What would you give up to make it rich in the colonies hidden in the stars. Would you play it safe and simply climb up the ranks in life, from a dreg to a noble. Would you ride upon the coat tails of a friend? Would you kill? As a mercenary... you have nothing to really worry about. Those questions mean nothing to you. What does have value... is money. Riches, weapons, ships, you name on a wanted poster. Sure it isnt a great way to live, but it certainly is for the adventurous.

 

Mercenaries come from all walks of life amonst the stars. Human, Alien, Demi. Mostly Human, but the allure of adventure brings in all kinds. Shipwrights, scoundrels, gunmen, street rats, medics, soldiers, so on and so forth. Maybe they were doing it for their family, the one on the desert planet, Phallos, who is just barly scraping. Maybe they are doing it for the rush of being in the middle of a fire fight, maybe they are doing it to survive.

 

Either way you look at it, your a mercenary, you and your crewmates. With your small ship you fly across the cosmos, taking out baddies, picking up loot, scouring ancient ruins, and of course bringing in the coin.

 

And your most recent adventure is about to begin. A man known as Captian GreyHawk recently was spotted in the system, and he and his crew have the biggest bounty you and your mates have had the pleasure of hunting for. Enough for a new ship even, a bigger one, the old one is starting to fall apart.

 

Will you take your chances, or fall into the crowd like the rest?

 

 

So the plan here is to make this a freeform system, with turn based combat, and allowing the players wnough room for their own creative liberties be it in the game system or the story itself. I will only have a character to guide the party a bit but I dont expect myself to take the reins. I expect one of you to dawn the mantle of leadership cause if stuff goes south there will be consequences and consequences are fun for roleplay.

 

Character sheets! Right

 

Name:

Age: (reccomended 18 and up cause it makes me uncomfortalbe to have underaged people have a chance to die in story. Just in case, cause it could happen but I doubt it. Its up to you)

 

Appearance: (you know what to do here)

 

Background: (YOUR BACKSTORY!!! My favorite part of roleplaying. Will you come across that long lost lover again? Your searching for a cure for you Gran-Gran, you seek Revenge on an evil space pirate, SPACE GOD HAS A MISSION FOR YOU! The possiblities are endless ^~^)

 

Position: (Im considering this the class area and the name of your class is up to you. You could be a pilot, a scoundrel, maybe your like a warhammer 40k tech priest. Hell im down if you wanna cast dark space magics, its all on you. Just make it fair, dont get toooo crazy)

 

Personal Ability: (this is part of your creative liberties. Come up with a personalized skill that matches your character and their background, it could be the ability to escape a bad situation once per scene, it could be their own analytical mind, capable of comprehending the craziest of things, and iron will that makes it impossible to have your mind controlled, a lack of humanity that makes it so they cant be swayed by emotion. Have fun with it ^~^ i know I will)

(Other notes: you can have your abilities also effect other players as long as they dont notice you saaayyyy slipping away or just stop posting, i would prefer you to tell me via pm that your slipping away so i at least know whats going on. But stuff along those lines because your mercenaries. I dont expect you all to get along like sunsine and daisies)

 

Skills: (list about 5 basic skills that you think your character would have. Along thr lines of small arms, melee weapons, big weapons, piloting, tracking, persuasion, repair, stuff your character would have by trade)

 

Race: (Human, space elf, cat person, strange squid alien person, robot, i dont really care. As long as it makes sense)

 

Augments: (cybernetic enhancements, if you have any)

 

Equipment: (guns, books, laser swords. Just make sure you can carry it all)

 

Stats:(this is where Im personally conflicted as ive looked through some of thr older RPs on the site and it doesnt seem to work well or matter much in most of them. So im tempted to leave it out as it could prove to be a bother, or i could keep them simply as a quick view of who this character physically or mentally is)

 

Strength

Dexterity

Constitution

Intelligence

Wisdom

Charisma

 

(You have 27 points to buy your stats to represent your character.)

0pts= 8 (Pitiful)

1pts= 9 (below average)

2pts= 10 (average)

3pts= 11 (slightly above average)

4pts= 12 (above average)

5pts= 13 (skilled)

7pts= 14 (adept)

9pts= 15 (expert)

 

 

(Again this is just a clichè representation of how your character works.

 

High strength- Physically Strong

High Dexterity- fast, sneaky physically flexible, good at a distance or good at finding an opening to plundge a 10 inch blade into your enemies back.

High Constitution- healthy in appearance, not easily poisoned,

High Intellect- knows their stuff, quick knowledgeable, probs book smart

High Wisdom- this is your common sense and ability to perceive

High Charisma- how well you can talk your way through things.

 

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Our “Heroes”

 

Endless Thundaga as Jacob The Pilot

Mystics Apprentice as Tibarn The Theif

Scrapmaster as Daniel The Psychic

Vaude as Adamine The Loft Medic

Saber Lily as EC - 141RE The Bladedancer

 

 

 

Thank you for your time

 

 

Editor Note: This is technicaly just a test run, kinda like a prologue, I dont expect this first part to go long so id really love to get about 4 people in on this to give it a try.

Edited June 22, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

i would agree but if it doesnt work we can just work with what we got.

The guard left the room originally, from what I see, but let's say he came back with everyone's choice of meals and drinks and became psychically pushed.  That way Addie can have her water, Jake gets Eclaire's meal, the other boys get a stiff drink, and the guard fella is soothed and can be convinced to reveal private information about the establishment,  Everyone wins . . . except, er, the guard . . . and Eclaire, and whoever else is awaiting food.

 

In other news, does anybody mind cluing Adamina in about the situation through their character.  She'd love to bust some locks or walls via torching.  She'll do it the good ol' KotOR way, by punching it with her weapon.

Edited August 30, 20187 yr by Vaude

Thats sounds like an excellent plan Vaude. ^~^

Y'all better hurry before Daniel passes out from mental stress

Thats sounds like an excellent plan Vaude. ^~^

 

*bows*, thank you!

 

Y'all better hurry before Daniel passes out from mental stress

 

I am worried for the poor guy.  He enters a place where concentrating is difficult, and what happens?  He multitasks and tries to drink the difficulty away.

 

I am worried for the poor guy.  He enters a place where concentrating is difficult, and what happens?  He multitasks and tries to drink the difficulty away.

 

When they're back on the scene he can be found out, passed out, dead drunk on his bed.

So I will say. The guard in the hall at this point probably has enough psychic crap going through his brain that you all could pretty much do whatever you wish and he wouldnt do anything at this point. i suppose I just wasnt clear enough about it earlier. sorry. my bad.

Edited September 7, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

So I was going to have Tibarn scout the area and see what kind of security is at the end of the hall, though I am not sure if you would like to describe this scenario, Heart, or should I?

you can go ahead if you wish.

you can go ahead if you wish.

Any specific kind of security that you'd like at the door leading to the hangar, or any kind of resistance?  I'll go through with this in my next post, I think.

not particularly. which may seem odd. also I was thinking of making a character for your group later that would be better at the whole Eye in the sky thing. would you all be ok with that?

Edited September 9, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

i'l post soon, possibly tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

Would itbe best just to say you guys followed Eclaire since you all could just do that? The only guard in the hallway is practically incapacitated and Tibarn saw Eclaire head in the direction they know the large room is. I could just drop you all at the entrance there and continue on. Ill work harder to make a more engaging scenario another time

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

Could work,

 

I've not been able to post. And I apologize

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by Scrapmaster

Ill do so right quick. Sorry if yall had plans but I need to take charge and push the story forward. Even if it is unconventional. Note ALL OF YOU. No matter where you were. Are now together.

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

Ill do so right quick. Sorry if yall had plans but I need to take charge and push the story forward. Even if it is unconventional. Note ALL OF YOU. No matter where you were. Are now together.

That works better for me, actually.  I'm glad that you took charge and pushed the story forward. : ). I've actually been uncertain of how to proceed most of the time, because I want to leave you in charge and am not sure how much of a creative license to take at times (or even certain on what to do, because it is incredibly open).  This should work great, though.  I'm glad that all the players are reunited.

Im glad. just remember. sometimes it may just be best to turn back and follow someone who may have an inkling of info. thats what the PMs I set up are for. Eclaire gathered plenty of info from her Hostess. i do that when somebody is away from the group to make the lack of information more authentic.

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

I am for this.  The more tight-knit we are, the better chances we have of progression rather than lingering on independent paths.  Guard, you're gonna get a punch.  Even if you seem like a nice guy, the pseudo-pacifist Adamina will club you so hard it'll make stars spin in your vision before you plummet to the floor.

Im sorry if it sounds pushy but lets go guys come one. We seek progress.

Sorry, I wasn't home yesterday and had a full day today.  I will try to post tonight.

I think it would be best to specify. The nicer one is smaller and seems like a small scouting ship while the bigger one is comparitivly a behemoth of scrap metal and mining tools but its clear it is originally a battle cruiser. The battle cruiser is being loaded while the smaller one is left unattended

Alright, so Tibarn's gone off and decided to be the center of attention.  He might've just either made his crew mates lives better or worse, depending on how this plays out.  I didn't post for the loading crew, Heart, because I thought they might be your NPCs.  It may be best if you control them to keep things moving well, but if you would prefer it I have no trouble controlling the ones that Tibarn is encountering, either.  Whatever you choose is fine with me.

When it comes to grunts ill say you guys can control them too, just leave named NPCs to me.

Once again i have nothing to really add and will chime in when needed, but you are free to grunt it up.

Alrighty then. 

 

Time for some Adamina and Daniel's Splinter cell action.