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Total Members Voted: 6

Voting closed: August 31, 2016, 04:23:26 pm

[~Neri]

I have honestly no idea.

[piratejoe]

I was arguing because 1. i didn't want me not responding to seem like i gave up or as a cheep excuse.
and 2. i need the practice.

As for Flandre, i did some research and, yeah... though insanity and Psychopathy are two very different things, she managed to have a interview with Aya after all. Still feel bad for her...

[vkiNm]

Fighting in melee is fun. I hope y'all find this exciting at least, heading home from work now and will post more then.

[~Neri]

OOCly it's fun. Icly Tal has a massive headache and is in Damage Control Mode~

[~Neri]

So!

With the introduction of multiple other races into the mix. And the current status of the current statting system being confusing as hell. We've been talking about overhauling it.

For the most part. The skill system will remain unchanged barring minor tweaks and possibly additions based on request. (Lets be real here, we have a number of spots missing skills and some skills aren't really realistic in point cost. IE driving.)

The statting system however. Will change should it be decided to do such. We're thinking 5xp per new base stat point rather then the.. Convoluted clusterfuck that the statting system currently is. (I honestly don't know how the statting system works right now.) Racial modifiers will remain in effect as they already are. As it is. Racial modifiers are functionally the 'average' for a given race. That will remain true.

Notable differences are 2 base Health points per every 5xp and 2 base Vigor points for every 5xp. Seeing how Vigor is functionally a mix between Mana and Stamina and as 5 xp for a single health point wouldn't really be balanced. (I mean. Lets be real here. 5xp is a Very Hard skill and an Easy Skill. 5 for 1 hp really isn't a balanced thing.)

Intelligence will not only be a stat for primarily medical skills, but will also be used as a modifier for any Very Hard skill roll, various occultism skills (on top of will. Will's good for After the ritual circle is drawn. Settup's gonna involve thinking.) And improvised attempts at doing things. Sure it won't be a substitute for real skill in a subject. But if you're smart enough, you juuuust might be able to dig a bullet out of someone's leg safely. Magi Steve would be a good example of this in action.

However before the overhaul can even occur. We need a vote. Do ya guys want the system to be altered for ease of use (Both behind the scenes and for character creation)? Or are you comfy with it as it is? Tis up to you guys.

[Insanegame27]

I think that above a certain character age, characters gain certain skills for free (For example, driving) as social norms would dictate (ie. it's normal for everyone on Earth above 20 to be able to drive a vehicle). However, if IC reasons are given during character creation, you should be able to forgo these skills (Example being Zach never learned how to drive, but would instead have gained a little animal handling, a bit of crowd-pleasing, a tiny bit of acrobatics from watching the acrobats, a few levels in knife-throwing, a bit of streetsmart skills instead due to his upbringing in the Circus as they began to delve into the criminal). I propose 'Upbringing skills' which would draw from a separate pool of points which reflect your character's upbringing.
Such a pool needn't be large, and the choices would have to be backed up by IC reasons.


As an example, I'll use Zach again.
At a young age (still to be concreted), he ran away from home and joined the circus, where he was trained as a knife-thrower and taught to please the crowd. During his years at the circus, he bonded with several animals and was briefly best friends with the animal handler, who he learned basic animal care from. As the Circus devolved into a criminal syndicate, Zach made a conscious decision to run away from the circus and take the contents of the circus vault. After learning enough from videos on the internet, he cracked the electronic lock on the safe and made off with all 10000 credits. After surviving on the streets... [yada yada yada]


Throwing (knives): 3 levels
Rhetoric: 1 level
Animal handling: 1 level (rusty)
Computer Systems: 1 level
Street Smarts: 1 level
[yada yada yada]

[Insanegame27]

Zach's pretty pissed off at the Queen of that hive ICly at the moment.


Kevak, I showed my friends at school Tal's summaries of the mission and they laughed at both.

"Agent Frazz is the young dragon laying in the medbay. Agent Vigil is the dark skinned human laying in the medbay. Magi Zachary is the legless human laying in the medbay who has gone through four pairs of legs in a span of two days and therefore lost his leg privlages. Agent Zander is the human male who may or may not be in the barracks. The remainder of the Agents are scattered around doing things. I'll let them introduce themselves. Magi Eros is the human female napping in a ward circle. The other Magi are mostly awake and scattered around as well. Other varied personal include the Carmines, who drive the primary vehicle. Varied techies who handle maintanance, and Doctor Hu and assorted medics, who are currently tending to varied injured agents. Just ask around really."

and

"Vigil. You are Literally. A. Dead. Man. Walking. Your Everything is broken. Your armor is totaled. FUBAR. Completely irrepairable. Literally the only reason you're still standing is localized anesthetics from the Multiple surgeries to fix your Completely Shattered Ribcage numbing the pain of said ribs that You Just Rebroke. You were restrained SO YOU WOULDN'T MOVE AND BREAK EVERYTHING AGAIN. At this rate we are literally going to need to replace two thirds of your skeleton. BECAUSE YOU KEEP BREAKING IT. And now you want to Walk five miles and get in Another brawl? What Is Wrong With You? Let the nice doctors do their job and stop you from bleeding out internally. Please. Cause you bloody shredded your innards with this little stunt. I'm honestly surprised you haven't passed out yet. You are functionally Mission Killed for the remainder of the mission. Same goes for Zach and Frazz and your 'Pet.' Frazz's everything is broken, shredded and broken wings. Massive tearing. A missing Tail that we'll be reattaching later. Severe bloodloss. Your 'Pet' has its legs shattered and is missing its tail. Zach is missing his legs. Again. He's gone through four legs now. Fucking wasteful."

They laughed more when they found out I was Zach. Followed immediately by 'Wait - how do you go through four legs in two days?'

[LordPorkins]

Dude, you should tell them to read our last mission, with me turning into a dragon and all. I think that will give them a good idea as too what's the norm here in foxhound

Also:

What does is the significance of Xeon ?

[vkiNm]

Also:

What does is the significance of Xeon ?

For this game as is? None.

Xeon is the supposed name for the setting and species for the original world of mine that covers several genre of the Role-Playing game archetype during it's history, from the Classic Party-based Adventure in High-Fantasy world where you go hunt magical creatures in the wild, raid dungeons and claim land for civilization in the Classical Era Xeon,

To the more sophisticated Cloak-and-daggers Games of Thrones-esque political power-play as you try to gain the upper hand and make your moves to make your family stronger in a world where mythical creatures are tamed and the wilds have been conquered in the Holy Xeon Empire Era,

To surviving the Cyberpunk Dystopia, being Runners, getting job from Fixers and uncovering things covered by Megacorps and the Government in a world where Mythical creatures are just myths and Magic are known to never have existed.

To escaping the planet, running cargos, looking for the right people for the right job as you try and find meanings in it all going planets-to-planets helping or ignoring problems along the way in a Firefly-esque space adventure.


All of this, in the span of 40,000 years. No, the numbers of years were not intended.

Yes, there is a God Emperor of Xeonkind. Though he prefers the title 'Emperor' more.

[~Neri]

Just wait until the mission debriefing is posted IG. Show em that when it's done.

[LordPorkins]

((I've decided to keep a representation of Frazzes AudioJournal. This is more because their are so many times that I think: “This is such a small character detail, but I can't work this into the plot. “ Also, I like trying to see the story from Frazzes Side.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Log #1
So we've just come through the Gate again. It appears we've ended up in an actual habitable-looking place for once. Usually it's just a barren, dry shitshow far as the eye can see. Tals cranky. Zach isn't blasting music, which is disturbing.

Log #2
We've found bugs. Really, really, really fucking big bugs. Right now they are minding their own business, but naturally Tal wants to nuke’me just to be safe. Oh, and we found a village. With HUMANS! They all are like medieval peasants. Which basically makes my current body 100x more awesome. We are sending Zach and Vigil in to scout it out.

Log #3
Goddamit Zach! You had one job!

Log #4
Well, I'm a god now. The villagers apparently have decided to actually recognize my badassery (it's nice to get some appreciation for once.) I suppose some well timed  DovahZul might have helped some. Anyway, Tal is talking about sacrificing the villagers for some sort of voodoo. I gotta go make sure he's stopped.

Log #5

…

I hope that girl does all the things she said she would.

Log #6

Tal firebombed the bug nest. I wanted to attempt contact, but of course anything not involving mass-murder is out of the question. We also woke a giant, evil hive mind. Great job idiot.

Log #7
Elves! Freakin Elves! You know what this means? There might be dwarves! And Kobolds! And Orks! Of course, Tal is only interested in extracting information about magic and shit. Me and Vigil are gearing up to head to the elves were last seen. Fortunately, I've managed to fit a few barrels of booze in my in my allocated on-transport personal space. Hopefully the elves appreciate whiskey. If not, then I might press the firebomb button myself. If I had thumbs, that is.

Log #8
Ok, Elves are major douchebags. I'm trying to be polite and courteous and I brought gifts and the priest still acts like a freakin dickwaffle. I planned to head to where the dwarves live, but I realized I needed to grab more booze. Dwarves DEFINITELY will appreciate booze. Maybe I could even introduce them to my war-juice. Or maybe even stims…. Hmmm

Oh hey, it's Vigil! HI VIGIL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!

Oh, a Griffin,

FUCKING KILL!


Log #9
Owwwww…..
Vigil cut off my tail! My fucking tail! He said that he didn't mean too, but he could at least have been more careful. Anyway, I bitchslapped him like 40 feet, so I call it even. Tal is mad at me (of course), despite the fact that the entire reason this fiasco happened was Vigil tried to tame a random ass mythical creature. Granted, I would try to do that too, but when things went to shit I'd at least try to limit the damage to myself.


Log #10
Heading back Terraside. The new elf slave Tals abducted is a total dork. When we get back Terraside, and I get all healed up, I'm gonna grab Jon, Zach, The Wiznerds and Ichabod (Said Elf Geek) and have a rousing D&D game. After that, im going to Comic Con. Once I'm out of the compound it'll be easy. The hard part will be distracting Tal long enough to arrange for my escape. Unfortunately, he has yet to get any incapacitating injuries. Anyway, once I get to Comic Con, I plan to broker deals with a few of my favorite Manga authors. I plan to have a manga centered around Foxhound and our escapades. Of course, we'd only publish the declassified/ethicalized stuff, so the first 3 missions pretty much. We'd update later after we've sufficiently edited out all the classified parts of missions. And then, when Tal inevitably shows up all huffy that I did something more interesting than being stuck in that stupid compound, he won't be able to yell at me because I've just made Akras one of the most beloved companies on the planet! Now we'd be able to get away with so much more without trying to cover it up! People will be lining up out the door to help! Think of how many people would be willing to help a company that is going to introduce earth to the concept of fucking magic! I mean, we are producing this new technology at an inexplicable rate, and I'm sure multiple corporations know we have a gate. It would be infinitely more preferable if we were to reveal this and take advantage of the ensuing press tsunami then if we keep it secret until someone puts two and two together and inevitably leaks it. We could either be the envy of every company, large, loved, and loaded with cash, or we could have a really big freaking scandal.

As to how to go about this, I would like to get higher-up permission, but I don't want to have to go through Tal. For four reasons: 1. Tal thinks anything fun/non-militaristic is bad, and thus would immediately shut down the idea, 2. If by some miracle Tal did agree to pitch the idea, his cynical, annoyingly better-than-thou way of talking would no doubt turn my amazing idea into a way to appeal to the Council to put me on further restrictions, 3, I wanna show Tal that I am fully capable of accomplishing things without him telling me exactly what to do, and 4. Tal would probably not let me go to Comic Con. And if he did it probably be with an annoyingly large amount of security. Because seriously, no enemy Corps are going to be there (no reason too), PETA wouldn't do anything, because they'd have a whole bunch of animals to coo over, and even if they did they'd lose tons of public support.

As for the Manga, all I need is a interesting title. I mean, we've got all the basics

Dude in monstrous form, has interesting personality. Though no angst issues...
Goofy Sith with dark & Edgy Past
Sarcastic Robot-guy who's constantly patching everyone up
Giant Gun Girl  who intimidates all nearby beings with a y-chromosone
Angsty Giant Sword Guy. shipped with GGG.
Implied Druggie  (I know not all your herbs are for scientific purposes Zander)
That one leader who takes his role waaaaaayy to seriously
Someone with deluded fantasies of being a prominent historical figure(s)
the Girly-Girl who loves shopping and other girly-girl things
Member of another species who has joined team after encounter
The guy who decides this path isn't for him.
All-knowing Evil Entity who's true motives may not be so evil
Lesser Entity helping good-guys with dark and mysterious past
Backstabbing-Girlfriend everyone saw coming.
Endless supply of Redshirts (Yay Interns!)
Mysterious Overseer (Mr. BaldOfficialPerson)
Really Pissed Little Girl
Giant Mosnters to Kill
Individual segments (Each Mission) with overarching Plots!

So we need a title…. Ooh! “Foxhound Days!” No…
“Daily life with Foxhound Squad!” No….
“Attack on Gate!” No…
“ Castle: Foxhound Squad?” No, that's a shit name.
“The Legend of Frazz!” No….
((This continues for the next 3 Pages.))

[vkiNm]

I haven't enjoyed reading what a player wrote so much since Tal's last debriefing report. The plans, the hilarity on Manga ideas! xD Hah!

and, you know that the Higher Ups aren't going to allow Frazz a feet out the door, right? going to Comic Con is definitely out of the question.

And even if you do manage to go there, you'll have to live knowing that Akras sent a massive killsquad to murder anything and anyone that isn't Akras in the Comic Con 'No Russian.' style.

They could get away with it, too. Set up some Jamming equipments in disguised vans to block off signals and radios, close the roads and streets by claiming that PETA Terrorism is going on.

Head in, kill everyone, plant some evidences that suggests PETA are behind this, dress up a few corpses as PETA Members and put some old, shitty guns in their dead hands, preferably ones that's been firing..

Head back out as the Heroes that went in and kill all the PETA Terrorists.

"Why didn't you save the Con-Goers?"
"They were already dead by the time we got here. The best we could do is eradicate the offending PETA terrorists and offer grieving families financial support and free processing of the dead."

Boom. Now Akras's the Heroes, Frazz's existences remained unknown, PETA gets blamed and loses more Public support and Akras gets some nice free Biomass to work with.

[zomara0292]

We should do it. Frazz, your plan will work. I support you. OOC of course.

[Romans]

Jesus man that's ridiculous, megacorps are scary man.

[LordPorkins]

Seriously though, we are eventually going to have a leak if we try to keep it a secret. Also, going to Comic-Con would be really cool. It would provide a Tooooon of really good character development, also I kinda wanna see our characters in a non-work environment.