Dreamland

[Taliazure]

- Section One -
Steam Name: Taliazure
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:67985352
Discord Name & ID: Taliazure

- Section Two -

Full Tagline (City 31): C31:i5.UNION-20
Role (+Rank if Civil Protection/CCR): Intention 5 veteran.

First forcefully, assigned onto Dropship 2, sent out to a cold blanket of a landscape to die, left to rot along the few that survived.
Now pushed onto a rubble of what was once a city, filled with things that would make any men question reality, how can one withstand such suffering?


Short (or detailed) character backstory:
U-20 was a arrogant loyalist before all this, having climbed her way up the ladder she felt as if she had done enough to those around her and she was /owed/ now. But that behaviour got the best of the worst person you could get to, rank leaders.
She found herself not long being taken away and forcefully conscripted, the now seemingly well dressed clean loyalist finds herself in muddy boots and shattered armor, amidst the scraps of a dropship along with other doomed souls. She was sent out to the cold landscape, her dropship failed and crashed, killing some of the units within, she was able to survive alongside the others and make her way through the dead lands now onto a hellish hole of unimaginable anomalies and a nuke.
Now she finds herself with the few scraps of units from her deployment, heading to God knows where.

Name your character's favorite activity: Painting and drawing.

 

[Genny]

- Section One -​

• Steam Name: Genny
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:59651101
• Discord Name & ID: GenevieveK

- Section Two -​

Character name / Tagline: Odessa Montgomery
Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Loyality Tier 5​

𝓞𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓪 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓰𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝔂

Odessa Montgomery has been shaped by the shadows and ambition. The daughter of forgotten workers, she learned early that power was neither given nor shared—it was seized. Her cold demeanor, a crafted shield, concealed a heart that burned with ruthless determination and a passion for singing.

Rising through the Ministry of Enlightenment, Odessa mastered the art of manipulation, wielding her intelligence like a blade. Her strict discipline and unrelenting drive earned her the title of vice assistant, yet goals still unknown drive her forward.

Invited now to an exclusive event, Odessa walks among the chosen, her arrogance whispering that destiny favors her alone. With rose tinted glasses placed over her eyes, she is excited and ready to lavish in the retreat that Dreamland offers to her.​

 

[Ekrell]

Spoiler: Theme IG

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Spoiler: OOC Side

• Steam Name: cjtn10​
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:65155396​
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: cjtn10​
• Character name / Tagline: 'Oh-Three'​
• Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Rogue/Veteran i3/ The Chosen Human (I wish to be T5 if possible)​
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: The unlikely messiah, the survivor of unfathomable circumstances. The Betrayed and abandoned.​
• Name your character's favorite activity: Medicine.​

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- ACCEPTED AS: VETERAN, T5 -​

"Man, this always ends us up in the wrong path.."
"We live and die by your orders, Three."

"Still guilty, but no more pain."​

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• Spoiler: OOC

  • Steam Name: LyingFox
  • Steam ID: lyingf0x
  • Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: lyingfox

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  - Section Two -
  
  

  • Character name / Tagline: HERO-4
  • Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): VETERAN
  • Short (or detailed) character backstory: A low-income officer of C34, sent by overwatch to his death in a frozen wasteland, wandering around orders and killing those who simply wanted to see their family again; simply following orders in the process.
    Disabanding Overwatch and following orders by HELIX-3, he still domes around his past and guilt.
  • Name your character's favorite activity: Forgetting mistakes.

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- ACCEPTED AS: VETERAN, T4 -​

- Section One -

• Steam Name: Bi-Em
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:116393258
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Bi-Em / bi_em420
  
  
  
• - Section Two -
  • Character name / Tagline: Stanisław Łakowski
  • Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): CMU Senior Doctor / T4 / Veteran (Silenced City)
  • Short (or detailed) character backstory:
    
    It has been days ... or weeks since he departed with the unknown soldier?
    
    They both seen the city lit up in flames ... to him it was a stop in his life ... one that permanently sealed him off from what it could had been ... a good life.
    
    Now?
    
    He is out here ... watching endless blue sky ... endless blue water ... and them in distance ... looking at him ... smiling as they know, that just one glance at them, brings pain to him.
    
    He left them all to die ... he kept the door closed ... He kEpT iT CLoSe ... HE KEPT IT CLOSE.. HE--No..No..NO!
    
    He ... He .. No No No NO NO NO NO NO.
    
    WH..WHERE IS IT?! ..HE...TH...THERE MUST BE MORE....WH...WHERE DID HE PUT IT?!...DID SOLDIER STOLE IT?!...HE..MU...No...No...I..It is here...in... in his satchel ... yes ... there.
    
    It hurts for a second ... but relief is worth it ... one by one they move away ... back into distance ... away from him...
    
    He feels a nudge ... the soldier again .. he points ... at ... a island .... a Island.
    
    Why ... why he doesn't feel ... relieved?
    
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  • Name your character's favorite activity: Trying to silence them.

- ACCEPTED AS: VETERAN (Illegal boat entry, have fun) -​

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THE CRIMSON GUARDIAN
"It's just a job."​

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Spoiler: OOC DETAILS

- APPLICATION FORMAT -

- Section One -

• Steam Name: Wraygun
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:168504023
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: wraygun

- Section Two -

• Character name / Tagline: JURY-35
• Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): INTENTION TWO (ROSEGUARD TRIO)
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: Explained below.
• Name your character's favorite activity: COOKING

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Ask yourself: what would be the last meal you would have, if they were to shoot you tomorrow?

What would it taste like?
What would you feel in that moment?

Would you savour the food, or the moment first?
Would the taste or the memory come first?

It doesn't judge.
It doesn't speak.
Yet it comforts.

It doesn't defend itself.
It doesn't prevent you.
Yet it persists.

A guardian with a heart, through and through.
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- ACCEPTED AS: Roseguard (CP), i2 -​

Spoiler: section one nerd shit

• Steam Name:
• Steam ID:
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)

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Guest,
Tier 5.
Gallagher is an esteemed and hardworking member of the Store Management section of the local Civil Workers' Union. Born in Oklahoma, he briefly worked as an English teacher at an elementary school...
So much noise. So much barking from the bosses. I work my ass off every day, breaking my back, and they don't lift a damn finger. Just sit there, barking orders into their radios, lounging in their plush leather chairs. It’s maddening. And that woman... she can’t decide a single thing. Always nagging, always in my ear at home—where I should be able to rest. But no. No peace there, either. Maybe—just maybe—this will be different. Even if I'm surrounded by a hundred copies of my superiors, maybe I can finally catch a break. A little quiet. A little space. Without them breathing down my neck for taking a day off to have a drink.

...Oh, I’d sell my soul for that kind of time.

Hobbies:
Writing and Drinking.


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- ACCEPTED AS: Guest, T5 -​

Spoiler: OOC

Steam Name: Dazor
Steam ID: (TBC)
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Dazor/dazors

Character name / Tagline: Sebastian Monroe

Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): T6 - City Administrator

Short (or detailed) character backstory: The all-seeing eye of London. Sebastian rose to authority by default when a resistance bombing took out both the city administrator and deputy administrator along with half of the ministry heads. Sebastian was the manipulative and unpredictable Minister of Defence, avoiding the Loyalist Ball the night of the attack believing it to be beneath him. By the time he found out that the incident had occurred, he was already being thrust into the executive position of CA. Since then, Sebastian has become steadfast in his duties, often indulging in solitude he has still managed to gain the admiration of London. Now he attended his first Loyalist event since the bombing that had taken our his colleagues; what can go wrong?

Name your character's favorite activity: Playing Classical Piano (Drunk)​

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- ACCEPTED AS: Guest, T6 CCA -​

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ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴀ ʀᴀɴᴋ ʟᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ.
ɪ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ. ɪ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ
FUCK YOU. I WILL NOT SUBMIT TO YOU.
I AM A RANK LEADER.
I AM A RANK LEADER.
I AM A RANK LEADER.

Spoiler: ooc

- Section One -


Steam Name: Marco
Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:39958603
Discord Name & ID: marco.7184


- Section Two -


Character name / Tagline:

VICE-77 [TRANSFER FROM SILENCED CITY.]

Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank):

Rank Leader

Short (or detailed) character backstory:

A rank leader, losing all authority with the arrival of the veterans. Shunned, passed to the side. All pride and respect, warranted for his position, obliterated. A bitter feeling of envy and resentment present.

Icelandic

Name your character's favorite activity: Hunting.

- ACCEPTED AS: VETERAN, T4 -​

APPLICATION​

Spoiler: OOC - Section One - Steam Name: ItsLiam Steam ID: idk Discord Name & ID: itsliam010 - Section Two - Character name / Tagline: Clark Gable Role (+Loyality Tier): GUEST - MoE Director of City Two (CCA)​

Short (or detailed) character backstory: View attachment 39503 A snotty, champagne-esque run of the mill Loyalist. When chosen, Clark was ecstatic, to say the least. In his eyes, he can do no wrong. He is almost like a man riding on a cloud into the night sky. However, something deep within him lurks, a feeling of suspicion. After the events that City-Two have been through, he has never felt safe around anyone. Always feeling like someone is trying to stab him in the back, trying to dethrone him. Now, in 'Dreamland' this feeling is more visible than it ever was. Definitely a coy to knock him off of his top spot, orchestrated by someone above him. He will fend for himself, to ensure he will stay alive.​

Name your character's favorite activity: Drinking, and making of people with a lower societal status.​

- ACCEPTED AS: Guest, T6 CCA -​

- Section One -

• Steam Name: MCGSCEFFAAWHETJH55555
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:33130062
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: MCGSCEFFAAWHETJH55555

- Section Two -

• Character name / Tagline: Christopher Millermen
• Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Veteran - Former Valley Survivor
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: He'd barely survived the treacherous actions of that Civil Protection officer, the one who abruptly changed the ritual for his own gain. Everyone else had been slaughtered, but he managed to hide in the rubble and snuck out while the massive invincible creature that had once been the traitor was busy gloating to himself. Following the advice of a lone vortigaunt, or the ghostly apparition of one, he escaped through the once-blocked tunnel with less than a handful of others... but he hadn't seen any of them since then. He didn't know how to make sense of what happened, but the paranoia and distrust between all the groups was primarily responsible for their downfall. Chris could only hope that wouldn't happen again.
  
  Between re-entering the city under a new lease of life and continuing the fight, he opted for the latter. There was no way he was going to bother with city life, not when there were more important things to be done. However, he didn't quite know how to present himself as a loyalist. He just hoped the 'real' ones were dumb enough to not notice how out of place he might be.
• Name your character's favorite activity: Chatter about historical 'modern' (late 19th century to 20th) firearms. He finds it easy to get lost in the details.

- ACCEPTED AS: Guest, T5 -
(You've been gone for too many events to be re-assigned a veteran, you do retain your memories from Nightfall. (Though HELIX-3 is the only survivor besides you really). Canonically, your presence here is a coincidence, or is it?)​

- Section One -

• Steam Name: Dr. Intercourse, PhD
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:137019792
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: AshTronaut

- Section Two -

• Character name / Tagline: KING-5
• Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): i2
• Short (or detailed) character backstory:

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• Name your character's favorite activity: Talking to his friends.

- ACCEPTED AS: Roseguard (CP), i2 -​

"Wha wadna fecht fer the Combine?"

Spoiler: - Section One -

Steam Name: tsaoT
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:42303776
Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: tsaoT

Spoiler: - Section ERROR -

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Character name / Tagline: PATROL-54
ERROR. Unit biosignal lost following THE CITY 62 INCIDENT (READ: Concluding_Statement_C62.cmbt)
Searching for alternative...
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Spoiler: - Section Two -

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Character name / Tagline: QUICK-13
Warning! Blackmark detected on unit's file! Are you sure you wish to continue?
Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Roseguard Trio - Civil Protection Intention Five (i5)
Short (or detailed) character backstory:

Spoiler: RANK LEADER'S STATEMENT

A proper damn bampot. What kind of-

...

Yes. Fine, alright. I will provide an actual explanation. We needed bodies on the ground, alright? After all those rogues from City Two showed up here; their Nexus' collapse; and the population influx, there had to be more local boots in uniform.

It didn't matter whether they met the requirements- High Command gave me a quota and my orders, and I filled that quota and carried out those orders. It kept the city standing. The issue was that after things had died down I was stuck with a gaggle of radges and halfwits. Thirteen was fine, at first. A bit too eager to sneak her way out of a patrol or two, but I'd dealt with worse. It could be beaten out of her with discipline, structure, and maybe a few shifts in the Old Town.

Except it never happened.

Only fitting that she'd be stuck with the unlucky number thirteen. Of course, it wasn't her who had the bad luck, but me for having to deal with her. [EXPUNGED]—for all his many faults—at least had the dignity of dying in the field, while the only thing I could ever stick to Thirteen was that bribery incident- but, well... if I went and killed every unit who I'd known to take a bribe, I'd be a one-man pipe band.

It doesn't mean there weren't other issues: she back-talked an Intention Two once, and that didn't end well; if she'd been more involved in that patrol on [EXPUNGED] then I'd probably have given her a second blackmark, but Thirteen was able to weasel her way out because she'd ran off to catch a shop thief the Commerce Ministry had been on my ass about. I'm not about to just make up things to get her deserviced, no matter how much it might make my job easier.

That doesn't change how I'm not too sure what High Command is expecting when asking to send her to a god damn resort. I was halfway to getting Thirteen a posting up near the Coille, as the last thing she needs is any taste of luxury. Why the hell didn't I hear about this earlier, anyway?

...

What do you mean she's already been sent? Why her? Why the fuc-
STATEMENT CONCLUDED.

Spoiler: HIGH COMMAND'S STATEMENT

[EXPUNGED]
STATEMENT CONCLUDED.

Spoiler: QUICK-13'S STATEMENT

Huh? I'm going where?
STATEMENT CONCLUDED.

Name your character's favorite activity: Eating (though the story behind the food far moreso.)

- ACCEPTED AS: Roseguard (CP), i5 -​

- Section One -

Steam Name: Divine
Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:63629212
Discord Name & ID: ._divine.

- Section Two -

Character name / Tagline: Aleksanteri Väinö / C62:i1.YELLOW-5
Role: Civil Protection: Veteran
Short (or detailed) character backstory:

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Spoiler: Main Backstory

[*]Being a middle-aged man, Väinö's life has been split in two. In his younger years he was an average man who worked in journalism; a local news reporter. A man with humble beginnings, who filled his empty time with hunting, sketching, and other nature-related activities. He was no recluse, and was nearly an idol in his low population town. He had goals of leadership, and sought a career in politics. A mayoral candidate who lost his race - not to an opponent but the Combine invasion causing him to bring up arms.

After seven fruitless hours, he surrendered with his other townsfolk who weren't dead yet, and tried to rally the people to forfeit themselves to the Combine so no further blood would be spilt. He may have very well rallied them straight into the first instances of Civil Protection, which led him to enlistment some time later - leading by example and bravery to start, though slowly leading down the path of brutality and narcissism both because of the Overwatch AI threatening his family's wellbeing, but the mental anguish of this new life. Changed by war, and threatened when he showed too much care to his subordinates. He still helped where he could, so even with his years of service he was never elevated to Rank Leader or Captaincy.

Though his service as Civil Protection brought him across the world, he finally ended up back in his home country. What's better in a combat zone then a man who knows the land and potential language of the resistance? Not to mention, the chaos... The Overwatch got the 'vital assets' out, and left the Intention One who strayed too much to his death; a suicide mission alongside new units.

Spoiler: City 62 - Silenced City

In his home country, Finland, rested City 62. The city that fell silent, no voice beyond the echoes of the dead; Väinö, at one point, joining them. He was assigned there with the rest of the detachment, coming from local and distant garrisons. Doubtful that Overwatch- Or whatever entity that caused them to be sent there expected them to survive. Not many did, in any case.

Many fell in City 62. Even Väinö, falling to the hordes of undead and otherworldly beasts; however, his fate was not sealed as the vortigaunts utilized the larval extract to bring him back to life. YELLOW-5, an Intention One of Civil Protection. The archenemy of freed vortigaunts like them at one point... Bound by self-preservation, and the need for survival.

After the dust settled and the nuke salted the earth and cleansed the city, he joined those who gave him the chance to live again. He opted to part ways with the Combine, their Captain marking him as KIA so no manhunt would begin. Now . . .? Off to his well-deserved vacation...

Name your character's favorite activity: Previously he enjoyed sketching, and nature. Now? He is more interested in studying vortigaunts and healing after his resurrection.

- ACCEPTED AS: VETERAN, T4 -​

- Section One -
Steam Name: Taliazure
Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:67985352
Discord Name & ID: Taliazure

- Section Two -
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Full Tagline (City 31): C31:i5.UNION-20
Role (+Rank if Civil Protection/CCR): Intention 5 veteran.

First forcefully, assigned onto Dropship 2, sent out to a cold blanket of a landscape to die, left to rot along the few that survived.
Now pushed onto a rubble of what was once a city, filled with things that would make any men question reality, how can one withstand such suffering?


Short (or detailed) character backstory:
U-20 was a arrogant loyalist before all this, having climbed her way up the ladder she felt as if she had done enough to those around her and she was /owed/ now. But that behaviour got the best of the worst person you could get to, rank leaders.
She found herself not long being taken away and forcefully conscripted, the now seemingly well dressed clean loyalist finds herself in muddy boots and shattered armor, amidst the scraps of a dropship along with other doomed souls. She was sent out to the cold landscape, her dropship failed and crashed, killing some of the units within, she was able to survive alongside the others and make her way through the dead lands now onto a hellish hole of unimaginable anomalies and a nuke.
Now she finds herself with the few scraps of units from her deployment, heading to God knows where.

Name your character's favorite activity: Painting and drawing.

- ACCEPTED AS: VETERAN, T4 -​

- Section One -​

• Steam Name: Genny
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:59651101
• Discord Name & ID: GenevieveK

- Section Two -


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𝓞𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓪 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓰𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝔂

Odessa Montgomery has been shaped by the shadows and ambition. The daughter of forgotten workers, she learned early that power was neither given nor shared—it was seized. Her cold demeanor, a crafted shield, concealed a heart that burned with ruthless determination and a passion for singing.

Rising through the Ministry of Enlightenment, Odessa mastered the art of manipulation, wielding her intelligence like a blade. Her strict discipline and unrelenting drive earned her the title of vice assistant, yet goals still unknown drive her forward.

Invited now to an exclusive event, Odessa walks among the chosen, her arrogance whispering that destiny favors her alone. With rose tinted glasses placed over her eyes, she is excited and ready to lavish in the retreat that Dreamland offers to her.​

- ACCEPTED AS: Guest, T4 -

- First wave of applications -
Roseguard (CP) filled.
Your results are BELOW your application.

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• Spoiler: SECTION ONE

  • Steam Name: "Adno"
  • Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:481652394
  • Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Adno / adnolug

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• Spoiler: SECTION TWO

  • Character name / Tagline: Wojciech Malinowski
  • Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Servant / Underclass
  • Short (or detailed) character backstory:
    
    -Wojciech used to be a bit of a troublesome citizen with a disdain for being ruled over. He earned himself a few charges during the time of the occupation and was eventually consulted by a Civil Protection officer, who explained to him the dangerous position he had placed himself in. After his next transfer to City 02, he finally bent the knee and became submissive to the Combine Authority.
    Noticing his improvement, the Combine decided to ship him off to serve during the Event as a way to test his loyalty before he would be allowed to receive a grey armband.
    
    
  • Name your character's favorite activity: Flintknapping/Art

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[Stanford]

• Steam Name: Stanford
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:41852222
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: stanford5039

- Section Two -

• Character name: Vas'Dal'Lurr
• Role: Vortigoon
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: Vas'Dal'Lurr was spawned as a last ditch effort to reinforce a yet to be captured tribe within the outlands. However, this ritual had been done the moment a patrol of Hunters passed by. A force was dispatched and the tribe was soon thinned out in numbers, leaving only a handful of vortigaunts alive which now stand captured.
• Name your character's favorite activity: Messing with humans and learning new things about the world he has been spawned into

 

[Asimo1234]

Primary Section:
Steam Name: Furret No Furry Asimo
Steam ID: STEAM_1:0:58605803
Discord Name & ID: asimo1234

Secondary Section:
Character name: Siirh'Nah'Tach
Role: Enslaved Vortigaunt
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Siirh belonged to a tribe of Vortigaunts which kept themselves mostly distant from human affairs. Content to spend their days of newfound freedom after Xen in some backwater middle-of-nowhere on this lush planet of small trees. There they were able to spend the serene moments between hunting, cooking, and resting in deep meditation together. Revisiting tales of old as memories of kin long passed to the all-in-one.

Even so, cracks within that serenity and peaceful meditation began to form, dark shadows creeping onto the edges of a vision. A shudder running up their spine. A feeling of things being off. Things had found themselves onto this planet, either recently or long in the past that were not quite benevolent. Things that even a Grand Elder might consider exceptionally troublesome.

The tribe's shamans sought contact beyond the normal reaches of their huntings, contacting others of their kin to come into more knowledge about the troubles. Eventually hearing about another chapter in an unfolding story to take place at an unassuming banquet for those in the upper echelon's of the opressor's ranks.

And so, it was Siirh who made the sacrifice to abandong his tribe and venture towards civilization. To be found, captured, and eventually guided onto a transport bound for a Carribian island.

Name your character's favorite activity: Cooking Telling tales that to a normal human might seem complete nonesense. Simply taking a moment to enjoy silence.

 

[Ekrell]

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• Spoiler: SECTION ONE

  • Steam Name: "Adno"
  • Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:481652394
  • Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Adno / adnolug

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• Spoiler: SECTION TWO

  • Character name / Tagline: Wojciech Malinowski
  • Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Servant / Underclass
  • Short (or detailed) character backstory:
    
    -Wojciech used to be a bit of a troublesome citizen with a disdain for being ruled over. He earned himself a few charges during the time of the occupation and was eventually consulted by a Civil Protection officer, who explained to him the dangerous position he had placed himself in. After his next transfer to City 02, he finally bent the knee and became submissive to the Combine Authority.
    Noticing his improvement, the Combine decided to ship him off to serve during the Event as a way to test his loyalty before he would be allowed to receive a grey armband.
    
    
  • Name your character's favorite activity: Flintknapping/Art

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- ACCEPTED AS: Servant, Underclass -​

• Steam Name: Stanford
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:41852222
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: stanford5039

- Section Two -

• Character name: Vas'Dal'Lurr
• Role: Vortigoon
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: Vas'Dal'Lurr was spawned as a last ditch effort to reinforce a yet to be captured tribe within the outlands. However, this ritual had been done the moment a patrol of Hunters passed by. A force was dispatched and the tribe was soon thinned out in numbers, leaving only a handful of vortigaunts alive which now stand captured.
• Name your character's favorite activity: Messing with humans and learning new things about the world he has been spawned into

- ACCEPTED AS: Servant, Vortigaunt -​

Primary Section:
Steam Name: Furret No Furry Asimo
Steam ID: STEAM_1:0:58605803
Discord Name & ID: asimo1234

Secondary Section:
Character name: Siirh'Nah'Tach
Role: Enslaved Vortigaunt
Short (or detailed) character backstory:
Siirh belonged to a tribe of Vortigaunts which kept themselves mostly distant from human affairs. Content to spend their days of newfound freedom after Xen in some backwater middle-of-nowhere on this lush planet of small trees. There they were able to spend the serene moments between hunting, cooking, and resting in deep meditation together. Revisiting tales of old as memories of kin long passed to the all-in-one.

Even so, cracks within that serenity and peaceful meditation began to form, dark shadows creeping onto the edges of a vision. A shudder running up their spine. A feeling of things being off. Things had found themselves onto this planet, either recently or long in the past that were not quite benevolent. Things that even a Grand Elder might consider exceptionally troublesome.

The tribe's shamans sought contact beyond the normal reaches of their huntings, contacting others of their kin to come into more knowledge about the troubles. Eventually hearing about another chapter in an unfolding story to take place at an unassuming banquet for those in the upper echelon's of the opressor's ranks.

And so, it was Siirh who made the sacrifice to abandong his tribe and venture towards civilization. To be found, captured, and eventually guided onto a transport bound for a Carribian island.

Name your character's favorite activity: Cooking Telling tales that to a normal human might seem complete nonesense. Simply taking a moment to enjoy silence.

- ACCEPTED AS: Servant, Vortigaunt -

- Second wave of applications -
Vortigaunts filled.
Your results are BELOW your application.​

 

[Bounter]

- Section One -

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• Steam Name: Bounter​
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:56174230​
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Bounter & bounter_​

- Section Two -


May God guide us through this...
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• Character name / Tagline: Antioch Karlin​
• Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Veteran - Grey Band before the fall of City 62 - Resistance Demolitionist / Craftsman
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: Antioch, is a man around his 30s, whose roots originally hail from what was known as Levant. Not much is known about his past sadly, or his family however, aside from the fact, that he has been living in City 62 for quite a while, as a Rebel demolitionist and craftsman, providing the underground with plenty of goods for a while. Or at least before shit hit the fan.
  
  During the events of Silent City, he and some of his fellow "Religious" folk, have joined forces with the remaining survivors and fighters, to find the Artifact within City 62, and destroy the source of the troubles over there... Or at the very least, try. Their attempt, which ended in a success, was unfortunately not celebrated with singing and laughter, but a Nuclear explosion... Thankfully, he was one of the few who made it into a safety bunker, near the CWU site... But, the death and vanishing of others, still lays on him...
  
  Afterwards, he was given a choice, to return to the Combine, with a "clean slate" or, join Aava, and head out. The choice, was obvious to him. After joining the Vortigaunt tribe in the outlands, and hearing of their options of either retirement or continued fight, the choice once more, was easy. With his new false identity, Antioch and others, had to remain undercover, and find the next artifact... Before hell would let loose once more.
• Name your character's favorite activity: Making and using explosives, and other goods for his fellows.​

 

[Ekrell]

- Section One -

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• Steam Name: Bounter​
• Steam ID: STEAM_0:0:56174230​
• Discord Name & ID [On Short Stories Discord (You are required to join it to participate)]: Bounter & bounter_​

- Section Two -

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May God guide us through this...
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• Character name / Tagline: Antioch Karlin​
• Role (+Loyality Tier / Civil Protection Rank): Veteran - Grey Band before the fall of City 62 - Resistance Demolitionist / Craftsman
• Short (or detailed) character backstory: Antioch, is a man around his 30s, whose roots originally hail from what was known as Levant. Not much is known about his past sadly, or his family however, aside from the fact, that he has been living in City 62 for quite a while, as a Rebel demolitionist and craftsman, providing the underground with plenty of goods for a while. Or at least before shit hit the fan.
  
  During the events of Silent City, he and some of his fellow "Religious" folk, have joined forces with the remaining survivors and fighters, to find the Artifact within City 62, and destroy the source of the troubles over there... Or at the very least, try. Their attempt, which ended in a success, was unfortunately not celebrated with singing and laughter, but a Nuclear explosion... Thankfully, he was one of the few who made it into a safety bunker, near the CWU site... But, the death and vanishing of others, still lays on him...
  
  Afterwards, he was given a choice, to return to the Combine, with a "clean slate" or, join Aava, and head out. The choice, was obvious to him. After joining the Vortigaunt tribe in the outlands, and hearing of their options of either retirement or continued fight, the choice once more, was easy. With his new false identity, Antioch and others, had to remain undercover, and find the next artifact... Before hell would let loose once more.
• Name your character's favorite activity: Making and using explosives, and other goods for his fellows.​

- ACCEPTED AS: Veteran, T4 -
(When I said loyalist tier I meant the undercover one, so you're getting 4 by default)​