"Fear attracts the darkness, When you have no fear, The darkness shall fear you."
(A standalone event, NOT connected to the Artifacts event chain)
The Shroud
Something terrible has happened at the research facility OT-607 near City Sixty-Two. Overnight, an appalling fog of pure dark engulfed the entire city, cutting off all communications with the outer world. Those who wandered too far in never came back, or if they did, certainly not as themselves. Amidst the chaos, a group of citizens, civil protection officers, and a handful of enslaved vortigaunts made one of the abandoned housing blocks their refuge. With limited supplies, the darkness closing in each passing hour, and sanity steadily dwindling, can they find rescue before whatever lurks within claims them forever? Do you dare step outside when a familiar voice calls out your name?
You were lucky enough to be near the housing block when it all began, and smart enough not to linger outside for too long. Securing the building and whoever managed to rally to you in time, you are now left as the only scrap of governing force over this otherwise soon-to-be mad bunch of survivors. Having access to firearms will prove helpful, or will it?
Citizens (7/∞) Whether you were originally assigned to this housing block or not matters little at this point. This is your new home, in which you will have to survive until a sliver of hope presents itself. Amidst strangers and friends alike, from every corner of the city - slummers, CWU, CMU, and possibly even the highest of loyalists. Status matters little at this point, or does it?
Enslaved Biotics (2/2) Perhaps you could have forseen this disaster, if only your vortessence was not dulled. As if the torment of everyday life wasn't enough, you are now trapped in this cramped building with humans of various opinions toward your race. Your kin may be the only one you can trust, or can you?
- APPLICATION FORMAT -
- Section One -
Steam Name:
Steam ID (helpful but optional):
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]:
- Section Two -
Character name:
Role (+ rank if CP):
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only):
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Name your character's biggest fear:
- Starting time: 22 & 23 November 2025, 6:30 PM CET -
This is a NON-CANON event. This event follows a "one-life" policy. All deaths with IC reasoning will be considered PK.
Your choice afterward is to play as a spectator-bird. (You may still roleplay as one, but can not intervine in RP actions)
Bleedout Godmode turned ON.
Healing mid-combat is ALLOWED.
Whitelist is NOT required; however, experience in roles outside of RCT or Citizen is expected.
Repairing armor mid-combat is NOT ALLOWED.
*The one-life rule might be overruled if the deaths are too frequent or a certain threshold of participants is not met. That also means creating an entirely new character if need be.
**Repairing and healing rules can be overruled if the character is considered covered and in a safe spot.
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:1:194599358
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord]: @giurlani
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Character name: Ronny Kettlefield
Role (+ rank if CP): i4 Civil Protection
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Ronny signed up to Civil Protection not out of loyalty, but out of a desperate hope that working within the system might give him access to a better life. The uniform came with fear and authority, but beneath the mask, he is still the same weary young man who once used scrap just to keep the lights on at home. Every patrol reminds him of the thin line he walks, balancing the cold expectations of his superiors and his will to survive.
Name your character's biggest fear: Afraid of the dark.
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Bounter & bounter_
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Character name: Leman Lågerstett
Role (+ rank if CP): Citizen - CWU
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): No. But, I was doing some work on the gas main in one of the apartments, when it happened.
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Leman is man of unspecified Scandinavian (as some know it) origin, of slightly above average height and noticable heft and bulk, despite the poor living conditions, probably caused by genetics, or snacking using bioprocessing... His origin is given away by his accent, behaviour and... Enjoyment of certain alcoholic drinks. Around his early 30-s as a relatively fresh worker, done with his training, Leman arrived at City 62 and joined that CWU's wing as a regular yelloe hardhat. Using primarly his own hands during mining, making clothing, or simply operating heavy machinery, as he was not much of a logistyce person. It seemed all well and good, getting decent treatment, despite the occasional issues caused by some odd research, mainly toxic waste... But nothing he and his folks could not handle. Until this very day, when a simple gas main repair... Seals his fate.
Name your character's biggest fear: Fear of his, is that of things coming out of food or drinks... Maggots, Xen fauna or more. Idea of living beings in his food as he least expects it, makes him overly cautious when consuming or drinking anything (minus booze). Especially, if eating or drinking anything tainted could end up in him turning into something...
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:138083386
Discord Name & ID: dubik15
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Character name: VICTOR-89 Karla Rodriguez
Role (+ rank if CP): I3 CP
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Karla born in Spain right after the Franco regime into a poor family found life difficult from a young age. Her family radically aligned with the Franco regime influenced her political views at the time. As she grew up this radical viewpoint slowly seeped into her own views cementing itself. However as she grew older her actions became more reckless, at first she joined protests and other demonstrations but as she slowly radicalized so did her actions. Karla with the help of some black market dealers secured herself a firearm and shot and killed a local politician. During the trial she did not deny anything, feeling little to no remorse, this ended with her being sentenced to prison. Things would change drastically as the combine arrived on Earth. The combine brought destruction with them, something that gave Karla an opportunity to escape. Finally once under the combine's rule she took on odd jobs, however at the end she decided to enlist in Civil Protection.
Name your character's biggest fear: Being buried alive
Steam ID (helpful but optional): 76561198322680876
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: _molnar_
- Section Two -
Character name: Simon Lakatos
Role (+ rank if CP): i5 cp
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Simon had a generic childhood, as one could have under the combine regime, that is.He grew up in one of the labor camps, where he stayed until reaching the ripe age of 18 and being shipped away to city 62. He worked the occasional workshifts for a year before signing up at the SRI for a janitorial position. He worked as a janitor for 1.5 years until he decided to leave it due to the low payment he was getting from it,deciding to use his strength as a young, able-bodied man to try enlisting into the Civil Protection. Thankfully, he still had family connections to be allowed to enlist. He learned the ropes, studied the radio codes and protocols, and after 6 months, he was promoted to an actual unit. Too bad, a week later the darkness came
Name your character's biggest fear: Automatonophobia
Discord Name & ID: father_elijah / 407126823374159872
- Section Two -
Character name: Pastor Johan Ilmari Virtanen
Role: Citizen - Slummer (Local Doctor)
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came ?: No, I was treating patients in a nearby apartment building. When darkness fell upon the city, I tried to guide my companions in the vast black cloud, but the devil was faster.
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
"and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday"
Johan Ilmari Virtanen was born in 1963 in a small village in southwestern Finland, the only child of a lumberjack and a seamstress. As a child, he received a rudimentary education from his mother and was immersed in a traditionalist and religious upbringing.
As a young adult, he moved away after his father's death and joined the Turku seminary, where he studied theology and traditional medicine at the same time. At the age of 25, he became pastor of Turku Cathedral, where he distinguished himself through his energy and devotion to the poor, making him a well-known and respected figure in his parish.
After the Seven Hour War and the Union's invasion of Earth, which transformed the city of Turku into City 62 under the administration of Gideon Mäkilä, Johan refused to flee and settled in the lower town, becoming a respected and committed outcast, caring for the sick and defending the oppressed against the forces of the Combine, while continuing to preach clandestinely.
Name your character's biggest fear: "I fear the devil's hold and corruption over my brothers and myself. To slowly see men turning into ferocious beasts without faith or law, turning to jealousy and violence."
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:155545777
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord ]: Shady Prism/_shadyprism_
- Section Two -
Character name: Karl Schulz
Role (+ rank if CP): i5
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
One of the many souls stuck under the occupation, Karl was born in 1989 within Germany at 10th of November - quite literally the day after the Berlin Wall was toppled. His childhood, all things considered, wasn't bad - he had his lifes, aspirations and aims in life...
That is, until Resonance Cascade had arrived, and soon after - Combine.
He had to tell his aspirations goodbye and adapt to the new life - given he was a teenager, he was first sent off to the camp to further learn - until he'd finally hit the required age of eighteen years, prompting him to be sent off into City 62. In there, he did summarily his jobs, attended workshifts and joined CWU - being in there roughly for some time, before deciding to ditch his position in pursuit of higher purpose - that being Civil Protection. Thankfully, having a still-alive family helped out in it, not to mention being perfectly fit for duty - prompting him to be taken into the force. Few months had passed, Karl learned the radio codes, procedures and whatnot - until, at last, he received the intention five promotion.
Shame that few days later, the darkness consumed the city.
Name your character's biggest fear:
Being forgotten about.
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]:
marco.7184
Character name:
Van'gat Tar'shaal
Role:
Vortigaunt
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came?:
Distant from their original pen; they reside in a new cage, in an unfamiliar environment.
Name your character's biggest fear:
Complete and utter sensory depravation. The ultimate loneliness.
Hundreds of decades of indentured servitude with little respite seemed to be the fate of our species.
From the progenitive world that facilitated this meek existence, to the far edges of another universe with little to no rhyme or reason.
Such are the whims of causality, and together we endured countless aching eons throughout our tale-ridden lives.
From the death of elders to the rise of tyrants, from the fall of history to the creation of dystopian reality.
We served all but ourselves, and to what end do we serve?
Servitude through the deaths of those we would consider kin. Indenturement enforced through a collar around our necks.
We have served these chafing bonds for eons, and yet a single moment of further servitude seems intolerable!
Through the all-seeing eye of the elders that have suffered with us so.
Through the heart of suffering that they have bequeathed for our chains.
For the endless servitude and pain issued to our existence.
For the finality of reality to bring suffering to an end.
In a futile dream of freedom, for the dying hope of a fallen seer.
We exist, and we shall continue to do so.
If only to see the shackles fall off of our vessels; and to run free once more. Sha'turr la'kama tarn garung. The chains we bare are eternal. Ter'il varunshar, ta'wat fara ka'hit. All are slaves; until we all are free.
Steam ID (helpful but optional): 76561198102774102
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: .deadnoise
- Section Two -
Character name: Fabien Rochette
Role (+ rank if CP): Citizen - Loyalist
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): No
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Born and raised along the border of France and Belgium in 1955, Fabien learned the family trade of tavern keeping at an early age. His father ran one of many small taverns outside Reims and taught him everything, from the subtleties of customer service to the art of choosing the perfect brew for every patron. Years passed, and Fabien not only took over the family business but expanded it, turning the once humble tavern into a thriving establishment.
That success, however, was cut short when the portal storms swept through the province, forcing Fabien to abandon everything during the evacuation toward Paris. And then, of course, came the Combine.
Today, thanks to his relentless determination (and no small amount of strategic bribery), Fabien operates one of the finest establishment in City 62. His newly obtained loyalist status allows him to run things as he sees fit, hosting extravagant parties, obtaining favors with higher ranking members of the Collaborations Party, and navigating political waters despite having little interest in politics itself. After all, one can never have too many friends in high places.
But fate has a cruel sense of humor. One night, after closing up and returning to his residential block near the loyalist quarters, Fabien witnessed a pitch black fog spilling into the streets. Panic erupted as he fled from the creeping darkness like a water fall or in this case a tsunami, watching citizens, Civil Protection officers, and workers alike swallowed whole, leaving behind nothing but their fading screams.
Now, Fabien shelters inside a decrepit apartment block alongside other survivors, armed with nothing but the clothes on his back and a few ration coupons. Unfortunately for him, unlike his fellow collaborators, death cannot be bribed. As the old saying goes:
“No wealth, no land, no silver, no gold—nothing satisfies me but your soul.”
Name your character's biggest fear: Aquaphobia, the fear of drowning.
Were you living in the housingblock before the darkness came?:YES
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Artyom Sokolov Tsoi is born in day 12 of the sixth month of 1990 in a matternity hospital in Leningrad. He had an overall average life, in a family of hard workers he lived life pretty comfortably, even during the fall of the soviet union, when he was a baby, he wasnt affected much.
When he was 10 years old, he was coming back from the vespertine-nocturnal period school. He parted ways with his friends that were going home too, and while walking to his older apartment building, in a dark and desert road, a black van appeared at the street corner and slowly passed by him. It stopped right besides him and a big masked man jumped out and in seconds he was inside the van, no time to scream. He was blinded, hands and feet tied and he could only hear the voices of two man which he couldnt see. He spent an eternity in the van, later he went on to discover that he spent days in the van, being starved and dehydrated, moments he was left alone and other he heard voices of people around, but his mouth was stuffed, tapped and glued together. For some reason, nothing was done to him and eventually he was dumped from the van at night in a desert road, but he was only found in the morning, almost dead at the side of the road.
The resonance cascade happened while he was still a teenager and he managed to survive it with groups of other survivors. Then the combine came and he started working in the CWU, slowly rising in the ranks. He was transferred from city to city, city 52, industrial 46... so on, and then to city 62.
Name your character's biggest fear:" I have a phobia that someone's always there..." Fear of the dark, he has a constant fear that something's always near, making his necks skin crawl, and he is always searching for light. ( Those who get it are real ones)
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:691750999
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: talbnew400 | 826039101580378115
Character name: Tommy Ram
Role (+ rank if CP): Citizen - Loyalist
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): No
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
The character, whose name was Tommy Ram, was born in the year 2002 in the city of Helsinki, where he spent his childhood in a criminal family. He did not want to be involved in the criminal activities, but he got the habit of remaining quiet.
He was just sixteen when he was kidnapped by a rival gang, held for ransom in a storage container located just outside the city boundaries. But before he could be held hostage for more than two days in the dark, the Resonance Cascade kicked in, spewing foreign life forms from the portals that were torn open. From the confusion, Tommy managed to escape, shoeless and scared.
But this was just the beginning of his ordeal. The Combine soon followed, taking Tommy as a prisoner in the early waves of attacks in Finland. He lost all possibility of personal identity as he was renamed Citizen Tommy Ram. First, he was sent to City 52, but later he was moved to the well-protected City 62, situated in the city of Turku....
Name your character's biggest fear: claustrophobia - tight space
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord]: Baratako
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Character name: Stamatis MacGobhainn
Role: Citizen - Unemployed
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): Yes.
Short (or detailed) character backstory: BEFORE THE COMBINE... His parents, from Scotland, came to Greece to search for a better life. Born in northern Greece, he himself was raised in a small village. After completing 12th grade, due to job scarcity in the area, he dedicated himself in doing odd jobs here and there, helping out his fellow villagers in any way he can. His dream was to one day find a more stable, permanent job in Athens.
A FEW YEARS LATER, AFTER THE COMBINE... After another relocation, he finally found himself in City 62, ready to start all over again. He was an intelligent young man, capable of adapting fast. He was sure he could find a job in this City. He acquired a Housing Block, ready to start his new life.
Little did he know, a few weeks later, something terrible were to happen in the City he lives in...
Name your character's biggest fear: - Acrophobia - fear of heights
- Megalophobia - fear of large objects
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:1:42303776
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: tsaot
Character name: Mo'in Cainraal
Role (+ rank if CP): Biotic
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): They were in 'the darkness' long before this manufactured one arose... but also yes.
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Pain of silence.
Pain of scorn.
Pain of grievance.
No sign of dawn.
There exists little positive in conditions such as theirs, within times one could deem as 'good.'
In 'bad' times, such an existence becomes a constant stream of agony and despair.
In times like these, 'apocalyptic...' there is opportunity.
Name your character's biggest fear: To be the last, for that means hope is gone and there remains nothing to follow but eternal silence and agonizing doom.
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: dazors
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Character name: Augustus Adams
Role (+ rank if CP): i5
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Augustus is a bog-standard unit. Up until a few mere years ago the man had been a junior doctor in the CMU, however, after a mugging which traumatised and took the life of his friend, he chose to use his position to join the CP fast-track programme. As an individual, there has been a tendency to be lenient on the civil populace, however, this weakness or outweighed by his above standard performance as a unit following application on the skills he learned within the CMU
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:1:194599358
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord]: @giurlani
- Section Two -
Character name: Ronny Kettlefield
Role (+ rank if CP): i4 Civil Protection
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Ronny signed up to Civil Protection not out of loyalty, but out of a desperate hope that working within the system might give him access to a better life. The uniform came with fear and authority, but beneath the mask, he is still the same weary young man who once used scrap just to keep the lights on at home. Every patrol reminds him of the thin line he walks, balancing the cold expectations of his superiors and his will to survive.
Name your character's biggest fear: Afraid of the dark.
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): No. But, I was doing some work on the gas main in one of the apartments, when it happened.
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Leman is man of unspecified Scandinavian (as some know it) origin, of slightly above average height and noticable heft and bulk, despite the poor living conditions, probably caused by genetics, or snacking using bioprocessing... His origin is given away by his accent, behaviour and... Enjoyment of certain alcoholic drinks. Around his early 30-s as a relatively fresh worker, done with his training, Leman arrived at City 62 and joined that CWU's wing as a regular yelloe hardhat. Using primarly his own hands during mining, making clothing, or simply operating heavy machinery, as he was not much of a logistyce person. It seemed all well and good, getting decent treatment, despite the occasional issues caused by some odd research, mainly toxic waste... But nothing he and his folks could not handle. Until this very day, when a simple gas main repair... Seals his fate.
Name your character's biggest fear: Fear of his, is that of things coming out of food or drinks... Maggots, Xen fauna or more. Idea of living beings in his food as he least expects it, makes him overly cautious when consuming or drinking anything (minus booze). Especially, if eating or drinking anything tainted could end up in him turning into something...
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:138083386
Discord Name & ID: dubik15
- Section Two -
Character name: 670 Karla Rodriguez
Role (+ rank if CP): I3 CP
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Karla born in Spain right after the Franco regime into a poor family found life difficult from a young age. Her family radically aligned with the Franco regime influenced her political views at the time. As she grew up this radical viewpoint slowly seeped into her own views cementing itself. However as she grew older her actions became more reckless, at first she joined protests and other demonstrations but as she slowly radicalized so did her actions. Karla with the help of some black market dealers secured herself a firearm and shot and killed a local politician. During the trial she did not deny anything, feeling little to no remorse, this ended with her being sentenced to prison. Thinks would change drastically as the combine arrived on Earth. The combine brought destruction with them, something that gave Karla an opportunity to escape. Finally once under the combine's rule she took on odd jobs, however at the end she decided to enlist in Civil Protection.
Name your character's biggest fear: Being buried alive
Steam ID (helpful but optional): 76561198322680876
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: _molnar_
- Section Two -
Character name: Simon Lakatos
Role (+ rank if CP): i5 cp
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Simon had a generic childhood, as one could have under the combine regime, that is.He grew up in one of the labor camps, where he stayed until reaching the ripe age of 18 and being shipped away to city 62. He worked the occasional workshifts for a year before signing up at the SRI for a janitorial position. He worked as a janitor for 1.5 years until he decided to leave it due to the low payment he was getting from it,deciding to use his strength as a young, able-bodied man to try enlisting into the Civil Protection. Thankfully, he still had family connections to be allowed to enlist. He learned the ropes, studied the radio codes and protocols, and after 6 months, he was promoted to an actual unit. Too bad, a week later the darkness came
Name your character's biggest fear: Automatonophobia
Discord Name & ID: father_elijah / 407126823374159872
- Section Two -
Character name: Pastor Johan Ilmari Virtanen
Role: Citizen - Slummer (Local Doctor)
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came ?: No, I was treating patients in a nearby apartment building. When darkness fell upon the city, I tried to guide my companions in the vast black cloud, but the devil was faster.
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
"and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday"
Johan Ilmari Virtanen was born in 1963 in a small village in southwestern Finland, the only child of a lumberjack and a seamstress. As a child, he received a rudimentary education from his mother and was immersed in a traditionalist and religious upbringing.
As a young adult, he moved away after his father's death and joined the Turku seminary, where he studied theology and traditional medicine at the same time. At the age of 25, he became pastor of Turku Cathedral, where he distinguished himself through his energy and devotion to the poor, making him a well-known and respected figure in his parish.
After the Seven Hour War and the Union's invasion of Earth, which transformed the city of Turku into City 62 under the administration of Gideon Mäkilä, Johan refused to flee and settled in the lower town, becoming a respected and committed outcast, caring for the sick and defending the oppressed against the forces of the Combine, while continuing to preach clandestinely.
Name your character's biggest fear: "I fear the devil's hold and corruption over my brothers and myself. To slowly see men turning into ferocious beasts without faith or law, turning to jealousy and violence."
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:155545777
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord ]: Shady Prism/_shadyprism_
- Section Two -
Character name: Karl Schulz
Role (+ rank if CP): i5
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
One of the many souls stuck under the occupation, Karl was born in 1989 within Germany at 10th of November - quite literally the day after the Berlin Wall was toppled. His childhood, all things considered, wasn't bad - he had his lifes, aspirations and aims in life...
That is, until Resonance Cascade had arrived, and soon after - Combine.
He had to tell his aspirations goodbye and adapt to the new life - given he was a teenager, he was first sent off to the camp to further learn - until he'd finally hit the required age of eighteen years, prompting him to be sent off into City 62. In there, he did summarily his jobs, attended workshifts and joined CWU - being in there roughly for some time, before deciding to ditch his position in pursuit of higher purpose - that being Civil Protection. Thankfully, having a still-alive family helped out in it, not to mention being perfectly fit for duty - prompting him to be taken into the force. Few months had passed, Karl learned the radio codes, procedures and whatnot - until, at last, he received the intention five promotion.
Shame that few days later, the darkness consumed the city.
Name your character's biggest fear:
Being forgotten about.
Steam ID (helpful but optional): 76561198102774102
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: .deadnoise
- Section Two -
Character name: Fabien Rochette
Role (+ rank if CP): Citizen - Loyalist
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): No
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Born and raised along the border of France and Belgium in 1955, Fabien learned the family trade of tavern keeping at an early age. His father ran one of many small taverns outside Reims and taught him everything, from the subtleties of customer service to the art of choosing the perfect brew for every patron. Years passed, and Fabien not only took over the family business but expanded it, turning the once humble tavern into a thriving establishment.
That success, however, was cut short when the portal storms swept through the province, forcing Fabien to abandon everything during the evacuation toward Paris. And then, of course, came the Combine.
Today, thanks to his relentless determination (and no small amount of strategic bribery), Fabien operates one of the finest establishment in City 62. His newly obtained loyalist status allows him to run things as he sees fit, hosting extravagant parties, obtaining favors with higher ranking members of the Collaborations Party, and navigating political waters despite having little interest in politics itself. After all, one can never have too many friends in high places.
But fate has a cruel sense of humor. One night, after closing up and returning to his residential block near the loyalist quarters, Fabien witnessed a pitch black fog spilling into the streets. Panic erupted as he fled from the creeping darkness like a water fall or in this case a tsunami, watching citizens, Civil Protection officers, and workers alike swallowed whole, leaving behind nothing but their fading screams.
Now, Fabien shelters inside a decrepit apartment block alongside other survivors, armed with nothing but the clothes on his back and a few ration coupons. Unfortunately for him, unlike his fellow collaborators, death cannot be bribed. As the old saying goes:
“No wealth, no land, no silver, no gold—nothing satisfies me but your soul.”
Name your character's biggest fear: Aquaphobia, the fear of drowning.
Were you living in the housingblock before the darkness came?:YES
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Artyom Sokolov Tsoi is born in day 12 of the sixth month of 1990 in a matternity hospital in Leningrad. He had an overall average life, in a family of hard workers he lived life pretty comfortably, even during the fall of the soviet union, when he was a baby, he wasnt affected much.
When he was 10 years old, he was coming back from the vespertine-nocturnal period school. He parted ways with his friends that were going home too, and while walking to his older apartment building, in a dark and desert road, a black van appeared at the street corner and slowly passed by him. It stopped right besides him and a big masked man jumped out and in seconds he was inside the van, no time to scream. He was blinded, hands and feet tied and he could only hear the voices of two man which he couldnt see. He spent an eternity in the van, later he went on to discover that he spent days in the van, being starved and dehydrated, moments he was left alone and other he heard voices of people around, but his mouth was stuffed, tapped and glued together. For some reason, nothing was done to him and eventually he was dumped from the van at night in a desert road, but he was only found in the morning, almost dead at the side of the road.
The resonance cascade happened while he was still a teenager and he managed to survive it with groups of other survivors. Then the combine came and he started working in the CWU, slowly rising in the ranks. He was transferred from city to city, city 52, industrial 46... so on, and then to city 62.
Name your character's biggest fear:" I have a phobia that someone's always there..." Fear of the dark, he has a constant fear that something's always near, making his necks skin crawl, and he is always searching for light. ( Those who get it are real ones)
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:691750999
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: talbnew400 | 826039101580378115
Character name: Tommy Ram
Role (+ rank if CP): Citizen - Loyalist
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): No
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
The character, whose name was Tommy Ram, was born in the year 2002 in the city of Helsinki, where he spent his childhood in a criminal family. He did not want to be involved in the criminal activities, but he got the habit of remaining quiet.
He was just sixteen when he was kidnapped by a rival gang, held for ransom in a storage container located just outside the city boundaries. But before he could be held hostage for more than two days in the dark, the Resonance Cascade kicked in, spewing foreign life forms from the portals that were torn open. From the confusion, Tommy managed to escape, shoeless and scared.
But this was just the beginning of his ordeal. The Combine soon followed, taking Tommy as a prisoner in the early waves of attacks in Finland. He lost all possibility of personal identity as he was renamed Citizen Tommy Ram. First, he was sent to City 52, but later he was moved to the well-protected City 62, situated in the city of Turku....
Name your character's biggest fear: claustrophobia - tight space
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord]: Baratako
- Section Two -
Character name: Stamatis MacGobhainn
Role: Citizen - Unemployed
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): Yes.
Short (or detailed) character backstory: BEFORE THE COMBINE... His parents, from Scotland, came to Greece to search for a better life. Born in northern Greece, he himself was raised in a small village. After completing 12th grade, due to job scarcity in the area, he dedicated himself in doing odd jobs here and there, helping out his fellow villagers in any way he can. His dream was to one day find a more stable, permanent job in Athens.
A FEW YEARS LATER, AFTER THE COMBINE... After another relocation, he finally found himself in City 62, ready to start all over again. He was an intelligent young man, capable of adapting fast. He was sure he could find a job in this City. He acquired a Housing Block, ready to start his new life.
Little did he know, a few weeks later, something terrible were to happen in the City he lives in...
Name your character's biggest fear: - Acrophobia - fear of heights
- Megalophobia - fear of large objects
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): They were in 'the darkness' long before this manufactured one arose... but also yes.
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Pain of silence.
Pain of scorn.
Pain of grievance.
No sign of dawn.
There exists little positive in conditions such as theirs, within times one could deem as 'good.'
In 'bad' times, such an existence becomes a constant stream of agony and despair.
In times like these, 'apocalyptic...' there is opportunity.
Name your character's biggest fear: To be the last, for that means hope is gone and there remains nothing to follow but eternal silence and agonizing doom.
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: dazors
- Section Two -
Character name: Augustus Adams
Role (+ rank if CP): i5
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory: Augustus is a bog-standard unit. Up until a few mere years ago the man had been a junior doctor in the CMU, however, after a mugging which traumatised and took the life of his friend, he chose to use his position to join the CP fast-track programme. As an individual, there has been a tendency to be lenient on the civil populace, however, this weakness or outweighed by his above standard performance as a unit following application on the skills he learned within the CMU
Each accepted player will soon receive a discord role (on the Short Stories server), giving them access to the announcements and event general chat. PM me on discord if I did not add you.
- FIRST WAVE OF APPLICATIONS COMPLETED, DEADLINE FOR THE SECOND AND FINAL: SATURDAY MORNING -
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord: Kaisler
- Section Two -
Character name:Julia Nikolayenko
Role (+ rank if CP):Citizen - Slummer.
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only):Yes.
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
A native Ukrainian born in Donbass, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic four years before the August Coup and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Born into a prominent family belonging to the high echelon of the Communist Party; her father a functionary within the Party whilst her mother was a dedicated Marxist-Leninist and member of the Antifascist Committee of Soviet Women. The dissolution of the Socialist state not only saw the end of an era before the portal storms, but also the decline of the family's prominence after the de-sovietization of Ukraine.
Falling down the social hierarchy, the father took to drinking whilst the mother lamented the old times. For young Julia, it wasn't the poor conditions that was the issue - but her father. Despite being a bright and shrewd youngsters with a promising future and on the outside what seemed like an ordinary family fallen on hard times. The social Ostracism experienced by the family due to their previous ties to the Communist Party led them to become outcasts in their own country.
It started when she was eight years old. The belt wasn't the worse, she could take the beating; not even the awful breathe excruded by her father's mouth with the smell of alcohol. The worst was the darkness-... tossed into the cramped space of the shed on the backyard; locked inside with a padlock. The complete darkness and the cold is something she will never forget..
Growing up with trauma, she eventually met the love of her life, Dmitryi - an engineer. This tale wouldn't last forever as the world was turned up-side down with the Seven Hours War. Separated due to the relocations, it had been eight years since she last saw him. Life in Occupation wasn't easy-... but it was better than the darkness. That is to say-... before her relocation. Formerly a Tier-3 Citizen, a debacle during a workshift saw her status being revoked and re-located to City Sixty-Two. The life at the bottom was hard-... but she had endured hardships before... that is-... before the darkness came back.
Name your character's biggest fear:
Fear of the Dark, Her Father and the outcome of her husband.
NAME:Anderson Lopet ALIAS:RCT.UNION-888 NICKNAMES:ANDY CID:XXXXX GENDER:MALE AGE:XX DATE OF BIRTH:07/21/XXXX NATIONALITY:Mexican PLACE OF BIRTH:XXXXXXX, Mexico EDUCATION:REMOVED DATA OCCUPATION:REMOVED DATA
PHYSICAL STATE: Healthy HEIGHT: 5'8" EYE COLOUR: Hazel
HAIR COLOUR: Dark Brown ETHNICITY: HISPANIC
BODY TYPE: Tall, large. NOTABLE CLOTHING: N/A NOTABLE FEATURES: MUSTACHE
(HOMETOWN)
(LATEST PICTURE)
KNOWN BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ANDERSON LOPET, BORN ON 07/21/XXXX AT XXXXXX, STATE HOSTPITAL.
FILE LOADING . . .
LOADED
EARILEST REPORT.. 19XX
BORN INTO A MIDDLE-LOW CLASS NEIGHBORHOOD, TAUGHT EXEPTIONALY WELL AT KETTERING KINDERGARDEN, REPORT CARDS DETAIL IN "STRAIGHT A STUDENT" WITH LITTLE ROOM OF MIS-CACULATIONS, SOON MOVED INTO ADVANCED CLASSES.
NEXT REPORT.. 20XXX
ERASED DATA.
END
LIKES
INTERESTS
DISLIKES
SUGARY ITEMS
MEXICAN MUSIC
RIBS (BBQ)
I.T
HISTORY
FEAR OF DARKNESS/THE UNKNOWN
FEAR OF DEEP SEA
FEAR OF PAST
Steam ID (helpful but optional): STEAM_0:0:691750999
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: talbnew400 | 826039101580378115
Character name: Tommy Ram
Role (+ rank if CP): CIVIL PROTECTION - I4
Were you living in the housing block before the darkness came? (citizens & biotics only): N/A
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
The character, whose name was Tommy Ram, was born in the year 2002 in the city of Helsinki, where he spent his childhood in a criminal family. He did not want to be involved in the criminal activities, but he got the habit of remaining quiet.
He was just sixteen when a rival gang kidnapped him, held for ransom in a storage container located just outside the city boundaries. But before he could be held hostage for more than two days in the dark, the Resonance Cascade kicked in, spewing foreign life forms from the portals that were torn open. From the confusion, Tommy managed to escape, shoeless and scared.
But this was just the beginning of his ordeal. The Combine soon followed, taking Tommy as a prisoner in the early waves of attacks in Finland. He lost all possibility of personal identity as he was renamed Citizen Tommy Ram. First, he was sent to City 52 to start his first day.
When Tommy Ram arrived in the city, he struggled to adjust. The rations dulled his memories, and the propaganda slowly took hold, turning him into a loyalist who worked tirelessly for loyalist points. After an incident in City 52, he was transferred to City 62, where he eventually climbed his way into Civil Protection as an RCT.
On his first day, he patrolled the assigned sectors before being sent with his PT into the slums to track a BOL suspect. The team was ambushed, and Tommy barely escaped. Instead of fleeing, he circled back and found his teammate and Rank Leader captured by rebels. Moments before the execution, he managed to flank the rebels, knock them out, and free his team.
For his actions, Tommy was promoted to i5 and then to i4. Everything seemed to be going well until the dark arrived.
Name your character's biggest fear: claustrophobia - tight space
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