Geddon's Games: District 9

[geddon]

Due to the city and the average structure size within it, i think the Temple Airsoft field is a perfect candidate for a game i have on paper based on District 9.

Gonna give you a brief overview here to determine if there's interest.

If so, i'll talk to Dave about scheduling it at some point.

Factions
MNU - PMC Uniforms
Nigerian Arms Gang (NAG) - Camo top or bottom, half civilian
Prawns - Interactive Admins - Uniform to be determined

VIP/HVT : Special Characters
Wikus Van De Merwe (MNU)
Christopher Johnson (Prawn)
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (NAG)
Koobus Venter (MNU)

Game Plot
MNU will be tasked with standing orders throughout the game:
*Search house to house, serving eviction notices to the prawns that live there and looking for contraband weapons and illegal birthing pods

Nigerians will have standing orders to make deals with prawns for weapons, protect their existing stores of weapons, and deny MNU access to their key areas by whatever means necessary.

Prawns will be portrayed by OC/Admins and provide interactive cooperation, resistance, and game substance as needed

HVTs will attempt to carry out a special personal mission list while trying to avoid capture.

Wikus Van De Merwe is wanted by both the MNU and NAG as both groups believe he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien weapons technology.
Both Koobus Venter(MNU) and Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo(NAG) are tasked with apprehending him

Christopher Johnson (Prawn) is Wikus's accomplice

When shot, the HVTs will "bleed out" as normal, however at the conclusion of their bleedouts, they will resume active play rather than die. HVTs must stay on the run and avoid capture during the event.
If captured, they must remain at specific areas in MNU or NAG custody for up to 30 minutes. At that time, the side holding him would be credited with bonus points for the game and the HVT would be released and relocated to a new starting place.

In truth, the game isn't very "sci fi" even though its based on a sci fi movie. I know some people are against "sci fi" games, but this provides a very grounded milsim experience of a private military group having to do what could be considered a mundane or routine duty in an extremely hostile environment.

Locating and controlling a set of hostile HVTs who are driving the overall story with trigger events, etc.

Even room for a few shenanigans... i'll undoubtedly bring catfood to the game and let it be used as nigerian arms currency. LOL

What do you think?

[dave OC-6]

sounds good im filling up the calander fast till next summer so get with me for a date

[geddon]

i was thinking Fall 2013, actually. I'm already up into my spring calendar as well.

I know thats far away, but there's no such thing as too much promo time

[Derafear]

I like it, I've never seen the movie but it sounds cool to me

[geddon]

District 9 was fantastic. Go watch it.

[Rabit TFS]

Awesome movie. I'd definitely be there.

[geddon]

The movie in a nutshell is that a couple decades back a big spaceship settled in over Johannesburg and the aliens inside were taken on as refugees. Given names, papers, etc, but settled in a refugee camp called District 9.

The aliens didn't look very human and were mostly rejected by society. They became less than a secondclass citizen.

MNU is a private defense contractor that is hired to sort of regulate them...

The government builds a new refugee camp called District 10 that is even more oppressive and starts serving eviction notices to the "prawns," as they are called, trying to give an illusion of due process.

Wikus is an MNU representative tasked with serving these papers... he gets exposed to a chemical that introduces alien DNA into his system and starts changing him physiologically.

That alien ship had a bunch of alien weapons that only work when alien dna is present. The nigerians want alien weapons and they think consuming the flesh of the aliens gives them power... since wikus is essentially turning into an alien, they think that eating him will make them like him and able to operate alien tech.

MNU wants Wikus because they want to study/vivisect him and study how to integrate alien dna to make weapons work.

Turns out its a really good film

[SnakeAssault]

Interesting idea. I might go.

[caliban]

That sounds pretty cool. I'd be interested.

[danarchy]

I like it and would be there.

Not sure about their only being two sides, as that would seem to make the hunts for the HVTs fairly intense and seems like they would spend much time being captured. I would suggest a couple neutral tribes, such as another African gang and perhaps either a national police force or a UN peace-keeping force, depending on how one interprets MNU's role in the game. In District 9, MNU was a combinaton of state police force, Blackwater type military contractor and international peace-keeping force, so perhaps there is room in the story for another group. Maybe something like the Fishes in Children of Men or a "Friends of Aliens" group. I think 3 or 4 factions with only 2 tasked to capture each HVT would allow more room for negotiations and trickery.

[geddon]

Theres an unseen element.
Gotta figure out who the hvts are in the first place.

[Diamondback]

I'm really late on movies do to little time/money and blockbuster closing down do I need to study up just like that fall over game or what?

[geddon]

District 9 isn't really all that new. I think it came out a few years back.

You can probably pick it up on the dollar DVD rack in a local rental place... heck it may even be on netflix.

Watch it. Its a good movie and would give you incredible insight into this event.

Other than that, the game is much much less involved than the fallout game.
That game went to some serious extremes. I'll be streamlining several concepts for OP: Aftermath 2, in fact.

[Fox]

Sounds good to me, I'm making my prep work for Star Wars still, but looking to Market Garden which is coming up in a month and the Risk Games I want to attend, as I have missed them all so far.

I'm up for it Geddon and up for playing any role you might need me to play.