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Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Waitlistings
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:24:06 pm »

So you want another story, little one? Can't sleep 'till I've told it to you?
Well, alright. This one's real, little one, so listen closely. It was a long time ago; when men traveled the stars, when the word Honor still meant something.
This is the Ballad of the Stars.




The IC Thread

It's the year 3013, and Earth is but a distant memory, lost to the tainted scourge known in common parlance as "oni." In a universe far away, intrepid crews travel from one planet to the next in search of honor and fortune, under (or out of, as the case sometimes may be) the watchful eyes of the Imperial Starfleet. Following a period of instability, the code of Bushido has made a stark resurgence among even the lowest ranks of the citizenry. Soldiers are trained in Iaijutsu, Kenjutsu, the awkwardly named Gunkata. Through a neural interface two pilots, each necessarily diametrically opposed to one another, ensure their ship's safety. Shamans, priests, and the odd lone practitioner truck with spirits to enact works of great arcane might. Politicians and scoundrels truck with one another to enact works of credit.

You are a member of a small crew, on a small ship as it travels the stars. Smugglers, mercenaries, soldiers, or adventurers. While the purpose of your ship will be decided by the Captain, your personal goals are your own.




Actions will be decided using a heavily modified version of Legends of the Five Rings 4th Edition Rules. You are not expected to know or have access to these rules. The basic function is as follows: Your stats and skills, plus gear, add up to form a pool of d10s. You keep the highest of these rolls, based on your attribute score. 10s explode (So a roll of 10 is rerolled to a 3, and thus counts as 13). I'll give your character sheets to you, and rolls will be shown in posts.

The Intrepid Crew
The Captain: Akito Naples, as portrayed by Weirdsound
A Pilot: Greg Dark, as portrayed by Scapheap
A Pilot: Homura Munashii, as portrayed by Hailfire
The Engineer: Aster Red, as portrayed by Deep Waters
The Medic: Leera Choktia, as portrayed by Gotdamnmiracle
The Scientist: Joe "Spaceman" Bridger, as portrayed by Remuthra
A Guard: Kara Fastbursts, as portrayed by Kahn1234
A Guard: Jerrod Hu, as portrayed by Kadzar
The Cook: Trevor, as portrayed by Filiusenox
The  Communications Officer: Erick, as portrayed by Firelordsky

Spoiler: The Ship (click to show/hide)

Additional roles are possible, but the ship can currently only house a crew of 10.
Characters will not be accepted on a first come first serve basis. If someone was accepted for a role you wanted, you're free to try for a different one.

Spoiler: The Waitlist (click to show/hide)



The Ship
The ship acts as both a setting and, when piloted or otherwise utilized for rolls, a piece of equipment.
The ship has four stats, each of which can be mapped, roughly, to the first four "rings" that a regular human character has.

Tonnage - (Earth) The ship's bulk. How much it can hold, and how many hits it can take.
Tactical - (Fire) The ship's weaponry reaction time and basic combat ability.
Sensors - (Air) The ship's sensors and on board computing power.
Propulsion - (Water) The ship's speed and maneuverability.

These stats are affected by the ship's hardware, engine, and so on. While the captain, or anyone else, can easily examine the ship's logs to get a basic idea of the ship's load-out, hard numbers can only be seen by someone with the relevant skills. Upgrades can be purchased, and, given that the ship starts out as a hunk of scrap, probably should be.
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2013, 03:27:26 pm »

Spoiler: On Pilots (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: On Engineers (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: On Magic (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: On Skirmishes (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: On Duels (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: On Naval Combat (click to show/hide)
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2013, 03:33:10 pm »

and done.
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« Last Edit: February 05, 2013, 02:36:50 am by scapheap »
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2013, 04:47:15 pm »

Name: Joe Spaceman
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Role: Head Scientist
Class: Specialist
Starsign: Scorpio
Humor: Melancholic
Description: He is around 6 feet tall, with pale skin and an excessive amount of cybernetics. He has cybernetic eyes with microscopic zoom, a set of cybernetic hands with an emphasis on increased precision, and augmented skin emphasizing resistance to things such as temperature, pH, and impact, while also containing a weak active camoflage. He has hazel eyes and dark brown hair. He is clean shaven. His hair is not cut in a particular style, and seldom combed, so it generally falls in a rough natural style. He is of average build.
Background: He is somewhat reserved, with a calm demeanor. He is quite absentminded. He is an accomplished scientist in both physics and chemistry, with several doctorates. He has a desire to find ancient information, and works tirelessly to gain the knowledge required to create biomechanical life. He often seems aloof, and isn't much for diplomacy or social skills. He used to be a lab researcher on Maralon V, after graduating from tactical space school in the orbit of the planet..He has a dry sense of humor, to the point where no one often gets his jokes. He is very serious and direct. He knows how to play the organ. His actual name is Joe Bridger, but his tendancy to drift off in the middle of speaking led to the nickname Spaceman. He enjoys experimenting, complex technology, mental challenges, and being in orbit. His favorite band is Kansas.(Need anything else?)
 Personal Effects: State of the art laptop, labcoat, magnum with ammunition, set of vials, container of fluorine.
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2013, 05:07:08 pm »

Name: Leera Choktia
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Role: Head Medic
Class: Shaman
Starsign: Sagitarius
Humor: Sanguine
Description: She is a short but skinny thing, looked to have developed in space save for the dark tan and calloused hands. A planet sider, she has a muscular build, or sinewy may be more accurate, and black brown hair, depending on the light really.
Background: A planetsider turned shipside when the cash ran sour, Leera doesn't fit with the general crowd of the vessel because of her vivacious attitude and tendency to put her foot in her mouth. She became a mage at a young age due to her family and joining the medical field was frowned upon, but accepted. Her excuse at the time was, there just isn't any money in hexes and ritual, but really she just wanted new surroundings and to see what else is out there. Her medical skills are good but not great, and she will often fill in the gaps in he medicinal knowledge with that of the occult. With one foot in the spirit world in her private time she finds it difficult to work under her own supervision, often exploring the aether of her mind, to correct this she surrounds herself by people to stay productive.
Personal Effects: Tourniquet, clotting gauze, athame, pain killers, red chalk.
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2013, 05:31:01 pm »

(Dammit. Ninja'd for scientist spot so changed my character sheet to Captain. If the GM would rather make this character Scientist, I would have no objections)

Name: Akito Naples
Age: 44
Gender:
Role: Captain
Class: Mage
Starsign: Virgo
Humor: Choleric
Description: A middle aged fellow of mixed decent. He is short and lean, with balding brown hair and darkly tanned skin. A fairly advanced scanner is implanted under the skin on his left hand, which glows blue in the dark as a consequence. The scanner allows Akito to almost instantly the makeup and physical properties of a substance with a single touch.

Background: Akito was the nephew of a rather dishonorable and unethical Shogun on an insignificant backwater planet, and as such was raised with few rules and many resources. As a young boy Akito entertained himself with books of horror stories, unethical biology and medicine studies, and forbidden magic.

Young Akito began experimenting on dead animals at age eight, and before he turned nine was given full access to all graveyards under his uncles control. By the age of 12 Akito felt that he had learned all he could from corpses alone and graduated to performing his experiments on prisoners. For his fifteenth birthday Akito's uncle had proper laboratories built so that the boy could engage in the biological, arcane, and cybernetic studies as he pleased.

Akito soon became more feared and hated on his home planet than even his uncle. After watching several protests and several failed rebellions around the time of his 19th birthday, Akito came to the conclusion that his uncle's reign was uncle's reign wouldn't last forever. The young man harbored no illusions as to what would happen should his uncle fall: The mob would kill him.

Deciding that he would rather not face death until he had mastered it, Akito found employment on the next questionable ship of adventurers that landed on his planet, and never looked back. After many years of wandering the universe and offering his services as a scientist to ship captains in exchange for a small salary and the privacy needed to continue his ambitious and morbid research, Akito finally saved up enough money to buy a ship of his own, The Black Sea. The Black Sea is a mercenary ship that takes on all sorts of jobs, but Akito prefers to take tasks and visit places relating to ancient myths, horrible rumors, or forbidden magic in hopes of finding things to further his own experiments.

Personal Effects:
1: Personal Computer/Comunicator
2: Samuri armor with the Naples Family Crest of a fox towering over two mountains
3: Personal Star Chart, modified to keep track of days and star alignments of cosmic significance in all of the known systems
4: Mini-Fridge full of various preserved limbs and organs
5: Various powders and salts for foul rituals
« Last Edit: February 04, 2013, 09:59:36 pm by Weirdsound »
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2013, 09:07:43 pm »

Name: Trevor
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Role: Chef
Class: Soldier
Starsign:Aries
Humor: Phlegmatic
Description: A man of medium height with an athletic build, with long, shaggy blond hair. A slight blond-goatee thingy. Think Freeman's stache, except blond.
Background: A rich, well to do son of a powerful medical corporation's CEO and wife, Trevor went to school to become a doctor. The young child often visited the kitchens, having a close friendship with the 'help'. After finding out what a bore going to school to be a doctor was, he dropped out, sending a note to his parents asking them to instead pay for his schooling in the cuisine of his world.
Suffice to say, they disowned him. Left without money to pay rent, buy the food he loved cooking, and lacking any experience in the field of actual work, he joined up with a ship-crew. That was when he was twenty-five.
He's spent the last five years hopping from ship to ship. During this time, he picked up quite a few skills and recipes. Some of which DON'T make you barf.

Personal Effects:
An electric chainsaw
A well-made, large katana
A cheap, mass-produced pistol
A tablet-thingy with charger, containing a large number of recipes from various worlds, a journal, a few games and some porn. Surge protected, usually kept on his person at all times
A large duffle bag containing clothes
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2013, 09:42:10 pm »

@Scapheap:
It looks alright so far, but could you please add a bit more to your background? Even the most depressed person in the world has goals of some kind, and this is going to be a fairly character driven game. On top of that, both pilots need to be complete and total opposites of one another (something which I'll explain in a moment, once I've got a chance to rewrite the explanation so it isn't in GM Note shorthand), and so fleshing out your character a little more may help other prospective pilots write their own characters.

@Remuthra:
I lol'd at the name. +1 for that. A little more information on the background might benefit you, too, though!

@Gotdamnmiracle:
Feel free to add those personal effects together into a single "Medkit" item and take a few other things, if you'd like!
Looks good, though. I'll give you a chance to add some more effects (or not) before locking you in with a character sheet.

@Weirdsound:
You're definitely accepted. I'll send you some information very soon.

@Filex:
You're in. I'll send you some info soonish.
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« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2013, 10:51:23 pm »

Added some extra background.
(nananananana spaceman!)
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« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2013, 11:15:33 pm »

Name: Aster Red.
Age: 22.
Gender: Female.
Role: 1st- Head Engineer, 2nd- Pilot A/B, 3rd- Regular engineer if possible, 4th- None otherwise.
Class: Special.
Starsign: Aquarius.
Humor: Phlegmatic.

Spoiler: Description (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Background (click to show/hide)

Personal Effects:
Multitool.
Revolver.
Toolbox.
Spaceship parts.
White marble.
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2013, 02:37:33 am »

Ok edited it. How about now?
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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2013, 07:57:20 am »

@Filex and Weirdsound:
I've sent you your character sheets. Let me know if anything seems out of place. (Some of your skills and equipment came from the class/sign you chose, and so may seem as such.) I'll send you a little more information explaining certain things (like spells) later on.

@Scapheap, Remuthra, Gotdamnmiracles, Deep Waters:
You're all accepted and good to go. I'll be sending out character sheets as I finish statting up the hard numbers for you.

Looks like we just need one more pilot, and we're good to go.
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« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2013, 08:02:42 am »

Name:Kara Fastbursts
Age:23
Gender:Female
Role:Head Guard
Class:heavy Weapons Specialist
Starsign:Libra
Humor:Anything goes.
Description:A buxom beauty, with shoulder length blonde hair and a well toned but still curvaceous body.
Background:Born in the colonies, Kara had always wanted to see the stars. Growing up in a scientific family who specialized in agriculture and water technology, she shocked and dismayed her parents when she enlisted for military service aboard one of the Imperial Cruisers. She worked hard and earned a reputation as a good tactician. She earned many promotions before she was honourably discharged after a serious leg wound. She grew further apart from her family after this, traveling the Human territories looking for something to pass the time. She hasn't heard from her family since.
Now she wants to get back into the action.
Brave, intrepid and cool, she is hard working and reliable. She can be relied upon to try her best in most situations and to keep her head cool under fire.

Personal Effects:Automatic Mass Driver Machine-Rifle + Ammo. Large rucksack containing personal effects and clothes.
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« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2013, 12:54:58 pm »

@thatkid:Should I have no Advantages?
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Re: Ballad of the Stars (OOC) - Now Accepting Applicants
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2013, 01:38:49 pm »

I wish I had time to play this; I had a lot of fun with your previous Legends of the Five Rings inspired game. I'll be posting to watch.
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