1950. His father, at the time of Ciprian’s birth was actually unemployed, and instead he was – unbeknownst to Ciprian – a thief, yet a good one. He went along, not taking money or unneeded things, yet only essentials, such as food and clothes. It continued like this for a few years, before Augustin took up an unofficial handyman business, traveling around the villages and countryside, looking for jobs here and there. Ciprian was home schooled by his father, although he did not abide by the normal school curriculum, instead teaching him how to do practical things, such as hammering nails correctly and using hacksaws without getting them stuck in the material. The only downside to the home schooling was that Ciprian never got much social interaction, and that caused problems for him.

         It was in the late seventies that by sheer luck, that Augustin was convicted of something similar to his previous crimes years back. Augustin had been working on the house of a rather well-off upper class family. The house pretty much reeked of money, yet for Augustin’s job, it reeked of rainwater. The attic of the large villa had been damaged in a storm, and Augustin – who had became quite a known figure for DIY and maintenance jobs – had been called in to fix it. He was already being paid hundreds for the job, yet while fixing it up, he tried to steal from the house. He was caught red-handed, sitting shoveling jewelry and gems into his greasy jumpsuit. He was arrested, and locked up in Jilava prison for seven years. It was rumoured that the family had bribed the court to imprison him for longer, yet this was never proven. Ciprian was left alone, a sixteen year old without any family or friends. He became the main figure in his father’s trade, instead of being the little helping hand at the side who went and fetched things. Ciprian continued this for three years, and lived on his own, before he was sent off to perform his compulsory military service. He didn’t enjoy it one bit. He hated the training, as he wasn’t exactly at the height of fitness, nor was he even interested in becoming the next G.I. Joe. He deliberately got himself kicked out by refusing to do anything, although he spent the remainder of his service time inside a youth prison, which, luckily enough, was only about two weeks.

         Ciprian continued his father’s trade, although he began to get rejected from jobs, as his father was heavily publicised as the “Handyman Housebreaker”, and so in 1985, he officially changed his name to “Ciprian Buscan”. Following that, he continued his work without bother, and became another boring and unrecognised face in the streets of Bucharest. In 1988, Ciprian used some of his savings to try and get some proper education. He funded his way for a college education and studied metalworking. He dropped out of the course about halfway through, as he suffered an injury during it. Most likely he would have been kicked out if he didn’t suffer the injury, as he wasn’t very intelligent with the calculations and what-not; Ciprian displays his intelligence in practical ways. He had been operating a table saw, to be more specifically, he was cutting down wood into the shape of a handle, so that it would fit onto the structure of a sword he had made weeks earlier, as part of a medieval-themed project his teacher had assigned the rest of the class. Others had went for things such as pieces of chain mail, some had even went as far to try and create real plate armour (only one person actually succeeded with this, but in the end it turned out he had professional help). Any way, Ciprian was operating the saw, and, unluckily, he had been wearing some loose clothing at the time. The sleeve of his shirt was caught in the mechanism, and before he could stop the machine and… well, ‘chop’. One thing led to another and Ciprian was without his left ring finger. Ciprian wasn’t too bothered about failing the course, although he was quite distraught over losing his finger. He still retains a fear of saws to this day, and although he does use them, inside he’s screaming for help and close to tears.

         In 1993, Ciprian landed a job with Automobile Dacia S.A., in one of their production factories. His first job with Dacia was at the end of one of the production lines, where he rounded off any nooks and crannies in the final product. He would fill in any scratches, weld in a little bit here and there, and do a bit of this and that, really. In 2000, Ciprian left the city of Bucharest, instead moving to the countryside of Arad County, or, more specifically, the village of Ineu, about sixty kilometers from the capital of Arad. Ciprian used his savings to purchase a two-in-one shop and flat, where he set up his small business of “Buscan Blacksmithing”. His best selling items were his fences. The reason for this was that in the more mountainous areas of the town, there were often some slips with cars, and they would usually either hit trees, brick walls or fences. Then there was always that one unlucky person who missed all three and drives into a river. Ciprian lived a fairly peaceful live from there on, and he enjoyed his blacksmithing job - whether it be creating fences, tools or furniture, he loved it. He lived like this for years, and when the time of the Portal Storms came, he was pretty much oblivious to them, as he ignored the media and instead focused on the quiet life.

         Unfortunately for Ciprian, he couldn’t avoid the Seven Hour War. Even for such an unknown and relatively small town like Ineu, there were lots of fighting, and not to mention looting. Ciprian spent about two hours making defences for home, using his famous and well made fencing to block his workshop door. He retreated into the crawlspace in the floor – the workshop was previously a garage – and tried to pretend that there was still a vehicle above him, thus hiding him. He stayed there for hours, gripping the metal hammer in his hand tighter each time somebody tried to open the door. After four hours, he got out, and began to work on his defences again, and make a primitive and badly made sword out of part of his bicycle. He scared away a few looters, by smacking them on the hands as they tried to stick a hand through the space in the smashed window. The clumsy sword broke after a few hits; after all, he had made it out of part of a bike and in the space of about ten minutes. Ciprian retreated upstairs, and hid inside his wardrobe for the next few hours, and he fell asleep, hidden in amongst the clothing.

        He awoke the next morning, and the streets were pretty much empty. Somebody or something had broken into his house, as the defences were badly bent out of shape, and there was a huge hole in his wooden front door. Oddly enough, nothing was actually stolen. Ciprian quickly gathered up what he could – a random assortment of tools, a couple of cans of food and a two litre bottle of water – and ran surprisingly fast for somebody of his age. He made his way to the forest, trying to keep low and make sense of what had been happening. He couldn’t have been the only one with a bit of sense to hide when there had been gunfire and explosions, right? Just as he was thinking about that, it seemed like something interrupted his thoughts: a whooshing noise, most likely wind, to be specific. The pine trees swayed, some branches actually coming loose and hitting the ground. Overhead, a huge helicopter of sorts flew past, leaving Ciprian startled and confused. He came to his senses, and believed it to be some help. Ignoring all those movie clichés about the military or whoever was in the helicopter coming to kill him, Ciprian ran ahead, shaking his arms about. It the helicopter ignored him, instead speeding on. Ciprian followed the path it was going, until he came to a cliff. He looked just in time to see it skimming across the horizon. He navigated his way down the cliff edge, and he settled down at the bottom, exhausted from it, even though it was only about twenty foot in height.
                     
         Ciprian examined the sign at his left, reading it aloud: “You are now leaving Beles”. He turned back around, slowly climbing over the wooden log fence, quite tired and confused from the recent events. He made his way into what seemed like stables, and settled down amongst the hay in the dark, breathing heavily. Ciprian gathered up some furniture from other houses and made himself a rather primitive doorway over the course of a few days, to keep out any critters or unwelcome people.

         Ciprian struggled for survival over the following months, and he barely scraped by. He lost quite a lot of his weight, and in some ways he was rather disappointed, but at least he could now jog for half a minute without suffering a cardiac arrest. People began to pass by the very small village, and they all seemed to be wearing identical jumpsuits of sorts. He kept to himself and didn’t give them the warm welcome that a jolly old man who lived in a mountain village should. More and more began to pass by, and he began to feel like his new home was being intruded. Ciprian retreated indoors, and he rarely set foot outside, instead only going out to scavenge supplies. He blocked all forms of contact, and now he watches the newcomers come and go, his beady eyes observing them come to the Outlands…


What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
The ability to create things using metal, such as some weapons - not firearms - and tools, meaning Cyrpian could defend himself using these things if necessary.
Using his DIY skills, Cyprian could, for example, repair a hole in his door, or fit in a new window if one is broken.
As Cyprian has some skill with metalworking, he could do something such as repairing the frame of a car (not the actual engineering in the car, I mean that if the frame is broken, he could take some time and patch it back together).

Defects
Potential injuries if Cyprian is careless about his work.
Speaks little to no English.
He's not exactly at the height of fitness, so he can't manage many challenging physical activities.
The tools Cyprian took with him are rather outdated, and the only thing that's pretty useful is his blowtorch.
Unless he takes time with his blacksmithing, his creations might be quite crude.
Although he can create some weapons with his blacksmithing, it wouldn't be very handy against somebody with a firearm.


What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
I want to create a rather secluded man who keeps to himself, mainly due to not having much social interaction in the past, and also because of quite a big language barrier between himself and the refugees from the cities.

Will anyone else need these auths? (If so, list OOC and IC name(s))
nop

Which server does this apply for?
Outlands

Extra Notes (optional):
If I create anything major - say some crude chain mail armour - I'd submit another authorisation application for it, then if it gets accepted, do the RP afterwards.

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edit again because microsoft word is laughing at alignment

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