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[WillowLuman]

Go ahead. However, given that a such a massive conspiracy probably can't have gone unnoticed for 100 years if it operated like that, given some of the people involved in this world, I had an idea that might resolve both points:

In order to destabilize both sides, he's selling arms to dissident factions within each. A good explanation for hanging out with mercs, too.

[kj1225]

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.

I believe that there are only two people who aren't prejudiced against a certain race.

[Comrade P.]

Go ahead. However, given that a such a massive conspiracy probably can't have gone unnoticed for 100 years if it operated like that, given some of the people involved in this world, I had an idea that might resolve both points:

In order to destabilize both sides, he's selling arms to dissident factions within each. A good explanation for hanging out with mercs, too.

Yes, that is nice. Though Lio is not a retailer himself, he has connections needed to establish a supply channel to any fraction.

Or maybe I should not made all that massive conspiracy mumbo-jumbo in the first place.

Maybe I should go with something more simplistic like this:

Spoiler: Turo Pakudzi (click to show/hide)

Turo grew up in Republic City. His parents weren't the richest, but could afford somewhat decent schooling for him. He discovered that he was a bender rather late - when he was 9. However, it became clear that he is rather talented bender - his first bending exprerience was metalbending the chair his classmate tried to hit him with. At age of fourteen, due to his poor results in school, he was kicked out. His parents suggested him to start training his bending to serve in Police, and so he did. And he has shown some talent in that. He was noticed by his teacher, former convict. He taught him some moves to use against police equipment and gave him some extra lessons in art of weilding sword and dagger.
When time came, and Turo had to decide whether he will serve in police or not, Turo refused to serve - he disliked the boundaries of law, he wanted to act freely according to his will. Fortunately, he made a great mercenary with skills like that - while training he developed rather unique combat style which uses sword moves extended with metalbending. He decided to hit the road and see the world, thus departed from Republic City and headed east.


Aged 22, average built, 6'2'' tall with a long scar along jawbone on his face left from his rough training days. Brings metal projectiles in a bandolier across his chestб a sword behind by his side and a dagger hidden somewhere in his clothes.
Dressed in a simple white shirt, brown vest and trousers, wears leather boots with metal soles. A warm cloak/bedsheet is rolled and tied to his backpack.
Generally he is driven by wanderlust towards new discoveries.

Positive traits: proficient metalbender, swordsman; can effectively resist UR police's metal whips
Negative traits: undereducated - writes with a lot of mistakes, but reads fine

Possessions: backpack, woolen cloak (tied to backpack), some food and water (2 days), a rope (10 m), small iron ingot (1 pound), dagger (hidden), bandolier with 15 small iron projectiles, sword with sheath.

[WillowLuman]

Well, I'll leave it up to you which character you want to choose. The first might make a good person to organize these disparate mercs into a single party, while the second, being a metalbender would be very useful due to the number of other metalbenders you're likely to run into.

As for the rolling system, I've got 2 ideas: either a modified d20 system (enabling diverse numerical bonuses from traits, and different levels of skill mastery) or an "exploded" RTD system (as suggested by Divide_By_Zero) where rolling a 1 or a 6 results in an additional roll to determine the severity of the epic fail/overshoot.

[kj1225]

d20 system will probably be best.

This isn't the type of game that would work well with an RTD system.

[WillowLuman]

Yeah, D20 would make it easier to distinguish between combatants of different skill levels, too, which is important in such a martial-arts heavy setting.

[kj1225]

Yeah, that as well.

Also, input on Turo.
I think that idea is much better, especially it's a style we don't have yet.

[WillowLuman]

Just one small thing about Turo: is metalbending even possible as a first bending experience? I guess he might do it on accident somehow (might have happened in one of the comics I think?) then not know how to replicate it again until much later (though that raises the question of why no one before Toph did so). Normally people have to learn seismic sensing to see the little bits of Earth, then they bend the metal.

[kj1225]

Just one small thing about Turo: is metalbending even possible as a first bending experience? I guess he might do it on accident somehow (might have happened in one of the comics I think?) then not know how to replicate it again until much later (though that raises the question of why no one before Toph did so). Normally people have to learn seismic sensing to see the little bits of Earth, then they bend the metal.

Well, to be fair, I think metal banding might have just been a case of no one trying it since it requires a really deep attunment with the earth. So maybe Turo is just that close to the earth that he just kind of... felt how to do it?

[WillowLuman]

Seems a bit unlikely if he didn't discover his bending until he was 9

[Comrade P.]

I can explain such a backstory at once.

You see, what I learned from avatarverse, that really strong emotional experiences result in things that seemed unreal so far and can be hardly repeated later¹. Another reason: amount of metal around a bender (especially one grown in the Republic City) significantly increased since Toph Beifong. So, I thought that it would be kind of natural that in urban areas earthbenders can start with metalbending, while in rural areas the follow the classic way of development.
OR, he might just do it once and than go all the hard way of earthbending to repeat it.
About Toph Beifong - I think that she just did it when she needed it most: desperate, in iron cage. Circumstances were rather unique, especially being surronded with metal.

Spoiler: Example 1 (click to show/hide)

In the Last Stand of season four, Korra bended that spirit death ray, remember? I scaled that down to regular bending level.

[WillowLuman]

I think it's hardly fair to apply something the Avatar does to other people, but if you want to keep it, the "once, accidentally" then working hard to learn how to do it again sounds fine. Metalbenders still seem a bit rare, statistically, but since the world population has ballooned, there are a lot more of them around.

[Comrade P.]

I think it's hardly fair to apply something the Avatar does to other people, but if you want to keep it, the "once, accidentally" then working hard to learn how to do it again sounds fine. Metalbenders still seem a bit rare, statistically, but since the world population has ballooned, there are a lot more of them around.

I'll go with that. Once, accidentally, then working hard to repeat it. Sounds rather plausible to me as well.

[kj1225]

So... any advancements?

[WillowLuman]

Sure. I've had some cool ideas for some technological things, and thought up a character sheet format:

Name: The character's name. Mention if they have a real name vs preferred name/alias/nickname here
Age: An important detail
Appearance: Goes without saying. Make sure to mention eye color. Unless they're always hidden somehow for some reason.
Background: Where they come from, how they got their present situation, what their behavior/personality is like. All that good stuff.
Skills/Abilities/Traits: What can they do? What traits do they have? Disadvantages? These will be resolved, after some judgement, into a number of traits that give + (or -) modifiers to rolls in relevant situations
Combat Style/ MO: How do they fight? If they're not the fighting type, what do they do?
Posessions: What stuff do they have?

A thought occurs: using a d20 system doesn't really allow for overshoots, at least not without reworking. Do we want overshoots?