Post by Sifvalia on May 7, 2010 7:14:32 GMT -5
Welcome to Ghost Lanes, a Riddickverse RPG.
The setting for our story here is one that takes place between the events of Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. For the purposes of this board Dark Fury never took place.
As far as the world knows the Hunter-Gratzner crashed on PS107 (the dark planet of the creatures) and no one was ever heard from again.
Yet!
But that's all about that's about to change. Some creative license has been taken to alter the events of Pitch Black.
As we all know Riddick, Jack, and Imam escaped the Dark Planet (P474). But since then things have changed. The skiff they had was ditched at a space station on another planet and a different ship stolen. Riddick took the two to Helion Prime, dropping them off and saying he was going for supplies. But he'd had words with Imam and had the man to agree to take Jack under his wing. With this he disappeared from society once again, traveling under the premise of being dead and enjoying the short stint of freedom he has. But he's looking for something, something that is lurking at the back of his mind. He can't quite out his finger on it but it's important.
Imam goes back to his life with his wife and takes Jack with him. But will the strong willed girl stay? Especially with her heart and pride hurt that she was abandoned by Riddick.
When the reports come back a few months later about the Hunter Gratzner's crash the world learns that there were only three survivors but who the third was no one could say. Imam and Jack professed PTSD and that they had a hard time remembering the events that lead to their escape, saying that it was another passenger that had gotten them off the planet.
At first it was believed that there were no other survivors but on the third trip to inspect the wreckage via robotic drones was made (the other two attempts were a wash from the sheer numbers of the creatures on the planet killing the unknowing team) they discovered in one broken part of a ship was none other that Merc William J Johns. He was wounded severely and only the morphine he'd been self administering had saved him. An extraction team was sent in to his location to recover him and he was sent off to a Corporation hospital to be treated. He is currently in a coma.
Hearing of the former top Merc's fate, two other Mercs rose to the top, each vying for supremacy in the vacuum that was created. One, Toombs - a ruthless, crude and crass man that was little better than a Con himself. He was fond of hiring lackeys to take his falls, keeping his own ass safe. Never above stealing other Merc's captures when there was an opportunity, he was not very well liked in the bounty hunting community.
The other a lone female what went by only the name Sifvalia, the Arabic translation roughly being The Sword of God. She was known as a cold, heartless creature that liked to take little trophies off her victims. Dead or alive it didn't matter to her, she got her Con. She'd partnered occasionally with Johns, aka..William the Conqueror in her early years in the profession and had made a name for herself before splitting from him to work alone.
Slavers and Major Corporations control much of the known galaxies and there are rumors of trouble brewing further out. Here and there an envoy from the Elemental's home planet of Quintessa have been spotted but no one knows what the secretive peoples who rarely leave their own homeworld are up to. Few trust them.
Rumors also abound that the feared and wanted Richard B. Riddick is alive, reports here and there of strange, brutal killings have begun to pop up. But will a new Con take his place as the biggest, baddest payday in the universe? Only time will tell.
Out here in the darkness of the Ghost Lanes....anything is possible.
The setting for our story here is one that takes place between the events of Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. For the purposes of this board Dark Fury never took place.
As far as the world knows the Hunter-Gratzner crashed on PS107 (the dark planet of the creatures) and no one was ever heard from again.
Yet!
But that's all about that's about to change. Some creative license has been taken to alter the events of Pitch Black.
As we all know Riddick, Jack, and Imam escaped the Dark Planet (P474). But since then things have changed. The skiff they had was ditched at a space station on another planet and a different ship stolen. Riddick took the two to Helion Prime, dropping them off and saying he was going for supplies. But he'd had words with Imam and had the man to agree to take Jack under his wing. With this he disappeared from society once again, traveling under the premise of being dead and enjoying the short stint of freedom he has. But he's looking for something, something that is lurking at the back of his mind. He can't quite out his finger on it but it's important.
Imam goes back to his life with his wife and takes Jack with him. But will the strong willed girl stay? Especially with her heart and pride hurt that she was abandoned by Riddick.
When the reports come back a few months later about the Hunter Gratzner's crash the world learns that there were only three survivors but who the third was no one could say. Imam and Jack professed PTSD and that they had a hard time remembering the events that lead to their escape, saying that it was another passenger that had gotten them off the planet.
At first it was believed that there were no other survivors but on the third trip to inspect the wreckage via robotic drones was made (the other two attempts were a wash from the sheer numbers of the creatures on the planet killing the unknowing team) they discovered in one broken part of a ship was none other that Merc William J Johns. He was wounded severely and only the morphine he'd been self administering had saved him. An extraction team was sent in to his location to recover him and he was sent off to a Corporation hospital to be treated. He is currently in a coma.
Hearing of the former top Merc's fate, two other Mercs rose to the top, each vying for supremacy in the vacuum that was created. One, Toombs - a ruthless, crude and crass man that was little better than a Con himself. He was fond of hiring lackeys to take his falls, keeping his own ass safe. Never above stealing other Merc's captures when there was an opportunity, he was not very well liked in the bounty hunting community.
The other a lone female what went by only the name Sifvalia, the Arabic translation roughly being The Sword of God. She was known as a cold, heartless creature that liked to take little trophies off her victims. Dead or alive it didn't matter to her, she got her Con. She'd partnered occasionally with Johns, aka..William the Conqueror in her early years in the profession and had made a name for herself before splitting from him to work alone.
Slavers and Major Corporations control much of the known galaxies and there are rumors of trouble brewing further out. Here and there an envoy from the Elemental's home planet of Quintessa have been spotted but no one knows what the secretive peoples who rarely leave their own homeworld are up to. Few trust them.
Rumors also abound that the feared and wanted Richard B. Riddick is alive, reports here and there of strange, brutal killings have begun to pop up. But will a new Con take his place as the biggest, baddest payday in the universe? Only time will tell.
Out here in the darkness of the Ghost Lanes....anything is possible.