So I'm guessing this is going to be a more vehicle driven map? It's quite large, but is going to take a crap-ton of time getting anywhere on foot without some paracetamols, and even with... But either way, It's looking fantastic and I can't wait to play on it!

Unit 350's Funeral

Go ahead and ask any question you want, serious or not.(Though I prefer serious questions.)

Player Section

Steam Name: NinjaShrimp
Age: 16
How long have you been Roleplaying? (can be any game): Around 5-6 Years
How long have you been playing Serious GMod RP?: Around 3-4 Years

Character Section

Authorization(s): A good knowledge of Mechanical operations, mostly pertaining to vehicles.


Name: Garret Harris
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Affiliation: Resistance

Write a detailed in-canon back-story how your character obtained these authorizations.
     ~Pre-7-Hour-War~
Garret had a very stable, yet harsh upbringing.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, near the coast and in a small town, yet still on one of the countries main road. His father, am Irishman, was one of the the most well known mechanics in all of Dublin, and although a drunk, and somewhat abusive, never missed a chance to teach his son his trade. His mother was a Japanese woman, who travelled often as a part of her job, left most of her son's upbringing to the father.

Garret stayed with is father for twenty-three years, learning much about the mechanic trade, not going to college but instead staying to work with his father at his repair shop. He learned nearly everything there was to learn about vehicles, from building them, to putting them back together, to destroying them, gutting the innards of the vehicles, all the wires and electronical equipment, and putting it all back again, in different places usually. The repair-shop itself also had a fair variety of vehicles come in besides your everyday car, such as motorcycles, Semi-trailor Trucks, RV's, even some Tractors, and helping to repairing them, learning as he went on.

Eventually, one of the few times his mother came home for a visit, he decided that he wanted to get out, and travel a bit, so he went with his mother on her travels throughout Europe, and even Asia, finally landing in Yokohama, Japan, for a brief family visit. Japan's massive auto-industry interested Garret greatly, as he was touring through the city, and came upon one of the countries massive production facilities. He was facinated by the level of technology that was used in making, and also put into the vehicles, everything seemed so much more advanced, although sometimes it seemed a bit unneccesary, even overdone.

Another thing that caught his interest during his stay was the modifications done to a lot of the vehicles he noticed around the city, some of them seemed like music studios on wheels, while others were a rolling mass of lights and hydraulics. One of his uncles introduced him to some of these vehicles, much to his delight, up close and personal in his garage, where they both tinkered with the vehicles and gave eachother ideas and suggestions.

~The Portal Storms/7-Hour-War~
On the way back to Dublin, Via flight from Moscow, Russia, the portal storms suddenly hit. The plane was forced down, landing somewhere in Europe, while the earth was ravaged by the portals. Garret, waited out the portal storms in a small town, not unlike his own, until he was sure it was safe enough to venture out (There is no definite time period here, from when the portals first started, to when the Combine invaded, but most likely a few months.), and made his way with a group of like-minded people back to France. On their way back, the Combine invasion took place, lasting 7 hours before earth surrendered. The group, along with Garret decided to gather what supplies they had, and head to the wilderness, hoping to hide and take refugue from the Combine who were either capturing earth's inhabitants, or killing them off.

~The Now~
Garret had been surviving on his own for some time, having left the group and finding other small bands of refugee's to stay with temporarily before moving on. He stayed for several months, in the wastelands outside of City45, keeping mostly to himself and shying away from the other refugee's and groups in the area.

But then the Combine made a massive cleaning of the area, and he fled, along with the other inhabitants, to the Mountains, where he is currently residing, sheltering in the cold Pass of Ineu.

What will these authorizations give your character in regards to perks or defects?
Perks
Ability to Repair, Maintain, and customize a large category of vehicles and other simple mechanical items.


Defects
My character will most likely be bothered constantly from other players in the Outlands, asking for my knowledge and expertise.
Any mistakes made by my character could end badly for whoever is in the way, such as engine failure, or say non-working brakes etc.

What do you plan to do with these perks/defects?
I hope to improve roleplay around me, helping whoever needs it with these perks, seeing as many people have vehicles iside of the Pass.

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): Nope

Why'd you let him into his zone?

A pole would work well, but in another suggestion is that STTRP actually provides action RP. (Serious RP) In HL2RP I notice there if almost no action. Yeah I get it role play it role playing it's not meant to be a shooter, but action happens at a rare time. Guns are almost never used besides the CCA in killing citizens for those level one verdicts. So just a server to have a mix of action, and role play would work well, and keep players entertained. There is always the option of maybe basing STTRP in a city map. Having civilians, and shops. Roleplay would still be involved, and as for downloads there can always be an SVN so people wouldn't have to download 15 things. It would come in a single package.

Outlands has quite a bit of gun action, when it's up we can tell. But I'm not saying I'm opposed to SSTRP, I've played on one server's version of it and it was quite fun and Action-Packed like you said. But would it be good for our Community? Right now we aren't getting much population, opening a new server might bring it up, or waste money on another server with even more empty slots... Plus the Administration situation, and we'd need some people dedicated to that server.

I honesty believe that the HL2RP servers will regain a bit of their previous populations. People enjoyed playing those characters, and roleplaying with the group of people in which they knew, building a fine story shared with multiple people all at once. That's the reason I can't wait to come back to Outlands