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You come to your senses slowly, your body feeling heavy and groggy and your head fuzzy. You can hear the pneumatic hiss of machinery around you, and it feels as though you're resting on something that's moving slowly beneath you, lifting you into a more upright position.
"Hello!" a cheerful voice says, probably a little too cheerful this early in the morning.
Wait. Who the hell is being cheerful at you first thing in the morning, anyway?
You open your eyes, squinting against the white light all around you, and see the face of a young woman, looking rather... translucent.
"How are you feeling?" she asks, and that's when you realize she's a projection. You might mumble confusion or bewilderment, and the woman just smiles at you. "It's perfectly normal to feel confused," she assures you. "After all, you just spent the past 102 years in suspended animation."
Where am I? you wonder, that confusion still clinging to your senses, leaving you unfocused and dazed, and the projection of the woman just keeps smiling at you.
"You're probably wondering what's going on," she offers helpfully, and the image zooms out to show you a diagram beside her. "You're a passenger on the U.E.S. Welkin--the United Earth Alliance's premier interstellar transport ship. We've nearly completed our voyage from Earth to your new home."
It's all coming back to you, now. That's right, you left Earth long ago, to find a new start, or maybe to escape something you left behind. Whatever it was that put you here on this ship, it's long gone now, over a hundred years in the past, and you get to make a fresh start on a new world.
Little do you realize, as you listen to the rest of the projection's information, that it hasn't been a hundred years yet at all--nowhere near that long. You weren't supposed to wake up for another eight decades. Something's gone wrong, and now the lives of over 2,000 other people onboard may be in danger. Will you band together with your fellow passengers to try and unravel the mystery, or will you just sit back and enjoy the show as everyone around you panics at the idea of spending the next eighty years locked in a metal tube hurtling through space?
Welkin is a survival-based panfandom AU RPG open to players and characters of at least 16 years of age, set in a fictional future where interstellar travel is possible... but we're clearly still working out some of the bugs. Characters all have alternate histories from those in their respective canons, all hailing from Earth, and all onboard the ship for one reason or another, however voluntary or involuntary that reason may have been. The game will focus largely on building CR with your fellow passengers and figuring out how to survive on a damaged ship that wasn't supposed to sustain conscious passengers for another eighty years. It can be as intense and dangerous or slice of life as your character deems so: events are not mandatory, but participation can net your character points and rewards further down the line.
Think you've got what it takes to survive being locked in a tube of metal traveling at half-light speed through the vacuum of space, with no one but a bunch of strangers for company? Will you make friends, or enemies? Will you steal food from the higher-class passengers? Will you turn up your nose at steerage?
Better choose your next course of action wisely, traveler--there are no pit stops on this cosmic road trip.
"Hello!" a cheerful voice says, probably a little too cheerful this early in the morning.
Wait. Who the hell is being cheerful at you first thing in the morning, anyway?
You open your eyes, squinting against the white light all around you, and see the face of a young woman, looking rather... translucent.
"How are you feeling?" she asks, and that's when you realize she's a projection. You might mumble confusion or bewilderment, and the woman just smiles at you. "It's perfectly normal to feel confused," she assures you. "After all, you just spent the past 102 years in suspended animation."
Where am I? you wonder, that confusion still clinging to your senses, leaving you unfocused and dazed, and the projection of the woman just keeps smiling at you.
"You're probably wondering what's going on," she offers helpfully, and the image zooms out to show you a diagram beside her. "You're a passenger on the U.E.S. Welkin--the United Earth Alliance's premier interstellar transport ship. We've nearly completed our voyage from Earth to your new home."
It's all coming back to you, now. That's right, you left Earth long ago, to find a new start, or maybe to escape something you left behind. Whatever it was that put you here on this ship, it's long gone now, over a hundred years in the past, and you get to make a fresh start on a new world.
Little do you realize, as you listen to the rest of the projection's information, that it hasn't been a hundred years yet at all--nowhere near that long. You weren't supposed to wake up for another eight decades. Something's gone wrong, and now the lives of over 2,000 other people onboard may be in danger. Will you band together with your fellow passengers to try and unravel the mystery, or will you just sit back and enjoy the show as everyone around you panics at the idea of spending the next eighty years locked in a metal tube hurtling through space?
Welkin is a survival-based panfandom AU RPG open to players and characters of at least 16 years of age, set in a fictional future where interstellar travel is possible... but we're clearly still working out some of the bugs. Characters all have alternate histories from those in their respective canons, all hailing from Earth, and all onboard the ship for one reason or another, however voluntary or involuntary that reason may have been. The game will focus largely on building CR with your fellow passengers and figuring out how to survive on a damaged ship that wasn't supposed to sustain conscious passengers for another eighty years. It can be as intense and dangerous or slice of life as your character deems so: events are not mandatory, but participation can net your character points and rewards further down the line.
Think you've got what it takes to survive being locked in a tube of metal traveling at half-light speed through the vacuum of space, with no one but a bunch of strangers for company? Will you make friends, or enemies? Will you steal food from the higher-class passengers? Will you turn up your nose at steerage?
Better choose your next course of action wisely, traveler--there are no pit stops on this cosmic road trip.
