Steel Lagoon: Road to Salvation

[UAZ-469]

Ahoy!

Heavily inspired by "Need for Speed: The Run" with a bit Stephen King IN SPACE thrown in and a "little" twist to make it more interesting, I present to you:

Steel Lagoon: A planet, rich of resources, at the most outer border of the pirate-controlled Star Ocean, once home to a mysterious civilization, until they were completely wiped out by pirates. As a revenge, they unleashed an ancient being, which covered the entire world in darkness, letting no light in, twisting the landscapes and leaving areas where the laws of nature doesn't seem to apply anymore. But fortunately, one brave soldier set out to end this madness once and for all and succeeded: The sunlight returned.

Today, nearly 100 years after the conquest and colonization, it's the main exporter of steelware to the planets in the inner Star Ocean - and a prisoner world, where the pirates send convicts and prisoners of war to do strenuous, dangerous work at the factories with no healthcare and insurances at all with no point of return to produce everything they need: From simple cutlery, over cars to weapons.
But once a year, the government led by AI-controlled vehicles, stage the "Road to Salvation"-championship, where eight contestants from the general populace try their luck in a dangerous race to win their freedom, named after the location where the hero of Steel Lagoon managed to defeat the demon: Jack's Salvation.

But hostile wildlife, treacherous environment and other drivers are not the only dangers one contestant has to face: There are rumours that there's something lurking in the dark, especially when the sun goes down and more reports about strange occurrences are heard...

Join either as racers trying to get to their destination first in one piece or soldiers, making sure the event goes smooth and fighting monsters along the way.

Or play as the ancient being, always waiting in darkness to pounce at the others, turning nature against them and torment your victims with psychological warfare. Leave no one alive.

It's intended to be played in rounds with the racers competing against the demon-player, while the former are allowed (and encouraged) to fight each other. A round begins with the start of a race and ends either with the death of all contestants (Demon wins) or if at least one driver survives to the end (Racers win). The soldiers themselves are the neutral party, but the demon-player can target them too to make things additionally harder for the racers.

That said: Expect your characters to die.

Once this idea attracts enough people, I'll add the rest, like the map with its routes, cars and general rules for each group in a separate discussion-thread.

Playable characters:
-Anthropomorphic characters
-Humans (Very rare, but possible)
-(Weak) Magic is allowed, but extremely rare and whatever you do, don't use it to cheat - the soldiers will find out and the demon is too powerful to be affected by it

[Shmibli7]

Getting somewhat of a Deathrace vibe off of this. I'd be down to play as a soldier. I would guess that human characters would be few and far between?

[UAZ-469]

 

Getting somewhat of a Deathrace vibe off of this. I'd be down to play as a soldier. I would guess that human characters would be few and far between?

Actually, seeing how many players we would need to properly play and considering how easily the racers can die, I'm thinking about turning this more into a rather complex Pen & Paper-RP with no demons or soldiers, but just 8 drivers and a (sadistic) Game master.

We would play with stats and dices then.

[Kurt]

Oh I like

[UAZ-469]

Alright, I think I will scratch the RP-idea.

I'll put it up as a Pen & Paper-racing game with RP-elements in the Rec Room.