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Hunter.:

--- Quote from: macmacnick on June 02, 2014, 10:27:05 am ---Pieman, great one as always.

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I saw someone posted and scrolled down expecting more great stories :(

macmacnick:
No character things, unfortunately, but I do have some good descriptions of things.

RedRoach:
Hey, I know nobody knows me since I just showed up on the forums literally 5 days ago, but I've been thinking about a backstory for my character before I saw this, so why not put my 2 cents in.

Nobody really paid attention to him when he tried to show off. Everybody simply looked away every time the teenager of 16 tried to get their attention. It, suffice to say, broke several nerves in him after a while. The things he did went from interesting to downright stupid. Eventually, he was stranded off a junker in the middle of a sandstorm after trying to get people to laugh over his "amazingly funny" joke on how sand is combustible when combined with propeller blades with a live, un-repairable demonstration. After a ton of walking around, he managed to make his way to a small town that was conveniently  placed within a day's worth of sprinting. As he slowly merged with the local population over time, he began to go into a darker lifestyle of theft and crime. Soon enough, after 2 years he had to stow away on another junker to escape the bounty on his head (despite the bounty's pay being able to amount to less than an ounce of water). Suddenly, a pirate's airship drifted into view, and the junker, being the only thing it's sight, went under heavy fire. The crew scrambled about wildly, but had trouble controlling the damage from the pirate ship. In the chaos, a rubber mallet fell towards the kid stowaway the same time the engine closest to him began to sputter. With instinct and adrenaline in his head, he grabbed the mallet and began whacking away at the engine, somehow keeping the engine together. Everyone saw the random kid smashing the engine together, but until the pirates were dead, nobody had time to argue. At last, after a long fight, the enemy's ship burned and crashed into the sands. The crew turned and gazed at this stowaway that somehow just helped keep the ship together. Instantly, the teen realized that the men on this junker were on the same one with the "sand explosion" incident. He'd finally got that attention in the spotlight that he wanted for all those years, but suddenly it didn't seem so fun to be under their watch. Silence stayed on the ship for moments. Then, the crew spoke, with the captain talking first.

"How the hell did you do that? You're just a kid, blew up an engine, and now you're repairing it?"

"I don't know how he got on here Cap, but he's doing okay considering we're alive."

"Well, I wouldn't be shooting rounds if that idiot wasn't on the engine."

"I think we could make something out of him."

The captain stared for a while through his eyes. Then, he said:

"What's your name?"

The teen thought for a while. He'd been a pest to everybody for a while. And, well, he was covered in blood after that one time where he had to stab someone to get away. Hmm...

"I don't have a name." The person replied. "But I think it would be perfectly okay if you called me RedRoach. Unless... you're punting me off the ship again In that case, just call me FlyingPineapple."

Since he's kept the name RedRoach, it's kinda obvious the decision the crew made that day.

Piemanlives:
Welcome aboard Red, always good to see such a fantastic entry into the forum.

Hunter.:

--- Quote from: RedRoach on June 05, 2014, 05:37:09 pm ---With instinct and adrenaline in his head, he grabbed the mallet and began whacking away at the engine.

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Made me chuckle, also, welcome to the forums!

Also, I'm sure the Pirate ship which attacked you was Jacob's crew of privateers! Only Jacob the Insane would be found inside a sandstorm looking for ships to pillage!

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