>>37495342
It’s been five weeks since the power stopped working everywhere if you remember correctly. Your parents had whispered something about “Coronal Mass Ejection” when they thought you weren’t listening, but that doesn’t mean anything to you.

Thinking of that reminds you what happened to your parents. It was four weeks ago, at the same time as the bright light in the sky. You were driving to your grandparent’s house; mom and dad said something about them being more self-sufficient. You’d just taken it as another trip until the light happened. When the light happened, the car stopped working. Dad yelled, Mom screamed. There was a screech and then a crash. When you woke up, both of them were dead and the strange men were pulling you out of the car.

Dead…they’re dead and not coming back. Even as you’re herded with the rest of the kids to a new room you…

>Cry
>Don’t cry.
>Tear up, but don’t sob.

>Also, what’s your name? Default will be William, I reserve the right to veto.

>>37495372
>Tear up, but don’t sob.

>Drake

>>37495372
>Cry
>>37495409
I'll back this name.

>>37495372
>Tear up, but don’t sob.
>Name: Wilhelm Gontermann

Because everything sounds more badass in German.

>>37495372
>>Tear up, but don’t sob.

William is fine by me.

>>37495372
>>Cry

Aleksei

>>37495342
>>Don’t cry.
Yeah, Drake is neat. Not too special.

>>37495372
>>Tear up, but don’t sob.
William is cool

>>37495372
Tentatively excited, though this isn't really my flavor of quests, based on what you said.

>Tear up
William is fine.

>>37495372
>>Don’t cry

Get outta here you candy asses

>>37495372
>Tear up, but don’t sob.

>>37495372
>Tear up, but don’t sob.
William is a fine name

>>37495372
>Tear up, but don’t sob

William works.

>>37495372
>Tear up, but don’t sob.
Name: Clarissa

Alright, looks like tearing up but don't sob.

Name is William.


As for everyone concerned about not liking the quest, I'd ask for about 5~ threads to see if you like it, as it will take a little to settle in. But if it's not your quest, it's not your quest. Please don't stay only for my sake. However, I'll still be taking suggestions for the first few, so you might be able to suggest something for me.

Anyway, writing.

>>37495659
>>37495658
Wait, we could choose a girl name? I'll swap over if that's the case

>>37495669
>>37495658
No it was made clear we were male.

>>37495669
Boy named Sue?

>>37495658
>>37495669
Pretty clear MC's a dude.

>Sitting upright, you rub your side and follow after the mass of children, all boys. You see the girls sometimes, but they’re largely kept away from you.

>>37495659
Ooh a new quest by guide
How exciting

>>37495658
>>37495669

MC is clearly male.

>>37495659
So there was an emp that destroyed most of the worlds electronics. Are you insinuating that most of the electrical infrastructure is destroyed? If so I'm afraid there are much bigger problems than just no electronics. Sorry you said it was realistic just trying to establish how realistic.

>>37495823
Exact details of the setting aren't available yet, you are just seeing what a young mind would see. Details will be forthcoming.

>>37495823
Pretty sure the whole world went to shit, wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing thing de-orbiting in the night/day sky.

>>37495866
we will be making our characters past or is that something you will reveal? Parents sound interesting.

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>>37495372
You feel yourself tearing up like you have been for the past couple of weeks. You stopped sobbing after the first one; it didn’t really help anything and it only made it hard for you to answer when the mean men came in for you.

As the tears fall down your cheeks you still notice something. You aren’t going to the breakfast hall. Normally you take a left and are fed a small meal of porridge or something for breakfast, then you usually sit or are yelled at and told about “The Rapture” by a scary man. This time you’re going to the right, you’ve never been to the right before.

Following the other boys you are herded into a single file line, with men dressed in green camouflage yelling at you to take one and only one.

One of what?

Quickly you see, being towards the front of the line. Knives, they’re handing out knives to all the boys. Stepping up to the man passing them out, you take yours, head down so they don’t yell at you. It comes with a little belt and a thing to put it in. Touching the tip carefully, you can tell it is really really sharp.

Still you’re herded onwards, towards another table with even more stuff on it. That stuff turns out to be guns…and grenades; you recognize them from the movies and T.V.

The men are still yelling at all the boys to take one and only one.

Which do you grab?

>Gun
>Grenade
>>37495902

You are currently making your characters past.

>>37495919
>gun

>>37495919
>Gun

>>37495919
>Gun

>>37495919
>Gun

>>37495919
>>Gun

>>37495919
>>Grenade

Time to make stuff explode!

>>37495919
>Grenade

Spherical I win button.

>>37495973
One off and harder to get good ones.

>>37495919
>Grenade

Well I have to say that you have my attention.

>>37495919
Gun.

>>37495919
>gun

>>37495919
I wanna say grenade as explosions.
Unfortunately gun is the more sensible answer.
>Gun

Alright, calling for gun.

Writing.

>>37495919
>Gun

Even if the grenade is easier to use for a kid or more effective the guns better for personal survival. Plus we're a kid and probably associate more with a gun from tv than a grenade.

>>37496055
Unless this is some WWII Russian level shit where they don't have ammo. Or worse some are fake.

>>37496076
also when you first throw a grenade you don't realize quite how to aim it. A gun is less dangerous to use without experience.

>>37496076
I was thinking the same thing.

"The man with the ammo follows the man with the rifle. When the man in front dies pick up his rifle and shoot!"

>>37496130
truthfully I was kind of imaging that as well that or a really hardcore boot camp where we are now made to fight each other the "winners" are the ones who don't die in the initial fight.

>>37496076
I imagine quality anything is going to be hard to come buy shortly. Bullets are easier to make than explosives.

>>37496168
not if the manufacturing industry has been destroyed. Trust me, I would prefer making explosives to bullets by hand. It would be safer

>>37496226
Time for Molotov's

>>37496124
Genuinely curious.. a baseball is a bad analog?

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>>37495919
Grabbing the gun you examine it as you are pushed towards a door outside. It looks just like the ones you see the good guys carrying on T.V. though they didn’t give you any more bullets than the one inside of it, at least you don’t think so. As your group of boys is herded towards a group of trucks, you see the bad man who seems to be in charge.

Normally he’s all angry and yelling about the rapture and god’s deliverance, but today he is smiling at you. Once all the boys are gathered in front of him, along with a bunch of the other mean adults, he starts speaking.

>>37496268
Shoot him.

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>>37496268
“Children of the Rapture!” he says, raising his hands almost benevolently over your assembled group, “Welcome to the first day of the end of time! Today is the day that we will start to bring the lords gift to the rest of the world! You will be the vanguard of their salvation! We shall bring the final purification of this sinful earth to those around us, granting them final peace and a trip to purgatory so that their sins may be cleansed in the fire of our lord! Now go forth, listen to my messengers and do as they say, so that one day too you will join us for our final reward!”

As the man finishes his speech, which you really didn’t understand, the other men cheer, a few of them holding up guns and shooting them in the air. A few of the boys cheer as well, but most of them just look like you, confused, scared and unsure as to what exactly is going on.

You are made to climb into the trucks by the scary men with guns, the tailgate being shut behind you as the truck starts. You drive for a long time, you don’t know how long. Eventually the truck stops and you are made to get out. From there, you walk a long way, before stopping when another group of scary men appear from the trees. The two grownups in charge appear to talk, before the one with your group comes back and starts talking to your group.

>>37496249
Very..very bad. Think throwing a small cannon ball. if you throw like a baseball it will travel maybe 12 feet and your still in the blast radius. Grenades are pretty dense.

>>37496268
>>37496286
Oh boy.

>>37496286
“Soldiers of the lord!” he yells at you, “Over this ridge is an outpost of our enemy. You will assault the position from the front while the others flank them! Do not stop, do not falter in the name of the lord! Now line up!”

You and the rest of the boys are made to get in a rough line, and then marched to the edge of a clearing. You see a big building in the distance, with men in front of it. You can’t tell if they have guns or not.

“Soldiers, advance!” yells the man, firing a pistol into the air. A few of the boys start forward, the rest of you still pretty scared. “Forward!” yells the man, this time firing his pistol near your feet. That makes you move forward quickly. As you do so, the men behind you occasionally shoot, making the group run faster.

You can’t see very well thanks to all the boys, but you think the men in front of the building are surprised to see you. They don’t seem to be doing anything, at least until the man behind you yells again.

“Fire!” he yells, “Fire in the name of the lord, kill the unbelievers!” Nobody does so, at least at first. Then somewhere off to the side, you hear a gun chatter, one of the boys following the order. That breaks the silence in front, the men by the building raising guns at you and shooting!

>Shoot back!
>Just keep running!
>Drop down and cry!

>>37496309
>Just keep running!

>>37496309
>Just keep running!

>>37496249
A grenade is more like throwing a Shotput, they're heavy as balls, especially depending on the type. A pineapple can weigh around 1.5lbs, and they can get much heavier than that.

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>>37496309
>>Shoot back!

I wonder how much trauma we can inflict upon the MC during the prologue.

>>37495659
I'm looking into because it's you Guide, but I don't really like darker quests, since I quest to cheer me up on the bad days. Still, you might make it interesting enough to I work past that, so I'm giving it a shot.

>>37496309
Whoops. Forgot to hit send.
>Just keep running.

>>37496309
>Drop down and fire, aim as best you can.

>>37496309
>Just keep running!
oh shit time to duck out of the way.

>>37496309
>Shoot back!

>>37496309
Shoot him. As in, the man giving you orders.

>>37496309
>Run
Stealth will be our greatest asset here. I don't think we can save any of the other kids.

>>37496309
Keep running, but to a better covered position.

What kind of gun are we carrying Guide? Is it a Rifle, pistol, shotgun?

>>37496332
I don't wanna be a Gundam!

>>37496309
>Just keep running!

>>37496309
>>Just keep running
Find cover yo

>>37496378
>>37496286
M-16/AR. It's pretty heavy for you, but you've still got it.

>>37496309
>Just keep running!

>>37496378
Doesn't matter we're fodder.

>>37496389
>>37496363
These

>>37496309
>Shoot back!
They're worth EXP probably..

>>37496352
No, that's just asking for BOTH sides be aiming at us.

>>37496332
I was wondering when somebody would post that.

>>37496396
Since it's a long rifle, let's find a covered position and start shooting.

>>37496396
so like 3 seconds of continuous fire. well no automatic then.

>>37496309
>Find cover!

>>37496342
Understandable, this first one will be bad. Getting better and happiness will take awhile, but they will be achievable.
Looks like keep running wins.

Writing.

>>37496328
Huh. Thanks.

>>37496445
We're a kid bro, burst fire is a much smarter armament. Even full grown adults have issues with muzzle rise and tracking

>>37496309
>Just keep running!
Save that bullet for when you need it. Let the fodder draw fire.

>>37496471
I was thinking of covering fire which is what automatic is used for 80% of the time.

>>37496309
>Just keep running!

>>37496481
>>37496471
We have ONE bullet. they are using us as fodder so they can kill whoever they want with a flank attack.

>>37496481
We're operating on limited ammo conditions, burst would is good enough for most supporting fire. Especially tuck and run tactics and multi-party support.

>>37496481
>>37496505
>>37496509
Scuse me, that was supposed to be ones, implying a single full magazine.

That was my bad.

>>37496522
You said M16/AR Variant, so one mag can be anywhere from 5/10-30. I'm gonna assume you're being nice and giving us a full 30 right?

>>37496541
Yep.

>>37496547
Score, my vote is run to cover and call as many kids over our way as we can.

>>37496565
I will second that

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>>37496547
Love you babe.

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>>37496309
You keep running, even as there are flashes of light towards you and loud noises from the guns. You see, but try not to see some of the other boys around you drop down, their screaming coming from behind you as you and some of the others keep running, a few of them stopping to aim at the men in front of the building with their guns.

One of the boys in front of you stops to throw a grenade. Even though he looks older than you he struggles with the pin. Just as you pass him, you see that he managed to get it off. You keep running, expecting him to throw it past you and towards the men that are getting closer and closer. You don’t see the grenade go past you, but you hear an explosion. You don’t look back, aren’t given the chance to look back as you somehow trip and end up rolling into a big hole that the men appeared to be digging in.

On the other side of the hole is a man. He doesn’t look that old, but then again you’re terrified out of your mind and barely thinking coherently. The man looks surprised as you tumble into the hole, his eyes going wide. You stare at him as well. Suddenly, he moves to grab a gun on the bottom of the hole. He’s going to shoot you!

>Shoot him first!
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!

>>37496547
Is the third fire option burst or full automatic? Although, I guess we wouldn't know yet.

>>37496599
>>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!

>>37496599
>Shoot him first!

>>37496599
>>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!

>>37496599
>>Shoot him first!

Cause we can totally take him with the knife.

>>37496599
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!
My inner knife nut compells me

>>37496599
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!
positioning an assault rifle after falling will always be slower than slitting his throat.

>>37496599
>Shoot him first!

>>37496599
>Shoot him first!
Just like on the TV!

>>37496599
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp

>>37496634
Can we even reach his throat? We're like 12. He'll probably just bitchslap us away.

>>37496599
I think if we were a scared kid and had the gun in our hands we'd use that first.
>Shoot him first!

>>37496599
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!

>>37496599
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!

>>37496599
Shoot him, keep running. We're not ready to stab someone. That's a whole new trauma...

>>37496599
>>Shoot him first!

>>37496599
Shoot him.

>>37496599
>Stab him, your knife is really sharp!
His gun's out of reach

>>37496654
his entire focus is on his gun his reaction will not be to swat at us, but to shoot us that affords us the much needed moment to kill him with our knife.
Also I think you guys don't realize that we most likely would have played an fps before this think 12 year old cod player. We definitely go for the knife.

>>37496599
>Shoot
We have a rifle in our hands. How fast do you think a scared kid can switch to a knife with no training!

>>37496704
He has a gun and he's going to shoot us before we close, we don't have commando equipped.

>>37496709
We'll drop the gun into the mud/dirt whatever we're in. That'll work wonders for it.

Alright, looks like you're going to shoot him.

Writing.

>>37496654
We're keeping him from drawing his gun, if a guy doesn't have his gun ready and you're within twelve feet of him, you can close in and hit him before he can get a proper shot off.

>>37496599

>Shoot him first!

>>37496725
No, he's currently reaching for his gun. We have enough time to get up close and jam a knife in him.

>>37496736
Damnit. Wasting ammo too soon.

>>37496738
yeah, if you aren't 12
we're 12

Christ people... It takes a lot more to stab someone to death than you think, and this is a full grown fucking man. We don't have the size, strength, or know how to drop him with a knife.

There's a reason guns are called "The Great Equalizer" and there's a fucking reason we have one...

>>37496755
>Implying we don't hesitate
At least with a gun he flinches, we flinch he gets shot.

>>37496775
We're also two freaking feet away and the guys literally put his neck out for us to stab at.

Fucking A so many mall ninjas in this thread. Jesus christ.
>>37496755
Do you know how much force it takes to put a knife through a breast plate.
>>37496798
Do you know how long it takes for someone to bleed out from a throat wound, if they die at all? We're a child, reaching there is going to be an issue as well. Also putting force behind the blade. There's not thinking, and then there's this.

Shoot the fucker.

>>37496798
>two feet away
citation needed

>>37496810
I voted for stabbing because we wouldn't know any better and most fps players would think a stab is an instant kill at age 10.

Guys, I will ask you to take a deep breath and calm down.

This is the prologue, before the quest proper. Scenes are a bit scripted at the moment, you will not die.

This is building the backstory for your character, how he develops for the actual quest.

This has been your threadly QM announcement.

>>37496851
10 years olds aren't that retarded

>>37496864
I just wanted to stab the guy for maximum MC trauma.

>>37496851
You're implying he's an FPS player, you're implying he's not panicking and firing with his primary weapon, and you're saying that he needs to make a conscious decision to drop his primary armament to stab a full grown adult to death.

It's easier to panic and pull a trigger.

>>37496864
As always, based Guide appears.
"Guide is super-effective!"

>>37496810
>Mall ninjas

I laughed. Thanks man.

>>37496851
Haha no, most kids would freeze and cry their eyes out, not try and knife someone. At least with a gun we won't have his blood literally all over us and maybe we won't get captured. in cqc he has us easily.

>>37496810
There has been abosultely no mention of him wearing a breasplate.

>>37496864
Nice try, but the only reason I quest is to call out other voters for being retarded.

>>37496890
He's using the anatomy term breastplate.

>>37496890
The Sternum, also referred to as "The Breastplate Bone" or "The Breastplate."

I was not implying armor, I was talking about the bone and connective tissues between his soft inner organs that you are attempting to tickle with a sharp piece of metal. It takes a massive amount of force to get through that. So much so, it's better to go under the floating rib, which is hard to know as an untrained child, who is prolly just gonna try to stab someone in the stomach/chest.

>>37496893
Oh yea? Well your personal waifu is shit!

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>>37496599
Your first thought as the guy goes for his gun is that you really really don’t want to die. You’re scared and mom and dad are dead, but you don’t know about grandma and grandpa and there’s so much you wanted to do, you don’t want to die!

Then you remember that you have a gun too! Somehow you landed with it in your hands, so you hastily point it at the man and then pull the trigger, even as he’s starting to point his at you.

The gun is louder than you expected, not the soft pops from T.V. or even the slightly diluted sounds that had been coming at you. The sound shocks you, causing you to close your eyes as it makes three insanely loud noises and then the gun drops out of your hand. You leave your eyes closed, expecting the man to try and shoot you now that you don’t have a gun.

But it doesn’t come; you don’t feel any pain as the man tries to kill you with all the bullets in the world, though you hear yelling and screaming around you as even more guns go off. Slowly you open your eyes to see what happened. What you see causes you to close your eyes, your stomach roiling.

The man was dead. There was a big hole in his head and behind him was lots of blood. You feel like throwing up.

>Throw up.
>Don’t throw up.

>>37496952
Jokes on you, I don't even have a waifu!

>>37496952
Woah man take it easy.

>>37496967
>>Throw up.
It's only natural.

>>37496967
>Don't throwup, Run.

>>37496967
>puke

>>37496967
>Don’t throw up.
No time more bad men coming puke later run now!

>>37496967
>Throw up.

>>37496967
>Don't
We don't have time, that will come later.

>>37496967
>Throw up.

>>37496967
>Vomit and soil yourself

>>37496967
>>Throw up.
Sadly no porcelain throne. . .

>>37496967
>Don’t throw up.

>>37496967
>Don’t throw up.

We don't want to be completely dead inside, but we don't want to be the annoying main character who drags everyone down by being a pussy either.

>>37496967
>Throw up.

>>37496967
>Throw up.

>>37496967
>Throw up
It'll give us a moment to recover the gun when we get our wits about us. That's important.

>>37496967
>Throw up.
Natural reaction. Or at least I think it is.

>>37496967
>Throw up.
We're grooming our MC for the future here. So far, we have a not overly emotional guy who favors guns over explosives and melee. Now, are we going to make him a remorseless killer, or an empathetic man who does what he needs to in order to survive?

>>37497023
>twelve year old
>grizzly head-exploding murder
>showing signs of shock
>makes him a pussy
>implying

>>37497076
Everyone handles stress differently. Some people puke, it's a common reaction. I'd rather have a puker than someone who gets recessed and shell shocked. Bodies handle stress differently.

Looks like throwing up wins.

Might be the first time that's ever needed a vote.

Anyway, writing.

>>37497124
Nope, PapaN! did it before. And I'm sure it happened in Boone before too lol.

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>>37496967
You throw up. You somehow manage to lean over so you don’t throw up on yourself, but you throw-up everything in your stomach and then some. You’re throwing up for more than just the man, but for every minute of fear, pain and sadness that you’ve had in such a short amount of time.

You don’t know how long you take, but eventually you notice that the sounds of shooting have mostly stopped, but you can still hear lots of screams and moans. Looking down at the ground, you see your gun, which you lean down and pick up while you try not to look at the dead man, the one you killed. You shudder.

Peeking over the edge of the hole, you see lots of bodies lying around, some dead, some alive, both kids and the men that were here at first. You also see the strangely dressed men who were “Flanking”. One of them turns, his gun pointing towards you before he realizes that you’re on “his” side.

“Hey boss,” he says to the man your leader talked to before, “Looks like we’ve got a live one hear.”

The boss looks over at you, your head peaking fearfully out of the hole.

“Well don’t just leave him there,” he says finally, “Get him out of the damn hole and back to the trucks, we can’t waste any of the little shits if they’re still alive.”

“Roger boss,” says the man, before leaning down and pulling you out of the hole, “Come on you,” he says in a tone only slightly lighter than his boss, “We’ll see how many more times you get through something like that before you get to visit god.”

>>37497368
You don’t answer the man, don’t feel like answering him a sense of shock seems to descend over you. You make it back to the trucks somehow, a small handful of other boys also still alive. A few of them are sporting bullet wounds, crying. A couple are on the floor, barely tended wounds still bleeding red blood.

You never forgot that sight, never forgot how red that blood seemed to you.

It’s been…years, since that day. You aren’t sure how many, but you know it’s been years, it’s been snow season three or four times since then. You’ve lost count, you don’t care enough to remember anyway. The years have been hard on you, mostly because of lack of food, you almost starved to death a few times. But you’ve survived, along with many of the original grown-ups. None of the other kids survived, at least you don’t think so. Maybe a few of the girls, but you still don’t get to see them, never knew in the first place.

How did you survive?

>You killed.
>You were useful.
>You made a “Friend”

>>37497384
You killed. You did what had to be done.

>>37497384
>You were useful.
I don't like what "friend" implies

>>37497384
>>You killed.

>>37497384
>You killed.

>>37497384
>>You were useful.
Scout/tracker maybe?

>“Friend”
Nah man, nah.

>>37497384
>You were useful.

>>37497384
>You were useful

>>37497368
>You killed

>>37497384
>You were useful.
Better than just being a killer.

>>37497384
>You killed

It's kill or be killed, and if you want to survive you have to fight.

>>37497384
>You were useful
I like the idea of us being the clever one rather than the front line fighter. Maybe we're stealthy and quiet or just perceptive?

>>37497384
>useful
>>37497368
>got a live one hear
>hear

>>37497384
>You were useful.

>>37497384
>You killed

>>37497384
Can't be a useful killer? scout or the like?

>>37497384
> You killed.

>>37497384
>You were useful.

>>37497384
>You were useful.

>>37497384
>>You were useful.

>>37497384
>You were useful.
We ain't bein' no long haired pretty boy gettin' butt fucked by no priest.

>>37497492
That's more flavor than anything. Nothing in this thread will set your character in stone.

>>37497384
>You were useful.

Looks like being useful wins.

Writing.

>>37497384
>>You were useful.
you knew how to make things.

>>37497521
Amen! err wait.

>>37497521
What?

>>37497521
Where was your train of thought coming from? /d/?

>>37497593
He's talking about the "Made a 'Friend'." option.

>>37497384
>You killed.

>>37497593
>priest fucking a young boy
>/d/
That's delightfully innocent of you.

>>37497593
"Friend" was either someone we fucked over or.. some one who we gave favors to.. to stay alive. Favors you don't want to talk about that make you walk funny.

>>37497642
I want to say that you're a sick bastard, but I had the same train of thought.

>>37497384
>You killed.

>>37497677
Yeah I was raised Catholic and before my first confession my parents had a talk with me about what priests should and should not do.

>>37497677
>>37497642
Glad I wasn't the only who thought that was what it implied.

...Guide, WAS it actually being some guy's fucktoy?

>>37497710
Nothing is set in stone I think, just heavily implied.

>>37497741
>>37497710
What he said.

It would've been the priest though, so take that as you will.

>>37497776
Well, at least we would have been molested by a man of god.

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>>37497776
Nah, he just made us wax his cross every night

>>37497384
>You were useful
any "accidents" were total unintentional we swear.

>>37497826
Well I'm glad at least some of us can look on the bright side of life

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>>37497384
You made yourself useful. Early on you figured out it wasn’t enough to just be a killer. Almost anyone could point a gun or throw a grenade at whoever you happened to be fighting that day or week. That just meant there was more of a chance to get shot or stabbed or exploded in turn.

So you made yourself useful in any way you could. It started small, carrying things, doing your best to help the older soldiers with their guns. Slowly you got trusted with more and more. First maintenance, mostly small things like boards or windows. You made your way from there, up to the trucks, at least while you still had parts or could scrounge them. Eventually they even let you do maintenance on the guns. You didn’t have very many after the first year or two, so that was a big honor, it also kept you in food.

You still had to go out of course, almost everyone did. But they kept you out of the line, off the charges. Instead they gave you other things to do, mostly with the adults. They let you carry grenades and such, even taught you how to set up an explosive charge the few times it was needed. You learned a lot, even if you didn’t get to shoot as much.

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>>37497907
Today you’re in the Leaders room, fixing a leak in the roof. The leader was one of the people who never went out from the compound, though he usually sent you off with more of his speeches about the rapture and bringing peace to people. It was funny how peace often arrived at the end of a gun or an explosion.

Just as you’re about to finish, you hear the alarm bell going off. Dropping your tools, you dash to the upper story window and peak out, towards the front of the compound. You don’t get a chance to see very much, just some men in uniforms firing at the ones defending the compound. You don’t get a better look because shortly afterwards the window shatters, bullets flying past, missing you by inches. Glass cuts your cheek as you fall to the floor, the leader scrambling around on the ground a look of fear on his face.

“You!” he says as he points at you,terror in his voice, “The agents of hell have come to stop my holy work, you must protect me! I must live to continue to spread the word of the lord!”

A thought hits you at that moment, the Leader nearly groveling on the ground. Why does he need to live so badly? Isn’t he the one constantly sending you off with exultations to kill in god’s name? Doesn’t he want to meet salvation?


You feel the weight of your pistol on your hip. As one of the trusted people, you got to carry a gun, even a small one. It was supposed to be used in self-defense, but all it would take was a snap and it could come free and…

Outside you hear the firing getting louder and louder, the alarm bell having stopped a minute ago. You hear an explosion come from the front door, the building shakes. Whatever you’re going to do, you better do it fast.


>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.
>Just sit, the other people are coming and they can’t be any worse than these people.
>Go fight, like the Leader said. They’re unknowns.

>>37497907
Masturbate furiously.

>>37497925
>>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.

>>37497925
Kill the leader.

>>37497925
>Go fight, like the Leader said. They’re unknowns.
We're still a kid right?

>>37497925
>>Just sit, the other people are coming and they can’t be any worse than these people.
If he tells you to go, just wave the gun in his face, unless he wants to meet God sooner than expected.

>>37497925
>>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.

>>37497925
>Just sit, the other people are coming and they can’t be any worse than these people.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.
Say Hi to the most holy for me.

>>37497925
>Just sit, the other people are coming and they can’t be any worse than these people.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.
Been waiting for this.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.

>>37497925
>>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.

I can think of three reasons why this is the best option.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.


Does this imply we're somewhat religiously indoctrinated?

>>37497925
>>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.
Wouldn't want him to miss out now would we?

>>37497984
It can also be interpreted as a giant middle finger to the leader.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader

Cowards see god first, he can get over being disappointed by the time you get to 'im.

>>37497984
Not particularly.

You're more apathetic about it than anything.

He's always going off about god though, so why doesn't he want to see him?

That's what I was trying to convey.

>>37498011
How old are we, Guide?

>>37498011
I guess that means we're also quiet. A kid with that kind of question doesn't last long if he asks it to one of the men there.

>>37498028
At this moment? Almost seventeen. But you've forgotten, they never celebrated and you have no idea what date it is.

>>37498028
>>37498011
This... Or do we not know numbers? Can we read?

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.

>>37497925
>Just sit.

If nothing else, us standing over our dead leader doesn't sound like the most pleasant image for our new 'friends'.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.
I think he has 'spread the word of the lord' well enough. Time for your eternal rest, Father...

>>37498035
It's a new question, caused by seeing him groveling, along with the mild feeling of resentment caused by never seeing him leave his comfy compound.

>>37498042
At roughly a fifth to six grade level. Not particularly well. Same with math.


Seems like the leader gets to see god sooner than he wanted.

Writing.

>>37497925
>Kill the Leader. He should get to see god like everyone else.

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>>37497925

You feel the snap of your old holster as your hand slides upward, the sound of metal across leather as you pull the gun out.

“Yes, yes, you must protect me…” says the Leader, at least until you point the gun at him.

“Wha…what, no, no you can’t!” he says, suddenly crawling backwards, away from you in fear, “I treated you right, I kept you alive! You must protect me! I have to spread god’s word to the people!”

“Maybe…maybe you should talk to him about it yourself,” you say, turning off the safety, “You’ll see him soon.”

To be fair to you, you didn’t make him suffer. You did however empty all seven rounds into his chest at close range, obliterating the spot that used to hold his heart. As the Leader lies on the ground, blood pooling from the messy hole in his chest, you once again realize how red blood is.

As you lower your weapon, you hear something outside the door to the Leaders room.

“Pastor John Francis, this is the United States Military! You are ordered to lay down any weapons and place yourself on the floor, hands behind your head, pending arrest and trial for crimes against humanity! You have ten seconds to comply! If you do not comply you will be shot!”

The United States Military? The Leader said they were all dead, killed by god’s holy fire. You weren’t sure you believed him, but you aren’t sure you believe these folks either. Still, you need to make a decision.

>Surrender.
>Fight.

>>37498273
>>Surrender.
They have more guns than we do. No point in fighting.

>>37498273
>>Surrender.

>>37498273
>Surrender.

>>37498273
Surrender.

>>37498273
>Surrender.

>>37498273
>Surrender.

>>37498273
>Surrender.

>>37498273
>Surrender

>>37498273
>All seven rounds

We should probably just quit while we're ahead.

>Surrender.

>>37498273
>Surrender.

>>37498273
>Fight.
Just to be different.

>>37498273
>Give them a confused look.
>Comply with any attempts to force you to surrender

>>37498273
>Fight
USE YOUR TEETH YOU PUSSY.
Seriously though,
>Surrender

>>37498273
>>Surrender.
Do we even have a reload?

>>37498273
>Surrender.

>>37498351
You have one.


But I'm going to call surrender here so we can keep the thread moving.

>>37498273
>Surrender.

So will we vote for things along the line of personality/fighting style/etc, or will they develop more naturally?

>>37498629
Generally a bit of both, There'll be things that Guide has planned, and some shit that just happens and is too cool to pass up.

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>>37498273
From the sounds you heard outside, these people, whoever they actually are, have a lot of guns and plenty of ammunition to go with them. Besides that, you only have seven more rounds and you figure they won’t go down as easily as the leader did.

So you do as they ask, dropping your gun on the floor and kicking it away before you drop to the ground, hands over your head like you vaguely remember seeing on T.V. back when you were little. It doesn’t take long after that for the door to burst open, actually at eight seconds, not ten. Men in combat gear swarm through the door, assault rifles held straight and pointing to many different directions, one of them focusing on you.

“We’ve got a live one here!” yells that one, even as another yells, “Priest is down Priest is down!”

You try not to flinch as the man with his gun pointed at you approaches, his barrel not wavering off of you.

Finally you hear “Clear!” shouted a few times, before another man in combat gear approaches you from behind and grabs your hands, pulling them down behind your back. You don’t resist, even if he is a little rough. You’ve seen much worse the few times you took prisoners and remember much worse from back when you regularly got kicked to be woken up.

The men pick you upright, not saying anything as you docilely comply with their unspoken orders. You do see a few of them look at you though, most seem to either not care or have a tinge of sadness in them. One however, seems pleased and gives you a tiny nod as you pass, being dragged out the door.

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>>37498728
You’re taken outside, where you find several trucks waiting, more people in uniforms by them, both men and women. You are taken to a group off to the side, along with a few other men that you recognize, all tied up. Most are wounded, a few aren’t. You guess that those who aren’t wounded surrendered like you did.

A clamor comes from behind the main compound, causing you to turn your head. Women and girls, many in blankets, are being led towards the trucks by the soldiers. A group of soldiers lead a few of the women towards your group. They whisper, pointing at everyone in the group. Most of the time the women nod their heads, a few timidly, one or two in anger. You’re at the end of the line. When they point at you, the women shake their heads no.

The rest of the men get drug off to a waiting truck, armed soldiers climbing in behind them, one of them looking like he just wants to shoot them all.

Another soldier approaches, with more stripes on his arms than the others.

“You seem to be ok kid,” he says, voice deep, “At least according to the women. Now, I know you shot that priest, but I’ve gotta ask you, have you killed anyone else?”

>Say Yes.
>Nod affirmative.
>Say no.

>>37498728
Goddamn, that truck brings back some shit memories.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.

>>37498760
>Say Yes.

>>37498760
>>Say Yes.

No point in lying about it.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative
No point in denying who we are and what we've done.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.

>>37498760
>>Say Yes.

>>37498760
> Say yes.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.

>>37498760
Were we seriously the only ones who never touched any of the girls?

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.
less agressive

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.

>>37498829
Yeah, no kidding. We got screwed over!

>>37498829
That just means we might be able to get an emotionally damaged girlfriend out of this. WE can be broken together.

>>37498841
Hey, we still dodged out of having a "friend" and we won't get shot in the face by Uncle Sam. I'm okay with this outcome.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative.

>>37498829
You gotta remember this is out of the living captured.

>>37498760
>Nod affirmative
Was that or be killed. They sent me with others like me til we were no more. I escaped because I figured out how to clean guns.

>>37498829
We're just the only one still alive, is all. I'm sure a couple of others kept there hands to themselves.

Looks like Nod affirmative wins.


Writing.

So, what does the MC look like? Is there going to be another time skip, or are we more or less the age we're gonna be?

>>37498972
You are going to be seventeen when the main quest starts. That's just a month or two away.

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>>37498972
I propose that the MC looks like pic related.

>>37499006
Too pretty boy

We need to be growing into a gruff hardass

>>37499035
I agree.

>>37499006
Not terrible, but he needs to be dirtier and skinnier right now. He could possibly grow into that.

>>37499035
>>37499042
You don't even really need to shave yet, but yes, you aren't that pretty.

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>>37499035
>>37499042
I got this, but it has tumblr nose goin' on.

>>37498972
I've been imagining a younger Solo Wing Pixy.

>>37499006
Lets go against the /tg/ grain here. Make him, I dunno, asian or black or something. I would post a character picture, but all the ones i can find look older than 17.

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>>37499042
>15 years in the future

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>>37499104
That's my problem too. Most of the character art I save is along an older vein.

This one looks sorta Asian, and it's got that world weariness thing going.

>>37499104
no thx

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>>37499042

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Maybe something like this, without the beard quite yet?

>>37499104
> doing something just to be different

you're a riot at parties, aren't you

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This is the closest thing I've got to a young-ish character and it still looks too old.

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>>37499133

We could just headcanon it.

>>37499161
Variety is the spice of life. But I don't really have a huge preference either way. Just throwing out ideas and seeing what sticks.

>>37499158
I like this one.

>>37499203
I like your style.

>>37499173
GET A HAIRCUT HIPPIE!

>>37499203
I always imagine MCs like these conveniently wear a helmet all the time that completely block their face from view. I'm just not very creative when it comes to actual appearances.

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>>37499293

>>37498760
You can’t quite find it in you to actually say yes. But you won’t deny what you’ve done either. So you nod your head at the man, keeping your eyes on his face to see what passes. What you see is just a tinge of sadness, before he lets out a sigh.

“Don’t suppose you know how many?” he asks.

You shake your head no. You stopped counting after about ten, it was easier that way.

He sighs again.

“Alright kid, I’m gonna tell you what’s going to happen here. Firstly, I’ve gotta leave you tied up, orders. But I’m going to get you a blanket and let you ride in one of the trucks with the women folk and not with a guard as long as you promise to behave. You promise to behave right?”

You nod.

“Good,” he says, “I’ll see about getting you some food too, you’re too skinny for however old you are.”

You look down at yourself, whipcord thin and all lean muscle. You wouldn’t have guessed that yourself, but then again you haven’t eaten a lot in the past four years.

Time passes as the soldiers clean out the compound. Eventually someone brings you a bowl of some kind of stew. You’re allowed to eat under guard, but the soldiers don’t seem too concerned that you’ll try anything. When they tie you back up, you’re allowed to place your hands in front of your body instead of behind.

Eventually you’re led to a truck that seems to be mostly full of women. As the soldiers push you inside, a few of them flinch.

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>>37499362
“Don’t worry ladies,” says one of them, “This one’s a good boy and he won’t bite.” The two of them share a chuckle as they shut the back of the truck, the gate slamming shut. You look around at the women, you haven’t really seen any up close in years except for the few times they were trying to kill you. A few of the women still shy away from you, a couple seem mildly aggressive. You decided to just look out the back of the truck and scrunch up as far away from them as you can get, it’s not like you know what to do around them anyway.

Once you get to the end of the truck ride, you’re taken off and away from the girls. You doubt you’ll ever see them again. From then on your life consists of little but paperwork, people talking to you and eating. You get to eat a lot compared to what you used to, though the cooks sometimes apologize for small portions. You just shake your head. Some of it even tastes good.

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>>37499380
It’s been about a month since then and you’re in the office of your “councilor” an overworked lady who nevertheless tries to be polite while she tries to finish dealing with you as soon as possible.

“William, come in,” she says as you sit, “Are you excited to be leaving us?”

You shrug your shoulders. One thing you never quite did when you were learning to be useful was to talk a lot. Probably saved your butt once or twice.

Your councilor just smiles.

“Now, you know that you’ve been cleared of any wrong doing in your past,” she says, “And have been given a passing bill of physical health.”

You note she says nothing about your mental health.

“Unfortunately, when it came time to find you some employment, we really weren’t able to find anything in your skill set.”

You’ve heard this before, poor education, lack of actual training.

“However, we’ve managed to find a place for you to start re-integrating that will allow you to broaden your skill-set at the same time.”

You wonder how the hell they managed that, seeing as how your skills consist mostly of killing people and fixing the things that kill them.

“It’s on the frontier,” she says, holding out an honest to god business card, “But we feel you’ll fit right in.”

Holding the card you look at it. It’s exceedingly plain, with only a name and an address on it. It says “Morrigan Military Solutions LLC, Fort Riley Kansas.”

Well, you apparently have a job now and it sounds like one you have some experience in. Hopefully it doesn’t get you dead.

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>>37499396
>rescue child soldier
>sent him off to a PMC

>>37499396
>“Morrigan Military Solutions LLC
>child soldier
>here, work for this PMC
For fuck's sake 'murica.

>>37499396
>re-purposing child soldiers

das it mayne

>>37499396
Alright, thank you all for participating in the opening of Mercenary 2030 quest, a quest which has a terrible terrible name because I'm shit at them.

I hope you found this interesting at least, perhaps possibly enjoyable.

I will now take questions and do my best to answer any you may have. No spoilers of course.

Also stats as of the end of this thread.

Melee: 0
Firearms: +2
Explosives +1
Technology: +2
Knowledge: +1
Social: -3
Physical: 1

>>37499439
>>37499460
If this is the best solution the world likely got really fucked up in the last few years.

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>>37499481
>Social: -3

Oh, this'll be fun.

>>37499481
Shit Nodding instead of saying yes knocked our social down hard.

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>>37499481
>Social: -3
Life of the goddamned party. This should be fun.

>>37499481
Looks about right, for got to put a plus on physical though.

>>37499510
>>37499517
>>37499520
WE silent now.

>>37499510
>>37499517
>>37499520
>>37499524

You actually did pretty well on the social part. There was a route you could have taken that would've left you with -9

>>37499524
I did, it is a plus though.

>>37499481
Shit, maybe we should have talked more...

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>>37499396
>rescue child soldier
>work for a month to try and heal the damage that has been done to his malnourished body and mind
>fuck, this is hard
>here, just go work for a PMC, it'll reintergrate you or something
>merica, champion of the poor, savior of the downtrodden
10/10, I laughed heartily

>>37499520
Well, we can try to make the best of it. Playing it better could be fun.

ptsdmode can be fun

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>>37499481
Thanks for running Guide. It's a complete 180 from HPQ, but it's pretty good so far.

And the fact that we have the means of making something dead but not for making out is hilarious. I look forward to William's future.

>>37499481
Are we a young Isaac?

>>37499549
One question. How the hell could our social skill have gotten that low?

>>37499586
I imagine that buttsex wouldn't help.

>>37499586
Probably not throwing up, surviving by killing, fighting the soldiers instead of surrendering.

>>37499481
What kind of schedule are you looking to be doing?

>>37499582
Kind of looks like it actually.

>>37499570
Thanks as always dude, glad you enjoyed it.

>>37499586
Suppressing all emotion mostly. There was a branch you didn't take where you could've sat and watched a guy bleed out, not vomiting would've lowered it, getting a "Friend" would've lowered it as well, except for different reasons.

>>37499481
>>37499549
Well I enjoyed it & I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

>>37499582
>>37499635
>young Isaac
Who?

>>37499635
>There was a branch you didn't take where you could've sat and watched a guy bleed out
Guessing that would've been from stabbing the guy rather than shooting him in the beginning?