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[USEC_OFFICER]

Spoiler: Vilen Minovsky (click to show/hide)

Name: Vilen Minovsky
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Born in: Glorious [Whatever faction we're going with] Space Colony
Hair colour: Light Brown
Eye colour: Light Blue
Skin colour: Pale

Background: Vilen is the third son of a pair of poor Russian immigrants who left everything on Earth to start a new life in space. While never a smart kid he never let his lack of smarts bring him down and was always confident in what abilities he had. As he grew older he took many odd jobs around the colony to help earn money for his family, which toughened up his body, taught him how to move in Zero Gs and gave him the opportunity to learn a number of skills such as brawling and drinking. Sports also honed his reflexes and given his family's financial situation it was a no brainer for him to join the military since they would pay for his higher education.

Health/Hitpoints (Will be filled out by me)
Head:
Torso:
Limbs:

Additional effects:

Stats
Attractiveness: 4
Body type: 7
Cool: 7
Empathy: 4
Intelligence: 3
Luck: 6
Move Allowance: 5
Reflexes: 9
Technical Ability: 2
Education: 3

Skills
Skill Name / LVL / XP / TOTAL
Resist Torture/Drugs (COOL) / 2 / 0 / 9
Leadership (COOL) / 2 / 0 / 9

Awareness/Notice (INT) / 1 / 0 / 4

Dodge & Escape (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12
Hand to Hand (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12
Mecha Piloting (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12
Mecha Melee (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12
Mecha Gunnery (REF) / 2 / 0 / 11
Athletics (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12
Zero G (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12
Driving (REF) / 3 / 0 / 12

Equipment
-Regular Military Uniform
-Service Pistol
-First Aid Kit
-Extra Pack of Rations
-Picture of Family Back Home

Weapons
Service pistol / +1 WA / 15/50m / 2D6 / 15RND

How does it look? Is my application fine? Love me some giant robots so I hope that I can get in.

[tryrar]

Well, if I can't get a remote hack drone, various EW equipment would suffice. I have ideas for a long-loiter EW drone(Called Zephyr), and a wide-area ECM module(called Nighthawk).

[Cynreth]

General reply time!

Clair/scaphead is in, sheet looks all fine, are you really sure you want to go with Mecha Piloting at 0 though? I would recommend at least 1 or 2 points there so you can actually move that thing. Since none of you was interested in Missile for now I will leave that skill and will design 3 basic mechs that are used by whatever alliance you choose in the end, one will be a general brawler with a melee weapon and a bit of ranged stuff, one will be a more long range loadout and I will have a balanced one with a bit of melee and machine guns/autocannon's or something.

@tyrar/Kallan
Your sheet looks fine so far, just need the personal equipment from you. And as for further background information...I'll see what I can do, maybe a basic storyline for my 2nd additional post that I can come up with. The mechs you guys will get at the beginning will be standard army equipment, so neither drones nor EW equipment will be present, but you will be able to modify them/build your own later.

@Stirk/Springfield
Min maxing won't be neccesary at all, the stats should represent the character you intend to play. Now, what kind of is a little strange for me is the fact that you have intelligence 8 but education 2, aswell as Reflexes 7 but Move Allowance 2....also I got trouble with Leadership ten. There's just no way I can see a guy fresh from academy with an education of 2 being the tactical genius of the universe. If you don't mind I would ask you to rellocate that stuff just a little bit.

Service rifle is all fine, still got another item to choose I believe.

Also- yes there are drones that control other mechs, why do you still sit in them? Rule of the cool. You know, this is the kind of settings where a 17 year old supersoldier teenager can steal a mech from a high security military facility and get away with it. Not that you will be able to do that in the beginning but maybe once your chars advance , things don't make sense here. Your enemies will always find you over and over again as the story advances, why? Drama baby! Of course I won't do it that extreme but except this not to be logical and realistic in some perspectives^^


@USEC/Vilen
Can't see anything wrong with your app. Cont yourself in! Reflexes 9 might be a little unusual but looking at your other stats and background it makes sense.




Also with this I officially close initial applications. Everyone who posts their sheet now will be a reserve, If players die they are allowed to make a new character, if they don't want or simply drop out because of no time or w/e I will introduce characters from the reserves. I may allow another player or two in, but I want to see how long combat and stuff takes with four people first.

[scapheap]

Clair/scaphead is in, sheet looks all fine, are you really sure you want to go with Mecha Piloting at 0 though? I would recommend at least 1 or 2 points there so you can actually move that thing. Since none of you was interested in Missile for now I will leave that skill and will design 3 basic mechs that are used by whatever alliance you choose in the end, one will be a general brawler with a melee weapon and a bit of ranged stuff, one will be a more long range loadout and I will have a balanced one with a bit of melee and machine guns/autocannon's or something.

*Scapheap rolls a one for spot*
I'll just go fix that.
Edit:cut dance in half to pilot.

[Stirk]

Min maxing won't be neccesary at all, the stats should represent the character you intend to play. Now, what kind of is a little strange for me is the fact that you have intelligence 8 but education 2, aswell as Reflexes 7 but Move Allowance 2....also I got trouble with Leadership ten. There's just no way I can see a guy fresh from academy with an education of 2 being the tactical genius of the universe. If you don't mind I would ask you to rellocate that stuff just a little bit.

I kind of thought that Leadership 10 didn't really include tactics and stuff (Your so cool/empathetic that you know military tactics?). Ill rearrange it, and post it here. I hope I don't accidentally min/max even more...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mike Springfield (Prefers Springfield)
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Born in: Colony X
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Dark brown
Skin color: Pale

Background: Springfield was the son of two normal colonist in a mildly prosperous colony. Of course, it was soon attacked by an unknown military, killing his parents and much of the town. While his memory of the events are fuzzy, he somehow managed to kill one of the invaders himself, or at least stand up to them. A retired soldier and neighbor saw his bravery, and helped him escape. The soldier then used his contacts and influence to help Springfield get into the military academy.

Health/Hitpoints (Will be filled out by me)
Head:
Torso:
Limbs:

Additional effects:

Stats
Attractiveness: 9
Body type: 2
Cool: 9
Empathy: 3
Intelligence: 8
Luck: 5
Move Allowance: 2
Reflexes: 3
Technical Ability: 2
Education: 8

Skills
(probably a totally ridiculous loadout since I didnt spread my skillpoints much, but I wanted to get this up as an example)
Skill Name / LVL / XP / TOTAL
16+22=40
Wardrobe & Style (ATT) / 4 / 0 /10

Persuasion & Fast Talk [H] (COOL) / 5 / 0 / 14

Leadership(COOL) / 10 / 0 / 19

Rifle (REF) / 5 / 0 / 13

Handgun (REF) / 5 / 0 / 13

Mecha Piloting [H]/5/0/8



Equipment
-Regular military uniform
-Service pistol
-Shell case memento
-Service Rifle
-Personal Computer

Weapons
Service pistol / +1 WA / 15/50m / 2D6 / 15RND

There! Now he is a clumsy, well-educated tactical genius. I messed around with the skills a bit, but I think a few of the numbers are still off. Is that better, or did I make it worse? (Half asleep here....)

[Cynreth]

@scapehead

Looks fine now, I will add the sheet to the second post. I was guessing that you just didn't see it :3

@Stirk

Leadership 10 in Empathy means you are such a nice person that people want to follow you, Leadership 10 in cool means you are a tactical genius and that's why they follow you. I would really not recommend having 3 high stats and the rest low, although you have high INT and ED you use no skills with those groups which is a waste. I would not recommend getting Leadership up to more than 6 or 7 for the start, because it really just takes points away from skills that you will need (Mecha Gunnery for example). You can play the character as a handsome tactical genius that is good at tactics and leading but rather bad at combat, but I don't know if that's what you want. Don't get me wrong, you can play this char, I just don't see him surviving that long and being useless in quite a lot of situations because you have a limited choice of skills and "good" stats.



I will get to work on the combat rules and standard mechs ASAP, if chars are sorted by then we can start tomorrow.



NOTE: Still need suggestions for a name! Also, shall we keep this as OOC thread and do the IC stuff somewhere else?

[tryrar]

Well, equipment done. Also, this thread should be ooc, it seems to work better that way.

As for names, well I suck at naming things so...

[scapheap]

Keitai Denjū Telefang

How about *look up the Gundam Franchise for naming rules* 'mobile suit chispa'? (Spanish for spark)

[kj1225]

So are there any roles that need filling and is there any kind of flavor of character people want to see? Because this interests me a good bit.

[Cynreth]

So are there any roles that need filling and is there any kind of flavor of character people want to see? Because this interests me a good bit.

We have noone with medical skills so far, other than that I think we have pretty much every anime stereotype, so submit what you want. I might even allow a fifth character and just take out the one NPC that I planned to use in the beginning.

[USEC_OFFICER]

@USEC/Vilen
Can't see anything wrong with your app. Cont yourself in! Reflexes 9 might be a little unusual but looking at your other stats and background it makes sense.

Well he is supposed to be a hot-blooded elite pilot, so... I suppose it fits. Of course chances are he'll die saving everybody heroically, but you know. Details.

How about *look up the Gundam Franchise for naming rules* 'mobile suit chispa'? (Spanish for spark)

That sounds pretty good for a name, actually. I'd be happy with that.

[kj1225]

Spoiler: Alright, one medic coming up! Most likely by the end of today. I have school and stuffs in a little while. (click to show/hide)

Name:  Kyle Johnson
Age: 18
Gender:  Male
Born in:   Auburndale Florida
Hair colour:  Black
Eye colour:  Brown
Skin colour:  Farmer's Tan. He lives in Florida

Background:  Kyle lived in the boonies. No way around it really. that didn't stop his family from being close to technology even if Kyle would later go on to become a nurse. Kyle's father was an electrician and a carpenter while his mother worked for a major programming company. Kyle built his own PC when he was ten. Eventually though Kyle had to grow up. And grow up he did, he took college courses in high school which allowed him to finish his training as a nurse practitioner when he was 18.

Health/Hitpoints (Will be filled out by me)
Head:
Torso:
Limbs:

Additional effects:

Stats
Attractiveness:  6
Body type:  7
Cool:  2
Empathy:  6
Intelligence:  6
Luck:  5
Move Allowance:  3
Reflexes:  3
Technical Ability:  7
Education:  5

Skills
(List them in any order you want, although I fould favor one by skills or alphabetical)
Not them in this fashion: Skill name is the name, LvL the value of the skill, XP for keeping track of level ups for that skill and TOTAL is your skill + the stat it belongs to. So if you have Mecha Piloting on 3 and Reflexes on 8 then your TOTAL is 11
Skill Name / LVL / XP / TOTALS
Field medic/6/0/13
Medical/6/0/13
Mechpilot/4/0/3
Language/5/0/11 (Languages are the most spokens ones other than english and if there is still space Latin)
Seduction/5/0/11
H perception/3/0/9
Interview/4/0/10


Equipment
-Regular military uniform
-Service pistol
- First aid kit
- Gun cleaning kit
- Six shot revolver

Weapons
(If your personal item is a weapon then I will come up with stats, stats will be explained in the second post.)
Service pistol / +1 WA / 15/50m / 2D6 / 15RND

[Cynreth]

2 of the 3 base designs are done, I'm pretty happy with how they turned out so far since there is quite a bit of space for upgrades and modularization. (Want a bigger cannon for your Soldier? Alright, remove the one in the torso, get a bigger arm and you're good to go) I will offer upgrade after each mission based on what you might want, and you can always send me PNs if you have a request. (Like, can I get more speed for my thrusters and I will see what I can do). Also with the Mekton Zeta Plus rules weapon modifications are possible (want less rounds for your autocannon but more accuracy? Can be done and so on)

The last model, the support one will get a big cannon or beam laser....unsure so far, and maybe a rocket pod if there's space.

For the name, Mobile Suit Gundam Spark (Chispa) 2302 A.D. or something might be an idea.


@USEC, sounds all fine.


EDIT: Reconfiguring the gunner so it can fire both beam guns with 1 action, and will remove the cannon in the torso.

[Stirk]

Leadership 10 in Empathy means you are such a nice person that people want to follow you, Leadership 10 in cool means you are a tactical genius and that's why they follow you. I would really not recommend having 3 high stats and the rest low, although you have high INT and ED you use no skills with those groups which is a waste. I would not recommend getting Leadership up to more than 6 or 7 for the start, because it really just takes points away from skills that you will need (Mecha Gunnery for example). You can play the character as a handsome tactical genius that is good at tactics and leading but rather bad at combat, but I don't know if that's what you want. Don't get me wrong, you can play this char, I just don't see him surviving that long and being useless in quite a lot of situations because you have a limited choice of skills and "good" stats.

That was kind-of-sort-of the goal. Minmaxing for something useful is just amoral! I am perfectly fine with my character dying quickly and painfully the second we enter combat. More interesting that way. I might just hide behind everyone else with a long-range weapon, but thought that you don't give the guy with no aim a sniper role.

So yeah, combat-poor hansom tactile genius who only survives long enough to inspire the rest of the group to fight and have cheap emotional scenes when he is shot down. Perfect.

...I am still tired.

[tryrar]

The last model, the support one will get a big cannon or beam laser....unsure so far, and maybe a rocket pod if there's space.

Yay, a mech that starts with a WMG! So claiming that one when its done