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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Kamen Rider Zeit (OOC) (Recruitment Open)

« on: August 23, 2022, 09:18:31 am »

Kamen Rider Zeit (Zayit)

The premise is simple: on an average night in the floating city of the future, you and a group of your female friends head out to have a little get together. And you get to talking over a few drinks, about how your life is going, what your plans are for the future, and what you think about the world. Pouring one glass out after another as you pour your hearts out to each other, still miserable perhaps, but a little elated to know that there’s still people who can understand you in this world. And after you watch some of the others filter by, you all take one last toast to celebrate a renewed friendship, you slam the shot down and everything starts to blur….

Until you all wake up the morning after in a trash pile, or on a roof somewhere, with a strange toy belt wrapped around your waist, a massive headache, sore limbs, and wonder what the hell you were up to last night. Only for a scowling middle aged woman in a weathered light brown coat and a bucket hat to show up with a fresh newspaper to wave about, with a big flashy headline complete with blurry ass photos about strange masked warriors fighting against a vicious monster, and an all too familiar toy on their waists. “Unfortunately,” she says, “We need to talk.”

Spoiler: Premise (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Short Explanation of the System (click to show/hide)

The Kamen Rider Zeit System is at its core, not only stolen wholesale from another, more popular game, but also from the concept of RTDs in general. The results of your turn are determined at least in part from a roll of 1d6 that will be opposed by other rolls of 1d6.

Every turn two d6s are rolled for each character, and they can choose one to be their Action Dice and to process their action for the turn, and the other to be their Ability Dice (AbDie), which is used to determine how many Finishers you can use this turn.

An additional Die, called the Reserve Die is rolled for each character at the start of each encounter, and the character can choose to swap out the value of Reserve Die with one of the two die rolled this turn, keeping the swapped result as their new Reserve Die.
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Stats: You have 14 points to freely distribute between player defined stats that represent the capabilities of your Rider as relevant to resolving actual fights. A stat can be anything really, as long as you can think of a snappy name, and write a definition for what it actually represents. You should also note that you can increase the effect of a stat’s number by focusing on one specific aspect, someone with 8 in ‘Martial Arts’ is going to be worse at performing Choke Slams than someone with ‘Pro Wrestling 4-5’ for example. You can have as many player-defined stats as you want, as long as it is below 7 individual stats at the start of the game.
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Struggle: Used to perform particularly anime actions, such as firing off two Finishers in the same round, entering into a beam clash with an enemy to deflect their attack, or having your instincts kick in at the last possible moment to keep a round from tearing you a new one. You can also use a point of Struggle to treat one dice of your choice as a roll of 6 for this turn.

You start each ‘Mission’ with 0 Struggle, but whenever your character suffers a grievous blow, performs an action that suits their Anima and Mundi that is detrimental/inconvenient to the party/themselves, or otherwise causes an interesting conflict, you gain points of Struggle proportionate to how much the triggering action changes the course of the story.

This system is explicitly meant to encourage and reward plot developments and Roleplaying that would suit an actual Kamen Rider show. The final moment when you twist around to land a final roundhouse kick on a monster’s head is inherently more satisfying and meaningful when you’ve spent the past few ‘episodes’ defending a loved one’s honour in a cooking competition against it, and everyone cheers when the hero puts his life on the line to make one final blow against the monster threatening the world, before finally falling down to the ground….
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Finishers: A Finisher represents a…. Special technique, ability, move, or other sort of nonsense that pushes your character to their limits. Each character starts with four Finishers. Each Finisher is tied to a number from 3 to 6, and the higher the number is, the more powerful the Finisher’s effect is. You can always slap a drawback onto any Finisher to make it stronger than it ordinarily would to represent pushing your body past its limits allowing it to move at speeds it was never designed to handle, or a technique that leaves the user wide open for example, but it isn’t strictly speaking required.

Using a Finisher requires a roll on the AbDie that is equal or higher than the number tied to it. It is important to note that a Finisher can be used at the same turn as other actions, and that only one Finisher can be used per turn by default.

Spoiler: Basic Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Character Name: (Remember that the game is set in Japan. Although City 7 is a multicultural enough corporate enclave town that anything works.)

Age: (Anything between 21 to 45 basically)

Pronouns: (Magical girl laws apply here, if you’re not a girl, you will be…. Unless you’re NB I guess.)

Human Appearance:

Anima: (An Anima is an animal or mythological creature/beast that is a representation of what the character is, who they really are underneath the surface. Outside of serving as a motif and providing design cues for your Rider’s appearance, your character’s Anima also grants them a power related to said anima, from something as direct as a bull’s strength, to something as esoteric as a dragon’s ability to inspire awe. )

Mundi: (A Mundi is a machine or tool related to a modern profession or hobby to represent what they show/seem to be to the outside world. Your Mundi makes up the other half of your Rider form’s design, and provides an additional power or ability that modifies or adds to your Anima’s powers. It can be anything from a captive bolt pistol turned stakedriver mounted on a forearm to a sceptre that allows its wielder to summon faceless simps to serve your every command. Characters are expected to acquire entirely new Mundi as the game goes on.)

Personality: (Ideally speaking your character’s personality is informed by their Anima and starting Mundi, and vice versa. Outside of serving as an easy reference point for your own characterization and a way for me to figure out what your character is most likely going to act, this is also the only semi reliable way of gaining Struggle points outside of intentionally trying to get your ass beat.)

Rider Name:

Rider Appearance: (Self explanatory)

Transformation Jingle and pose: (Optional, but recommended)

Stats: (Remember that you start with 14 points to distribute between up to 6 Player Defined Stats)

Finishers: (You start with 4 of these things.)

Background: (As previously mentioned, the only real restriction is that you’d all know each other well enough to go out for a drink together, and that your character is dissatisfied enough with the way their life is going, and how the world works to be willing to be open minded about being blackmailed by a shadowy organization into fighting against deadly monsters because of something stupid you did on a drunken night out.)

Spoiler: Basic Lore (click to show/hide)

City 7: Where you all live, a floating city built ‘from the ground up’ to exploit offshore rare earth minerals. While it is nominally taxed and administered by the Japanese government, who proudly boasts of the city’s multicultural nature, and its growing superconductor industry. In practice it is a borderline corporate town run by a branch of the international conglomerate known as Avalon Ltd. through its network of investments, and political connections. This is somewhat of an open secret, but so long as Avalon’s interests align with the government’s (and it seemingly has so far), no one’s that interested in rocking the boat, no matter what some of the voters might think.

BlaDriver Design: The exact appearance, size, and location of the Drivers are inherently mutable, they can be a pair of bracers, a holster to sling over a leg or your back, or the classic belt design, but every Rider invariably wields a close ranged weapon, and every Driver works the same way. A Rider slots in a pair of Anima and Mundi into the BlaDriver, and either draw their weapon or turn a key before striking a pose and stating their intent.

BlaDriver Origin: None of your characters are entirely sure how, but your drunken asses stumbled in the middle of an ORG (the people blackmailing you to work with them as Riders) operation months in the planning, and received the shipment of BlaDrivers they had stolen from an Avalon truck, along with an ancient blade that was shipped with it. Unfortunately, none of you have proof that ORG was the ones responsible for stealing the drivers in the first place… but they do have a recording of all of you transforming for the first time….

Anima/Mundi Design: Both Anima and Mundi come in the form of thick RAM sticks, with an outer shell with a side obviously mean to face out that has an emblem of the mythological creature or tool the Anima or Mundi represents. They light up when you slot them into your BlaDriver, and make an actual sound announcing the name of the Anima and Mundi. It’s not super practical, outside of the ease of storage, the fact that they can be mistaken for regular toys/collectables, and how easy sliding one into the BlaDriver is.

Spoiler: Acknowledgements (click to show/hide)

I am looking for about 3-5 players. Discord Server Link

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / [IC] Frontier Breaker M.A.W.: Far Future Mecha Combat

« on: November 30, 2021, 12:27:15 pm »

Theme Song (Mobile Armor)
It had started small, with reports of strange debris approaching from the Philadelphia’s eastern flank, not too long after the Promethean’s crew were rescued. Pill shaped metal craft the size of a shipping container that bore no markings, and broadcasted no IFF signals. Unidentified craft that nevertheless followed after the Philadelphia with a dogged tenacity. Steadily building up speed as the ship meandered its way through the debris field, while seemingly oblivious to the presence of the ship’s scouts. Scouts who found themselves unable to figure out what the damned things were, only that more were starting to drift into view.

Both wary of their apparent pursuer’s intentions, and all too aware of the battered and patchwork nature of the Philadelphia and her crew. The captain ordered the ship to gradually accelerate out of the debris field, hoping that their measured retreat and lack of hostility would convince their pursuers to give up their chase, or to at least buy them the time they needed to repair their damaged fighter craft.

Unfortunately, neither of that happened, as long before the scouts could pull themselves back to the relative safety of the ship, something strange happened within the enemy ranks.One craft after another began to break from their ranks, and seemingly break apart. The smooth gray metal coming apart in two halves to reveal the strangely humanoid form hidden underneath. A jagged, angular frame that pointed one end of the blocky, if all too recognizable tool it held in both hands, and opened fire. Pressing the scouts into service as the first line of defence against an all encroaching threat.

Which leaves the four of you here. Cramped inside of your cockpits as you stare out at the vast expanse of the Philadelphia's hangar bay. All too conscious of the teeming mass of machinery, supplies, and men in your way, and the disquieting sound of explosions in the distance that seemed to grow louder with each passing moment as your vehicles made their way to the ship’s catapults.

Of course, none of you were particularly eager to be here, as one of many squads assembled from volunteers and survivors from both sides of that grand battle. The four of you are only together by chance, either blessed or cursed to be one of the last charging into battle by the amount of work needed to turn your damaged or prototypical MAWs and Fighters into something more than a glorified metal coffin.

But as the steely grays and bright white light peels away from the ceiling above, and the unbroken mass of displays reveal the vastness of space lying just outside of the catapult’s walls. The four of you are given a moment to steel yourselves before the airlock seals itself shut behind you, a stark white line lights up on the floor, and the ‘dulcet’ sound of the radio operator’s voice crackles in to wearily state, “Teal Squad please be advised, you are about to be launched into an active combat zone, assume any vessels not broadcasting a valid Trojan or TAU IFF signature are hostile.”

A simple message appears on the lower left corner of your screens as she speaks, requesting that the four of you form an orderly line on the launching platform. “And be mindful of your distance from the Prometheus, your orders are to reinforce the defensive line, not to chase down retreating enemy vessels. We’re lost in space, there’s no guarantee that we’ll be able to retrieve your vessel if it goes down behind enemy lines.”

Another message appears on the lower left, reminding each of you that the gruff woman called ‘Spirit’ was nominally this squad’s leader. “If you have any questions I will be on station, but do remember that any information we have on enemy vessels is fragmentary at best. All we can say for sure is that they are numerous, well armed, and agile”

The catapult’s armor plated doors slowly slide open as the first vessel lines itself up on the electromagnetic rail, giving them a glimpse of a still distant battlefield littered with rapidly moving vessels, lingering wreckage, and the occasional explosive flash. “Godspeed ladies and gentlemen, godspeed.”

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / [OOC] [Sign Ups Open] Frontier Breaker M.A.W.: Far Future Mecha Combat

« on: September 19, 2021, 01:07:27 am »

Frontier Breaker M.A.W.

The premise is simple. It is the year 2307 AD, and the asteroid bound Trojan Coalition is at war with the Transatlantic Union. Claiming it to be an unfortunate, if necessary measure towards their liberation from the whims of distant colonial masters, the Coalition embarked on a grand offensive to push back the TAU’s army at all costs, and secure Trojan dominance over the resource rich Martian colonies in the hopes of forcing the TAU into accepting unfavorable terms, or face a long and humiliating defeat. None of this has happened, and for the past year the Trojan Coalition has been locked in an uneasy truce with the TAU, with both sides seemingly too battered by the long and bloody war to invade the other, and yet too mired in pride and sheer spite to accept anything less but the other’s inevitable defeat.

It is an age of war, an age where the ambitions of men drive them to commit acts of great cruelty or great courage, and where even the unlikeliest of concepts are pursued in search of something, anything that could give one side the edge it needed to triumph over the other, and claim a final victory. And it is in this age that necessity, and unrelated innovations in the field of compact power generation and artificial musculature has culminated in the development of the Multi-purpose Armored Walker.

Heavily armored walking tanks with their roots in armored hardsuit and industrial machinery. Each MAW is an instrument of death purpose designed to operate in low and zero gravity conditions, and utilize its cutting edge electronic warfare suite to bridge the gap in ship to ship combat, and sink enemy ships with support allied bombers and ship mounted artillery. They were one and all glorified fighter jets-cum-tanks, but for a little while it gave the TAU the technological edge they needed to push the Trojans back, until the first Coalition MAWs rolled off the line, and the war ground to a halt once more.

But just as one innovation became a standard, another would take its place, as the TAU’s Advanced Research Projects Agency put the finishing touches on their latest scientific marvel, the Yukawa Jet, and sent their Jet equipped experimental Philadelphia class heavy battleship out for testing. It was supposed to be a simple test, with an intentionally skeletal crew of freshly trained officers and recruits, and just enough war materiel to learn what side effects if any should be expected after a jump, and allow the crew to hold out for rescue if a system or operator error took them deep into enemy territory. And to safeguard against the potential death of the crew, the battleship was even equipped with a last generation AI programmed to prevent the ship and its secrets from falling into Trojan hands among many other systems.

Unfortunately an unexpected assault on ARPA’s lunar base by the Trojan army forced the untested crew into battle, and as one allied ship and bunker fell after another, the Philadelphia’s captain made the decision to activate the Yukawa Jet to make their escape into the relative safety of near Earth orbit, only for a stray round to pierce its hull, and tear a hole into the Jet’s housing. Witnesses reported a brilliant flash of white light enveloping the Philadelphia and everything around it, before finally fading away to reveal nothing but empty space. Two ships disappeared on that day, both the Philadelphia and the front half of the Trojan warship “Prometheus” seemingly never to be seen again, just another tragedy among many in the never ending war.

Of course, no one expected the people on board the missing ships to survive, but when the crew of the Philadelphia blinked back into reality once more, and found themselves with a crippled drive, a makeshift brig full of Trojan MAW and starship pilots, and a good view of an unfamiliar world covered in strange machinery; most wondered if that was really a good thing. No one knew any of the stars here after all.

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Frontier Breaker M.A.W. is my attempt at learning how to write for proper mecha combat. Expect it to have a decently real robot tone as befitting an RP inspired primarily by various Mobile Suit Gundam series, Martian Successor Nadesico, and what I’ve heard about ‘the good’ Star Trek.

I am currently looking for about four to six players. Although I’m leaning on the lower end as I genuinely believe that keeping a lower player count helps to ensure that everyone has their shot at the limelight, and also I don’t want to run a big game to begin with.

Spoiler: Short Explanation of the System (click to show/hide)

The Frontier Breaker M.A.W. System is at its core, not only stolen wholesale from another, more popular game, but also from the concept of RTDs in general. The results of your turn are determined at least in part from a roll of 1d6 that will be opposed by other rolls of 1d6.

There is a World Line that shows your next 10 Rolls, and the roll that will be used next turn on the Leftmost part of the Line.

You start each ‘Mission’ with 5 Alterations, by spending one you get to add or subtract 1 from a dice roll in your worldline, and you can spend any number of Alterations on each turn. You gain 0.5 Alterations per turn, and can have at most 5 Alterations on you at any given time.

You start each ‘Mission’ with 0 Strain, but at any time, you can choose to add a point of Strain to have your character perform particularly anime actions, such as firing off two Specials in the same round, entering into a beam clash with an enemy to deflect their attack, or having your instincts kick in at the last possible moment to keep a round from tearing your mech a new one. You can also add a point to reroll your entire worldline in case something goes terribly wrong, or to refill your pool of Alterations.

While the first point of Strain spent on each Mission come with no drawbacks, in order to spend more, the player can choose to obtain Power At A Cost and temporarily obtain a higher Strain cap in exchange for receiving equivalent drawbacks down the line to your mech or character. Power corrupts after all, and you won’t always have the chance to rest or recuperate in between battles. But if you had to choose between your leg or your life, most people would choose the latter, and of course, we all know that absolutely nothing bad ever happens to someone who injects themselves with experimental medical nanobots to stop the bleeding.

Full disclosure: You're godknowshow far from the nearest supply station and the Philadelphia is not a medical ship. Meaning, if you go over your strain limit and get mangled, whatever replacement parts are going to have be salvaged from the locals in the hopes that it won't cost all of your humanity. No guarantees on that by the way.
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Stats: You have 14 points to freely distribute between player defined stats that represent the capabilities of your character’s mech as relevant to resolving actual fights. A stat can be anything really, as long as you can think of a snappy name, and write a definition for what it actually represents. You should also note that you can increase the effect of a stat’s number by focusing on one specific aspect, someone with 8 in ‘Long Ranged Offense’ is going to be worse at shooting death lasers than someone with ‘Shooting Death Lasers 4-5’ for example. You can have as many player-defined stats as you want, as long as it is below 7 individual stats at the start of the game.
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Specials: A Special represents a…. Special technique, system, move, or other sort of nonsense that pushes your character to their limits. Each character starts with four Specials. Each Special is tied to a number from 3 to 6, and the higher the number is, the more powerful the Special’s effect is. You can always slap a drawback onto any Special to make it stronger than it ordinarily would to represent temporarily turning off your mech’s limiters, allowing it to move at speeds a human body was never designed to handle, or a technique that leaves the user wide open for example, but it isn’t strictly speaking required.

When a Special is used, a result on the character’s Worldline that matches the number tied to that Special is expended as if a turn had passed with that result. It is important to note that a Special can be used at the same turn as other actions, and that only one Special can be used per turn by default.

Strain Specials are Specials that trade a higher level of versatility or power in exchange for requiring Strain points, not worldline numbers to use.

Spoiler: Basic Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Setting Lore (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Thanks and Credits (click to show/hide)

Link to the Discord Server: Here

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / [OOC] [Recruitment] Partisans 1960s: A Pokemon Tabletop United Campaign

« on: December 20, 2020, 10:40:07 am »

The Katakivu Region is a land of plenty, with long stretches of fertile soil, and vast natural reserves of precious metal and oil lurking beneath the surface. It is almost natural to think of it as the future seat of power for an empire, one that could stand the test of time, and bring the surrounding nations underneath the yoke of its rulership. Unfortunately for the good people of the Katakivu Region, that’s what everyone else thought when they heard of it.

The year is 1964, and the cold spectre of war looms over the horizon once more. The people of Katakivu, seeking to free themselves from the yoke of Kalosian colonial rule after centuries of oppression, had successfully vied for their own independence a mere four years ago, and things...have not been going well since. Disappointed at the seeming lack of social change, and with centuries of racial tension still simmering beneath the surface. The newfound Democratic Region of Katakivu soon found itself facing off against large parts of its own military, and before long, its own people in a seemingly never ending civil war. A war fostered by two distant superpowers, each eager to pull the war torn region under their influence once the dust settles, and the former colonialist government, still eager to shatter the newly formed republic, and take back control over the nominally independent region.

It is a time of great danger, and great uncertainty, but to men and women like you? It is also a time of great profit. Because after all, a war that has gone on for as long as this always needs more able bodied soldiers to throw into the conflict, and when you don’t have the time to train your own countrymen up, there are always ah, certain other groups willing to lend a hand, and ‘volunteer’ to come to your cause’s aid, for the right price. It just so happens that they’ve found your’s as well.

And that is how you, and many foreign men and women have found yourselves inside of this war. Not as part of some other nation’s attempt at military aid, or part of some fancy UN peacekeeper force, but as mercenary adventurers, banding together under the command of Wiley Pete, and his merry gang of Partisans. Who are here to help prop the failing region up for just long enough to line their pockets, and leave before it all crumbles into dust, unless you know, they somehow manage to keep everything stable for another couple of years. Who knows, stranger things have happened after all.

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And before you ask, no this isn't a weird Only War Game. The system we're actually using is Pokemon Tabletop United 1.05, which is a fairly fun and easyish to use system for playing as Pokemon Trainers who sometimes whip out a gun to shoot the man or mon charging right at you. Which is pretty much the entire reason why I'm using PTU instead of literally any other setting/system.

I am currently looking for five players for this game, which I think should be just about the right amount of players for anything expected to be at all live. I'd prefer four but that just makes things awkward when someone can't make it.

I fully intend this game to be a session based one running off of either maptools or roll20 depending on which is easier to set up. Although keep in mind that I’m in a +7 Region, so I might have to make this a PBP thing anyway if it comes down to that.

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Factions (click to show/hide)

Democratic Region of Katakivu
Capital: Kimalebo
The most widely recognized State inside of the civil war. The Democratic Region of Katakivu is a dictatorship led by one Jean-Pierre Kisimba, a former general in the DRK’s army that rose into power in a series of successful coups. While the years of hardship and revolutions has reduced the original independent Katakivu state into little more than a shell of its former glory, the DRK still has two things to offer to its distant allies in the west and east, near complete control over the strategically and economically valuable Nzre River and the resource rich towns along its banks, and a complete willingness to infringe on its own people’s rights and freedom to purge itself of western, and Unionist influences.

Of course the fact that the supposedly extremely democratic Unovan region is the biggest provider of foreign aid to an oppressive dictatorship is a matter of some contention, but with his biggest rivals gone, Kisimba’s DRK is the region’s last, best hope of a Katakivu free from communist influences, and open to trade with the west.

Free Region of Katakivu
Capital: Zadi City
Claiming to be the true head of the Katakivu government, the Free Region of Katakivu is indeed led by the deposed former Prime Minister of the DRC, Petro Ngombe himself, having somehow survived the assasination attempt by his usurper. Unfortunately, running an insurgency does not come cheaply, and with a lack of support from what passed as the DRC’s professional army, the FRK has had to throw themselves at the mercy of their Unionist benefactors, who are all too happy to fund and advise their little counter revolution. If they would consent to becoming a client state afterwards of course, or well, ‘willingly join the Council for mutual economic assistance’ or what have you.

Katakivu People’s Liberation Army (Young Lions)
Capital: Free Port of Kiboma

A populist uprising believing in a strange mixture of local shamanistic tribal traditions and Maoist political theory. The Young Lions are an upstart among upstarts, having recently taken control of the Free Port of Kiboma, and its surrounding villages and forts, depriving the DRK from a crucial hub of maritime trade, and taking a worrying amount of hostages in the process.

Blessed by the spirits of old, and trained by the best military minds their distant benefactors could spare, the Young Lions flaws lie in a lack of materiel, and the questionable combat value of the ragtag band of peasants that compose the bulk of their army.

Confederate States of Kaizare/L’Association Des Minerals Qualité
Capital: Coumarine City
Initially little more than a pair of mineral rich districts at the border who took advantage of the chaos of the civil war to avoid paying taxes for the near future. The districts that would form the Confederate States of Kaizare eventually banded together in mutual aid due to the influence of their common benefactor. The Kalosian based L'Association des Minerais Qualité (AMQ), who fully intend to bring the wayward former colony to heel, and impose an all too familiar order unto the land.

Of course, while the Kalosian Government can’t officially approve of the AMQ’s efforts to bring the people of Katakivu to heel, and the AMQ is officially little more than a favored business partner and owner of the region’s most profitable mines. If the CSK just so happen to fend off the forces sent by the DRK to reclaim the rebellious states, and prove themselves to be a bastion of stability inside of the war-torn region, well, the Unovans just might have to switch tack. Unless a particularly well paid group of hired killers just so happens to destabilize their regime of course.

But yeah, if you're interested in wearing a pink shirt, and engaging in morally questionable deeds for a dictator in exchange for flipping great wads of money/anything you can ~~justifiably~~ discreetly loot from UN forces or whoever you were fighting at the time. Hop right into the following server, where you can also be supplied with PTU info.
Partisans 1960s Discord Server

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / [SG] STALKER: Are you sure this won't hurt my career?

« on: December 08, 2019, 10:16:55 am »

(Basically a regular suggestion game I'm running to get over writer's block, expect dailyish updates)
You are a super spy, you are STALKER. You have trained for years, fought with the best that money could buy, ran from dead drops, and hid from your trainers who hopefully wouldn't have actually assassinated you.

And after all this training you've gotten your first assignment!...to spy on your immediate superior's hubby to see if he's cheating with the milkman.

You are STALKER, you are in the sleepy city of STOKE-ON-TRENT, the weather is LOVELY this MORNING, cool and humid. You have ridden in the bus for 0700 HOURS. You have NO IDEA why you were given this ASSIGNMENT or how you're supposed to gauge Mr. Hubbard's FIDELITY.

You:
>Head over to your new flat on Aquinas Street and begin OBSERVATION of your next door NEIGHBOR.
>Get some breakfast first in a lovely...3.5 star cafe near your flat and GET IN TOUCH WITH THE LOCALS
>Go to the local library and CONTEMPLATE THE MEANING OF LIFE
>Practice your sneaking skills and STALK THE MILKMAN

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / (IC) Tin Age: Hard Landing (They Can Be Beaten)

« on: June 01, 2019, 10:49:47 am »

Theme Song
The sound of the plane's engines reverbated even inside of your mech's cramped cockpit as you all sat tightly and snugly, waiting for the inevitable. This was all her idea of course, an airdrop over a mountain was certainly an unconventional way to deploy your squad to it's first mission, but it was certainly a very picturesque way, to die that is, if you wanted to be a pessimist about this.

But you're not worried, you're the STARGAZERS after all, you signed up for this shit, they didn't have to spell this out for you but you know what you were signing up for, why else would they promise honor, glory, excitement, danger, and FREE CITIZENSHIP WI-oh wait, wrong setting. Right, all of the lights are turning green, the clumsy packs they've given everyone are all ready and fueled up, the bay doors are starting to open, you can already hear the harpies cries as they spot the gleaming mass of your 'soon to be decommisioned anyway' carrier, and now with just a quick burst forward you're.

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Alright you can see the ugly ass things now as you're tumbling through the sky, you know how in old ass movies and cartoons and such they always depict harpies as these nubile young women with bird feet and feathered wings? Well uh these harpies are...they look like a hawk or an eagle that had tried to swallow a woman whole, and uh, failed in a very messy way once they got up to the head.

They seem really angry too, charged straight into the plane you were on, sent it plummeting straight down in a fiery mess too, good thing that there's only four of them right? I mean sure, you've still got a short way to fall before you make it semi safely down to the ground, but at least the rest of the nest isn't here, Yet.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / (OOC/Sign Ups) Tin Age: God of Tekkaman Hunter apparently

« on: April 27, 2019, 05:14:31 am »

Tin Age

Spoiler: What the hell is this? (click to show/hide)

Theme Song (The Hellion)

Tin Age is a game set at the end of the world, society as we know it is gone, hordes of rejected or reproducing monsters wandering the shattered remains of the world imperil travelers, roving gangs of mutants and desperate men raid the few remaining pockets of civilization to survive, and the ones lucky enough to eke out a living inside of one of the fortress states have mostly resigned themselves to the struggle for survival, losing out a little more hope with every passing year.

You are not one of these people, you are a Stargazer, based from the Promethean, an underground facility built into the Orlando based coastal Fortress of Fort Minor, you intend to not only beat back the monsters at your walls, but to take the fight to the enemy!. To this end you have all spent the last year training, studying, and refining your ability to pilot your mechas, until you are ready to head out, slay your first real monster, and strip it for parts to take to the next fight.

Oh, y'all thought they were quoting Nietzche when they said that you'd become the monsters you were fighting? Why did you think the mechas were so damned humanoid again?.

Spoiler: Setting Premise (click to show/hide)

The Moon is actually a gate to the Greek otherworld. The "Apocalypse" became an yearly thing in the year 2040, always occurring during the seventh day of every seventh month and during it, the Greek pantheon lead monsters out of the Moon and onto the Earth to feed on human souls, and they go back to the Moon after a week.

The Magitech used in the setting is the direct fruit of Apocalypses. Monsters aren't friendly to each other either - they compete to eat humans, and when they bleed, the blood crystallizes on the ground, which can then be refined into magic energy. Magic energy takes the form of a gaseous matter when contained, but it can be molded by the human soul to be turned into traditional spells. Greater concentrations of magic can be used to power heavy machines, and its use and discovery has revolutionized many fields of science.

The deities made it very clear to humans that this would be an yearly "sacrifice." In response, after the 1st Apocalypse event, humanity gradually started to abandon many of their settlements and instead concentrated in major fortresses, backed by an entire nation's wealth, quickly inventing Magitech powered automatons to continue harvesting resources without the need to risk their human population, or needing to have a large human population outside of the fortress to support the fortress who supports the people living outside of the fortress.

Over the years the Apocalypse gradually became the yearly exam of human military technology for every nation on the planet. Those who can fend their fortresses from the Apocalypse successfully will survive, while those who can't will just disappear from the face of the planet. And of course that means less countries are still up and running on the planet.

In spite of this, with every passing Apocalypse, some fortresses are overrun, and the population continues to shrink. It seemed that one day the Final Apocalypse would arrive, ending humanity once and for all. So while surviving the Apocalypse is still important, the remaining superpowers on the planet have a new goal in mind - conquering the moon and sealing the Apocalyptic gate once and for all.

Spoiler: Standard Operating Procedure (Game System + Part Catalog) (click to show/hide)

1. Rules of Engagement (Combat System)

Outside of what is needed to assemble your mecha, Tin Age is a very rules light game, with the only stats needing to be tracked in combat being Current Power (CP) and Power Generation (PG), almost every single part on your mecha except for any reactors it might have requires a set amount of power to use in a round, including your mecha’s movement parts.

Current Power is a measure of how much...power your mecha has in reserves and can route through it’s systems to keep itself and any parts you have up and running, every mech starts a fight with 3 Current Power in reserve.

Power Generation is a measure of how much power your mecha’s reactors produce every round, which is determined by just adding them all together and subtracting the power cost on a necessary movement part, such as a four legged mecha with jumpjets having the cost for their legs subtracted from their power generation at the start of each round, because they're pretty obviously walking on them.

What this boils down to is that you have a single resource pool to manage, and that every single action you perform on top of moving requires an amount of said resource listed on the part itself to use, want to fire your machineguns at the giant monster? That’s -1 power from your pool, want to run faster with your legs? That’s another -1 power, and just using them to move regularly in the first place already cost you -1.

It’s a simplistic system, and there are very few if any dice involved with how your actions actually shake out. And note, there is no HP or anything equivalent to it in this game, it’s a chunky salsa system, and you’re fighting giant monsters in what are basically larger suits of power armor, either don’t get hit in the first place, or invest a lot of what you have into armor to just not die when it happens. The enemy is stronger than you individually, and a whole lot better equipped, but if you’re good? If you work together with your team to take down that rampaging monster? Then you might just survive, kill the bastard and get to see how that cool flaming sword he was using to tear through mountains like a hot knife through butter works, and get something like that for yourself. It’s as simple as that.

2. Fit Out (Mecha Assembly System)

Assembling a mecha is easy as well, pick a chassis from the ones in the Parts Catalogue, and fill out the slots it has with anything you want really.
Want to have a nuclear beyblade that works off of the thief chassis and moves around using an internal gyroscope to slice and dice people with scrap metal armor repurposed into deadly blades? Sure, why not. Want to make a gas fueled giant ram with 16 legs? The Wizard’s got you covered. Do you literally just want to make my life miserable and pretend that this is a game about jet fighters? Well a creative man would fluff his scrap metal plating as bladed wings, and then use jump jets and gyroscopes to propel your laser firing monstrosity through the skies.

Just remember, every single part costs one slot unless otherwise stated, and that you only generate 1 unit of power each round from whatever pathetic generator it currently has up and running, unless you add even more reactors to boost it along a bit. Since I mean sure, sure your character has a burning soul of justice, that’s all well and good, but could you use a burning soul of justice to power your house for a day?.

3. Parts Catalog

All of the parts that have been discovered/made are listed in the following data doc, which will be updated regularly by myself and anyone who volunteers to do so.
Parts Catalogue

Spoiler: Personnel Files (Character Sheet) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

Right, I'm looking for at least four players before this game even gets up and running, and I'm not really willing to take any more than 6-8 people. And here's the Discord link if you're interested, feel free to incessantly ping me for ideas there, I'm Flatty purveyor of flat.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Pokemon In Space (OOC: Sign ups open)

« on: August 15, 2018, 05:09:07 am »

A world without space, overflowing with broken worlds...
That is where you live, oh brave heroes...

Yet I know you shall not falter, because, just like this existence,

You seek a new beginning.
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Chapter #03: Dancing Deep
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Greetings everyone, and welcome to the official Out of Character thread for the roleplay titled "Pokemon in Space". This message has been brought to you by your one and only Cronos, current proxy of Bfroger6, the original creator of this rp on the Pokemon Reborn forums, who genuinely hopes that this is allowed in the forum's rules because by this point he's forgotten about their existence all too late. There will be fun, there will be difficulty, but I know you'll be able to prevail over it all and seize what you desire.
What that is, however, is still up for debate...

This rp features art by its creator, Bfroger6, lotsa battles and graphics, but no space.
Also, it is now on Chapter #03, with a runtime since February 2017.
Also also, we're looking for, at most, 3 or so applicants.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, REDIRECT TO THE PIS DISCORD VIA THIS INVITE CODE: SVgzWqx

Without further ado (as there have been many changes done to the original Pokemon system in order to accommodate it to a fair and judge able rp system), let's get the technicalities out of the way before introducing the world itself, shall we~?

*SYSTEM*
/technical aspects introduced to the rp in an attempt to allow for fair judgement during both combat and out-of-combat situations/
//don't let the stats scare you away, as they're all calculated automatically in our very own stat spreadsheet//

Spoiler: SYSTEM (click to show/hide)

-> STATS
[spoiler]As in any Pokemon game, stats play a big role during battles. However, unlike in just any old Pokemon game, stats in PiS are calculated by the following formula:

Stat = ((Base Stat + (EP/5)) * (1 + (Lv/100))* Nature

- Lv is the Pokemon's current level.
- EP are Effort Points for the respective stat (totally different than Effort Values, duh)

ATK - ATK or Attack determines the power of physical moves a Pokemon uses. For every 20 points in ATK, the Pokemon's physical moves gain +10 in power.
DEF - DEF or Defense determines the Pokemon's ability to shrug off physical attacks. For every 20 points in DEF, the damage done by physical damaging moves to the Pokemon is lowered by 10.
SP.ATK - SP.ATK or Special Attack determines the power of special moves a Pokemon uses. For every 20 points in SP.ATK, the Pokemon's special moves gain +10 in power.
SP.DEF - SP.DEF or Special Defense determines the Pokemon ability to shrug off non-physical assaults. For every 20 points in SP.DEF, the damage done by special damaging moves to the Pokemon is lowered by 10.
SPE - SPE or Speed determines the velocity which the Pokemon is capable of reaching without using any assistance. SPE is considered a comparable value because it is based mainly on comparing the stats between you and your opponent. This is done by determining the numerical difference between both Pokemon's current SPE stats. If the difference is less than 20, they are considered to be in the same Speed Tier and can move at approximately the same velocity. However, if one has more than 20 SPE over another, it is considered a Speed Tier higher and can easily outrun the slower Pokemon. SPE also determines the turn order, with faster Pokemon getting the opportunity to move first.
HP - When a Pokemon's Hit Points drop to 0, the Pokemon is considered unable to fight and is removed from combat, either by running off if it's a wild Pokemon or returning to the Poke Ball it's contained in. HP is a unique value because it is calculated differently than the other stats. Instead of following the basic one, Hit Points are calculated using their own special formula:

HP = (Base HP + HPEP * (Lv/50)) * (2 + (Lv/100))

- Lv is the Pokemon's current level.
- HPEP are Hit Point Effort Points

-> BATTLE SYSTEM
-> Player v Wild Pokemon/Trainer/Player/Boss/Special

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-> LEVELING (courtesy of Komodojoe) & EFFORT POINTS

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-> LEARNING MOVES

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-> ABILITIES

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-> NATURES

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-> SPECIAL SKILLS

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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The system might look scary, but I'm sure everyone will get used to it eventually through playing the rp.
There's one other aspect of the system that needs addressing, however.

...but before even that...

NOTE: DECIMALS ALWAYS ROUND DOWN ON EVERY STEP IN EVERY CALCULATION. WHEN YOU SEE A DECIMAL, ROUND IT DOWN QUICK.
(i.e. if your Nature is Brave and your SPE is 99, you'll only deduct 9 from it, not 9.9)

...let's move on...

*DUNGEON CRAWLING*
/the short & sweet explanation/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

*PLOT & WORLD*
/all you need to know to make your character/
The plot of Pokemon in Space is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the whole universe (except for a single star shining bright in the distance) has vanished in an event dubbed the Great Cosmostrophe, but humanity has survived with a handful of Pokemon following the guidance of the Space Aether Foundation, which provided humans with safety from the dangers of the Anti-Space at the expense of ignorance. Space Aether has had the power to freely create independent pocket-universes known as Nexuses, each with their own ekosystems, but all inhabitable by both humans and Pokemon. Space Aether separated humans from Pokemon under the pretense of "preservation" and "repopulation".
Eight Nexuses have been populated by humans to form the Nexus Grid, and 100,076,999 by Pokemon, forming the Micro Grid.

Now is the year 654 of the Aetherian Calendar, counting days since the establishment of peace and the quelling of chaos that ensued following the Great Cosmostrophe. It is known that the Great Cosmostrophe itself happened more than 654 years ago, but how long ago is unknown as scriptures of that time are either lost to time or nonexistant. Peace rules the Nexuses, but Pokemon and humans still live separately. The bond they once shared has faded over hundreds of years, and humans have started looking at the Pokemon more like animals at the zoo than anything else, except in Space Aether, where they are used as help or tools to an end, that end being progress and survival of mankind. It is a truly sad time to be alive, but people barely notice they lack anything. To them, their lives are perfect as they are, lost in blissful ignorance. Except, of course, those whose hearts still yearn for adventure. These special people still feel the bond with Pokemon pulsating with their heartbeats and they cannot contain it. They are known as Space Aether Employee Cadets and are the explorers which brave the unexplored frontiers of dangerous Nexuses.

You are one of those special people.

-> NEXUSES <-
/surrogates to Pokearth/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nexuses are worlds within the frame of the now empty real world which are filled with limitless possibilities. On the outside, they appear as huge (some are even planet-sized) deep black marbles reflecting the starry night sky (even though there are no stars in this universe anymore), but on the inside, you never know what you're going to find. Even the main eight Nexuses still hide many secrets and are largely unexplored, as humans rarely dawdle far from their settlements.

The Space Aether Foundation classifies them into three distinct categories: the Main Grid, the Micro Grid and the Unauthorised Grid.

THE MAIN GRID
The Main Nexus Grid is comprised of eight Nexuses, listed as numerals #00 through #07. They are the largest populated Nexuses under direct juristdiction of Space Aether Foundation.

#00 - Space Aether Foundation Headquarters & Aether City
The first Nexus, established soon after the fallout of the universe. There is nothing in this Nexus except for vast skies.
A modern city floats around the Space Aether Foundation Headquarters building in this environment. The space within the Nexus is seemingly limitless, with no end in scanner range in any direction. Some theoretists still claim something else must exist within this Nexus, but no research has yielded any results all the years since its discovery (unknown date) and initial human inhabitation. The sky within the Nexus is constantly sunny, never shifting towards either extreme hot or cold. Weather conditions are stable with no rain nor any possible or projected disturbance. The source of the sun-like formation shining inside of the Nexus is still unknown and unclear, as scanning it has provided no conclusive results nor matches with any known compound whatsoever. It is positioned approximately twice the distance between the old Pokearth and the old Sun, putting its size to gargantuan scales. It never sets so, in order to provide the city's inhabitants with a healthy biological cycle, the Space Aether Foundation has built filters into the barrier around the city which activate accordingly to dwindle the amount of light-exposure during night time.
All other Main Grid and Micro Grid Nexuses orbit around #00.
The actual HQ is a huge building towering at more than 10 km in height. It is suspended in the air. Cadets' office occupies floor B9. The President's chamber is on floor 333333.
The HQ & city mostly houses Aether Employees of all sorts, and has around a 1,000,000 inhabitants.

#01 - Gear City
The second Nexus, functioning as a massive shipyard where Space Aether Employee Metalworkers work tirelessly day after day to build newer and better Anti-Spaceships capable of penetrating the outer spatial integrity of Nexuses.
A vast city where gravity is artificial, there is nothing in this Nexus except a metallic dome-like-sky and a city built in the shape of a ball. Everything inside it is artifical, save for, obviously, life. The city was not built by Space Aether, instead appearing to literally be the interior of Nexus #01 itself. How or why the Nexus was formed in such a way is unknown. There used to be wild Pokemon in the many pipe-like halls leading deeper into the construct, but all have been safely deposited in the Micro Grid in the year 103. Nexus #01 afterwards took the previous function of Nexus #05 (ship construction) as it was deemed better suited for it. The city itself looks like someone threw a whole lot of metallic buildings together and connected them via pipes, railroads and metal bars. Its power supply seems limitless and emanates from the core that is located in the deepest parts of the city where few dare wander. Attempts have been made to harvest this power but none even reached the core. This has fueled rumors about unknown dangers lurking below.
At night, the sun built into the dome-sky shuts down.
>12,000,000 inhabitants.

#02 - (former) Village of Victors
What was formerly a grand Nexus of expansive plains where grass danced with fire itself and where legends were born (according to legends, at least), has been reduced to a mere shell of its former self through the last 20 years, ever since the incident happened. These plains that used to spread across the Nexus have since been replaced by poorly contsructed slums and rows of berry-trees that bear no fruit any longer. Pokemon roam free within this Nexus, as containment and detainment of Pokemon released during the aforementioned incident was impossible to achieve without casualties due to the sheer number of them. Most people living here have flocked to the Nexus after getting fired or some other event that left them broke, so the place has become a sort of human dumpster. And it definitely looks the part. Delinquency is a rule there. Oh, and they also live in fear of Pokemon in this Nexus, though some have started changing opinions. What the future holds for this Nexus is unclear, but life is hard. People here tend to resent Space Aether for leaving them in this state and President Haether is working her very best to correct the mistakes of her predecessor.
The skies shine a bright red.

inhabitants (presumed over 3 million).

#03 - Kartantuan Jungle
The third Nexus presumed to only fall short from the title of the largest because of #00's expansive skies and #04's oceanic depths. It is a jungle made from trees and plants much largers than the ones you're used to. Ferns grow as tall as buildings and trees tear the skies. It is an unwelcome environment that humans have avoided for a long time, though some have opted to live their lives in peace there, away from the business of Space Aether, starting self-sufficient small tribal societies which live in treehouses high up on the tallest branches to avoid dangers below. Pokemon roam wild within this Nexus, as containment is impossible, and mostly consist of Flying, Bug and Grass types. The bountiful environment allows them to enjoy life in the jungle.
Over 99% of this Nexus is left unexplored as most expeditions fail. None of the actual tribal settlements have been discovered as of now.

inhabitants.

#04 - The Wailuda Triangle Resort
The majority of Nexus #04 is comprised of untamed, raging oceans. The only inhabitable segment of the Nexus's interior is a small triangle-shaped area around a big island called the Wailsland. Space Aether controls and regulates the weather here, making it stable. Meanwhile, in year 347, it has been remodeled into a popular resort where people from all other Nexuses can come and enjoy the charms of the seaside. There is an aquarium filled with Water-type Pokemon here open for public, though it is under heavy surveillance at all times, but what's really interesting about this Nexus are the unexplored depths. Using highly efficient Anti-Space probes, it has been estimated that the actual depth of this Nexus cannot be estimated in terms of human comprehension. An Alakazam died after being exposed to the computed results in an attempt by the Foundation to decipher them, after which further testing was prohibited.
Magikarp have been imported and can be fished in the waters here. The locals make a living out of it.
The Magikarp are chipped and, upon evolution, removed and brought into a containment preserve.
113 inhabitants.

#05 - Storage Site 00
The grim building in front of the constantly black skies used to be the Main Grid's main shipyard until it got scratched over 500 years ago and remade into a dump. Nobody goes there anymore except for janitors and there's not much to see anyways. Just a building full of trash. Oh, and Pokemon that have escaped during the incident 20 years ago. Exactly for this reason has it been ruled that janitors be given permission to carry their own Pokemon on them, a notion largely accepted by the majority of them as most of them were trying for the Cadet position at the Aether Academy anyways but failed.
0 inhabitans.

#06 - Space Aether Agricultural Lab Facility
Where berries are grown. Large farmlands adorn the horizon, dotted with white buildings - laboratories, and rows and rows of GMO berry trees. This is mostly a workplace for most of the people, nobody actually lives there and it isn't interesting at all. This used to be a butcherhouse for when Pokemon meat was still used as food, but not anymore as only synthesized meat is allowed to be used nowadays.
0 inabitants.

#07 - Las Spaceadise
A high-tech flashy city of casinos and all things neon. It is the playground of the privileged and only the rich can afford to live here. Most of its income comes from gambling facilities and fraud, and most of the people living here are con artists of some sort. Nothing seems to exist outside of city limits (only impenetrable and impassable darkness), but everything can exist within them. It is the place where desires come to fruition. Space Aether keeps out of its affairs because of the vast riches #07 has on its disposal. Pokemon Professor Banana lives here.
576,389 inhabitants.

#08 - The Crystal Forest
The newly discovered Nexus where the party fought their first battle against a Nexus Core. A place that appeared out of nowhere, where none aged nor felt hunger or fatigue, yet were at the same time being dragged into a painless crystalline slumber, their bodies petrifying. As such, the prevalent ‘organisms’ in this world were crystalline trees. The cycle of Life and Death was disturbed in this world, but had been calmed with the defeat of the Nexus Core and brought into balance again. As such, life is slowly resuming and the crystals are retreating, giving back that which they’ve taken.
This is also the Nexus where the party met Zeta, a mysterious young girl that helped lead them to the Core. She is knowledgeable about the folklore of old and spoke of a Tree of Life at the center of the world, having been told that by her father. However, who her father is is unknown yet.
An active effort has begun to populate #08 as well, and you should be expecting developments soon.

It takes around 30 minutes from one Nexus to another using the high speed Anti-Space Bus.
People constantly travel to their workplaces in another Nexus or Micro Nexus, so travelling between Nexuses has become an everyday phenomenon nobody really even talks about anymore except when complaining about ticket prices.

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THE MICRO GRID
The Micro Grid refers to all authorised Nexuses that fall out of the Main Grid categorization because of their smallness. These include Pokemon containment preserves, academies and stuff like prisons and mental hospitals.

***SPACE AETHER ACADEMY***
The Space Aether Academy is the leading facility for training new Space Aether Employees and its own Micro Nexus. Actually there are two of these, one for people with more money and the other one for people with less money. Of course, everything is better in the richer Academy, but the less expensive one is a good alternative for the less fortunate people. After all, the 2nd Academy has been built specifically to house those that could not pay the tuition for the more expesnive courses offered.

Everyone has to pass one of the courses offered at the Academy, as everyone works for Space Aether.

-> The Cadet Course
The most popular course taken in the Space Aether Academy, but also the most expensive one and the one with the highest fail rate.
Children can start the course at the ripe young age of 7, and finish it in 4 years minimum. Generally though, people apply when they're 11 and fail at least twice before completing the course at the age of 17.
The course does not accept anyone older than 21 and if you fail and you're older than 25, you cannot retake the year or the course. Applicants that fail, cannot afford the tuition, or are too old, become Space Aether Janitors. This happens to 75% of all the applicants. Yes, 75%.
At the end of the course, whether you went to the 1st or the 2nd Academy, you need to take the official Space Aether Employee Cadet Exam held at the HQ which consists of a written exam and, allegedly, a practical exam. Allegedly because you've only been put through the written exam and have already been given your IDs.
Who knows what kinda stuff is waiting for you or if the practical exam even exists.

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THE UNAUTHORISED GRID
The Unauthorised Grid refers to all Nexuses that have not been approved by Space Aether. Any new Nexus that appears is first branded as such before explored by Cadets and populated or given a purpose. Through history, mostly small ones have been popping up, but lately, their mean size has begun to grow. This is cause for concern, as larger Nexuses tend to hide many mysteries.

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THE INCIDENT
The incident that took place 20 years ago resulted in several containment and preservation facilities in the Micro Grid colliding with several Nexuses from the Main Grid (mainly #00 and #05), in an attempt made by a group calling themselves the Space Pokelluminati to reintroduce Pokemon and people while subsequently undermine Space Aether. The traces of the rebellion led the Space Aether Employee Detectives to Nexus #02 and caused its downfall.
Space Pokelluminati have not been heard of ever since.

...

THE LAST/LONE STAR
The Last Star is the last remaining astral body in the universe of Pokemon in Space. It is the brightest recorded star in history so far.
Ever since the Great Comsostrophe, humans (and Pokemon) have had an innate yearning towards the Star. It is unknown what causes this phenomenon.
Space Aether is currently attempting to send probes to reach the Star, but are getting no results.
It is general folklore that the Last Star holds the answer to everyone's prayers and has the power to change everything to how it used to be.

...

ANTI-SPACE
Anti-Space is a physical state in which nothing exists, not even Anti-Space itself. The only reason people can survive in the universe of Pokemon in Space is because of the Nexuses. Even Anti-Spaceships are infused with the same kind of energy as the Nexuses in order to prevent them from falling out of existence. This makes interstellar travel much more difficult and prevents the humanity from launching real expeditions towards the Last Star.

...

*MAKING YOUR CHARACTER*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / All along the Watchtower (OOC/Sign ups)

« on: July 16, 2018, 11:36:23 pm »

All along the Watchtower (OOC/Sign ups)

Far far away from the outskirts of the town of Astrakane, there lies an ancient stone watchtower that overlooks the vast Tiberian expanse. It is one of the hundreds that have been bought, built, and repaired by the Kingdom of Arcton, your homeland, to protect our many border towns from the despicable actions of the barbaric Breganites. These, as you know, are the very same barbarians whose near constant raids of our border towns have stifled our settlement efforts around the calraine point, and who have caused an unprecedented growth in power of the necrocults that reside in the area.

Each and every single one of you have heard that your predecessors were fine men and women, who had spent years of their lives to secure this area from the dreaded Breganite raiders!¹, and the skeletal armies of the forgotten dread emperor!² , before they promptly applied for a reassignment the day after the town of Ashar was taken and their watchtower suddenly became the first line of defense.

Leaving the five of you here, in an old watchtower that has seemingly lasted for long enough to see the rise and fall of civilizations, and yet which still remains standing desp- aaand there goes the roof….

This is going to be a long assignment.
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Essentially this RP would be centered around good old Watchtower #1013, where a group of wet behind the ears watchmen (I believe a more appropriate term for this day and age would be watch officer) have been assigned to patrol and watch over the entire damned area despite the fact that you are quite frankly nowhere near prepared for the task. Especially when you have been assigned in such a hectic time, with rumors of a bandit king rising up in the east, strange winds and foul omens indicating that something unnatural is occuring in the southern ruins. That and the fact that part of the roof had just collapsed on what was apparently a room full of mirrors lamp oil isn’t doing anyone any favors.

Then there is the fact that the world itself is fantastical in nature, thus causing the five of you to have to deal with magic and supernatural happenings on top of occasional barbarian raids, investigating merchants and other travellers, and fixing the damned roof before the rest of it collapses.

Under the hood (System)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Because I am secretly a lazy bastard there will only be four stats that conveniently also serves as HP bar equivalents, they are:
Dexterity: An abstraction of how much grace and precision your character can put into their movements. This stat is taken into consideration whenever you need to do something is physical and mostly focused on dexterity and precision. Damage dealt to this stat will usually involve some form head trauma, the damaging of limbs, or just plain old exhaustion.

Awareness: An abstraction of how aware you are of your surroundings and how grounded you are in reality. This stat is taken into consideration whenever you enter into a new situation, inspect an object or your surrounding area, or when you need to gather up the mental fortitude necessary to fight off magical effects. Damage dealt to this stat will usually involve some form of head trauma, poisons, drinking too much liquor, being affected by certain types of magic, or being near some particularly annoying people for an extended period of time.

Strength: An abstraction of your physical strength and endurance. This stat is taken into consideration whenever you need to lift heavy objects, perform feats of athleticism for an extended period of time, not have a heart attack from running for an hour straight because why, or when you just need to clock someone on the face. Damage dealt to this stat will generally involve the same things as Dexterity.

Intelligence: Literally just a measure of how intelligent your character is and their memory retention. This stat is taken into consideration whenever you need to uh, study the proper way to salute just before the inspectors come by, remember something you’ve heard of a while ago, design a new roof, figure out what the hell that was and why did it breathe fire, identify poisons and plant life, identify poisonous plant life, or gain hints on how to talk to someone to try and convince them to see your side on things. Damage dealt to this stat will generally involve the same things as Awareness.

Running out of a stat isn’t always an instant death sentence, as there is always the chance that one of your party members might strike the killing blow and drag you the fuck out of there before it is much too late, but chances are you are still going to be heavily damaged in some shape or form by the event, and recovering out here in the borderlands will be a pain in the ass.

For the most part you will recover stats by being an actual human person and recognizing the need to just… stop from time to time to bind your wounds, stop your stomach from grumbling, slake that thirst of yours, or just getting some sleep. Although of course while there are some magical items that could help with stat recovery, none of you currently have any.

Then of course there is the matter of skills, which can best be described as things noted on your sheet as things you can actually do that grant relevant knowledge based on the subject in character, and be taken into consideration whenever an action involving it is performed (be it through the occasional roll or just a standard assessment of the situation), and your level of proficiency in a skill is marked from novice to mastery, with various in between levels that I have definitely marked out in advance already.

There is also the matter of Magical artifacts actually, but I'll talk about them once you actually get one.

Character Sheet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Credits

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The game will be played on Discord in the following server, click there to find out more.
https://discord.gg/Jcudzpu

^1. Who back then were a bunch of disorganized tribes that were known to enter into battle wielding nothing but a sharpened fruit
^2. Who was just a depressed teenager loitering in the nearby crypt with a borrowed necromancy 101 book

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Seattle Dawn: Full Metal Justice IC Chapter 2: Snake Eyes

« on: July 17, 2017, 11:08:43 am »

OOC: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=164864.0

Right now you are falling down onto the streets of Seattle, and your respective HUD's are blaring warnings as you started to approach the small window of opportunity you have to land in a suitably flashy and patriotic manner..instead of splashing down on the pavement and making yourself easy pickings for even the weakest member of the Coup d'etat forces.

As you enter the window another and much more clear message flashes into your respective HUD's, it simply stated "Current Goal: Land Safely and Patriotically down in the streets of Seattle", and with a flick of a switch every single one of your mechs activated their single use "P.A.T.R.I.O.T." safe landing systems, and the dreary Seattle skies were filled with an explosion of color...as the sweet sweet sound of music filled the air...( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRn9chmRAY).

But of course as you know from the mission briefing, all this will do is make your descent much more patriotic and much more controlled, and you have just enough thrust and time to try and slow your descent down onto the rough Seattle streets by either:

>Rushing towards a nearby skyscraper, just do your best to use whatever passes as your hands or another relatively sharp object to slide technically safely down to the ground, at the cost of defacing and probably destroying an entire skyscraper by yourself.
>Using the remaining thrust to propel yourself upwards just enough for the fall to hopefully be bearable for your bones and your mech's leg systems
>(Only available if you can fly) Just fucking turn up your engines some more and use the remaining fuel in the landing system to turn the music up to 11

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Seattle Dawn: Full Metal Justice OOC (Sign Ups Open 6/8)

« on: July 15, 2017, 07:20:17 am »

Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5A0pg4oN8
Discord: https://discord.gg/tQAP9nG
Active IC Thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=164889.0

By the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, freedom was dead in America.

Beginning with a large scale coup d'etat lead by the entire senate, the rebels quickly seized power in all the central institutions of government

The entire nation appear to have fallen completely into the hands of the coup d'etat forces. However, one final hope in opposing the coup d'etat forces remained.

This final hope being the Cabinet of the United States itself.

Equipped with special mobile armored ops suit developed in secret by the newly renamed FREEDOM formerly known as DARPA, they boldly waged their own 'personal' war, to take back America's freedom.

Your mission if you choose to accept it, will be to don the customized pieces of highly advanced and obviously extremely expensive mechas and to fight for freedom, liberty, and the American way! By literally fighting for said beliefs against rogue US Senators and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (note: Trump actually isn't a thing in this game, I just wanted to make that joke anyway).

The system will be rules-lite combat with a simple set of five values you can attune your character to by spending points on them. You gain more attunement points in the five values by doing enough things related to them on a mission.

Spoiler: Values (Stats) (click to show/hide)

Independence (Speed as in freedom of movement): "I KNOW WHAT IS BEST AND I WILL DO WHAT I THINK IS RIGHT!" Rejection of outside influences and desire to make their own way through life. Power it up by stubbornly refusing to do anything but cling on to your beliefs while preaching it, or by destroying a thing you just plain don't like. Don't worry, you're not stubborn or anything, you're just headstrong.

Mechs that are attuned with Independence have absolutely nothing in common with each other design wise for obvious reasons, although they do have a tendency to be extremely hard to pin down due to their fast movements.

Competitiveness (Sleek and efficient generalist parts): "I WILL BE BETTER THAN YOU MIKE! LOOK AT HOW FAST I CAN RUN WHEN COMPARED TO YOU!" Desire to be the better person in every way, and thus governs all form of competition, including economic competition) tl;dr uplift this value and independence highly if you want to be the Minister of Commerce, and also a dick.

Mechs that are primarily attuned with the value of competitiveness tend to be colored a deep shade of crimson, and the mech’s pilot will always do their best to make whatever equipment they have on that part at the bleeding edge of what is possible, while keeping costs as low as possible.

Fervor (Over the top weaponry): "WAVE THAT FLAG! WAVE IT HARDER!" Hot-bloodedness and belief in AMERICA and belief in your own justice. Or aliens. Or chemtrails. Whatever floats your boat really. I have nothing bad to say about this value.

Mechs primarily attuned to fervor comes in red white and blue, and are often seen with excessively patriotic weaponry and or decorations, if your thing looks like an American flag and/or has a durable speaker blaring out country and jazz music out loud, it is a Fervor part. They favor legs for mobility as while they are the least efficient kind of propulsion, it is also the one that allows you to mount the most patriotic decorations.

Endeavor (Wildcards): "THAT CHALLENGE IS ONE THAT WE ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT... AND ONE WE INTEND TO WIN" Governs the desire to do and experience new activities and things for primarily non economic reasons, power it up by doing things you haven't done before or experiencing things you haven't experienced before, and encouraging people to do the same, or by raiding wilderness stores and attaching everything to yourself.

You honestly can’t describe a mech that is primarily attuned with endeavor without the words “A spectacular feat of true American ingenuity” and often a unique and often snarky comment about its spectacular failure a few moments later.

Self-righteousness (The sweet sound of -TINK-): When you believe that what you think is correct, and that what everyone who doesn't believe in the same thing as yours is wrong, then it is quite obvious that you would want to impose your values on others to make them do exactly what you want, through any means necessary. Power it up by getting weapons, attempting to intimidate others into doing what you want, and spending time complaining about how things would be better if people did things your way.

A mech that is primarily attuned with self-righteousness will have parts that are heavily armored and insulated against the opinions of others. Self-righteousness mechs favor treads as their method of transportation, as it provides them with a strong and stable platform to launch their attacks with.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Credits (click to show/hide)

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Roll To Dodge / Lowlife, a Shadowrun RTD Mission 0: The Park Job (Sign ups still open)

« on: May 23, 2017, 11:12:30 am »

"There are many reasons why a man becomes a Shadowrunner in Grimdark Neo Seattle, but who gives a flying fuck anyway? I am paying you to kill someone, not drone on and on about your life story, so sit down, shut up, and let me tell you about your next target"
"Your real names are not important to me, and anyone blabbing about their real names on the job will be forcibly retired. So pick a code name, it can be any damn thing you want, and I don't particularly care if you got it off of an old cereal box or a secret language that you made up as a child and shared to no one else. Just don't expect me to not laugh when I find out that you named yourself "Freety Halfwinks" or some other weird ass name.
To put it simply you are my expendable agents, the glamorous looking foot soldiers in the many secret wars going on literally everywhere in the world. Your missions will be weird, varied, and often dangerous, One week you are facing off against Jungle commandos to get some stock footage for a weird ripoff of most Vietnamese war trids in existence, and maybe the next month we'll ship you off to good old Tokyo to retrieve a prototype di- You know what, I don't think you're ready for that one.
But look on the bright side, If you survive long enough to line your virtual pockets with yellow and spend it wisely , you may survive long enough for retirement! And probably live long enough to enjoy it for all of five weeks before some script kiddie steals your hard earned millions and spread it around to a bunch of poor people, most of whom will mysteriously be found dead next to a pile of syringes with various colorful names like "Cram" written on it."

If you know what the word Cyberpunk means, then you probably know what Shadowrun is, and like it as much as Gibson does for combining Cyberpunk with Tolkien, but before you leave....are you at all interested in a silly little RTD where the entire goal is to strive for ever greater heights with your constantly changing array of characters and watching most if not all of them die horribly before getting anywhere near the goal? Then this is the game for you.

A shorter plot hook would be that in a profession where a bunch of people do skeezy shit for untrustworthy bastards, you are the guys that do the jobs that most of them wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole even if the reward for said job was a diamond encrusted in an odd mixture of gold and platinum that is being fanned and lovingly buffed by an array of nubile shapes, the diamond can also be used as a seat.

The System: Because apparently I needed one

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

An RTD with a 1d12, I know, how original.
1-2 YOU FUCKING FAIL! “LUDICROUS GIBS! LUDICROUS GIBS!”
3-4 Fail, nothing happened “So as you tried to quietly sneak past the guard you slipped and fell on several mouse traps that snap painfully on your everything.”
5-6 Partial Success/Average Oh hey you almost got what you wanted this time.
7-8 Success “The thing you wanted to happen happened”
9-10 Epic Success “You chopped the guy’s head off, and also the heads of the five people standing next to him, you think none of them was a teammate”
11-12 Overshot “LUDICROUS GIBS! LUDICROUS GIBS! But not applied to you for once”
13+ SUPER OVERSHOT “THE GIBS HAVE GONE INTO PLAID, SIR.” Roll again you poor dumb bastard….

Combat is you rolling against what the other guy is doing, the one with the highest roll wins unless the both of you somehow roll an Epic Fail or just a Fail in which case you manage to hit yourselves with your own weapons.
You always start out with three wounds, a Success deals 1 wound, and Epic Success deals 2 wounds, an Overshot deals 2 wounds to the target and one wound to a random target that just might be you.
An Epic fail means making a separate roll for damaging yourself, much laughter might be had the moment someone Epically fails to Epically fail.

Every wound you have lost is a -1 to all rolls, so a person with 2 wounds left has a -1, 1 wounds left is -2, and so on and so forth until you have -3 wounds left and just die.

Equipment can and will provide bonuses to your rolls that are called Ratings, everyone starts with two +1 Piece of equipment and three more +0 Equipment that does nothing but allow you to do an action related to that piece of equipment.
The best equipment provides a +3 to a roll. No matter how many bonuses you have a roll of 1 is always a fail and a roll of 12 is always an overshot.
The equipment can be literally anything you think of, just don’t complain about being shot to death when you waltz into combat armed with nothing but YOUR SENSE OF FASHION!.

Racial Options: Because I like writing fluff that won’t get read because you chose Dwarf

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Humanity: Look in a mirror for christ’s sake, do I really need to explain what a Human is to you? Well we’re dicks, just like everyone else….and there is more of us present in the world than any other race. Because we were the first race in the sixth world, and the only race in the fifth.
(Likeliness to get into Dante’s score) L.T.G.I.D.S..: For lack of a better word…..boring, there’s like a million of you in Seattle or something. What do you have to offer anyway? Oh right money sorry Sir. 7/10 with Money, -Pi/10 without money

Dwarves: ((OOC: They make the best alcoholic drinks, do you really need a more detailed explanation?))
Oh hey! I almost didn’t see you there...sorry. It’s just that you guys are everywhere you know? Not as plentiful as Orcs or Humans, but there is literally nothing differentiating you guys from us other than your broad shoulders, pointy ears, and hardiness. What do you mean by “You’re trying to not talk about our short height”?. What do you mean by “You should go fuck yourself with a rake”?....SECURITY!
Don’t comment about their lack of height, praise their beards if male and they like to follow stereotypes whenever you get the chance, and don’t find it weird when they get all of the higher end maintenance jobs.
L.T.G.I.D.S.: You are probably going to get kicked out of most high end establishments the moment you get drunk, but Dante’s is the sort of place to find your drunken shouting and axing of things to be entertaining, so it all balances out in the end. When Drunk 10/10, Sober 4/10.

Elves: ((OOC: The following short description is completely and utterly true))
A wise man once said something about Elves “They’re the yuppies and vegans of the past, except with magic and somehow snobbier….may God save us all…”.
They look like regular human beings but slenderer, their hair is naturally better than most….just please make your Elf a Macho Sideburned one if you somehow decide to pick this race.
An unsurprising amount of them are Native American or From the formerly Irish land of Tír na nÓg, but they can be of any race or nationality to be honest.
L.T.G.I.D.S. Let’s face it, you’re the kind of snob that would belong there if you had any form of money, which you don’t. 5/10 With Money, 7/10 With money and attractive clothing, 1/10 Without Money.

Orcs: ((OOC: There is nothing stopping you from making an intelligent Orken mechanic))
“I find it weird that every metahuman race that isn’t humanity has pointy ears….An Ork is just a Human with tusks and a broader frame. Everyone thinks they are quite dumb, and that is true because everyone thinks that they are dumb.”
Orcs are the second most common race, they are just that good at procreating! They also look like regular human beings until puberty when their dermal deposits of keratin grow and their bone structure changes. Just like the Trolls. This is unsurprisingly painful, but oddly enough not very deadly….everyone calls the process “Goblinization”, but nobody calls Orcs or Trolls “Goblins”, mostly because they don’t want to associate you with those ape like disease carriers in front of you.
L.T.G.I.D.S.: You uh, have a very big…. 7/10 in Shorts, 5/10 in anything else.

Troll: ((OOC: No, not the internet kind)) “Well look on the bright side….you probably shrug off shotgun wounds anyway right? And she didn’t look that hot either man….I know you went to a nightclub to pick a girl up man, but I think we should just go home.”.
Trolls have an average height of 9.2”, they also have cutaneous horns on their head than can appear in a lot of different and uncomfortable looking forms. You also have tusks.
Trolls have the highest mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy, they are just that hated. They also look like regular human beings until puberty when their dermal deposits of keratin grow and their bone structure changes. Just like the Orcs. This is unsurprisingly painful, but oddly enough not very deadly….everyone calls the process “Goblinization”, but nobody calls Orcs or Trolls “Goblins”, mostly because they don’t want any of their bones broken..

L.T.G.I.D.S.: You can come in through the backdoor, make sure to grab that bottle on the table and apply vigorous amounts of it. 7/10.

Although to be brutally honest you can probably skip most of that not very long section, because let’s face it you’re playing a dwarf.

Character Sheet: Because this wouldn’t work without one

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Example Character Sheet: Because they’re quick and easy to make

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

First mission will be out the day after enough warm bodies arrive to get bullets put into them or in other words Thursday because I am free on Thursday again for some odd reason.
Also when the time comes make sure to post your sheet with your action, I do not want to shift through the thread for your shi-I mean sheet.

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