If You Had One Chance - RPAC

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You are an ordinary person. Really, nothing special about you. You’re exactly the kind of person anyone might find in a bar, or chilling on a golf course. You’re in your mid twenties to early thirties – and you have a decent life. A good job, but one you don’t like that much. A good car, but not a great one. A nice house, a decent family, the list goes on. And yet there’s something restive in you, like you want more but don’t know how to get it.

Then the letter comes. A man named Richard Richards has died – and wants you at his funereal for the reading of his will.

And you have no clue who this person is, or who most of the other listed recipients of the will are.

What is going on here? Who was this person? What is it they want you to have? How will you find any of this out?

And who are YOU, deep down inside?



What would you wish for, If You Had One Chance?

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to If You Had One Chance, an RP-focused Action Chatroom. If you’re not familiar with the AC concept, basically, think of it as a chatroom-based roleplaying game, in the vein of Dungeons and Dragons. We make up our setting and play in chatrooms like the one this sentence is linking to.

Unlike most ACs, IYHOC is very simplistic. Just write up a biography and life story for your character. Any items or skills you want and can justify as defined by the GM(myself) are allowed. If I have a problem, I’ll talk to you about what I’d like changed. The guidelines to remember are you’re supposed to be a relatively normal person – no epic stories about a former clown who joined the special forces, took down a terrorist leader in Paris, became a business mogul and one of the world’s richest men within a year, and then launched a Presidential campaign that failed because of an incident with a banana. No crazy superpowers, no magical abilities, no family legacy with ghosts – none of that. Just a regular everyman.

To that end, I will not be allowing your characters to be active duty in any military or law enforcement organizations. Former is fine, with the exception of special forces. Keep it relatively low key – you’ll understand why later.

Use this character sheet to organize your descriptions:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Description:
Quick Character Statement:
Full bio:
Items:
Skills:
Not Yet Approved(remove this line after approval)

That basically concludes everything. Next post reserved. Then the game can begin.

-L
 
Name: Frederick Gerani
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Description: Frederick Gerani is a 6'3 tall human male with blue eyes and black hair.
Quick Character Statement: A young man with a bit too much interest in young women.
Full bio: Frederick was born in Germany 22 years ago, the son of an Army Engineer named Hans Gerani. During the course of his school life, he attempted to take up martial arts with one of his classmates, primarily because he thought the Chinese girl looked pretty. Unfortunately for him, she thought his face was a nice target, and it never really got anywhere. He did end up enjoying his new hobby though, and as he aged he found a great deal more success with his classmates of the opposite gender. It's almost a wonder he got through university with a qualification in business the amount of time he spent working for that kind of other success. Thus when the letter arrived telling him to show up to Mr Richard's funeral, his life wasn't so interesting that he couldn't skip out for a weekend trip to the Balkans to see what was actually going on.

Items:
Casual Clothes
Wristwatch
Mobile Phone
Pen
Ipod and Headphones
Passport
Bar of Choclate
Wallet containing €152.12
Driving License
Phrasebook for Local Language
Red Ring
Backpack (Containing:)
Bottle of Water
Change of Clothes
Pad of Paper
Laptop
Toothpaste and all that stuff
The Letter/Invite

Skills:

Fluent German - Being German, Frederick naturally speaks the language like the native he is.
Charisma - Seriously, its Frederick Gerani, need I say more.
Basic Martial Arts - Frederick learnt this in his school days with freinds.
Business Knowledge - The subject of his university courses.


DT
 
Name: Thomas Andre
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Description: Medium height. Close-cropped black hair, brown eyes eyes, Houston Astros baseball cap. African-American
Quick Character Statement: Used the Heroic Neutral, Fantastically Indifferent, and Southern Fried Private tropes as inspiration.
Full bio (not really full yet, I'll flesh it out if this actually is going to be a finished game :p ): Thomas Andre was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in the ghetto. He spent a lot of time playing basketball and baseball, hoping that would get him out of his hometown, but he never became any good at either. He got involved in gang activity for a while, but when his best friend, Adrian, got murdered in front of him, he decided to quit that life. When he saw that the Army was recruiting, he realized that was his only chance to escape the ghetto. He served in the Army for 7 years, and managed to get enough money to buy himself a gun, and settle down in a better part of Houston. When he got the letter from the mysterious Richard Richards, he got on a flight and went to the Balkans for the funeral, just to learn what was going on.
Items:
  • Semi-casual clothes (includes cowboy boots)
  • Wallet
    • Credit Card
    • ID and license
    • $100
  • Smith and Wesson Model 625 Revolver, holding 6 shots
  • Houston Astros baseball cap
  • Belt with holster for gun and bullet loops, holding 6 bullets
  • Smartphone
  • High-quality earbuds
  • Couple changes of clothes
  • Pack of cigarettes
  • Lighter
Skills: Firearms skills (US Army training), parkour (time in the ghetto + basketball)
 
Name: Gisela van Achteren
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Description: 5-foot 6-inch, red hair and blue eyes.
Quick Character Statement: Dutch girl who spends her time reading books about history.
Full bio: Gisela was born in Monnickendam, a small Dutch town not far from Amsterdam, to Justus and Sophie van Achteren. She started to express an interest in history from a young age, spending much of her time reading history books in her room. After finishing her secondary education Gisela enrolled in the Erasmus University Rotterdam to get a degree in history with plans of teaching history later in her life. After graduating two years ago Gisela worked as a teacher's aide, in preparation to be a teacher herself. While returning home from work one night she received an invitation to Richard Richards's funeral. While very confused, Gisela decided to travel down to the Balkans to honour the unknown dead man's wishes.
Items:
  • A backpack which may or may not contain most of these items
  • Clothes
    • Change of clothes
  • Cell phone
  • Roughly €100
  • Passport
  • A bottle of water
  • A ham and cheese sandwich
  • Ipod and headphones
  • Pen and paper
  • Two history books
    • Book about early Soviet History
    • Book about medieval Dutch history

Skills:
Intelligence: She is quite smart.
Historical Knowledge Plus: Early Soviet politics were the main focus of her studies.
Context skills: Able to find out what happened in the past, comes from studying history.
Dutch Speaker: ....She's Dutch
 
Name: Brenda Rutherford
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Description: 5 ft. 11, platinum blonde hair (dyed /w blue streaks), hazel eyes. High-quality headphones perpetually hanging around her neck.
Quick Character Statement: An aspiring musician searching for a muse.
Full bio: Born outside Glasgow, Brenda always found herself attracted to music. Learning piano at a young age, she later abandoned her electronic engineering degree to focus on her song writing. In between working as a DJ, she painstakingly produced and recorded her own songs, branching out into any genre she could find. While her work in all respects was considered quite good, she was never really happy with it, and has yet to make anything that she considers truly worthwhile. Preparing for another night of slaving over her piano, the mail flap on her front door rattled. It was a letter of invitation to a funeral.
Items:
  • iPhone and Headphones
  • Demo CD's (x3)
  • 104.43 £
  • Passport
  • Photo ID
  • Laptop
  • Pen
  • Several copies of Tab Paper
  • An Unfinished Composition, "Untitled"
  • Rucksack
Skills:
Skillful Pianist: Brenda knows how to play a piano very well.
Good Hearing: Brenda can pick out odd sounds that others can't, thanks to her line of work.
Electronics Knowledge: Her partial education as an electrical engineer and her constant maintaining of her DJ equipment means she at least knows her way around anything electrical.
Composer: Able to write and compose songs in a wide variety of genres.
 
Name: Randa Darzi
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Description: Average to mid-tall, brown hair, brown eyes, middle eastern skin complexion.
Quick Character Statement: Egyptian college student
Full bio: Was born in 6th of October City, in a middle class family. Exceded well in high school, went to college in Cairo with a major in astronomy. Currently recently just obtained her BA, and is working in her postgraduate studies.
Items: Set of clothes (including Hijab)
About 75£ (Egyptian pounds)
Cell Phone
Passport
Laptop
Astronomy Textbook
Sketchbook w/art supplies
Skills: Fluent Arabic Speaker
General Science Knowledge
Astronomy Knowledge Plus
Painting
 
Name: Matthew 'Matt' Gordon
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Description: Above average height but decidedly unathletic, Matt is pale, but not too pale, and good looking but not doesn't flaunt it. Often seen wearing a baseball cap and drab clothing, not someone you'd look twice at.
Quick Character Statement: Intelligent and witty. Skeptical always.
Full bio: Not for the lowly likes of you.
Items:
Normal person stuff (wallet and such)
Bag with his laptop, phone and clothes
Briefcase with work papers
Several books, mostly on politics and psychology
Skills: Smart (easy to pick up what is happening and draw conclusions)
Math expert (when complicated math is involved, Matt is your guy)
Good writer (skilled at convincing through the written word)
Jury Rigging
Not Yet Approved(remove this line after approval)
 
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