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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #1: 4th Jun 2022 8:23 PM | |
The Flock hasn't worked together in years. Not since...that day. But fate has pulled the old crew back together again for one last job - your biggest score yet. It won't be easy and tension in the group remains at an all time high. Can you pull this off and fly the coop in time? Or will your goose be cooked? Welcome to....Silly Geese!
Silly Geese is a "play by post" ttrpg that will take place entirely in this thread. The game is inspired by what's known as one page RPG's - entire RPG systems that have their rules scaled way down to fit onto one single page. They are often stupid and rules light and roleplay heavy. This will be no different.
You will be playing as a handful of silly geese ex-bandits and burglars pulled back into the game for one last job. The vibe is Ocean's Eleven/Saul Bass/Coen Bros movies. You can be expert conmen or you can be bumbling goons who have no idea how doomed they are.
Gameplay will be very simple. This will be a roleplay heavy/collaborative storytelling game. This will not be your average dnd game where you roll dice and have to wait for me to resolve your action. This is a game where the players will intentionally put themselves in bad situations, betray each other if they wish, even kill themselves off or get themselves arrested if they really want. The point of this game is to tell a goofy, cinematic story, not to "win". The players will have (mostly) full narrative control and should have fun with it. This won't go on forever and will end when we reach a natural conclusion at the end of the case
I need somewhere around 5-8 players I'd say. Could do more if there's interest, I'll adjust the rules as I get an idea of the player count. I need people who are willing to do two things:
1. ROLEPLAY! This "game" is a story. You'll be expected to create chunks of your own story as you go and will be expected to read each other's. You won't be writing essays, don't worry. But you also won't just be showing up to post "in character" and react to things like a LAB or ATTWS game, you'll have to post chunks of narration where you come up with the story (mixed in with posting in character).
2. ACTIVITY! I don't need you to be posting around the clock 24/7, but the game will flow a whole lot better if you can do more than check in just once per day. Ideally you will check in when you can, catch up on the story your fellow players have helped create (should really not be that much reading, less than a regular mafia game), and post a segment when you have a chance. If you sign up and don't show up, that will hurt the game quite a bit!
You will not have stats and combat will not really be a thing (unless you make it a thing). Story beats will be twisted and resolved by players rolling dice, taking the result (good, bad, or mixed), and assigning that dice to another player's chunk of the story. This will be explained more in depth as we get going, but it'll be very very simple and hopefully fun.
If this sounds fun, keep reading. Sign ups and character creation below!
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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #2: 4th Jun 2022 8:23 PM | |
"You son of a bitch, I'm in."
To pull this off, you'll need a team. If you're interested in playing, you need to make your character. Here's what I need from you:
Name: (your character's name!)
Appearance: (what you look like, from the color of your goose to what you're wearing)
Backstory: (tell us a little something about yourself)
Role: (your role in the crew. leader. hacker. muscle. safecracker. master of disguise. rookie. driver. conman. pickpocket. etc)
Signature Item: (one item you always have on you when you pull off a job)
Image: (edit the photo of the goose above to match your character)
If you wish to play, sign up below by posting your character (or reserve a spot for now by just posting your name). You must take the goose image above and decorate it however you wish, change the color, dress it up in clothes, whatever! Go wild. Then fill in the blanks above. The Role part has a bunch of examples listed, feel free to choose from those or come up with anything that you might find genre appropriate. Pay attention to what others choose and just try not to pick the same-ish thing.
More info about your character will be determined (collaboratively!) after sign ups are over so no need to go overboard with backstory or anything during this part, your call!
tldr: Who wants to play?
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dr
- cute and very brutal -
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| Post #3: 4th Jun 2022 8:54 PM | |
Name: Nēnē
Appearance: An old, slouching yellow and black goose with stripes on the back and neck. A pair of very large cokebottle glasses made from actual glass coke bottles.
Backstory: Nene is a legendary master thief, with expertise pulling off some of the biggest heists in modern bird history. Rumor has it her glory days are long behind her. Half blind and increasinly clumsy, Nene plans to retire back to her hometown in Oʻahu, but she's looking for one last big heist to help her fund it.
Role: the expert pulling one last job before retirement
Signature Item: coke bottle glasses
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"She essentially tore apart the Hex Girls with a simple STAT"
LUCK CREATOR | HEART HACKER | BUY GOLD BYE
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dr
- cute and very brutal -
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| Post #4: 4th Jun 2022 9:14 PM | |
| d ( i n o s r o a ) r
"She essentially tore apart the Hex Girls with a simple STAT"
LUCK CREATOR | HEART HACKER | BUY GOLD BYE
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Christian
Captain Charisma
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| Post #5: 4th Jun 2022 9:39 PM | |
Name: Steve
Appearance: Cool hair, cool glasses, cool duds, cool bling. The C on the chain stands for 'Chill Out, Man'.
Backstory: Steve is the coolest Goose that Steve knows. Because Steve is on such another level of coolness, as a geesling, none of the other geese could keep up with how cool Steve was. That is why Steve would often hang out alone. All the time. Just too cool. Then he met the Flock. But that's a story for another day.
Role: The diversion.
Signature Item: purple bulletproof vest. For some reason, people are always trying to shoot him. Or just pick a fight. Jealous of his coolness.
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Zersch
birdhouse love
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| Post #6: 5th Jun 2022 7:12 AM | |
Don't want to get ahead of myself here but Silly Geese sounds like potential GOTY.
Will submit my goose sometime this evening. | |
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Christian
Captain Charisma
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| Post #7: 5th Jun 2022 8:27 AM | |
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Don't want to get ahead of myself here but Silly Geese sounds like potential GOTY.
Will submit my goose sometime this evening. |
Geese of the Year?
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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #8: 5th Jun 2022 10:57 AM | |
Looking for about 2 to 5 more! Don't be shy | |
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Zersch
birdhouse love
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| Post #9: 5th Jun 2022 11:43 AM | |
Name: Ryan
Appearance: A snow white goose with black accents. Has one brown wing. Short blonde hair.
Backstory: As a gosling he was abandoned by his birth flock for plotting against the actual goose that laid the golden egg. Found and taken in by ducks, he learned the ways of the duck and grew to do what ducks do best - drive fast. Frequently forgets he is a goose and not a duck.
Role: The Driver (or otherwise Transporter)
Signature item: Golden Indestructible Lucky Toothpick
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Boc
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| Post #10: 5th Jun 2022 11:44 AM | |
Name: Percival
Appearance: chubby, balding, casual fit
Role: The Guy in the Chair
Backstory: You always gotta have one. Percival has been indispensable to the Flock in past jobs, acting as their eyes and ears remotely from his cushy chair at his utter mess of a workstation. He'd be absolutely ill-equipped if he ever were called to the field, so he hoped to goose god that today was not that day.
Signature Item: Honkasonic Elite 3880 military-grade laptop, built for all your remote heisting needs
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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #11: 5th Jun 2022 11:51 AM | |
The gut | |
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mal
Pronouns: they/them
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| Post #12: 5th Jun 2022 2:08 PM | |
Ok I'm in lemme get on my computer for my goose | |
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Zersch
birdhouse love
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| Post #13: 5th Jun 2022 5:46 PM | |
Can't wait to see the rest of our crew, I'd trust these silly geese with ANY task. | |
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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #14: 5th Jun 2022 5:49 PM | |
Someone reading this better step tf up and answer the call | |
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Christian
Captain Charisma
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| Post #15: 5th Jun 2022 7:27 PM | |
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Name: Ryan
Appearance: A snow white goose with black accents. Has one brown wing. Short blonde hair.
Backstory: As a gosling he was abandoned by his birth flock for plotting against the actual goose that laid the golden egg. Found and taken in by ducks, he learned the ways of the duck and grew to do what ducks do best - drive fast. Frequently forgets he is a goose and not a duck.
Role: The Driver (or otherwise Transporter)
Signature item: Golden Indestructible Lucky Toothpick
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oh yeah, they're called goslings lol | |
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