FernGully Freeform RP

[Hexxus_Leveler]

For those who are unfamiliar with the term, a freeform RP is simply one that 'goes with the flow'. It starts out with a setting and that's it. No set plot line. The characters, who can be any canon or fan characters, are what create the plotline as they interact.

I thought I might bring one of these here for all those who have fan characters but feel that they don't fit into any of the already started RP threads. This is also a good way for new folks to be able to just jump in at any time. It's something I've always had on RP sites I've run in the past.

So here it is: the FernGully freeform roleplay. The setting is FernGully and its surroundings (Mount Warning, the grasslands, etc.) Any characters may be played here, and they can interact however they please so long as it follows the admins' rules for the forum and RP'ing.

I'll have a character list so folks know who's playing who. Just post who you want to play, even your OC's, and I'll add you to the list. When I get a couple people signed up, I'll start it off.

Characters:
Ualan S. Hutton - Hexxus_Leveler
Kia - FaPingMulan
Zak Young - FaPingMulan


Enjoy!

[FaPingMulan]

I'll play Zak and my OC Character Kia

[Hexxus_Leveler]

Alright. To the list you are added.

[FaPingMulan]

Awesome, thanks

[Hexxus_Leveler]

((I guess I'll get this started since there's a couple characters aside from my own. Anybody can feel free to hop in at any time.))

"UALAN! How many times do I have to tell you," the site boss started in on the mentally fragile fairy-turned-leveler, "You act like your little 'soul' doesn't exist on the jobsite. Got that? I'm sick and tired of losing workers because you can't keep your bloody trap shut!" The words cut Ualan deep. He couldn't help but long to exist just like the other workers in the logging camp did.

Ualan was fed up. "Sir, there's a problem with your logic. Levelers don't have 'traps' to shut." spoke Ualan in his deep, slightly mechanical but strangely kind tone, broadcast over two external speakers, mounted amidst the massive arrays of sideview mirrors attached to either side of his cab that gave him a rather doofy, 'oversized puppy dog' appearance, "And by the way... I quit."

"You can't quit on me! What are we going to do, cut the trees down with a pocket knife?!" Bob Larson, the grouchy old site boss, spoke in retaliation to Ualan's attempt to quit his job.

To which Ualan replied, "I guess so." With that, his immense treads carried his 28 ton form in a smooth U-turn as he powered off in the direction opposite the logging camp. It wasn't so much that Ualan was offended by what Mr. Larson had said to him that made him quit. It was merely the straw the broke the camel's back. The true underlying reason was that the loggers were pushing a little too close to the big black leveler's former home for comfort.

I've got to do something... he thought to himself as he drove down a wide, graveled forest service road that led deeper into the lush foliage. Those ominous claws were held up off the ground, clear of any underbrush. Ualan wouldn't harm anything in the forest if he could help it. He was torn inside. Something within him told him to go back to FernGully, to warn his family and the others he remembered from his childhood that the humans were once again about to threaten their peaceful existence.

"I have to do it... I can't let them die at the hands of somebody I once worked for," he thought aloud to himself. "I won't go down in my people's history as the one who could do something to save them but didn't." That said, Ualan's instincts led him further into the rainforest in the precise direction of the land he once called home: FernGully.

[FaPingMulan]

Ualan was not the only one headed in the direction of Ferngully as Zak was taking his new friend Kia to see the place as well. It had been several months since he had last been there and quite honestly he was starting to miss the place especially the friends he had made though he was not quite sure if he was still able to communicate with them.

[Hexxus_Leveler]

Ualan drove along that road until he came to an abrupt halt at the edge of the grasslands that led into the rainforest. It had been 15 years since he was forced to leave, and now he had no way of knowing if his family would even welcome him back, let alone if he was capable of seeing or understanding them. A thought of turning back raced through his mainframe computer that was now his mind.

No, I have to go back. He thought before his massive diesel engine shifted into gear and he started across the grasslands, accidentally leaving broad tracks that could've only been made by a machine such as himself. Strangely, however, the tufty trees standing among the grasses remained. Had it been a leveler doing its usual job, those trees would've been destroyed.

[HeXXus]

(( > mwuhaha, you guys mind if I jump in with my random villains? AND PERHAPS BATTY OR...SOMEBODY AT SOME POINT?))

[Hexxus_Leveler]

((I don't mind at all!))

[FaPingMulan]

(Nope feel free)
Zak and Kia stopped dead in their tracks for a moment staring at Ualan. "Oh no not again.." Zak mumbled to himself. "What? What's wrong?" Kia asks. "The leveler, the loggers must've come back to-" he stopped when noticed it went right past the trees. "That's strange" he mumbles. "Let's check it out" Kia says and before he could say anything she went following after Ualan. Zak groaned in an annoyed fashion before jogging after her.

[Hexxus_Leveler]

Ualan, as he had learned to do periodically to prevent running into or over anything, glanced to his sideview mirrors. Humans... he thought, worriedly. He wondered if they were perhaps sent by Mr. Larson to get him to come back to the logging camp. Ualan turned as swift of a 180 as something of his girth could, so that he was facing the approaching humans, claws in the air like somebody putting their hands up, waving a white flag so to speak. "I told Larson I wasn't going to do his evil biding any longer!" His deep voice rang forth from his external speakers. Through the thick glass panes of his windshield, it was easy to see that the gigantic leveler had no driver.

[FaPingMulan]

Zak and Kia's eyes both went wide as they noticed that the Leveler had no driver but somehow could manage to speak and move about all on it's own. "Amazing" Kia says in pure awe. "Freaky is more like it" Zak mumbles

[Hexxus_Leveler]

The shutters within Ualan's thick, glassy optical lenses flickered in a form of blink as he paused a long while, studying the two humans' reactions. It was typical. At least they didn't run away this time. The way they reacted also told him that they weren't sent from the logging camp, for those people were used to him. "I can explain my appearance. Let me first start by saying that I mean no harm to the forest. The forest here is my home. Second, I am a living being, uh..." he tried to think of a word to say without saying 'fairy', unsure that these two would believe that fairies exist. "A forest spirit, if you will... a-and bad things happened in my childhood... aheh, so here I stand." Ualan was a little -nay, a lot- on the socially awkward side. He often talked more than he needed to, and this was likely one of those situations.

[FaPingMulan]

A small smile appeared on Kia's face. 'At least it's friendly' she thought to herself as she replied "I'm Kia and this here is Zak". Zak nodded still trying to take in Ualan's existance for a moment. 'After a couple months ago I shouldn't be so surprised as I put up with a lot then but this-' he cut off his train of thought when Kia shot him a look.

[Hexxus_Leveler]

Ualan gave a subtle nod of his lenses, shifting them upward then back down in their titanium, ring-like sockets. "I'm Ualan. Uhm... look, I need some help here. I know this sounds crazy, and you have every right to run away if you want to... but..." he paused, the volume of his speech dropping a little as he scanned the area for any other humans that might be standing around. When he knew the coast was clear, Ualan spoke again, "But I'm actually a fairy... not a gay guy, but a real fairy... and my people are in grave danger. It's hard to explain, but the man I used to work for has his sights set on FernGully, my people's home." Another pause. "They won't listen to me, I know it already. I mean, if you were a tree spirit, would you listen to a leveler? No. Of course not... but I know they will listen to a human. You've got to help me."