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

To avoid a future issue with an inhability to post I would like to see what you folk would think of installing a new rule id like to call the character highjack rule. Say someone hasnt posted in some time, if they are ok with you using their character a bit we could have you take control of their character as long as they are in the same scene as your own. So as an example since Eclaire and Jake are in the same scene, Saber could take control of Jack just enough to place themselves into a position to proceed without needing to have Endless post. Then once Endless returns they can just slide Jake back into the scene. If this doesnt sit well with some of you then seeing as its not really nessesary we dont have to install it. Its just a thought.

Edited August 20, 20187 yr by HeartOfFerria

This is a good thought, and one that was incorporated into some roleplays to a degree (in that if they do not reply within three days to a week that the plot can move on without the slower posting people to keep the flow of events). I believe we the players would be trusting of each other to use their characters for one or a few posts, as we knew each other for some time, though how about it is not direct controlling and instead taking lead of the party? For instance, if Jake or Eclaire is silent, the other player double-posts to jumpstart the next action. I like the idea, regardless, so good on you, Heart.

Edited August 20, 20187 yr by Vaude

Im happy to help if it makes the experience better for you guys ^~^

Probably should post anyways. Will do it before I start up World of Warships~

.....well damn.... that wasnt what I was expecting... but I like that better, very clever. Full marks.

I'm thinking Heart will probably want to describe the room, so I'm purposely holding off on Tibarn arriving there.  I also wanted Tibarn to say something witty like: "I'm available!  Come on, we have a room waiting for us and everything!" and drag Eclaire, but I thought that might be derailing too much and I don't want to be destructive

Woo boy. Being at the parks is fun and all, but it can be so exhausting afterwards. Would someone be so kind as to give me a rundown of what happened since my last post to make it easier for me to process? I’ll immediately start making a post tomorrow.

....well... to progress forward Exclaire just straight up slapped Jake and went into the backroom after everyone else

A camera is a private VIP lounge? How shady an establishment, likely the type that sells information for political reasons and blackmail. Luckily there are sticky notes to place over it.

 

Also, I am really tempted to knock out the guard and bring everyone to that room, silently. Daniel could use a group telepathy to communicate mentally, Tibarn can use his roguish qualities to break in, and Eclaire and Daniel can push people's minds into ease and to have them tell where the off-limits places are. Jynn's quick thinking would be of help too.

Lets see how well you pull this off. Im very excited about this

Same here! Unfortunately, time is not my ally on my side of real life, so please bear with my sluggishness to respond. I have been working long hours.

Its all good.

Ok I need to ask. Who knows where Endless’s character is poitioned. Cause Im worried we misplaced him.

Ok I need to ask. Who knows where Endless’s character is poitioned. Cause Im worried we misplaced him.

I think he is in with the trio?  I forgot to mention him in my latest post with Tibarn.  I can edit if necessary.

It may be best. I was just worred nobody noticed him.

It may be best. I was just worred nobody noticed him.

Okay, I will make changes tomorrow, most likely, as I am off for the night now.

 

EDIT: Never mind; I went ahead and just wrote up a quick new post instead, in hopes that it helps progression.

Edited August 28, 20187 yr by Mystics Apprentice

I’ll try to post tomorrow. I got my hands full at the moment

It was an issue i should have had adressed earlier. I just wasnt sure what was going on.

Ok. I WILL be posting later tonight after work

Before I post I wanted to clarify something: where is the guard?  I thought he had left the room, but it seems that Daniel and Jake both saw him while they were in the room, and then Eclaire saw him outside of the room, which leaves me wondering where he actually is.

I thought that you guys got your own room in the back. sooooooo yeahhhh.... Im confused too.

I thought that you guys got your own room in the back. sooooooo yeahhhh.... Im confused too.

We did, which is why this exchange really confused me.  Maybe others don't realize that there is only one guard?

 

Anyhow, it's really your call on what you'd like to do with the guard, and I will post for Tibarn accordingly.

I just went along with Jake, I can edit my part to make more sense if needed.

take your pick

take your pick

I think it would make sense if the guard was outside the room since he had left to get their drinks, but that would leave some question as to how Jake and Daniel managed to see him in the room and make him more susceptible.  You could ask some to edit their posts so that we remain consistent, or if you want it one way or the other we can just go with that option, whichever that may be.  I'm not the GM so it is not my place to make that call, but I just wanted to throw that suggestion out there.

 

If I were to pick, I would say that the guard had left the room, since that is the action that you took in the RP.