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[ATHATH]

Name: Malabus
Class: Shifter (Sameshift, Fleshshift)
Appearance: A mage in dark robes. Due to a previous fleshshifting... "incident", his face and physical features are constantly, slowly, and involuntarily changing. It only takes a few minutes for his appearance to change completely.
Spirit Animal: Human
Mana: 3/3 (Goes down by one for every turn you use magic. If you don't do magic for a turn or Push, resets to full.)
Push: 0/0 (Increases by 1 every time you Push. Each push, if a die roll is the same or under this number BEFORE increasing, something unpredictable may happen. Left number is your minimum push. Every time you rest your push gets cut in half, but it can never be decreased below its new level.)
Attributes: Charismatic+, Overconfident
Inventory: 2 horses, a horse-drawn carriage (being pulled by the horses), trunk-sized blob of technically-living flesh (in the carriage), wooden staff, black robes, rations (in the carriage), camping supplies (in the carriage), torches (in the carriage), 11 foot pole (in the carriage)
Advancements:

[Egan_BW]

I don't think you can pick Human as your spirit animal. I'd prefer if you only listed stuff in your inventory that you can actually carry on your person, because the other stuff isn't going to be very useful in a fight. Don't worry, I'll make sure you guys don't run out of food.

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler: why am I doing this in my own forum game, before even starting? Don't expect to get 9 answers out of me every day. (click to show/hide)

What does "hopefully minimizing harm" mean? like, only maiming instead of outright killing?

It means that you've modified it so that it doesn't kill the subject. Normally this is supposed to be done on a corpse, and it injects toxic chemicals that liquify the target's insides like a spider's venom, making the extraction faster.

What kind of 'unpredictable results' are we talking here? simple level of harm to the target, or like, could cause mana explosions or turn frogs into fairies or some shit?

You haven't tested it, you don't know. It could be something minor, it could do nothing, it could tear a hole in reality and summon super-cthulhu and his maids. The least one is less likely, but you won't know until you try.

does the mana shield recharge the suit's batteries, or just the shield itself? (dev thinks it charges the shield itself only,. in which case, fuck it, I want something else)

It charges the shield itself. Did you think I would let you power your batteries infinitely off of people casting at you?

Why didn't our ancestors breed magical creatures instead of exterminating them?

Because Arcane Beasts don't reproduce.

Did each world we visit have one type of magical creature, or several?

Several.

Why is our initial reaction to the only humans ever to have mana "kill them, take their blood?" This seems out of character for a civilization that accepts tribal people. It also seems counterintuitive for a civilization who is heavily reliant on such a resource - discovering the (apparently) first renewable source of it, to start out by murder. Please note that you have already approved an item that absorbs mana from a source other than blood.

Do you think you understand how this fantasy space civilization thinks? And no, I haven't.

Did we get dropped that close to the most technologically advanced, powerful city on the planet, for a blood harvesting operation? Wouldn't it make more sense t odrop us, like, literally anywhere else? Especially some distant village cut off from it's neighbors?

That is indeed exactly what happened. You didn't drop near the city.

How much arcana does a nonmage on this world yield, if killed and drained fully? How much does a mage yield in the same way?
How much is needed to power the ship out of system? How many people would need harvested?

I don't have numbers for these, nor do I need them. Nonmages yield the same amount as mages, but don't provide mech upgrades. Each person is worth substantially more than 100, and the amount needed to power the ship is in entirely different units; it's not worth trying to compare them.

I'd like an official GM response to each question, even if that answer is "That's secret."

What you'd like is not always what I'll give you. This is why RTD has a GM and dice, unlike the FG&RP freeform games.

[Egan_BW]

Our cast, as things stand:

Spoiler: Malcolm - Charismatic Hardsuit pilot (click to show/hide)

Name: Malcolm "Romeo" Vertix
Class: Hardsuit.
Appearance: Blue eyed, blond haired, and clearly takes care of his appearance.  A friendly and carefree guy who naively became a pilot purely to hook up with 'alien' chicks, and who's quick to brag about his womanizing, not that he's actually had any success.  He's never been particularly good at hunting either, but most of his superiors like him and tend to give him more leeway than his peers.  That's how he ended up getting selected for first contact, in fact.
Mech Appearance: Pretty basic and boring, just the standard steel gray, with the only modifications being some gold trim and three small hearts drawn on the lower right side of his helmet.  The hearts have had large cracks drawn through their center, a prank by his squadmates.
Arcane: 100/100
Attributes:
   Charismatic
   Resistant
   Merciful
Inventory:
   Semi-automatic anti-materiel sniper rifle (3A)
   Fully-automatic drum-fed shotgun (2A)
   Smart missile launcher (5A)

   Snubnose Shot Revolver
Upgrades:

Spoiler: X4-18 - Silent Titan Pilot (click to show/hide)

Name: X4-18
Class: Titan
Appearance: A gruff and muscular man, he constantly wears combat armor and a full face helmet with gasmask except when alone.
Mech Appearance: Gunmetal grey and mechanical. An older design which can't move as fast, but is quite flexible, able to swivel the whole torso 360 degrees.
Arcane: 100/100
Attributes:
   Unrelenting
   Engineer
   Overconfident
Inventory:
   Twin Miniguns (4A each)
   Missile battery (7A)

   Infantry Rifle
   Gas Mask
   Personal Armor
Upgrades:

Spoiler: Arturus - Mad Doctor Hardsuit Pilot (click to show/hide)

Name: Doctor Arturus
Class: Modified Hardsuit
Appearance: Tall, thin, with piercing black eyes encased in thin, wireframed glasses, a long sharp nose, thin lips and pointed chin. He wears white, with silver highlights. White dress uniform, white flowing cloak, white gloves
Mech Appearance: All white, with red highlights, notable among them the big red cross on the back and sleeves
Arcane: 100/100
Attributes:
   Medic
   Armorer
   Merciful
Inventory:
   Mana Absorption Shield (0A if you successfully absorb an attack, 2A if not hit)
   Modified Arcane Extractor (0A)
   Medical Suite (2A)
Upgrades:

Spoiler: "Aigresaur" - Berzerker Titan Pilot (click to show/hide)

Name: Aigresaur
Class: Titan
Appearance: An unkempt man in a green dinosaur onesie. His eyes are a striking blue and his beard an impressive brown, possibly due to not being washed regularly. He seems functional as a pilot, but he believes that he is a dinosaur and doesn't talk in complete sentences.
Mech Appearance: A standard mech painted with a feather pattern reminiscent of a dinosaur. There is a rather massive cannon mounted on the back.
Arcane: 100/100
Attributes:
   Unrelenting
   Resistant
   Blood-lusty
Inventory:
   Spinal Plasma Cannon (15A)
   Point Defence Cannons (4A)
   Big Chompy Dinosaur Maw (4A)

   Crate of Beef Jerky
   Jerry can of ultra-caffeinated caramel soda
   Infantry Rifle
   Personal Armor
Upgrades:

Spoiler: Donnel - Medic Weaponmaster (click to show/hide)

Name: Donnel Adderson
Class: Weaponmaster (Razor Buckler)
Appearance: Pale skinned with brown eyes tinged with sea green, and messy brown hair with a goatee. He is average sized but on the thin side muscle-wise. He typically wears a gray and tunic and trouser pair with his spirit animal, an octopus, embroidered in green on the back.
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Attributes:
   Quick witted
   Medic
   Merciful
Inventory:
   Soulbound steel buckler shield with razor sharp edges
   Steel chainmail hauberk
   Steel-capped quarterstaff
   Medical supplies
Advancements:

Spoiler: Tanya - Vulpine Shifter (click to show/hide)

Name: Tanya Xelcarostia
Class: Shifter (Selfshifter / Lightshifter)
Appearance: Brown eyes, tan skin, brown hair bound in a ponytail,  with moderately angular facial features. Short ad thinly built, with splotchy brown leather clothing. Spirit animal - swift fox.
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Attributes:
   Aware
   Spiritual
   Frail
Inventory:
   Silent Marksman's Rifle
   First aid kit
   Travel pack with food/water/survival gear
   3 harmless smoke grenades
   1 white phosphorus incendiary smoke grenade
Advancements: None

Spoiler: Thomas, Blinded Weaponmaster (click to show/hide)

Name: Thomas Blackshroud
Class: Weaponmaster (Daggermacewhip)
Appearance: Thomas Blackshroud looks every bit the weaponmaster, pitch black hair, pitch black eyes(he wears contacts, they do stop him from seeing, but that's irrelevant...), black leather armor, black boots, black gloves... His Spirit Animal is the Bat
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Attributes:
   Aware
   Unrelenting
   Blind
Inventory:
   Black Getup
   Soul-Bound Daggermacewhip
   3 Smoke Bombs
Advancements:

Spoiler: Malabus - Fleshy Shifter (click to show/hide)

Name: Malabus
Class: Shifter (Sameshift, Fleshshift)
Appearance: A mage in dark robes. Due to a previous fleshshifting... "incident", his face and physical features are constantly, slowly, and involuntarily changing. It only takes a few minutes for his appearance to change completely.
Spirit Animal: Chimp
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Attributes:
   Charismatic+
   Overconfident
Inventory:
   Black Robes
   Wooden Staff
   Rat in a Cage
   Lantern
   Travel pack with food/water/survival gear
Advancements:

Please read your own sheets. I've formatted them all consistently and modified a few things that I thought didn't fit.

[Lenglon]

Looks good.

[Ozarck]

Only, quit calling him a mad doctor.

[Lenglon]

Oz, I'm pretty sure the spacefaring civ your character is from has been given generational disinformation, and the questions you're asking should be asked and answered in-character, not out of it.

Also, you're coming across as a mite agressive. You might want to step it back a touch.

[Ozarck]

-snip-

alright, on advice from
Syv in IRC PMS
Devastator in IRC
Radio_Controlled in IRC
Lenglon here

This is me dialing it back.

I am disappoint.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Edits! I'm not unkept! Nor a man!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Aigresaur
Class: Titan
Appearance: A cute nubile youth in a green dinosaur onesie. His eyes are a striking blue and his beard an impressive brown, possibly due to not being washed regularly. He seems functional as a pilot, but he believes that he is a dinosaur and doesn't talk in complete sentences.
Mech Appearance: A standard mech painted with a feather pattern reminiscent of a dinosaur. There is a rather massive cannon mounted on the back.
Arcane: 100/100
Attributes:
   Unrelenting
   Resistant
   Blood-lusty
Inventory:
   Spinal Plasma Cannon (15A)
   Point Defence Cannons (4A)
   Big Chompy Dinosaur Maw (4A)

   Crate of Beef Jerky
   Jerry can of ultra-caffeinated caramel soda
   Infantry Rifle
   Personal Armor
Upgrades:

[ATHATH]

Yup, my sheet looks good.

That's quite a leap of logic. A rather broad assumption. A valid possibility, but by no means a direct answer, nor a canon one.

And I am asking what my character knows IC, since all we have to go on is the OP, which suggests a Civ open to human inclusiveness, but immediately, murderously hostile to this particular lot of humans. To the point of not even considering alternative methods of fueling their ship but Straight up slaughter.

Seems a tad discontinuous. A little fishy. A mite bit odd. A question worth asking before wholesale murder.

And to whom should I ask, in character? We're already on the ground, in combat suits, ready to reap. Should I ask my teammates, whose answer is sure to be "i'unno?"
Should I ask your character, whose answer is sure to be "how the hell should i know?" (if her answer isn't a knife in the back so as to take my arcana for upgrades - the stated IC goal of all characters).

Relax, I am going to ask those questions IC. In fact, consider my questions all IC. Because they were. They were directed at the .... whoever the hell has been making these decisions and telling these stories. We are given an OP that states "In general you guys seem to have friendly relations with other humans, except when two ships need the same resources. BUT NOW! Kill them all."

But the only person in the game apparently capable of answering them is the GM, regardless of whether he does it IC or OOC.
And aggression is my response to "sit down, shut up, do as I tell you, don't ask questions."

What did you think that I made a diplomat for?

[Dustan Hache]

looks good.

[MidnightJaguar]

Name: Ferrus Veteris
Class: Battle gear
Appearance: A grizzled man with a scar over one eye and and hair that's just beginning to go gray. A veteran of a number of battles of the mech wars, he is noted for his skill as a mechanic frequently working on his own battle gear after the battle. Recently he has also taken up working accounts of skill both his own and those of his fallen comrades into the practical camouflage of his mech. Don't taunt him about it, he doesn't take it well. While he used to have a reputation for always wanting to be on the front lines and directly covering mechs as he made rapid repairs now a days he mostly is known to hang back and use his drones to repair them.
Mech Appearance: A battle gear that bears the marks of many battles, each of which has been repaired with varying degrees of competency and care, the welding at times elegant and paint job of mottled green with subtle designs of hypogryths and manticores worked into bearing either skilled artistry or the basest of apprenticeships. It's drones are similarly marked up, kept in excellent repair but clearly bear the marks of beasts and bullets.
Arcane: 100/100 (Decreases slightly every turn, when you use weapons, and when you perform certain other actions.)
Attributes: engineer, mercy, Wise
Inventory: A misslelauncher with a set of micro missles capable of bursting from it if it misses. Mid range weapon. He also has two drones, both of which are made for repair as well as having a light machine gun for personal defense. Inside of his cockpit, his sidearm is similarly practical and adaptable, a futuristic submachine gun.
Upgrades:

[Ozarck]

Cmon, cmon, let's go, let's go. I haven't slept in 24 hours and am jittery. Let's ring this planet like a bell.

[Dustan Hache]

Game dead before arrival?

[Lenglon]

Game dead before arrival?

You're being hasty. I trust Egan.