The Gang of Five
Role Play => Random Role Play => Finished RP's => Topic started by: Serris on October 30, 2009, 03:07:04 AM
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Here, the 3rd part of Darwin's Soldiers can be discussed. What has happened since the second RP ended, the fate of Pelvanida, etc.
It is also the place for plot twists and character profiles to be placed after the RP starts.
So far here is what is confirmed:
It is more "wide ranging" (based off the Insane Cafe 3 and LB&T's Pavlov's Checkmate). This means that the characters are not confined to a certain area. Makes sense because they have to search for the lab. So will be scenes of the characters in hotel rooms, stores, gas stations or whatnot.
It is set not in Nevada, but in Washington or Oregon state.
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ok so our group is still chasing after them..with the army chasing after them as well I take it?
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I like this idea. It'll be fun letting the characters explore different locations; the outdoors is one place that we don't get to see much in Darwin's Soldiers.
What are we thinking should be the title?
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Well the military ends up taking a lot of flak for what happened at Pelvanida and they do not want to attract even more trouble by pursuing Dragonstorm, at least officially.
I have not decided on the title yet.
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Darwins Solders 3 :Endgame?
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I am not sure about that title because, for all I know there may be another sequel but I am leaning towards the fact that this will be the end of the DS trilogy.
I also want a name to tie in with the "Darwin's" theme.
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I'll quote my submission from the "Ask Me" section:
Another option is Darwin's Soldiers 3: Disruptive Selection. Look it up on Wikipedia: It's when natural selection weeds out the individuals of a species that are average or "middle", leaving only the two extremes of the spectrum. For the last two RPs, there have been neutral scientists working in Pelvanida. Once James' team finds and attacks Lab 101, there will be no middle ground; every participant is either Dragonstorm or anti-Dragonstorm.
Plus, James' team is being disruptive, and selecting which side wins.
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Darwin's Soldiers III: Disruptive Selection does work and it is considered a "finalist" for the name.
Also, LB&T, I liked how you had James hide out in a dingy motel in Pavlov's Soldiers.
I can picture this RP being the longest as there is less focus on combat and more focus on exploring.
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i like the title.. i'll try and see if i can't come up with a suitable title myself..
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Sorry I disappeared from DS2. My team is in this, and I do intend to see this through. Plus, who knows? Maybe I'll slip some...dark figures from the past of each in... Heheh...
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That is fine. I will try and work in a justification for what happened to your team or you can do that.
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Snow and Neku have never gotten together...I know it's hard because they're controlled by separate authors, but it'd be really cool if we could actually resolve that plotline in DS3.
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Well as Caustizer wanted, here's a character/species list:
Note that this is not an exhaustive list but a list of the important ones.
Serris
Dr. James Zanasiu - Human - scientist
Zachary Steven Johnson - Clydesdale - scientist
Dr. Yuri Kerzach - Cassowary - scientist (Note: On board Lab 101)
Alfred Byford - Bison - construction worker (falls under same rules as scientists)
Dr. Keith Bailey - Australian Monitor Lizard - scientist
Magneto - Iguana - Dragonstorm experiment (Note: died in 2nd RP)
Nick22
Aisha Tennes - Human - scientist
Dr. Micah Landon - Human - scientist
StarfallRaptor
Kagetora - Human - ninja (falls under same category as soldier) (Note: Fate unknown)
Cale - Chameleon - Psi-experiment (Note: Fate unknown)
Neku - Iguana (?) - Psi-experiment (Note: Fate unknown)
Lt. Roy Hawkeye - Hawk - Cyber-experiment (Note: Fate unknown)
Agito - Human - Psi-experiment (Note: Fate unknown)
Slash - Wolf - Psi-experiment (Note: Fate unknown)
LB&T
Dr. Rudyard Shelton - Human - scientist (Note: In Lab 101)
Caustizer
Sgt. Fredrick Rodger Clyco - Human - soldier
Noname
Cpl. Thomas Stern - Human - soldier
Mirumoto_Kenjiro
Dr. Josephine Smithson "Dr. Joe" - Human - scientist (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
Victor "Vic" Summers - Human - soldier (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
Snow - White German Shepherd - psi-experiment (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
Aiko - Akita - soldier (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
Feral Jones - Anthromorphic Panther - soldier (NOTE: Died at end of 2nd RP)
Ariol - Human - Dragonstorm soldier (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
X-278 - Fennec Fox - psi-experiment (Fate unknown)
Deathwind - Wasp - Dragonstorm experiment (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
The Public
Werner Donitz - Human - scientist
Hans Donitz - Human - soldier
Dean Nixon - Human - cook (falls under same rules as scientists)
Dr. Arnold Greene - Ostrich - scientist
Dr. Allan Falco - Falcon - scientist (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
Dr. John Volkowitz - Human - scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Dr. Klaus Ostermann - Human - scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Dr. Erik Bjurling - Lemur - scientist (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
PFC Christopher Reynolds - Human - soldier
Wayne Anthony - Human - scientist
Dr. Bradley - Bengal Tiger - scientist
Riley - Human - Scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Ridley - Falcon - Converted Dragonstorm experiment (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Keegan O'Neill - Shire Horse - Dragonstorm scientist
Dr. Nicholas Jeston "Dr. Theodore Rawlson" - Lemming - Dragonstorm scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Lester Montgomery - Beagle - Dragonstorm scientist
Howard Hicks - Human - Dragonstorm scientist (Note: died in 2nd RP)
This will be updated as the situation demands.
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Hmm...Plot development for Hawkeye ahead...
He'll have integrated what was left of Ridley into his armor, creating a much more powerful set of gear. He also will occasionally start self-pluralizing.
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So far, who's participating in this RP?
Serris, Nick22, LB&T, StarfallRaptor are the ones who are confirmed.
Caustizer and Noname?
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I have been thinking that it would be neat if the Darwin's Soldiers stories were set in a Red Alert-eske Universe. You know, having the American government be dogs while the Soviets are bears, and having a bit of a cold war going on. Dragonstorm could be a secretly funded Soviet project to steal American technology...
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That sounds like an interesting idea but that does not quite make sense because there all species of anthros in this universe. Not to mention, I think it was mentioned that Dragonstorm was a secret experiment sanctioned by some military branch of the government.
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I will try to stay in this rp this time.
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Yay! f-22's back! We kept your characters involved, and you can even help wrap up this RP if you feel like!
I don't like the idea of using species to represent different nationalities, because every main character except Shelton and Clyco have been revealed to be American, plus every other time I've seen a story do this there seems to be unavoidable hints of racism, even if the author didn't intend it (as I know you didn't, Cautizer.) I'm just reminded of a certain furry comic called Better Days, which was anything but.
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I'M IN!!! Since I will be there at the start of it, I should be able to stay with the plot more... that, and I should have more time by the time it begins in my real-life schedule.
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You seem to have missed the core idea... I wasn't suggesting that all nations be run race-wise, I was suggesting that Darwin's Soldiers take place in the Red Alert universe. It's not that different from the normal one, except that the Soviet Union is still around and tons of impossible technology exists (judging from some of the weapons procured so far it wouldn't be that much of a stretch.
Also, there seems to be lots of implied things about Dragonstorm... like how they are secretly a government funded organization. If they are funded by the US Military, then they aren't exactly breaking the law are they? The good guys are the ones breaking the law for trying to stop them.
Back to my idea... if this takes place in a Red Alert universe there can be a bit more Dynamism in the military forces apart from normal tanks and guns. It would also make Dragonstorm less cliche and more interesting if they were funded by the Soviets.
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There could be a plot twist with Dragonstorm they find later in the 3rd RP: Dragonstorm IS funded by a foreign country
And I am trying to keep this kind towards the "hard science fiction" area... Red Alert is not hard SF.
Strangely enough, DS is part soft SF and part hard SF. The X-Men styled powers are the soft part. The somewhat advanced weapons (lasers and magnetic cannons) and the fusion reactor are the hard parts.
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And I am trying to keep this kind towards the "hard science fiction" area... Red Alert is not hard SF.
Have you played Red Alert 3 or even Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge? It's about as hard science fiction as you can get, from Mind Controlling Tanks, to a device that mutates humans into superhumans in an instant, to camoflagued tanks, to choppers that shrink vehicles down to size, to orbiting Magnetic Satellites, not to mention the godly Allied Future Tank X1:
(http://www.cncworld.org/games/uprising/units/alfuture.jpg)
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If you don't want to do it thats okay, but you will have my guarenteed participation if you do. :smile
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I have played Red Alert 2 as well as Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge.
As defined by TV Tropes:
"Hard" Science Fiction is firmly grounded in reality, with few fantastic flights of fancy not justified by Scienceô
I would say (ignoring the anthros) that DS is fairly hard, save for the X-Men like powers but even these have their limits.
I can deal with the camoflagued tanks but the mind controlling tanks, shrinking helicopters and magnetic tractor beam satellites, cross the line (not to mention they potentially unbalance the RP).
I may decide to allow some Red Alert "items" but I will need to see what CAN work and what cannot work.
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The final title will be either be Darwin's Soldiers III: Disruptive Selection or Darwin's Soldiers III: Extinction
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What I said was to describe the RA universe... I didn't say all these things had to be in the RP. That would be of course for you to decide.
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The Mirage tanks are acceptable as active camoflauge is currently being worked on and I simply see them as an extension of real life active camo.
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Sorry, I just want to add that I *really* don't like the idea of making Darwin's Soldiers a Red Alert fanfiction. One of the reasons I joined this RP over others is that it was a completely original storyline, not a spinoff from some pre-established franchise. Darwin's Soldiers has gone such a long time being a completely original story that I don't like the idea of starting the third RP with. "Meanwhile, in the Red Alert universe where this has all been taking place..."
I'm okay with taking influences from Red Alert, but I don't want Kane to suddenly show up talking about how Einstein went back in time and erased Hitler from existence, for the good of the Brotherhood of Nod. I want Darwin's Soldiers to be it's own story, through and through.
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Okay, it is confirmed: Darwin's Soldiers will remain an original story. NO CnC characters or anything will appear in it. Some influences may appear.
Now that I look at it, I want to keep Dragonstorm an American project, which it was stated to be in the first RP.
Not to mention most of the stuff from Red Alert is kind of outlandish and cheesy whereas Darwin's Soldiers is more gritty and realistic. Those do not mix.
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Also, where does DS sit on the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness)?
I feel that it fits towards the "harder" end.
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You must have misunderstood me.... i was talking about Red Alert WEAPONS not people. I suppose it does mean different things to different people. To be honest I hated the storyline, but I liked the units hence my loyalty to the series. All I meant to ask for was permission to assume that the Chronosphere, Future Tank X1 and Mirage Tank exist in this universe.
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Mirage tank is acceptable. Chronosphere... no (I am VERY leery of time travel). The future tank's form is a tad inappropriate for this universe.
I will allow the future tank as a "super heavy tank. Basically something that looks like an M1A1 Abrams tank but much larger and heavier.
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Okay more data:
The characters from the previous RP (if entered) will be assumed to be living in either motels or even out of their cars. They are considered "outlaws" by the local police but Carson City Camp is trying their best to help keep the group hidden. They will also be assumed to have taken a fake name.
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Thats sounds fine. I'll have by characters be living in a motel under assumee names..
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The Future Tank could always be some top secret development of Dragonstorm, kind of like a doomsday device they unleash right as they are about to be defeated. It would be like CABAL and Slave to the System all over again!
Also, now that I have permission to use Mirage Tanks I can use any excuse I want to have a nearby tree fade into a tank and vapourize anyone from existance! Hooray!
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It shouldn't be called a Mirage Tank, though, since this isn't Red Alert. It should be called some made-up name like a "Morphological Fluid Tank," which "is quite similar to the Mirage Tank from Red Alert."
Also, what happened to that Dragonstorm Humvee? They ever get away?
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Also, what happened to that Dragonstorm Humvee? They ever get away?
The Dragonstorm Humvee IS a Mirage Tank disguised as a Humvee... but since it's not allowed... umm, okay nevermind I'll elabourate when I post tonight.
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The concept is allowed but just not the name.
Perhaps the term phase tank could be used?
Or maybe "Mirage Tank" is just a nickname used by the tank crews.
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^That would work. I'm totally fine with that. "Phase Tank" sounds pretty awesome, too. It'd be fun to use one of those in the third RP.
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In my "Ask Me" section:
I was actually thinking of calling it the "Optimal-Camo Tank"
Name works for me. I love the concept, a tank that can hide itself. Totally think these should play a role in DS3 also.
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serris could I bring my OC Frank Anderson into this part of the rp?
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Sure! I will leave it up to you how to implement him into the RP as a new soldier.
I assume he is a soldier?
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Well he is kind of one but since he is an older soilder with many years experience as a fighter pilot but he has a old leg injury that acts up now and then he could just be at the carson city camp as a assistant commander. He has top secret clearence or better.
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f-22, you created a page on the LBT Wiki for Frank Anderson (http://landbeforetime.wikia.com/wiki/Land_Before_Time_Wiki/OC/Frank_Anderson), didn't you?
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yes.
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F-22, just so that you know, your new OC's back story needs a little work. The references to Ace Combat and Star Wars do not work well in the RP. You can refer to them as if they were franchises in the DS-verse (much like in real life) but you cannot refer to them as if they were actual universes. Also, the dinosaur genetic engineering project does not work with the universe as well.
Also, it is canon that lightsabers exist but they are ultra rare prototypes (Neku canonically has one of the 2 in existence). So Frank Anderson cannot have his 3 lightsabers.
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Never mind I won't bring him into the RP then.
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Did we ever explain what happened to the Dragonstrom people in that last humvee or what?
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Assume the last humvee escaped and followed the lab on the road. I'll do that part in the story when I get the time.
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We are going to include that fact in the RP, though, right?
In other news, Nietzche's Soldiers is finished, but I'm putting the posting on hold until the second RP is over. There are upcoming plot devices that I don't want to introduce until we've reached the third RP, since I might want to throw them out there for 3rd RP usage.
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so when are we starting this rp?
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When the 2nd one is finished.
The second one is kind of stuck and my characters are waiting for you Nick.
So far, Alfred pushed Aisha out of the way of a sniper's bullet and then dove for cover.
I am planning to have either someone in that group kill the sniper, then they will head to the AWTR where they will meet Sgt. Clyco and a new character, a literal Chameleon sniper (Specialist Leon Jackson).
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How's this RP doing? What's happening in the story? Just checking in!
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The group is about to meet with Caustizer's character and MK may be planning an air strike. Basically, the RP is wrapping up nicely.
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Okay, I know how the RP will end: the characters will vacate Pelvanida and head back to Carson City Camp.
At that point, MK's air force will bomb Pelvanida.
The final post will probably from me: Captain Milos will tell everyone that they get out of Nevada and lay low for a while. He will let them keep their vehicles (except the Humvees) and give those who lost their vehicles some fleet cars.
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The destruction of Pelvanida. :o That'd be a totally unexpected way to end the second installment!
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hmm, destroying pePvanida.. we'll bringthaty into the 4th part of the iNsane Cafe (when I start it) great plot point..As for wrapping up the second, I'm ready to add the epilogue for my characters..
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Same here. I'll also put that my chars (some of which won't be in the 3rd RP much at all) will be doing some other stuff before taking the base along with the rest of the cast. They'll be taking on two minor Dragonstorm bases, inluding the supertanker Ariol and Deathwind are on.
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We are less than 5 posts away from the finale.
I am seeing it in this order:
1.) Everyone finishes doing whatever they are doing a the truck stop.
2.) En route to Carson City.
3.) Speak to Gen. Moby.
4.) Gen. Moby provides them with some vehicles and "takes back" Cobalt Squad.
5.) Group then heads out. END OF RP.
As for the next installment, how about 1-2 days after he end of this one?
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Did we ever establish what happened to the final Dragonstorm Humvee? If we didn't, it'd probably be an "after-the-fact" reference, since I doubt they'd still be sitting there.
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We did, the guards of that last Humvee killed the soldiers who came to arrest them after their surrender and they drove off.
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Alright, I have an idea for where my team will go. They're going after any remaining Dragonstorm strongholds (Since I think it would be good to have more than one base). The others will find out because there will be news reports of a group of "thieves" raiding scattered military bases, and a piece of evidence left that'll indicate them.
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I like that idea Starfall.
MK established that one of the Dragonstorm bases is a converted supertanker off the California coast. I think there was one in Mexico as well.
Not sure if there was one mentioned in the East Coast or the Midwest but it would make sense not to concentrate all the bases in the West Coast.
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As for the start of the new RP... there are literally only 2 or so posts left before this one ends.
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Ok, i'll post once more in the current roleplay and leave you to finish the epilogue Serris.
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When does the third one begin? I want to be more active in this one. It will be much easier as I will be there from the start of it, and not miss anything! :lol
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The group is on the highway and on the way to Carson City Camp.
Does everyone wish to make one last post or shall I "double post" and transition over to Carson City Camp?
As for the 3rd part of the RP... How does Monday or Tuesday sound (depending on everyone's choices)?
And Caustizer, what shall the fate of Sgt. Clyco be? Sent back to Canada, be forced to tag along with the group or your choice?
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Monday sounds fine Can't speak about anyone else.
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Well, only your characters, my characters, Caustizer's character and Noname's character can immediately interact so there is not much of a problem.
Noname, the 3rd one begins tomorrow in the evening. The final post for this will be coming quite soon.
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Clyco gets the trip home he wishes, but he may return when Canada forms a task force to counter Dragonstorm as part of the fight against terrorism.
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Understood. Clyco goes home.
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sp Reynolds will be tried in 3rd one correct? we could have him be forced to go with Alfreds group as part of a plea deal..
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Good idea.
They will send over 2 members of Cobalt Squad to keep an eye on him.
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Cool. Just tell me what the situation is when we being the third story and we shall get on with it tomorrow! :DD
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sure thing noname..
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Thanks!
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As for the other bases, how about having one built underneath a supermax prison? Dragonstorm can conduct experiments on the prisoners.
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Makes sense. No one would suspect a supermax prison and no one would care if terrorists and murderers were being experimented on.
So far I count these bases (I think the limit should be 7 bases):
1.) Oregon/Washington Forest Base
2.) CA Supertanker Base
3.) Mexico Base
4.) Supermax Base
Also, Starfall suggested that another military base be involved and his characters are trying to stop them.
One of my suggestions is an offshore, undersea East Coast base. Not sure if that will pan out too well though.
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the Eastern base couldwork, to show the reach of Dragonstorm..Most should be in the west though.. How about one in Canada and Alaska?
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Not sure if Dragonstorm should be international though but I need a way to justify having Sgt. Clyco in the story. So a Canadian base may be a good idea.
Alaska is suitably remote but there's the issue of supplies.
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good point..we'll say its in the Alakan Panhandle that runs down towards Washington. its 500 miles from Washington to Alaska.
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also I'll move the second DS rp to the finished section.
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EDIT: With the RP done, I'm starting up Nietszche's Soldiers again. It's about halfway done.
It's finished! Yay! Another RP down!
(We pretty much forgot about the actual DS 2 discussion thread, didn't we?)
Can we get some mention of Shelton and Kerzach at the beginning of the third RP, regarding their MIA status? That way once we meet them (probably some time in mid-2010) they're less of a brand new subplot and more of a Chekov's gun.
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It has started!
Kerzach and Shelton will be mentioned soon. Can I assume Dr. Landon, Hans, Werner, Aisha, Cpl. Stern and Alfred are at the same hotel as Dr. Zanasiu and Zachary?
Zachary, Dr. Bailey and Dr. Zanasiu share a room.
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Yes. Stern is in the same room with them at the moment, but it isn't necessarily his room. He doesn't like how that all turned out. :blink:
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Okay, so after the group enters the resturaunt, what do you want to happen?
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Also, I wanted the first recon mission to be a failure. They will locate Nemus Forestry's logging camp and engage in a recon. Only the loggers return and catch them in the act of looking through their things.
It will later be found out that Nemus Forestry is a completely legitimate company and the loggers are not pleased about the intrusion and they report it to the police.
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oh ok.. As for the resteraunt, it will be completey normal.. unless you want something to happen..
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It will be completely uneventful except for one suspicious guy who keeps following them and they'll recognize him.
I won't spoil it but those who have played the first installment will recognize him.
Oh I forgot to mention this but:
Cobalt Squad, Cobalt Leader and this new character are public domain (anyone can control them so as long as continuity errors do not arise).
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Alright sounds good.,.
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I'm only checking this RP sporadically, so when they reach the Correct Dragonstorm base (which shouldn't happen for several months in real time, I wager), will one of you please send me an email to let me know? I don't want you guys to speed up the RP on my part, I'm enjoying the increase in my free studying time, but I certainly don't want to miss when I'm supposed to jump back in.
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Okay, just caught up with what's going on in-universe. Is this logging company a red herring or is it Dragonstorm?
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Nemus Forestry is a perfectly legit logging company.
However, this will lead them to Dragonstorm but indirectly.
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Cool. Got it.
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nice to have you back LBT..you're close to 3000 too..
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Oh dang, I am, haven't even noticed. Have I really posted 3,000 times?!?
In other news, I'm working on another Darwin's Soldiers story, tentatively called Darwin's Soldiers:Ship of State. Sadly, it won't tie into the current storyline at all, but it will tie up a loose end and a plot hole that had been bugging me ever since Card of Ten was finished. It's about a quarter of the way done, and once I've finished writing it, I'll start posting it.
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yes you have, and i'll be looking forward to your story..
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I turn my back for one day, and now, you leave my char behind. We should keep in mind that some people have real-life concerns which necessarily prevent them from posting daily. :lol
So, tell me what you think the best thing Stern ought to do, and keep him integrated, otherwise, I might make some sorta error.
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Assume that Cpl. Stern is waiting for the group by the van.
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Will do. He's guarding the van. Thanks.
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I'm sorry I haven't been taking part in this I've been dealing with a lot of stress lately.
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Understood, I will tell you what happened when you decide to comeback.
I will assume that your characters are relaxing in the hotel unless you want me to control them.
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Yes you can control them until I join.
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Understood. Take as much time off as you need.
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I've created a Darwin's Soldiers page on TV tropes. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarwinsSoldiers (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarwinsSoldiers) I exhausted myself just cataloging the various stories and so I haven't included any actual tropes yet, though they will be coming periodically whenever I I browse Tv Tropes and sees something that works. Feel free to add any tropes you guys see.
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I've created a Darwin's Soldiers page on TV tropes. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarwinsSoldiers (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarwinsSoldiers) I exhausted myself just cataloging the various stories and so I haven't included any actual tropes yet, though they will be coming periodically whenever I I browse Tv Tropes and sees something that works. Feel free to add any tropes you guys see.
Awesome! I also added a bit to it as well. I go by the name Dialga X on there.
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You know something... I'm going to add a page for my own RP soon. The Fantasy RP. I can see some tropes right now for it. Thanks for the inspiration! :D
...just how does one index a page or link a trope to the article? :blink: They really don't explain it well at all.
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Just go to this url: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarwinsSoldiers (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarwinsSoldiers) and replace "DarwinsSoldiers" with the name of your RP. But if you want to use punctuation, you will need to use the "you know that thing where" launcher it is under the Troperville bar.
Also, my characters and Nick's characters are waiting for a response from Cpl. Stern.
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looks reallty good lettuce.. nice work..
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Hmm I must have done my job with Clyco pretty well... he was so atypical that he doesn't have any tropes attached to him.
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Hmm I must have done my job with Clyco pretty well... he was so atypical that he doesn't have any tropes attached to him.
Tropes Are Not Bad (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesAreTools?from=Main.TropesAreNotBad)...
Alright, good job Serris on finding and including numerous tropes on the Darwin's Soldiers page. Now, to get traffic flowing through the page, we need to go to all the tropes pages we just included and put the DS example under the "Web Original" page. Even people who aren't good at finding tropes can do this:
1) Find a trope page missing the Darwin's Soldiers example (ex: Long Lost Relative)
2) Hit the "edit page" button
3)Scroll down to the "Web Original" tab
4) Start a new line with a * and type the example (ex: Hans, in DarwinsSoldiers)
5)Don't put a space or an apostrophe in DarwinsSoldiers, that way it creates a link back to the DS page.
this is the step most new trope page creators don't do, which causes them to be forgotten. It'll take some time, but it's important, it really is.
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How far should the guys go before they discover that this is legit camp?
I was thinking that they get caught red handed by the loggers who had set up an ambush because of a spate of vandalism striking logging camps. And the encounter starts on a sour note because someone broke into something.
Spc. Crota, Sgt. Masters and Cpl. Stern end up having to diffuse the entire situation.
Oh, in case anyone was wondering, the two guys who went after the group in the hotel are in fact, Dragonstorm personnel but no one knows that, including the police.
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lets say 30 minutes in.. or so.. good idea serris
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Good idea for Stern, btw.
I'm sorry if I am a bit delayed in my postings here. Real-life concerns and all that. Annoying. :blink:
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its alright noname.. we understand..
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Well, Serris said I could join in if I wish and I thought I might as well, it sounds rather intruiging, especially if I can use a furry....and a fox ^^
Name: Aimee
Age: 19
Species: Fox
Faction: Cybernetic Experiment/Good (I think that's correct on how to do it)
Specializations: Hand to hand combat mainly, of course, not as good as how soldiers get them, but still fairly good anyway.
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: Both arms are metal....like Jax on Mortal Kombat, or that female rabbit on Sonic the Hegehog
Personality: She is rather friendly, yet, fightwise, she gets more serious, but of course, she wouldn't kill, unless need be sort of thing
Um, how is that?
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That will work.
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Ah, cool ^^
So, they're at a logging camp now I take it? Cause if so, i could have Aimee having escaped there or something like that perhaps.
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We have a fox! That's my favorite animal, and up 'till now nobody has played as one! :lol: Welcome to the RP MrDrake!
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Thanks, I love foxes myself, I find them to be one of the cutest animals around actually ^^
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welcome to the rp...
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LB&T, I fixed the link to Darwin's Soldiers. It has the apostrophe as it should.
Here is the new link: Darwin's Soldiers trope page (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleq765tqvq)
Also, MrDrake, nice job on the post!
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Thanks, glad you liked my post ^^
Thought it would make sense to have it like that, Aimee in the forrest having escaped the lab where she had come from sort of thing XD
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thats very good. she can drop in just in time to save Aisha and her friends from a lot of trouble..
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Hehe, well, I've finally got Aimee part of it.....outside the logging camp and all XD
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cool. good to have you aboard
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Hehe, thanks ^^
Good to be part of this rp actually, it seems like much fun.....especially since furries are allowed :D
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no problem drake.. you're a good rper..
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The sniper that attacks the group will lead them to the real Dragonstorm camp (indirectly since Spc. Crota killed him).
Then once that happens, LB&T can join in.
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And what's more, Aimee's been dragged into all, especially after she's just escaped the lab she had come from :p
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Oops! Looks like I made the mistake of assuming that Aimee might be one of the early Dragonstorm experiments!
I will let you decide if she is.
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Corporal Stern knows her. I'll have them adventure together.
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Hehe, well, Stern can vouch for Aimee to say that she's not one of them XD
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sounds good Serris.
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He can indeed. If nothing else, this will give Aimee and Stern something to do.
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I set in motion a short shootout between the loggers and the soldiers after Aimee. I hope no one minds, if someone does, I will change it.
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Nah, I don't mind myself. Although, which soldiers would now be after Aimee anyway? I am rather curious now about it XD
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Good. It gives Stern something to shoot at. :lol
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no problem, meanwhile aisha will duck out of there , sufficiently chastened...and ready to rip the others for this mistake... granted she was in on it too
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Wait, I'm confused what Aimee is. Is she an escaped Dragonstorm experiment, or an undercover agent?
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Yeah same here, she was classed as a Cyber-Experiment but yet she was mentioned as being an undercover agent.
However, Cpl. Stern said she did not have cybernetic arms before so it was possible that she was like the experiment "Metal Storm", a living being seriously injured but "rebuilt" with cybernetics technology.
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we'll go with living being, refitted with cybernetic arms.. :yes
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Yeah, she was living breathing vixen before she was instead, given cybernetic arms.
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sounds good. perhaps you can explain how she got those cyber arms..
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Well, through the rp, you'll see. She'll explain things as her memory returns back to her and all that sort of thing.
Not to mention, I do plan on introducing at least one other character later on down the track, depends on what happens and what have you.
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Cool. Try not to get a little TOO ahead, here. I'm busy juggling like six responsibilities at once, at least! And the GoF is NOT one of them! :lol
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Hehe yeah, I know. In this one, i'm going to go as fast as everyone else will be you know, so I'm sure we wont get too far ahead of you ^^
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It turns out that I will have a busy schedule until at least April! :blink:
Luckily, it should get less so as I get closer to that time.
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better to be busy then have nothing to do..imo..
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So...is she a Dragonstorm experiment or not? If she is, Shleton can comment on it when you guys meet him. If she isn't, it wouldn't make much sense for him to do that.
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Nope, I even said in her profile 2 pages back XD
She's a cybernetic expermiment, well, she was normal before she was given her cybernetic arms of hers, something she didn't even ask for.
That, and she also has a bit of amnesia....which includes her own name, she's lucky that Stern actually knows her, otherwise, you would have her looking at them with a blank face if asked her name :lol
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Will she recover from her amnesia? I can have Stern help her in that, if you like.
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Yeah, she will, especially if Stern can help her out with that ;)
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I'll see to it that he does. XD
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Yeah, and things he tells her will help bring back memories for her, they will contribute to it all ^^
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sounds good drake...
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Cool. I'll be on later. I have a project to do, and work. I should be on this RP in about 4 hours.
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looking forward to it Noname :) see you then..
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I know it's a small thing to pick at, but am wondering anyway of what the hotel looks like roughly.
If it's like one that has a lobby and all that sort of thing in a big building or if it looks more like this. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Motel6Lima.JPG)
Just would like that small thing cleared up as strange as it may seem XD
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I also would like to know. Large hotels that have 20 or more stories are usually found in major cities (being a New Yorker, I would know about these things), whereas some hotel in rural Oregon is unlikely to be very tall, though it could easily be very wide.
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it only has three stories, the group is up ion the highest floor. its longer than it is tall...
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So then, it must be more like a motel than it s a hotel then.
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Correct, the hotel is very small and it has 3 floors.
The labeling pattern does like this:
0(0-70) = 1st floor
1(0-70) = 2nd floor
2(0-70) = 3rd floor
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A cool, I can see it nor more or less, no lobby or anything like that, just a small reception area and then the rooms themselves.
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Not quite. I based it on the small chain hotels I see on the road.
There is a lobby with an area to eat breakfast, a few public computer terminals, a business center, a small lounge in the lobby.
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Ah okay, thanks for clearing that up. Computer terminals will be good, will allow Aimee to have a look on them and all XD
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by 'look' does that mean " smash to pieces? :lol:
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*shifts eyes* Sure, why not? :lol:
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LB&T - your character may be coming into play soon as they are heading after Lab 101.
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ok they are at the mall, aisha is checking out new clothing..Dr Landon will be buying a new medical dictionary
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LB&T - your character may be coming into play soon as they are heading after Lab 101.
Sweet!
Seems like they stopped for a break at the mall though.
Once they've reached the Dragonstorm camp, I think I know how to introduce Shelton back into the fray.
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One problem, should Lab 101 be destroyed right there or should it get away?
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I'll be right back into this one. Had to deal with real-life issues over the last couple of days.
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Cool. Should I assume Cpl. Stern is in the mall with Aimee?
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Yes, yes you should. It was kinda his idea to go, wasn't it? He and Aimee are probably going to be in the same place a LOT. :lol:
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One problem, should Lab 101 be destroyed right there or should it get away?
Oh, it should get destroyed. Sucker's been asking for it since the second RP.
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Yes, yes you should. It was kinda his idea to go, wasn't it? He and Aimee are probably going to be in the same place a LOT. :lol:
In the words of Carl from The Simpsons "Aww nuts...I mean....aww nuts" :lol:
Ah, seriously, it's all good ^^
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Okay there are two issues I want to address:
1.) Hans and Werner (played by F-22 Ace) are still at the Redwood Inn. I am not sure if F-22 is coming back or not but if he is not, I will release those two in the public domain (anyone can control them as long as they maintain continuity).
2.) How can Lab 101 be destroyed? The group does not possess explosives (and realistically, they probably know better than to try and make IEDs in the motel room) and the lab is immune to small arms fire. I considered having the group burn the lab down with molotov cocktails. I also considered having them use a bulldozer or other heavy equipment to turn the lab into scrap metal (possibly with the assistance of the loggers).
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good questions..the molotov's could work. that's something i'll have to think about as to possibly ways to destroy the Lab.
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I would have to agree with the cocktails as well, best way to burn it down, that, or a flamethrower pack! *pauses* Okay, maybe not unless someone in the group actually has one XD
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F-22 has rejoined the RP. His characters are at the Redwood Inn and meeting with Spc. Crota.
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Ah cool, good to see he has returned to the RP ^^
So I take it after the mall, they'll all be heading back to the inn first?
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Yeah, then they have to fully find the position of Lab 101. However, I am not sure how they will do that.
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Ah, awesome, Lab 101 sounds evil enough as it is :lol:
I take it they'll start by perhaps, searching a city or something? Or is it going to be something else? Just wondering is all ^^
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I'll add some posts tomorrow. Sorry for the delays.
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Well, you just missed a bit of a fight in the mall to which Aimee killed three of the attackers XD
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I'll start a second fight with Stern killing some more as soon as I am there. You have my word on it.
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Ah, awesome, Lab 101 sounds evil enough as it is :lol:
I take it they'll start by perhaps, searching a city or something? Or is it going to be something else? Just wondering is all ^^
Unfortunately, I have no idea how they will discover the lab. Anybody have suggestions?
The lab is located in a heavily forested area but t6he city may yield clues (not sure how that will turn out though).
I could in fact, incorporate Sharon Varma, the Dhole from the first RP in this.
I haven't decided whether to add her in as an actual playable "public domain" character or just as a cameo.
Public Domain Characters:
Spc. Mitchell Crota,
Sgt. Larry Masters
PFC Christopher Reynolds
Cobalt Leader
Cobalt Squad
(Sharon Varma?)
Note that Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters are members of Cobalt Squad and they are snakes, which in this universe have no legs but they do have arms.
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searching the city could work. you thought of a nearby city to use?
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The loggers could give you some information. Their motivation to do so would be so that they could get rid of one of their competitors.
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searching the city could work. you thought of a nearby city to use?
Yeah, and that way, I could also have Aimee perhaps search for other clues on the Trinity Facility as well, two things at once for her XD
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The loggers could give you some information. Their motivation to do so would be so that they could get rid of one of their competitors.
I thought of a pretty interesting idea for finding Lab 101:
The group will head to the city (Aimee will probably find more info for own purposes there) but when they head back to the hotel.
At that point, Spc. Crota is hosting the Wolf foreman inside Hans and Werner's room. The foreman will give them where Lab 101 is. But his motive is a bit convoluted: he suspects that a competitor of Nemus Logging is running a meth lab in one of its base camps and he tells the group because he wants to deal them a financial blow or slander them and possibly get some competitors "out of the way". And that "meth lab" is Lab 101.
Culeston is supposed to be somewhat close to the Oregon coastline (about 40-50 miles) and the nearest city would probably be the (real) city of Lincoln City (population: ~7,000 as of 2000 but for the RP, how about we give it a population of say 21,000?)
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Oh yes, the more the merrier for population!
But I take it you mean, hotel then city? Or city then hotel? Can't quiet tell on what direction you're coming from with that, but either way works for me ^^
Is Culeston a city as well? Or is that a section of Oregon? Remember, I'm not an American, so I wouldn't actually know....so sorry if my questions seem a bit odd at times :lol:
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Sounds good to me. Once you guys have reached the Dragonstorm camp, I've thought of a cool way to bring Shelton back.
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But I take it you mean, hotel then city? Or city then hotel? Can't quiet tell on what direction you're coming from with that, but either way works for me ^^
Is Culeston a city as well? Or is that a section of Oregon? Remember, I'm not an American, so I wouldn't actually know....so sorry if my questions seem a bit odd at times :lol:
The characters will travel to the hotel, freshen up and meet with Hans and Werner. Cobalt Squad (except for Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters who be joining Neville on guard duty) will be joining them.
Culeston is a small logging town (population would be about 7,100).
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Ah, cool, thanks for clearing that up ^^
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I think we should slow down a little so Noname can keep up.
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Hehe, very well then, I do not mind at all if we need to slow down ^^
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thats fine...no problem
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I'm here. I cannot help that the law schools demand such long, convoluted applications, or that they make me write so many things just to apply. You can slow a bit if you want, but it is hardly necessary at the moment. The two applications that were most urgent are in, and the last of the six that I will apply to are not due until April 1st.
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Sounds like things are starting to get moving! Awesome!!! :D
In other news, I was rereading Pavlov's Checkmate and realized that Clyco's cameo now makes no sense, since he's returned to Canada. With Noname's permission, I've changed the reference to Corporal Stern.
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That's cool. Feel free to use Stern in whatever capacity you see fit, as long as you ask me before doing anything you think might be controversial (i.e. killing a large number of people, burning a building, etc.)
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So Noname, what should I do with Cpl. Stern until Easter Break?
Shall I temporarily release him into the "public domain" until then, have him follow the group "behind the scenes" or do something else?
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I'll be able to post from time to time. It's not like I'll have NO time here. If that was the case, I'd mention it in the "Lands Unknown" thread.
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The problem is that RP can move at a high speed, even for me. I am trying to slow it down so no one gets left behind but it seems that Cpl. Stern is the most likely to be left behind.
And there is no rule about making super-short posts.
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Then try to slow it down a bit. You can limit the number of posts made by making it a rule, like... no more than 3 posts per person per day. Heck, I had to do that a few times in the fantasy RP, when 5 or more pages with 20 posts each were made PER DAY at one point.
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Due to the rapid rate of progression in this RP and because some of the "actors" have real life issues they need to contend with, the following rule is in effect until further notice:
Rule has been lifted
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I'll try to slow my posting down a bit. :lol
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4 posts a day eh? Sounds fair, I shall keep to that ^^
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I have decided to lift the rule as the rate of progression.
I did this after analyzing the number of posts per day in the RP and the rate of progression seems to be about the same regardless of the limit or not.
In any case, I am more than willing to provide summaries or recaps in case someone gets lost.
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sounds good.. so we are getting closer to finding the Dragonstorm base correct?
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sounds good.. so we are getting closer to finding the Dragonstorm base correct?
Lab 101 only. There are multiple bases scattered in the US and possibly one in Canada (Sgt. Clyco mentioned it way back in the RP)
Aimee finds what she needs in the city.
But I now have 3 choices to get where Lab 101 is located:
1.) Something happens at the city that leads them to Lab 101 (not decided what that "something" is)
2.) Aimee's research indirectly leads them to Lab 101.
3.) The Wolf foreman (from Nemus Forestry) will tell them where Lab 101 is. He will arrive just after the group returns to the hotel and the entire group has a meeting.
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I have decided to lift the rule as the rate of progression.
My posting level shall increase exponentially. :rolleyes:
I still think #3 makes the most sense, but we can save it as a "last resort" if the first two cases don't bear fruit.
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Nice choices there Serris. Don't know which one I would go for myself, depends on what everyone else agrees on really, as for me, doesn't matter one bit which one is picked. As if people go with Aimee's one, then I can work Lab 101 into it rather easily, I'm sure of it ;)
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I see the most potential in number 2, mainly because we can get a lot more story out of it than the other options.
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i like the second option myself..
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I see the most potential in number 2, mainly because we can get a lot more story out of it than the other options.
and or it revolves around Aimee :lol
I'm okay with whatever, if MrDrake can find some way to incorporate Aimee's search for Trinity into Dragonstorm, that'd be fine with me.
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You're pinning all of this on me!? I'll get you for this! And your little dog too! *shakes fist*
Ahem, sorry about that XD
But yeah, I'm sure I can incoporate it all together somehow, one way or another, doesn't seem that hard to do so.
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:lol: good one drake.. looking forward to it..
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I'm not pining it on Aimee or Drake. I admit that since I am in regular contact with Drake on MSN, it is easier to coordinate interactions between those two characters (Stern and Aimee.)
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It looks like number two is the option chosen by the majority.
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Oh noes! That means....I have to step up my game a little bit! XD
Ah but seriously, like I've been saying, I'll figure out something soon enough, as I do have something buzzing in my mind....kind of.
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I should be on tomorrow, now that I am just about finished with a BIG paper for college.
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Okay, I have an idea of how it can be linked to the whole Lab 101 ordeal, finding out about it on the boss's computer.....perhaps working with Lab 101 or something like that? Well, that's my idea I have and thought I should share it with you....cause if so, who is in charge of Lab 101, just so i know XD
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I like it!
Dr. Ian Branston (a Thoroughbred Horse) is the "commander" of Lab 101, thus he is a high ranking Dragonstorm executive.
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ooo, very nice indeed ^^
As I was thinking that the newspaper company....which I have no name for, is just a cover up or something like that for Lab 101, as in, keeps information about it, well, the boss of the company does anyway, maybe works with them.
Oh, and as for the feline that's helping them out at the moment, I was thinking that she could also join to help out. Was going to give her hacking skills and thieving stuff sort of thing.....but she's only at the place as that was the only job around, being one who knows nothing of what's going on herself....till she gets onto the boss's computer that is. I do have a name for her as well, well, was thinking Shakila as a name.
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She can come along as a character.
Most of the characters are "combat oriented" so it would be nice to have some more "noncombatants" (like Shelton).
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Ah, cool, cause yeah, she would be more, noncombat herself, more hacking and stealing XD
I mean hey, if they need a keycard from a guard, she can use....seduction or something to get close to said guard and while they're also distracted....steals it without them even realizing it :lol:
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Thought I should add in Shakila's profile now:
Name: Shakila
Age: 17
Species: Feline
Faction: Good
Appearance: She wears pants and a shirt. Her fur is more black than anything else.
Specializations: Hacking, theivery
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: N/A
Personality: She takes more of a relaxed approach to everything else. Her voice does sound a bit bored at times, but that's just how she is, even if she doesn't mean to. Think of her voice being similar to that of, say, Raven from Teen Titans.
Hope that's good enough for her, the one that's helping out Aimee and Stern at the moment anyway XD
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I like it!
Dr. Ian Branston (a Thoroughbred Horse) is the "commander" of Lab 101, thus he is a high ranking Dragonstorm executive.
What's the ranking perspective of Zenarchis and Branston? Who ranks who? I've always been confused about this.
And another noncombatant! I think that brings the total to four! (Shelton, Kerzach, Bailey, and now Shakila.)
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Dr. Zenarchis outranks Dr. Branston.
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Did something with my latest post to which it mentions that Dr. Ian Branston and Shakila's boss....whom I don't have a name for at the moment, have been meeting to discuss about Lab 101 as well as possibly the Trinity Facility.
Perhaps Gabriel could be in contact with them as well? Mainly the doctor? Just another idea I have and thought I should share with you guys ^^
Cause if so, who actually works at Lab 101 apart from Dr. Ian Branston?
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Dr. Zenarchis is at Lab 101 but I am planning on having him survive its destruction.
Also, Dr. Kerzach and Dr. Shelton are posing as Dragonstorm scientists at Lab 101.
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And I assumed that Gabriel was a Dragonstorm spy.
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Also, I sent this in a PM to Noname but I thought it might be important to share this:
Until you have more time assume that Stern is following Aimee. However, when something major happens, then that is the only time you need to control Stern. Of course, once you have more free time, do whatever you want.
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Ah, well, with Gabriel, I had her working with Kain, however, she does keep in contact with those from Lab 101 as well.
But thanks for that information on Stern, would make it easier....so yeah, I'll have Aimee do a few more things with the impression that Stern is following her....shall I have Aimee arrive at Neptune's Bounty?
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i would do that.. Dr Landon is following Aimee as well. to keep an eye on her..
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About the Darwin's Soldiers Trope page on TV Tropes, I am trying to find some Shout Outs I can put in.
Also Caustizer, exactly how do you want Sgt. Clyco to enter the RP?
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Awesome. Good luck with that Serris ^^
And man, I leave you people alone for a few hours and people are already worried about Aimee :lol:
Good work *thumbs up* :lol
No, seriously, I was hoping people would get worried about her, makes it that much more fun XD
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I should be back on Friday or Saturday at the latest! Thanks for watching Stern for me!
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Ah cool.
I'll throw up Trinity's profile soon enough, don't worry about that XD
Kain's one will come much later on, just so you know, don't want to reveal much about him as of yet ;)
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About the Darwin's Soldiers Trope page on TV Tropes, I am trying to find some Shout Outs I can put in.
Let's see what I can remember...
(sorry, but there will be a lot more of my references than other people's)
===Video games===
The character of Ridley is named after a similar character from Metroid.
Shelton is disappointed at he lack of a [[HalfLife crowbar]] in the closet when raiding Raulson's lab.
The Phase Tank is modeled off the tank from Red Alert 2.
James mentions Silent Hill and Resident Evil at some point.
===Music===
The clearance question to auxiliary control references lyrics to "MacArthur Park."
"American Pie" by Don McLean is heard at the beginning of part 2 of Card of Ten.
Vic says, "Ground Control to Major Roy," when testing Roy Hawkeye's radio in Card Of Ten.
The password to the ADSA HQ is "Shave and a Haircut."
Like 30 songs are referenced as James and co. drove to various places in their cars.
===Historical Figures===
Darwin, duh.
The complete works of Shakespeare play an important role in Card of Ten.
Shelton mentions Sacco, Venzetti, and Daniel Ellsberg when Hans asks about his chances at freedom.
Shelton himself takes his first and middle names from Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde.
Many of the titles of works include famous names, like Schrodinger and Nietzsche. Others come from famous quotes, like [[WilliamShakespeare Card of Ten]] and [[{{Plato}} Ship of State]] (my upcoming story).
Lab 101 was named after Room 101 in George Orwell's 1984.
===Science===
The Einstein-Rosen Bridge is named after the hypothetical wormhole proposed by the eponymous names.
That chemistry joke I didn't get from the lab report in Raulson's lab. Might possibly double as an historical figures reference.
The Double Helix eatery.
Shelton mentions Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion when describing how Gamas formed.
James uses the Coriolis Effect to select a corridor in Pavlov's Checkmate.
Shelton also mentions having an Erdos number of 7 or 4, I forget which, in the first RP.
The Cobalt Squad in the first RP had a tendency to use famous scientists' names as derogatory terms directed toward the scientist characters, Examples of names used as such include Newton, Hawking, and Bill Nye.
Not really science, but James finds a CD encrypted in BASIC.
===Other===
Shout-outs to weaponry all over the freaking place.
Shelton says he feels like MacGyver when he gets himself out of a locked room.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is referenced when James blasts through the floor with a gun in Card of Ten.
When Neku activates his lightsaber, Shelton warns him that it's not nearly as strong as the ones on ''Star Wars''.
Shelton's password to the computer system is ''killapp123'', both a reference to killer apps and Lotus-1-2-3, a spreadsheet program and early killer app.
Jessica Boyle of Escondido, a play mentioned in the first RP, is named after an actual person LB&T knew in real life.
The reference to Ender McThair in Card of Ten established the anti-matter universe the characters were stuck in as synonymous with the Furtopia universe.
In Pavlov's Checkmate, James uses "Nigel Munroe" as an alias, which happens to be the protagonist's name of a failed attempt to start a Darwin's Soldiers RP in the Bulbagarden forums.
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That chemistry joke I didn't get from the lab report in Raulson's lab. Might possibly double as an historical figures reference.
Made a page for the shout outs: Darwin's Soldiers Shout Outs (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ShoutOut/DarwinsSoldiers)
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Yes about that; it is rather complex.
When you take the first two letters of Dr. Dyson Holmes's first and last names you get:
"Dy" and "Ho" - the letters for Dysprosium and Holmium.
The lab report is titled "Toxicity of Lanthanide Containing Alloys In Pediatric Psions" - Dysprosium and Holmium are lanthanides.
There is also a reference to Dr. Holmes being "hard to find". Dysprosium is named after the Greek word "dysprositos (δυσπρόσιτος)", meaning "hard to get".
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Also, Rara Terra Smelting is established as lanthanide refinery.
"Rara Terra" is Latin for "rare earth" - an old term for lanthanides.
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James mentions Silent Hill and Resident Evil at some point.
Actually, Sharon Varma mentions that referring to the sublevels.'
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James's favorite expression is allegedly "I'll trust you when there are two electrons with the same spin occupy the same atomic orbital".
Electrons cannot occupy the same atomic orbital unless their spin quantum numbers are different.
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The code used by the Dragonstorm scientists in the first RP consists of multiple references to Homer and the Aeneid
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I need to dig through and see what else is there but I have a feeling that we only scratched the surface
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The code used by the Dragonstorm scientists in the first RP consists of multiple references to Homer and the Aeneid.
Oh, I got that one! We read both of those this quarter, and it was the name "Gorgythion" that tipped me off. Sadly, my small line in Dragonstorm code does not follow the pattern. I wish I could go back and change it.
I thought Dyson Holmes was a reference to Sherlock Holmes and the Dyson Sphere, since both are "hard to find" (Holmes because he's a detective, good at remaining unseen, and Dyson Sphere because 1] they don't exist and 2] a Dyson shell would block the rays of the encompassed sun making it hard to see from an astronomical viewpoint.
One of the soldiers used a Patton tribute pistol in the first RP. It was never explained exactly why he had one of those.
Shelton also says, "Big Brother's back in the saddle!" when they get the radios working again in the first RP. I need to actually skim through it again to find more.
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The Neptune's Bounty reference is NOT a reference to Bioshock. It is coincidence that the names are the same.
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thats really cool guys.. nice work..
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The Neptune's Bounty reference is NOT a reference to Bioshock. It is coincidence that the names are the same.
Yeah, I just found it funny they had the same name myself, cause all that reminded me of was BioShock upon seeing the name XD
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I'm ready to jump back into the RP!
Can someone give me a brief synopsis of the events I missed since I controlled Corporal Stern, and tell me where he is right now? I'll be right over once I am caught up.
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Can someone give me a brief synopsis of the events I missed since I controlled Corporal Stern, and tell me where he is right now? I'll be right over once I am caught up.
Here is what happened:
Aimee gets a note from a mysterious woman in Neptune's Bounty telling her to come to town alone.
Aimee chases the woman into a gas station.
The woman reveals that she is "Gabriel" and her real name is "Trinity" and she has orders from Kain to kill Aimee.
The police arrive because bystanders assume that a robbery is in progress.
The woman vanishes.
Dr. Zanasiu and his group meet Dr. Joe.
Dr. Zanasiu and his group eventually find Aimee and after a brief discussion the police leave.
The group then assists Aimee in finding Trinity.
At this point, the entire group is stopped in front of an abandoned house.
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so are you dgoing to find Dragonstorm soon?
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I guess Aimee's research could lead to Lab 101.
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Well, Shakila would also have information that she had stolen from her boss, information that has many things on it XD
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thats sounds real good drake..
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Thanks, they would have luck with some information there I believe, you know, information on Lab 101 as well as other things sort of thing ^^
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sp we know kain is one sadistic bad guy :)
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Indeed, and finding him will be no easy task ;)
So yes, for now, it's best to go back to the hotel....Aimee could use a rest or something.
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So exactly what comes first, getting to Lab 101 or getting to Weyland-Yutani's factory in Portland, OR?
LB&T, how do you want to enter the plot of the RP?
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Yeah, I would imagine for now, Weyland-Yutani would be best to go to. Perhaps the group can go back to the hotel while Jayden goes and checks out one of the factories.
You know, let the group rest up or something, and perhaps find out what Shakila knows as well.
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And I'm back! I made my first post in god-knows-how-long, and things seem to be going well.
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I am considering making Jayden more of a prominent character too, you know, helping out the group quiet a bit, being in line with the law sort of thing. And yeah, he's human as well, just in case anyone was wondering.
Got him at a factory right now, so if others do wish to head back to hotel, they can and let Jayden find out some answers for them.
Cause I know Aimee would like to know what's on the DVD ;)
Oh, and welcome back to the RP Noname ^^
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Just wondering if anyone gets the Selina Kyle reference or not XD
Take some guesses if you guys want :D
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Where exactly is the Weylad-Yutani factory that Jayden is at?
And is Selina Kyle Catwoman?
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Not sure on the factory, as I'm not an American and don't know the names of places much over there. So, perhaps, you can give me some place names? Cause I was going by the closest one in Lincoln City *shrugs*
And yeah, Selina Kye is Catwoman's real name XD decided to throw in that little reference :lol:
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Got the Selina Kyle reference. at least in the Batman films. not sure what she was called in the Halle Berry Catwoman.
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Weyland-Yutani could have a factory in the outskirts of Lincoln City. Even though Lincoln City has ~21,000 people, it could still have some high tech industry (which Weyland-Yutani is).
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Alternatively, here are some places that could reasonably have a factory (not just in OR):
Hillsboro, OR
Beaverton, OR
Portland, OR
San Jose, CA
Santa Clara, CA
Palo Alto, CA
New York City, NY
Newark, NJ
Elizabeth, NJ
Paterson, NJ
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well for our purposes the site would have to be in the west--OR or CA.
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I would imagine it would be on the outskirts this one you know, not have to travel that far for Jayden.
And thanks for the list as well, I would imagine that their main HQ would be somewhere big like New York City or something like that.
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I more or less imagined that Weyland-Yutani would be headquartered in California's Silicon Valley, possibly San Jose.
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Hmm, yeah, that could work out as well. But I am wondering where the Trinity Facility could be located, cause I know one thing, New York is on the other side of America to Oregon.
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california works quite well imo
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What is in the Weyland-Yutani factories anyway? Just a rough idea on what Jayden would find you know.
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Weyland-Yutani is a cybernetics manufacturer.
They manufacture artificial limbs, implantable medical equipment (pacemakers, deep brain stimulation chips, etc), stuff like that.
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Ah okay, yeah, so they would have a factory line, different people doing different parts within the factory to make different cybernetic stuff?
Just trying to get a good idea of what the factory would look like you know, as in, one big area? Or some small areas where, say, scientists would work on microchips or whichever?
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So exactly what comes first, getting to Lab 101 or getting to Weyland-Yutani's factory in Portland, OR?
LB&T, how do you want to enter the plot of the RP?
Well, there was that Dragonstorm individual who attempted to get into your guys' car, I was thinking he/she (or that Dalmatian bystander) wrote down the license plate and traced you guys back to the hotel, and a small team is dispatched to check you guys out. They infiltrate the hotel, and either one of them goes rogue and tips you guys off, or one of your characters discovers them on their own. Either way, gunfight breaks down and one of them reveals themselves to be Shelton before you kill him. That would give us some catching-up time before Shelton could verify the address Shakila found.
How does that sound? Would that work?
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Weyland-Yutani's factories are very, very, very clean.
The largest area is an assembly line where the products are assembled. That in turn is broken up into different areas for assembling different products.
A much smaller area is where the microchips are grown and soldered into the circuit boards. The entire area there is tended to by robots (except for the soldering part; that is done by living workers). Thus Jayden would not be allowed in there without wearing a special "clean suit" and going through an "air shower" so he does not contaminate the chips.
The other thing that should be noted is that the electronics industry uses a lot of toxic materials.
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Well, there was that Dragonstorm individual who attempted to get into your guys' car, I was thinking he/she (or that Dalmatian bystander) wrote down the license plate and traced you guys back to the hotel, and a small team is dispatched to check you guys out. They infiltrate the hotel, and either one of them goes rogue and tips you guys off, or one of your characters discovers them on their own. Either way, a gunfight breaks down and one of them reveals themselves to be Shelton before you kill him.
Wait, so Shelton ends up getting dragged along with this "hit team"?
I was thinking of an attempted hijacking just as they enter Culeston. The group successfully kills the hijackers but one survives. That sole survivor will either be Shelton or someone who reveals Lab 101's location.
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Wait, so Shelton ends up getting dragged along with this "hit team"?
I was thinking of an attempted hijacking just as they enter Culeston. The group successfully kills the hijackers but one survives. That sole survivor will either be Shelton or someone who reveals Lab 101's location.
He's the team hacker. Remember he's undercover, and Dragonstorm thinks he's one of them. Would also explain why you guys don't shoot him, since he'll be unarmed.
The hijacking works too. Do you mean while they drive back to the hotel?
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Wait, so Shelton ends up getting dragged along with this "hit team"?
I was thinking of an attempted hijacking just as they enter Culeston. The group successfully kills the hijackers but one survives. That sole survivor will either be Shelton or someone who reveals Lab 101's location.
He's the team hacker. Remember he's undercover, and Dragonstorm thinks he's one of them. Would also explain why you guys don't shoot him, since he'll be unarmed.
The hijacking works too. Do you mean while they drive back to the hotel?
Yes, as they are driving back to the hotel.
I imagine that Shelton will be told to stay out of sight while his "allies" do the dirty work.
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Yeah. That would make sense. Works for me.
Make sure to tell me when you want the ambush to happen. Are you guys driving the same vehicle the Dragonstorm operative sneaked into?
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He did not actually get in but yes, it is the same van.
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Weyland-Yutani's factories are very, very, very clean.
The largest area is an assembly line where the products are assembled. That in turn is broken up into different areas for assembling different products.
A much smaller area is where the microchips are grown and soldered into the circuit boards. The entire area there is tended to by robots (except for the soldering part; that is done by living workers). Thus Jayden would not be allowed in there without wearing a special "clean suit" and going through an "air shower" so he does not contaminate the chips.
The other thing that should be noted is that the electronics industry uses a lot of toxic materials.
Ah okay, cool, would give Jayden a wide area to search as well as being stopped going into the microchip asembling area XD
But yeah, thanks for that information, he might be able to find out some more information from asking the workers on who Selina is.
But I am wondering, do you think that Weyland-Yutani could also be a cover up place for helping out Dragonstorm as well? But if so, what kind of information do you suppose he could find that connects them together? Just wondering is all you know ;)
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He did not actually get in but yes, it is the same van.
But he could have gotten a decent enough description that Shelton's ambush team has reason to believe it's the same van?
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Ah okay, cool, would give Jayden a wide area to search as well as being stopped going into the microchip asembling area XD
But yeah, thanks for that information, he might be able to find out some more information from asking the workers on who Selina is.
But I am wondering, do you think that Weyland-Yutani could also be a cover up place for helping out Dragonstorm as well? But if so, what kind of information do you suppose he could find that connects them together? Just wondering is all you know ;)
Erm, I never intended for Weyland-Yutani to be linked to Dragonstorm (they unintentionally help by supplying them with materials since Weyland-Yutani does not know about Dragonstorm's illicit activities) but since that was more or less implied; I will go with it.
As for what could be a link? Perhaps Jayden could find a record of Aimee's arms there (Dr. Zanasiu wrote down the model number of Aimee's arms) or Dr. Ian Branston could be mentioned as a purchaser.
But he could have gotten a decent enough description that Shelton's ambush team has reason to believe it's the same van?
Yes, the spy gets pretty much all the details of the van.
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Actually, I can start the ambush immediately if anyone wants it.
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Do you mind if I spike strip the van? Seems to be the only way I can think of that would stop you guys quickly enough to get attacked.
which of us should do the ambush?
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Erm, I never intended for Weyland-Yutani to be linked to Dragonstorm (they unintentionally help by supplying them with materials since Weyland-Yutani does not know about Dragonstorm's illicit activities) but since that was more or less implied; I will go with it.
As for what could be a link? Perhaps Jayden could find a record of Aimee's arms there (Dr. Zanasiu wrote down the model number of Aimee's arms) or Dr. Ian Branston could be mentioned as a purchaser.
Ah, that's all good, I mean, Jayden could find some information that links them to Aimee or something like that you know, perhaps Kain would be mentioned as well, but if you don't mind, I might go with your one, saying that it's Dr. Ian Branston that purchased her cybernetic arms.
And perhaps Dr. Ian Branston could've then given the arms to Trinity, who in turn gave them to Kain. As in, Trinity working for many people, like works with Dr. Ian Branson for one as well as of course, for Kain too.
What do you think of that? You have any ideas on how it could perhaps be changed if need be and all that?
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Ah, that's all good, I mean, Jayden could find some information that links them to Aimee or something like that you know, perhaps Kain would be mentioned as well, but if you don't mind, I might go with your one, saying that it's Dr. Ian Branston that purchased her cybernetic arms.
And perhaps Dr. Ian Branston could've then given the arms to Trinity, who in turn gave them to Kain. As in, Trinity working for many people, like works with Dr. Ian Branson for one as well as of course, for Kain too.
What do you think of that? You have any ideas on how it could perhaps be changed if need be and all that?
That sounds good. If changes need to made as the RP progresses, then I will make them.
Do you mind if I spike strip the van? Seems to be the only way I can think of that would stop you guys quickly enough to get attacked.
which of us should do the ambush?
I thought of an alternate way but I like the spike strip method better.
And you can do the ambush.
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Now?
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I guess, they are middle of a highway that is nearly devoid of traffic.
Wait until MrDrake posts though.
And "leave some" for Noname and Nick22.
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Got it.
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I just posted something, Jayden's found a reciept for two cybernetic fox arms bought by Dr. Ian Branston and had called Alfred about it.
See, Jayden does keep promises, keeping them up to date about it all XD
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Just curious on if any of the attackers will die or not in the end. Doesn't bother me at all, just wondering you know.....especially if Aimee can get the chance to kill at least someone XD
And speaking of which, is Shelton actually one of the attackers or is he elsewhere? Cause are we suppose to be interogating him afterwards for information in regards to Lab 101? Just double checking and all ;)
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Shelton is supposed to be sole survivor. He is posing as a Dragonstorm operative and after all the attackers are killed. The rest of the group will then stumble upon the van the attackers used to get to the scene and they find Shelton inside.
Oh, Shelton is an ally.
Granted, we should probably wait for Nick to join in.
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Ah okay, cool, that clears things up, especially if Aimee's allowed to kill the leader of the group....since he tried to shoot her by the looks of things :lol:
But yeah, thanks anyway for clearing that up, didn't know Shelton was actually an ally.
And yeah, would also be best to let Nick join in too, especially since Trinity has contacted Aisha on the cellphone, since from what I remember, Aisha has a cellphone of her own XD
But yeah, way I had that part if that Jayden had orriginally found their phone numbers in the police database and put them onto his phone before leaving and now, Trinity has his phone and is able to call Aisha at least, and Alfred when his phone batteries are back up and working again, but this time, from a now, untraceable number....well hey, she does take those kind of precautionary measures ;)
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There's one attacker other than the leader who hasn't died yet...we can wait for Nick to show up and he can claim that kill.
MrDrake, you can control the leader in his duel with Aimee. :)
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There's one attacker other than the leader who hasn't died yet...we can wait for Nick to show up and he can claim that kill.
Oops!
I had Dr. Bailey pepper spray one attacker and Zachary kill another attacker with a piece of concrete.
I can go change it if needed.
What about Noname?
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Nah, it's no big deal. I did say one guy was coming to reinforce them.
Once MrDrake kills the leader, we can move on.
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One other thing, should we let Cpl. Stern get a kill?
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Yay, the leader is dead in a small fight between him and Aimee....he got chocked to death in the end *dances* :lol:
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There's only one guy still alive, and he's pepper sprayed. If he wants that one, he can take it.
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So, who gets to kill the last guy? Just wondering is all, cause I doubt it's Aimee, since she managed to move away from the van and kill one of the guys....guessing could've been the leader's bodyguard and the leader himself ^^
By the way, out of random curiousity, did the group have a particular name they called themselves? Don't mind if they had a name or not you know, as in, Alpha Team or Bravo Team or whichever :lol:
Yes, I suck at naming teams :lol
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Shelton will explain this. They were the First Dragonstorm Reconnaissance Team, or DS-1.
Also a fun fact, each team members' death mirrors that of their classical Greek counterpart:
Amphinomos charged Odysseus and died from a spear. Team leader charged Aimee and died from a sharp stick (kinda).
Dolon was killed by Odysseus begging for his life. Admittedly, our team isn't quite as jerk-ass as Odysseus, so I made it that we couldn't hear his pleas.
Protesilaus was the first death of the Trojan war. So was ours.
Achates does not die in the Aeneid, and Shelton is Achates.
I'm thinking of naming the concrete guy Hippothous, who also died from something heavy to the face.
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Ah awesome, can't wait for the explanation ^^
What about the guy Aimee killed, you know, the stick to the face? Cause I do like that random fact of yours XD
Cause I know he was the second to die, the first was a gunshot by the looks of things
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Yay, the leader is dead in a small fight between him and Aimee....he got chocked to death in the end *dances* :lol:
Don't you love it when that happens? I was stoked when Shelton got to kill Delta Leader in the second RP, since Delta had tortured him earlier.
Speaking of which, here's Shelton's character description:
Name: Dr. Rudyard "Rudy" Shelton
Age: now 41
Species: Human
Faction: Scientists, Dragonstorm (undercover)
Specializations: Great understanding of physics, technology, and (to a limited extent) temporal mechanics. He often uses analogy and historical references in his dialogue.
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: Has a “thought chip” which allows him to communicate with others that have chips.
Appearance: Dark haired and brown eyed, on the taller side. Wears contact lenses. Now with shoulder length hair and a goatee, to disguise his identity.
Personality: Marginally sarcastic, but usually doesn't talk unless he sees a reason to. Attempts to solve any problem with logic, almost to a fault. Has no intention whatsoever of risking his life for anyone or anything, thank you very much.
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Ah awesome, glad to see his profle BLT ^^
I'm gonna throw up Jayden's profile later on, as I do plan on having him help out quiet a bit actually, so best to have him with a profile, same with Trinity's profile ;)
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hey guys i'm back sorry I've missed a bit. good to see you back LBT. I'll hgave aishja pick up her hone anbd rwead a text Trinity sent her..
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Btw, reason why Trinty has gone to the Redwood Inn was because of Shakila, her hacking needed to be stopped, you know, from stealing information and all that from the Trinity Facility, and that Shakila was using multiple IP addresses to sheild herself, so basically, Trinity headed there to pinpoint the problem.
However, Trinity doesn't know that it's Shakila you know ;)
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understandable... nice work..
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In regards to help for Weyland-Yutani's factories, couldn't they also get help from Jayden? As he is a cop after all, but he is at a loss at the moment, as he has no way of contacting Alfred and the others since Trinity had stolen his cellphone.
So, he can help them get in rather easily as he is more than willing to help them out, all they would have to do is go to the police station and ask for him is all.
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I posted that Shelton went to sleep, but I've reverted that post. I don't think I need to eschew th RP completely, but just be aware that my posts will be sparse for the next few days, and any questions asked Shelton will reply to all in large staggered posts.
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In regards to help for Weyland-Yutani's factories, couldn't they also get help from Jayden?
I am not sure of the rest of the group knows his name.
Also, I assume a profile for Kain, Trinity and Jayden are forthcoming?
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Ah okay, well I was believing that since Jayden has contacted Alfred before, that Alfred could perhaps mention Jayden to everyone else, you know, explain who he is sort of thing.
Yeah, they are coming in due time. And don't worry, I still have the profile template to go by as well, so I'll get them up soon enough.
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Here we are, decided to actually do it now, so yeah, here are Jayden's, Trinity's and Kain's profiles.
Name: Jayden
Age: 26
Species: Human
Faction: Police/FBI
Appearance: He wears a suit usually, has short black hair.
Specializations: He's a marksman and a negotiator normally
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: N/A
Personality: He is rather friendly, but does tend to up hold the law in his own hands
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Name: Trinity
Age: 27
Species: Human
Faction: Unknown, but is evil
Appearance: She usually wears pants, shoes, a shirt and a coat on to keep weapons and what have you inside. She has long black hair as well.
Specializations: Marksman, agility, computer knowledge, hand to hand combat
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: N/A
Personality: She is rather cold hearted, has no care for human/animal life at all, will shoot and kill anyone without hessitation.
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Name: Kain
Age: Unknown
Species: Reptile
Faction: Scientists/evil
Appearance: He wears shorts and a scientist's jacket over as well. He also has green scales as well.
Knowledge: He has knowledge of how to create Dragonstorm experiments
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: N/A
Personality: He's a cold hearted, ruthless criminal so to speak, but keeps the location of his facility a secret with the help of Trinity. He, much like Trinity, but on a deeper level, cares nothing for human/animal life at all, especially with always calling Aimee by her "producation" name Subject #17
Hope that's good enough, I can answer any questions about them that anyone has.
Btw, Kain has something he's working on, which will be revealed down the track some more.
However, I have one question on how Dragonstorm actually work, namely the experiments, just to try and get some things cleared up about them, as I know they mostly have no free will, save for Deathwind. However, do they listen to only who creates them sort of thing? And how powerful are they actually allowed to be? Cause I don't want to create one that ends up being too powerful by mistake you know, would like to create a Dragonstorm experiment correctly you know ;)
Cause I know, when Kain asked about Dragonstorm in the video conference, Aisha replied with them being murderous psychopaths, but would she have been refereing to the experiments or the agents in general?
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However, I have one question on how Dragonstorm actually work, namely the experiments, just to try and get some things cleared up about them, as I know they mostly have no free will, save for Deathwind. However, do they listen to only who creates them sort of thing? And how powerful are they actually allowed to be? Cause I don't want to create one that ends up being too powerful by mistake you know, would like to create a Dragonstorm experiment correctly you know ;)
Cause I know, when Kain asked about Dragonstorm in the video conference, Aisha replied with them being murderous psychopaths, but would she have been refereing to the experiments or the agents in general?
Aisha was referring to the agents.
There are 3 generations of Dragonstorm experiments:
Generation I - free will and capability to speak English (Ex: Deathwind).
Generation II - have some free will (alignment is permanently set at one stage in the growing process) but communicate in beeps and whistles (imagine R2-D2) (Ex: Ridley)
Generation III - no free will, communicate in beeps and whistles
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Also, it is possible to hack into the experiment's brain during the programming process and have it fight for you (done by Shelton to Ridley in DS II).
Any combination of 3 total powers (cybernetic and psionic) is permitted.
And this is the creation process of the experiments:
"Composes of, and I quote, 'continuing Pelvanida's genius while overcoming the flimsy moral issues of the mainstream staff." Shelton looks up. "This guy's nuts. Not even nuts nuts. Machiavelli nuts."
"Keep reading."
"Right." Shelton furrowed his brow. "According to this, Dragonstorm steals top quality embryos from the research labs, clones them, and returns them overnight. Then, it injects each embryo with an untested stream of DNA, chemicals, and/or hormones. It then uses --oh my god, how'd they get one of those? -- an Accelerated Growth Pod to speed up the growth process of the embryos to birth."
"I thought Accelerated Growth Pods were illegal."
"They are, due to the almost guaranteed retardation of the subject's brain waves. You'd think that would render the experiments worthless." Shelton kept reading. "Once born, the experiments that reacted favorably to the injections move on to the next phase. The others are disposed of." Shelton broke off. "This is just sick."
"Shelton..."
"I know, I know. Okay. Phase Two of the process involves altering and improving the surviving experiments through psionic and cybernetic enhancements."
"Wait, they use both?"
"Which, once again, would cause any normal brain to overload, much less these experiments' already mentally unstable ones. This just wouldn't work!" Shelton scanned the page. "Oh, God. This is how it would work."
"What?"
"Once testing is done, the subjects are placed back in the Accelerated Growth Pod and grown to fighting age. Then, after the subjects are removed, their brain, which had died long ago, is surgically cut out and replaced with a neural net." Shelton looked up. "This causes them to have little to no individual thought processes, and unswerving loyalty to Dr. Zenarchis! Not to mention cyber and psionic enhancements, and genetic superiority!"
The main weakness is the back of the head where the cybernetics connect to the natural tissue. Also, they are not immune to toxic chemicals.
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That should answer your question. If not, I will he happy to clarify.
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F-22, are Hans and Werner still under your control or can I release them into the public domain?
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Hans and Werner are in the public domain until F-22 says so.
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alright, so whats the plan for the next few pages..
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Yeah, cause the hotel has just been evacuated prior to the bomb going off, having trashed at least two rooms, possibly more via a collapse of a room or two above.
I have Trinity still at the hotel, but still in disguise, but yeah, I too am wondering what the next move for the group shall be.....perhaps examine the DVD that Aimee has on her? And don't worry, I do know what's on it, which I'll post in once they actually do get around to examining it.
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The group has to find a new hotel then they will simutaneously shop for supplies and gather info.
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Ah okay, cool. Looks like Trinity has caused them to loose precious time indeed, undoing all that info gathering in one whole night.
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yes she definitely has thrown a wrench into the works..
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I should have Stern do something soon. If I had one wish, it would be for more time here. I don't know why things are so slow lately. A lot of stuff is happening at once in real life with me. :blink:
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Been reading the tv troopes page for the rp, and it's an interesting read. Nicely done on it too those who do add to it and all that ^^
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I should have Stern do something soon. If I had one wish, it would be for more time here. I don't know why things are so slow lately. A lot of stuff is happening at once in real life with me. :blink:
I know, right? I keep logging in and seeing pages of stories have been added when I wasn't around. Stern and Shelton should start talking to each other more, they act at the same speed :)
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Noname, I can take control of Stern until you have more time but only if you want me to.
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Note that my latest post makes it sound like Cpl. Stern died. He did not but they think he died because they can't find him and they assume the worst.
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I'm kind of confused. What characters are where?
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I can answer some, most are still at the hotel, but Aimee's gone off ahead in a stolen cop car in order to chase down Trinity. Shakila has been kidnapped by Trinity, but why, you'll see soon enough, once Trinity decides to explain it XD
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Stern will be... gah. Sooner or later, I'll become a more regular poster here. Stuff keeps coming up. :blink: :blink: :blink:
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Sooner or later, I'll become a more regular poster here. Stuff keeps coming up.
Like I said, I can take command of Stern until you have more free time. And I will "bring him back to life" (really have him eventually come in contact with the group)
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sounds good guys..
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Thanks again. I assure you, there will come a time when things will return to normal for me on this RP.
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Okay, just curious on something, what part of Aimee would they do surgery on....unless she has a broken nose, which would make sense....as Trinity did punch her in the face with the gun handle.
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Her nose is probably broken and they have to sew up the gunshot wound in her foot. Not to mention they want to x ray her to ensure that she does not have additional broken bones.
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Well, she was shot in the thigh, Shakila was shot in the foot. But yeah, would make sense to get some surgery done on them two. Also, like I said, Shakila's gonna be paying for it, she's got enough money to do so, trust me....an explanation for that will appear from her soon enough ;)
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Name: Subject 19
Age: Unknown, looks to be about the same age as Aimee
Species: Vulpine
Faction: Dragonstorm Experiment
Appearance: Looks much like how Aimee looks like, except for having normal arms instead of cybernetic arms and the face of it has cracks in it, much like how, say, corruption of darkness or something like that would have as an affect on the skin....well, what one would see in fiction anyway along with a darker fur colour.
Specializations: Killing, blending in to crowds
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: Enhanced Strength, enhanced healing factor and artifical limbs that are able to turn into claws for slicing and dicing people up *dances*
Personality: Shows no remorse at all for who she kills, just basically, gets the job done, one way or another. Why she has the name Subject 19 is because quite simply, Kain cares not for proper names, just giving his experiments numbers instead.
Hope that one is good enough, something I had been thinking about lately actually.
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Mind if I join?
Name: Ethan Garner
Age:25
Species: Human
Faction: Soldier
Rank:Private
Appearance: light skin, dark brown spikey hair and blue eyes.
Specializations: Stealth,hand-to-hand combat, firearms, knives and swords.
Personality:Calm and easygoing, Ethan always focuses on getting the job done.
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Sure! You can join.
One question, how old is Pvt. Garner and is he an ally or enemy?
Try to have a believable way for him to come into the story.
The group is at Culeston General Hospital.
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He's twenty five years old and an ally. I have planned an entrance, he starts out as one of the patiants at the hospital and soon after, gets out.
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Okay, that works. I assume that he is one of the ones who survived the bombing at the Redwood Inn.
Though how will he come in contact with the group? Will he save their lives or something?
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Yeah,you could say that.
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I am curious myself on how he would actually do that, as in, what would he save the group from?
However, I do like the sounds of this character, so welcome aboard mate.
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Who knows what he might save the group from (as of now he hasn't even appeared in the RP yet) but after reading Darwin's Soldiers 1 and 2, anything could happen. Originally Ethan Garner and the rest of Delta Squad were sent in to investigate the origins of the Vegas Massacre but then things got dirty and his entire squad was wiped out, but he managed to get out alive.
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Considering that a Dragonstorm experiment and some Dragonstorm operatives are in the hospital, he could save the group from either of them.
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And speaking of Subject 19, I am still wanting a third thing for her, just not sure on what it is at the moment, was going to have the electrical discharge-like power, but still not sure. So, I'll edit and tell you when I think of a good either power or enhancement.
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how about the ability to disappear for short periods of time
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Just thought of something, inspiration from the game Prototype, what power Alex Mercer has, his arms turn into claws more or less to slice and dice people up, which i thought Subject 19 could have.
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That would probably be classed as a cybernetic power.
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Ah, that's all good then I suppose....is it? Cause I don't mind what it would be classed as, just would like to know if that sort of thing is okay or not is all ^^
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It would make sense that Subject 19's arms are artificial limbs disguised to look like real ones. You can hide weapons more easily in artificial limbs than natural ones.
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Ah okay, then that's settled, that's her third power/enhancement, limbs that are able to do that....slice and dice people up XD
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Some random information about Subject 19. Her claws are indeed, based off those of Alex Mercer's claw powers from the game Prototype whilst her name, Subject 19 is suppose to be based off the mysterious Subject 19 from Assassin's Creed 2, you know, the mystery behind her is the same basically mystery behind Subject 19 from Assassin's Creed 2 sort of thing XD
But yeah, just those two random bits of information for her for you guys ;)
Also, when trinity shot Shakila in the foot and had said "Tis only a flesh wound" of course, that was an obvious reference to the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail :lol:
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Welcome to the RP Belmont!!!
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welcome belmont!
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I have an idea for how they are going to temporarily stop subject 19 since gunfire does not seem to affect her.
If her arms are artificial and magnetic, they could have someone lure her into a room with an MRI machine, turn it on, let her get her close enough to the machine for the magnetic field to attract her and pin her to the machine.
That sound like a good idea?
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I like that idea a lot actually, kinda reminds me on Terminator 3 on how they stopped the TX temporarily on that machine, pinned her to it sort of thing.
So yeah, that could work out rather well, give them all enough time to escape at the very least ^^
Also, some random information, between Aimee aka Subject 17 and Subject 19, the one known as Subject 18 is already dead XD
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Forgive Shelton if he's a bit more bitter than he was for the first two RPs. I imagined that months of undercover work in an evil organization would have some effects on his personality, and adjusted him fittingly. Plus I'm finding it's suspending my disbelief a little bit that so many bloody catastrophes can happen in one town without anyone becoming a little suspicious or national troops being called. Culeston is a town, not an undercover military base.
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Yeah, I can buy the inhabitants not knowing about Lab 101 because the few people who stumble upon it are either experimented on or killed and it is chalked up to accidents or simple death by exposure to elements. But why people are ignoring someone blowing a Inn, crashing their car through one of Culeston's biggest malls and then slaughtering pretty much everyone in Culeston General.
I am however at a loss as to how to remedy this. It is not like they can declare martial law.
One thing I do is that when the characters go to buy new weapons, the gunstore will be packed.
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Don't worry, I'll have police and all out and more or less, now on patrol you know, to try and capture their mysterious mass murder(s) sort of thing. Sort of like how police would probabally recat in mass murders, be on patrol to try and caputre the killer(s).
Not sure if the army should also be involved or not.....
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We could always move on to Lab 101, and discover that Dragonstorm is packing up and evacuating the area. Our heroes blend in with the Dragonstorm personnel, and we continue the story somewhere else. Then it doesn't matter what happens in Culeston, and the struggle to take down Dragonstorm (which is what this RP was supposed to be about) could continue.
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Yeah, take on Lab 101 does sound like a good idea, especially since Sehlton apparantly knows the location it, and what's more, Trinity doesn't know that Shelton knows that, so that's one advantage the heroes have over her, since Trinity has been doing everything to stop them from getting to Lab 101 and taking down Dragonstorm you know, she wants to basically, keep it alive and going XD
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The foreman mentioned earlier, could he provide an additional clue via Culeston PD? He could give a tip about a "meth lab".
Also, should Dr. Zenarchis and Dr. Branston live through the assault?
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Speaking of which, perhaps Kain could also be at Lab 101 as well you know, perhaps having a proper talk to say, Dr. Branston or Dr. Zenarchis, or even both you know, talking more about Dragonstorm and all that.
Not sure about the foreman myself, as it wouldn't bother me at all, depends on what you reckon as well, if you think it could work out that way.
Just another little suggestion there as well, brings Kain into the story some more, also, if Aimee saw Kain there....oh, she is going to be pissed, that's for sure :lol:
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I think both should die. I also think Montgomery should die, but I kinda liked O'Neill, he was the most charismatic of the Dragonstorm characters, plus I mention O'Neill is on trial in Pavlov's Checkmate.
Not that that doesn't mean we shouldn't put O'Neil through hell and back...
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There are other labs. Branston, Montgomery dies.
O'Neill lives to avoid a continuity error.
Zenarchis dies with the single East Coast location. Which will probably be the last installation. He will be talking to Kain and Branston through a real time video link.
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Fair enough, perhaps as a three way video chat sort of thing? I mean, if the heroes end up killing Zenarchis, perhaps they could also find the location of the Trinity Facility there as well, like, on a computer or even get it out of Zenarchis?
Just another little thought there, although, the location of the Trinity Facility is a bit vague still, you guys still have any ideas on where is could be? As I am open to ideas on that one ;)
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The RP will probably end with Zenarchis's death and the destuction of the final East Coast facility... Which will not be for A LONG time.
They probably will find info on the Trinity Facility in Lab 101.
Also, will the group ever pay a visit to Weyland-Yutani's factory in Lincoln City?
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So, do you think that they could find Trinity Facility before then, you know, take care of Kain, Trinity and Subject 19?
As for paying that a visit, I wouldn't mind if they did or not.
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sure that would serve our purposes well I think..
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Yeah, I'll have 'em pay a visit to Weyland-Yutani's local factory.
Finding the Trinity Facility first would make sense.
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So, it wont quiet end with Lab 101? As I mean, if they want to wipe out all of Dragonstorm and they would have a good idea that Kain and Trinity are in on it as well, they would also want them dead too? Cause I know all three of them will be killed, trust me ;)
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There are actually a bunch of labs scattered across the country.
Here is a list.
1.) Lab 101
2.) Surrounded Sea - converted supertanker
3.) underneath a supermax prison in the midwest
4.) One in AK
5.) One in Canada (Caustizer said his character is doing that one but...)
6.) The one on the East Coast.
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Ah okay, cool, and I guess, on a lighter note, the trinity Facility as well, since that's where Subject 19 had come from.....thanks to Kain and Trinity.
But I take it all labs are going to be struck in this RP? Or just a certain amount?
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There's another one off the coast of Alaska. I'm writing a story starring DS-1 and it's going to take place there. It's a gas & electric company called SORA.
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This is intended to be the finale of the main RP trilogy (of course plans may change but that is VERY unlikely) so all labs will be hit.
Of course if this is the end, spin off stories are still allowed.
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You don't have to worry about SORA, it won't be a threat after the end of my new story.
Oh, and you may be wondering about my other story, Ship of State. I'm running into a big of a snag with it, but it will still be completed. I think I'm going to post both at the same time once I finish them, alternating which one I update each day. I'm rather liking both :)
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Hehe, sounds like a plan it does XD
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All right, as we're approaching the characters relaxing at a hotel again, I was wondering if once they're all relaxing in the hotel room, I could introduce a small plot advancement.
If you guys remember the <communication method> used by DS-1, it's a method of thought-speaking called the Dragonstorm 'thought network.' It allows users to send short messages mentally, as long as the sender and receiver both have thought chips. Thought chips are inserted nasally through the sinuses while the patient is asleep, which is why Shelton swiped the Propofol. The chip activates itself once the patient gets a good night's sleep, and they can get used to using them during the side stories until we reach Lab 101.
These chips were first seen in Nietzsche's Soldiers, and the "bullet extractor" Shelton had is actually a thought chip inserter; Shelton was mentioned as working as an "embedder" for Dragonstorm. After the shootout, he disappeared for ten minutes because he was removing the chips from his companions.
Of course, Shelton will explain all of this in-story once the team is all together and can hear him. But the reason I'm mentioning it now is because Shelton has five chips to give out, and I think each writer should get one character with a chip, if they wish. Ideally, once chip for Serris, Nick, Drake, Noname, and a public domain character (preferably one of f-22's, in case he comes back)
This will allow for 'eavesdropping' once we reach Dragonstorm, and I think the chips aren't powerful enough to be a 'game-breaker.' (Lab 101 is currently out of range, so the group can only use them amongst themselves until we go after Dragonstorm). Just wanted to raise the question of what characters should get the five chips.
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Oooh, now that sounds like a good plan, I do like the sound of it. As for whom could use it, I was thinking either Jayden or Aimee mainly, unless Shakila gets it....although, I doubt it would be of much use for her, since she's not much of a fighter herself, knowing nothing on using firearms, you know, best at a computer, hacking aay and what have you XD
Speaking of the communication method, how far does it actually reach? Just curious you know, if they would also be able to hear Subject 19's communications or not, granted, she doesn't really use it since most talk to her in plain English sort of thing.
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That would depend on if Subject 19 has a chip. And you can't read a person's thought unless that person directs the thought towards you; it's less like a chat forum and more like IM.
A user can send a message to multiple people at once; Team Leader was seen doing this. You can also send a message to everyone in range, but it's appreciated about as much as the "reply to all" feature in email.
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Ah okay, that clears things up. Thought it was an open channel sort of thought network system actually, but thanks for that clear up for me.
As for Subject 19 having a chip or not, I'm leaning towards more of a no for her, since she speaks English regardless and at the moment, is working for Kain and Trinity. However, I might add that she could have one later on, really all depends on what actually happens with her sort of thing.
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If the soldiers in the main force are busy focused on Shelton, it should give you guys time to advance across the street and attack them in close quarters, and hopefully save the leader from shooting Shelton in the head.
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Yeah, that is probabally the best bet, granted, Shakila's hiding out in the building on the construction site, so Aimee could go over and help, and I'll get Jayden to come back soon as well, as he would have a very good reason for being gone for so long, missing out on most of the firefight XD
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This may be an odd question, but what does Shelton mean by a colour hat that Shakila wears? Cause if it's to do with hacking, then I wouldn't actually know, but would like to know about it some more you know ^^
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There are three shades of hats hackers can consider themselves.
White hat hackers only hack in ethical ways; for example, if they successfully hack into a website, they'll merely leave the website owner a message explaining how they did it and showing them how to prevent others from doing the same.
Grey hat hackers are kind of a blend of the other two. For example, they may reverse engineer a software program that the company expressedly and publically forbid people from reverse engineering. It's illegal, but they don't cause any harm.
Black hats are those who use their hacking powers to cause trouble for others, or illegal personal gain. Most high-profile cases of websites being hacked or money electronically stolen are examples of black hat hackers. Since Shakila has stolen money, she's a black hat.
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Ah okay, didn't know that.....so one does learn something new everyday :lol:
Looks like Shakila is a black hat hacker....becoming one without actually knowing it so much, especially on the part of causing other businesses to go out of business.
A grey hacker sounds like from Live Free or Die Hard, with that Gabriel guy, how he helped create part of a program, then later on, the company he was working for, shunned him, to which he returned and hacked into it using only his laptop. Well, that's how Matt Farrel and the Warlock had put it more or less, explaining it to John McClane. I guess that sounds about right?
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Wikipedia has an article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29#Hacker_attitudes) on this if you want to learn more. Generally a grey hat is someone who may commit small crimes during their hacking, or does other things of borderline legality.
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Ah, sweet, that also helps to clear things up as well, thanks for that. So far, what I was talking about seemed to be more as a black hat as well.
Grey hats still sound a bit confusing, but ah well, I'll still figure it out too, seems rather interesting still ^^
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Well, as much as I hate to say it, I'm going to have to back out of this RP, I've been extremly busy, if anyone asks about my character, just say he was K.I.A, killed in action.
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Ah okay, sorry to hear that. Perhaps if you say he was killed in action, then it could've been by Subject 19 when she was on a rampage in the hospital, could've perhaps, killed your character in the process....by decapitation XD
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It will be difficult to explain how your character come back in, seeing as how he's still at the hospital, and we're moving on the the Dragonstorm HQ soon. But I'm sure we'll find a way. Maybe Dragonstorm could request his return to the base for a debriefing if you ever come back?
It wouldn't be the weirdest arrival into an RP. Corporal Stern joined the 2nd RP basically by falling out of the sky!
Just throwing ideas out there, but people have requested their characters die before (like StarFall in the 1st RP) and we tend to keep them in the land of the living since you just never know :) Hope your time clears up, and if you ever need a debriefing before you jump back in don't hesitate to ask! :wave
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Pvt. Garner is the single survivor of Delta Squad sent to investigate the Vegas Massacre.
I guess we could add him to the pool of public domain characters.
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Yeah, that could work, kind like what happened to Hans and Werner, actually had forgotten about that sort of thing.
But yeah, that could work, but then, who would use him then, if Belmont will allow that sort of thing.
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Public Domain characters can be used by anyone as long as continuity is maintained.
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Ah yes, I thought as much. Don't know if I would actually want to take on another character myself, so I guess we can see what happens first, if anyone else wishes to take him on or not.
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Seems we'd need Belmont's permission first. He never expressedly said we could take control of his character, only that we could kill him off (which I don't think we should do).
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Yeah, seems like that, but if he says that he is released to the public domain, I could perhaps take control of him, that, or give an idea that he was arrested at the hospital from the SWAT team and taken in to be interoggated about what had happened there.
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Ah okay, sorry to hear that. Perhaps if you say he was killed in action, then it could've been by Subject 19 when she was on a rampage in the hospital, could've perhaps, killed your character in the process....by decapitation XD
that'll work.
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Alrighty then, so you do wish for him to be killed off by the sounds of it and not be released for anyone else to be used?
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Do we always have to wait for everybody to get into the cars? Can we ever assume that everybody gets in and we head out? (It's a bit late to be asking this, as presumably there's only the hotel and then Lab 101 to drive to, but I'm just wondering.) I speak because in the past a few times Shelton has held the group up because everyone was waiting for me to get on and post something.
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So, is everyone going to get going to the hotel first so that Shelton can get his thing underway there with his pill like things? Those Dragonstorm items that is.
Then after that, they can head to the closest set of shops to get what they need to, as I doubt another mall is around for a few kms anyway.
And of course, after they do the mall stuff, they can finally get underway with heading to Lab 101 at the very least. Well, sounds about right to me anyway XD
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Yeah, everyone make sure to think of which character of theirs they want to get a thought network chip. I personally think the five should go to:
1. James: Team leader, and I think Serris' only scientist (Zachary was an assistant). It makes sense that the scientist would get the chip.
2. Shakila: The other tech person, and she'll need information to help her hack Dragonstorm computers.
3. Stern: as Noname's only character
4. Dr. Landon: as medic, other 'chipped' characters can contact him for medical advice if the team gets split up.
5. Werner: he's a public domain character, and if f-22 comes back he'll get a 'chipped' character. Plus Werner hasn't had much to do so far, so it'll get him more involved in the plot.
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Ah, pity. I understand, though. I've been busy myself.
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Yeah, Shakila can be the one to have it, does make sense for her, especially since Shelton and Shakila spoke about it just before.
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Dr. Bailey is another one of my scientist characters. Personally, James should get it.
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Stern will get it, but if I have more time, I might add a second character.
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Dr Landon will get one,, since hes a medic..
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By the way, I was a bit off with the Assassin's Creed 2 ordeal, I was thinking of Subject 16, the one who leaves messages around Spain for Enzio to decrypt.
Although, when they reach Lab 101 and when Shakila starts to access their computers, I might have her stumble across some hidden messages that were left on the computer network system by an unknown source, one that goes on about Dragonstorm, Aimee, Subject 19 and others as well.
Would think that would call him Subject 16, as in, one of the earlier ones, but whether or not he's still alive, not too sure about it.
Just an idea I've got buzzing around in my mind is all.
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So, Corporal Stern has the chip in him now?
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James, Stern, Shakila, Dr. Landon, and Hans all have the chip in them now. The chip will not do anything until they fall asleep and wake up in the morning. When they wake up, as Shelton said, they should be really disoriented. He'll coach them on using it in the morning.
Feel free to take your time reaching morning, however, since due to some unexpected guests I'm not sure how much time I will be able to spend online tomorrow night. I'll see if their place has internet access, and if so I can participate, but if not I might be a bit late in posting.
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I'm back! Thanks for waiting!
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Wait! You're back!? Oh noes! *hides*
:lol:
Sorry, could not help that XD
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This post is mainly for Serris, but I just found out that you can link to specific posts in threads by clicking the white underlined Posted: next to the date of threads. I'm going to go through the TV Tropes and start providing links to specific posts when I mention tropes in them. It'll be a bit of work, but it gives me an excuse to flip through the last two RPs :)
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I've been thinking of something, well, a team of three or four that works for Trinity you know, thinking of the name "Terror Squad" you know, to provoke fear, hatred and what have you into everyone around them.
But it's just an idea I'm getting together, do have an idea for three of the members, but not sure about a fourth member, I mean, there might be a fourth member in there as well, but so far, I have three thought of.
Probabally would introduce them when the group reaches Lab 101, as in, would be mentioned through, say, a sound file that Shakila could come across, left behind by Subject 16 sort of thing, as in, one of the diary things that he mentions, that trinity is putting together a team, but of course, he would have vague knowledge on what the team is for and all.
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I had a similar problem when designing DS-1 for the story I'm writing now; namely, what role should every character play? Since the team already existed, I needed to include six differentiated teammates with different roles. At the same time, they needed to have different personalities, which bounced off each other.
Here's what I came up with, maybe you could use my team layout as a starting-off point:
I have a leader, a medic, an engineer, two hired guns, and a rookie. The leader is weak-willed, giving the team a sense of freedom to do as they please. Of the men, two keep their minds on the mission and keep the plot on track, two are disobedient, impulsive and cause the team problems. The rookie is the straight man for the audience to relate to.
A group like this allows me to tell almost any story or throw any problem at them, and I'll have my bases covered. I can further the plot, slow down the plot, and introduce intra-group conflict easily.
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Ah okay, cool. Cause what I have in mind is the leader of course, another one who uses heavy weaponary and a sniper for the third member, however, I am still thinking of a fourth member, yet, I'm not sure on what role said person will play you know. Perhaps a demolitions expert, like....a mad bomber :lol:
Actually, that sounds fun already, and it could some how work out as well by the sounds of it. Already have the idea for the leader in mind too on the name of the leader and what the leader actually specializes in. And yes, the leader is going to be a female too, as I do have a fair amount alreay buzzing around in my mind, but there is still time to work on them of course before actually introducing them sort of thing.
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Just some information on Terror Squad, Hailey is the leader, she's a Vulpine whom is also an expert at hand to hand/weapons as in, sword combat sort of thing, as well as being trained in firearms. Icarus is a Raccoon, whom is an expert sniper. Rhino is, well, a Rhino who uses heavy weapons, like a minigun for example, however, he does have exceptional strength, most of him being rebuilt with mechanial parts and then there's Marcus, an African-American human, his stature, think like Michael Clark Duncan, he's basically, the expert in computers and communications, but is also trained in using firearms, having a pistol for himself.
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Just added a bunch of links to the first RP on the TV Tropes page. I'd appreciate if anyone could go through and double check that the links all work, and sometime in the future I'll do the other RPs, and the expansion stories :)
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Clicked on one and it does work, however, it was a post later that it went to, had to scroll up one post to see the reference.
It's the Shelton not being American trope, just so you know.
Only one I really checked, but I think I'll take your word and say that the rest of them work as well XD
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Two things:
Which members would fit in the 5 man band?
The Hero ó Dr. James Zanasiu
The Lancer ó Zachary
The Smart Guy ó Dr. Rudyard Shelton
The Big Guy ó ???
The Chick ó ???
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Also, background info on the Schutzhund.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhund (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhund)
In real life, Schutzhund is "a dog sport that was developed in Germany in the early 1900s to test whether German Shepherd Dogs exhibit the traits necessary for police-type work, rather than simply evaluating a dog's appearance. Today, many breeds other than German Shepherds can compete in Schutzhund, but it is a demanding test for any dog and few are able to pass successfully."
There are 3 "tests": Tracking, Obedience, Protection
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In the Darwin's Soldiers universe, Schutzhund is basically a military-themed competition. It is open to all species but was originally restricted to canines who were military personnel. Then it was opened to military personnel of all species. Then finally to civilians. Competitions are graded and segregated according to species.
It should also be mentioned that many Schutzhund competitions exist throughout the DS 'world; the Culeston event mentioned in the RP is just one of many. Not surprisingly, many of the champions are active duty military personnel.
The 4 tests are tracking, practical shooting, "obedience" and protection.
Tracking: competitor has to find and disable a simulated explosive device within a certain time limit. Scoring is dependent on how fast the competitor finds said device. "Setting" off the device or running out of time is an automatic failure.
Practical shooting: competitor has to negotiate obstacle course that has 15 targets (some may be "penalty targets"). They have to shoot the targets as fast and as accurately as possible with a given amount of ammunition. They may use any firearm they see fit (they may carry a long gun and a pistol if they wish to or a single pistol or a single long gun). Scoring is determined by how fast the course is negotiated and accuracy. Points are lost for shooting penalty targets or missing. Running out of ammunition is an automatic failure.
"Obedience": the competitor is paired up with a two other partners and they are to "clear" a building of "hostiles". They are given simulated ammunition for their weapons. Points are awarded on accuracy, efficiency and team work. Points are lost for shooting "hostages". Friendly fire is an automatic failure.
Protection: the competitor is assigned a "VIP" to escort through a hostile area. The competitor is given simulated ammunition. Points are awarded for "hostiles" neutralized and speed. If the VIP "dies", that is an automatic failure.
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Whew! There, that is how I modified a real world dog sport into something that makes sense (IE does not invoke furry confusion) in a world where dogs are anthro.
Critiques or comments welcome.
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Hans has always played the role of the Big Guy, kinda. all he seems to do is shoot stuff and lift stuff. Al would be an obvious choice but I wasn't sure if you were talking about the first RP or the whole thing; he's not in the 1st RP. And Dr. Joe is the most important Chick to appear in all three RPs and a couple expansion stories.
For the whole thing, you'd need like 5 people in each category:
The Hero: James (Okay, except this one)
The Lancer: Zachary, Werner, Neku, Jayden,
The Smart Guy: Shelton, Bailey, Kerzach, Shakila,
The Big Guy: Hans, Alfred, Stern, Hawkeye, Cobalt Squad
The Chick: Dr. Joe, Snow, Aisha, Aimee
And about Schutzhund...Are the characters going to participate in one or something? because Shelton would fail at the Schutzhund so bad...
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Wait, Shakila being a smart....guy? Sounds a bit odd there, but I know what you mean by that, which would suit her as well, unless of course there was something called "The Smart Girl" trope instead.
Granted, I don't know much about tropes myself, but I do like to have a look at the TV Tropes page in general, especially from going from the Dawrin's Soldiers page sort of thing....which is what I like to do you know, learn about the tropes sort of thing.
I wonder if Terror Squad could be included as some sort of trope although there are the four of them, unless you count Trinity as the fifth, since she is technically the one that commands them, higher command than Hailey you know.
As for that Schutzhund thing, I could so imagine Subject 19 taking part of it....getting pissed off at things that would go wrong and fail in the end :lol:
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The 5 man band encompasses the whole RP.
The Schutzhund may lead them to a clue (have not decided what clue is).
Only Neville, Cobalt Leader and Spc. Crota will participate (nearly everyone else lost their weapons).
Some of the other players' characters can participate as well.
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You guys forget Dr Landon, i'm put him in the "smart guy" section..
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Update on my two stories I'm writing!
Ship of State was finished today, but I need to type it up; I do all of my writing in journals. It explains what happened to anti-Hans and anti-Werner from my previous story Card of Ten. I've already received f-22's permission to write this story.
However, we've picked up several new users since the time I wrote that, and while I still think they could enjoy the story, it won't be very familiar, and it's also not really applicable to this RP.
That's why I'm writing a second story, currently titled Nietzsche's Soldiers 2:Supermen, which is halfway done. It stars DS-1 (the Dragonstorm team we fought when I jumped back into the RP) in a pre-3rd RP story, where they travel to Alaska on a Dragonstorm assignment which goes wrong.
Once both stories are finished, typed up and ready, I'll be updating both at the same time, alternating which story I update each day. Should be happening any day now; I'm averaging about 3 pages written a day. That's pretty good.
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Cool! I am finishing up Fool's Gold.
Also about the Schutzhund competition: Neville, Cobalt Leader and Spc. Crota will participate (along with other characters if so decided).
I am foreseeing that the competition goes off without a hitch but they find a clue (not decided what it will be).
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Does Dumb Muscle fit Alfred or not?
Yeah, he is no Genius Bruiser (Hell, I am not sure if Zachary is either. Kozlov and O'Neill definitely are) but he is not a total idiot either.
Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters got slotted into The Big Guy category despite them being literally one of the smallest of the cast.
Neville... I want to slot him into the Sixth Ranger but The Big Guy fits because well, all he does is fire support but again...he is not really massive.
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The sixth Ranger would work for characters who showed up late to the party and don't really fit the other categories. Vic was late in showing up to the 1st RP, as was Jayden and Ethan (Belmont's character) in the third. And maybe Lockdown, if he counts as a main character.
Would Oli from the first RP count as a sixth Ranger for the Five Bad Band?
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Pvt. Ethan Garner and Vic work for the Sixth Ranger.
Oli as the evil counterpart of Sixth Ranger... Not really.
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sounds good guys..
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Protection: the competitor is assigned a "VIP" to escort through a hostile area. The competitor is given simulated ammunition. Points are awarded for "hostiles" neutralized and speed. If the VIP "dies", that is an automatic failure.
Could Shelton be the 'VIP' for the Protection test? I could have him call in and apply to become a VIP with the Schutzhund Organizing Committee to earn some money, since he's been broke since the beginning of the RP.
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Yeah, that will work.
But the Schutzhund competition will reveal a clue. Have not decided what it is yet.
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Is the entire group attending the competition?
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I guess but not everyone is competing.
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My characters wont be participating, well, the heroes of my side anyway, a villain or two of mine might.
Oh, and as for Jayden's partner, still trying to decide on mainly, the species of said partner, you know, if they'll be human or non-human, like a hawk, a monkey, a rat or whatever you know. So, they'll show up soon when I've thought of it XD
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We've never had a rabbit main character. That might be interesting. (Just throwing out ideas)
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Ah okay, cool. Well, for me, I can be kinda....undecisive you know on some things, I mean, it may take me some time to decide on things, and this would be one of those things. However, I will say that I have been thinking of either an Artic Fox or maybe a Wolf of some sort. But yeah, not too sure at the moment.
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You already have a fox and a wolf in some of the RPs you are in, Drake. While you are free to make whatever you want, a rabbit would be a change of pace. Just saying.
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I know, still am deciding is all, I don't even know if I want a fox character, or a wolf character or whichever. Not really wanting a rabbit character though.
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It sounds like you want a canine of some sort. Maybe a lynx? Those are cool.
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Actually, a Lynx is a feline, belongs to their family. However, I don't really like them as much.
Although, I still appreciate the ideas, defiently is helping regardless. I mean, do want to have a partner for Jayden you know, one who actually follows the rules sort of thing while Jayden doesn't you know.
I mean, reason I like to have foxes is cause I find them aborable believe it or not, one of my favourite animals along side raccoons and monkeys. And before you say anything about a monkey, Subject 16 is a monkey character, most likely, a Cappuchiun(sp?) monkey.
Any other ideas for animal characters would be much appreciated for sure....helps me to decide more, that's for sure too XD
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Dingo? Wolf-Dog Hybrid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canid_hybrid#Wolf-dog_hybrid)? (Last unsolicited suggestion! Honest!)
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Dingo? I've heard of that before, but believe it or not, while you had that put up, I thought of the kind of animal I want, between a Coyote and a Jackal! Most likely will be a Coyote cause they look rather cool I reckon.
So yeah, a Coyote will do for me, now for a name, I have some ideas for names in my mind already. So I should get up the profile for said person soon enough.
Just so you know, said person will be female most likely, because mainly for the whole, playing by the rules sort of thing for her, to me, it suits a female more than a male, although I know a male works for that sort of thing too, I just would like a female in this case XD
And I just had an idea for an animal I have not seen in this RP as of yet, a bear!
Good thing I didn't say a sheep eh? :lol:
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Dhole
African Painted Dog
Peregrine Falcon
African Grey Parrot
Sulfur Crested Cockatoo
Budgie
Scarlet Macaw
Blue Jay
Raven
Crow
Reticulated Python
Black Mamba
Taipan (snake)
Copperhead (snake)
King Cobra
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Hehe, thanks for that too Serris.
That list of yours would be good for future references. However, I also know of something else I could add in as well....a Kiwi!
Seriously, that could work, a Kiwi, Kakapau, Pukekhoe (and no, I don't know how to actually spell our native birds names properly) and of course, out on a limb....a Sheep! :lol:
But I think for now, I shall go with a Coyote. But again, thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated ^^
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Well, here's the profile for Jayden's FBI partner, Kiara:
Name: Kiara
Age: 20
Species: Coyote
Faction: FBI
Appearance: Has brown/red like fur. She wears usual clothes on, as in, nothing like a suit as much
Specializations: Is more smarter than others, so to speak. As in, not as smart as Shakila, but is pretty smart, and is versed in guns, you know, can fire a gun.
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: N/A
Personality: Is rather friendly, however, likes to follow rules and protocol as well, and if Jayden doesn't follow either, she would probabally want to ring up her boss to tell what's going on sort of thing and one would have to stop her from doing so, as in, talk her out of it.
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I thought of a way to get more of the characters involved in Schultzhund.
As Shelton stated, Dragonstorm will obviously be interested in kidnapping the participants in the contest. What if our heroes predict (correctly) that Dragonstorm will enroll undercover operatives into Schultzhund whose real goal is to kidnap other people in the contest for experimentation? To stop it, our heroes will have to participate, not to win, but to protect the other players. Those PCs who aren't qualified to participate could patrol the audience and watch the exits in case anyone tries to escape the premises suspiciously.
That would also explain why we're bothering with the competition in the first place rather than moving on with invading Lab 101.
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Well, I know that Trinity will make an appearance there....as one of the contestants actually. Subject 19 can't really participate as she doesn't use a gun....and has anger issues too XD
Also, Trinity will most likely have Terror Squad on standby within the crowds you know, well, three of four of them, Rhino I don't think will be able to hide that well within the crowds :lol:
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Montgomery and O'Neill will also appear in the Schutzhund competition.
But one problem, how will they do the kidnapping without attracting attention?
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Maybe they don't care because they're planning on moving Lab 101 to a new state soon. I'm not sure about that.
But I do think it would make the Schutzhund more relevant to the main storyline instead of appearing more like a sidequest.
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I think I've got it! The Schutzhund competition is a sham. The winners get kidnapped and experimented on and the losers just go home.
Montgomery and O'Neill will appear as competitors. If they win, they get "disqualified" for "breaking a rule".
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good question
temporary power outage? Lights temporarily go out they grab one of our characters and one they bound gagged and stuffed the person in their vehicle they restore the lights..vivid. i know :)
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Neville and Cobalt leader could work as the kidnapping victims.
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yes or Aisha.. have her bear the brunt of Dragonstorm for once..
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Sounds like an idea, more of a reason for Trinity to be there as a contestant as well, kidnapping a victum or two for Kain to work on perhaps.
However, Subject 19 wont be there, least she gets annoyed and starts killing everyone around her :lol:
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Okay, the 3 kidnapping victims are Aisha, Cobalt Leader and Neville.
The kidnappers will only kidnap the top 3... and those will be the top three.
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Alrighty, cool. I do wonder who Trinity would be able to kidnap. Granted, they will most likely see her in the competition, you know, not using any disguise, well, at the moment, the only thing she would change would be her hair being dyed a different colour you know, for the competition, but as to not give herself away as much.
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Just so you guys know, and have not figured it out by now, Hailey's having a change of heart from the bad guys to the good guys after seeing and talking to Aimee again....so yeah, she'll be joining the group cause of Aimee :lol:
I can get a proper profile of Hailey up soon enough too ;)
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Yay! She intrigued me as a character, and I was sad that she apparently was just going to die with the rest of Terror Squad (total assumption on my part, FYI)
Just for clarification's sake: Is Hailey bisexual? (that wouldn't bother me in the slightest, and would actually be the first example of a deviant sexuality in Darwin's Soldiers! :lol: )
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Hehe yeah, I never had planned for her to die, this is what I had planned for her, to see Aimee again and have her mind changed about things you know....to Hailey, so far, only Aimee can change her mind on things.
However, the rest of Terror Squad will die, that's for certain, just Hailey was the one who wasn't going to die.
And yes, you're right, she is bisexual with a crush on Aimee as well, but whether or not Aimee feels the same back, I'm not going to reveal anything about that as of yet, gonna keep that a secret for now XD
Just a quick question, what do you mean by a "First example of a deviant sexuality"? Kinda confused on that one is all :oops
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To the most of my knowledge, every main character in Darwin's Soldiers has been heterosexual, that's all. Maybe deviant was the wrong word.
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Ah okay, I see what you mean anyway. Wanted something that was a bit different you know, and there's Hailey, a female who likes both guys and girls and even has a secret crush on her best friend :lol:
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Good. Now Stern won't have to kill her, after all.
BTW, I'm adding a male Vulpine to the story soon. A fox-like character who is the same species as Aimee and Hailey, named Aydin.
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Don't actually start the competition until I come up with the logistics of it first. In-universe, they still have to set up the courses and prepare everything before the competitors can shoot even if registrations are closed.
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Can I have Stern and this new char of mine enter the competition?
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Yeah your characters can enter but the competition is almost starting, though.
Basically, the order which events occur for each competitor is random (Ex: Spc. Crota may get practical shooting first but Neville gets protection first).
There are 3 of the "searching houses" and 3 "clearing houses" inside the "hangar". Each competitor enters 1 of the houses so 3 "searchers" and 3 "clearers" are competing at the same time but not immediately against each. After each "batch" of competitors goes through, the staff go into the house and "reset" everything (remove the shell casings, clean off the paint from the simulated rounds, put the "bomb" back in etc.) The TV screens at this point will show either ads or "instant replays".
Also, the searchers will have to wear the heavy bomb suits (for added realism) while they are doing the competition.
Protection and practical shooting take place outside. There are 2 separate courses for each so 2 protection competitors can compete at the same time and 2 practical shooters can compete at the same time. After each run through, targets are reset but the courses are otherwise untouched. Ads and instant replays are likewise shown for the "clean up".
Live ammunition is used ONLY for the practical shooting (any unused ammunition must be returned.). Simulated "paintball" ammunition is used for the protection and clearing competitions. Thus, firearms are converted so they can only chamber and fire the "simunition" during the protection and clearing competitions. All competitors are required to wear earplugs and shooting glasses (except during the searching competition). However, during the protection and clearing competitions, all competitors (and VIPs and "hostiles") will be required to wear a full protective suit, full face helmet and gloves for safety reasons.
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As Trinity is in the compeition, well, waiting around for it to start, and that you said two of your other characters would be joining in I believe, would they know about Trinity?
Reason I ask is cause they could know Kain, and know Trinity through Kain sort of thing, perhaps having met her on regular basis as well at times, since Trinity does travel a bit.
Just an idea of some sort I better throw out there. Also, in the competition, Trinity does go by the name of Raven you know, not wanting to blow her cover as she is unaware at the moment of what Hailey has just done, switching sides you know.
But yeah, sounds like a plan with what you had just posted Serris, will of course be refeering back to that when need be as to not get things wrong in the competition since two of my characters are part of it XD
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One other thing I want to add: the "searching" competition and "clearing competition" take place in scaled down mockups of a well off suburban houses with a bathroom, two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen. All of the rooms are stocked with the things that one would expect to find in a real house.
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Is it okay if I throw in a second character of mine in said competition? Drake and I had a talk about adding a new char of mine.
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Yes it is.
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Cool. Adding the char now.
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What's the first competition? Sounds like the clearing one.
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The first competition for a certain competitor may not be same as one for another. This is to prevent cheating by say, telling the previous competitor where the "bomb" is located.
Neville will be first doing practical shooting, Cobalt Leader and Spc. Crota will be doing escort.
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I'll probabally have Trinity do some shooting first while Kiara does something else, but not protection nor shooting, just to have her do something that everyone else isn't doing as of yet.
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Kiara can do the searching for the "bomb".
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Where is this "bomb"?
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My best guess is on one of the courses somewhere. But yeah, sounds good that she can do that.
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The fake bomb is inside a "searching house" that is a scale model of a well to do suburban house (2 bedrooms, bathroom,kitchen, living room) with all the things that one might find in a real house. The "bomb" is somewhere in there and it has to be found before it goes off.
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One question I have, what actually happens when the bomb goes off? I mean, how would the competitors know if it has gone off sort of thing?
Also, who is actually controlling who passes and who fails each section of the competition?
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I don't know the answer to the second one, but it seems that the bomb from the competition is fake. Is that right, Serris?
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Obviously, the competition bombs are fake.
A loud beeping noise is emitted if the bomb goes off.
Place is is determined by total points racked up.
Tracking: competitor has to find and disable a simulated explosive device within a certain time limit. Scoring is dependent on how fast the competitor finds said device. "Setting" off the device or running out of time is an automatic failure.
Practical shooting: competitor has to negotiate obstacle course that has 15 targets (some may be "penalty targets"). They have to shoot the targets as fast and as accurately as possible with a given amount of ammunition. They may use any firearm they see fit (they may carry a long gun and a pistol if they wish to or a single pistol or a single long gun). Scoring is determined by how fast the course is negotiated and accuracy. Points are lost for shooting penalty targets or missing. Running out of ammunition is an automatic failure.
"Obedience": the competitor is paired up with a two other partners and they are to "clear" a building of "hostiles". They are given simulated ammunition for their weapons. Points are awarded on accuracy, efficiency and team work. Points are lost for shooting "hostages". Friendly fire is an automatic failure.
Protection: the competitor is assigned a "VIP" to escort through a hostile area. The competitor is given simulated ammunition. Points are awarded for "hostiles" neutralized and speed. If the VIP "dies", that is an automatic failure.
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One question, how many can do shooting at once? As I wish to get Trinity out into her first game.
Also, so you know, Aimee, Shakila and Hailey have no idea on how the game is actually run, so to them, this is real by the looks of things.
However, Kiara knows how it's played, well, that's what I want to go by, having attended some competitions herself.
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The question is this: why do we even bother with having a fake competition in an already fake world? :blink:
I'll add something to make it a bit more "real."
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The question is this: why do we even bother with having a fake competition in an already fake world? :blink:
Same reason why movies exist within movies. Worldbuilding purposes.
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I suppose. But that works much better in movies, which can weave that into the action better than a play-by-post game. It can still be made to work, although the time taken up making posts is arguably better spent by having the characters do something real. Either way, Stern is in the competition, although he isn't in it to play it; he's there to keep anyone from being KILLED in it.
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I mentioned earlier that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place "winners" of the competition get kidnapped by Dragonstorm.
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Why they would wait for the end of the competition to launch a kidnapping is odd. They could just do it before the tournament, or in the middle of it. Are they waiting for any real reason?
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I myself do not know exactly why they are waiting till the end, but I do know that Trinity is only participating as to find out who is one of the best around before kidnapping them.
She will most likely do so with the help of Marcus who will be keeping track of who's ahead in the competition, you know, via hacking their network system, something he too, specializes in, but unlike Shakila, he uses a gun as well, that, as well as his strength which is a bit stronger than your average person you know, having a large stature sort of thing XD
But yeah, Trinity isn't going to do it all, guns blazing sort of thing, she's going to keep it inconspicuous or however it's spelt you know.
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Has it escaped everyone's notice that the course is rigged? If I need to blow something up for "real" to drive that point home, I won't hesitate to do so.
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Nah, gonna get Jayden to have a look around you know while the competition is going on. FBI does have juristiction(sp?) over everything else, so he should be able to get out back with ease by showing them his badge XD
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Even so, there's no point in me planting a bomb or rigging a course without something bad happening. Even if no one dies, I'll make something unexpected happen that changes things.
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I know, but I never said that Jayden would end anything, he's just going to have a look around is all. He probabally wont end up finding the bomb in the end.
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I didn't think he would.
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Why they would wait for the end of the competition to launch a kidnapping is odd. They could just do it before the tournament, or in the middle of it. Are they waiting for any real reason?
They want to see who wins the competition, since they want the best of the best. Aisha, Neville, and Cobalt Leader are the winners (my list INPO), so they're the ones kidnapped.
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Yeah, joined up with the TV Tropes website to also help out with the tropes for this RP at the very least, especially with some stuff I know about that haven't been fully explained....like Marcus' name that he's using in the competition on his name tag, Logan....added that to the shout page XD
Of course I wont change stuff around from what has already been put down, unless fo course, I know that it is true.
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Dr. Zanasiu and Hans know that the course is rigged because they received Cpl. Stern's message. Shelton was supposed to have received it but assume that he was out of range or did not hear it.
Dr. Bailey was initially suspicious because of the exorbitant prize amounts. he is still a little suspicious but he does not know that the course is rigged.
I will however, arrange for something to occur in the VIP protection course that shows that the course is rigged.
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Aisha has now entered the VIP section of the course..
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Oops. I though Aisha was doing the house clearing competition with Stern I will fix that.
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Shelton is stressed out from attempting to be a field supervisor when he's clearly not ready for the position. He's not on his A-game right now, as all of MrDrake's female characters found out. (This is mainly because I'm hesitant to answer any questions such as "when's the next game?" or "What's gone wrong?" because I don't know if the answer is pre-established, as both of those examples were)
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Why they would wait for the end of the competition to launch a kidnapping is odd. They could just do it before the tournament, or in the middle of it. Are they waiting for any real reason?
They want to see who wins the competition, since they want the best of the best. Aisha, Neville, and Cobalt Leader are the winners (my list INPO), so they're the ones kidnapped.
Couldn't they just kidnap them all? :lol:
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Nick, there is a dispute about Dr. Landon's first name.
Is it Micah or Douglass?
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douglass i think, why, did i call him micah earlier?
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I guess we can make Micah his middle name?
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i used micah first, si we'll have it be micah . i had forgotten what his name was, having not used it in some time..douglass is an alias..
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I'll post as soon as I can, but there might be a delay.
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I figured out how the kidnapping will work since they have to cancel the events.
They will judge the competitors by their total scores so far. The winners will be led into another room, then they will be subdued by and taken away through the back entrance.
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Hehe, sounds like a plan....since Trinity practically ruined the whole competition :lol:
Speaking of which, security, when they do reach her, will most likely end up arresting her without her being shot or anything like that XD
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Really? I expected her to kill them all and get away. Arresting her works too, though. Shelton will have done something useful for once. :p
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Well, that was my other choice actually, take them all on sort of thing, subdue them in the process and escape....but that doesn't quiet feel realistic you know, especially with others around.
Well, once security reaches her, I'll decide what actually happens, cause if she does get arrested, I do know what could happen then. Or if she takes them on and beats them all....most likely with the help of Rhino, she'll escape XD
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i'm having landon tend to alfred's injuries. he'll need a knife to cut out the bullets..
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Ah, don't you just love
unwilling human projectables being thrown? :lol:
Yes, Rhino is doing that, no care for human and animal life alike, only ones he cares about is Marcus, Icarus and of course, Trinity.
Just be thankful Subject 19 isn't there, otherwise....you might have to say hello to a masacre :p
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Just went through schrodinger's Prisoners and provided a bunch of links, including some tropes I missed first time around. Card of Ten is next on my list, when I get around to it.
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Ah, cool, I'll have a look at them soon ^^
Oh, and so you know, Hailey is chasing after Trinity, not because she wants to go back with her you know, but because of what Trinity has done....mainly to Aimee....and herself as well, more or less, revenge I guess you could say XD
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Aisha is heading in from the VIp section..
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The champions have been announced: Zachary Slavik (Cobalt Leader) <1st place>, Neville Ivers (2nd place), Aisha Tennes (3rd place).
They'll be taken to a room where they think they'll get their prizes, then they'll be subdued and taken prisoner and rushed out the back door.
Are there any changes that people want to make?
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no, thats fine..
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Nah, I'm fine, Hailey and Trinity are having a talk, with Trinity lying to Hailey in the process.
Marcus and Aimee are still going at it. Icarus is still loose on the catwalks and Rhino is still loose in the crowds....and it's going to take a bit to gun him down, he is part machine after all, which is why he has enchanced strength, more than a normal rhino does.
Still can't believe that Trinity was to win, only to get disqualified....makes sense for her to do that and it's actually worked out well now, I mean, she causes mayhem and while that's happening, the three who have one get kidnapped amongst it all....perhaps all to do with a plan Trinity had all along? :lol: Even though I doubt it :p
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sounds cool. are they simply going to be grabbed and have hoods thrown over their heads, or what?
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Cobalt Leader has live rounds in his weapon so they'll probably take a little more to subdue him.
The other two will simply be grabbed, handcuffed, hooded and thrown into the back of a van.
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Okay, the kidnapping is underway.
Um, can I assume that Cpl. Stern had completely went through both "clearing houses" and disabled all the traps inside and he is currently speaking to administration about the problems?
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Well, Marcus and Icarus are dead, now just Rhino left.....too bad Alfred's injured, otherwise he could've taken Rhino on, I'm sure of it :lol:
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I'll have Stern say that he cleared the places out, and lost his chance to become a champion, due to clearing the course of dangers rather than trying to win it... which is actually a smart move on his part, because the winners don't get much of a prize, they get kidnapped. :lol:
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Yes people, Rhino is getting beaten, just a bit longer though, but once his core is destroyed, like Hailey had said, will stop his mechanical heart from functioning and therefore, he will be destroyed/killed ^^
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It sounds like Hailey doesn't want to revel her past.
Drake, would you mind if Shelton made up a lie to cover for Hailey? It seems like that would be a good way for him to make up for not trusting her earlier.
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Well, technically, it was about the kiss that Trinity had given her....but she most likely wont want to reveal much about her past between the time that Aimee had vanished to now sort of thing.
But that can work out, Shelton can of course lie for Hailey to cover her up ^^
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Oh, I had thought she was going to tell everyone how she used to work for Terror Squad. Kiara wouldn't be too pleased about that.
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Oh no, that'll be a bit later on....that is, if anyone actually asks her about that.
But yeah, it was just about that kiss was all....you know, on how Trinity escaped....giving Hailey something she likes :p
But yeah, Kiara might not be too pleased with it, but yet, she might also be a bit understanding as well....having to decide between her job and helping someone out in repenting or whatever you could call it XD
Well, something along those lines anyway :lol:
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Aisha has been handcuffed and gagged. Dr Landon is heading up to help Human Soldier..
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So, they are heading to Trinity Facility? Hehe, didn't actually expect that, but that still works, as Kain would be pleased to have more....speciens to work on :lol:
And of course, Trinity and Subject 19 will be there too....and Subject 19....let's just say she's going to be pissed off at Trinity :p
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Noname? Are you going to post a bio for your new Vulpine character?
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Announcment: Noname loaned me Cpl. Stern until he can return
So exactly how will the entry to Trinity Facility work? I doubt the DS II entry (crash vehicle through the gate) will work this time?
Also, what will be done there? Get the three hostages and get out? Or try and destroy the facility?
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Trinity has never met Shelton, and he's currently dressed in a business suit. We could have him go in as a Dragonstorm representative and while he's inside find a way to get everybody else in.
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Well, they do have Hailey on their side, which she would be able to get in rather easily, since she had worked for Trinity once before....well, with some suspicion still, but she'll think of a way to get everyone in XD
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I'd go the "grab and get out route" but thats just me..
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i'm heading out of town tom afternoon and won't be back until late Sunday..
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Cool. That will give time for Noname to catch up.
And time for me to clean up a continuity error.
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Okay, the layout of Trinity Facility REALLY needs to be cleaned up. There is currently a serious continuity error that has occurred.
First it needs to be cleared up whether the "factory" on the surface is merely a shell with no doors or windows. Or if it is an elaborate "fake factory" that looks normal but does not produce anything.
The second is that I had the group enter by the emergency exits where the secret elevator is located and Alfred cannot smash the door down because it is too strong for him to destroy and the doors are alarmed. And Shelton's group somehow gets in without setting the alarms off.
I can assume that Dr. Shelton's group split off from the others just before they took the elevator down.
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From what I gather, Shelton and his group, well, him and Aydin, are still on the top level. The facility looks normal, and yeah, only way down is the elevator everyone is taking you know.
I thought that's what everyone else knew as well from what was discussed in the RP itself. Sorry if it got confusing.
But it was true, the elevator was armed with wires sort of thing, with an alarm, however, Hailey knew how to call it, as to not set of the alarm wired to the elevator sort of thing, since she has been down there before.
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The facility looks normal, and yeah, only way down is the elevator everyone is taking you know.
By that you mean that it is not merely an empty shell from the outside but if you go inside, you will see people cleaning up or engaged in various manufacturing duties?
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Yeah, that's what I was after. Sorry, if I failed to actually note that specifically.
The elevator would've most likely been around the back you know, where not many, if not, no one really works, unless recieving deliveries sort of thing....like a loading bay area.
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I'm confused who's where. What groups are the heroes currently divided into?
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As far as I know, Jayden, Kiara, Hailey, Shakila and Stern are in one group....as Shakila decided to go with them sort of thing.
Aimee had already gone off ahead herself a little earlier on and is no engaged in hand to...er....claw combat with Subject 19.....yes, the two of them are having a fight a bit deeper into the facility XD
As for the others, not entirely sure....as I'm sure that Shelton and Aydin were left back up top.
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i'm back, and ready to resume
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Yay! Welcome back Nick!
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so, will the hostages be freed soon?
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Added some more characters to the TV Tropes Character page (not nearly all of the important ones, though, just the primary character of each author.)
Something's up with the folders, when I added one for recurring characters, the folders beneath it stopped working, and I don't know why. See if someone else can fix that.
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Added some more characters to the TV Tropes Character page (not nearly all of the important ones, though, just the primary character of each author.)
Something's up with the folders, when I added one for recurring characters, the folders beneath it stopped working, and I don't know why. See if someone else can fix that.
I see the problem but I cannot fix it. Folders cannot be stacked within each other.
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Who is closest to Aisha among the rescuers?
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I do not control the layout of the facility to ask MrDrake.
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Alright I'll do that.. thanks..
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I see the problem but I cannot fix it. Folders cannot be stacked within each other.
Yeah, we need to find some way to let the page know that we want the "single RP" folder to go under the "recurring" folder. I'm trying to find a page that does that, so we could copy its formatting, but so far no luck.
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Who is closest to Aisha among the rescuers?
That would be Hailey, Kiara and Cpl. Stern right now, they are heading that way after all.
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ok thanks drake.. i have a couple oither questions, if you have time to be on msn tonight
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Yeah, I might show up, not sure.
Also, Trinity and Kain are underground not above the ground where Shelton and Aydin are.
And yes, Subject 19 is rather pissed offf and is no longer going to hang around for this specific fight :p
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thanks good news to hear..
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Just so you know, like I said in the RP itself, I do have an idea for Subject 19, that does involve the vial she had stolen, well, syringe, but you get the idea on that part.
But yeah, after Trinity Facility, everyone can get to Lab 101 next and deal with Subject 19 afterwards that is.
Just one question, what actually happens after Lab 101? I mean, are there other labs that they need to go to? Or is Lab 101 the main lab sort of thing? Cause if after Lab 101, they aren't going to be doing anything....then yes, I'll bring in Subject 19 once again you know....perhaps for a final battle sort of thing XD
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thats fine drake, as for what happens next , thats up to Serris.
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Yeah, I know, that was who I was technically asking on what was happening next, since I know that he more or less knows what's going to be happening after this.
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Decided to bring in Subject 16, one who has forgotten his real name, but at the moment, you will only hear of him through recodings he has left on the computer systems.
Although, I am thinking of having some other recordings of him over at Lab 101 as well, other hidden ones, you know, help out the heroes with their fight against Dragonstorm through clues and messages left behind.
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There are other labs. There is actually a list of the labs located in the US.
I know that the final lab will be somewhere on the East coast... possibly offshore near my state of NJ.
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Going cross-country? Sounds like fun.. :)
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NJ? Oh right, New Jersey, had to think for a minute. Yeah, not American, yet, I can tell what some of the abreviated States are in the US.
But yeah, does sound like fun.....Subject 19 will indeed, show up again too, more havok and chaos too from her....a bit of a worse scale too I suppose you could say....all to do with what she had stolen from Trinity.
But she wont uyse it until she sees the group again ;)
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sounds good, but that is sometime down the road.
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i'm heading out of town again this weekend so i'll have to put my characters on hold until i get back.
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Ok Nick1 Have fun!
I like the idea of going around the country and shutting down labs. Disruptive Selection indeed!
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Yeah, have fun with that Nick, see you when you get back.
Also, small change of plans with Subject 16, with what he was. Was originally going to have him as a monkey (one of my favourite animals) but decided to change it to human instead.
And i do have a name for him as well, so you don't keep on calling him Subject 16 :lol:
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For Noname's and any one else's convenience, I am going to post a recap of what has happened since Shutzhund. If there are any mistakes, please let me know.
The team has traveled to Trinity Facility to rescue Cobalt Leader, Aisha, and Neville, who have been kidnapped for experimentation because they won Schutzhund.
The team has been joined by Starfall's characters, who include Neku (a lightsaber-wielding anthro-reptile), Hawkeye (a cyborg avian), Cale (an electrokinetic chameleon), Agito (a dichotomous wolf), and Slash (...something else, I can't remember).
Trinity Facility is composed of two parts; the above-ground building which is a faux factory designed to be a front; and the underground facilities where all the "real" work is done.
The good guy team has split into three parts:
1) About half of the good guys, led by James, have infiltrated the underground facilities attempting to find and rescue the prisoners. I believe Stern is part of this group.
2) Most of the other characters are in Aimee's team, which has also gone underground to find out what's going on down there.
3) Shelton, Aydin, and Bailey are posing as Dragonstorm inspectors in an attempt to get information directly from Trinity.
Shakila was separated from Team 1, and left in the power room, where she hacked into the system. Unfortunately, Trinity discovered this, and sent Project Zeta, a powerful experiment, to kill her.
Team 2 was attacked by Subject 19, who sent them packing.
Team 1 was attacked by guards, and to my knowledge is still fighting them.
Shakila managed to kill Project Zeta on her own using her laptop and the sprinkler system.
Cobalt Leader has been taken to Kain, as the first to be experimented on.
Bailey separated from Team 3 early on to inspect the maintenance tunnels. Shelton and Aydin reached Trinity's office and gained her trust.
Subject 19 had a falling out with Trinity, and has left the base with a mysterious red vial of liquid.
Trinity left to go kill Shakila, but Shelton followed her and tricked her into taking the wrong hallway. He and Shakila then got trapped in a technician's closet, where they admitted their love for each other (in your face, Stern! Who was first? :p), until being rescued by Bailey.
Trinity has reached Aimee and is dueling her in hand-to-hand combat.
Aydin stayed in Trinity's office and sent all her files to a remote source for later viewing, and downloaded a backup copy onto a flash drive. He then found a message from a Subject 16, and traveled to rescue him. Subject 16 turned out to be a blind human male who warns that if Subject 19 uses the red vial on herself she will become extremely powerful. The two were then attacked by guards.
That's where we are right now. Hope this helps! :wave Again, please let me know if there are any mistakes.
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Not to mention that Trinity was just recently killed by Aimee in hand to hand combat. So yes, that's Trinity taken care of. Her neck being snapped by Aimee a page or two back.
As for Kain, doing what I can to actually hold out with him on actually doing any experimenting you know until someone catches up to him and stops him sort of thing ;)
But yes, good update there LB&T ^^
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I shall be back tomorrow. If I make an error in placing a character in my next post, please tell me and it shall be fixed. I shall take back control of Stern and Aydin, and give Aydin some back story as soon as I can, as well as a profile page on this thread.
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Bailey was talking about blowing up the facility right? Cause that would work. But problem is, like what he was saying is, on how to destroy it and escape in time, cause I too am wondering on how that's actually going to be pulled off as well.
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^ I was wondering about that too, how to blow the facility.
One thing we could do is: Kain is planning on inserting a chip into Cobalt Leader that will force him to do what Kain wants. The good guys, when they rescue Cobalt Leader, could instead embed Kain with his own chip, and order him to blow up his own base while the good guys escape just in time. It'd also be rather poetic, especially if Aimee gave the order.
Thoughts? Did we have some alternate solution?
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Yeah, I too was thinking that that one would be a good way of doing it, especially, like you said, if Aimee was the one that had given the order for him to do so, I suppose you could say it would be irony? Or something along those lines anyway XD
But yeah, anyone else have thoughts on it?
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sounds like gun guys lets do it.
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Well, while that is being discussed, here is Subject 16's profile:
Name: Subject 16 (real name unknown at the moment)
Age: 66
Species: Human
Faction: Soldier
Appearance: He is a blind man, wears a blind fold to cover his gouged out eyes. His clothes at the moment, are kind of ruggared you know....and he does have a bit of a beard going on at the moment as well....he needs a shave :p
Specializations: Uses a hidden blade in his cane as his ain weapon. He can use a gun, but prefeers not to because of his blindness
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: N/A
Personality: He is rather friendly to get along with, as Trinity had more or less failed with him, she just could not break his personality at all, the only thing she had suceeded in doing with him was causing him to actually forget his own name at the moment....too much being called Subject 16. However, he knows things upon overhearing stuff in general, but the extent of his knowledge is hard to say. However, one thing that is know is that, even though he is blind, he is still able to naviagte everything with ease, fight with much ease sort of thing, thanks to his other hightened senses, training them to create an image around him via soundwaves....I guess you could say it's like Daredevil and how he still can "see" even if he is blind.
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This needs to be cleared up, only people in the operating theatre are Aimee, Kain, three scientists and Cobalt Leader who is strapped down at the moment. Jayden and two others, forget who are outside still. Aisha has just been rescued and would be with Hailey's little group.
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ok, fixed my previous post. it took me awhile to find the post where she was freed.
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Ah okay, that's alright. Guess LB&T forgot to add that into his update as well. Rescued thanks to Hailey.
But yeah, Kain is the only one left to take care of, as Trinity is dead ;)
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ok., seems I missed a lot.. also could you kindly respond in the toonworld rp. I'm hoping to make progresson that one tonight..
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I am back, folks! I finally graduated college, and now have more time to do other stuff! Some of this includes a profile for my second character, Aydin, which is as follows.
Aydin
Full name: Aydin Marcos
Age: 24
Species: Vulpine (like Aimee)
Height: 5 feet, 10 inches. (may be modified)
Weight: Unknown, but greater than a female Vulpine's.
Clothing: Typical human clothing, minus footwear.
Skills: Decent marksman, some knowledge of hand-to-hand combat.
Background: Born on a Vulpine colony, Aydin grew up in an environment typical of his people; little work, much poverty, substandard government services, and few opportunities. He was approached by Dragonstorm agents at the age of 22 to take part in an experiment using stolen telepathic technology. The experiment worked, and a chip was implanted in Aydin's head, granting him the ability to communicate with others with similar chips from a distance. After a while, it was apparent that Dragonstorm was an evil organization, and Aydin defected from them.
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Good to have you back.
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Thanks. As for actual posts in the RP, those should be soon too. At least I put the character bio up.
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take your time.. we should be out of the facility shortly..
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Should mention that there is a trigger phrase for the chip, one that Subject 16 knows, which he'll bring up when the time is right sort of thing.
It's a phase from a certain source, but I am not revealing it as of yet, want to keep it a little secret, you know, so when it's mentioned, see if by then, you'll be able to guess the source of the trigger phase.
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Just would like to know, from what Serris was saying, is that we need someone to stay behind right to destroy the facility?
Cause if that is the case, then that can pretty much be Kain, Subject 16 has him under control now ;)
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alright that sounds fine..
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Yeah, Aimee's not going to argue the point, she wants to be the one to order Kain to destroy the reactor....and if someone argues it...she's just going to snap back again XD
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alright.. we'll let her deal with Kain..
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Well, looks like all is almost setup for the destruction of the facility. So next few posts I believe it will happen, well, I hope so anyway, aiming for it sort of thing.
So I would imagine almost everyone would have to get out, except for Kain of course, and Aimee will be a bit late on getting out sort of thing, as in, last few things with Kain sort of thing.....but she wont kill him XD
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Cale's probably gonna stay with her as she wraps things up. He likes her, as a person. She's got the same sort of drive he likes
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Hehe, awesome. Sounds like a plan. And I have to say, that would sound good too, to make sure that Aimee doesn't lag behind in the end while she's escaping :lol:
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So the story ar with the facility should be enduing soon, correct?
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Okay, here's the deal with what I have planned, next few posts, the facility shall be destroyed, to the point that I shall be assuming all do get out in time, even if said person doesn't post about them.....it's just taking too long as it is to finish off in the facility.....
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posted at the same time you did, yeah that will answer my questions nicely.. thanks Drake.
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So we shouls wrap this up in the next page or so I would think..
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Yes, we shall be doing that....I'm going to be making sure of that, even though me and StarfallRaptor took up a page on our own with something happening between Cale and Aimee.
But yes, as I said, next page should be it....that is what I am aiming for.
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you had an aside between yourselves no big deal... :)
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Hehe yeah. But just so you know, no one will really be running, everyone else will be able to get out in time, eaving Aimee and Cale with Kain, to which Aimee will then order for him to do so.
That's how it was to be done. Well, Cale staying behind with Aimee was StarfallRaptor's idea, which I don't mind he does. So everyone else shall have to get out now as Shakila tells Aimee to get the plan underway sort of thing.
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Ok, so just send a mental reply back ad I'll get my characters out..
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Sweet, they could also gather everyone else as well, specifically Subject 16 whom does know his way around the facility along with Hailey as well. Best they follow their lead, otherwise, they could get lost....can be a labrynth down there.
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replied, Landon and Aisha are starting to move..
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Good, probabally hold it there to allow others a chance to add in first, but it's practially ready to be blown up.
Of course, Aimee doesn't know that Cale does want to stay behind right now, which is why I shall wait for StarFallRaptor to post as well.
But yes, this is much better, Aisha and Landon can meet up with everyone else now and go from there. But I wont get Aimee to actually order the destruction until a few more minutes after everyone's left sort of thing, allow for them to get out of harm's way.
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sounds good Drake... :)
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Cool. I've been waiting for the RP to kick up again. :)
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Well, the fire has been started, everyone is out, as I said that's what I was going to assume when it were to happen.
So yes, Aimee and Cale now need to escape before it blows XD
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Should also mention....only I know when the facility shall explode, so when I say it explodes....it explodes :p :lol:
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good, so when it blows, it really blows..
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Okay, two words I have for everyone: The facility has been destroyed
No, wait, that's five words :lol
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Stern is out of danger, Aydin is talking to him, and Aydin's species exceeds at poverty. :rolleyes:
Also, there is a reason that Aydin is also a Vulpine, like Aimee. While I admit that my being occupied with real-life issues made this a lot harder, Drake and I talked about putting him in as a love interest for Aimee, which is why I am playing a member of her same species. Where Cale fits in... well, let's just say there is a good reason I made Stern extra-protective of Aimee since early on in this RP. I don't know how he would react to another character advancing on Aimee... even Aydin might have trouble. :blink:
Cale might want to watch out for Stern, btw.
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Does that mean you're back in the RP, Noname? :D
Also, the sum-up post I made a while back? Since then, we've forced Kain to blow up his own base with him in it, and our heroes escaped the building. Stern and Aydin are in Jayden's car with Shelton, Shakila, and Jayden (changed it to Hans and Werner so yours fit). That's all that's really happened.
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I needed to have Aydin and Stern appear together in a post in order to recap some events (still working on that one, actually), to explain a bit more about Aydin's past, and to fit it all in FAST, as well as deal with the whole Aimee bit that is
And yes, I am back, and a bit mad that something Drake and I had planned seems to be going on with a second character, which makes Aydin's creation less useful than he would otherwise be. Although it IS partially my fault for not being away for so long.
I can fix it myself, though, if it comes to it.
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Aydin actually was very useful, at least to me. Since he and Shelton had Dragonstorm accounts, they were able to pose as inspector and bodyguard, and gave Aydin the opportunity to download all the information off of Trinity's computer, which he sent to a remote source to be picked up later. He also used his thought chip to help tell Shelton what to say, since Shelton wasn't doing too well pretending to be an inspector :lol
So yeah, you could say Aydin was one of the most important characters during the Trinity invasion.
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I'll keep his adventures that you had with him in mind, and if I have to be absent again for a long time, and you are available, I will gladly let you use Aydin again. :)
For now, I have to develop what he was originally intended for, however, at least in his relation to Aimee.
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I'll keep his adventures that you had with him in mind, and if I have to be absent again for a long time, and you are available, I will gladly let you use Aydin again. smile.gif
Cool :) Works for me. Thanks!
And welcome back!
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At least this stupid Aimee-Cale thing might very well give me a chance to let Stern go all "psycho-marine" on them, which is something I've always wanted to do, despite Stern being quite stoic. Even he has a "berserk button."
Kinda like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKFif6ze0yE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKFif6ze0yE&feature=related)
I also finally need to get back to my TV Tropes page regarding the fantasy RP. Real life makes these things really hard sometimes.
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Feel free to ask me or Serris questions if you have them!
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I might. I really need to talk with Mr. Drake, and to some extent, to Starfall. If it goes well, all will be fine. If not, Stern will be able to fix it.
P.S. It REALLY isn't a good idea to tell me one thing, and change it without telling me. You know who you are.
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I created Aydin for the primary purpose of pairing with Aimee, you know. I even talked to MrDrake about it on MSN, and he guided me in making a male Vulpine character his own race. I have the conversation saved in my cache on MSN. It is slightly maddening to change the plans unilaterally when we BOTH agreed to do something. I had no warning, no message, no contact on MSN and no PM.
While I cannot control his characters, I can make mine react in a fashion to... work on the situation.
This would not have happened had I been here more, but real life cannot be put off, especially when it comes to work, school, and graduation.
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Yeah, sorry about that. That's kinda what I do, do things, change things without really telling others....
But it's kinda odd to make someone just for that sole purpose. I mean, I for one would rather create characters mainy that have a connection to my characters and all, not for a relationship ordeal....but hey, that's just me anyway.
Although, I do see where you're going with that one there, and again, I do appologize for that.
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Then, fix it. If you are sorry, you will change it. If you don't fix what is easily in your power to fix, you aren't very sorry after all, are you?
Also...
I did NOT make Aydin for the SOLE purpose of pairing with Aimee, that was his PRIMARY purpose. He is also a character who has experience with technology and insight into dragonstorm.
But I even had him come from the same settlement as Aimee, the same place, the same background. It was all set up to work from a narrative point of view, as we agreed, and you broke it in an instant. I am not jealous, but a bit mad at the principle of it. If you had wanted to end the plan at any time you could have just told me, but you did not. You had literally months to tell me.
You can always pair another female up with Cale, btw.
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We could pair Aydin with an untaken female. Kiara is free, I believe. That way everyone wins.
(Just a suggestion, I wasn't privvy to the MSNs or anything, so I'm speaking as an outsider. Just don't want anyone to get mad at each other :))
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No thanks. I offered another compromise on a PM. That way, he can do the Cale thing AND honor his word.
Plus, Kiara is... not what I had in mind for Aydin. Really. She's... you know.
I finally return to the RP and this is what I find? It's like returning from the army to find that your girl who told you she would wait for you is seeing another guy. :blink:
I've never had anything like that happen in real-life, thank goodness. I'm just glad I've been able to offer a compromise.
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Well, just replied to your PM. All we have to do I believe anyway, is to wait for Starfall to say on his behalf what he thinks and what have you, as I said to you. If all does go well, then I will offer him a comprimise as well, with something I have in mind too....well, nothing big anyway, small idea buzzing around.
As for Kiara, what do you mean? That she's a coyote? Part of the FBI? Just asking, as I don't know what you mean exactly. Cause if you mean bisexual, that isn't exactly true, I haven't really given it enough thought, only on Hailey's side you know.....doesn't mean it's going to work out between them....even I'm not sure if it will.
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I don't want to pair a fox and a coyote. Please. Really.
Just let Aimee have her "fun" with Cale, then go back to what you said you would do in the first place. I'm the one giving a concession here, asking you for nothing else except what you said you would give in the first place. I'll contact Starfall too. Just make sure to say that you forgot to tell him that you had already made plans with me.
Heck, if it made him happy, I'd give him TEN females for Cale if that's what it took. :rolleyes:
This whole thing reminds me of the movie "Casablanca." The lady ended up getting on the plane with her husband who has prisoner for a long time, and not Humphrey Bogart, who she fell in love with, thinking that her true husband was dead, but turned out to be alive later.
EDIT: I just set up a good rationale for it in the RP, told from the point of view of one of Aimee's own kind. Just read that long speech that Aydin gives to Stern.
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so where are we exactlky in terms of the storline? Are headed to a new town, or what?
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New hotel, to rest for the night. Dunno if it's gonna be in another town, though.
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We seem to be staying put for now. At least for a day or two, game-time wise. Maybe a few days.
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Well, I know they're going to a hotel, that's for sure.
But as for how long, I'm not sure. I would imagine for at least one night, maybe two nights.
But they are at the moment, still outside the destroyed facility, about to head out more or less to said hotel.
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Ok, thanks guys I'll have my characters say something, to make conversation..
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Given the issues, if we can manage two nights, that would be better. It isn't up to me, but that would work out best.
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Yeah, I've been trying to move this RP along a bit actually. I mean, I had to get the facility destroyed, it was taking too long near the end of it all and with them hanging around, I might just do the same, to move it along some more to a hotel.
Since, once all are at a hotel, it can be a bit more open and what have you.
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Aydin and Stern will be heading over to the hotel soon, just to let you know. No, I won't have them interfere with anything in the night, unless Aimee recognizes Aydin. I will also keep Stern restrained.
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I think it's Serris we're all waiting for. As GM, he's generally the one who decides when the RP gets moving again, but he's been missing for a few days.
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Yeah, I know what you mean with that. Just thought that one could borrow the position to get it going a little more till he comes back....well, at least till the hotel you know.
I mean, if we are at the hotel, next move can be planned then, reason to hang around more and what not.
Just an idea is all I'm throwing out.
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I'll do it. Half the characters are public domain anyway.
Does anyone have anything to do here, or can we start the trip home? Starfall, Drake, can other characters get in the van now?
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We should all stick around for a couple of days, RP-time. I need to get Stern and Aydin back into the RP, from my point of view. I'm sure Serris will be happy to help with that.
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We should all stick around for a couple of days, RP-time. I need to get Stern and Aydin back into the RP, from my point of view. I'm sure Serris will be happy to help with that.
Do you mean a couple days in-universe? We don't have that time. The police are going to show up to investigate the ruined facility. We need to move to a new location.
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Well, Aimee and Cale are in the van that Kiara's going to driving. The one that was from Hailey's old team.
The other van is unoccupied. You know, Alfred's van is unoccupied.
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Sounds good.. With Serris being on vacation it limits us a bit..
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Sounds good.. With Serris being on vacation it limits us a bit..
Nuts. I never saw that thread. Well, if he says we have to hold the RP in his absence, I guess we can't move on.
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He said he'll be back on Monday, which is tomorrow. I think we'll get a lot of stuff done then..
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Just looked at his thread now. I too had missed it as well.
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its ok, guys. its not as if he was going to be gone for a month or anything..
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Sounds good.. With Serris being on vacation it limits us a bit..
Nuts. I never saw that thread. Well, if he says we have to hold the RP in his absence, I guess we can't move on.
I never meant for them to stick in the ruined facility for a few days. That would be weird. :DD
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we'd best get the characters moving though, as the police will be investigating the explosion..
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Yeah. Say, does anyone care if I have Kagetora kill Verner and Hans? He's gonna betray the team, after recieving new orders from his homeland.
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Well, they're not my characters, so I can't say anythng on that half.
As for everyone moving, not just yet, as technically, in game time, it's only been a few minutes sort of thing, as in, ten or so minutes, they still have some time before anything happens.
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I actually have those two play a major role in Pavlov's checkmate, which takes place after this RP chronologically. It would be a bit of a continuity snarl. Plus Hans is the only public domain character with a thought chip, so he's kinda useful
But maybe different public domain characters? If Sgt. Masters and Neville die, that wouldn't bother me.
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Well I've had Aisha check in to see what the hubbub is about, so idf you guys want to get a fight going, that would be cool..
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Alright. That works. Seems that my team's gonna diminish quickly. Cale's running off and betraying everyone now, Kagetora's going to after the Hotel, and then, everyone but Neku's probably gonna end up dead shortly thereafter.
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If Kagetora wants someone to kill after the hotel...Jayden....the FBI cop, he can die....would be interesting too and I wouldn't mind at all actually.
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Right. It's gonna be an assasin-type thing. When they have their backs turned, a single shot to the back of the head as the others watch.
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Awesome, sounds like a plan. As believe it or not, I had planned on having Jayden die at some point, and this is a good reason too ^^
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so things are going to get hairy.. perhaps a deathbed reconcilment is in order?
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Cale's is gonna be really good. He's going to become an incomplete Dragonstorm project, and attack the team at the next base, along with a partner unit. But when his 'partner' attacks Aimee, he's going to step in, destroying it before he dies, hopefully in her arms, and telling her he's sorry, that he loves her, and passing on a trinket he has with him.
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Also, I believe that will make Cale the first character in Darwin's Soldiers to work for both the terrorists and Dragonstorm. We seriously haven't had a character work for both those major enemies yet.
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Ooo, now that's a really interesting one indeed. Nicely planned there Starfall, can't wait for that part to roll round now XD
I actually wouldn't midn if it's in her arms, however, we shall see on that part, especially on what's juct happened....although, I'm sure Aimee still likes him, just upset that she's made him upset and all without actually intending to.
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i was going to have aishga threaten to blow his his brains at at the next meeting, but this works much better..
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Yeah, this works out well for me as well. Going to be rather itneresting I believe :D
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Ooh, Starfall, since Jayden's driving the car, you should kill him while the car is driving. Unless you're planning on the death happening later.
Just a thought, would scare the occupants of said car much more ;)
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wouldn't that just piss out the occupants and make them want to ring his neck?
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Exactly.
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I am assuming it is at the hotel, since it would be Kagetora, and Starfall here said it was after the hotel or at the hotel it would happen. Hopefully in the morning after everything else has been done XD
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Haha...Yeah. Hopefully.
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Just to be clear, Hawkeye will be in Jayden's car if he is speaking to Stern, as Stern is in the same car as Shakila and Shakila and Shelton were going to go with Jayden regardless ;)
Neku, Aimee, Aydin and Hailey are in Kiara's van. As for Aisha and Dr. Landon, not too sure on them exactly, as Jayden's car is already full and Kiara's van would probabally be full now.
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Pic of the hotel is up. I chose one that is actually in Oregon.
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Nice. Also, I posted a dark fanfiction in the Fanfiction section, talking about Neku's aftermath of DS. Check it out if you want to.
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I hope it doesn't happen at night, when the others are trying to sleep. Some of the characters were looking forward to this night...
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It's not going to. It'll happen when they're leaving, whenever that is. And the story is way in the future.
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Wow...looks like the team has gone invisible again.
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Am I the only one to notice that EVERYONE at this time is making their characters do intimate stuff? :blink:
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Nah, I too noticed it. I mean, that's what LB&T and I had planned for Shelton and Shakila....have some time in the hotel XD
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Maybe there should be a reason given for why it is all happening at once? I think I mentioned something to that effect in a post in the RP.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you did in regards to that.
As for Hailey and Neku, I have no idea....Hailey so far, has only been wanting to talk....she doesn't even know what's going to be happening next.... :lol:
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Well, they're attacking Lab 101 tomorrow, which is basically a suicide mission. TV Tropes calls it the Pre Climax Climax (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreClimaxClimax).
And yeah, drake and I had been planning this for Shelton and Shakila since they kissed in Trinity Facility :) It was your guys' came later.
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Actually, I have another plot twist that will be revealed soon.
*Evil laugh*
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Sounds....evil! :lol
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Well, this was certainly a long and eventful night. Don't think we've ever gone through as many pages in one go as we just did...
Serris is gonna have some catching up to do :)
Night, all :wave
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Night, LB&T
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Yikes. This night pretty much ties a record with me for RP posts in my Fantasy RP. Such times are rare indeed... :blink:
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not everyone, my characters are not doing anything of the sort..
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yeah you guys were busy , you added nearly 10 pages between the times i posted.
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Congrats on 6000 Serris, you're the 10th poster to reach 6000 posts!
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Congrats Serris! :celebrate
Just to clarify; it's still nighttime, right?
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It is nighttime at the hotel.
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Yes, it is, that is what I am assuming.
As I still wish to finish off my part with Starfall before daytime actually comes by you know, since Hailey and Kiara are with Neku and Kagetora respectivly.
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ok.. and how soon will that be wrapped up. I mean I don't want my characters to interrupt what your characters are doing..
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Hard to say, it all depends on how often Starfall can post with his characters. As Neku and Hailey have just begun to have fun sort of thing while Kiara and Kagetoa have been just talking so far.
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oh I see.. Once we get to morning then, you can get to rping in a couple of the other rps?
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Yeesh. :wacko Serris, I bet you're having as much as I am having to go back and archive the 15 pages of posts we burnt through yesterday. Do you archive just the text or leave the authors and avatars and everything in? 'Cause I go through and select just the story text, myself.
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well iit could be worse, they could have added 30.. :lol:
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Only the text and authors are archived.
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That works too. :) I found the author names disrupted the flow of the storyline, plus we each have different writing styles and characters, so it's easy to tell who wrote what, so I just make it one long unbroken story. It's at 468 pages right now, and I'm only on page 100 :blink:
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I've played in 3 rps that have gone for 300 or more pages. The Insane Cafe 3, Sowarkard, and Nonames Fantasy rp..
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There's nothing like several simultaneous sex scenes to make many pages of posts in a very short time, is there? :lol
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Well, multiple simultaneous sex scenes are better the babyfur elements that appeared in the Furtopia reboot.
Granted, sex scenes are not possible as all my characters are male and canonically straight and asleep.
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Lol.
Wait, babyfurs? Seriously?
This, I must read...
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It reminds me of the early days of my fantasy RP. There's a reason I moved beyond those, but this your RP, not mine. It's cool if you say it is. I'm alright with it. :DD
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Lol.
Wait, babyfurs? Seriously?
This, I must read...
I wish I was kidding about the babyfur elements (see the character "Lupis" in there). I do not have anything against babyfurs but a high test RP does not mesh well with babyfurs.
Here is the link: http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?actio...e;topic=34492.0 (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=34492.0)
Granted, I feel that it is a "In Name Only" version of Darwin's Soldiers.
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I see what you mean, that part doesn't really fit into a place like Darwin's Soldiers. I mean, it seems to now have horror elements, action, death, destruction and what not.....kids/babies don't belong in there XD
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I try to limit kids in my RP playing. Just not my sorta thing.
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Also, Serris, about Neville, Shelton and Shakila specifically requested a room with one bed earlier in the RP. Sorry I didn't notice this earlier.
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i haven't had kids in my rping either..
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I hope all the love scenes are over.. :nyah
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Shakila and Shelton are sitting apart from everyone else, and I'd like to ask that nobody disturb them. They have something private to talk about.
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very well, I'll let then be..
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so is everyone eating breakfast/? and where do we go from here..?
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Not quite. Hailey is having a shower to wake herself up, which Neku is probabally going to join her.
Shakila's gone to town.
But everyone else I believe, is in the breakfast area.
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ok, just wanted to get some conversation going.. that's all..
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You can speak with Subject 16 if you wish. He isn't talking to anyone right now.
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Oh Ok.. and will you be commenting in any of the others rps soon?
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Maybe, don't know just yet.
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jUst Curious, thats all, thats why I asked..
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Hehe...In light of the soon-to-happen attack on Lab 101, I guess I should mention that my RP characters joined a group dedicated to the eradication of Dragonstorm, and, as such, got several perks. For one, all of them are loaded with cash. They literally are rich, but none of them care. Also, everyone got an individual perk.
Neku: Improved Beam Saber--Stronger blade, easier to use, cuts through anything softer than titanium.
Kagetora: Tungsten-carbide Swords-- Kagetora's swords were enhanced with Tungsten-carbide coating to strengthen them and allow them to deflect stronger attacks
Hawkeye: High-efficiency weapons systems-- Lower energy consumption with no drop in power
Optic cloak: Incomplete optical camoflauge system, eneables stealthier movements
Slash: Dermal reconstruction--Slash no longer is torn in half, and looks like any normal person
Agito: Straitjacket removed
All: Reinforced clothing--Light bulletproofing in suits.
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^What about Cale? I know he went rogue, but I assume he got something as well.
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He did, but it's minor.
He's getting his now at Lab 101. You'll see.
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Ah, awesome, I guess that is good to hear then XD
And so you guys know, Subject 19 will not be showing up at Lab 101, so, you don't have to worry about her, even though Subject 16 had mentioned on the off chance she could be there.
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so will the group have thier chips removed since they know Dragonstorm can track them?
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If that is indeed Dragonstorm tracking Stern through his chip, I'd have to agree with Nick. That would be a major security risk and the chips only advantage (that we could pick up Dragonstorm transmissions) would be nullified since they'd take steps against it beforehand.
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so whos in the infilration group?
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Just want to let Starfall and MrDrake know that while my character is angry, I personally am not. Shelton has always been an abrasive character (as his animosity with Spc. Crota has shown); he's just taken up smoking, he's overly stressed about the upcoming attack, so he's a little messed up right now, so don't take anything he says as a sign that I agree with it as well.
But I also have to ask; how is Slash replying to him? He doesn't have a chip, and Shelton meant that as a private message to Shakila.
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I can answer that one....kinda.....from what Starfall has posted. It's something to do with telepathy or something along those lines, I don't exactly know myself.
And LB&T, I do know that you're not angry, that's one thing I've figured about Shelton on my own and from what I've seen ;)
But yeah, best to either ask Starfall here about it, or PM yourself about it :)
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Is there telepathy that is independent of the mind-chips in this RP?
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I wouldn't think so, but thats just my opinion..
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I'm heading out to Jamiaca on Sunday so my participation in the rp will be halted until Thursday
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^Have fun dude! :wave
Do you want someone to take over your characters while you're gone, or just not have them mentioned? Cause I'd totally play Dr. Landon.
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Slash's telepathy is a side effect from his experiment power. It's not strong, no mind reading or anything, but he can hear and reply to the chips with focus.
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Ah, now that makes much more sense to me now XD
No wonder he can "hack" into Shakila's chip and talk to others with a chip :lol:
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It is possible that Aydin or Stern might figure out HOW Dragonstorm is tracking them with the chips and block it, or find a way to use it to their advantage. I'm leaning with the second option... :!
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Also, with the control chips introduced, I have a plan for a new type of character.
"Pseudo-Dragonstorm" Projects.
Growing test subjects can be a lengthy process, and, in order to attempt to improve efficiency, these are individuals with either pre-formed powers, or proven physical skill that have been implanted with a control chip, and augmented somewhat. However, there is a risk of the chip being disabled, and the experiment to return to their normal selves.
Know Pseudo-Dragonstorms:
Cale
Murakami (Ninja from DS original)
Unnamed Female sample
Feel free to add in any "dead" characters or suchlike
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Ah okay, now that seems to be rather interesting indeed, would like to see how they all turn out ^^
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Murakami's back! This should be interesting :D
Also, I think we should start to discuss what the objectives should be for destroying the Dragonstorm camp. This is the big thing weve been leading up to since the beginning of the RP, so it should take kind of longer than the other "side quests" we've gone on.
I thought it would be useful if we could come up with a list of objectives for all or groups of our characters to achieve, so that way in the RP we have something to shoot towards.
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Well first things first, we need the teams all sorted out.....well, that's me anyway XD
I don't have any preference to which teams my characters are in really, they can work with pretty much anyone else.
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Stern and Aydin will want to stick close to Aimee, as the latter is attracted to her, while the former is protective of her.
As for goals... hmm.
Stern just wants to stop Dragonstorm, and keep as many of his own team alive.
Aydin wants to stop Dragonstorm as well, but only really cares about Aimee and maybe Stern.
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Dr. Zanasiu and his entire team pretty much want to eradicate Dragonstorm.
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And Starfall, I have a "Pseudo Dragonstorm":
Atticus Aedulwulf (Former Sublevel guard of Pelvanida from Darwin's Soldiers ).
He was kidnapped by Dragonstorm after he was ambushed in a bad part of Las Vegas. He was taken to Lab 101 and experimented on.
His augmentations include: amputation of both arms and replacement with mechanical arms that are capable of crushing a steel pipe or blocking a blow from a weapon. Nerve myelinination grants enhanced reflexes. Cybernetic eyes grant infrared and low light vision.
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Okay, maybe I should be more specific about goals.
I was thinking more along the lines of "shut down communications," or "take Lab 101," or "locate Zenarchis and interrogate him." Yes, we want to take down Dragonstorm, but what are the specific steps the characters must accomplish to do that.
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So, when are the teams going to be all sorted out?
Cause I don't know what the goals are of my characters still, I guess Shakila could be in there to steal information.....but not sure on everyone else of my characters.
Should also say that Subject 19 does not talk to Dragonstorm at all. I mean, for example, if Dragonstorm were to find the team, Subject 19 has nothing to do with it....she too hates Dragonstorm....her own personal reasons, which she will most likely not tell anyone.
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Yeah let me fix that,
Half of Dr. Zanasiu's team will find and destroy the communications.
The other half will try to find Dr. Zenarchis.
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Do the marker rounds leave a mark? Like, do Shelton, Stern, and Aydin know they were just shot?
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... yeah. Both my characters were shot. I'd better check this out. Stern was wearing protective gear, but not Aydin.
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Think paintballs
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Oh. Well, that is a lot less lethal. :DD
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Time for me to join in on the fun :)!
Here's my character info:
Name: Dr. Anne Williams
Age: 24
Species: Anthro Red Fox
Faction: Against the Dragonstorm
Specializations: Knowledge of biology
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: (omit or leave blank if not playing as an experiment)
Appearance: 5'2" anthro Red Fox, in good shape. Wears a white lab coat, light blue shirt, and khaki pants.
Personality: Good-natured, though she can have a bad temper if provoked. Has knowledge in martial arts though she normally prefers to fight only as an absolute last resort. Scares easily but will put fears aside to help others. May come across as nerdy or random.
Equipment: (optional)
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Welcome CT to the RP ^^
Jump on in wherever you can as if Serris hasn't told you yet, they're all heading to Lab 101 to shut it down ;)
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Yay! Welcome Cancerian Tiger!
Join in on the Darwin's Soldiers fun! :D
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i;'m back guys1 I a little refresher on what I missed.
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The group is heading out to Lab 101.
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I'll have Stern and Aydin go with those who are going to lab 101, unless something comes up.
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thanks Serris. Have we resolved what we are going to do with the chips that some of the group, including Dr Landon had implanted?
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Starfall keeps referring to a 'Ryu'. Is that Kagetora? Because in the second RP Kagetora introduced himself to Wayne as "Kagetora Kurokaze".
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I think "Ryu" is Kagetora's real name.
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Yep. "Kagetora" is his operation name only. Think codenames.
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MrDrake, I just realized this: Rhino's power core is placed in almost the exact same place and glows the same color as Tony Stark/Iron Man's arc reactor.
Was that a shout out to Iron Man or am I imagining things?
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Not really, I wasn't thinking along the lines of Tony Stark's Iron Man armour when I was thinking of that, nor War Machine either...it was more of a coincidence than anything else.
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In case no one knew what kind of claws I actually had in mind for Subject 19, it is based off these ones here from Prototype:
(http://static.blogo.it/videojuegoblog/videojuegoblog_alex_mercer02.jpg)
And yes, in the game, they can slice and dice human flesh :lol
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I'm trying to get back into the RP, but real life keeps getting in the way. :anger
I'll do what I can. I should be back before July, though.
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so kinda like Freddy Kreguer eh Drake? :)
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Nope, like Alex Mercer.
Freddy only has one glove....Alex Mercer has both clawed hands and that's exactly whom I based the claws off.
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oh ok, shows i how much i watch that kind of stuff :lol: my bad, my bad...
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How does that look? (http://img203.imageshack.us/i/lab101map.jpg/)
This is the map of Lab 101 I'm going to include in my next post. Are there any changes I should make before that?
(Also, how do I embed an image into my post?)
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That map looks pretty good. It reminds me of what I make, or rather, have made in the past.
I'll be using Stern and Aydin again soon. If someone could give me a recap, I'll be able to participate more much quicker. I am still busy, but things are lightening up for now, at least until mid-August.
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All right, here is the recap:
The group is in the forest outside Lab 101 and they are preparing to assault it (they are breaking up into teams.)
Subject 19 has been captured in Southport.
Southport is a large port city (~ population 120,000 people). It is relatively safe but like pretty much every city there are some very bad parts. It is home to a lot of high tech industry (electronics, pharmaceuticals, biotech, cybernetics etc.). There is a also a large Vulpine population (the "Vulpine Quarter").
Cancerian Tiger has joined as Dr. Anne Williams but she has not yet met the other characters.
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Might I add in that Subject 19 had actualy surrended intentionally.....she has a plan going through her mind....but I'm not going to spill the beans on what it's about XD
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I'd like to apoligise for not participating in this RP with Srgt. Clyco, but as of late I simply haven't been inspired enough by his character to think about how he can contribute to the storyline.
I think it is unproductive to simply have a 'show up and follow along' character in any RP, so until I think of something I'll let the rest of this RP play out for the better :angel
Caustizer.
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You can always jump in with a new character, if Sgt. Clyco isn't sparking any ideas.
The team is about to invade Dragonstorm, you can play the role of a Dragonstorm scientist or security guard who decides to side with the good guys. Or you can play someone back at Crimson base, working with Dr. Joe, Wayne Anthony, and his team. I'm pretty sure the Crimson Base team is going to meet up with the rest of the group later.
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Thanks for the recap. I'll be in as soon as I can.
And, for a minor point, the Vulpines were originally made by MrDrake, although the name for them and much of the content of their species was my idea, thanks to contact with him on MSN. That would explain why I have Aydin go on for so long about his species, despite the race being MrDrake's idea.
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By the way, in case no one knows who he is, General Thunderbolt Ross is the same character as that from The Incredible Hulk franchise....the same one who wishes to stop the Hulk ;)
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Nice! I assume "Thunderbolt" is a nickname given to him by his troops?
I guess we can assume his first name is Thomas?
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Actually, from what I have read, it's Thaddeus. Not sure if "Thunderbolt" was the nickname given to him by his troops, or if he gave himself that nickname or what.
Thunderbolt Ross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_Ross)
The information about him from Wikipedia ;)
And no, this version of him does not transform into the Red Hulk :lol
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Yeah, to make sure we separate the two.
How about we call this one Thomas "Thunderbolt" Ross? The nickname was given to him by his troops.
Also, would Cale's "glass summoning" abilities fall under Lethal Harmless Power (using a harmless power in a lethal way)?
Here is what I wrote:
Cale from Darwin's Soldiers can use his electrical powers to fuse dust particles in the air into glass. This does not sound impressive when compared to his other power (electrokinesis) but keep in mind that he can literally pull a weapon from thin air and he has used these glass weapons to deadly effect.
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Actually, I was thinking of having him just called General Thunderbolt Ross. His first name not revealed sort of thing, so Thunderbolt is the nickname given to him by his troops sort of thing.
Although, he would go by General Ross most of the time, at times, using General Thunderbolt Ross.
As in, same character, yet, different name, or something along those lines. And reason I don't want him becoming the Red Hulk....upon reading that, I actually didn't like that the Marvel writters picked Thunderbolt Ross to be the Red Hulk, I liked him as he was, and to me, that was a step in the wrong direction.
To me, general Ross in particually will always be one who is just a normal Army General, yet, who can give super powered beings a bit of a run for their money....I mean, he's done that to the Hulk without the use of super powers, only the Hulkbusters team, which I think he even got himself a suit of his own to combat the Hulk.
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Yeah, to make sure we separate the two.
How about we call this one Thomas "Thunderbolt" Ross? The nickname was given to him by his troops.
Also, would Cale's "glass summoning" abilities fall under Lethal Harmless Power (using a harmless power in a lethal way)?
Here is what I wrote:
Cale from Darwin's Soldiers can use his electrical powers to fuse dust particles in the air into glass. This does not sound impressive when compared to his other power (electrokinesis) but keep in mind that he can literally pull a weapon from thin air and he has used these glass weapons to deadly effect.
Sounds good. Anybody want to tell me what I missed?
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You didn't miss much, Shelton has explained his plan in the RP.
And on the note of Subject 19, she was recently captured by the SWAT with the military starting to step in to take care of things.
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Okay. I'll catch up and hop back in, then.
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Hehe, awesome, just note that Subject 19 is nowhere near the team, so it's impossible for them to talk to her and intervene with what's happening with what she's doing ;)
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lbt/cty_lover's character Siberys has been reintroduce to the RP, with his permission. The character is public domain, but I promised I'd keep him doing interesting things :)
Here's his profile from the first RP:
Name: Siberys
Age: 25
Species: Anthro Dragon
Faction: Psi-Experiments
Specializations: psychokinesis (up to a ton)
Psi-Powers: telekinesis (mind-reading)
Personality: Siberys has kept his past secret. Until he was chosen as an experiment, he was a researcher on genetics. He used to work out daily, building up his physical strength. He now somewhat resents his experimentation on, though.
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Hehe, nice LB&T ^^
Oh, also, on what General Ross said on what Subject 19's code name as Athena. It was suppose to be a little joke from the Prototype game.
As in there, Alex Mercer's code name by Blackwatch is given as Zeus, so really, I thought as a little joke....that no one would probabally get, is that just call Subject 19 "Athena" in this one XD
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Alright, I'm back in. :)
It might take me a little while to get my bearings again, given how long I've been in and out. Stupid schedule.
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I'm just going to make a post here that keeps track of who is in what team, for clarity:
Team A (bottom of map)
Shelton
Spc. Crota
Sgt. Masters
Subject 16
Jayden
Ryu/Kagetora
Team B (top of map)
Cobalt Squad
Team C (left of map)
Alfred
Werner
Hans
Zachary
Shakila, Hailey, and Kiara have said they'll be in Team B or C, but didn't specify which one. Slash and Agito will be in whatever team Shakila picks. Neku and Kiara say they'll be on the same team as Hailey.
Hawkeye, Alfred, Aisha, and Dr. Landon have formed their own team to disable some other experiments on the map.
James and Neville are going to Dr. Zenarchis' office. They want Stern to go with them.
Bout halfway done, but that's what I've got for now.
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how many experiments are we talking about here? 15, 20, more than that...?
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Any ideas for what teams Aydin and Stern should be on?
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To quote my character:
Shelton looked at Aydin and Stern. "Aydin, you'd be a big help in Team A," he suggested. "You were great posing as a Dragonstorm agent in Trinity, and that's what everyone in Team A is going to have to do. Stern, Neville and James want you to go with them to try and capture Dr. Zenarchis in his office."
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I only asked because neither of them were listed in team A in this thread. Thanks!
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i'm heading off to u[pstate Ny tonight.I mIGHt be able to rp next week, but thats only a maybe at this point. put my chars on hold until then thanks.
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Should update that list, Aimee said she'll be on Team C earlier on at some point, can't recall when she said it though, I just recall that she did say she would be on Team C after picking up on little holes in Shelton's plan :lol
As for Kiara and Hailey, I guess they could help out Team B actually, even though Hailey hasn't specified which team she would be in, in the RP :lol:
And yes, I say Hailey, as Kiara is still going to be looking out for Hailey anyway, so yeah, she'll still pick whichever team Hailey will be on.
Not sure about what team Shakila should be on though.
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i'm back and ready to resume.. :)
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Don't think you missed anything. With you and Serris gone, we basically just decided to put the RP on hold until at least one of you got back.
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I am back too.
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so will they be reaching lab 101 soon?
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Just in time for you guys to arrive, I have to leave for a day. So as not to disrupt the RP, I've written my character out temporarily, and given the call to disband Team A. That way, the rest of the invasion can start. (Sorry for the long post, I was originally planning to have that all happen over several posts)
This also means my stories will be temporarily on hold. Not for long though! I'll be back soon! :wave
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alright LBT. Have a good time..
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MrDrake, a laser designator is NOT an actual weapon. It marks, or "paints" a target for a laser-guided weapon from an aircraft, and that does the damage. The guys on the roof couldn't do damage.
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Ah, oops, my mistake. I'll fix it up a little bit XD
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No worries. I keep forgeting about details...
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Yeah, I know what you mean, I would rather have others tell me of any mistakes I make so that i can go and fix it and all ^^
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Hmm. Noname and CT seem to have dropped out of the RP...
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Who was the name of that scientist that had witnessed Subject 19's killing spree again?
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Just catching up myself...
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Who was the name of that scientist that had witnessed Subject 19's killing spree again?
Dr. Anne Williams (played by Cancerian Tiger)
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Hmm. Noname and CT seem to have dropped out of the RP...
Send them a PM, so we can write their characters out, temporarily release them into the public domain, or wait for them to come back. I'd be willing to play Aydin, I kinda like him.
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we may have to go on without them...
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Eh, their loss in the end *shrugs*
By the way, the Chimera wont make it through the Lab 101 attack, think of it as a mini-boss sort of thing while everyone is trying to destroy Lab 101, with the Chimera there as a bit of a nuisence, but also.....trying to kill everyone as well :p
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i;ve having Aisha anbd Dr Landon cover alfred as he drives the tracvtor..
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By the way, the Chimera, I should add, wont leave the grounds, however, neither will it stay in one place at any given time as you guys have witnessed, running off at least twice to somewhere else in the vicinity.
Oh, and be thankful that I decided to introduce a Chimera and not something more dangerous than that.....and yes, I know another creature from Greek mythology that is much more dangerous than a Chimera in general.
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so once the lab is taken the group will chase Dragonstorm across the country, correct?
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Yep. They will start with the Idaho prison base.
Also, Aydin and Cpl. Stern are temporarily public domain until Noname returns.
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Alright, fill me in. Where are Kagetora, Hawkeye, and Neku supposed to be?
I think I'll maybe just have them sit out for a while...until the base is disabled, I think.
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Not sure on where they would be....but if any of them want something to do, they can fight the Hellhounds that are near Kiara and Hailey whilst one of the Hellhounds is close to Shakila.
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Okay, guys, I have to leave for a trip for the next two weeks, and will not have internet access. So I placed Shelton in the back of one of the armored vans that are now circling the camp perimeter, filled with the elite commandos of Dragonstorm. They should be a tough fight, naturally, with the vans being armored and all, but if you finish destroying all the vans just raid one of them and find Shelton unconscious in the back. I don't want him to just disappear without explanation :)
See you guys, and I'll be back in two weeks.
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Alrighty, good luck LB&T. I doubt we would be finished by the time you get back, but ya never know ^^
Also, Drake is a canine character as well, just in case no one's figured it out. But what kind of canine, I'm not 100% sure on what kind he is as of yet, so just call him a canine, I'll get to specifics about what kind at another date when I've given it some proper thought ;)
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I'll mention this here. Whenever I talk about Jumping in regards to Viper, I do talk about, practically, teleportation....but more Jumping like from the movie called, well, Jumper.
You know, that sort of teleportation....just in case no one knew what I was talking about when I mentioned that :p
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ok, kinda like the teleportation Nightcrawler does in the second XMen film..
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Sort of, but not really....I took the concept of a Jumper actually from the movie Jumper, that's what Viper is like in regards to teleporting sort of thing.
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And here come the Pseudo-Dragonstorms. Neku and Kagetora are inside the base and on their way, but there'll be some time for banter...
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Alrighty. Hailey's just left with Drake....so she wont be coming back to the group anytime soon.
You guys need not worry about her anyway, I have plans for her ;)
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Just so long as nothing happens to her. I don't think Neku or Roux would like that very much.
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Oh, you'll just have to wait and see. I'm not revealing anything at all. And good thing is, no one else knows where they've headed off to....Hailey is the only one who knows where Drake lives.
And please, keep it like that as well XD
Speaking of which....Viper is battling Hunters....those that are specifically trained to either capture her, or kill her....because of Viper's jumping ability. And yes, Viper hates Hunters, just as much as she hates Dragonstorm....especially for being a Dragonstorm experiment herself.
And Hunters work like Paladdins do from the movie Jumper....voltage and all....stop her from jumping around so much....hinder her concentration sort of thing.
I'll throw her profile up a bit later on too.
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Sounds good Drake.. nice work...
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The Public
Werner Donitz - Human - scientist
Hans Donitz - Human - soldier
Dean Nixon - Human - cook (falls under same rules as scientists)
Dr. Arnold Greene - Ostrich - scientist
Dr. Allan Falco - Falcon - scientist (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
Dr. John Volkowitz - Human - scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Dr. Klaus Ostermann - Human - scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Dr. Erik Bjurling - Lemur - scientist (Note: Evacuated via helicopter)
PFC Christopher Reynolds - Human - soldier
Wayne Anthony - Human - scientist
Dr. Bradley - Bengal Tiger - scientist
Riley - Human - Scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Ridley - Falcon - Converted Dragonstorm experiment (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Keegan O'Neill - Shire Horse - Dragonstorm scientist
Dr. Nicholas Jeston "Dr. Theodore Rawlson" - Lemming - Dragonstorm scientist (Note: Died in 2nd RP)
Lester Montgomery - Beagle - Dragonstorm scientist
Howard Hicks - Human - Dragonstorm scientist (Note: died in 2nd RP)
This will be updated as the situation demands.
Hi, I know I'm not playing in this rp or anything, but I guess I just want to look at other rps and check out what experienced rpers are doing.
What does the "public" mean? Does this mean everyone in the rp are controlling these characters? Or what?
Edit: And...what's "Red Alert"?
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When we say "public", we're talking about characters that could be used by anyone for the time being.
I guess Red Alert refers to Command & Conquer: Red Alert, the videogame?
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Those characters are in the public domain; i.e: any RPer can post for them and play as them at any time. I personally use them to engage in events where my character is not present, or to create a dialog since I only have one character of my own.
And "Red Alert" is a video game series. Cautizer wanted to import Red Alert vehicles and locations into the RP, but Serris decided, and I support this, that Darwin's Soldiers should stay as its own standalone universe, without any crossovers or blatant imports from other franchises.
Hi all! Just checking in to see how you're all doing! I'll be back in a couple of days. Any large advancements in the RP? Is Shelton unconscious in a ditch somewhere? :lol
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hope you are having fun LBT! :)
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Oh, not much....Hailey's buggered off with Drake and there's a mysterious woman in Lab 101 as well....whom has defeated Aimee in hand to hand combat.
But yes, I do hope you're having fun ^^
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Thanks Drake!
One last question, anyone can answer: are there any good guys surrounding the Dragonstorm camp that didn't actually enter Lab 101?
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Well, with my characters, technically Viper was one. She of course, wasn't one of the characters on the good guys team, but yet, is one of the good guys, hates Dragonstorm and all that.
And it's technically true too, that she didn't actually enter Lab 101....she more or less jumped there....she's a tough nut to crack I suppose you could say XD
Oh, and random fact about Viper....she has a tendecy to call Aimee by the name of Alice :lol:
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Alice isn't her real name though.. :lol:
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Okay! I'm back!
It looks like a lot of stuff has happened with Lab 101 and it seems to be winding down, so I won't throw Shelton into the mix, he'd serve no purpose. He's currently in the parking lot preparing to be evacuated, so I think I'll have him go with the other Dragonstorm personnel. There he can serve as an inside source for the next place James and co. attack.
Where exactly is that going to be, anyway?
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Not a clue myself. But I can assure you, it's not where Hailey's gone off to at the moment with Drake....that place is still unknown, even to other Dragonstorm operatives.
Only other person that knows of its lovation is Trinity....and I don't see her helping out the heroes anytime soon :lol
Oh, and Nick...of course her name isn't Alice....Viper just doesn't seem to pay attention as much....I think she prefeers to call Aimee by Alice :lol:
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The next base is in a Idaho maximum security prison. It is nicknamed "The Potato Farm".
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Cool. So is that where Branston and all the men are evacuating?
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I want Dr. Branston to get caught (or even die just before the evacuation).
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Sounds good Serris...
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Yeah, sounds like a plan Serris....anyone in particular you want to kill him?
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My characters could tajke him out, give them a moment of glory.. :)
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Breathtaker's close. Is that OK?
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FYI, the team inside the facility (Neku, Kagetora, Cale, and Roux) are gonna be caught in the blast, as is Murakami, but they'll all survive. Hopefully get Cale and Roux more accepted into the team. And Murakami's gonna get the same sort of treatment as Trinity is. The "Why won't you die" treatment.
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Heh, sounds like a plan there....of some sort anyway :lol:
Random fact for you lot....I was having a tough time deciding on if it should be Kiara that was to die or Jayden when they faced Trinity just then.....but yeah, went with Jayden dieing in the end XD
Oh, and Viper will probabally not hang around for much longer....you know, make another apperance later on sort of thing.
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I support one of Nick's characters getting the kill, they haven't really had a real moment of awesome in a while.
And wait, is Cale and Roux (is that the lesbian wolflike thing?) now on the good guy team?
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Yes, Nick's characters should kill Dr. Branston.
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Something didn't click into my head until just recently. I remembered in the 1st Darwin's Soldier thread of a female Dhole scientist with no name, and I don't remember her dying off in the saga, but she never showed up in the second. Is she still around or was she killed off?
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The Dhole's name is Sharon Varma. Canonically, she is working as an electrician's apprentice in Vegas with a stolen identity.
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I support one of Nick's characters getting the kill, they haven't really had a real moment of awesome in a while.
And wait, is Cale and Roux (is that the lesbian wolflike thing?) now on the good guy team?
Yep. They overloaded the control chips. They intend to return to the good guy team
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And I also want to add in that the location Hailey and where Trinity resides is unknown to others. However, Trinity will most likely visit other Dragonstorm places as well.....
Even though her location remains unknown, even within the Dragonstorm data banks sort of thing XD
Might I also add in that I now have the perfect plan in mind for Hailey, but I am not going to reveal anything at the moment, but I will say this, that Neku at least, probabally wont like what will happen to her....and probabally Roux as well....but I know Aimee wont like it....I mean, Hailey is still her best friend after all.
And yes, it will all be thanks to Trinity....I will reveal that much at least at the moment XD
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Yeah, I thought the same as Mirumoto. With the return of Neville Ivers and Siberys, Sharon is the only major 1st RP character who hasn't reappeared in the current RP. Maybe she could somehow become wrapped up with Dr. Wayne and Anne?
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i'm going on a limb and say tribnity will destroy more of hailey's body..as for who will kill Dr Branston I'll go with Aisha..
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Oh, you're sort of right about that, something of Hailey's will be destroyed.....but it wont be her body XD
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so it would have to be something important.. like her sanity, perhaps...
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I'll let you keep on guessing on it and reveal it, not if or when you get it right, but in the RP, when the time comes to do so XD
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sounds good Drake. Sounds like you've got a good plan going.
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Will there be any chance of Neku saving her?
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You'll just have to wait and see, I don't want to spoil anything with her. However, I will say this, as we speak, whle everyone's doing their thing now, the thing I have planned is already happening to Hailey, sort of like, an off-screen thing you know.
However, I will say this, that her and Aimee will have a fight at some point, when they next meet that is XD
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Told you I would reveal what has happened to Hailey now :p
However, with what is happening, if there is enough time before the group attacks the next place....I might see if I can take this time to have Trinity and Hailey visit the next Dragonstorm camp....you know, where Shelton would be next....so at least, he would be able to get a look at what's happened to Hailey.....a lifeless puppet of Trinity's :lol:
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so this process is irreversibkle, or can it be undone..?
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I'm not at liberty to say as of yet....gonna be keeping that one a good old secret.
So whether or not it's irriversible.....I'm not going to say :p
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well, i personally hope its reversible i like hailey :)
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Heh, didn't know you too liked her....so far, that's three of you that I know like her, other two being LB&T and StarfallRaptor....the latter I'm sure likes her too XD
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well, shes an interesting character, and you've developed her quite welll..
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Thanks, glad you like her too ^^
But yeah, as I said, not going to spoil anything else in regards to what's happened to Hailey....I shall leave that as a little guessing game between everyone else....you included Nick :lol:
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fair enough.. i'll just move on in the plot..
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Yeah, but I would also like to point out that as far as I know, Roux, Cale, Neku and Kagetora arrived at the base. Aisha, Aimee and the others are in a helicopter going to stop Branston.
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sorry about that I'll fix that.. I misread the previous few posts, I thought they had gone on the same helicopter as the one carrying Dr Landon and Aisha...
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I was wondering if I could reintroduce Sharon Varma into the RP, into the Anne Williams/Dr. Wayne storyline. My plan was, she's since become a forensics buff and takes part in the investigation of the base. She goes in alone because she doesn't want anyone else disturbing the scene and the evidence.
Would that be okay, Serris? Alternately, if you have ideas for another method of introducing her, I'd be willing to play that instead.
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You know, that could be difficult, especially in regards to the state that Southport actually is in. If you are to do such a thing, you would have to do it soon, as the two doctors are to be airlifted out to safety before the whole place gets leveled in order to kill Subject 19 ;)
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Just to let you guys know that the satellite with AI is called Dragonstorm-AI1. I'm thinking of an idea another AI weapon sometime after Potato Farm, but I'll run the whole thing by you guys first.
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So Sharon's in the story :) I thought it would be fun to have her be "the Dhole" for a while, ass a kind of homage to her roots, since that's all she was for so long in the first RP.
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Who is at the Idaho Prison Base anyway? Just so I know for if Aimee actually makes it there or not. And speaking of which, where would it be from her rough location?
And remember to explain things to me a bit more clearly...I'm not American....all I know is that Idaho is on of America's states....that's about it :p
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To tell the truth, I've never been to Idaho myself, but I'm guessing the natural terrain is mainly mountainous and evergreen trees. The prison itself is not like most other supermax prisons. It has concrete outer walls, lined with sniper towers and machine gun nests, and inside are a series of electrified fencing patrolled by heavily armed jeeps. For areas not made for prison inmates when they're out for a time, there are hangars for helicopters and some surprises kept, a storage garage where the ground vehicles are parked, a barracks for prison guards, and a cluster of dug-in anti-aircraft artillery. The command for the prison itself is from an arrangement of buildings, and Ms (not DR) Julia Race is the head warden of the prison and head of security for the base underneath. Besides the one and only gate and the helicopters for entrance, the only other entrance to the underground base is a guarded subway system connecting to a business complex also guarded by Dragonstorm.
The placement of the base itself is in the middle of a field nearly a mile from the tree line, and a river down a gorge to the northwest of the prison.
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Ah okay, cool. I can picture it now on what it would look like. But I take it that it would be a fair a while away from where Aimee is right? But ah well, that doesn't matter, she'll still try and hike there regardless, no matter what....I mean hey, she only wants to break into the base and find Trinity and Hailey is all :p
But hey, this shall be rather fun indeed.....Aimee so needs to get her Sam Fisher on in order to infiltrate the facility XD
Wait a second, to do that....she needs night vision goggles! *shifts eyes* :lol
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Yeah, since Idaho shares a border with Oregon, and there are forests along that border, we have no way of knowing how close the Idaho Prison Base is to the old Dragonstorm Camp. We'll have to wait for Serris to give an official decision, or just assume that the hike is as long as you need it to be.
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But I thought that you knew where Lab 101 was and where in Oregon it would be.....curses, it's now becoming confusing as it is.... :lol
Perhaps it would be best to let Serris clear things up on the whole Oregon, Idaho forrest.....thing....
Regardless, Aimee's gonna be hiking it there, one way or another.....unless of course someone comes and picks her up and takes her there XD
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The Idaho prison base is like 300+ miles from Lab 101. I did a bit of research on Idaho, it is mountainous.
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300 miles? That's like 150km isn't it? Cause we don't use miles over here, only kilometers....only distance I know...I know not on how far miles are suppose to be.
However, regardless, it sounds far XD
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Got Viper's profile up at long last XD
Name: Viper
Age: Looks to be around 19 years old
Species: Jackal
Faction: Dragonstorm Experiment, the....good guys (she hates Dragonstorm after all, but has not joined the good guys officially)
Appearance: Looks like, well, a Jackal, wears pants and a shirt mainly, but nothing else
Specializations: Scouting, but very poorly at doing so, information gathering
Powers/Cybernetic enhancement: Teleportation to a point, it has to be of places she's seen before
Personality: She has more of a strange personality, can be friendly, but if she doesn't trust anyone, or knows where she's not needed, she'll vanish and getting a hold of her is a tough one to do.
Other information: Her invintory number is XZ-48910. She also has the strangest tendecy to call Aimee by the name of Alice for some odd reason. Also, in regards to her powers, she can not teleport away while there is a current going through her body, as in, stops her focusing properly. She requires a good focus in order to teleport and if she is unable to focus, well, she can't teleport away at all.
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Sorry I've been away guys but i've had to get my computers fixed. Not fun.. not fun at all.. but I'm back... :) Hope I didn't miss much..
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Not much has really happened in your absence actually.
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Thats good, I take it Drake and Trinity are trying to do the same thing to neku as they did to Hailry?
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They'll succeed, too. For a bit.
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sounds good.. very interesting guys, very interesting..
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Indeed it is. And Viper isn't going to escape anytime soon, unless she gets help in breaking out of her holding cell, as the shocks that she's recieving whilst in there, is what's keeping her from teleporting out.
Especially if you noticed on the other information section of her profile that she needs a pretty clear consious mind to be able to concentrate and teleport away, but if electricity is surging through her body, she can't think of concentrate properly and therefore, is trapped.
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Just wondering, according to this post (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=4135&view=findpost&p=9049169), Hawkeye had feelings for Dr. Joe. Did that ever go anywhere? Cause both of those characters are still single.
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Nothing's happened just yet. But that's a good thought.
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i like where the story's going guys keep it up...
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Just so you lot know, Drake too, is technically a major player in Dragonstorm as well, however, no one will need to take him on....since it's going to be Hailey that will be, at some point, going after him to take care of him, and I believe that Neku will be tagging along as well.
So you needn't worry about him....already have a good plan more or less sorted out for him....but questions about Drake can be asked by characters in the rp if they know about him and what not, granted, little is also known about him....really, only Hailey would know the most about him amongst the good guys.
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In regards to my character, I'm trying to make it tougher for Dr. Shelton to remember what team he's working for. Dragonstorm has given him a promotion, a medal, and a team to command; he's never had anything like this happen to him before. He's starting to taste power, and he's wanting more. I'm not sure where I'll go with this, but I like to see the struggle inside him, as he tries to decide what side he'll back in the inevitable showdown.
Oh, and MrDrake, I haven't forgotten about the assignments Trinity has given him. Once this award ceremony is over, Shelton will get to work on finding out where Gustave's family lives. I'm not sure if there's much he can do about the missing data, though. What data are you talking about? Have we already established who stole it when?
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Oh, don't you worry about that LB&T, I'll be sure that Trinity makes it that much more difficult on him for him to choose a side XD
As for the data, I believe it was the one that Shakila had stolen, as she had stolen data from Lab 101 with the help of Kiara, Slash and Agito. However, I then believe that Vic now has that data, as Shakila did hand it over to him.
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I should probably mention that the commandos attacking the prison base are going to become permanent characters, and won't be getting killed off...yet.
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Sounds good Starfall. Now where are Alfred and the others situated, there's about ten things going on at once in 10 locations.
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Kinda like for me with Viper, Zara and Dr. Hazel.....not sure if they'll be staying throughout the RP or if they'll be leaving throughout it sort of thing, haven't decided on them so far.
As for Alfred and them, they're still at the Crimson base place, they haven't left yet.
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The RP has indeed become remarkably fragmented. I have no idea what's going on to anyone except characters at the Idaho Prison Base. If everyone could post what their characters are doing, that'd be really helpful.
Shelton is in the Prison Base hangar, guarding the entrance with a DS commando team. His goal is to get to Trinity and tell her what he's learned.
Aydin is with Dr. Zanasiu, watching teams get selected. His goal is to redeem himself for what he did with the Crimson officer.
Sharon is in the mess hall, eating. Her goal is to meet Dr. Zanasiu and her old friends from the terrorist incident.
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Well, I've been keeping up rather easily actually, but I shall still post on where my characters are anyway, for others to know ^^
Viper, Zara, Dr. Hazel, Aimee and Hailey are still in Egypt at the moment, haven't quiet left the area.
Trinity has contacted Shelton again back at the base, as in, is talkign to him face to face.
Kiara and Shakila are of course, at Crimson base, Kiara talking with Sharon and Dr. Anne....as well as Zachary and the other one, I forget the name, while Shakila is with Slash and Agito, sort of confronting some of the others as they don't trust Shlash or Agito.
And last but not least, Subject 19 is still at Southport, I believe, about to take on Azrael.
And to note, Drake is back at his own base, which is why I have not posted what he's doing so far.
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Huh. didn't notice your post that Trinity was talking to Shelton. I'll edit the post I just made to add his reply.
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Yeah, it was either the previous page, or the one before that one....but it's quite alright that you could easily get confused....so really, don't worry about it so much, it's quite understandable indeed ^^
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K, post edited. He's completed one of the two tasks Trinity put forth for him :yes
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Neku is in the prison base as well, having tailed Hailey there. He's being stalked by something.
Hawkeye, Slash, Agito, and Kagetora are all at Crimson Base, around.
Cale, and Roux are in the ruins of lab 101.
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Starfall, your quadruple of characters are at the Marine Corp Base in northern California. Crimson Base is in Utah.
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Whoops, I thought all the main characters were at Crimson Base also. My bad.
Also, I was archiving the last month or so of posts, and I noticed that Subject 19 kept fighting this unnamed guard. Was that the same guy fighting her for like 15 pages? He was like the most badass guard ever.
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That guy just lived longer because Subject 19 was after the helicopter pilots first. It's just Azrael against her now...
By the by, how did Kagetora and Hawkeye get inside?
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it would be easier once all the characters are in the same relative area.. right now we've got characters in egypt idaho and utah..
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Not quiet true...Aimee and co are no longer in Egypt...they're back in Idaho once again.....and with whatever happens at this prison base, hopefully everyone of the good guys there will be able to get back to where Alfred and the others are.
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Does anyone know if there will be a fourth DS? Or if this one has an end point?
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this is supposed to be the last of the trilogy
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I would hesitate to truly call it the end but so far, it looks like the end of the "official" trilogy.
Expanded universe stories are always welcome, though.
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So what is the goal in terms of pages? Say, 300?
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I vote longer, personally. Since I think we'll have hit 300 by the time that the Idaho base and Southport are done, almost.
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Didn't think there would have to be a goal in pages we needed to reach, just watch it finish whenever it does and whatever number of pages it does so....
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I just prefer to let it finish when it does. Forcing a "finish line" for RPs or stories tends to result in a visible drop in plot quality.
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good point serris...
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While we're on the subject, this discussion page has become longer than the first RP. :blink:
I personally don't mind the length, but then, my character only has two other main characters he really interacts with any more (Trinity and Kerzach), so it's not that tough for me to follow the RP.
Oh, and for those who are interested, I've been chronicling the RP from the beginning, text only, and we are at 849 pages! :o
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tthats a ton of pages.. :D
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Hey Serris, is that SS Surrounded Sea captain still at large? If he is still available, he can be used as captain of Dragonstorm AI-2 in New Peenemunde Harbor.
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And speaking of survivors, I may have Colonel Dietrik show up at some point, or I may not....unsure on that one.
Also, might I add in too, one would have to remember that the serum that Subject 19 has injected herself with is completely different to the one Trinity has in her system at the moment.
So no, Trinity's not going to be mutating into any sort of monster or any kind.
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Subject 19 is about to die right? i mean theres a nuke being detonated in the area...
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Yes, Captain Kirk Lutra is still alive. No, he cannot command Dragonstorm AI-2 because he was arrested.
Note that he was "mistakenly" identified as the ship's security officer
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Subject 19 is about to die right? i mean theres a nuke being detonated in the area...
Oh, you bet she is....aint no way she's going to survive this....even if she is calling out as the bomb is ripping her to shreds :p
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Yeah, because if she had somehow survived THAT, then I would have called shenanigans :p
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I wonder too, how Kiara and Kagetora will get warned that they are suppose to be leaving, since they're somewhere private. Perhaps someone should at least go get them?
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Sorry for the sudden bombshell. I personally thought it would be too easy for us if the entire military was helping the chars the rest of the way through the story.
And I'll edit my post again to have Kiara and Kagetora "briefed" of the situation.
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Regarding the Darwin's Soldiers Wiki, I'm going to be making the page on this RP soon, and I don't have the energy to go through a 900 page document and figure out all the characters created by various people.
If you guys could help me out, I'd like each of you to try and make a list of every single character you've named in the RP. As many as you can remember, no matter how obscure or brief they were, so long as they have a name.
If you could separate your main characters from everybody else, that would be useful too.
Thanks guys :) I just can't go through this RP and do it myself, it's too long.
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You want me to pm it to you? My list of characters that is, or not? I mean, it's only for this rp eh?
I only ask....cause of my character in my New Divide story, should I mention him as well, or leave him be for now?
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my characters are Dr landon and Aisha Tennes they are my only 2 characters..
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Drake, if you could PM it to me, that'd be great :) And characters from New Divide who don't appear in the RP (i.e. Hubbard) should be sent in their own list.
Thanks, Nick :)
And everyone else; it's okay if you can't remember all of them, just paste as many as you can remember, otherwise they won't appear on the Wiki page and I probably won't make a page for them. So long as I have their names, I can use the search finder to follow their progression through the RP and make a page for them. But without their name, I can't do that.
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Since Lutra isn't getting out, you don't mind if I kill him off with Breathtaker or Stalker?
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Yeah kill him off.
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LB&T, sent you my list of characters. Well, those who appeared in this RP....and I've already forgotten three others as well....which I'll sent to you as well XD
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Question, where exactly is New Peenemunde Harbor anyway? Cause isn't all of Idaho going up in smoke? Or just part ot the state?
Just want to figure out where New Peenemunde Harbor actually is in contrast to which state it would be closer to and what have you.
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Sorry, New Peenemunde Harbor is a base in Florida, where the battlecruiser Dragonstorm AI-2 resides and is being prepared to launch, as well as where all of Dragonstorm's advanced technology are being delivered and/or manufactured before being shipped to the other bases.
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Ah okay, thanks for clearing that up. Still am trying to decide on if Trinity actually wishes to head off to another place or not. Especially on if I do bring in Colonel Dietrik into this one or leave him out of it....and therefore, having Trinity meet up with him or not sort of thing.
But I do wonder if Trinity does go with them for the time being.....and if later on, while at that base, is allowed to head off elsewhere via plane you know.
Defiently does pose a bit of a desicion I've got to make with Trinity on where she wishes to go in the end :lol:
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I'm still here, don't forget! I can't really post much due to midterms, but sooner or later, I will be back.
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Hi Noname!
I've been playing as Aydin for you, and Serris has controlled Cpl. Stern. If you want updates on what's happened to them since you've been gone, just ask.
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I might do that soon. Thanks!
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What's happened with Starfall?
and has Idaho Prison Base been obliterated yet?
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Idaho, not yet as far as I know, cause Aimee and co are still outside the base....cause apparantly, if the base is destroyed, it's gonna leave some sort of crator in Idaho....or something I think....
But I would imagine that it would be soon anyway....at least give Aimee and the others time to escape :p
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Bummer :( I hope he comes back.
Could someone more familiar with Starfall's give us a list of the newly available characters? I recall he had a lot of characters.
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Well, I've already said I'm gonna take on the role as Neku ;)
But as for other characters, I think I recall his characters:
Slash
Agito
Kagetoa
Roux
Cale
I think that was all of them.
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Also Hawkeye. I think. Where's Hawkeye (and the other characters) right now in the storyline?
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Don't forget Neku.
And the prison base isn't gone yet. I'm just waiting until all the chars that are to live have left.
Slash & Agito are with Shakila at the USMC Base. Kagetora's with Kiara inside the same base. Neku's inside the Idaho base.
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I know Neku is still with Hailey and the others. Slash and Agito I think are still with Shakila, while Kagetora is taking Kiara to the chopper ;)
And I know, I didn't forget Neku....as I was taking control of him, which is why I didn't add him to the list....already claimed him, so yeah, he's outside with the others, as Viper did go and grab him earlier on after having found him.
And Shakila's not in the base, she got on the helicopter, to which I believe, Shlash and Agito were following her....I guess just assuming it anyway.
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its a shame starfall is leaving but i think he'll come back at some point.
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Erm, assume Hawkeye's already at Crimson Base.
Slash, Agito, Cale and Roux are already on one of the helicopters.
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Is something bad going to happen to the planes that Dragonstorm is on? This is our first chance to have an air-to-air shootout/chase.
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Well...I have one last plot thing I was gonna save as a surprise...
But what with my leaving, I should mention it.
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Oruboros, the group all my characters are working for? It's a part of Dragonstorm. It's purpose is to infiltrate and disable threats, as well as destroying personnel and facilities deemed useless.
So yeah, all the romantic talks between Kagetora and Kiara, Neku and Hailey, and Slash, Agito, and Shakila...
Those were all lies.
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Well, don't you worry then, as I'm using Neku now, I do have....sort of a good way of doing this now....to a point anyway.
I'll sort something out as it is.
And as for a shootout in the air, would be rather interesting as it is, but I do wonder on who would be capable of pulling off something like that....as I do believe that most, if not all Anti-Dragonstorm members are nowhere near where Shelton, Trinty and the others are.
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thats very intereresting Starfall., well played..
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Thanks. Glad to know I can add a little spice to this RP. Not sure if they'll reform or if they'll all end up dead, but either way...
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Well, if you're not even going to be back at all, then it would be hard for you to decide on that one...cause I could just as easily have Neku die soon enough.
Just a warning, but so far, I aint going to do that, already have something else planned as it is. Not going to go into detail about it....as it's going to be a suprise, but I will say that it's got nothing to do with Neku, something different this little suprise.
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Well...I have one last plot thing I was gonna save as a surprise...
But what with my leaving, I should mention it.
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Oruboros, the group all my characters are working for? It's a part of Dragonstorm. It's purpose is to infiltrate and disable threats, as well as destroying personnel and facilities deemed useless.
So yeah, all the romantic talks between Kagetora and Kiara, Neku and Hailey, and Slash, Agito, and Shakila...
Those were all lies.
I wholeheartedly approve!
Love this twist. Starfall, you just made my favorite plot development in the RP yet!
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So, are we going to have something bad happen during the flight? Seems like a missed opportunity if we don't have some sort of midair crisis.
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I would like to know as well....especially since Trinity's on another plane as well, so really, I must know too! :lol:
By the way, random fact, Zara's claws aren't Adamantium....they would be Titanium based, not as tough as Adamantium, but still rather stong, since Titanum is suppose to be the strongest metal.
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I suppose I should explain my character's recent actions.
In a nutshell, they've been given "Order 66", and told to exterminate the Anti-Dragonstorm Alliance now.
So, they attacked at a vulnerable moment.
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Okay, Starfall, I understood now but the RP has kind of stagnated a bit.
I will try to keep it "active".
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Yeah, sorry about that, just been a bit....preoccupied if you will, but I'll try and get in a reply to it soon enough.
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You're back! :celebrate
Mirumoto, could you speed up the shoot out with the Messerchmitts? I can't move any of Shelton's plots forward until he reaches wherever they're going.
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I am a bit busy too but I try to give some replies to keep everything "fluid".
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i've been busy too, but waiting to see how things progress..
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i've been busy too, but waiting to see how things progress..
Same here :exactly.
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What powers, weapons, etc. do Slash and Agito have anyway?
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What powers, weapons, etc. do Slash and Agito have anyway?
Slash can use the air itself as a blade
Agito can produce metallic spikes from his body that he can use as projectiles.
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Yep. Exactly.
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I never had to deal with this issue before but now I do: Furry Confusion (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FurryConfusion) so I now have to issue a proclamation:
All aquatic animals (pinnipeds, fish, whales, sea turtles, etc) are non-anthro <I.E. like "real-world" ones>.
All songbirds are non-anthro (sparrows, canaries, etc).
Most birds of prey are non-anthro (Peregrine Falcon, Harpy Eagle, Osprey, Golden Eagle, Red-tailed Hawk <possibly others> are anthro)
Most terrestrial animals are anthro (There may be exceptions but there are none so-far.)
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Hopefully that will clean up the 2 cases of furry confusion that have occurred.
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Well, I have something that I need cleared up. It's about Hailey and Neku in here. As the two of them had left to head to Drake's HQ and the likes....there was no sign of Neku attacking Hailey or anything, just everyone else, as in Cale and the others attacking everyone else.
What i need cleared up is....what's up with Neku now....cause if I don't get an answer by the time I post again, Neku's gona be left behind and Hailley will attack Drake's HQ on her own :p
It was warned more or less that Hailey was going to do it, with or without some help anyway XD
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Cale and the others were part of a Dragonstorm team designed to infiltrate and destroy threats.
Neku is also part of that team but I assume he decided to go against his "programming".
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so whats happened to them? I'm curious..
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CT, how do you want Dr. Williams to progress in the story?
As an active combatant like Dr. Zanasiu or as a researcher like Dr. Joe?
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Heres my idea on what to do with Roux. Dr Landon has removed the thought chip from her, and theoritically freeing her from Dragonstorm control..
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I'm back in now. Fill me in on where everyone is?
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well Roux has had her thought chip removed by Dr Landon and the others have been subdued..at least the character you control Starfalll
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All of your characters except Neku have been subdued by the heroes and are in the Crimson Base infirmary. Cale is suffering from a venomous bite wound, Slash and Agito from multiple wounds, and Roux just had her thought chip removed. Parts of Hawkeye's armor has been forcibly removed by Gustave and Alfred.
Neku is still with Hailey, and presumably unaffected by the events that occurred to the others.
Remember, Starfall, even if the other characters switch back to James' side, Slash and Agito still need to kidnap Shakila and take her to Dragonstorm. That way both of our characters can start the story arc where we redeem ourselves to her. It doesn't have to happen right away, but eventually (preferably when MrDrake has come back into the RP)
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hopes that helps you catch up. if you want to talk abour roux with me Starfall we can do so via pm. I've got an idea or two..
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Before I do my next post, anyone in the mood for Starfall's characters to break out soon?
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sure, save for roux i have plans for her..
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I know that LB&T needed Slash & Agito to kidnap Shakila.
I'll setup a situation for this to happen... ;)
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So sorry for the absense again, my connection....it's being bleh right now. So, um, can someone give me a rather quick update on what's happened since I last posted?
Oh, and when I mean bleh, I mean the internet plan we're on is terrible, that, and my wireless hates me right now.... :p
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All of the moles have been subdued but an inside agent freed Cale.
Everyone else is eating dinner in the mess hall.
Aimee and Neku are still in Vegas.
Dr. Kerzach and Shelton are arguing with Ezekiel over some security clearances and they are assigned to kill Gustave's family (orders given by Trinity).
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Ah okay, so no one's rescued Aimee just yet, cool, cool.
As for Neku....he was with Hailey last, who was heading out of Vegas to take on Drake.
But yeah, seems like not too much has happened since I last put in something XD
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Yeah, the only real advances have happened with Shelton and Dr. Zanasiu. Your characters and their stories have just been on hold, waiting for you. :)
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Ah awesome, thanks again for that. Also, one last question....in regards to Starfall's characters, is he still controlling them or what? I only ask so I know what the hell to do with Neku for when I post as Hailey next.
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I'm not sure. He technically is, but he's not showing up much.
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I figured as much, which is why I thought that i should ask about the matter....as it was just confusing me as it were. I mean, if he doesn't really show up much, then I may have to work around it to the point in kicking Neku out of that small part....as in, just have him vanish or something, I don't know....so long as it doesn't get int he way of Hailey's fight against Drake is all.
And I shall post as soon as I can, do not worry about that....just would still like that small thing cleared up, so I know on what to do with it :p
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Noname has not been around the RP section as well.
I will keep Aydin and Cpl. Stern in the public domain until he wants them back.
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Starfall and ! have plans for roux so she should stay with Aisha Dr Landon and Alfred..
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Damn it, I forgot how many Dragonstorm bases there are!
I know there's Lab 101, Idaho Prison Base, Surrounded Sea, FL Base, TX Base and I think the final one is an offshore NJ base.
Speaking of which, I may decide that the stolen disk reveals the locations of some smaller "supply" bases that will also need to be destroyed.
Of course, I could always change it if any objections are raised.
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Sounds Good serris, we've got a long way to go before they are all destroyed.
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There was also an Alaskan energy supplier, but they were destroyed by Siberys in Nietzsche's Soldiers 2. Just putting that out there if we're keeping count.
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That works. I was also thinking of some "safehouses" to go along with it. Where escaping scientists could hideout until they get cleared to go to another base.
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Cool. The safehouses could work too.
I am thinking that Weyland-Yutani could be important too.
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Here an Idea.. The group brings Roux with them to Texas, for treatment and study at a Houston hospital. Houston has some of the best trauma centers in the country, or so I've read..
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So In heard Starfall left the RP.
Are his characters in the public domain? If so, I want to play as Slash and Agito.
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if his characters are available, i'll take Roux..
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He has shown up but very, very, very, very rarely.
I guess we could take command of them for now.
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thats fair.. until he gets on more frequently..
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Well, if that will be the case, then I'll take control of Neku for the time being. Although, after what had happened with StarFall's characters going AWOL and what not....might be a little more difficult to use Neku in that retrospect.
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Nobody's posted in the RP for 3 days. Is everyone hitting writer's block or are we all busy because of Christmas coming up?
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I'm waiting for Starfall to post before I do anything on Hailey's side of things. And as for Aimee and Xanthus in Vegas, that's progressing along....slowly.
So really, I can't do as much right now in there, unless of course I just keep the thing going with Hailey and leave Neku to do....whatever :p
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Starfall left me a note saying he'd left the RP for a time, so you might want to get in touch with him and see if he's still in the RP. That's why I'm not doing anything with Slash and Agito; I'm not sure either.
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I'm just having a light writer's block. I remember Serris said he's is taking a break for a while.
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Serris is on break and I'm waiting for the others to post. I might just play as Roux for a time and give myself some characters to play..
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Serris is on break and I'm waiting for the others to post. I might just play as Roux for a time and give myself some characters to play..
I might do the same with Neku, play as him for a bit till Starfall posts some more.
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went ahead and played as Roux..
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Can something happen with Drake and his virtual reality machine? I just have an actual plot I want to get Shelton into, but I don't want him to disconnect until the beginning of the asylum plot, where he can see the virtual version of himself.
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What happened to MrDrake? I can't keep going with Shelton until he posts a couple more times in his virtual reality subplot. I need to keep my character moving.
Also, what's going on with everyone else right now? Is the Florida harbor going to be destroyed or what?
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The Florida base won't be destroyed for a while. My commandos haven't moved out yet. Chances are that both Florida and Texas bases will be destroyed about the same time, or Texas goes first.
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hopefully things will start to pick up now that the holidays are over..
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Sorry people, I was away over the holiday period, but I am back now. Sorry I forgot to tell you lot, kept you all hanging :p
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its alright drake. you're back thats what counts.
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All right, how big is James' group right now? Because if memory serves correctly, James has a small army of characters following him, which includes at least:
James*, Zachary*, Bailey, Alfred*, Gustave*, Shakila*, Kiara, Aisha*, Landon*, Masters, Crota, Reynolds, Hans, Werner, Stern, Aydin, Cobalt Squad, Sharon*, Wayne, Williams, Roux*
and probably more that I've forgot. I've put stars next to the only characters that are currently active characters.
One of the reasons I bring this up is because the focus of the RP seems to have shifted to the characters in Dragonstorm. Mirumoto, Starfall, MrDrake, and myself have been primarily playing our Dragonstorm characters, and half of the people in James' team haven't spoken a line since 2010.
I think one of the reasons that James' team has slipped out of focus is that there are so many characters it takes a week to get them to do anything. If we trim the crop, we could tighten up the force and get their story moving faster.
Hell, even if we split the team in half (active characters, non-active characters,) and send the team of non-active characters to destroy a Dragonstorm base off-camera. Then they're still technically "doing something", but the active characters are unburdened by a thousand posts of "these people also do what the others are doing etc."
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Thats a good idea LBT.. so which characters should we send, and what base should they take out..
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nice Dark Knight reference Drake! :)
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How about we permanently remove Werner, Hans, Reynolds and Cpl. Stern?
In my opinion, that sounds like a good option since their players are not here any more.
As for removing Dr. Williams, Cancerian Tiger plays Dr. Williams so we need to wait a bit.
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noname will be back in a couple weeks so I wouldn't remove stern just yet..
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Okay, I happen to like the two serpentine soldiers (Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters) so I will keep them.
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I'm keeping Roux, so thats 3 characters I control. Although Starfall controls Roux officially.
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I like Crota also, plus that leaves two public domain characters, and its always useful to have those.
We could send a group of the soldier characters (Hans, Werner, Stern, Aydin, Reynolds, Cobalt Squad, Neville if he's still with us) back to Crimson Base as ''reinforcements'' or something like that.
If Stern returns, his characters can be sent from Crimson base as reinforcements using whatever method (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=5158&view=findpost&p=9136496) Stern used in the second RP.
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nice Dark Knight reference Drake! :)
Thanks, that's all that had come to my mind when I wrote that little part XD
Oh also, with Aimee still in Vegas, I have something in mind that does involve Trinity. In other words, she'll figure out where Aimee is, more easily than what some might think ;)
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do you still play hailey Drake? :)
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Yeah, if you notice, I have been playing as her recently. It's just that she's no longer with the rest of the team, she's attacking Drake's place with the help of Neku.
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Alright. I might have her hook up with Roux.. that is if she ever rejoins the others..
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Sorry, no, wont be happening, I've got something else planned for Hailey. Both LB&T and Starfall know about it, told them last year.
But thanks for the offer though XD
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sounds good, was just trying to get interaction going between your characters and the others. looking forward to what you have planned for her..
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I'm still trying to figure out on how to get Aimee back to the others again, with her..... "prisoner" Xanthus :p
So far, I am drawing a blank on it all though....
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Alright, I introduced that Dragonstorm scientist to things to make a plot point of the experiments powers...evolving, in a way. After the prolonged use they've put them through, the powers themselves are taking new forms. Psi-experiments in the form of different/more powerful versions of their abilities, and cyber-experiments in the form of...automated upgrades, I guess.
For example, Neku's Psychokinesis is going to start manifesting as automatic creation of barriers when a threat is detected, almost like a personal shield system. It won't always work, and won't do much to stop a concentrated assault without his focusing on it, but it will deflect knives and suchlike without him having to consciously raise a shield.
Hawkeye will start manifesting enhanced abilities like remote hacking of terminals, and the ability to use nanite-created weapons.
Cale will be able to take partial control of people via electrical impulses in the brain.
Slash will be able to pull things together as well as cut them
Agito will be able to shoot spikes
What do you guys think?
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Reynolds and Neville are at Crimson Base.
Noname may or may not return so how about we keep his characters for now?
But Hans and Werner can be removed from the RP.
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cool ideas starfall. hopeful;ly we can whittle down some of the characters, so thats there not so many..
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Oh, whoops, I just wrote Aydin out.
Noname can have him come back if he wants.
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I don't know if I have time to return, but if you could bring him back anyway, please do so.
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I'm just sending him to meet up with Aimee. I guess if you want him to stay with Zanasiu's team, it's your call, but he's not really doing anything there.
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Question Mirumoto, which I just realized, in your post before my one, you mentioned a telepath amongst Xanthus and Aimee. Unless I was seriously mistaken, it's only them two, and neither of them are telepaths.
The closest one is to being a telepath, is Xanthus with his mechanical eye and that's it.
So, mind enlighting the situation on me on who they're refeering to?
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Stalker's already left Las Vegas, under orders from Ezekiel, and now he's at the same town where Zanasiu's group is hiding out.
That part was while you were gone.
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Ah okay, so the two of them are mor or less....safe sort of thing then, I take it?
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Is Cancerian Tiger still in this role-play?
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To be honest, I have no idea if CT is still playing.
I will contact her tomorrow then let you all know.
I may recruit Cyberlizard as he has expressed an interest in original science-fiction RPs.
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Don't worry, I'm still here ;).
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Will get Shakila back into the game once someone else gives her a good opening.
But with Kiara, I have no clue, cause I don't even know where she is right now.....
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Yeah, what's going on with the plot to kidnap Shakila? I still want that to go down. Mirumoto? Starfall? Who's doing that?
If you need a recap on what's supposed to happen in that plotline, PM me and I can remind you. It's been a while.
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Hmm. I am considering having Dr. Zanasiu lose to Breathtaker but I am at a loss at what to have happen to him.
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Will Roux get back to the SUV soon so the Alfred and the others can start driving?
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Don't worry. I got a plan to keep Zanasiu from getting killed.
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where are Alfred and roux right now?
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Also, where is Sharon and who is with her? Is she in the jeep with Shakila right now?
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Sharon is in the SUV with Zachary, Dr. Bailey, Sharon, Shakila and Dr. Wayne.
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Is Roux on the roof right nnmow, or just in a room on the upper floor?
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She teleported to the ground after Stalker jumped down and took Shakila.
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ok Landion and aisha went up the stairssthinking she and Alfred were there.. alright
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I should tell you, as a little fact. The way that Kiara walks with the walking stick is actually similar to that of Dr. House from, well, House.
That's sort of how I based that off, well, sort of that with a mix of Olivia from the TV series Fringe when she had to use a walking stick to get around.
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Can we get an updated tally on how many Dragonstorm bases are left, and where they are? I want something to take place in a Dragonstorm base we haven't encountered yet.
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Three main ones.
FL (New Peenemunde Harbor), TX and the final one in NJ.
There are a few smaller "data center bases" around the country that deal with data only.
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Could we possibly add Washington DC to the list? I only say possibly, as I don't think Zara and Viper will be able to take out the base....however, they might succeed there....hard to say at the moment XD
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Sure a main DC base sounds nice!
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Sounds like a plan, heading to DC would be cool..
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Well of course, if they were to head DC, that would be up to really, Serris in the end if he wants everyone to head to DC first or to another base sort of thing.
I mean DC is not a real priority at the moment. Only high priority target there is Trinity, as I myself, don't consider Dietrik a real high priority target, unless his plan, mentioned a while ago, is put into action.
However, Viper and Zara, who are also at the base, they can hold it off....bah, I forget the word now....which is probabally what will happen, as in, the two of them would have to end up escaping.
So I guess in other words, DC can be considered a target and all. Granted where in DC I don't know where exactly, perhaps somewhere underneath the Smithsonian?(sp?)
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So, what order are the remaining bases planning on being destroyed?
I assume James&co are going to destroy the TX one next, followed by FL, followed by NJ, followed by DC? Does that order sound right, or would we want to save the final NJ base for last?
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NJ is the final base. The others can be destroyed in any order.
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Which base is Zenarchis in?
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... Erm, I'll say he is in TX (it is the closest one).
Also, what about Cancerian Tiger and Noname's characters?
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That would actually be good as well, as I assume that one of those bases are where Ezekial and Soundwave are hiding out at. I only say that....as I forget the name of the base in question, as in, where it is.
But regardless, would be good as if they attack that base, they could also take on Soundwave in the process....possibly, unless the AI Shelton gets to Soundwave first that is :p
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Ezekiel and Soundwave are in the Florida base, New Peenemunde Harbor.
How soon until the Texas base is destroyed, because I have a semi-long story arc I want to play out, and I kinda want to set it in the TX one, but I don't want to if the base is a few weeks (real time) from destruction.
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Ah yes, that's right. Thanks for the reminder on that. Man....how I loose track on the locations of where everyone is half the time XD
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Where is James' team right now? Like, are they at the Texas base, on the way to the Texas base, still at the hotel?
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I think that they're still in the hotel area.
Also, I think that, as an in-joke, later on, maybe towards the end, someone from the original RP should finally ask how exactly Kagetora survived. XD
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Seriously. I've been wondering that since it occurred. Bummer is, Shelton can't ask because in the first RP he wasn't in the room at the time.
UPDATE: just reread that part of the RP, and the only characters that for sure were in the room at the time are Hicks and Montgomery. But if one can allow post timing discrepancies, James, Vic, Zachary, even possibly Neville and Kerzach could have been there too.
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Speaking of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, gonna make it a bit fun as they'll get defeated, more or less one by one....War'll probabally be the first, but I know that Death'll be the last one.
And yes, others, other than Hailey and co will get a chance to take one one or two of them....for sure, Death....possibly at the second to last base they're to level XD
All I know is that Trinity wont be defeated at the DC base....more than likely, she'll escape and arrive at the final base. But of course, we'll see about her ;)
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Where is James' team heading right now? I mean, I know the Texas Base eventually, but what stops do they have beforehand?
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Why isn't anyone posting? I've seen most of you come in and out of the role-playing section.
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I just posted but I got a little bogged down by life.
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i've been waiting for others to poat, but i'll post now..
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Don't know if this is possible, but can we change the name of the company "Weyland-Yutani" so it's not identical to the company name from Alien? I get that it's a shoutout, but it bugs me that there isn't some indication that it's not supposed to be the exact same company. Even if we just spell it different or make it "Yeyland-Wutani", just so that it's not Identical.
Minor thing, I know, but I want to reference it in both of the stories I'm working on, and I want it to be clear that we're not violating our rule of "no non-real world elements from outside fictions are to be used exactly"; the rule we established when Cautizer tried to bring Red Alert stuff into the 2nd RP.
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The Weyland-Yutani in DS manufactures electronics while the one in Alien does not.
I should note that the one in DS is pronounced "Veyland-OOtani".
I could spell it that way too.
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so have they reached Texas yet, or are they still in new Mexico..?
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Still in NM but getting close to TX.
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The Weyland-Yutani in DS manufactures electronics while the one in Alien does not.
I should note that the one in DS is pronounced "Veyland-Utani".
I could spell it that way too.
Nah, that's enough for me that they're different.
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So they aren't in texas yet but will be soon..
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The Weyland-Yutani in DS manufactures electronics while the one in Alien does not.
I should note that the one in DS is pronounced "Veyland-Utani".
I could spell it that way too.
I'll probably be referring to it as W-Y in the future though.
Also, anyone know where MrDrake is?
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Okay, since Noname's been banned, how do we deal with Aydin and Cpl. Stern?
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whoever wants them can have them imo..
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Okay, since Noname's been banned, how do we deal with Aydin and Cpl. Stern?
Wait, what? Can you provide me alink to that thread? I wasn't aware of this.
Storywise, he hasn't been here for ages anyway. I wrote Aydin out of the plot a month ago.
Maybe Stern can meet some old acquaintance in the bar and that acquaintance agrees to give Hans and Werner passage to the Nevada Desert, provided Stern comes with them.
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So he got banned eh? Can't say I'm all that supprised. But ah well, enough about that. As for his character, I couldn't care less if Aydin was written out of the plot a while ago, wasn't my favourite character, created just for Aimee. I'm honestly better off with Aimee having no love interest myself.
As for that Stern character, someone else can also use him, I have no interest in taking control of him :p
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Yeah, when Aydin was introduced, he really seemed like nothing more than a fox-version of Stern, created so that Noname wouldn't have to play a cross-species sex scene.
If there are no complaints, I can play the process of writing Stern out of the RP.
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So are we going to kill him off or just send him to another part of the country?
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I could have either Trinity kill him or Death if you want :p
Granted, he'd need to hang around for a lot longer if that is to happen XD
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What's the environment around Texas Base? Desert?
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Isn't the state of Texas suppose to be desert anyway? I mean, that's what I see of it on movies and the likes.
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It depends. Northeast Texas is very arid, but there is much more wet terrain along the coastline (where most people live).
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Ah okay, thanks for that input vonboy ^^
I was just basing it off stuff I've seen on movies and what have you. But again, thanks for that clarification for me :D
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texas has a wide variety of terraon, grasslans praire, mountaind, large forests, it has it all. this is an state that covers a quarter million square miles after all..
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So, vonboy, you interested in joining the RP or no?
And LB&T, thanks for playing the part of the characters who will be "removing" Stern, Hans and Werner from the game.
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not really, I was just reading around the forums, and saw someone asked a question I could answer.
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No problem, the more I can trim the fat off James' team the better. I have a fair amount of other characters I think should get dropped too, but this is a good start.
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Well, three of the Horsemen's locations are known for the time being. Granted both Death and Pestilence wont stay in the same place....especially Death.
Famine's location, I am still wondering on where he could first reappear to cause some sort of havok :p
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I have a fair amount of other characters I think should get dropped too, but this is a good start.
So who else can get dropped?
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well I only have two characters and i'm keeping them.. but i agree a reduction in the number of characters is a good rthinbg..
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You've stated that you like Masters and Crota, and I like Crota as well, so they would make good public domain characters.
I'm pretty sure the following characters still compose James' team: James, Zachary, Bailey, Alfred, Gustave, Kiara, Masters, Crota, Cobalt Squad, Sharon, Dr. Williams, Dr. Anthony. Let me know if I missed any.
Of these characters, Anthony, Bailey, and Cobalt Squad have done extremely little in the past few months. I think either we should create story lines for them (a romance possibly, for the first two), or find reasons for them to leave.
For Cobalt Squad, once New Peenemunde fires that missile at Crimson Base, that would give Cobalt and excellent reason to have have to go check on the damage.
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Kiara is still in Crimson Base with Neville. Oh yeah, Crota and Masters are part of Cobalt Squad.
Dr. Bailey is a computers specialist...there will be time for him to work his magic inside the enemy base.
I thought Dr. Anthony was still in Crimson Base?
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Wow, just looked that up. I had seriously thought they were other soldiers this entire time.
How many members of Cobalt Squad does that make? Slavik, Crota, Masters, the Mongoose, and the female human that died? There were only four in the first RP.
And if those other characters are indeed back at Crimson, then I'm satisfied. The team is sufficiently optimized :)
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How can Aydin be found dead in Vegas when he was nowhere near Vegas to begin with? I mean, even if he did die there, Aimee and the others would surely know something about that, considering they're still in Vegas and all.
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I actually didn't specify where Aydin was. I just mentioned that he was attempting to hitchhike his way to where he hid Trinity's data. Depending on whose car he got into, he could have wound up anywhere.
The real question is why his death was important enough to reach Texas newspapers, but that's okay because newspapers have the Worst News Judgment Ever (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorstNewsJudgmentEver).
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Yeah, if anything, I'm sure the newsworthy thing in Vegas would have to be Neku and War's fight that's literatly tearing up the Las Vegas Strip in the process and a few dead bodies around to kick.
I'm sure that would be all over the news by now :p
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yeah Aydins death (which I assume is probably from foul play) would be buried on page 97A, while the first 5 pages would be devoted to the carnage war is spreading.. never miss a chance to sensationalize a story..
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Okay, I'll change the location.
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After some time and some really deep thought, I guess I'm finally done here in Darwin's Soldiers. I can't really say I've had fun until now, since I lost the fun in it a few months ago. For some of you in this game, I wish you luck in completing a great story. For others...I won't say, especially here.
Since all my chars are practically non-existent now, there's no need to give them to someone to use for the rest of the story. And no, they won't be mentioned any further.
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I'm sorry to hear that kenji. You';re a good rper, and we'll miss having you in the rp..
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Bye Mirumoto! It was good having you in the RPs from the beginning! Sorry to see you go! :(
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Yeah, ta ta Mirumoto, it's been fun while it lasted *tips hat*
But I do have a poser of a question in regards to something, since his characters would be no longer present at the base in question.....I take it that Soundwave could very well be put in charge of said base instead?
You know, having a rouge AI in charge of something, unlike Appeture Labortories with GlaDOS :p
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Yeah, MrDrake, you should totally have SouNdwave take over New Peenemunde. Maybe he could take O'Neill hostage.
If nobody minds, I'm going to blow up Crimson Base in a few posts. I think a large amount of the secondary characters at the base should perish, or at least leave their fate ambiguous. It'd be a real blow to the heroes' morale, and nobody at Crimson is really affecting the plot anymore.
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sure thing LBT. cut down on the number of characters n the story..
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If nobody minds, I'm going to blow up Crimson Base in a few posts. I think a large amount of the secondary characters at the base should perish, or at least leave their fate ambiguous. It'd be a real blow to the heroes' morale, and nobody at Crimson is really affecting the plot anymore.
Okay, sure.
But Dr. Joe, Wally and the others with the hero's group, what do we do with them? I think having them die in the way that I killed off Aydin is frankly, insulting to Kenjiro and his really good characters.
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And about the tropes page, I've been the only one updating it for a while.
Also, Aydin's death is definitely an example of a Bus Crash (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BusCrash) but is it a example of Dropped A Bridge On Him (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DroppedABridgeOnHim)? I mean, yes I admit that I kind of did that out of spite because I really don't like Aydin as a character and he dies in a very anticlimactic fashion.
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Kenji, goodbye and good luck with your future RPs. It was good having you in the RP since the beginning. Sad to see you go since your characters were really good. We'll miss you.
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I think we should have them survive, but lose a lot of friends in the proiocess. this leaves the fate of the anti-dragonstorm cause resting even more so on the shoulders of Aisha Landon, Rouc Alfred and the others.
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Kagetora and Kiara will both live, right?
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i think they should. you could take them over if you want starfall.. :)
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Starfall, I was gonna rely on Kagetora saving her, possibly through his teleportation thing he can do.
Mirumoto's characters definitely shouldn't die. They've been around since the first role-play. They deserve legitimate endings.
Perhaps, once the heroes learn that Crimson Base is destroyed, they decide to take over Texas Base instead of destroy it and make it their new headquarters? As members from Crimson Base, Dr. Joe and Vic would be the obvious candidates to become the new leaders of this Texan base.
And yeah, Serris, it is Dropping a Bridge on Him. There was no real reason to mention him again, he could have easily just never be mentioned again, but instead he was killed off-screen. (not complaining; I had wanted to kill him, but couldn't because of the .01% chance Noname was coming back.)
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sounds like a plan LBT. I think that could work..
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Yeah, MrDrake, you should totally have SouNdwave take over New Peenemunde. Maybe he could take O'Neill hostage.
If nobody minds, I'm going to blow up Crimson Base in a few posts. I think a large amount of the secondary characters at the base should perish, or at least leave their fate ambiguous. It'd be a real blow to the heroes' morale, and nobody at Crimson is really affecting the plot anymore.
Done, Soundwave is now in charge of the base. But question, who else is still in Soundwave's base....the harbour that is? Just so I know whom it is that Sounwave can insult and the likes :p
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The most important character is Dr. O'Neill, but you might want to be careful about insulting him; he's the second most powerful person in Dragonstorm. Ezekiel would be fun since he's rather full of himself, and other than that there are some minor characters such as Smithson, Narcissus, and Mnestheus. Some doublebladed woman who appears and disappears out of thin air is floating around as well.
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Bah, Soundwave can take care of himself....after all, he's wearing/using rather dangerous armour as it is :p
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Hey, so there are three Dragonstorm bases left (Texas, New Peenemunde, and DC), and four major antagonists: O'Neil, Montgomery, Trinity, and Zenarchis. I was thinking we should figure out when each major antagonist should die.
Since Montgomery and Zenarchis are the only ones in Texas Base, and Zenarchis should be the 'final boss', I think Montgomery should die in Texas. Since we agreed ages ago that O'Neil should survive the RP, he could be captured in New Peenemunde, and supply the information to discover and defeat Zenarchis at Washington DC.
Drake, Trinity is your character, so its your call as to what happens to her and when she dies, though she is currently at New Peenemunde and it would fit well with the story for her to die there, since that leaves Zenarchis alone at a base we've never even seen.
These are just suggestions, what does everyone else think?
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There is a fourth one I mentioned a long time ago off the NJ coast as a homage to the state I live in but I will let everyone decide.
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Well, in DC, there is still Dietrik as well to worry about. But then again, he isn't a major antagonist, unlike Death. And don't worry, Death will be defeated with the other Horsemen before Zenarchis is defeated, so no need to worry about that ;)
As for Trinity, not too sure about that just yet. But having her die before killing Zenarchis is an idea. I mean, she could still survive New Peenumunde where Soundwave is destroyed/deleted and retreat sort of thing and be confronted again before Zenarchis is confronted.
I will say this, War will be defeated in Vegas. Pestilence could very well be killed where Soundwave is and Famine....not sure, possibly at another base....or even on the way to a base Alfred and co could encounter him.
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so should we go to that one...?
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Okay, I'm reading through the second roleplay, and I don't get it....why exactly did Crimson Base blow up Pelvanida? The bomb had been neutralized, Dragonstorm had already left, and the section of the RP never explains why it's occurring.
Here's all the transmissions given from Crimson Base's introduction to the decision to bomb:
Crimson Base to Cobalt Squadron Leader. Come in...
Crimson Base, this is Cobalt Leader.
Crimson Base to Cobalt Leader. Can you give us your position and situation in Pelvanida. Last reports have said a thermo-weapon bomb was located in the base
We are searching for Hans and Werner Donitz. The base appears to be almost deserted as of now but we ran into some tanks outside. As for the bomb...
The bomb's been deactivated. Alfred and Aisha cut the power
The bomb has been deactivated. As for position, we are inside a lab but due to damage sustained, we are unable to determine which lab
Crimson Base to Cobalt Leader. The US Armed Forces have reportedly withdrawn from the base. There should be no military presence there. We'll have recon over the base in 5 minutes, and air strike wings are mobilizing to launch in a few moments. Is there anything you need until then?
Crimson Base, this is Cobalt Leader. We are in no need of anything as of now. Shall we prepare for evacuation?
Crimson Base to Cobalt Leader. Air strike will be armed with deep-penetration and air burst munitions. Evacuation is greatly advised no later than 20 minutes
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As far as I can tell, Crimson Base probably wanted to eradicate all presence of Dragonstorm.
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Well, that was stupid of them. Pelvanida cost thousands, maybe even millions of dollars to build. Plus there might have been data or something that they could have used to locate/learn more about Dragonstorm. And it was a known fact that there were innocent personnel in the facility.
Plus, what was the point of James' team stopping the fusion reactor from blowing up if Crimson just came the base up anyway?
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Millions? Try billions.
Looking back at that option, it seemed like it was a GIANT clusterf--- both in story and out of story.
I know this goes under the Contrived Stupidity (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContrivedStupidityTropes) but which one?
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i think it falls under " end story by whatever means possible, even if it diesn't make much sense".
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I was about two-thirds done with two more Darwin's Soldiers stories, but a computer crash just erased them :( One of them was like 50 pages long, double spaced.
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Ouch. What is the prospect of recovery?
I feel your pain, I accidentally deleted the opening chapter to Sharon's tale.
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Well, I found an older draft of Nietzsche's Soldiers 3, from before I went through and pretty drastically changed the story. I can work from there.
The other story, called Ground One, was written on my AlphaSmart and transferred to the computer, so it wasn't on there long enough to be rescued. this is a pretty bad setback, but I'm writing everything I can remember about the story in a document now. This might be an opportunity to make it more streamlined, I'd been worrying about the original's lack of focus.
I guess there's that.
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well i hope you can recover much of what you wrote..
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I've gotta bring up something I've lost track, and that's where Kiara is suppose to be now...I lost track of my won character after that bombing.....so sue me :p
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I believe Kiara and Neville are trying to get in contact with the rest of the team.
I will rectify this situation.
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Where was Kain's facility again? What state?
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Finished Netzsche's Soldiers 3!
I'll be ready to post it in the next few days, once in get a new power cord for my computer; I can only surf the web on my iPod right now.
And congrats to Drake for starting a third Darwin's Soldiers story!
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Hey, could people remember to keep posting in this roleplay? It's kinda grown stagnant.
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right, i'll get on that asap..
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Sorry, I've been busy and Starfall and MrDrake have been absent.
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well we can post, and have them catch up as they get time...
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Sorry for the absence, but I can't get online right now, no internet at home. But should be able to get it back soon enough, in the next 2 or so weeks. So till then, I guess ny characters will remain on standby and the likes XD
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Would it be okay if we assumed "standby" to mean 'passed out from exhaustion' for Shakila? That way, Starfall's characters and Shelton can get her to safety, letting the story start back up once she rescued.
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sure standby can mean unconscious' for our purposes..
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Just found another continuity problem :p
Serris, your Furry Confusion explanation mentions that sea animals aren't anthropomorphic?
Acker (http://darwinssoldiers.wikia.com/wiki/Acker) from the Furtopia RP is a crab (http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php?topic=33419.msg654822#msg654822).
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Hey, the RP is kinda growing stagnant, and I think that's because things are going really slow. Nothing's happening.
I think we should get done with Wayne arriving, telling the team what happened, and taking Mirumoto's characters back to Crimson. Then the team should head to Texas Base and take it down. (The plan was that Montgomery dies here, right?)
How does this sound for a start?
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Sounds fine to me.
Chalk up Acker being a crab to Early Installment Weirdness.
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Sounds like a plan to me.. need to get my characters moving..
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Alright, I'm back with a new internet connection. So, what's happened so far?
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well we are headed to the next Dragonstorm compound.. other than an attacks by a bunch of poisonous snakes not much has happebed on my characters end..
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Shakila is passed out in the hideout. If you want to wake her up, you can assume that she's in a bed, though Starfall hasn't explained what the hideout is like. Once James and the rest head for Texas Base, we're going to meet up with them.
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Kiara's in a car with Neville.
So what about Starfall's characters?
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The hideout is a standard safehouse-esque design, basically a house with reinforced doors and windows and such.
As to where my characters are,
Neku is around Vegas, somewhere
Cale and the others, excluding Kagetora are at the safehouse with Shakila
Kagetora is with Kiara and Neville
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MrDrake, your characters are as listed:
Kiara: in the hotel with James's crew.
Shakila: in the safehouse with Shelton and Starfall's characters
Trinity: Wherever you want her to be.
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I think Trinity is flying to Washington DC in a plane with O'Neil and Pestilence. They just escaped New Peenemunde Harbor.
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Sorry for the lack of participation in this RP, I've just not been feeling 100% lately, so it's sort of hindered my RPing skills at the moment. I mean, I could reply if I wanted to and all, but right now, I'd rather not till I do feel at least somewhat better.
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Er understand MRDrake. when do you think you'll be feeling better? a week or so?
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Hard to say, as this condition thing that's risen up a few days ago now just refuses to go away. I believe I shall be heading to the hosptial a bit later on, see if the doctors know what the hell's up with me >.<
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best check it out and find out what it is thats causing it.. hopefully nothing too serious..
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Yeah, I mean, I thought that it would indeed go away after like a day or two, but so far nothing, it's still there which, well, just sucks for me >.>
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Oh no!
I hope things get better, MrDrake. You're one of my favorite RP'ers, and with luck this won't be as bad as you think.
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If nobody minds, I was thinking we could have 'no survivors' on this Texas Base assault. Unless we need someone to interrogate or something. The thing is, with Kerzach and Zenarchis checking out early, and Montgomery slated to die in this battle, it seems like nobody but redshirts are left at Texas Base.
Opinions?
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Yeah, let's kill everyone in the base.
Since I'm trying to be realistic (no reactor meltdowns), I guess all they can do is burn down the base or try to blow it up with the munitions they have stockpiled there.
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I could also have Famine in the base as well, sort of lurking around without Kerzach and Zenarichis knowing about his presence sort of thing. But that's only is it's okay with you lot XD
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Hey, just a request that people start posting again. Let's get the team to Texas and start fighting.
Also, could we call the Washington DC base something other than "Washington DC base?" I just ask because the last two bases were called, "Texas Base" and "Idaho Base", respectively. Just seems like we could be more descriptive for our 'final boss fight.'
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Wait, the final fight's to take place there? I thought it would be elsewhere and not in Washington DC? Sorry, just a little lost on that part on which bases were suppose tobe left and what order they're being taken down in. I do however, request that Washington DC not be the last base, as it will be sort of anti-climatic, since something has happened in the base which has in turn, happened off-screen.
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All right, if the DC base isnt going to be the final base anymore, I was thinking it might be cool to have an offshore base as a final battle, maybe on an island or a floating lab. What does everyone think?
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Yeah, again, sorry about that. It's just what has happened offscreen with it, it wont work is all as I've stated before XD
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The TX base is also known as Deadwood Youth Correctional Facility.
The final battle will be in a base located off the New Jersey coast.
Also, Nick, MrDrake and Starfall, the RP's kind of stagnated.
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Yeah, I noticed that. Sorry for the lack of posting XD
Question, how many trucks/jeeps are the tem using and which one is Kiara in if they are using more than one? Just a tad lost on that half is all.
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Let's go with three
1.) Cobalt Squad
2.) Sharon, Zachary, Dr. Bailey, Siberys, Shelton
3.) Dr. Wayne, Dr. Williams, Roux, Alfred, Gustave, Aisha, Dr. Landon
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That didn't exactly answer my question about Kiara. But hey it still answers the fact on how many vehicles there are and who's in them.
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Let's just put Kiara with Cobalt Squad.
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My characters are with Gustave and Alfred and I'll get posting on here
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Well, once the action starts there, I'll have Famine make himself known there as well. Although he wont be a real big threat in a way, but in another sense, he will be.
It'll be easier to explain by more or less showing you guys on what I mean with Famine. As his way does sort of work like that of Famine from the TV series Supernatural as it's not just limited to hunger with what he can deprive one of, it can vary and the likes ;)
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Okay, I'm working on the TVTropes page for Darwin's Soldiers.
I just realized that the way that Noname depicted Aydin and the Vulpines seems to be a rather unflattering portrayal of Native Americans in modern times.
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so how many bases are left to destroy? Just curious..
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Two more, Deadwood Correctional Facility, then the big battle in the off shore New Jersey base.
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Yeah, the Washington DC one has already been practically destroyed. Trinity and O'Neil are just cleaning up in there.
But I will have Trinity present for the final battle at the New Jersey base. Not sure what's going to happen with O'Neil, if he'll join Trinity there or if he'll fall within Washington DC against the loose experiment.
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2 more, alright so the end is relatively close..
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All right, here's the entry for Unfortunate Implications:
The Vulpine are huge offenders. For starters, they are a FantasyCounterpartCulture version of modern Native Americans all mashed together into an amalgam. They live in horrific (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=7064&view=findpost&p=9189772) conditions (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViceCity), alcoholism and severe poverty are rampant. Furthermore, most of the Vulpine are described as sex-crazed, "barely civilized savages (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=7064&view=findpost&p=9189680)" by Aydin (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch). To top off this mess, Aydin (one of the two Vulpine main characters) is a speciesist (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasticRacism) who hates snakes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReptilesAreAbhorrent) and has no compunctions about attacking his allies if he feels that Aimee is in danger. Thankfully, this is somewhat cushioned by the fact that Aimee is a fairly sympathetic and rounded character.
Any critiques?
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Nope, in fact, that sounds about right foor what Aydin would say. He was just, well, in the end, a terrible character and the way they were described as, the Vulpines that is, didn't help the fact at all.
So glad I decided to have Aimee not really care/get into love in the end....otherwise, there would be some problems.
And after all I do try to make Aimee a rather likeable character in the end XD
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I missed those implications, but I'd agree on the content of aydins character, wasn;t much of one.. and showed a intolerace which speaks more to his creator than anything..
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Okay, so do think he fits as a "Scrappy" (hated character) or "X-Pac Heat" (character hated because the actor is hated)?
And, Nick, you mentioned that Aydin's intolerance says more about his creator/"actor" than Aydin himself, what do you mean? Because in that case, the trope Writer on Board might be appropriate.
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I think Writer on board applies imo. since Noname has said similat stuff about things he disliked in the past.. as for your first question, it can be both. you can both be a scrappy and an X-pac hear in my mind..
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Two more, Deadwood Correctional Facility, then the big battle in the off shore New Jersey base.
What about New Peenemunde? Or are we avoiding it since Soundwave took it over and he's not exactly Dragonstorm?
And yeah, if the character's writer is disliked, and the character is disliked for his own reasons, then its both Scrappy and X-Pac Heat. I want to say Dragore is in the same boat but I don't know enough about the author, except his horrible grammar.
Only critique is, like Nick22 mentions, make sure to add that not all the writers agree with the depiction, and that it's mainly the fault of one guy.
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Crap, forgot about that in the end. But I have no complaints about it, as in, if you wish for them to head there to get rid of Soundwave, that's cool, if not, that's all good as well, I'm not worried either way XD
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I'll do the fixes on the trope page later but I'm not sure if I want to say X-Pac Heat because we don't know enough about Noname to say that and I don't want to be offensive.
Scrappy and Writer On Board definitely fit though. I'll add them in.
Could I say that Aydin's a Base Breaker (character who divides the fans) as well?
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So after Deadwood, I take it then the heroes would still head straight to New Jersey? Or would they now be making a side stop to New Peenemunde to take care of Soundwave?
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So after Deadwood, I take it then the heroes would still head straight to New Jersey? Or would they now be making a side stop to New Peenemunde to take care of Soundwave?
I could send them over to take care of soundwave because well, no one wants a rogue AI in charge of a large military base.
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Hehe awesome. So then that shall be after Deadwood, since well, the heroes are at Deadwood and all and they might as well finish what they started before moving onto the next place ;)
As soon as the action does start properly as well, I'll bring in Famine too. I might even just have him walking around within the facility somewhere, or heck, just sitting in a room and messing with people's urges and what have you once they get within range.
The heroes wold for sure, notice something up with that if they were to start acting more strangely and what have you. And yes, this is still based upon the version of Famine that was present in Supernatural.
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Could I say that Aydin's a Base Breaker (character who divides the fans) as well?
Not really. Darwin's Soldiers doesn't exactly have 'fans' yet, except for the authors, and we all seem to be in agreement except for Aydin's creator (who left months ago, shortyl after introducing the character).
Seriously, he played Aydin for like one sex scene. I must have played the fox three times as long as he did.
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I'd also like to point out that I do recall something that Noname did tell me about Aydin, which I found rather stupid >.<
Basically, from what I recall anyway, he had only created Aydin to bewith Aimee in the end, nothing else, which to me, as I think about it still, is just a poor excuse to even create a character. I'm sorry, but having that as an excuse to create a character.....he shouldn't have even been created in the end.
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you can'y just create a character as a love interest for another chareacter, there needs to be depth to the character, it has to have flaws..if it doesn't its nothing more than a gary Stu / Mary Sue, and pretty much any good writer detests those kind of characters, If it has no depth , it has no redeeming characteristics, and often times gets killed off as a result..
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I think Shallow Love Interest (main character whose personality is rather vague and shallow) fits Aydin.
Personally, I think Cpl. Stern was far better played and more developed than Aydin. I also heard somewhere (LB&T, I think) that Aydin was created simply because Noname was too grossed out to play an interspecies sex scene (Aimee X Cpl. Stern) even though there were several of them (Shakila X Shelton, for one).
I'm debating whether to put Aydin under X-Pac Heat or not. Thoughts?
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if he was so grossed out, why did he not ask to drop out of the rp.. you figured some sort of love scenes between different species was going to happen at some point..its obvious our characters aren't all human..
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Yeah, well, that's why I've now more or less made it so that Aimee really has no love interest, nor is interested in love either. I think after that, it just suits her better anyway.
As for putting him into X-Pac Heat, up to you really in the end, as it wont bother me in the slightest.
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i think you could have her find love shes ust reticent after her last experience. its like being i a bad relationship..in fact thats what it was.
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The fact that Stern isn't being hit by the same level of dislike as Aydin is a good sign that Aydin is disliked for reasons other than just being Noname's character. So I don't think X-Pac Heat fits.
While Aydin is annoying, i don't think he's the most annoying character Darwin's Soldiers has ever seen. Thankfully, the one I'm thinking of isn't in the Gang of Five canon.
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So, other than Famine of course, if there anyone else important that's going to present at the Texas base? Just wondering is all XD
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Technically Kyriel, the commander of the base, but since Mirumoto left she's public domain. So you can do what you want with her, even kill her.
Also there's Roderigo DeSancho, the head tech guy. Weak-willed, but not as important as Kyriel.
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So in other words, no one all that important is around? Ah well, still shall be fun to destroy the base anyway XD
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Kyriel is the commander of the base. Doesn't get more important than that.
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Bah, I knew that, but hey, I'm feeling somwhat tired at the moment, so yeah :p
Still, would be best if someone else plays her, one who knows more about her than I do XD
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I can do it. Just PM me what you want her to do.
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Well, if you wish to play as her, well, go right ahead. I don't even know what it is she would be doing in the base anyway, so uh yeah. I'll leave all of that sort of stuff up to you in the end, since I believe you have a better understanding of how she would work than I do.
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Um, I'm confused, isn't Kagetora suppose to be with the other group? Cause as far as I'm concerned, the only ones in Shelton's group are Sgt. Masters, the Moongoose Soldiers, Gustave and Kiara.
Cause honestly, Kagotera doesn't need to go everywhere Kiara is. She can handle herself after all, being an FBI agent and all :p
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Yeah, I think Kagetora killed the guards with the other team. The ones bothering James and co.
Also, Williams is with James and Sharon, I'm pretty sure. Cancerian's post implies as such.
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Yeah, that's what I thought, just the way Serris put it seemed like it was then changed to Shelton's team, when I was certain it was Jame's team that was getting the help.
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I fixed the post with Dr. Williams, she is with Sharon and James.
Nick, it's your turn in Darwin's Soldiers.
One problem, what Kagetora said implies that he was responding to Kiara's words in the stand off with the scientists.
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Replied and pistolwhipped the guard for good measure.. nice touch having Guatrave go absolutely insane.. of course have a villian play on your fears or hiffen feelings might be very interesting..
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Yeah, it'll tear apart the team, arguments and the likes, one turning against another and what have you. I mean, why should Famine have to get his hands dirty when his enemies can do it for him? :smile
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Kagetora's with Kiara's team. And is being manipulated by Famine. He went with them so Roux can stick with Aisha and that team, as a combat specialist.
Yeah.
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I'll reply a bit later on tonight. Gonna watch Balto first that's on in 10 mintues, then will probabally play a bit of ICO as well XD
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alright
good to have you back MrDRake..
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Nick and CT, your turn.
CT, Dr. Williams is with Sharon. They are in the armory of the prison and not yet at the labs.
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So it looks like the teams are going to meet up and try to kill Famine.
Do we want Famine to extend his influence to the new team? For the sake of plot, I think we should have anyone who has already been manipulated but fought it off immune from further influence. So, Famine can no longer influence the emotions of Kagetora, Masters, Mongoose, or Shelton.
Kiara is still being manipulated, and I'm not sure about Gustave right now, he seems to be kinda channeling the energy towards a new target. Still feels like Famine could control him.
Regarding each member of James' team, which emotion do we think Famine would prey on each of them? Also, could we get a character list?
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That might be interesting but I doubt Cobalt Leader will be affected, unless something weakens him or something.
Character list:
Sharon, Gustave, Alfred, Dr. Williams, Dr. Wayne, Dr. Zanasiu, Zachary, Cobalt Squad, Dr. Bailey, Shelton.
Emotions:
Dr. James Zanasiu - His passion for justice and desire to bring Dragonstorm to justice can be corrupted into fanaticism.
Alfred Byford - He's not that well developed but he seems to be rather calm and slightly lazy. I guess this can be corrupted into outright apathy.
Sharon - Since she is in love with James, I guess love can be corrupted into lust (think what Roux did earlier).
Shelton - His slightly less than brave nature and logical mind can be corrupted into cowardice and lack of emotion.
Zachary - ???
Spc. Crota - He is what can be considered a "lovable jerk" and maybe a bit of a speciesist. This can be corrupted into outright jerkass behavior and full-blown speciesism.
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Dr Landon. his expertise with medicine could be turned against the team
Aisha- her feelings for Roux could be manipulated by Famine to harm the both of them..
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Dr Landon. his expertise with medicine could be turned against the team
What do you mean?
I think what LB&T means is how his flaws and personality will be magnified and corrupted by Famine, not how his skills will be turned to lethal uses.
But Aisha and Roux both could have their love for each other corrupted, posing a threat to the team.
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Yeah, I was wondering about that. It seems from what Drake has posted that Famine plays on emotions the teammates already have, he just increases them to extreme levels, to the point that they start impacting the character's performance.
Landon, as a doctor, feels a profession-bred need to help people. Maybe he could feel the need to help any Dragonstorm guards that get injured, and delay the team.
While I previously said that Mongoose was immune, I'm going to play him as still having some slight problems keeping his cool. He'll recover when Masters or Cobalt Leader is around to reassure him.
Cancerian Tiger, Dr. Williams still seems to feel like the 'newcomer' of the team. Famine could increase her 'fish-out-of-water' feelings, make her think she's no help to anyone and that the others think she's useless. Then, as a payoff, maybe she could do something really useful in the fight against Famine.
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LBt has it right, how his integrity as a doctor, the need to treat the injured, will be turned against him and the team, delaying them and giving Famine more time to work them over. this will also bring to light that despite his gifts at surgery and healing, Landon has been passed over for promotion on a number of occasions by inferior doctors amd this irritation will come to the fore..
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Roux and Cale are functionally immune to Famine's influence, due to the "upgrades" they got from Dragonstorm, which included neural stabilizer implants. Both of them were given those simply to prevent outside control from getting them.
When the remainder of Ouroboros gets there, however, Hawkeye is going to get hit hard. He's still vulnerable to Famine, and it will amplify his sense of being a monster. Also will amplify his unrequited feelings towards a certain female...
Just a point, what's happening with Shakila, Slash, and Agito?
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ok so that leaves aishas feelings for roux the only target amoung that duo.. i can work with that..
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I like your suggestion, LB&T. In a way, my character is a newcomer since she doesn't have a history with the others, and I never participated in the previous RPs of DS, which I think adds to her feel of being a newcomer.
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Shakila is presumably still recovering in bed, and a comment by Roux suggests that Slash and Agito are taking care of her. If you want something to happen roleplay-wise, you'll probably have to get in contact with MrDrake.
These suggestions for Famine's influence make this coming battle sound really fun. It'll be nothing like our heroes have fought before, since we've always been able to rely on each other. This is gonna be cool :)
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Yeah, I go lost on what happened with them as well. But Starfall, if you wish to get....something done with them, let me know, either here or PM.
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Hey, Nick, Starfall, MrDrake, are you still playing or not? PM me or post here if you need an up to date synopsis.
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Yeah, I am, I just tend to forget to post where I'm needed and the likes is all. Yeah, I keep on getting distracted with gaming and stuff XD
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Don't forget to keep posting, guys, so we can keep the story going. Serris and I are the only ones to post in the last week.
If you need an update on what's happening in the story, PM me and I can send you a short debriefing emphasizing your characters.
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Sorry guys i'm still playing.. we're still going after famine..
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MrDrake, who controls Famine?
Also, it's your turn.
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I'll still be controlling Famine. Just uh, mind giving me a quick update as to what Kiara was doing last? I lost track on that part is all.
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I'll still be controlling Famine. Just uh, mind giving me a quick update as to what Kiara was doing last? I lost track on that part is all.
Sure thing.
Kiara is with the group who will be confronting Famine and he is currently affecting everyone.
Them most notable effect is that he is screwing over their combat effectiveness and doing his "emotion bomb", so Kiara's distrust will still be present.
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Ok, I think one reason the RP is going a bit slow is that people (myself included) keep posting build-up to the Famine shootout, without actually starting it. In the next few posts, let's start the actual fight. Then we can move on to destroying the rest of the base, and keep going with the plot.
Serris, could you post a timeline of the remaining important events that will happen from now to the end of the RP?
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Good thinking LBT. we need to get the fight going, and finish it, so we can progress to the end of the story..
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TX Base destroyed.
Group heads up to Washington DC (find base already destroyed)
Stop over in Williamsburg, VA to plan.
Final battle in base off NJ coast.
That's pretty much it.
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While in Washington, they could also deal with Pestilence, who I'll be keeping there. But then, what about Soundwave and where he's situated at? Would you also want the group to head there to take care of him? Granted, he'll be more head on, straight into the fight ordeal, instead of what the group is doing now you know, having to fight their way towards him.
But in NJ, might I ask what sort of buildings will be present there? Just so I can get the rough layout of what is what. But there, I will have Trinity and Death show up.
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NJ has a few large industrial cities in the north (Newark, Elizabeth, Camden, Paterson). The coast is relatively bland with a lot of places to go fishing and beaches and stuff.
The far southwestern part is very rural (Pine Barrens). The southern/central part is rural/suburban.
Basically, the classic American "small town".
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So I take it then in NJ, it'll be all around the town that they'll fight against the last of Dragonstorm?
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They'll be battling in a platform off the coast of NJ. Basically an oil rig but with a bunch of labs and stuff.
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Ah awesome, sounds like an awesome place for a grand finale.
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Hey guys, how does this sound for the end battle with Famine:
1. With their emotions on overload, the people currently in the room with Famine are too badly incapacitated to kill him. They dissolve into in-fighting, and Famine plays them like puppets.
2. Alfred and company make their way to kill Famine, but find Shelton's autoturrets blocking their way. They try to brave the gunfire several times, to no avail.
3. In the room, almost everyone has knocked each other out or become completely absorbed in their own head. Dr. Anne Williams becomes the one person who finally breaks free of Famine's influence on her own. Since she's not a combat character, she goes and deactivates the autoturrets instead when she sees Alfred and co. outside.
4. Now that they're free to enter, Alfred, Kiara, and team show up and kill Famine. Because they witnessed Cobalt Leader's death, they have the willpower to resist his influence and kill him in vengeance.
How does this sound to everybody?
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I like the battle idea. It's unconventional.
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Sounds likew a plan, nice thinking..
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Well, Famine's now dead. Though, Death will appear in my next post for a little chat, and that's about it. They wont have to fight him or anything like that. And when I mean a little chat, I do mean just that, as he wont stay for too long and all. Not to mention then, the group can get to destroying the base and all.
Though I take it that their next big destination would either be to stop Soundwave, or head to Washington DC and find that base already destroyed?
If the latter, it's all good as then, they can deal with Pestilence, since he will be causing a bit of, I suppose you can say, destruction there in a sense.
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good we can move on this base and begin to piece things back together from what famine had done to them, gustave especially..
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Okay, anyone have any ideas for plots that can occur while the team blows up this base? Serris and I have already talked about something with Gustave, though we haven't worked out the details.
Drake, Serris, do you guys know what's going to happen with this Death/James/Sharon situation?
Just trying to get the RP moving again.
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Well, Death is going to be leaving in my next post and well, in the 30 hours, RP-timewise that is....gonna play it by ear you know. I mean, if anyone does wish to have a character killed off when said time rolls by, then speak up, if not, it's all good.
But of course, when the time arrives again, he'll still show up, but yet, it is possible to persuade him to give them more time, perhaps a fake promise? Just an idea in regards to that is all XD
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i'd like to see them get on the road personally..so we can move to the thrilling climax..
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Also, to take out Soundwave as well, if all goes well with Gustave, a one on one fight between the two of them sort of thing. I just say that as I believe that Gustave should be able to take a beating from Soundwave in his Rhino suit, and in turn.....rip Soundwave's suit to shreds XD
And of course, after that part, ROSS can then take Soundwave out for good virtually.
Forgot to add too that if the group is to be heading to Washington DC.....is it possible for them to stop by Las Vegas to find Aimee still around there? Possibly at the scene where War was defeated, which will be a crater most likely....from how War had died sort of thing. Yeah, I need to get her back with the group again is all.
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Hmm, we should be able to find someone to kill off if we have to, Or the time extension.
I also agree with Nick, we should get the RP moving. Onward towards furhter battles and msomewhat.
Las Vegas isnt really on the way; but ill think about it tonight and get back to you tomorrow. We'll find a way to get Aimee back with the others.
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Starfall hasn't really been posting, so exactly what should we do with his characters?
And yes, a final hand to hand battle between Gustave and Soundwave would be perfect. And Gustave will not survive.
On a side note, I want the final battle between Zenarchis and Zanasiu to first start out as a running gunfight and them degenerate into a vicious hand to hand battle.
Not to mention, the group's gotta find Shelton.
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And not to mention too, a fight against Trinity as well in the finale too. I mean, with her speed/agitlity that she has, hand to hand would be something for sure. Think RE5 and how Chris and Sheva took on Wesker in two different cutscenes.....he was still able to hold out against the two of them without much care or anything like that. So perhaps something similar for when fighting Trinity? I mean, Aimee will at least be one that is fighting against Trinity ;)
And also in the final fight, taking on Death as well....he'll most likely end up being weaker in the end, weak enough for the group to challenge and destroy him as well.
But I wonder, if it is say, Zenarchis, Trinity and Death left in the end, three different battles going on at once? As I'm not too sure as to what will happen to O'Neil, if he too will be in the final battle too or not.
And one last thing.....I got lost as to what happened to Shakila last in the RP,so uh...yeah XD
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I have a feeling Starfall will start posting again as soon as it gets to nighttime, since Sharon and James are getting their sex scene and last time we all had everything happen on the same night.
In that vein, Shakila is still at the Oruboros Headquarters with Slash and Agito. Shes presumably still resting and recovering in bed.
All the fight scenes sound really cool! I can just have Shelton evacuate the base of his own volition, amd then he can meet up with the others after the base is destroyed.
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Just a request that people keep posting.
Drake, I think its time for Death to move on, so that everyone can start posting about their teammates evacuating the base before it explodes.
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Hoperfully Starfall will start posting again, since roux is still a part of Alfred's group..
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Sorry for being absent and not replying lately. I've just been lazy is all, but I'll try and get a reply up by tonight for sure so I don't hold you guys back as much ^^
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Okay, guys. Lets keep it moving.
Let's get them out of the base in like the next post and move on. Will they be heading to a hotel like usual?
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Sorry, been kinda busy.
Yep, they will stop at a hotel as usual.
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Hey guys, just a reminder again to keep posting in the roleplay.
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Yeah, sorry, was a bit busy with moving and Christmas wrapped up into one thing is all XD
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i'm back from vacation, will be getting caught up in the rps..
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So what exactly is James' team supposed to do against these guys? They appear to be the five most invincible characters in the history of Darwin's Soldiers.
Starfall, I hope you have a plan other than just having your characters return and save the day.
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Oh, they aren't. They'll be driven off. I have plans to actually kill two of them when the final base is destroyed. Until then, they're kinda going to be like Nemesis from Resident Evil. They'll retreat for a time, but they'll be hounding the group.
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Hey, is the mechanized hawk Ridley? I can't think of many other mechanical birds flying around. That would be cool!
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It's actually a new mecha known as Bloodwing. For now.
Though I may have a plan to have Ridley gain control of him later!
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Bloodwing....any relation to the name of the pet hawk Bloodwing that the Hunter class uses on Borderlands by any chance?
Yeah, sorry, had to make that connection, as the name just reminded me of that was all XD
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Okay, now that we're at the hotel, we have the issue of sex scenes.
Last time, we got pretty lucky to get them all out of the way at the same time, but it was convenient in the sense that everyone in a pairing happened to be online at the same time.
I was wondering if we could try to all be online and get them done at the same time (a long period of time, but one time nonetheless). If any particular couple takes multiple days because one of the writers is never online, it'll hold everything up while we wait for them.
Could we all try to stay relatively active tomorrow so that the scenes all play out in roughly the same amount of time? If we all just regularly check Darwin's Soldiers tomorrow night and get them done in the same day, everyone will get to consummate as long as they want without any hold-up and the RP can continue the day after and nobody's relationship misses the chance to do what they want.
What does everyone think?
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I can try. May be busy, but I can try.
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Same here, I can't promise anything. That, and I've no clue as to what is suppose to be happening at the hotel. That news is all new to me as it is. All I know is that Death is going to be revisiting and that's it.
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I could do it, sure..That would not be a proiblem. I assume this would include aisha and Roux right as one of the couples' frisking"
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Yeah, I'm right here.
Alfred will be at the hospital seeing if Gustave's okay. Zachary will be doing something (possibly disposing of Dr. Wayne's corpse).
Neville and Cobalt Squad will be reorganizing their chain of command.
Sharon will be with James.
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Ok, so Landon will be tending to Roux until they reach the hospital, aisha will be coming to visit once Roux is stabilized.
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So I take it after this hotel, the group will be then heading to deal with Soundwave next?
And....I take it there's still a plan to get Aimee back with the group again? XD
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we should have announcement soon that Gustave succumbed to his wounds..
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Is Gustave going to die? I was planning on having that SOB get back up... or at least was hoping he would.
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well, i think its up to serris on that.. we could have gustave survive i guess..
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Keep the plots moving, everybody.
I'm not saying cut anything short, just keep everything moving.
Drake, Starfall, you two have several scenes going on at once (Shakila's, Kagetora's, Aimee's, and Roux's) and theyre moving pretty slow. If you guys could post more than once a day, those scenes could approach conclusions and we can start moving on to morning.
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This may not be the last they see of Gustave... Remember, people have survived seemingly fatal injuries and Gustave possesses superhuman toughness.
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@LBT: I know, but I have been busy today, and will be busy tommorow as well. So yes, I do post only when I can post.
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I'll try and post when I can.. course my scenes are currentlky relying on Starfall to keep going..
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So by the looks of it, their next target to destroy is Soundwave, but I do wonder as to how this fight will happen as he is an AI, but still uses the Rhino Suit. But I shall say this, destroying the suit wont destroy him in particular as that's where ROSS would be needed, as in, cyberspace afterwards to destroy Soundwave for good.
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I kinda thought it would be like the final boss fight in Portal, only if GLaDOS had turrets and Chell used real guns instead of a portal device. But this is a good question. ROSS can only block Soundwave from escaping over the internet, he cant hurt him physically. Though once Soundwave's body is destroyed, he can take care of the remaining virtual conscience.
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Dr. Bailey specializes in computers so he'll have to assist ROSS.
Alfred is probably the only character (aside from Hawkeye and Gustave) who can match and trade blows with Soundwave.
On a side note, is Soundwave in DC or Florida or somewhere else?
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It was in New Peenmude(sp?) Harbour where he had taken it over a while ago in the RP.
Shakila as well, could also help out in destroying Soundwave for good. But yeah, Alfred taking on Soundwave would be good for blow to blow sort of thing.
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New Peenemunde is in Florida (checked my own wiki :D)
While Bailey and Shelton will be able to help prevent Soundwave from escaping and work on shutting down autoturrets and the like, they wont be able to participate in the "final battle" between ROSS and Soundwave because AI operate so quickly that the fight would literally take microseconds.
At least thats what i thought would make sense, considering programs work at the speed of electricity. The technical humans' job would be to force Soundwave to fight ROSS, and not let him flee.
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Yeah, that is true as well. Reminds me of Tron where they mention cycles and all that, as I know in the Tron world that time is slower and all that, such as Tron: Legacy where it was a few days inside, but when Flynn escaped, it was still the same night as when he entered.
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The AI battle would be impossible for living beings to participate in (unless it was a cyborg like Hawkeye).
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Right now, Hawkeye and Neku can both participate. Hawkeye can rapid upload a digita, replica of himself, and Neku, as living electricity, can join. Whether or not they will, that's a different matter...
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I'm honestly not sure if they would be able to help either, Starfall. Since they've lived most of their lives as humans (or organic beings, you know what I mean), they wouldn't be prepared for just how quickly things happen in virtual reality. It would be like trying to defragment a computer faster than the defragmenting program; while Hawkeye and Neku could be virtually present, they wouldn't have the reflexes to even blink before the battle was over.
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The AI battle would be impossible for living beings to participate in (unless it was a cyborg like Hawkeye).
Well, the first part they can as Soundwave is using his enhanced Rhino Suit, until it's destroyed and he retreats into cyberspace sort of thing.
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I've done some serious work on the TV Tropes page and I just realized something, does Aydin count as a Shallow Love Interest?
The trope is defined as such:
A love interest for the main character whose personality is rather vague and shallow. It doesn't matter what their life was like beforehand; their entire personality revolves around the sole fact that they dig said main character, and the main character digs them.
If you ask me, Aydin seems to fit that trope really well.
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Absolutely. He was made for the sole purpose of letting Noname roleplay a same-species sex scene.
Good job on the TV Tropes page! I've made great strides on the wiki, weve got over 200 articles, including almost all of the main characters and a decent amount of secondary characters. I'm still writing my two stories, once theyre posted i'll completely cover them on the wiki.
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All right, I have an announcement to make about the sex scenes.
I have no problem with them (content wise or ideologically) but they do have the tendency to lock up the action when people erratically post or they take too long. So I am asking ya'll, please speed up the sex scenes, starting with these current ones. I am not asking for ya'll to make one post each but try to limit the "sexy posts" to about five or so each.
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Yeah, I know what you mean, I mean I do try and make detailed posts and all, but there's just oh so much I can do in mine as they do require another to keep them moving along an dall that.
Also, I'll get a reply up soon enough as well. Sorry for holding you guys back as well. If need be, I can have Kiara and Kagetora's one skipped, as in, implied it has happened and all that if it'll help speed things along, if Starfall doesn't mind that is.
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No objections here.
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Alright Serris, will do. don't want to stop the plot. needlesly..
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I've skipped ahead until morning, is that ok with everyonbe?
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So sorry for not getting a reply in today, was out for the day was all. But I'll try and get on up tomorrow, not feeling 100% right now....as I got sunburnt on my face and well, it's just annoying me, especially on my nose....
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Okay, so the next scenes will be picking up Aimee from the airport and seeing Gustave in the hospital.
And the next destination is Florida to take out Soundwave?
Oh and where are Roux, Slash, Agito, Hawkeye and Shakila?
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Roux and Hawkeye are at the Hotel with the others, while Shakila, Slash, and Agito are at one of the Ouroboros safehouses.
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Guys, can we keep posting?
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Same here. I'm back so can the RP continue, please?
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Come on guys, there are seven authors in this role-play, some people other than me need to post.
Serris, an SUV carrying James, Zachary, Alfred, Aisha, Roux, Crota, Masters, and Mongoose is en route to see Gustave. Since you brought him back to life, we need you to explain how that happened.
MrDrake, Aimee and Sharon are standing in the parking lot of the hotel, Sharon just introduced herself to Aimee. Shakila is still sleeping at Oruboros hideout with Slash and Agito. We could update what's happening in these two locations.
Everyone else, your characters are somewhere in the hotel, but I don't think its been explicitly established where. If you want something to do while we wait for the Gustave team to finish, PM me and we can set something up.
But we need to keep moving to New Peenemunde, and the big finish. We're so close to the end! Let's reach the final, epic finale!
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Landon and aisha are with James and Zachary
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Sorry, been undergoing a lot of stress lately; I will try to post sometime today or tomorrow.
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Yeah, sorry, got other stuff going on right now, so replying so often will be rather difficult as well I'm afraid. But I will still reply when I can until I can get stuff sorted out on my end more properly.
But I do understand that after Soundwave, it is suppose to be to Washington DC to take care of Pestilence next.
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Sorry, this was supposed to be a private message to MrDrake. Posted in the wrong place.
But glad we're all in agreement :) My life is getting busier too, but I only have to play one character.
Don't forget that if you're having a hard time keeping track of characters, you can always cut some of the ones you aren't really using anymore. The fewer characters you control, the easier it is to post for each one.
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So, whats the plan for when the heroes reach New Penemunde? Shelton is going to be working on transmitting his video to the last Dragonstorm base.
And how is Soundwave going to fight us all at once?
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I've got that part sorted out. Just, in a way, think of it like an FPS game, where Soundwave would be in the back of the room and the group is at the front, having to duck and run sort of thing to get to him. Though once they are close enough, they would be able to attack him head on.
And yes, he will send in mooks/experiments from the base into keep everyone busy as well, so that will be somethign else they'll all have to deal with. But yeah, when they get close enough, it would then change into more of a hand-to-hand combat thing instead, since Soundwave will be using his Rhino suit.
And speaking of being at the base too, the new Hydra still wont be completed. It may be active enough to fight along with Soundwave, or it may not. I'm unsure of that part just yet. I'll figured it out when the time comes XD
Also, sorry for lack of getting replies together. I'm just working half the time, 11 hour shifts and after work, I will try and get a reply in, but if I don't, it would be because I'm just a bit exhausted is all.
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i've been pretty busy as of late too, what with teaching tennis 4 days a week..but i've got spring break coming up so i'll have a lot of time free to get caught up..
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I've been busy too because of schoolwork but the weekend's approaching so I'll see if I can catch up.
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Life can get hectic.
Just remember that small posts are better than no posts. Even if you put a small throwaway line, it frees up others to post and keeps the story moving.
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Yeah, that is true. And just so you know too, Aimee and Hailey do come from the town of Springwood....since the two did grow up together. But as stated in my recent post, it's suppose to be a mystery on where Springwood is (as I'm sure that there would be more than one Springwood in America, if not, then the town's a fictional Springwood instead)
Think of it's location like that of Springfield from The Simpsons, with its location a mystery ;)
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Does anyone have anything they were hoping to role-play at the guns&ammo shop, or can we skip that with an off-hand remark?
Also, Drake, the showdown with Death is coming up. If the current plan is for Neku to fight him to death, will both of you be able to post frequently enough that the battle doesn't take forever in real-time?
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Well, I was going to have the battle take place near the end of the RP, while the rest of Dragonstorm is being fought on the oil rig sort of thing. But I shall do my best to post frequently, so it doesn't take all that long. At least once I day I'll aim for right now.
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Does anyone have anything they were hoping to role-play at the guns&ammo shop, or can we skip that with an off-hand remark?
We can probably gloss it over.
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we can just pass it over with a few asides
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Alright, about the base that Soundwave controls. It's mainly him in command, using his Rhino suit....which is as tough as nails, so to speak...as stated, was made out of the fictional material Diamontanium. Breathtaker would be second in command in the base. However, I had also given him the low-life experiments to use as well.
So yeah, in general, technically, there are no humans in the base, just Soundwave, Breathtaker and all those minions.....as well as a half finished Hydra (which still hasn't been completed....luckily enough....don't want to get too into the whole mythological/battling a hydra ordeal, as cool as that would look)
Yeah, I doubt the team would have the resources or firepower to take down a Hydra....they aren't The Avengers after all XD
Also, Death will be fought in the carpark as well....but I will point out now, that he wont die there....nope, got plans for him as is.
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Wait, so is Kenjiro back in the RP?
How do we incorporate him back into the flow of things?
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You want if I don't come back?
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no you are welcome to come back in Kenji. As for bringing hgim back in, you could say some of his group heads over to help fight the final battle.. in a sort of a 'calvary saves the day' kind of deal
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You want if I don't come back?
Oh f---, what I previously said came out wrong.
We're happy to have you back; it's just that we need to find a good spot to reintroduce your characters back into the RP as soon as possible.
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Welcome back Mirumoto! We're glad to have a fuller team as we round the bend to Darwin's Soldiers conclusion :)
In the roleplay, I was thinking Bailey and company could wind up in Soundwave's room, and meet him face-to-face. Or something. I want them to be walking into something horrible, to give Shelton an excuse to have to race to go find them (I don't want him just sitting in the control room for the rest of this).
Don't forget to keep posting people. I try to keep to one post a day, that way I never feel rushed but I don't hold the roleplay back by being slow.
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I know my heroes won't be able to reach Florida before you guys take out the base, so they might show up some time before the last battle.
That's also where my remaining Dragonstorm chars will be: Breathtaker, Siren, & Stalker.
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Bailey and his group could meet meet Soundwave. Good idea!
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sure that could work, nice idea MK!
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I think I screwed up my wording. My Dragonstorm chars will be at the last base, not New Peenemunde.
There is that AI-2 missile ship that has a sentient program, still at the Florida base.
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Don't forget to keep posting guys. We haven't had a poster other than Drake and myself for 5 days.
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Small question, is there an armoury around in the base at all, or no? Just wondering is all, cause if there is, I might have Nixx stumble across it.
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I'd assume there is.
I think we should start getting Soundwave into the mix. I'll have Bailey's team enter the deepest recesses of the base.
What does Soundwave's lair look like Drake?
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Wel, it's big enough to house the Hydra as well. But also, there is a piece of machinery there as well, what it does right now, not saying just yet, but it is important, not dangerous or a real threat, but it is important. It's something Soundwave will be using in the fight though, I'll tell you that for now ;)
Anything else can more or less be made up sort of thing, not all that fussed with what else is in it XD
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I'll mention now that Soundwave is using a nano rifle....only one who has one too, so no, no other robots will have them. But yeah, the nano rifle is based upon the same weapon from the game Red Faction: Gruellia, where you fire at anything and depending on what it is, will either be disintegrated in one shot, or take three or four shots to do so.
And yes, that does include humans too.
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So, are those rust turrets now Gustave's mortal enemy? What happens if he gets shot by one?
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So, are those rust turrets now Gustave's mortal enemy? What happens if he gets shot by one?
He'll lose his metallic armor and revert to being normal. The nanites in his blood will be rendered inoperable and will eventually be filtered out by his kidneys.
Basically, the rust turrets permanently depower Gustave.
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Alrighty, might as well give a bit of a better explanation for the SOundwave battle. He will bring in mooks to help him out, as in....more robots to fight, ground ones, the odd bulky ones that carry an arc cannon (like the one Nixx fight and destroyed) as well as flying ones). He will use that machine of his to reload, since his suit can carry oh so much ammo at once....so at some point, would be best to take care of said machine.
The Hydra will be deactivated throughout the battle, so...they wont have to worry about that thing waking up suddenly and attacking everyone....as cool as that would be, I think that it would just be a bit unfair and all that.
And of course, once he runs out of ammo for good, as in, his machine being destroyed, he'd be a bit more easier to get to and take head on. As in, Gustave or Alfred, or even both can go at him in hand to hand combat, keep him busy or something like that while others could find a way to destroy his Rhino suit for good.
Course after that....it'll be Soundwave against ROSS on the internet more or less.
So yeah, that's the basic rundown on the rough idea of how it will all play out anyway. Course things may change here and there....save for the Hydra coming to life....as stated, it shall remain deactivated....though I guess the fear in just seeing it there may still have others just thinking that it'll just come to life at any given moment sort of thing XD
And the other thing I will also note too, before I forget, what Zyanya says in Spanish....as I stated before, I use Google Translate to turn an English sentence into Spanish....so reverting it back around may come out a bit odd, but the effect/idea is still the same more or less. So yeah, if it seems odd translating Spanish back into English, that'll be why.
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Sounds awesome! :) This should be a good fight.
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Just wanna say, I'm finding it rather amussing right now with Gustave and Soundwave going at it, since they're both more or less evenly matched, which is just awesome XD
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Um, how can the swords hit Soundwave's chest when he's clearly choking Alfred, who, by all accounts, would be in the way and in turn, if swords were thrownn at Soundwave's chest, Alfred would instead, be hit?
Well regardless.....the end of the boss battle is closing in anyway and soon, Soundwave will then instead, take on ROSS and don't worry, LB&T and myself, already know how that's going to work, so no need to worry about that ^^
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So after the battle is over are we going to have a climatic hairsbreadth escape by the group..
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It'll be a suprise. After all, I do have something in mind, but I'd rather not say what it is until the moment comes ;)
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Sheltons not gonna succeed in stopping the salvos; im actually setting him up so he can let the rest of the team on board once they escape the base.
Also, is Gustave just going to be an Iron Crocodile killing everything for the rest of the RP?
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So what should i have aisha and landion be dioiing at this point
roiux teleported then outm but to where?
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Things are really slowing down. I think we need to get the RP moving.
Considering the base is getting destroyed, we should evacuate the heroes fast. I recommend we move them to the harbor and let Shelton open a hatch for them into the battleship. Then they can destroy the battleship's AI from within, and then take the ship to the oil rig.
So, when you post, try to fit as much as you can, so we can cover as much ground towards completing this New Peenemunde section and starting the battleship one. Sound good? Did anyone have anything they needed to do in New Peenemunde?
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Posted LBT. I'll say that Roux managed to teleport Landon and Aisha out of the water pressure room. They've meet the others out in the harbor where they'll take part in storming the ship and making the pusdh towards the final Dragonstorm base..
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Serris, we can't keep moving until your characters are aboard the battleship, especially James.
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Can I get some advice on what I should do regarding playing this AI on the battleship? I honestly don't know what to do with it.
Maybe Gustave and Nixx could go have an adventure and brutally damage/destroy it on their own. Then we can skip that step and just get everybody to the final showdown on the nuclear power plant.
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If you think that would work Fine. I'll have Landon and Aisha tend to Sharon she was electrucuted ater all..
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That can work.
And then a full throttle shootout and then hand-to-hand combat between our characters and the heads of Dragonstorm aboard an oil rig.
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Yup, I'm up for letting Nixx and Gustave more or less tear apart the Destroyer so that it can be taken over and ridden to the final destination.
And to note too, I'm going to have Pestilence show up there too, since he too is needed to be killed. So on my side for threats there's Pestilence and Death, along with Trinity of course, just to point out for me anyway.
Anyone can take on Pestilence if they wish, not picky about that. But I do believe Neku was going to take on Death if I'm not mistaken. As for Trinity, just so you know, Aimee shall be taking her on....but anyone else who wants to help her out can ^^
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That would be great, speed things along. Drake, Serris, do you want to do it via skype and post the results, for maximum speed, or roleplay it through Darwin's Soldiers posts?
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sp lrts take over the ship already.. and get this thing to the final showdown..
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I'd prefer roleplaying it out here so anyone else can join.
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Okay, but at this point we'll all be waiting for you and Drake to finish, so please don't take too long getting the two of them to destroy the AI. Multiple posts per day would be nice, even just posting one after the other and finishing the whole Battleship scene in one day.
Feel free to give the AI any lines or actions you want. All Mirumoto established was that it speaks in all caps.
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so are drake and starfall still iin the rp ior not?
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Drake hasn't been here for about a week.
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I PM'd Drake a while back, asking him to post for Nixx so they could kill the Battleship AI. (I hope you dont mind I finished that, I just wanted to get things moving and it wasnt a particularly important fight.) I didnt get a reply.
We should find out if they're interested in releasing their characters into the public domain, or hopefully just resuming posting in the roleplay at a decent rate. Between them both they control some very important characters.
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Yeah, I still am, I've just been lazy lately is all, and have not been around getting to replying so far. But as for finishing off the battle against the AI there, that was fine by me, I honestly didn't mind in the end.
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good to sewe both you and starfall posting again..
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Could we revive this RP please?
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I'm still here LBT..
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In the last nine days, we are the only two users with any posts. And there are three other people in the role-play.
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Ah yes, I'm still here too....I've been horrible with things lately, just well, laziness really in general. But yeah, I'll see if I can get a post together and up soon enough ^^
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Have Nixx responsd to Aisha comment. Shes offered to take Nixx in and share her house with her. Its a big house, anmd Aisha wouldnt mind having a roomate, besides Roux.
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Sorry, I got hit with college work.
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Unfortunately, college has now come up and is eating most of my time, so I'll have to bow out of the RP. Let us assume that some sort of nanite-based system of Ouroboros activated and killed off my team.
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It would actually work a lot better story-wise if your characters just stayed on board the battleship. The team would logically leave some mates behind to ready the ship in case a quick departure is necessary.
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Lets just say they stayed behind on the ship like LBT suggested..
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Sigh.
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I'll move things ahead so they reach the rog and climb aboastrd.. Have we decided who'
s going to be on the sub?
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Guys, I'm sorry for forgetting about this....seriously, my mind was not even thinking about this whole place for the whole week. But yeah, I shall get a post done by tonight to catch up a bit as well XD
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good to see you back Mrdrake. You also have posts in toon world and the insane cafe to catch up on..
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ok so when do our chaaracters make thier move..
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So, I see that Darwin's Soldiers is kinda running again. I'm sorry to all for just cutting out, but I was getting very frustrated at the complete dearth of replies.
However, I have to ask; can we obtain permission from Drake to control (or have me control) the villainous characters of his? Because Death and Pestilence are two prominent villains and Neku will never avenge Hailey's death if somebody doesn't control him.
Trinity I understand is a little more personal, so I wouldn't want anyone but Drake to play her (her main role at this point is to fight Aimee anyway, so Drake would need to start posting again for her to be important). But we're going to need more villains for everyone to fight against during this final battle.
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its ok lbt. we're picking things back up..drake has been on lately, so i suggest borrowing the chars you need and giving them bacjk when he comes back..
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MrDrake hasn't shown up for over a month.
His last activity: Sep 28 2012, 05:36 PM (according to his profile).
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I think we'll have to "borrow" his characters and use them.
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So, could I also grab Trinity and Aimee, or are those a little too important to MrDrake to just "borrow"?
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So, could I also grab Trinity and Aimee, or are those a little too important to MrDrake to just "borrow"?
I don't forsee him coming back for the near future so we'll have to borrow them.
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i know drake has a windows live account i'll try and contact him..
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so what should i have aisha do? follow the group onboard?
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Yeah, probably just provide additional cover fire. Once you guy defeat these dudes on the dock, I was going to have the team meet up with Death.
I highly, highly recommend Neku does something on the lines of "You guys go on ahead; I'll deal with this one on my own," so that everyone else can continue the story while Neku avenges Hailey.
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alright thats fine. We;'re basically plowing aheasd without Drake. Oh well
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Also, Nick, because I control Drake's characters now, I'll have Nixx accept Aisha's proposal the next time the two characters are together. They're just a bit separate at the moment...
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thats fine.. allows me more people to interact with..
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Okay.
This is kinda a weird idea.
But I've always been bugged by how Nixx and Zyanya just randomly appeared in the story. There wasn't any real reason for them to just fall out of the clouds and land in New Peenemunde.
What if they were sleeper agents? Dragonstorm experiments whose minds were wiped, given an excuse backstory of endless fighting teenagers, and sent out to locate James and Co? Then they can activate the killer subroutine and they'll betray the team.
It sounds like Nick wants Nixx to survive so she can live with Aisha, but Zyanya could die in the assault, and perhaps that coupled with Aisha's kindness can convince Nixx to override her kill routine and re-join James' team. (I'm just trying to give us more named characters to fight, and make these two characters not completely superfluous).
What do you guys think? This subplot will probably only affect Shelton's team; it would give them something to do while James' team gets their medley of things done.
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well ..given how long the rp has gobne on, i dont think any characters are superflous. the team will imo, need both girls help, to win, besideswe really have already gone that route-secret trained by bad guy. remember the thoughchips put into rouxs head? she was supposed to kill the team before being beaten. Besides Zyanna can end up with landon, I've never really given him any personal development apart from his friendship with Aisha and the others, I've never had him with someone during the story.. Time to rectify that I say
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Okay, you make valid points. We'll continue as is.
Starfall, it probably won't be much time until Death and Neku meet again. I still think a "taking you with me" solution would be best, so that the rest of the team doesn't have to deal with Death after Neku's death (assuming you still want to kill Neku). Death is "second line of defense" Zenarchis speaks of.
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To be honest, Nixx and Zyanya seem a bit, well random and I'm not exactly sure what they were doing in Peenemunde.
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we really havent made a big deal of it until now, so i dont see what the problem is.. usually wghen issues are discussed we deal with it right away. perhaps we could ask the girls what they were doing when we ran into them.. to solve that issue
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I personally didnt want to sound rude to MrDrake at the time, as he seemed pretty excited about the characters and it was making him post regularly again.
For some reason, I got the initial impression they were reincarnated Native American gods who had been fighting each other since time immemorable. I have *no* idea how I came to this conclusion.
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That sounds like a plan
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So, it sounds like Serris and StarFall are in favor of Zyanya and Nixx being sleeper agents, Nick is not.
Nick, it wouldn't be quite the same as StarFall's plot twist, because Starfall's characters were willingly and knowingly preparing to betray the group. Nixx and Zyanya honestly believed they were valid teammates until the moment Trinity (for example) flicks the switch and suddenly their minds are taken over and they're assaulting the team. They would be Manchurian Agents (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManchurianAgent) as opposed to Moles (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMole), like Starfall's team.
In addition, I won't kill Zyanya, since it sounds like you want her to hook up with Landon. And right now, there isn't much more for Shelton's team to do. Once they reach the cargo bay and open it, the oil rig sinks, so they can't do that until the other plot threads are tied up.
James' team has to fight Death, James himself has to fight O'Neil, Kerzach has to fight Zenarchis. Aimee has to fight Trinity but I plan to have her do it alone. It'll provide a bit of distraction and let Shelton's bodyguards show off some ingenuity. Plus if Aisha is involved in stopping Nixx it'll provide some character interaction between the two.
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alright, thats well reasoned, lets do it.. so when is that happening?
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So sorry its been some time since I've posted, the internet has been kicked out due to a poweroutage, the apartment complex's routers are fried.. A friend is posting this for me. They should be fixed tomorrow, Ill post then if its fixed.
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thats fine lbt. post when you can.
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My internet is back!
I'll be more prolific now, thanks for being patient. Nipping over and posting now.
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good to have you back LBT...
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Can we create a list of the characters on the good guys who we plan to kill off in this finale? Gustave is the only one I currently know on the list, not counting whatever Starfall has planned for Neku, Hawkeye, Kagetora and Roux.
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well rouxis going to live with aishaand Nixx.and zyanya with landon i'm not going tokill off either of my characters.. but i recall sdtarfall planing to have neku sacrifice himself in destroying death.
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Can we create a list of the characters on the good guys who we plan to kill off in this finale? Gustave is the only one I currently know on the list, not counting whatever Starfall has planned for Neku, Hawkeye, Kagetora and Roux.
Also, if you think Aimee's storyline is getting a bit unusual, I remember speaking with Drake before he disappeared and I'm trying to recreate his original plans for Aimee's finale as well as I remember.
Also reposting my previous post in case others didn't see it before the page break.
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i had an idea that dragfonstorm implante d control chips in xyanyas and nixx's brains, and that trinity activated those control chips. removing them will stop the attacks..
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I was hoping Aisha could convince Nixx to overthrow her brainwashing purely through mental and emotional effort, it would be a testament to the connection they share. Then Nixx could just fight Zyanya and knock her out or something. Also I'm afraid mind chips would make it seem too similar to Starfall's character's betrayal. We could get Serris' input on whether it should be chips or brainwashing (also, Nixx is more important to you than me, so if you still want chips I'll put up no further protest).
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Chips would make more sense because I'd assume that Dragonstorm experiments are chipped for this reason.
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Cool, We'll go with that. That would provide consistency.
And I guess I'll leave killing people off to you, Serris.
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i deecided to have aisha subdue Nixx with a sedative, lando removes the thought chip freeing her from dragonstroms control. nixx fights zynaya sbeating her and allowing landon to remove her chip as well.
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Starfall, if you're reading this, please post one final time and have Neku kill off Death. You can control Death, make it all happen in one post if you prefer. We just really need that part of the story to conclude to continue things.
Serris & Nick, if your characters look for Shelton in the other room he'll be missing. That'll get explained soon.
Don't forget about the pistol filled with 12 shots of experiment-neutralizing bullets, Serris. I believe James has it right now. Perhaps O'Neil could have brought experimental backup?
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allright lBT. 'll have Landon Remove Zyanyas chip, and Roux and Aisha congratulate Nixx and beating Zyanya
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starfall its your post. remeember you're hawkeye. thosescientists need to have an eye on them..
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It's your turn Starfall. Were we still planning to have Neku destroy himself and Death in the process?
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your tur as well LBT, aisha was talking to Nixx and waiting for her reply..Landon is going to tell Zyanya soon that he likes her.
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So, at the moment there are three surviving groups on the oil rig: Shelton's, kerzachs and James'. I think kerzach and Shelton should meet up and their combined groups escape the oil rig simply by making it to the ship, but James needs a cooler way.
Potential options:
1. James and Zachary climb to the tallest point of the rig as it sinks (perhaps still fighting Oneil)
2. They escape the rig while it's underwater and swim to the surface
3. Something else (ideas?)
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I ,llike your idea lBt, and voter for the first one, jumping off the top as it sinks beneath them..
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What about Zenarchis?
But the first option is definitely epic!
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The plan from the getgo was that Kerzach was gonna kill Zenarchis.
This might be a cool time to kill Bailey, considering he's not very useful at the moment. Your character, though so your call. I'm just of the opinion that not enough good guys died in this final showdown.
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Aisha and Landon are on the ship along with nixx roux zyanya alfred and the rest. they shuld be departing..
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Aisha and Landon are on the ship along with nixx roux zyanya alfred and the rest. they shuld be departing..
They're holding out for the remaining members of the team. Shelton, Kerzach, and a bunch of others aren't on board yet, and they don't want to abandon their teammates.
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Serris, pretty much the entire role-play is waiting on your two fights (Kerzach/Zenarchis, O'Neill v. James). You're the only person with characters at either place.
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Sorry, I've been busy. I'll get to them later tonight.
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Sorry, I've been busy. I'll get to them later tonight.
Since they're pretty much going to be the last two things in the role-play, it's okay if they take a bit to post. They are like the final climax of the entire 6-year role-play :)
It's actually rather amazing that so many of us lasted this long without losing really anybody. (well, we lost a decent chunk of players, but at least five of us lasted for years). Darwin's Soldiers has gone such a long way, it really feels like an accomplishment finishing this RP up!
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yeah. i joined in part 2, and got through 3. not bad for a trilogy..
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Serris, pretty much the entire role-play is waiting on your two fights (Kerzach/Zenarchis, O'Neill v. James). You're the only person with characters at either place.
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yeah my characters are waiting for the rest of the group to appear so they can get the heck out of there..
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so once you finish the fight serris i'll have landon be operating on sharons hand..
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Also, don't relax just yet. There's still a few baddies to go... :lol :smile :smile
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When the boat turns around to pick up Shelton and Kerzach, dont forget to pick up whoever Starfall mentioned is floating out there too.
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I also have an interesting idea for an epilogue, once all's said and done, if anyone's curious.
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Lets hear it Star, what did you have in mind?
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Some years after the whole Dragonstorm incident died down, the governments involved saw it fit to release the information about it, which has been made into a movie trilogy, retelling the entire story. The heroes, some still in contact, some not, have been invited to the premier showing, where they'll finally be honored for what they did.
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I'm fine with StarFall's idea, so long as it takes place longer than 20 years after the events of the role-play. If not, it'll chronically ruin something I'm working on right now.
I think it would be awesome if each of us posted an epilogue for our characters, showing what happened to them after the end of the role-play. Not sure if they should be posted in the role-play proper or in their own thread though.
They could go in their own thread and Starfall's movie idea could
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good thinking, Star. I like the idea
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I'd say maybe a little of both. Do a little summary of it during the movie bit, and have a separate thread for more In-depth works.
Also, for at least 3 characters, I'll ask for approval for their endings here.
Roux-finally marrying Aisha
Cale-ends up with Aimee
Slash and Agito-With Shakila
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Since I've taken over MrDrake's characters, I'm fine with the Shakila/Slash/Agito and Aimee/Cale :)
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i'm fine with rux marrying aisha. the two of them will together with nixx, in a big estate in the rockies. not sure yet what nixx will do for a living..
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Sharon and Dr. Zanasiu will be married and may have adopted some children.
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Also, I noticed that Darwin's Soldiers is really not kid-friendly.
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i dont think it was ever kid friendly serris. i mean all of people die, things get blown up. hardly kid froendly..
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StarFall, since you introduced these new threats, can you keep posting for them so we can continue the roleplay? If you are hoping for your good characters to kill them, then please have them do so, because it doesn't look like other players' characters are capable of harming them (their efforts are repeatedly rendered ineffective).
Just want the story to keep moving.
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Starfall hasnt visited the GOF Since april 22nd, almost a week ago. Anyone know what happened to him?
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i'll shoot starfall a pm..
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Sorry! Between school getting close to finals, and my recent engagement, I've been a little spacey. I'm back now~!
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You're engaged? Congratulations!
What do you think about my proposal I sent you via PM?
EDIT: Haha, should actually read the role-play before I post.
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Hey, I'm just curious, did any of y'all name your characters or other things after people you know (Tuckerization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckerization))?
So far, it's confirmed that Noname derived his the last name of his character, Corporal Thomas Stern, from one of his old friend's surnames. See here (http://gangoffive.net/index.php?showtopic=6400&view=findpost&p=9137779).
LB&T, you mentioned your last name is Halsey, is the terrorist commander in the first RP named after you? His name is also Halsey.
The town of Cornova is named after Cornova, the author of PokÈ Wars. I'm pretty good friends with him and I pre-read/edit his works.
The two Dragonstorm cyberneticists, Dr. Phyllis Lefrak and Dr. Thomas Sotille are named after a former teacher and a former classmate, respectively. Did I mention I hate both of those people?
Dr. John Volkowitz's surname comes from the former engineer (now VP) of my first aid squad.
Stephen Di Georgi is a hybrid of two professors (first name and last name) from my college.
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no Aisha and dr Landon were complete creations. I did not base them on anyone I knew or know in real life
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I actually don't do this horribly often. I prefer to use names that are subtle references to other franchises, or even references within Darwin's Soldiers itself. Most are chronicled on the TV Tropes "Shout Out" page, except this one (http://darwinssoldiers.wikia.com/wiki/Amos_Day).
LB&T, you mentioned your last name is Halsey, is the terrorist commander in the first RP named after you? His name is also Halsey.
Yup, only because it's the longest name I know with a corresponding female anagram (Ashley, his twin sister in Ground One.)
The two Dragonstorm cyberneticists, Dr. Phyllis Lefrak and Dr. Thomas Sotille are named after a former teacher and a former classmate, respectively. Did I mention I hate both of those people?
Yep, which is why I made life easier for you and killed them both off with an I-beam.
Also, can people please keep posting? Let's get the story moving. StarFall, you control the antagonists in this fight so a lot of the action is riding on your shoulders.
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i'm waiting fir a bit more action before having my characters participate.
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Please post, guys.....
Starfall, if you're not going to post regularly, could you have more happen in each post, so the battle can approach an ending? Lots of characters aren't doing anything.
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I have a short post up. mostly waiting on starfall and Serris,.
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Starfall and Serris:
I've seen both of you come online pretty much every day. Can I implore you to keep posting; we are so close to being done!
Starfall, we need:
1. the enemy experiments to be killed (you can have your characters do it)
2. Cale to kill the tentacled thing (you can ignore what I said about wanting Aimee to help, unless you could post frequently enough that multiple characters working together could finish the job before the week is out)
3. Once Neku is back on board, possibly an explanation as to how he survived detonating himself
Then the next few steps are:
A. Kill these enemy experiments.
B. Get Kerzach and everybody with him back to the boat
C. the boat to sail away happily
D. Epilogue?
Every time I make one of these posts, I get usually a single post from both of you and it returns to the doldrums. Can we keep regular, consistent posts going? Let's see if we can finish the role-play before June.
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yeah I would like to wrap the rp up before summer. then we can move to other rps..
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How many more days should we give Starfall before we end the fight without him and move on to the ending?
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give him a week i'd say
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It's been a week.
Serris, are we going forward? I can have Aimee kill the tentacled thing in my next post. Your characters can kill the other ones, or the androids can or something. No matter how long Starfall takes, we can still use his ideas for the epilogue.
Perhaps after the battleship sails away into the distance we can have an in-RP epilogue set 25 years later (as I've previously mentioned, I have to insist it's over 20 years in the future). The characters are all at the opening premiere of the movie and we explain what they've all done since. We can worry about that once we've wrapped up the roleplay proper.
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Let's move forward.
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Okay...post please?
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Well, it looks like you guys have this whole thing under control. It's been a ball.
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we still need your epilogue starfall. wrap this up, so we can finish it.
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I'm sorry for jumping over you, Starfall, but you were gone for over a week. For the second time. I didnt hope to drum you out of the roleplay. Aimee just asked Neku a question, for example. We're getting close to the epilogue, perhaps we start discussing how that's going to go down?
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It's all good. You guys have this under control, looks like.
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But nobody can have Neku answer Aimee or play your characters but you.
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I think another page should be enough to wrap up everything..
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Question 1: Are we actually going to play out these (atm implied) sex scenes?
Question 2: How many more posts until we can begin the epilogue?
Question 3: Are we going with the "opening premiere of movie based on the main characters and everyone still alive is going to be there" epilogue?
Just want everyone's input on these questions.
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i'll say another couple post until the epilogue can begin..
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1) That's up to the player's discretion
2) I'm all for however many it takes
3) I'd like to play that epilogue out, yeah.
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So, what's the last thing that's going to happen before we cut to the epilogue? Because I didn't think we were going to get off the boat, but here we are. Where's the cutoff point?
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I guess everyone meeting up at a hotel.
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I left an alternate suggestion in the RP.
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I like the hotel idea. admitral tennes will be there to pick up my characters as well as a couple others.. its a big helicopter.
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Come on guys, lets keep this moving. Post please. We're quite close to the epilogue.
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I replied lbt. a post or two more from starfall and serris should be enough.
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I've having admiral tennes offer each the character compensation of up to 10 million, in eother cash or other things, such as buying a house or securing jobs for them. the anmounts vary and well are basically me picking a random number between 1 million and 10. the characters can ask for more money, let for example serris say tennes offers Alfred 6 million.he could ask for 7. or take it in terms of a clean slate with a new name and job.
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Ok to keep track of who got what i'm going to list all of our characters
Dr Landon - 10 million
Aisha 6 million
Nixx-3 million
Zyanya-3 million
shelton -4 million - split four ways
Neku -5 million
Hawkeye 5 million
Shakila- 6 million
Agito - 6 million
Slash -6 million
Cale- 3 million
Kagetora- 3 million
Roux - 4 milion
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Serris, your characters need to accept (or reject) monetary amounts and/or related benefits from Admiral Donald Tennes. After that we can start the epilogue.
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hes done so- i'll be adding the amounts to the list in a little bity
so we can begin the epilogue now I think..
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As much as I want to keep posting, I'm gonna hold off so Serris gets to post.
Well played, Starfall. Best ending ever.
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ironic, bittersweet poignant.. all three. nice work starfall. another post for me and i'll call it a night..
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Oh, and just wait until the medics arrive...
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Supplementary info:
First Sergeant Larry Masters - He was honorably discharged and served as a military consultant for films, TV shows and other entertainment. Unfortunately, his habit of smoking a pack a day for the past thirty years caught up with him. He was diagnosed with lung cancer. Removal of the cancerous part of his lung, radiation and chemotherapy helped. But the cancer returned five years later. Seeing as Snakes only have one lung, the doctors dared not do more surgery. Radiation and chemotherapy helped somewhat but it was for naught. He was sent home with his family to live his remaining time in peace. After spending months in near constant pain, he pleaded for an intentional overdose of sedatives. After the staff and family refuse his request, he seeks to commit suicide with his old service pistol. After finding out they removed his guns, he crawls into the freezer to end his life.
Specialist Chris McLean (Mongoose Cobalt soldier) - He was honorably discharged but blaming himself for being unable to save Cobalt Commander as well as the stress of keeping such a massive secret, he took to drinking. Ten years after the final defeat of Dragonstorm, after a few too many drinks at a bar, he stumbles onto a road and is hit by a car, killing him almost instantly.
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I take back my commendation of this ending.
I hate Disney Deaths.
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I take back my commendation of this ending.
I hate Disney Deaths.
Yeah. I was a bit surprised at the twist but I think I'll have to roll with it.
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yeah I was surprised at the movie theatre shooting idea given the real life examples, but it was touching , poignant and ironic. now we get as wayne's world put it ' the mega happy ending', rather contrived, but hey we're not winning any awards for writing for this rp.. so there's that..
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and a question serris. what has aldfred been doing in the 30 years since the story ended? I don't think you mentioned what he did for a living..
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and a question serris. what has aldfred been doing in the 30 years since the story ended? I don't think you mentioned what he did for a living..
He decided to try his hand as a circus strongman for a while. And then he decided to finally get his college degree.
He's gotten a bit fatter but he is stil immensely strong.
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hey guys can we stop with the ' assassin pops out of nowhere kills off all of the rpers characters' bit. starfall doing it, is enough in my mind.
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Since my addition to the ending was clearly just an irritant to the majority of the group, I'd like to request that we simply delete the epilogue from happening.
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Since my addition to the ending was clearly just an irritant to the majority of the group, I'd like to request that we simply delete the epilogue from happening.
Request accepted.
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i'll pare back to the point when the assasins started taking out starfalls characters and we go from there.. how about.. a surprise acknowledgement for the surviving members at the end of the film.. that would be a nice touch..
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No, I think it'd be better to just delete the whole thing, end it at the group parting ways. Leave it at that.
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no, the movie idea is fine, it allows they to reunite and see what they did, with their friends and family.. besides its only a couple pages we need to rewrite.
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No, we should keep the part before the killing. The movie is a nice touch.
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No, honestly the entire idea was a stupid one. Just end it with the team splitting up, please.
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No, honestly the entire idea was a stupid one. Just end it with the team splitting up, please.
That's the GM's call.
Serris, should we keep the movie before all the killings?
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starfall, its your post. the last comment I have Aisha say was that it was roux's turn to pick the movies at home. so she can pick whatever she wants to watch, while Aisha makes dinner for the three of them, while nixx works out for rugby..and we simply go from there..
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I'm out. You can have them do whatever.
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Let's just give Serris final post.
Hey Serris, how come Kerzach didn't appear in the movie theater?
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come on starfall. don't be like this . all we need is a couple pages so we can tie up all the loose ends and see our characters enjoy the fruit of their labors.. we're so close to finishing this..
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Then I'll let you take them.
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Every character is basically tied up nick. Aisha and her lovers are gonna go home after the movie, everyone else is watching the film. Even if Starfall doesn't post there's not much more needs to be said.
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good point.. hmm. then lets have serris have one big final post.. to tie everything up then..
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lets wrap this up...
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Heh, I just used an interrobang. I tried to use an interrobang during the second RP and got a box error. Looks like the forum has advanced along with the role-play.
It's amazing how long we stuck through this. It's gonna be weird having Darwin's Soldiers over...I was in high school when this all began, and now I'm a college graduate looking for work in San Francisco.
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wellyou can join other rps lbt. you're a good rper. real life comes first naturally, but if you have any ideas or characters you want to play, let me know,...
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And that's a wrap!
Thanks for the 5 years guys! What an epic story!
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I know, right. Heck, we may just have to start another one~
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Hey, LB&T, I'm reading your future fics. And I love them!
It's kinda depressing to see Shelton fall from great scientist to drunkard.
On a side note, I thought I made it canon that Dr. Zanasiu's (adopted!) son was a Peregrine Falcon named Erik Zanasiu-Varma and that he and Sharon had hyphenated their names?
Oh well, consider this a canon proclamation:
As biotech has advanced so much, James Zanasiu Jr. is in fact, the second (and biological) son of Sharon and Doctor Zanaisu.
However, he has some Human traits - namely he can actually sweat like a Human but he looks outwardly canine. In addition, he has a odd number of chromosomes so he is sterile. However, reproductive cloning allows so-called "Twin Specians" like him to reproduce.
Edit: Time travel makes my head spin. But still a pretty kickass addition.
I have to determine the canonicity but for now, I'll file it as alternate continuity.
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Don't make any proclamations until you've finished reading them: There's justification for Junior's absense in the epilogue, and I think I mention he was born before they got married, hense the lack of hyphenated name. (Both of these reasons are why I didn't use Erik; I only borrow characters if I'm going to leave them in the same state I borrowed them.)
Timeline:
2009: the events of Disruptive Selection occur.
2033: the events of Chasing Seconds occur.
2039: the Disruptive Selection epilogue occurs. Remember I said I needed it to be at least 30 years later because of something I was working on? ;)
Sorry for ignoring your statement about species not being able to reproduce together, but it really cut out a good source of dramatic tension and storytelling possibilities. A major theme of CS is that all three main characters are trying to live up to the legacies of their larger-then-life parents.
Everyone else, Serris is talking about the miniseries I published on the Darwins Soldiers blog (http://darwinssoldiers.com/2013/10/23/chasing-seconds-is-out/) to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the 1st roleplay. Now I'm working on a video game! Once I get non-phone internet in my new apartment I'll start posting about it on the blog, its looking really good so far.