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 had a question pertaining to the creativity you have granted us on the front page regarding scenes.  Are you going to DM (dungeon master) the location and the situations, or are we allowed to make up the scene and some (or all) of the situations?  This group has been very creative in past and present RPs and can definitely make good posts, though as your character is going to be within the ship I figure you will need something to do too. 

 

Also, I had another thought.  As this is a fast-moving RP with a group used to going slower, some of us might fall behind and not have a say in some matters (e.g., Eclaire hasn't showed up yet in the roleplay and it seems most people are ready to move out).  Before moving to the next scene, what say you to waiting a bit for the last characters to show up, and maybe private messaging them after an allotted time has passed, like a day or two before the scene shift?

These were both points that I wanted to bring up as well.  I wasn't sure where to take my next post because I wasn't sure how much creative liberty we had.  Also, I know that Sabre works a lot and has a rather full schedule, so I'm hoping that waiting around for just a bit for him to catch up would be permissible.

Im basically functioning as A GM, from that point, I suppose Im giving you most creative liberties for scenes however I may take over a scene to drive a plot somewhere with an NPC. Or to simply describe a location. Otherwise its up to you. However when it comes to loot and credit ill be in control of that distribution.

 

As for waiting, i dont mind, if thats what your used to then im fine with that

 

 

I do want you to at least explore locations I bring up by name when you wish to proceed a plot. If the location has a name then Ill probably also wish for control in the area, otherwise its up to you guys what you wish to make of this environment.

Edited June 23, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

Im basically functioning as A GM, from that point, I suppose Im giving you most creative liberties for scenes however I may take over a scene to drive a plot somewhere with an NPC. Or to simply describe a location. Otherwise its up to you. However when it comes to loot and credit ill be in control of that distribution.

 

As for waiting, i dont mind, if thats what your used to then im fine with that

 

 

I do want you to at least explore locations I bring up by name when you wish to proceed a plot. If the location has a name then Ill probably also wish for control in the area, otherwise its up to you guys what you wish to make of this environment.

So, for instance, if Tibarn goes for a walk do I get to invent his surroundings and what he finds location-wise?  Or should I refer to him leaving and you describe from there where he is/can go?  Forgive me if I'm being redundant; I read both ways in your message.

 

Having said that, though, I think Tibarn is going to suggest going with Daniel.  With his charismatic demeanor he could possibly score something.

So, for instance, if Tibarn goes for a walk do I get to invent his surroundings and what he finds location-wise? Or should I refer to him leaving and you describe from there where he is/can go? Forgive me if I'm being redundant; I read both ways in your message.

 

Having said that, though, I think Tibarn is going to suggest going with Daniel. With his charismatic demeanor he could possibly score something.

If its not a location ive give name to or an event im dropping on you then its all up to you.

Edited June 26, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

Soooooo.....

Soooooo.....

 

 

Kneel before Zod?

 

 

 

I will post when im home.

Edited June 26, 20187 yr by Scrapmaster

I was the last one to post, so I'm waiting for the others before doing anything more.

Im going to also wait for each of you so I may do one large response post.

Edited June 26, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

A thousand points to whoever gets the reference with Eddie the Mammoth.

I was going to wait for Scrap before posting since Tibarn was interacting with Daniel last, but I just fast-forwarded to Serpent's Envy and left an opening for Daniel to pop up if he went along.  I wanted to help keep things moving.

Cool. Also I was thinking of keeping an index of all the alien species you encounter, your thoughts?

Edited June 28, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

An index sounds good to me. There will probably be a number of alien races with this creative group. Also, yuan-ti and mindflayers? Nice. I wonder if the Gith are in space too. Adamina would like to get her hands on a Sword of Gith.

^~^ I thought it would be intereting to add them, I did modify them a bit so they may have some different abilities

Edited June 28, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

An Index Huh?

 

Can anyone pitch in to add in infor for Aliens? If so Daniel has experience with some alien types, especially the Typhon.

it could serve as a guide to later chapters if someone is making a character.

Edited June 28, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

Sorry for the delay, I shal post today.

 

 I was playing Prey a lot (The game I based Daniel on).

 

And I come with new knowledge of psyonic abilities. Like morphing, considering Daniel inherited Typhon Physiology he inherited the mimic's main ability. Though it is hidden within his brain and he does not have access to it in any shape or form yet. 

 

 

Quick gif to explain.

 

 

Simple objects or small placements like turrets ONLY. He can't morph into other people.

 

More psyonic stuff to come.

I actually caught on rather quickly, Im suprised you didnt chose this sooner, I shall ask you to not go as far as the elemental abilities as I feel that could be vastly stronger than just psychic abilities

Edited June 29, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

I actually caught on rather quickly, Im suprised you didnt chose this sooner, I shall ask you to not go as far as the elemental abilities as I feel that could be vastly stronger than just psychic abilities

 

The Maximum I could possibly go is Electricity burst. As it makes a fraction of sense, since Brain has a tiny bit of electricity. He's just projecting it and expanding.

 

Fire and Kinetic though? Hell no. They aren't even that good in game lol.

Edited June 29, 20187 yr by Scrapmaster

Very well, concerning Daniels psychic abilities Im going to say you could unlock a new one every other arc starting next arc if this keeps going. That way you dont gain everything too fast.

Edited June 29, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

I wasn't sure if you wanted to control the Yian-Ti or not, Heart, so I left the bartender's reaction blank so that you could control her, if you'd like.  If we're able to seize hold of an NPC that you've created, though, let me know and I will adjust my post accordingly.

Going by what Sabre’s post describes, I’m assuming the Rose’s Grace is a..................... club............. of sorts?

Going by what Sabre’s post describes, I’m assuming the Rose’s Grace is a..................... club............. of sorts?

 

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I wasn't sure if you wanted to control the Yian-Ti or not, Heart, so I left the bartender's reaction blank so that you could control her, if you'd like.  If we're able to seize hold of an NPC that you've created, though, let me know and I will adjust my post accordingly.

 

As long as I havent posted a line for them or they arent in my scene they are fair game. However, Im going to control the characters in this scene.

Going by what Sabre’s post describes, I’m assuming the Rose’s Grace is a..................... club............. of sorts?

 

Knowing Sabre's love for the genre, I know exactly what it is.  IT.  IS.

 

 

FIGHT CLUB!

 

Going by what Sabre’s post describes, I’m assuming the Rose’s Grace is a..................... club............. of sorts?

My initial thought was a brothel.

Knowing Sabre's love for the genre, I know exactly what it is.  IT.  IS.

 

 

FIGHT CLUB!

 

 

Rule #1: We don't talk about fight club.

 

Rule #2: Don't talk about fight club!