http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/ 2026-04-30T08:32:04+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/ http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2017-05-01T09:54:34+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/character_creation?rev=1493632474&do=diff Character Creation Even though the game has already started, you're still welcome to contact us to create a character if you want to join in. Who are you? The first thing to think about is to ask yourself what sort of character you want to be: a guns-blazing armed robber who got a little too daring with their latest bank heist, an expert hacker who drew too much attention to themselves, a Tel politician who was captured in battle, an innocent bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong… text/html 2018-10-17T22:40:12+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/characters?rev=1539816012&do=diff Characters Dead/Retired Tatiana the Prison's Cat * Tatiana text/html 2017-04-13T21:41:56+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/conduct_and_themes?rev=1492119716&do=diff Conduct and Themes All games run by the Oxford University Role-Playing Games Society are subject to the Conduct and Acceptable Themes Policy which can be found on the OURPGSoc website. It is expected that all GMs and players will be familiar with this policy when playing Redemption. Redemption is fundamentally a game about terrible people, abuses of power, and survival. It is intended to be dark and it is intended that things will occur during the game which will be traumatic for characters. T… text/html 2017-06-13T14:39:17+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/contents?rev=1497364757&do=diff Start Introduction When and Where Style and Tone Conduct and Themes FAQs News Eternity Characters GMs ---------- Setting History Culture The Enemy Technology The Prison Current Situation People of the Prison * Creed of the Immaculate * Nexus * The Coalition of Political Prisoners * Prisoners of War * True Elysians * Sovereign Family ---------- System Wounds Drugs Character Creation * Qualities * Criminal Profile * Example Characters Playing the Game … text/html 2017-04-13T21:43:57+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/cpp?rev=1492119837&do=diff The Coalition of Political Prisoners “Friends, citizens, it is my grave duty to inform you that our government has lied to us. They have suppressed and distorted the truth for decades now and it is time the veil is pulled back so that you can come to understand what sort of people rule over us. They have cheated and exploited their way to power. Now they wield it only to further their own interests. text/html 2017-04-14T14:56:57+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/creed_of_the_immaculate?rev=1492181817&do=diff Creed of the Immaculate The Creed of the Immaculate are an extreme branch of “Organics”. Organics is a widespread movement whose central tenets involve the beliefs that humans should remain in their natural state, and that the only way a human soul can reach a higher state of being is by remaining organic and uncontaminated by the travesty that is cybernetic augmentation. text/html 2017-04-16T14:37:58+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/criminal_profile?rev=1492353478&do=diff Criminal Profile As part of your character submission, you should include a criminal profile. This is a publicly held record that guards are familiar with and prisoners may know or can trivially look up. It will describe what other people might know about your character, and also represents what the Government know about you. This includes a description of some of the crimes you have found guilty of, in particular the ones that have gotten you sent to the Redemption Reform Facility for your cur… text/html 2017-04-13T22:09:32+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/culture?rev=1492121372&do=diff Culture It is perhaps telling that Elysian territory is most commonly referred to as “The Empire” as this concept is the central focus of Elysian society and culture. Elysian citizens tend to have a strong sense of place or station within the Empire. They may disagree strongly as to whether it is frontier colonies or Homeworld districts that contribute more to the Empire, but by and large a citizen's sense of worth stems from the worth of the Empire as a whole. text/html 2017-04-13T21:47:57+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/current_situation?rev=1492120077&do=diff Current Situation MAYDAY, MAYDAY. Resupply Ship C10-X943 requesting immediate assistance. MAYDAY MAYDAY. Sublight navigational systems offline, course uncontrolled, collision imminent. MAYDAY MAYDAY. Last night, anyone that had reason to be outside under the sky will have seen a cacophony of lights. Anyone who had managed to earn the rare privilege of a communication line off-planet would have found it instantly cut. Anyone with a keen enough eye may have spotted the glint of metal as several … text/html 2017-04-13T21:48:30+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/drugs?rev=1492120110&do=diff Drugs Overview Whether you sniff it, smoke it, eat it or shove it up your ass, the risks are the same; overdose and addiction Drugs have existed for countless generations, from chemical to biological and now technological. Like in any prison, drugs are quite hard to come by. Of course the text/html 2017-06-17T11:02:53+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity?rev=1497697373&do=diff Eternity IC What Happened Next * Politics in the Empire * The War * All in the Family * Those Left Behind Other Documents * The Broadcast That Changed Everything * Captain Gabrielle Sheer's Log AKA An Actually Coherent Account Of The Chaos That Was Session 6, with many thanks to Yangos Faction Private Briefs (Now available to everyone) * Nexus * CPP * Creed * True Elysians * text/html 2017-04-13T22:29:18+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/example_characters?rev=1492122558&do=diff Example Characters Mu Tsag Puk Dya Dro Character Name: Mu Tsag Puk Dya Dro Qualities: * Combat (+2) * Melee Combat (+2) * Cybernetic Enhancements (+0) * Cyberweapon, Melee (+2) - blades along her forearms. * Tough Cookie (+3, cybernetic) text/html 2017-04-13T22:16:11+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/family?rev=1492121771&do=diff Sovereign Family “The deed is done. There's no going back. We are your family now.” The Sovereign Family are one of the largest criminal organisations in the Elysian Empire, with fingers in a huge variety of pies, from theft and protection to smuggling and drug dealing. They take the loyalty of their members very seriously, and are known to have an elaborate set of rituals, customs and oaths. The highest-ranking members (known as text/html 2017-04-13T21:49:52+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/faqs?rev=1492120192&do=diff FAQs Here we present some frequently asked questions about the game. If your question isn't answered here, do of course feel free to get in touch with the GM team. Do aliens exist in setting? No contact with intelligent alien species has been made in the Redemption text/html 2017-06-01T11:50:53+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/gms?rev=1496317853&do=diff GMs This page is to give you an idea of who each GM is and which NPCs they've played. If you're not sure which GM you need to contact for a specific query, just email the GM team. Pronouns have been included for each of the NPCs. Please note that “they” will be singular unless stated as otherwise. Note that all emails to any GM goes to the rest of the GMs, so your email is not private to any one person. text/html 2017-04-13T22:12:04+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/history?rev=1492121524&do=diff History “Humanity scattered into the stars. Our diaspora settled around foreign stars, on planets which were just barely fit to sustain us. Where our traces dusted, we thrived. Our homeworld was last seen several centuries ago, now just a cooling hunk of rock amid hostile debris and freezing gases. In each system, we are strung out from inner teeming planets to grand stations to mining outposts clinging onto asteroid belts. We did not take to stillness. We inch ever onwards, to more systems, pu… text/html 2017-06-10T09:54:13+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/id?rev=1497088453&do=diff Test Email: <test@redemption.chaosdeathfish.com> bio text/html 2017-04-13T21:55:57+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/intro_to_the_wiki_system?rev=1492120557&do=diff Intro to the Wiki System For those of you who are new to OURPGsoc Society Games, this page is here to serve as a primer to the wikis and how we are using them for the game. As always, if you have any questions regarding any of this, don't hesitate to email the text/html 2017-04-17T21:34:19+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/introduction?rev=1492464859&do=diff Introduction: New Players, Read This First! Hello, and welcome to the website for Redemption, one of the Trinity term 2017 Oxford University Roleplaying Games Society Games (the other being Tempest). If you've never played any sort of roleplaying game before, never fear! Here's a quick introduction. If you're a seasoned roleplayer, feel free to check out the quick guide to sections of the site at the bottom of this page. text/html 2017-04-30T18:42:34+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/news?rev=1493577754&do=diff News * News for Session 2 * News for Session 3 * News for Session 4 * News for Session 5 * News for Session 6 * News for Session 7 Work Assignments * Work Detail Assignments from Session 1 * Work Detail Assignments from Session 2 * Work Detail Assignments from Session 3 * Work Detail Assignments from Session 4 * Work Detail Assignments from Session 5 * Work Detail Assignments from Session 6 text/html 2017-04-26T21:19:56+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/nexus?rev=1493241596&do=diff NEXUS “One for All, All for One, Joy and Transcendence to the NEXUS” ---The last words spoken by Prophet Newton, on her death bed in 510PE. History 10 Exodus Ships left the Homeworld. Six Survived, Four were lost. One to War, One to Earth, and One lost in Time, and One faded into Legends text/html 2017-04-13T21:57:08+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/patriots?rev=1492120628&do=diff True Elysians They're here for all kinds of reasons, convicted of all kinds of crimes, but these folk have one thing in common: they might be criminals, but at least they're Elysian criminals. And proud of it. Whether they're true believers, trying to look good to government informants, or just in need of text/html 2018-10-17T22:41:34+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/people_of_the_prison?rev=1539816094&do=diff People of the Prison Staff Zachariah Lynn, The Warden: The Warden makes a point of greeting every arrival to the prison, but is rarely seen other than that. He works mostly in the back offices to keep the place running, but the prisoners who have encountered him have described him as creepily calm, whether he's inquiring about their work, giving them a dressing down for some breach of the rules, or backhanding them across the face with his cybernetic arm. text/html 2017-04-13T21:58:12+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/prisoners_of_war?rev=1492120692&do=diff Prisoners of War “Are you kidding me? Another twenty-seven fucking Tel?” “Yes, sir.” “Civilians or military?” “A mix, sir.” “Why do the soldiers keep doing this to me? Do they not realise how much paperwork is generated by literally every prisoner of war? text/html 2017-04-26T16:48:47+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/qualities?rev=1493225327&do=diff Qualities Qualities are things that describe your character. They may be skills that your character possesses, people you character knows, or things your character owns. Each quality will have a cost associated it, and you can take up to 10 at game start. You can also take up to text/html 2017-04-14T07:56:17+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/sessions?rev=1492156577&do=diff Sessions Sessions Sessions will be on Tuesday evenings, venue TBC (see When and Where). Players can arrive up to half an hour before time in, which will be at 7:30pm or 8:00pm (we will confirm this when we confirm the venue). In character, the sessions are regular meetings for the newly created Workgroup Zero in which prisoners are assigned their tasks for the next two months. When the prison is operating normally, these tasks will generally be split between domestic duties, maintenance of th… text/html 2017-04-26T14:08:51+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/start?rev=1493215731&do=diff Redemption Welcome to b-Exagora. You are here because you have committed crimes against the Empire, do not forget that. That new collar which many of you will already be scratching at will serve as a constant reminder. You may be here for only a few short years, or you may remain here long after I have cycled off duty, but you will serve out your sentence and you will make yourself useful. You have shown yourself to be incapable of living in civilised society, but while you are here you will be… text/html 2017-04-13T22:00:45+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/style_and_tone?rev=1492120845&do=diff Style and Tone Redemption is a dark game. It is a game about the worst parts of humanity, isolation, and survival against the odds. Character death is likely to occur. PvP is likely to occur. Your character will experience unsettling and traumatic situations. We do not wish to make players uncomfortable OOC, so please let the GMs know if there are topics you would prefer to avoid (other than those already banned, see text/html 2017-04-13T22:01:06+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/technology?rev=1492120866&do=diff Technology Technology is much more advanced than in the present, with almost all unskilled labour in central areas of the empire performed by various robots. Unfortunately, the prison is not such a well-off area, and beyond what the inhabitants brought with them built-in, access to any remotely new or expensive technology is severely limited. text/html 2017-04-13T22:01:23+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/the_enemy?rev=1492120883&do=diff The Tel The Tel culture arises from one of the original ten Fleets that evacuated the Homeworld. Although officially called “the Tel”, they are more often simply known in the Elysian Empire as “the Enemy”. Contact has been limited during the war, but a reasonable amount of information is known from captured soldiers, historical records and overheard radio broadcasts. text/html 2017-04-15T20:09:29+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/the_prison?rev=1492286969&do=diff Redemption Reform Facility “Due to its acceptable atmospheric conditions and solar system positioning, b-Exagora has been earmarked for future colonisation[33][34]. As is industry standard[7], this requires a minimum of a century of terraforming using the most economically-favourable development techniques. The site is remote and therefore security can be guaranteed, but it remains easily servicable by an extant ten-monthly interplanetary supply shuttle with only minor modifications to the exis… text/html 2017-04-13T22:02:06+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/turnsheeting?rev=1492120926&do=diff Turnsheeting Summary * A turnsheet period represents two months of in game time. * You have three major actions during this time. * Actions with a plan are more likely to go according to said plan; actions where you have relevant qualities, and any other advantages are more likely to be successful. text/html 2017-04-22T08:55:03+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/when_and_where?rev=1492851303&do=diff When and Where Sessions Sessions 1 and 4 will be at St Ebbes Primary School, White House Road, Oxford, OX1 4NA. You can arrive from 7:00pm, and we will be aiming to begin the OC briefing at 7:30 (with time in happening soon after). Time out will be at 9:30pm. We text/html 2017-04-27T09:33:11+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/workgroup_assignments_1?rev=1493285591&do=diff Work Detail Assignments Agricultural Development Supervisor: Chris Kayyali Prisoners: * Agnostino Serpico * Dri Po Val Nox Vas Kat Shre * Doc Harmony * Jeremiah Waters * Zhou Ba Lan Dorh Tru Base Maintenance Supervisor: Asher Segal Prisoners: * Avery Russell * Darren Swift * Eris Crux * Vaska Yarrow * Vermilion Ambrose Equipment Cataloguing Supervisor: Roald Tharaldson text/html 2017-05-02T22:39:53+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/workgroup_assignments_2?rev=1493764793&do=diff Work Detail Assignments Agriculture and Maintenance Supervisor: Chris Kayyali Prisoners: * Athena Ibsen * Charles Richards * Gaius Eischel * Lorelei Wildner * Eris Crux Decryption Supervisor: Zachariah Lynn Prisoners: * Avery Russell * Carol Winters * Alethea Rucker * Darren Swift * Jan Beno Equipment Cataloguing Supervisor: Roald Tharaldson text/html 2017-05-10T09:16:09+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/workgroup_assignments_3?rev=1494407769&do=diff Work Detail Assignments Agriculture Supervisor: Chris Kayyali Prisoners: * Constance Belle * Lorelei Wildner * Env Do * Zhou Ba * Jason van Tryn * Mortimer Sykes Contraband Sweep Supervisors: Winter Castell and Asher Segal Prisoners: * Athena Ibsen * Harper Lockwood * La Ma * Eris Crux * Gaius Eischel * Alethea Rucker * Charles Richards Equipment Cataloguing Supervisor: text/html 2017-05-17T09:21:17+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/workgroup_assignments_4?rev=1495012877&do=diff Work Detail Assignments Agriculture Supervisor: Chris Kayyali Prisoners: * Agnostino Serpico * Dri Po * Env Do * Harper Lockwood Maintenance and Kitchen Duty Supervisor: Chef Paragon Prisoners: * Christina Keegan * Darren Swift * Eris Crux * Jan Beno Medbay Assistance Supervisor: Benedict Greco Prisoners: * text/html 2017-05-25T10:37:17+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/workgroup_assignments_5?rev=1495708637&do=diff Work Detail Assignments Drop Pod Production Supervisor: Asher Segal Prisoners: * Agnostino Serpico * Athena Ibsen * Darren Swift * Env Do * Nicholas Russell * Xix Chil * Alethea Rucker * Kvash Leyh * Harper Lockwood * Doc Harmony * Ai Lah Peacekeeping Supervisor: Tamzin Grey Prisoners: * Andras Blake * Aspen Silver * Charles Richards * Stah Ye * Vaska Yarrow * Vermilion Ambrose * Viola McAlly text/html 2017-04-26T16:48:42+00:00 http://redemption.chaosdeathfish.com/wounds?rev=1493225322&do=diff Wounds “Oh I am going to hurt you, Tel scum, I simply have so many ways in which to do so. Just sit tight for a minute while I decide...” Redemption Reform Facility has often been described as a violent and dangerous place. This is an understatement. Fights in this place very rarely result in mere bruises and scrapes. Injuries incurred here will not only range from superficial wounds to summary execution