Powerless World

[Jubinhof]

It's 2030, it's been fifteen years after an unknown event has caused all electricity to stop working, plunging the world into another dark age, people have adjusted to life without planes, high-tech communication, and electricity. In small farming communities, life seems sweeter at this slower pace, but danger and mystery lurk in the shadows. After the militia kills a man who -- supposedly -- had something to do with the blackout, his best friend Oliver embarks on a mission to solve his murder and find out why his best friend was killed. During this venture, Oliver returns to his killer instinct he once had before he retired from being a Major of the Monroe Republic's militia, using these skills he has to push through obstacles and struggles along the way. Travelling in the now ruined United States is dangerous, as it is now ruled by several warlords, separating the US completely after the goverment shut down. (( The US in RP http://bit.ly/1FyIXdK )) Oliver, a current doctor in a town within the plains nation, has reason to believe that the first clue leads back into a land where Oliver is the least safe, back into the Monroe Republic, a helping hand is obviously needed Oliver then realizes. (( That`s you. )) (( I may also mention that not a form of electricity works in this RP, due to the backstory to it, nanobytes in the air absorb all forms of electricity, leaving the world deprived of it. There may be a reason behind it, and someone may know why in the RP, besides me. ))


Biography, you may add more detail to yours, but I left mine basic so that I can tell my characters story during RP, I may now mention that I am accepting more than one person, a group 2-4 is acceptable and required.

 

[Jubinhof]

It's been years ever since the power went out, not a single form of electricity will work. Making everyone in the world resort to a time without electricity all over again. Oliver was returning after hours of hunting and gathering for the small community, he was hungry, as was everyone else in the community, currently he had been there for 2 months now under the alias Bradley McCarthy, avoiding his true identity of Oliver Cadwell, if certain people heard of the great ex-Major Cadwell was in town, he'd surely be in trouble. On his way back he found a damaged tipper over cart that was looted and had little left to scavenge. Approaching the wreckage he began to pick up simple items, a pack of matches and other useful supplies that are easily overlooked. As he began to leave, two men emerged from the bushes, one behind Oliver and one in front. As they closed in they said, "Drop everything you have, or I'll blow that pretty face off your shoulders.", Oliver had noticed that the man behind him had a knife of sorts as he looked back slightly with his hands up. As the man behind him closed in, Oliver dropped his bag and waited a little for the man behind him to close in. The man in front with a Texan accent then said, "Your weapons too...", as soon as the man behind him was close enough, Oliver drew one of his blades from his waist as he turned and used his other hand to grip the man's wrist behind him and twist it back quickly to have him in his grip. With Oliver's other hand, his blade, he then held it to the thieves neck and watched the Texan man look at him with confusion and quickly yelled, "Let him go!", Oliver smiled and said, "Drop your weapon and I will, let him go...". The Texan man nodded and looked angered, the two men didn't resemble one another, so it didn't appear that they were related. In regret that he knew he wouldn't be able to leave otherwise, Oliver slit the mans throat and used his now free hand to unholster his revolver and quickly shot the other Texan man in the head.

 

[xoloveox]

'Boom.'


Echo gently raised her head. She had been against a wall, leaning against it, truley, and tickering with the little toys she found. Others might have gone insane with no power, yet she wouldnt. She wouldnt let herself go insane. She needed to keep her mind moving. Working. The simple tinkering of the mechanical items she had found was simply her way of trying to distract herself. Though, subconciously, she knew that she was trying to build something. Anything. She just needed something to work. Getting something to move on its own would be like a new industrial revolution. But the trinkets she had collected never seemed to go together. Never connected like they Should've.


Regardless.


She knew that gun power still worked, obviously. Since there were no cars left in the streets, and people barley moved, the only sound you could tend to hear was the sound of a gun. And the gun that she just heard seemed to be close. It sounded like a revolver, and the noise hit something quite quickly. What could it be? She figured it might've been an animal of some sorts, but the sound was too close. Nobody would hunt for an animal this close to where people were living.


Curious defeninetly won this round.


Echo got up and made her way to the sound that she had heard. It wasnt too far, and it sounded... Maybe... East of her? Most probably. So, thats the direction she headed in. She kept walking as far as she could, until she reached a quite different scene than she expected. Much more blood that she expected, that is. It was also quite surprising when she saw the two lifeless humans on the ground.


"What happened here?" She asked, her voice low, not daring to look over to the person in front of her.

 

[Jubinhof]

Oliver had just finished wiping his blade and picking his bag back up and sorting through the goods, as well as the victims goods. As he was finishing up with the scavenging job he had done, a girl approached, seemingly interested in the situation, she questions the exact question he thought she would. He looked at her and said, "A robbery of sorts, they didn't handle a robbery too well, neither do I as you can see.", he then put his blade back in it's sheath, he slugged the bag over his shoulder and holstered the revolver. He began to walk towards East.

 

[xoloveox]

Oh god. She hated when people acted if she was stupid. If she asked for what had happened, she expected to heard a straight up explanation of the playing out of the events. Not that neither of the two men he was with took the robbery well. She rolled her eyes and walked over to one of the men, tilting the mans head gently to the side so that she could see his face. Bingo. A hole, and a very near one at that, was in the mans head. "So thats where the gun sound came from." She muttered to herself, quickly scanning the man who was standing in front of her for a gun. Then, she walked over to the other man who had fallen to the floor. "This is a thick cut." She said to him, examining the mans neck. "Very nice cut. Either a sharp blade, or youre quite skilled." She said, pulling herself away from the second of the dead men. She started to walk behind him, simply because she had no where else to go. "So.... Youre...?" She started, waiting for his name.

 

[Jubinhof]

Oliver smiled, "Oliv- Bradley...", he turned, extending a hand out for a handshake, "And you are...?", observed the girl, she didn't seem all that skilled in combat, she didn't have a considerable amount of muscle either, but looks can be misleading. Oliver nodded at her statement, "Skilled maybe, it's a fine blade as well, and yes, the shot was from me, if you're looking to scavenge, there's a shotgun over by the furthest man over there.". He smiled, "Why the huge interest, you militia or something?"

 

[xoloveox]

"Echo." She muttered over to him. There was no reason for her to lie, yet, He had lied about his name. She couldnt really tell why. Its not like she could google him or post random things about him over the internet. But she ciuld tell he was hiding his name. It was the slight hesitation in his voice before he decided to tell her his name. But, maybe he had been nervous. Maybe shock or lament from the kill. She shrugged. "Its not intrest." She said with a small growl, glaring over at him.


"I was simply poiting out the facts. You shot the man straight in the head, and you probably did it with the revolver you just put away. The bullet hole was clean cut, so you must've shot him while he was close to you, making me think that you slit the other mans throat first. Most likely from behind, due to how deep the gash is, and how clean cut that is, as well. The other man either charged or was already quite close and about to attack, so you shot him." She managed another shrug, looking over the scene again. "Its common knowledge, and quite obvious." She muttered.

 

[Jubinhof]

Oliver nodded, "Very well, I must go, they were robbing me, and since you aren't militia and I doubt I'll see you again, my name is Oliver Cadwell.", he had hoped she hadn't remembered the name, since he has invaded the Plains Nation previously when he was with Monroe. As he turned he looked around again, scanning the area once more, assessing the area looking any more things of interest.


He then showed the revolver under his jacket, nodding, "You got most of it right.", he was slightly impressed, but. As she said, it was quite obvious. To people that didn't have the IQ of a cabbage anyways...

 

[xoloveox]

She raised an eyebrow, smirking a bit. "The famous Oliver Cadwell?" She asked, laughing a bit to herself. "Youre the one who invaded the plains, correct?" She said, looking over at the gun in his jaket. How could she steal that gun? Not that she planned on using it. She needed the gunpowder. She might be able to make a car run with enough of it. When she asked for some from people who she saw had them, she ussually got beaten to the core.

 

[Jubinhof]

(( If you're looking for gunpowder, shot shells have far more in them than bullets. ))


Oliver sighed and nodded, "I am, Major Cadwell, or was anyways. It doesn't matter anymore.", he then looked at her again and said, "Do me a favour by not running to everyone you see and shouting out that you've found me, you'll just be calling for trouble, for me and you. Infact, if anyone finds out you're talking to me, you'll probably end up dead for not trying to kill me."

 

[xoloveox]

((I know, but i wouldnt know she would find shot shells >~<

 

[Jubinhof]

(( Shot gun is still loaded since he never ended up shooting ))

 

[xoloveox]

She sighed, walking over to him, pushing her hair back and getting on the tip of her toes to try and be his height. "Then why dont i come with you?" She asked. It was safer for her to go with him, that much was true. Plus, she was dying to get out of this place. "Where are you heading?"


 

(( Shot gun is still loaded since he never ended up shooting ))

((Does he have a shotgun on him? 0-0

 

[Jubinhof]

(( One of the thieves do, although, Oliver is carrying a few shells, they can be used to cauterize wounds. ))


He looked at her for a moment, sighing, "I'm heading to the Monroe Republic, I have a mission of sorts that leads me to Philadelphia, the heart of the militia, the one place where I am the least safe.", Oliver knew that he couldn't complete his mission alone, but she doesn't seem trained... He gave her another look around, checking out her gear and equipment, "If you want to come, it's at your own suspense, I don't trust you yet, nor will I for awhile, so don't be surprised if I seem distant. As well as don't complain about the journey, deal?"

 

[xoloveox]

She smiled. This was great. It was an oppurtunity to get her brain going again- you know, the one that her parents forced her to drill information into. "I think that sounds reasonable." She said with another smile, her face lighting up with excitement. She seemed much more at ease now, knowing she was leaving. "I have a few things that I left behind. Care to come get them with me?" She asked, turning around and scanning the area that she had already walked through. "Its not too far. There might be a few robbers, but I think you can handle it."

 

[Jubinhof]

Oliver nodded, "Let's go.", afterwards he began to walk, suspecting Echo to follow, Oliver looks ahead, after they walked for a few minutes, he drew his blade and says quietly, "Someone ahead, militia, we might have to let them pass or-", before he could finish his sentence he hears a gun shot that sounded close, he looked through the bushes and saw a soldier shoot a man in the head on his knees, seemingly a execution. These were Monroe men. Oliver drew both his blades and looked at Echo saying, "Stay here.". He then ran through the trees and came behind the first outer soldier patrolling the perimeter and sliced his throat as Oliver ran by quickly. Oliver then observed 2 men with automatic firearms and the others having swords or 17th century rifles. Gunpowdered based. Standing up he judged the distance and counted the men, after accounting for them all he aimed and shot both of the men with automatic weapons and holstered the revolver afterwards, then he rushed in, both blades drawn.

Running in he was welcomed by several soldiers meeting the charge he clashed weapons with them, killing two of them effortlessly and moved around with high agility and strength, to anyone observing, it may seem like he is well trained. After killing most of them, the rest begin to try and flank or flee.

 

[xoloveox]

Stay there?


He really expected her to what she was told? How cute of him. Ignoring his directions she followed behind him, slowly and carefully as he watched him do his work. She stayed at the front, near where the excecutions were taking place. She hated excecutions. People were gathered around the shooting, yet scattered at the same time, some people walking away out of lament for seeing the man die. One of the crowd members was a little boy, no younger than 7, who was crying his own eyes out while he tried to kick the guard with all of his might. It obviously didnt work, and the fed up guard had now grabbed the little boy by the hair, leading him to the spot where the man had been shot.


"Where the hell is oliver?" She muttered to herself. He was probably caught up with guards, himself.


The young boy continued to shriek and cry, screaming something to the nature of: "you killed my daddy." That mustve been terrible.


Now, there was also a women in the crowd who was being held back by guards. Things almost seemed to make sense, then. The little boy was probably the womans son, and her husband had just been excecuted.


Her son was probably next.


Echo ran over to the circle of people in a panic, looking at the guards. What were they even doing here? Regardless, she couldnt let them kill the kid. That would be absurd.


But her brain wasnt fast enough.


In just seconds, the gun had been fired, sending a bullet to the back of the boy's throat. He might not have died, but that would do major damage. "No!" Echo screamed out, as it happened. Maybe thats why one of the guards had rushed behind her and slapped her upside the head, pulling her hands behind her back. This didnt make any sense. Her brain desperatly searched for an answer. They must've thought that she distracted the excecutioners aim. That she was the reason the bullet didnt go through the boys head. It was absurd, but it was all that her brain could conjure. "Let me go." She growled, struggling minorly against the guard.


Seriously. Where was oliver when she needed him?


((I figured that he didnt go to the excecution's exact place, and that he got into another fight with other guards that were there for the excecution. If i am wrong, please tell me, ill rereply.))

 

[Jubinhof]

After finishing off the rest of the men he ran to the gunshot, hurrying over he saw a boy injured on the ground, as well as Echo being held down by a guard, he noticed all of this happening from a distance, Oliver still have 3 shots left and used them carefully, the first shot went straight into the man on top of Echo and right into his head. As all the guards turned to Oliver's direction, they charged with swords drawn yelling, "That's Cadwell, seize him!". He sighed with a troublesome sound. He could of made it out of here without confrontation, but the boy was wounded and the girl was in trouble. In order to sort everything out, he had to deal with these men, most of the crowd was shocked, most of them stepping back and just watched everything happen.


Oliver moved past soldiers easily, killing them effortlessly like the previous group of soldiers, they seem untrained and sloppy. The one automatic rifleman was a problem, he began shooting, again, untrained. Probably a group of the soldiers that did the stupid and dirty work of sorts. As he finished off the majority of the soldiers, a few people from the crowd began to join the fight, taking a soldier on at a time. In order to kill rifleman he raised his blade and threw it at him, going straight into his throat. Panting, Oliver looked around and walked to the rifleman drowning in his own blood, picking up the rifle and pulling the blade from his throat. Afterwards Oliver wiped the blade on the rifleman's jacket and sheathed it. The remaining men of the squad had fled, probably to tell other squads.


Oliver slung the rifle over his shoulder and walked to Echo and the boy and knelt down beside the boy, he took a canister that seemed to be black with the label faded from his jacket pocket and jabbed it into the boys thigh and pushed the fluid into his leg. Placing the canister back in his jacket he looked over at the wound and saw the the wound actually caught him in the throat off the side and actually didn't seem to cause and damage to his brain stem or any other organs and the bullet passed right through his neck. After pouring his flask of whiskey on the wound he waited for the boy to calm down a little and let the alcohol clean the wound out. Afterwards he pulled a shotgun shell from his pocket and popped the metal part of it off and poured the gunpowder on the wound, letting it sit on top and some of it going in the wound he lit the gunpowder and a small quick ignition happened and sealed the wound on his front side, ignoring everyone and everything else but the boy he flipped him on his side and poured his flask of alcohol on the back of his neck and repeated the same procedure that he did on the front of his neck.


Oliver then reached in his pack and pulled a bundle of bandages from his jacket pocket and wrapped up the boys neck in a quick fashion in order for minimum blood loss and damage. A wound like this needs to be fixed and properly sealed quickly, which leaves little time to carry the boy to a more proper location.

 

[xoloveox]

Her eyes widened, the whole scene was going to quickly. And at this rate, the guards would eventually catch up to both of them, due to the boy slowly them down.


"We're dead." She said, her voice panicked and shaky. "We're so dead." She repeated, trying to let her brain come up with any idea that it could. "Look." She began. "Ive got a plan. But we need to make it to my place. Quickly. I know youve got gunpowder." She continued, looking at the boy's bandages. "Im working on a motorcycle near this alley. I know how to get it to start, regardless of the power failure." She said, smiling a bit. "Gunpowder."


 
((Would you be interested in a pirate rp?

 

[Jubinhof]

(( Sure ))


Oliver looked at the boy and stood up saying, "Lead the way.", he knew they would be coming soon, so he holstered and put away all his stuff and let the boy be with his family. Looking around before they left he noticed that the crowd had subsided and everyone seemed to go into hiding

 

[xoloveox]

(( https://www.rpnation.com/threads/the-oceans-a-tale-of-adventure.101343/#post-2762726 ))


 
Her heart was racing. She had never felt so panicked before. Gently grabbing Olivers hand, she led him into the alley way where she worked on her motorcycle. "We're not allowed to tamper with electricity. Thats a death sentence, too." She said with a small sigh. She had lived there all her life... She knew the rules. "I hate the guards." She mumbled to herself, hoping he would hear.

 

[Jubinhof]

He followed her willingly, curious to her idea, although it seemed possible to ignite the gasoline and use it to start a vehicle of sorts, it would be dangerous as well. But still quite a promising idea. As he followed her into the alleyway, he began to here helicopters in the distance. That was going to be troublesome, helicopters are hard to lose and hide from. If they were going to make it out alive, they better think of an idea quick.

 

[xoloveox]

She ducked behind a dumpster and held out her hand. "I need the gunpowder." She said, pulling out a match and letting her brain go to work. "Anyway...Oliver." She started. Small talk was proven to increase trust by 12% in a tough situation, according to doctors. This would help thiercase. "Why are you against the soldiers?"

 

[Jubinhof]

He handed over the shells and cracked them open, placing the powder in her hand he looked at her and said, "I'm not directly against them, I'm against their leader and on a mission. As well as the fact that their actions were wrong and you were in danger.", Oliver then observed the bike, checking out the handy work and shape that makes up this said bike.

 

[xoloveox]

She couldnt help but smirk, laughing. "You added that I was in danger." She said, in a mocking tone. "Does that mean you started trusting me~?" She said with another small laugh, winking at him. "But, you dont hate them for any reason whatsoever?" She asked in a curious tone. "I know my resson..." She muttered.