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Seedy Tavern (the one from TLA, still around)

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Omashu

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Total Members Voted: 5

[WillowLuman]

Was actually thinking of starting the game in Omashu (since levels of security an oppression aren't uniform across the EE) but it's not set in stone.

[Comrade P.]

I missed the start of the thing, but I'm interested.

So, Hugo...
Are guns a thing? I mean, handheld firearms?

[LuckyKobold]

He said 1920s Tech and didn't say anything when I asked for a baseball bat and combat knife,so probably.

[WillowLuman]

The premise we'll be working with is (for the most part) in the OP, though is still up for discussion if you want.

Cool as it would be to have metalbenders doing stuff with bullets, no firearms. I am open to artillery, though. Using a "gun crew" of 6 or so earthbenders, EE has artillery capability: the crew uses their combined power to throw shells consisting of an earthen plug (so non-metalbenders can operate it), the aerodynamic metal casing, and an explosive payload. They have some difficulty aiming, though. UR might have similar artillery, and they and the FN also have "Funnel guns" that can be aimed somewhat better, which firebending crews throw their combinded bending into to produce a single, powerful, long-range blast. Might also be open to actual, non-bending non-spirit cannons as well.

He said 1920s Tech and didn't say anything when I asked for a baseball bat and combat knife,so probably.

Where was the baseball bat?

[LuckyKobold]

It was in my preferred starting inventory, If it's a hassle I'll just use a cudgel.

[WillowLuman]

Cudgel makes more sense, since they don't seem to have baseball. By 1920's I mean roughly equivalent, not literally. In terms of equivalence, there are several things they don't have (and some they do that the 20's didn't). Bear in mind this is nearly 30 years after the show's time, too, so there's also some innovation, but no firearms.

[Comrade P.]

Well, there might be no need in guns if a metalbender can accelerate bullets without gunpowder, right? Though according to series, bullets won't make the speed they do with gunpowder...

Another question - what's a total year gap between events of Legend of Aang and current events? Somewhat a century, according to my evaluation.

EDIT: How accessible is spirit veins energy? Is it as common as electricity by now? Can it be converted?

EDIT2: Can firebenders that are able to use lightning guide that energy through conductors and thus be able to use railguns?

[LuckyKobold]

What about rock shrapnel?

[Zangi]

Kuvira has lots of non-benders in her army. They tend to be in power-armor/mechs, though. Aside from vehicles, there are fighting skills and gadgets. Being someone who has the ninja-flippy skills to chi-block should go a long way.

Don't forget the ninjasnon-benders from Season 1.  They can dodge bending attacks just as effectively as benders can, but don't have the ability to block/defelct attacks with elements as benders can.
From what we can see, non-benders do have a range of options in a mercenary band...

Ninja archetype, like season 1 non-benders and Ty Lee from Aang's era.
Mecha suit pilots with varying-interchangeable/built-in weapon attachments.  May or may not have different archetypes/builds for the suits, including the winged flying type.  (>.>  Small Zaku)
Soldier archetype would probably need to be creative, if they ain't agile enough to dodge most attack, they need gear for all out defensesurviving against most/all the bending types, but still be able to have a weapon to kick the carp out of benders and non-benders.

@'Bullets': Icicle shards, pieces of sharp metal and rock shrapnel should probably be all classified the same...  The power being somewhere between a bolt from a crossbow and an arrow from a short bow.

...  Watching these Posts  /nerd

[WillowLuman]

Yeah, pretty much a century since TLA. There are a lot of spirit vines, but given the repercussions of harvesting them, and security reasons of preventing proliferation, they're almost exclusively used for the WMD stockpiles. Some military things, like the high-altitude airships bearing the spirit cannons, run on vine energy, though. Large-scale harvesting in the early days of the cold war led to many people being abducted or killed by spirits, and many of those taken were never recovered.

Metalbenders can match or equal the short-range and mid-range function of firearms, hurling rapid-fire sharp metal strips that can also wrap around/grab things. However, they can't match the range of a bullet. Normal earthbenders and waterbenders can manage similar. Waterbenders in conjunction can replicate a machine-gun nest / AA battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTwLEijX6P0

[Comrade P.]

Check this out.

Spoiler: Lio Xinjang (click to show/hide)

Lio is a descendant of a fire nation. A century ago, his family supported Fire Lord Ozai in his war, and even tried resisting  Zuko's government after his father was defeated, but failed and then fled across the ocean in order to escape imprisonment. Authority figures of this large family (grandfather back then, then Lio's father, the oldest son) never abandoned thoughts of fire nation's dominance, though they chose a more moderate way - they decided that rather than slowing down the fall of Fire Nation they should obstruct every other nation's ascension after war. With gold they had they set up several banks and factories, and secretly financed numerous anti-governmental movements in Earth Kingdom and Republic city, and later in United Republic and Earth Empire.

Family is currently selling weapons to both sides of war. Family's interests are not represented on political stage - they prefer to act from shadow. Several members of family, like Lio, are acting in field, maintaining war that drains power from both Earth Empire and United Republic.
Lio is familiar with most of existing firebending and fighting techniques. He received a good yet biased education (homeschool) and wanders around, looking for opportunities to serve his family's ideals and multiply its riches, trying to avoid both glory and notoriety.

He is 23, tough-built, yet average-looking young man who was last seen dressed in a long brown coat, carrying a leather bag with supplies.

Positive traits: trained firebender, lightning-bender, trained with various melee weapons; rich, has important connections; adept diplomatist and liar.
Negative traits: mildly racist thus uncommunicative.

[kj1225]

Another racist.
Yay.

[PrivateNomad]

THE EARTHSHAKER DOESNT LIKE RACISTS

[WillowLuman]

Check this out.

Spoiler: Lio Xinjang (click to show/hide)

Lio is a descendant of a fire nation. A century ago, his family supported Fire Lord Ozai in his war, and even tried resisting  Zuko's government after his father was defeated, but failed and then fled across the ocean in order to escape imprisonment. Authority figures of this large family (grandfather back then, then Lio's father, the oldest son) never abandoned thoughts of fire nation's dominance, though they chose a more moderate way - they decided that rather than slowing down the fall of Fire Nation they should obstruct every other nation's ascension after war. With gold they had they set up several banks and factories, and secretly financed numerous anti-governmental movements in Earth Kingdom and Republic city, and later in United Republic and Earth Empire.

Family is currently selling weapons to both sides of war. Family's interests are not represented on political stage - they prefer to act from shadow. Several members of family, like Lio, are acting in field, maintaining war that drains power from both Earth Empire and United Republic.
Lio is familiar with most of existing firebending and fighting techniques. He received a good yet biased education (homeschool) and wanders around, looking for opportunities to serve his family's ideals and multiply its riches, trying to avoid both glory and notoriety.

He is 23, tough-built, yet average-looking young man who was last seen dressed in a long brown coat, carrying a leather bag with supplies.

Positive traits: trained firebender, lightning-bender, trained with various melee weapons; rich, has important connections; adept diplomatist and liar.
Negative traits: mildly racist thus uncommunicative.

Just a couple things:

1) FN and UR are allied, and destabilization of UR would threaten FN national security. The current Firelord, while against the use of spirit weapons, nevertheless benefits from the UR's having them. Additionally, since it's a cold war, selling weapons to both sides wouldn't do much to destabilize them. EE's resources and ultranationalism means they wouldn't import foreign arms, though UR probably uses contractors for their manufacturing needs. Their border is a demilitarized zone backed up with both conventional (bending) arms and WMDs.

2) What would such a well-to-do man be doing in whatever seedy merc-ridden place this game's starting in?

[Comrade P.]

1) You see, the vision of the family is pretty twisted and far from rational.
They are able to sell to both sides because formally they are on different sides under different names - they are scattered thorough the lands and it is only the family bounds that unite them. There are way more members on the side of UR - because of, as said, ultranationalism of EE. Still there are a few who work for Kuvira and secretly keep family informed.
EDIT: They started operating earlier than most of modern manufacturers, so they happen to own some of critical production lines.

2) He was sent to infiltrate into mercenaries' ranks and monitor the situation "from below" in case one of the sides tries to do some important black ops with help of said mercenaries.

Another racist.
Yay.

I saw that character who hated Fire nation and rich folks. Was he the one implied?
P.S. Dis gon b gud

EDIT: Mind if I change character's name? I suddenly figured it sounds more like EE rather than FN.