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[Stirk]

Could we get any information about the scenario, such as what nation or organization we are working for? Its a bit tricky to create a good backstory without such information.

Sure, I had a little bit of it in the intro. You are in the 44th Armored Division (Maybe different unit, but this seems about the right size) of the Hermes Trismegistus Armed Forces. Hermes Trismegistus is the name of your country, taking up much of Western Europe with colonies in Asia and the Americas. Your enemy is the nation of Ostanes, taking up much of Eastern Europe with several colonies in the middle east and Afrika. The nations boarder each other, and have been at war for several years already. You will be deploying in the Northern front, an icy and cold area along the boarder. The military is generally a mix of modern and historical influences, for example its legal and fairly common for rich and well off people to purchase a commission while most tactics revolve around the use of Combined Arms. Any more details you where looking for?

[Supernerd]

Couldn't think of a good character biography, so I'm leaving that part blank.

Spoiler: Application (click to show/hide)

Name: Lieutenant Maxine Revero
Inventory: Officer uniform, M1911 Pistol, AM Sniper Rifle

General Skills:
Guns: 50
Melee: 5
Dodge: 15
Strength: 15
Agility: 15

Squad:
Size: 50
Experience: 30
Weaponry - AM Sniper Rifle*: 10
*An expensive state of the art heavy duty infantry weapon able to fire bullets with extreme force. Specialized training is required to use it without risking severe injury to yourself. The ammunition used by this weapon has an armor piercing point able to break through even the toughest metal alloys and one second after impact a potent alchemical brew will trigger an explosion.
Leadership: 50
Alreona - Issac Revero*: 30
*Formerly a soldier of the highest caliber, Issac Revero has lost one of his arms protecting Maxine from an assassin which seriously impacts his ability on the battlefield.
Additional - Experimental Weapons Testing*: 30
*Maxine Revero has a deal with a large corporation specializing in military technology, and her squad will receive a number of random prototype weapons and devices to help test in actual combat situations in each of their missions.

[Stirk]

Couldn't think of a good character biography, so I'm leaving that part blank.

Spoiler: Application (click to show/hide)

Name: Lieutenant Maxine Revero
Inventory: Officer uniform, M1911 Pistol, AM Sniper Rifle

General Skills:
Guns: 50
Melee: 5
Dodge: 15
Strength: 15
Agility: 15

Squad:
Size: 50
Experience: 30
Weaponry - AM Sniper Rifle*: 10
*An expensive state of the art heavy duty infantry weapon able to fire bullets with extreme force. Specialized training is required to use it without risking severe injury to yourself. The ammunition used by this weapon has an armor piercing point able to break through even the toughest metal alloys and one second after impact a potent alchemical brew will trigger an explosion.
Weaponry - Light Tank*: 10
*A mass-produced war machine able to easily shrug off conventional weaponry. Armed with an explosive cannon and a machine gun, it is useful in most combat situations though no match for a competent Alchemech. These tanks can also provide cover for infantry.
Leadership: 50
Alreona - Issac Revero*: 20
*Formerly a soldier of the highest caliber, Issac Revero has lost one of his arms protecting Maxine from an assassin which seriously impacts his ability on the battlefield.
Additional - Experimental Weapons Testing*: 30
*Maxine Revero has a deal with a large corporation specializing in military technology, and her squad will receive a number of random prototype weapons and devices to help test in actual combat situations in each of their missions.

Sorry, Tanks won't work for Infantry weapons  .

[Supernerd]

Alright then. I put the points somewhere else.

[Stirk]

Alright then. I put the points somewhere else.

Alright, looks good.

[Stirk]

This thing again? Huh. Well, PTW.

I'ma be a mech pilot again

Hm... Would a sort of "multi-class" be permissible, with one getting abilities/stats from two classes but at half-strength?

I think I'll be an Alchemist, regardless of the answer, but it might be an interesting concept.

Are you two still planning on kicking up a sheet?

[Nakéen]

Interest caught !

How many players are needed ? I will just watch on the sidelines if the quota is filled.

[Stirk]

Interest caught !

How many players are needed ? I will just watch on the sidelines if the quota is filled.

However many sign up, there isn't a currently a limit.

[Nakéen]

Great ! The four classes are so interesting, it is hard to choose. Sheet baking begin !

[ATHATH]

I'll "kick up a sheet" in a day or two. Stay tuned.

[Elvish Miner]

I'm super interested in this. Having trouble deciding which one I want though. I guess I'll make a sheet for an Alchemech and see where I want to go from there.


Edit: Bah, who needs sleep, here we go.
[spoiler]Name: Adam
Inventory:
- Mauser PDW
- Alchemech Pilot Armor (Referred to as Eve after its AI)

Pilot Stats:
- Alchemechal Aiming: 20
- Alchemechal Maneuvering: 30
- Alchemechal Synchronization: 30
- Alchemechal Mechanics: 10
- Combat Skill: 10

Alchemech Skills:

Size: 40
Armor: 30
Weaponry:
- Anti-Mech Beam Sword 30 - A special blade able to melt through most metals with ease.
- Anti-Infantry MMM 20 - Eve detects all hostile infantry units and guides dozens of tiny personalized missiles at them. Their volume makes up for their low kill potential.
Homunculus: 40 - A highly advanced AI named Eve.
Maneuvering: 30 - Reinforced joints around the legs grant the Alchemech above average speed, and allow it to jump higher.
Special: AI override 10 - Eve is able to make adjustments to the mech without assistance from Adam, and occasionally assist in the control of more advanced actions (such as the use of MMM).

[Nakéen]

Here is my unfinished sheet, I have an idea in mind but doesn't know if it would be accepted.

About the Alreona, can an Alreona grow like a normal being ? I would like my character's Alreona to have started at an infant stage, and having been raised over the years by him.

About the squad, is it possible to form a squad of "failed" Alreona or Purified ?

Anyway feel free to correct or veto anything !

Spoiler: Officer Mercurius "Marc" Aurelius (click to show/hide)

Name: Mercurius "Marc" Aurelius
Age: 52
Inventory:
-Officer uniform
-M1911 Pistol
-M16 assault rifle

General Skills:
Guns: 30
Melee: 10
Dodge: 20
Strength: 10
Agility: 30

Squad: The Derelicts

Size: 5
Experience: 25
Weaponry:
-Alchemical Heavy Arbalest "Caeruleus Ignis" (Cerulean Flame) 20 [Anti-Mech]
Leadership: 50
Alreona: Sophia Lapis - 80
An Alreona with the appearance of a young woman in her mid-twenties. At the request of Mercurius, she was made to start at the toddler stage and age like a normal human being.
They have a strong bond of father-daughter.

Additional:
-Failed Alreona/Purified Corps - 20
"The Derelicts only comprise of Alreona and Purified deemed as failed products. They are stronger than regular humans but weaker than "true" Alchemical Beings. Their true strength lies in the bonds between them and their leader : as all of them were given a new chance by Mercurius, they feel deeply indebted to him.
Mercurius knows all of them personally, and he sees them as his children."

Backstory:
Mercurius has been serving the Hermes Trismegistus Army since he was 16. War-orphaned like many, he was adopted and raised by an officer. Once he could join the army, he enlisted as a foot soldier and eventually ramped in the army ranks until he became an officer himself.

Far before being given his Alreona, Mercurius discovered he was sterile. This affliction always tormented him, as he always wished to have an offspring and raise it as best as his adoptive father did. Then as an officer he received his Alreona award notice and chose to have a female Alreona. One day, he was urgently called by the Alchemists responsible of his Alreona as a problem was detected early in the development of his Alreona : she would grow as a normal human and come out of the vat as a toddler. No other functions were impaired.

The standard procedure for an early detected error would have been to dispose of the alchemical being and create another one, to save resources. But an old flame rekindled in the heart of Marc, and he saw there a sign, the miracle he awaited all his life. He made the very specific request to keep the Alreona as it, and decided from now on that he would raise her as his own daughter. When his daughter, Sophia Lapis was born, Marc himself was reborn. True to his word he raised her like a normal human, like his daughter. Teaching her everything he knew, and learning with her things he didn't knew, he realized the joy of being a father. For this reason, the bond between them is stronger than the innate Alreona-Progenitor link, as they see each other as father and daughter.

Furthermore this choice changed his vision over failed alchemical beings, he came to believe everyone deserved a chance. His will strengthened by his past as an orphan and the change Sophia wrought in his life, he took the decision to form a squad comprised only of failed alchemical beings. He named this squad the Derelicts, and together, they form a family.

[Stirk]

I'm super interested in this. Having trouble deciding which one I want though. I guess I'll make a sheet for an Alchemech and see where I want to go from there.


Edit: Bah, who needs sleep, here we go.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Adam
Inventory:
- Mauser PDW
- Alchemech Pilot Armor (Referred to as Eve after its AI)

Pilot Stats:
- Alchemechal Aiming: 20
- Alchemechal Maneuvering: 30
- Alchemechal Synchronization: 30
- Alchemechal Mechanics: 10
- Combat Skill: 10

Alchemech Skills:

Size: 40
Armor: 30
Weaponry:
- Anti-Mech Beam Sword 30 - A special blade able to melt through most metals with ease.
- Anti-Infantry MMM 20 - Eve detects all hostile infantry units and guides dozens of tiny personalized missiles at them. Their volume makes up for their low kill potential.
Homunculus: 50 - A highly advanced AI named Eve.
Maneuvering: 30 - Reinforced joints around the legs grant the Alchemech above average speed, and allow it to jump higher.
Special: AI override - Eve is able to make adjustments to the mech without assistance from Adam, and occasionally assist in the control of more advanced actions (such as the use of MMM).[let me know if I need to throw some points into this]

Its fine if you wanna wait . You do indeed need to add points into Special if you want it to have any mechanical effect, fluffing your actions as Eve doing them wouldn't cost anything. Speaking of the MMM, don't expect it to be very powerful at that point cost, its missile's maneuverability won't be spectacularly impressive (such as it won't be able to snake around cover and such to hit its targets), it will likely have a decently long reload time between bursts, and not a lot of killing power. Though the AI would be a significant help on the aiming parts.

Also, get in the freaking robot Adam .

Here is my unfinished sheet, I have an idea in mind but doesn't know if it would be accepted.

About the Alreona, can an Alreona grow like a normal being ? I would like my character's Alreona to have started at an infant stage, and having been raised over the years by him.

About the squad, is it possible to form a squad of "failed" Alreona or Purified ?

Anyway feel free to correct or veto anything !

Spoiler: Officer Mercurius "Marc" Aurelius (click to show/hide)

Name: Mercurius "Marc" Aurelius
Age: 52
Inventory:
-Officer uniform
-M1911 Pistol
-M16 assault rifle

General Skills:
Guns: 30
Melee: 10
Dodge: 20
Strength: 10
Agility: 30

Squad: The Derelicts

Size: 5
Experience: 25
Weaponry:
-Alchemical Heavy Arbalest "Caeruleus Ignis" (Cerulean Flame) 20 [Anti-Mech]
Leadership: 50
Alreona: Sophia Lapis - 80
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Additional:
-Failed Alreona/Purified Corps - 20
"The Derelicts only comprise Alreona and Purified deemed as failed products. They are stronger than regular humans but weaker than "true" Alchemical Beings. Their true strength lies in the bonds between them and their leader : as all of them were given a new chance by Mercurius, they feel deeply indebted to him.
Mercurius knows all of them personally, and he sees them as his children."

Backstory:
Mercurius has been serving the Hermes Trismegistus Army since he was 16. War-orphaned like many, he was adopted and raised by an officer. Once he could join the army, he enlisted as a foot soldier and eventually ramped in the army ranks until he became an officer himself.

Far before being given his Alreona, Mercurius discovered he was sterile. This affliction always tormented him, as he always wished to have an offspring and raise it as best as his adoptive father did. Salvation came the day he received the Alreona award notice. He knew his Alreona would be special, and he swore he would take care of his Alreona like his flesh and blood.

Then Sophia Lapis was born, his "daughter". And with that Mercurius himself was reborn. True to his word, he raised her like a normal human, like his daughter. Teaching her everything he knew, and learning with her things he didn't knew. Though they are bonded through the Alreona mechanism, they are well aware that they possess another bond like no other, the bond of a father and daughter.

His past as an orphan and the change Sophia wrought in his life motivated his decision to form a squad comprised only of failed alchemical beings. He named his squad the Derelicts, and together, they form a family.

Alchemy is sometimes more art than science. Alreona generally come out of the flask fully grown- after all, they wouldn't be a very useful resource if it took ~18 years to fully utilize them. Once that is done they usually don't typically "age" as humans do, though they feel the effects of time. For example an Alreaona with the appearance of a child would still look like a child after 80 years, but they might have developed arthritis and alzheimers as an old man would, and their life span is slightly shorter than a humans (in that most Alreaona/Officer pairs die of aging relatively around the same time, if they both make it out alive.) Again having said that, there are plenty of examples of this not being the case. Its possible for an Old Man to emerge from the flask and age "backwards", growing younger in appearance as time goes on, or for an Alreona to age forward for some years then backwards in others, or in the scenario you described to emerge from the flask a baby and age normally as a human would. If anything it is the most likely of the bunch, a failure in the growth stage (or even intentionally ignoring it at someone's request) would plausibly lead to the scenario you want.

TLDR: Yes, Alreona can grow like a normal being.

As for the "failed" Alreona/Purified squad, its an acceptable Additional as you have it (after all, such beings could be equal to or even inferior to normal humans in combat situations). From what you have now, its a small fairly skilled group with an incredibly powerful Alreona, and it looks perfectly acceptable.

[Nakéen]

Alchemy is sometimes more art than science. Alreona generally come out of the flask fully grown- after all, they wouldn't be a very useful resource if it took ~18 years to fully utilize them. Once that is done they usually don't typically "age" as humans do, though they feel the effects of time. For example an Alreaona with the appearance of a child would still look like a child after 80 years, but they might have developed arthritis and alzheimers as an old man would, and their life span is slightly shorter than a humans (in that most Alreaona/Officer pairs die of aging relatively around the same time, if they both make it out alive.) Again having said that, there are plenty of examples of this not being the case. Its possible for an Old Man to emerge from the flask and age "backwards", growing younger in appearance as time goes on, or for an Alreona to age forward for some years then backwards in others, or in the scenario you described to emerge from the flask a baby and age normally as a human would. If anything it is the most likely of the bunch, a failure in the growth stage (or even intentionally ignoring it at someone's request) would plausibly lead to the scenario you want.

TLDR: Yes, Alreona can grow like a normal being.

As for the "failed" Alreona/Purified squad, its an acceptable Additional as you have it (after all, such beings could be equal to or even inferior to normal humans in combat situations). From what you have now, its a small fairly skilled group with an incredibly powerful Alreona, and it looks perfectly acceptable.

Perfect ! I would be fine with it even if they were weaker than the average humans

Edit: Elvish Miner, I like your naming theme !

Edit2: I really liked what you said about the failure in the growth stage, it's very fitting with the backstory I had in mind. As such, I changed the backstory a bit : Sophia Lapis creation was a "failure", she came out of the vat as an infant, aging like normal humans.

[Wozzy]

Tattooed warriors? Sounds rather familiar to me.

Either way, I'm in.

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