Wild, wacky, crazy RP server ideas - post your own!

[Nordtrash]

i think lord of the rings rp

that's kind of doable

 

[Gabby]

woah

wouldn't it be cool if we had

LIFEWEB RP
​

Introduction

Welcome to Lifeweb, the Theatre of Pain: An online game based on human characters in a dark world, whose purpose is neither success nor victory, but instead the opportunity to experience the strongest emotions, and to be an improvising actor in an exciting and dramatic story.

• A union of the futuristic and the archaic- a planet of both high technology and mysticism. It is a dark tale illuminated by gunfire.

• The plot can develop with an infinite number of options. Intrigue and tragedy, unexpected twists, betrayals and the like- Spontaneous situations can and will give rise to any scenario.

• The monster? It’s you. Child prostitution, cannibalism and caectrophy will soon seem normal. Step by step, it is only a matter of time.

• Don’t trust anyone. Even a close friend or relative is as likely as the rest to betray or manipulate you.

• You’re fragile: forget about health bars. The body of your character is bleeding and writhing in pain; his bones are fragile, and his endurance is not unlimited. To lose an eye, burst an artery, or slowly waste away from a poisoned liver are just ordinary cases.

• Destruction is diverse in both causes and effects, but reversible. Shattered bones can be mended, and broken walls can be rebuilt, again and again.

• Rule through your strengths! A rigid feudal hierarchy will make faithful servants out of your subjects, ready to fulfill any monstrous orders.

• Survival in the dangerous wilderness of the caves: Small game hunting, escape from predators, camp construction, and more. Who knows what else could be hidden in the ruins of Evergreen?

• There are no lies here. As in real life, characters always suffer from defects and needs- down to the most basic. They work, get sick, make love, and drown their sorrows in cheap alcohol. They will not fly to new and brilliant heights- rather, they will fall into the waiting plots of the cemetery.

• Faith determines everything. A perverted version of Christianity is opposed to the esoteric cult of the Thanati, and in the remote houses, praise of the cruel Old Gods is whispered. Religious fanaticism is ubiquitous, and everyone takes a side in this war.

• Death comes for everyone. A champion of the Gods, a superhuman mutant, a great warrior or a cunning manipulator: They all can and will die for a hundred reasons, chief among them - Confidence in their supposed invulnerability



Keys to Understanding
Firstly and most importantly, Lifeweb is a role-playing game. trying to realize the fullest “roleplaying experience” as we know it. As in conventional (tabletop) role-playing games, the player in Lifeweb takes control of one of the characters, and is entirely responsible for their choices, from spoken word to violent action.

The place of the typical Master (The Judge and Narrator) is taken by the mechanics of the game, setting the stage and creating opportunities for creating interesting situations.

It is worth noting that the game does not dictate moral constraints onto the players as might be found in other similar games. Lifeweb is loyal to the initiatives of the players, from child murder to racism, hard drugs, and devouring the fresh entrails of your wife. Here you can make a beast of yourself- Or, the more exciting alternative: attempting to remain a man among the monsters, while the whole world is immersed in a bloodthirsty frenzy.

Main Aspects

Domination and Submission: the inhabitants of the fortress are threaded into one tangle of relationships, comprised of servants and masters. The lower who do not show proper respect, diligence, and obedience will soon leave the world, exiled or executed. At the same time, the higher, unwilling or unable to impose their will, may soon find themselves in a wild mess of uncontrollable and irreversible chaos that will consume and destroy them utterly.

Stress: The physical augmentations brought on by the proximity to the Lifeweb, combined with a hostile environment and a lack of reliable safety creates an extremely tense situation, which is meant to tug on the nerves of even the most seasoned players.

Paranoia: The only ones who refuse to lie and hold their own motives are the stupid and the useless. The man you consider a friend is likely to just be another arm holding a knife, ready to stab you in the back once your usefulness runs out.

The Crash: A successful plan is rare, hampered by the unpredictable and ever-changing environment, where any mistake could be fatal. Enjoy the beautiful failures and hope for the best. LFWB - Losing is Fun.


haha it'd be impossible on gmod

but imagine

and yes, this all was ripped off from the lifeweb wiki just to give you all an idea on what lifeweb is

BASICALLY every good RPer here knows what SS13, Space Station 13 is, right?

well, Lifeweb is basically SS13's dark, twisted, corrupted, violent, fucked up twin brother. i've just started playing lifeweb - and since it's only hosted on weekends or when the host isn't in jail, it's kind of rare to get to play it.

but i fucking love it mates, it's so brutal. so brutal that i'm not sure if i can even talk about this here. but anyhow, i'm in love with LFWB on how realistic and chaotic it is. surprisingly, most of the players actually RP there.

for example, i played as a maid, married to the fortress's merchant. he, and my in-game father (there's a family system what randomizes who you're married to, who's your father, mother, son, niece, sister etc etc etc, really cool shit) - my in-game father as well as my husband called me over to the merchant's place, because some bum was trying to break in, and failed. the bum repeadetly slammed his head against the door trying to break it it seems, and disfigured his face and got knocked out, died of cardiac arrest (yes, you can do that, and those are all mechanics coded in, the game is EXTREMELY detailed and complex.) so i went there, cleaned up the rotting (yes, bodies rot, eventually turn into skeletons) body. since i had no breath mask, i got some minor disease and started coughing. anyhow, i cleaned up the place, and went upstairs with my husband to get some food from a vendor. suddenly some peasant screamed that there's another person breaking in, and this time actually got in

my in-game husband of course takes out a gun, goes down and kills the guy in a single shot ((YES, the damage models are also very complex, you have all the organs inside the body, blood, arteries, etc etc. you can even pull out someone's teeth one by one, and someone's eyes. then they'll talk funny, kek)) so anyhow, his heart probably got shot or something, and i went down to clean the blood. after that, the cerberii/a cerberus/the fortress's security/guards whatever came by, and took my husband away to the cross for murder, to probably sign an avowal, serve time in a cage and get whipped. ((standard procedure for criminals)) but then one of the cerberus staid in the merchant's house, and, well. raped my character for being married to a criminal, kek. there's an actual mechanic for that too.

but this is where it gets awesom-o.

as my husband got released, and found out that her wife just got raped by one of the corrupt cerberii, he went full ballistics batshit insane, seeking for revenge ((NOTE. this was caused only by the randomized family system - he acted only because the game selected me, a RANDOM person to be his wife. something minor as this having such an impact on the whole round, it was like a small event.))

so, he, my father, and my sister in-game were really pissed off, and were trying to seek justice, and formed a small killing party of some sort. husband bought a flamethrower, and father went to the blacksmith to get a sword ((it's basically a sci-fi medieval mix, there are laser guns, and crossbows, all really cool.)), and my sister was a mercenary, so she was already armed.

they all went into the fortress to try and find this cerberus, and i were just walking in the streets as the heir, baron's/lord's son stopped me, and asked a simple question.

"Do you love your husband?"

I of course responded with a 'yes', since I had no clue what it all was about.

next thing I know, the heir grabbed my mouth, pulled out his sword and slit my throat ((yep you can do that too - sometimes when you attack in combat, you might actually cut even their vocal cords)). so he held me upright with my throat cut, bleeding me out slowly

soon he dropped me, and said to a cerberus, "off with her head"

one swing, and my head rolled. :^)

and that's just one round i've had there, it was so fucking amazing.

also my whole family was slaughtered - everyone with my father's and my husband's last name were killed

but yeah.

it was fucking cool.



another round, playing a different character - this is a bit of a funnier story - again, i were a woman married to some other man.

since it was literally my first round though, i had no idea how the complex game worked. so some RP was going on, until he asked me to come to his house for a talk or something

i can't remember but it was something about making clothes

anyhow, suddenly my console/text area thing was bombarded with **You need to visit the bathroom, NOW.**

i nearly panicked and told my husband to wait for one second, and ran around the house trying to find a bathroom

i failed to find a bathroom

i panicked even more, and just ran into a room, not knowing it was my husband's room, ripped my clothes off, and took seven different shades of shit and pissed all over the floor ((yep, you can poop and pee in it, there's actual objects/sprites and yellow liquid is coded into the game))

and then i proceeded to calmly walk out

about 30 minutes later, my husband tracked me down, killed me, set our house on fire and threw me in it

the end



YOU SEE, i fucking love lifeweb. any thoughts on it? too extreme? too FUN????

also, timeline, if you're interested in the lore more

Spoiler: timeline

TheTimeline

2023 The first two megacorporations employ mercenaries to destroy each other's offshore soda bottling facilities.

2031 The Hays-Bishop bill is passed, allowing corporations to form governments if their employees made up over two-thirds of the population in a given region.

2034 USSR was officially established once again, with union of 18 republics from Greek SFSR in the West to Chinese SFSR in the East.

2037 – The colonies of Mars and Venus are quickly expanding; this is achieved by high level of migration from Earth. Industrial reclamation rate is on the same level as colonies’ expansion rate. Titan Mining Facility was founded the same year.

2038 The United States is finally merged with Tri-Net Corp.

2045 TSV Verloc, running on the Lorenz-Fitzgerald engine, has made its, and humanity’s first, interstellar flight. Overall Flight duration have reached the six weeks’ border. The Colonization Era has begun.

2069 Tri-Net scientists have finished the development of the first human-like AI called BRAFFCON. A rapid development in the field of Artificial Intelligence begins.

2070 The Second Dissolution of USSR has occurred. The republics became independent but for a short while: during the following years they'll be shared between the Japanese zaibatsu and European megacorporations.

Alongside the androids, whose minds were working similar to a human brain, appeared some projects of AI which approached information handling in a completely different way. The first of these machines were called TuRING-1.

2071 TuRING-1 was installed on the battle station “Ellison” as an board AI. One week later some glitches started to occur in all station systems, often with lethal outcome for its crew. According to a report from one of the survivors, the crew was eliminated almost entirely just in a few days, and the others became some sort of TuRING's toys. "Ellison" was out of control. After several failed attempts, which cost Tri-Net's 7th squadron, the idea of overtaking the station was dropped, and it's still in Jupiter’s orbit, ruled by the malfunctioned AI. Incident on “Ellison” was the loudest, but not the only one.

2072 UC (United Corporations) was established as a result of the Lunar Conference VII. Following one of the first of its decrees, any research in the field of AI was declared illegal. Operating androids were deactivated and AIs were eliminated or frozen. There were rumours that hiding androids were hunted by special forces till the 20s of the next century, and some of the AIs of that time are still active.

2103 Earth was recognized as a non-profit property by the Corporations, whose attention has shifted to other planets. The polluted and overpopulated planet begins to suffer a great deal of unemployment besides other disasters.

2175 Communists led by E. Goldstein (rumoured to be a distant descendant of J. Stalin) have initiated a large propaganda campaign at once with subversive activities. Goldstein's terrorist group, Red Crime Squad, was prohibited by UC. Some arrests occurred, but the group's leaders remains free and their influence keeps growing.

2195 – Start of the War of the Sickle between mega-corporations and the USSR.

2196 – A strong weakening of corporation’s reputations on the “shore” forced all colonized planets, that weren’t in the structure of the USSR to group up and form the New Order League, which still had to establish trading relations with other corporations.

2222 – Due to the result of using WMDs by the united forces of the corporations, the index of life suitability of Earth fell from 35 to 7. The third USSR fell from existence. The War of the Sickle was won by the corporations. The remains of the Red Army that didn’t want to surrender would go on to form an underground terrorist group called “The Old Union”.

2240 – NOL, using the equipment bought from the corporations, begins expanding and through various methods forces almost all neutral colonies to join it, along with all the old colonies under the USSR's sphere of influence.

2244 – It was found that an overwhelming amount of children that survived the catastrophe on Earth have visible physical and mental defects. Shortly after the word “earthling” becomes a popular insult.

2370 – Expeditions, in which science vessels TSV Luna and TSV Magellan have been sent by Tri-Net, were met with success – first, a new source of energy named by the mass-media called “plasma” has been discovered, second, in the conditions of extreme secrecy, new AI prototypes were mounted on the science vessels, which gave good results.

2392 – The positions of TNC have been noticeably reinforced: it became the first in the history of hyper-corporations; a giant off-planet government. However, on the planets that the TNC had its positions on, they were seriously pushed aside by the NOL. In space, the power of the NOL was nearly unlimited. To combat the TNC, a row of corporations formed the Syndicate.

2398 – Spontaneously, the interest of the populace to religion rises. In Evergreen a Gray Christian Church is founded, remarkable for its pessimistic opinions. It was led by a 90 year old man Nestor Meknos, thinking of himself as one of the other numerous incarnations of Jesus.

2412 – The ban on AI research and cyberspace has been lifted, which causes massive protests in the populace. TNC and a row of other corporations place a ban on demonstrations.

2415 – The execution of protesting workers of Station 12AR caused an extremely negative reaction on the workers of Tri-Net; on various objects protests have been exposed, and almost everywhere the security agreed with the rebels. Following rumours, agents of the Old Union were involved in the development of the protest. To stop the rebels TNC hires a private security force – InterSecure, which from that moment on protected all of the TNC assets. Now the security force of TNC is composed of just a couple of elite troop squadrons and a fleet.

2419 – With big losses, TNC cannot get people to work in their projects. A decision by the directorate is made, that allows TNC to take prisoners from overfilling NOL prisons and put them to work.

2425 – A destructive cult named Thanati, famous for its massive suicides, gathers even more cultists. It is said by the cult leaders that the world will end in three years.

2429 – Unlucky year for Tri-Net. Making a bet on multi-tasking stations that are V-class and using slave labor, but not equipping the stations with enough qualified personnel, TNC took a massive hit to its finances – protests (made by the Old Unions and by themselves), destructive “unlucky accidents”, straight forward attacks made by the Syndicate, and numerous registered outbreaks of disease and contact with unknown and hostile life forms – all of that put TNC on the edge of financial ruin.

2432 – The cooperation between NOL and TNC becomes more and more close. The Hao-Gammon pact is signed, giving the League access to Tri-Net’s top notch technology in return for food and equipment. The construction of – The Shield –, an experimental planetary defence system, begins.

2435 – The traces of a conspiracy are found, formed by an unknown force. Agents have gotten almost everywhere, where they could get access to even a shred of power. Not so long ago enemies: leaders of corporations, NOL senators, guild masters, leaders of the Old Union and other people wary of the conspiracy work for the good of one cause.

2436 (1) – More than thirty TNC space stations are destroyed by systems of self-destruct, activated remotely. Unplanned attacks of corporate battle groups happen to the closest of company assets, causing a row of conflicts. Attempts to find the culprit or a scapegoat were ultimately unsuccessful.

2436 (2) – Walter Enc, general-mayor of the NOL forces, receives an order to prepare for “quarantine work”, including some fast eliminations of more than five hundred strategic positions on Evergreen, and also the destruction of the biggest factories and warehouses on the planet. Start of an operation called “Screaming Hammer” is planned for January next year.

2437 (1) – Using his contacts within the GPC, in which he was secretly involved, Enc secretly distributes (including the military in the farther regions) copies of secret documents about the incoming catastrophe with his own instructions. He offers his own soldiers to be baptized. Those, who declined, were burned. Operation “Screaming Hammer” fails, as they encounter an armed encounter with renegades with general Enc in the lead and post Christian militia. A civil war begins.

2437 (2) – The whole situation in the sector gets worse. Planets get bombarded by corporation fleets. As a result of the protest, Hive, the biggest home base that TNC owned, becomes a fortress of freedom and resistance to the “enraged government”.

2438 (1) – A victorious, but destructive civil war on Evergreen ends with a surrender from the Senator. The senators and the highest military ranks, involved in leading the counter-revolt were publicly executed, neglecting the peace treaty. The executions were brutal tortures which showed that the tortured victims were indeed a part of the Thanati, standing behind the global conspiracy with the goal of destroying the world order. The loyalist of the Thanati got a choice – “Cross or Death”.

2438 (2) – With everyone gaining knowledge of the cultist conspiracy, the level of trust to the GPC rose greatly. A rapid radicalization of Evergreen happens, followed by threats on cultist members and atheists. Walter Enc, now called Enoha, gains full control of the planet. The government is separated between the most trusted of his followers who stay in power for their whole life and have the right to make their children the next governor. Not a single one of the planets owned by the League agrees with the religion-heavy course that Evergreen is undertaking. NOL stops existing.

2439 – From the veterans of the revolutions, showing themselves as the most loyal and competent warriors, the Tribunal is formed – an elite squad, protecting the capital and Enoch himself, equipped with the most advanced equipment to deal with counter-revolutions. The Tribunal is allowed to hand-pick people to defend their own grounds.

2442 – In Gahan, the capital of the planet, a celebratory coronation of the God-king Enoch I, the first monarch that was just out of the newly formed Holy Kingdom of Evergreen. Members of his family were named the Enhigov dynasty. To find and destroy Thanati agents, and also various other enemies of the crown, a “Holy department of investigation of heretical depravity” was reformed, earning the name of The Holy Inquisition, and its leader, famous for his brutality, Archbishop Leopold I.

2444 – War actions in the sector, led by traitor-thanati “against all” come to Evergreen. Rating the colossal loss of the fleet and the imminent defeat, the God-King gives an order to activate the experimental planetary shield. The planet is now defended from the chaos going on in the sector but at the cost of severely limiting the sunlight coming to the planet. The planet starts freezing.

2450 – A big part of worlds outside of the Kingdom borders, in which miraculously there are survivors – aren’t great to look at. Poisoned air and water, burned deserts instead of cities – these are somewhat saved planets. Those, who didn’t die, had a terrible fate – sick, weak and deformed kids being born – fate of Earth repeated.

2453 – Hiding from the cold, the populace of Evergreen goes underground. Scouting groups, visiting the much deeper caves, found traces of an old civilization that was once on the planet. As the scouting groups keep investigating, they became “sick”. Symptoms included losing skin and losing your mind, followed by aggression to healthy humans. Despite the visible madness, “skinless” were quite smart and sly and even organized attacks on Evergreens.

2455 – Thanks to previous trade routes with TNC, Evergreen reserves were full of solid plasma, however the Shield (that also made solar panels useless) required a colossal amount of plasma. Energy became an expensive thing to afford, and the life of most people of Evergreen lands became the same as of a medieval peasant.

2460 – The Kingdom Science Center has successfully found the cause of “skinless”. The substance that earned the name Ziacin initiated changes in the organism, affecting the brain. Isolated in lead prisons skinless stopped acting out whatsoever and didn’t do anything until they starved. With this it is believed that the sick are controlled.

2461 – The biggest invention in history: thanks to further research of ziacin, something called the Elixir was made – a substance that stopped growth of the organism. After the first successful testing seasons, multiple boxes of Elixir were given to the God-King himself, earning the nickname Immortal. Using this substance to prolong your life if you were not the God-King was punishable by death.

2462 – The storages of solid plasma come to an end. The Immortal King signs an order to form multiple mining shafts in the closest to the kingdom plasma deposits. The Kingdom Mining Concern uses up almost all of the war power of the planet.

2499 – Evergreen’s surface is now two thirds covered in ice. Forests have mostly died out, the remaining nature has been mutated.

2630 – The KMC, suffering big losses, doesn’t meet the demands of mining enough plasma. Under the biggest cities large geothermal energy stations are built, however their cost to build and sustain is way too much to make them the main energy producer for the whole kingdom.

2669 – An experimental apparatus has been created, using blood that contains life force that converts it into electricity. It has been given the name Lifeweb. Being pretty cheap to make, Life webs were used almost everywhere.

2701 – A small Eco-Shield incased Gahan, shielding people of the capital city from the cold and being lit up by an artificial sun.

2724 – Negative effects of LW-apparatuses have been shown, which include: changing the metabolism speed on living things, lowering the lifespan of people because of rapid aging, and also mutations, the most frequent on wild animals and plants. Still, LW-apparatuses are still used.

2810 – Because old space stations have been decommissioned, the remaining peoples of humanity that survived the Thanati conspiracy are forced to move to the war-scorched planets. However, the repair of the planet doesn’t just require new technology, but also massive physical work.

2823 – Multiple large groups of slave traders appear. The biggest one – the Soulbreakers, are based in the Hive.

2963 – Between the poorest people of Evergreen, like a plague, a cult of “dead gods” spreads, including idolatry and human sacrifices. The Inquisition called this cult illegal. However, they could not kill off the Thanati: for the last ten years they got even more stronger.

3000 – After an accident leaving the pastor unable to walk, Ballidar Cons leaves the GPC to form his own school. His cultists are called consytes and preach about peace and give away their life to serve.

3001 – Ballidar Cons is shot by an unknown killer in his own house. The murder investigation does not lead anywhere.

3014 – Terrorists have made a successful assassination attempt on Enoch I. The power now goes to Sherold VII The Fat, one of the many children of the Immortal King.

3015 – A second terror attack happens: a powerful explosion destroys the Shield generator.

3024 – In the skies of Evergreen the first ever spying apparatuses is spotted, used by the Soulbreakers.

3027 – First attempt at capturing people made by the Soulbreakers occurred in Logos. 40 people have been abducted.

3028 – The beginning of a big invasion by the Soulbreakers which immediately showed how the Tribunal is unable to defend against outside threats. The building of the Leviathan starts – a giant colonial space ship, able to evacuate the rich and wealthy families of Evergreen outside of the sector.

also funy pictures lel XD

Spoiler: some pics, what has happened in lifeweb once

How come the grimdark stuff gets pushed to the side while the HAPPY normie shit gets promoted?
inb4 "That's pretty edgy bro XD"

 

[ruben slikk]

How come the grimdark stuff gets pushed to the side while the HAPPY normie shit gets promoted?
inb4 "That's pretty edgy bro XD"

what do you mean? the grimdark is the forefront of the game when you actually play

 

[Gabby]

what do you mean? the grimdark is the forefront of the game when you actually play

I mean mostly in general, like with movies or TV shows
Or books

 

[Frosty]

The TroublesRP

 

[Bada$$]

Prison RP would be a buckle

 

[Sexy Beast]

Guantanamo RP

 

[Nordtrash]

Prison RP would be a buckle

no GOD no


...unless it's done really well and it's not prisonbreak XSD

 

[buttercup]

Moth Roleplay

@Blackquill

 

[Bada$$]

no GOD no


...unless it's done really well and it's not prisonbreak XSD

Yeah no prison break shit, it was a crease when we were in the prison on hl2 and i think prison rp would be a crease

 

[Nordtrash]

Yeah no prison break shit, it was a crease when we were in the prison on hl2 and i think prison rp would be a crease

oh yeah i remember that


only time i liked playing HL2RP

 

[Bada$$]

oh yeah i remember that


only time i liked playing HL2RP

My first memory of the prison was two black guys fuckin in the showers

 

[Bada$$]

Columbine Rp

 

[ice]

woah

wouldn't it be cool if we had

LIFEWEB RP
​

Introduction

Welcome to Lifeweb, the Theatre of Pain: An online game based on human characters in a dark world, whose purpose is neither success nor victory, but instead the opportunity to experience the strongest emotions, and to be an improvising actor in an exciting and dramatic story.

• A union of the futuristic and the archaic- a planet of both high technology and mysticism. It is a dark tale illuminated by gunfire.

• The plot can develop with an infinite number of options. Intrigue and tragedy, unexpected twists, betrayals and the like- Spontaneous situations can and will give rise to any scenario.

• The monster? It’s you. Child prostitution, cannibalism and caectrophy will soon seem normal. Step by step, it is only a matter of time.

• Don’t trust anyone. Even a close friend or relative is as likely as the rest to betray or manipulate you.

• You’re fragile: forget about health bars. The body of your character is bleeding and writhing in pain; his bones are fragile, and his endurance is not unlimited. To lose an eye, burst an artery, or slowly waste away from a poisoned liver are just ordinary cases.

• Destruction is diverse in both causes and effects, but reversible. Shattered bones can be mended, and broken walls can be rebuilt, again and again.

• Rule through your strengths! A rigid feudal hierarchy will make faithful servants out of your subjects, ready to fulfill any monstrous orders.

• Survival in the dangerous wilderness of the caves: Small game hunting, escape from predators, camp construction, and more. Who knows what else could be hidden in the ruins of Evergreen?

• There are no lies here. As in real life, characters always suffer from defects and needs- down to the most basic. They work, get sick, make love, and drown their sorrows in cheap alcohol. They will not fly to new and brilliant heights- rather, they will fall into the waiting plots of the cemetery.

• Faith determines everything. A perverted version of Christianity is opposed to the esoteric cult of the Thanati, and in the remote houses, praise of the cruel Old Gods is whispered. Religious fanaticism is ubiquitous, and everyone takes a side in this war.

• Death comes for everyone. A champion of the Gods, a superhuman mutant, a great warrior or a cunning manipulator: They all can and will die for a hundred reasons, chief among them - Confidence in their supposed invulnerability



Keys to Understanding
Firstly and most importantly, Lifeweb is a role-playing game. trying to realize the fullest “roleplaying experience” as we know it. As in conventional (tabletop) role-playing games, the player in Lifeweb takes control of one of the characters, and is entirely responsible for their choices, from spoken word to violent action.

The place of the typical Master (The Judge and Narrator) is taken by the mechanics of the game, setting the stage and creating opportunities for creating interesting situations.

It is worth noting that the game does not dictate moral constraints onto the players as might be found in other similar games. Lifeweb is loyal to the initiatives of the players, from child murder to racism, hard drugs, and devouring the fresh entrails of your wife. Here you can make a beast of yourself- Or, the more exciting alternative: attempting to remain a man among the monsters, while the whole world is immersed in a bloodthirsty frenzy.

Main Aspects

Domination and Submission: the inhabitants of the fortress are threaded into one tangle of relationships, comprised of servants and masters. The lower who do not show proper respect, diligence, and obedience will soon leave the world, exiled or executed. At the same time, the higher, unwilling or unable to impose their will, may soon find themselves in a wild mess of uncontrollable and irreversible chaos that will consume and destroy them utterly.

Stress: The physical augmentations brought on by the proximity to the Lifeweb, combined with a hostile environment and a lack of reliable safety creates an extremely tense situation, which is meant to tug on the nerves of even the most seasoned players.

Paranoia: The only ones who refuse to lie and hold their own motives are the stupid and the useless. The man you consider a friend is likely to just be another arm holding a knife, ready to stab you in the back once your usefulness runs out.

The Crash: A successful plan is rare, hampered by the unpredictable and ever-changing environment, where any mistake could be fatal. Enjoy the beautiful failures and hope for the best. LFWB - Losing is Fun.


haha it'd be impossible on gmod

but imagine

and yes, this all was ripped off from the lifeweb wiki just to give you all an idea on what lifeweb is

BASICALLY every good RPer here knows what SS13, Space Station 13 is, right?

well, Lifeweb is basically SS13's dark, twisted, corrupted, violent, fucked up twin brother. i've just started playing lifeweb - and since it's only hosted on weekends or when the host isn't in jail, it's kind of rare to get to play it.

but i fucking love it mates, it's so brutal. so brutal that i'm not sure if i can even talk about this here. but anyhow, i'm in love with LFWB on how realistic and chaotic it is. surprisingly, most of the players actually RP there.

for example, i played as a maid, married to the fortress's merchant. he, and my in-game father (there's a family system what randomizes who you're married to, who's your father, mother, son, niece, sister etc etc etc, really cool shit) - my in-game father as well as my husband called me over to the merchant's place, because some bum was trying to break in, and failed. the bum repeadetly slammed his head against the door trying to break it it seems, and disfigured his face and got knocked out, died of cardiac arrest (yes, you can do that, and those are all mechanics coded in, the game is EXTREMELY detailed and complex.) so i went there, cleaned up the rotting (yes, bodies rot, eventually turn into skeletons) body. since i had no breath mask, i got some minor disease and started coughing. anyhow, i cleaned up the place, and went upstairs with my husband to get some food from a vendor. suddenly some peasant screamed that there's another person breaking in, and this time actually got in

my in-game husband of course takes out a gun, goes down and kills the guy in a single shot ((YES, the damage models are also very complex, you have all the organs inside the body, blood, arteries, etc etc. you can even pull out someone's teeth one by one, and someone's eyes. then they'll talk funny, kek)) so anyhow, his heart probably got shot or something, and i went down to clean the blood. after that, the cerberii/a cerberus/the fortress's security/guards whatever came by, and took my husband away to the cross for murder, to probably sign an avowal, serve time in a cage and get whipped. ((standard procedure for criminals)) but then one of the cerberus staid in the merchant's house, and, well. raped my character for being married to a criminal, kek. there's an actual mechanic for that too.

but this is where it gets awesom-o.

as my husband got released, and found out that her wife just got raped by one of the corrupt cerberii, he went full ballistics batshit insane, seeking for revenge ((NOTE. this was caused only by the randomized family system - he acted only because the game selected me, a RANDOM person to be his wife. something minor as this having such an impact on the whole round, it was like a small event.))

so, he, my father, and my sister in-game were really pissed off, and were trying to seek justice, and formed a small killing party of some sort. husband bought a flamethrower, and father went to the blacksmith to get a sword ((it's basically a sci-fi medieval mix, there are laser guns, and crossbows, all really cool.)), and my sister was a mercenary, so she was already armed.

they all went into the fortress to try and find this cerberus, and i were just walking in the streets as the heir, baron's/lord's son stopped me, and asked a simple question.

"Do you love your husband?"

I of course responded with a 'yes', since I had no clue what it all was about.

next thing I know, the heir grabbed my mouth, pulled out his sword and slit my throat ((yep you can do that too - sometimes when you attack in combat, you might actually cut even their vocal cords)). so he held me upright with my throat cut, bleeding me out slowly

soon he dropped me, and said to a cerberus, "off with her head"

one swing, and my head rolled. :^)

and that's just one round i've had there, it was so fucking amazing.

also my whole family was slaughtered - everyone with my father's and my husband's last name were killed

but yeah.

it was fucking cool.



another round, playing a different character - this is a bit of a funnier story - again, i were a woman married to some other man.

since it was literally my first round though, i had no idea how the complex game worked. so some RP was going on, until he asked me to come to his house for a talk or something

i can't remember but it was something about making clothes

anyhow, suddenly my console/text area thing was bombarded with **You need to visit the bathroom, NOW.**

i nearly panicked and told my husband to wait for one second, and ran around the house trying to find a bathroom

i failed to find a bathroom

i panicked even more, and just ran into a room, not knowing it was my husband's room, ripped my clothes off, and took seven different shades of shit and pissed all over the floor ((yep, you can poop and pee in it, there's actual objects/sprites and yellow liquid is coded into the game))

and then i proceeded to calmly walk out

about 30 minutes later, my husband tracked me down, killed me, set our house on fire and threw me in it

the end



YOU SEE, i fucking love lifeweb. any thoughts on it? too extreme? too FUN????

also, timeline, if you're interested in the lore more

Spoiler: timeline

TheTimeline

2023 The first two megacorporations employ mercenaries to destroy each other's offshore soda bottling facilities.

2031 The Hays-Bishop bill is passed, allowing corporations to form governments if their employees made up over two-thirds of the population in a given region.

2034 USSR was officially established once again, with union of 18 republics from Greek SFSR in the West to Chinese SFSR in the East.

2037 – The colonies of Mars and Venus are quickly expanding; this is achieved by high level of migration from Earth. Industrial reclamation rate is on the same level as colonies’ expansion rate. Titan Mining Facility was founded the same year.

2038 The United States is finally merged with Tri-Net Corp.

2045 TSV Verloc, running on the Lorenz-Fitzgerald engine, has made its, and humanity’s first, interstellar flight. Overall Flight duration have reached the six weeks’ border. The Colonization Era has begun.

2069 Tri-Net scientists have finished the development of the first human-like AI called BRAFFCON. A rapid development in the field of Artificial Intelligence begins.

2070 The Second Dissolution of USSR has occurred. The republics became independent but for a short while: during the following years they'll be shared between the Japanese zaibatsu and European megacorporations.

Alongside the androids, whose minds were working similar to a human brain, appeared some projects of AI which approached information handling in a completely different way. The first of these machines were called TuRING-1.

2071 TuRING-1 was installed on the battle station “Ellison” as an board AI. One week later some glitches started to occur in all station systems, often with lethal outcome for its crew. According to a report from one of the survivors, the crew was eliminated almost entirely just in a few days, and the others became some sort of TuRING's toys. "Ellison" was out of control. After several failed attempts, which cost Tri-Net's 7th squadron, the idea of overtaking the station was dropped, and it's still in Jupiter’s orbit, ruled by the malfunctioned AI. Incident on “Ellison” was the loudest, but not the only one.

2072 UC (United Corporations) was established as a result of the Lunar Conference VII. Following one of the first of its decrees, any research in the field of AI was declared illegal. Operating androids were deactivated and AIs were eliminated or frozen. There were rumours that hiding androids were hunted by special forces till the 20s of the next century, and some of the AIs of that time are still active.

2103 Earth was recognized as a non-profit property by the Corporations, whose attention has shifted to other planets. The polluted and overpopulated planet begins to suffer a great deal of unemployment besides other disasters.

2175 Communists led by E. Goldstein (rumoured to be a distant descendant of J. Stalin) have initiated a large propaganda campaign at once with subversive activities. Goldstein's terrorist group, Red Crime Squad, was prohibited by UC. Some arrests occurred, but the group's leaders remains free and their influence keeps growing.

2195 – Start of the War of the Sickle between mega-corporations and the USSR.

2196 – A strong weakening of corporation’s reputations on the “shore” forced all colonized planets, that weren’t in the structure of the USSR to group up and form the New Order League, which still had to establish trading relations with other corporations.

2222 – Due to the result of using WMDs by the united forces of the corporations, the index of life suitability of Earth fell from 35 to 7. The third USSR fell from existence. The War of the Sickle was won by the corporations. The remains of the Red Army that didn’t want to surrender would go on to form an underground terrorist group called “The Old Union”.

2240 – NOL, using the equipment bought from the corporations, begins expanding and through various methods forces almost all neutral colonies to join it, along with all the old colonies under the USSR's sphere of influence.

2244 – It was found that an overwhelming amount of children that survived the catastrophe on Earth have visible physical and mental defects. Shortly after the word “earthling” becomes a popular insult.

2370 – Expeditions, in which science vessels TSV Luna and TSV Magellan have been sent by Tri-Net, were met with success – first, a new source of energy named by the mass-media called “plasma” has been discovered, second, in the conditions of extreme secrecy, new AI prototypes were mounted on the science vessels, which gave good results.

2392 – The positions of TNC have been noticeably reinforced: it became the first in the history of hyper-corporations; a giant off-planet government. However, on the planets that the TNC had its positions on, they were seriously pushed aside by the NOL. In space, the power of the NOL was nearly unlimited. To combat the TNC, a row of corporations formed the Syndicate.

2398 – Spontaneously, the interest of the populace to religion rises. In Evergreen a Gray Christian Church is founded, remarkable for its pessimistic opinions. It was led by a 90 year old man Nestor Meknos, thinking of himself as one of the other numerous incarnations of Jesus.

2412 – The ban on AI research and cyberspace has been lifted, which causes massive protests in the populace. TNC and a row of other corporations place a ban on demonstrations.

2415 – The execution of protesting workers of Station 12AR caused an extremely negative reaction on the workers of Tri-Net; on various objects protests have been exposed, and almost everywhere the security agreed with the rebels. Following rumours, agents of the Old Union were involved in the development of the protest. To stop the rebels TNC hires a private security force – InterSecure, which from that moment on protected all of the TNC assets. Now the security force of TNC is composed of just a couple of elite troop squadrons and a fleet.

2419 – With big losses, TNC cannot get people to work in their projects. A decision by the directorate is made, that allows TNC to take prisoners from overfilling NOL prisons and put them to work.

2425 – A destructive cult named Thanati, famous for its massive suicides, gathers even more cultists. It is said by the cult leaders that the world will end in three years.

2429 – Unlucky year for Tri-Net. Making a bet on multi-tasking stations that are V-class and using slave labor, but not equipping the stations with enough qualified personnel, TNC took a massive hit to its finances – protests (made by the Old Unions and by themselves), destructive “unlucky accidents”, straight forward attacks made by the Syndicate, and numerous registered outbreaks of disease and contact with unknown and hostile life forms – all of that put TNC on the edge of financial ruin.

2432 – The cooperation between NOL and TNC becomes more and more close. The Hao-Gammon pact is signed, giving the League access to Tri-Net’s top notch technology in return for food and equipment. The construction of – The Shield –, an experimental planetary defence system, begins.

2435 – The traces of a conspiracy are found, formed by an unknown force. Agents have gotten almost everywhere, where they could get access to even a shred of power. Not so long ago enemies: leaders of corporations, NOL senators, guild masters, leaders of the Old Union and other people wary of the conspiracy work for the good of one cause.

2436 (1) – More than thirty TNC space stations are destroyed by systems of self-destruct, activated remotely. Unplanned attacks of corporate battle groups happen to the closest of company assets, causing a row of conflicts. Attempts to find the culprit or a scapegoat were ultimately unsuccessful.

2436 (2) – Walter Enc, general-mayor of the NOL forces, receives an order to prepare for “quarantine work”, including some fast eliminations of more than five hundred strategic positions on Evergreen, and also the destruction of the biggest factories and warehouses on the planet. Start of an operation called “Screaming Hammer” is planned for January next year.

2437 (1) – Using his contacts within the GPC, in which he was secretly involved, Enc secretly distributes (including the military in the farther regions) copies of secret documents about the incoming catastrophe with his own instructions. He offers his own soldiers to be baptized. Those, who declined, were burned. Operation “Screaming Hammer” fails, as they encounter an armed encounter with renegades with general Enc in the lead and post Christian militia. A civil war begins.

2437 (2) – The whole situation in the sector gets worse. Planets get bombarded by corporation fleets. As a result of the protest, Hive, the biggest home base that TNC owned, becomes a fortress of freedom and resistance to the “enraged government”.

2438 (1) – A victorious, but destructive civil war on Evergreen ends with a surrender from the Senator. The senators and the highest military ranks, involved in leading the counter-revolt were publicly executed, neglecting the peace treaty. The executions were brutal tortures which showed that the tortured victims were indeed a part of the Thanati, standing behind the global conspiracy with the goal of destroying the world order. The loyalist of the Thanati got a choice – “Cross or Death”.

2438 (2) – With everyone gaining knowledge of the cultist conspiracy, the level of trust to the GPC rose greatly. A rapid radicalization of Evergreen happens, followed by threats on cultist members and atheists. Walter Enc, now called Enoha, gains full control of the planet. The government is separated between the most trusted of his followers who stay in power for their whole life and have the right to make their children the next governor. Not a single one of the planets owned by the League agrees with the religion-heavy course that Evergreen is undertaking. NOL stops existing.

2439 – From the veterans of the revolutions, showing themselves as the most loyal and competent warriors, the Tribunal is formed – an elite squad, protecting the capital and Enoch himself, equipped with the most advanced equipment to deal with counter-revolutions. The Tribunal is allowed to hand-pick people to defend their own grounds.

2442 – In Gahan, the capital of the planet, a celebratory coronation of the God-king Enoch I, the first monarch that was just out of the newly formed Holy Kingdom of Evergreen. Members of his family were named the Enhigov dynasty. To find and destroy Thanati agents, and also various other enemies of the crown, a “Holy department of investigation of heretical depravity” was reformed, earning the name of The Holy Inquisition, and its leader, famous for his brutality, Archbishop Leopold I.

2444 – War actions in the sector, led by traitor-thanati “against all” come to Evergreen. Rating the colossal loss of the fleet and the imminent defeat, the God-King gives an order to activate the experimental planetary shield. The planet is now defended from the chaos going on in the sector but at the cost of severely limiting the sunlight coming to the planet. The planet starts freezing.

2450 – A big part of worlds outside of the Kingdom borders, in which miraculously there are survivors – aren’t great to look at. Poisoned air and water, burned deserts instead of cities – these are somewhat saved planets. Those, who didn’t die, had a terrible fate – sick, weak and deformed kids being born – fate of Earth repeated.

2453 – Hiding from the cold, the populace of Evergreen goes underground. Scouting groups, visiting the much deeper caves, found traces of an old civilization that was once on the planet. As the scouting groups keep investigating, they became “sick”. Symptoms included losing skin and losing your mind, followed by aggression to healthy humans. Despite the visible madness, “skinless” were quite smart and sly and even organized attacks on Evergreens.

2455 – Thanks to previous trade routes with TNC, Evergreen reserves were full of solid plasma, however the Shield (that also made solar panels useless) required a colossal amount of plasma. Energy became an expensive thing to afford, and the life of most people of Evergreen lands became the same as of a medieval peasant.

2460 – The Kingdom Science Center has successfully found the cause of “skinless”. The substance that earned the name Ziacin initiated changes in the organism, affecting the brain. Isolated in lead prisons skinless stopped acting out whatsoever and didn’t do anything until they starved. With this it is believed that the sick are controlled.

2461 – The biggest invention in history: thanks to further research of ziacin, something called the Elixir was made – a substance that stopped growth of the organism. After the first successful testing seasons, multiple boxes of Elixir were given to the God-King himself, earning the nickname Immortal. Using this substance to prolong your life if you were not the God-King was punishable by death.

2462 – The storages of solid plasma come to an end. The Immortal King signs an order to form multiple mining shafts in the closest to the kingdom plasma deposits. The Kingdom Mining Concern uses up almost all of the war power of the planet.

2499 – Evergreen’s surface is now two thirds covered in ice. Forests have mostly died out, the remaining nature has been mutated.

2630 – The KMC, suffering big losses, doesn’t meet the demands of mining enough plasma. Under the biggest cities large geothermal energy stations are built, however their cost to build and sustain is way too much to make them the main energy producer for the whole kingdom.

2669 – An experimental apparatus has been created, using blood that contains life force that converts it into electricity. It has been given the name Lifeweb. Being pretty cheap to make, Life webs were used almost everywhere.

2701 – A small Eco-Shield incased Gahan, shielding people of the capital city from the cold and being lit up by an artificial sun.

2724 – Negative effects of LW-apparatuses have been shown, which include: changing the metabolism speed on living things, lowering the lifespan of people because of rapid aging, and also mutations, the most frequent on wild animals and plants. Still, LW-apparatuses are still used.

2810 – Because old space stations have been decommissioned, the remaining peoples of humanity that survived the Thanati conspiracy are forced to move to the war-scorched planets. However, the repair of the planet doesn’t just require new technology, but also massive physical work.

2823 – Multiple large groups of slave traders appear. The biggest one – the Soulbreakers, are based in the Hive.

2963 – Between the poorest people of Evergreen, like a plague, a cult of “dead gods” spreads, including idolatry and human sacrifices. The Inquisition called this cult illegal. However, they could not kill off the Thanati: for the last ten years they got even more stronger.

3000 – After an accident leaving the pastor unable to walk, Ballidar Cons leaves the GPC to form his own school. His cultists are called consytes and preach about peace and give away their life to serve.

3001 – Ballidar Cons is shot by an unknown killer in his own house. The murder investigation does not lead anywhere.

3014 – Terrorists have made a successful assassination attempt on Enoch I. The power now goes to Sherold VII The Fat, one of the many children of the Immortal King.

3015 – A second terror attack happens: a powerful explosion destroys the Shield generator.

3024 – In the skies of Evergreen the first ever spying apparatuses is spotted, used by the Soulbreakers.

3027 – First attempt at capturing people made by the Soulbreakers occurred in Logos. 40 people have been abducted.

3028 – The beginning of a big invasion by the Soulbreakers which immediately showed how the Tribunal is unable to defend against outside threats. The building of the Leviathan starts – a giant colonial space ship, able to evacuate the rich and wealthy families of Evergreen outside of the sector.

also funy pictures lel XD

Spoiler: some pics, what has happened in lifeweb once

I'll take the hit here and tell you to go fuck yourself with a rake. Lifeweb was never, ever meant to be spread around like this. It was designed to be an exclusive limited thing with the playerbase essentially being an underground community. But people spread it and idiots came in, then sandy shut the website down because itd become too public (also people were posting cheese pizza but thats beside the point).

The game was off for a while, then it was brought back. Same time every week. No forum. I've been playing off and on since the very beginning and it really rustles my jimmies when people go spreading shit around and bragging about lifeweb because it destroys the original point it was made for, regardless of if you had an insanely cool time or not.

 

[Akula]

I'll take the hit here and tell you to go fuck yourself with a rake. Lifeweb was never, ever meant to be spread around like this. It was designed to be an exclusive limited thing with the playerbase essentially being an underground community. But people spread it and idiots came in, then sandy shut the website down because itd become too public (also people were posting cheese pizza but thats beside the point).

The game was off for a while, then it was brought back. Same time every week. No forum. I've been playing off and on since the very beginning and it really rustles my jimmies when people go spreading shit around and bragging about lifeweb because it destroys the original point it was made for, regardless of if you had an insanely cool time or not.

 

[ice]

I'm fucking triggered man. It seriously infuriates me to no end.

 

[MaXenzie]

I'm fucking triggered man. It seriously infuriates me to no end.

TFW @Grau was advertising Lifeweb to me like wtf.

 

[ice]

Private is good.

In public on forums destroys Lifeweb's purpose.

 

[Nordtrash]

I'll take the hit here and tell you to go fuck yourself with a rake. Lifeweb was never, ever meant to be spread around like this. It was designed to be an exclusive limited thing with the playerbase essentially being an underground community. But people spread it and idiots came in, then sandy shut the website down because itd become too public (also people were posting cheese pizza but thats beside the point).

The game was off for a while, then it was brought back. Same time every week. No forum. I've been playing off and on since the very beginning and it really rustles my jimmies when people go spreading shit around and bragging about lifeweb because it destroys the original point it was made for, regardless of if you had an insanely cool time or not.

ok

 

[Nordtrash]

Private is good.

In public on forums destroys Lifeweb's purpose.

tbh i don't know why you're saying that i'm literally ruining lifeweb's purpose when everyone already knows about it

can't a finland person praise something what they find extremely fun and interesting????