Blight of the Machine (cyber punk/fantasy RP)
 

About ten years ago, on the mystical world of Ariban a mysterious object fell from the heavens. The curious people of a near by village came out to inspect the metalic object. It was the last mistake they would ever make.

Rather suddenly the object shot out pointed tendrils that infected every living thing around it. Soon the plants, animals, and humans began having their flesh made metal, their nerves to wires, and their brains to circuits. They became machine drones and spread their blight across the land.

After several months the people of Ariban started to fight back. The machines were resistant to both physical and magical attacks but weaknesses were found and exploited. Some even began turning the machines and their technology against them. It is a commonly held belief that simpley destroying the mother machine, the object that started it all, would end the war. Sadly the machine has spread and almost all that knew where it had landed have been converted or killed.

Now its up to group of adventures to find the mother machine and finally end the war. They must combat the machines hordes, its spies, and the blight itself.
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Ok standerd heros save the word deal. You gather info, find the bad guy, make it die. However a slight twist. It is fantasy but those willing to risk the blight have gained advance technolgy to use as they see fit. Little is known about how exactly the blight spreads or who can resist it and more importantly for how long. So anyone who has contact with machines is greeted with fear and hatred by most.

Cyborg: These are the few who have been infected with the blight but have not lost their freewill, yet. They have the enhanced abilities of the mechanical part of their body. However this has made them feared and hated creatures. Most would simpley assume they are lost to the blight then risk infection. Their fears are not unfounded for everyone knows they will eventualy be converted.

Wielders: These are people that have ripped apart drones and turned their weapons into ones useable by humans. Many do worry that using such weapons could contract the blight so they are rarely used by anyone besides the wielders themselves. Though there is no garentee they will contract or spread the blight they are still often shunned (though not as bad as cyborgs)

Machine Masters: Like wielders they use the machines technolgy as weapons, only more directly. They rewire and reprogam drones to fight for them. They are for the most part treated like wielders but their 'pets' are a different story.

Nanite Mages: These white mages use nano-technology to enhance their own healing powers. They are also able to repair machines, though few would risk using the nanites directly on human for risk of spreading the blight. Since their technology is unseen they are treated same as any other mage.

Warrior: Usual warrior class that uses rune enhanced weapons to destroy machines. They are highly respected.

Mage: Mages use black magic to attack and defend. Mages must be clever however because only certain spells will harm certain drones. Respected like warriors.

Viral Mages: These are white mages able to heal injured flesh. However their magic has the second effect of damaging machines. Though their healing is great they are lethal to drone and cyborg alike. Although normal people respect them they are a concern of cyborgs.

(more classes might be added)

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Gender:
Class:
Bio:
Blight: (how has the blight directly or inderectly affected you?)
View: (how do you view those that use machines or are infected)

Name: Aurok Barnet
Age: 10
Appearance: His hair, the part uncahnged, is raven black, while the part that is changed is made of thin fiber-optic cables. His eyes are both mechanical giving him the ability to see beyond the visible spectrum. His legs are both mechanical, as is one arm.
Gender: Male
Class: Cyborg
Bio: Size of a normal 10 year old child Aurok was one of those originally infected by the blight. At the time however, he was an infant. Since then the organic and mechanical parts of his body have formed a symbiotic relationship, resulting him still changing, but at a slower rate as well as the aging process. He's a happy go lucky kind of kid despite his "deformities" and tries desperatly to keep those he travels with from hating him.
Blight: He's partly converted
View: He is sympathetic to all fully and partially converted to the machine status, knowing that his time is slowly aproaching.

Good?

well I think 10 is abit young to be off risking your life. Also your brain must remain human.

Also remember the more machine you are the more people hate you and the less resistance you have against turning

Does the blight instantly change parts of your body or is it more gradual? I removed the brain thing and am wondering what kind of weapons a 'borg uses. Could I, for instance, have a sniper rifle that synchs with his eyes or a sword that links with his arm, allowing him to extend or retract it? In short what are my weapons perameters?

well it can be instant or gradual. Depending on several things including resistance. You can have built in weapons but most will be more noticable. Oh and remember your forearm is only about 2 feet long. Not much of a blade

Name: Rizen
Age: 28
Appearance: Short black hair, cut into a flattop, grey eyes. One eye is mechanical from being tainted during an early experiment, but it is usually covered up by an eyepatch, leading most to believe he only has one eye. Wears a dark black leather jacket, airy cargo pants, and a cyber helmet when he needs to control his minions.
Gender: Male
Class: Machine Master
Bio: Parents were both fairly normal, father a blacksmith, his mother a housewife. When the object fell, Rizen's life changed forever. He was away from the village that day, so he wasn't affected by the blight, but his parents were both instantly transformed into Droids. When Rizen returned from his trip, he could still recognize his parents, but barely. He grabbed a few tools from his father's shop, and tried to reprogram his parents into kinder, gentler droids. While doing this, his mother stabbed him in the eye with one of her metallic fingers, thus making that eye turn mechanical. He didn't panic too much, but he made sure to keep a close eye on her while he finished up his work. Now he travels with his parents, never to be separated again.
Blight: Parents turned to Droids, has always been fascinated by the unknown.
View: Sees them as kindred spirits, since he controls droids himself. He doesn't look down upon those touched by the blight, for doing so would bring shame to his parents.

Weapon: Carries around a large smithy's hammer for when his droids are farther out and he must defend himself.

My charatcers weapons: a small firing apparatus located within his robotic arm fires tranq. darts as well as poisonous gas pellets, useless against droids but helpful against humans. A sniper rifle that synchs up with his eye to allow him exceptional aim. A short combat knife if he ever gets forced into melee combat.

EDIT: When is this going to start?

well unless we get more people, it wont be starting at all

Name: Zan Ex (Formerly Zanex Tileto see profile)
Age: 23
Appearance: White hair spiked backwards, green lensed goggles covering his eyes, dark skin, short around 4'9". Mechanical right arm and hand, slim build. Wears a white lab coat over leather pants and a black shirt.
Gender: Male
Class: Machine Master/ Cybrog
Bio: Zan is no stranger to being run out of towns, locked at oddly, or had rude comments shouted at him. He's grown quite use to being discriminated against for his views and action. Zan is the one of the few who see the blight as a new science to be studied. He believes that by destroying the mother unit, those affected by the blight will revert to their normal mind state, while retaining the other effects (mechanical body).

Even before the blight spread, Zan had a much different mindset. Where other children would play, or train to work at their future careers. Zanex often snuck away to tinker and experiment. His strange appearance is mostly his own fault, the result of many unexpected results from his experiments.

Zan use to live in a village a good ways away from the blight, however blighted creatures still made their way to his hometown. When Zan was 13 he able to find a blighted hawk before the others could destroy it. He was able to contain it long enough to reprogram it however during this process a blighted spider bit his arm spreading the blight to it. Rather than squashing it Zan captured it in a jar, in order to see if he could reprogram such a small creature as well. Upon returning home with his master piece he found himself shunned from the town, and disowned from his family, forbidden by his father to identify himself as a Tileto. He has split his first name from Zanex to Zan Ex. After being expulled from his home, Zan has found comfort among the blighted creatures he has reprogramed.

Blight: Turned him part androids, his veiws and actions caused him to be expelled from his home town
View: Zan is fascinated and intrigued by the blight and views it as something to be studied and controlled.

Edit:
Weapons: Zan carries no particular weapons, however he uses his mechanical arm and tool kit to fight when needed.

Name: Samantha Beltham
Age: 24
Class: Viral Mage
Appearance
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Female
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 122
Build: Average
Hair Color: Dark Green (cut to base of neck)
Eye Color: Black
Skin Tone: Light
Identifying Marks: A horn shape birthmark on the back of the right shoulder, roughly the size of a golf ball.
Clothing: A black head band, an old but fully functional motorcycle jacket, a small black t-shirt, fingerless gloves, and baggy pants tucked into plated knee high boots.
Personality: Sam is an emotional wreck of depression, somehow still fighting the blight even when she feels that all is lost for humanity. She doesn't show her true happiness when she comes upon other people, but she loves saving lives and desires friends because they are her reason to keep fighting. She's not very good at expressing her opinion on any matter mostly because she cannot speak.
Bio: Sam had been a refugee most of the time during the invasion of the blight, and during a sudden takeover, she discovered her own abilities in combating the blight. However, this was far too late for her to suddenly come upon her own potential, as she has seen any number of people slain or infected by the blight and its murderous victims. Sam no longers knows safety as she's never found a place where the blight hasn't already been or is currently attacking at the time.
Blight: Whether the blight is responsible for Sam's powers or not, Sam can't tell. She also can't tell if she's infected by the blight in any way, but she doesn't think so.
View: Sam respects people who have the mental fortitude to put aside their personal fear and wield the machines created by the blight in an effort to destroy it. She bears sorrow and regret when she is forced to take down the machines, knowing full and well that they are as much victims as she is, yet she doesn't hold back when she has to fight, believing that she's sparing them the constant torment of being monsters.