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[Questorhank]

Spoiler: Mage Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Mark Johnson
Appearance: A man with greying hair. His face (and the rest of him) bears many scars from previous wars.
Personality: Mark values all (sentient) life more than his own, and will do anything to protect it. Hostiles don't count, obviously.
Traits: Battle Hardened (Unlikely to panic etc. due to combat), PTSD (Can mistake ordinary objects for weapons, has frequent nightmares)
Inventory: AUG, 4x AUG magazine, Body Armor, 2x Frag, 3x Smoke Grenade, Medic Backpack, 200x Anti-Armor/Vehicle Charge (In Hammerspace)
Tether: Kukri (Weapon)
Powers: Mobility, Blink, Regeneration, Pockets
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0

[Egan_BW]

Oh nice, I like it. I'll keep you on the list.

As for the... other guy. I'll find something to do with him, I think. I don't have a lot of patience for arbitrary ninjamonkey caaaaaahraaaaaazy antics, but I do like arbitrary meta esoteric stuff.

[Egan_BW]

Alright, three options.

One, by the numbers
Mech supply convoy runs through the forest, delivers to a fob there. Either defend that or smash it, you know. Both sides get some allied forces and time to set up.

Two, just rumble
Some very powerful "archmage" guy has been causing trouble, leaving messages inviting powerful mech warriors to come challenge him to an honorable duel in the hollow of a massive tree. Naturally, mechs are gonna show up to take him out, and some mages will come along as his "seconds".

Three, make a mess
Moderately large village, full of folks with arcane blood. You know the drill with that.


There, that wasn't hard. Vote on that shit.

[Egan_BW]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:It's TricMagic! ...Maybe.. Call me Shadow.
Appearance:
Personality: if you play a generic military dude with zero personality even after digging some i swear to god-God's out right now, just me here~
Health: Mentally Insane but that's just what you think.
Traits: Rtd Character, Forth-Wall Awareness, Mentally Insane. ...Use you own judgment, these are probably impossible to balance. Yeah, it is..
Inventory: Shit you're carrying. Like, on your actual person. This probably can't be a whole warehouse of tnt unless you have that one thing where it actually totally could be. Hint hint.
Well, I do have this thing called Hammerspace..
Here's a Hammer GM.
Catch!!

"Still need this, I, TricMagic, throw this hammer at you, the GM."
I'm on the Mage Side by the Way.

(Myself)That's half the fun though.. I'm kinda out of creative juice, so I figured, a zany character would be fun. Back to In-game-

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mana: 3/3 (Required to do magic. Any turn where you use any amount of magic, mana decreases by 1. Any turn where you use no magic, or that you Push, mana is refilled to full. If you have 0 mana you cannot use any magic but Push.)
Push: 0/0 (Push as an action to refill mana and perform an extra-strong spell. Left number is your current amount of Push, left number is your current Minimum push. Minimum is half of current (rounded down), when you rest Push is decreased to the minimum.)
Mana Tether: (pick one from below.)I'll take this-
It's Piko-Piko Hammertime!
Powers: (pick four from below.)

Mobility like the Matrix~
Mobility
      Magical simple: Greatly increases ease of movement, allowing one to run faster than any mundane human, leap great distances, climb walls quickly, etc.
      Magical passive: Can dodge attacks such as gunshots, which cannot be avoided normally.


Cause who doesn't want to take down an airship~
Power
      Passive: Greatly increases physical strength.
      Magical simple: Improves reaction time, giving you a big advantage in melee combat.
      Push: Become impossibly strong.

Because I need my Sacred Arrows, I'll be taking this too~
   Elebolt: Pick an element to use. Can be any simple material, or form of energy. Ice, acid, steel, fire, heat, kinetic energy, etc.Ether-type Light, the strongest thing you've never seen!
      Magical simple: Fires a bolt of the chosen element.
      Magical complex: Fire a burst or spray of bolts.
      Push: Create a coherent beam of elemental energy, dealing heavy damage to whatever it hits. Multiple beams from different people can be combined in order to produce The Ultimate Attack*

 Elebending: Pick an element to use. Can be any simple material, or form of energy. Ice, acid, steel, fire, heat, kinetic energy, etc.
      Magical simple: Manipulate the chosen element on a small scale. Works within reach range only.
      Magical complex: Manipulate the chosen element, with potentially very energetic results. There must be some source to work with; you can't just conjure things out of thin air.
      Push: Create and manipulate a large quantity of the chosen element.

I'll need this too if I want to be a Bad-ass Destroyer. I Foresee it!



Want to know what my traits mean, operator? Well~ It's not like these other guys realize our universe is a Rtd. And they called me Mad~ It's all part of my charming personality.

-as an Aside, personally, I want to wreck some Mechs, and blow stuff up. And I'm very good at that.

Ah well, tune in next time! At least if the GM doesn't retcon me.

Now, as for you... *adjusts glasses*

You're sitting in a dark room. Pitch black. I mean black.
Anyway, you're sat in front of someone's desk. And on the other end of that desk. It's me!
I'm a pair of white cat ears attached firmly to the lack of a head, above a business suit without anyone in it. I'm also wearing a pair of sickass aviators. Don't ask how those are attached.

Anyway, I'm sat there, and I'm looking at your sorry-ass excuse for a character application, and I'm sighing and rubbing my nonexistent eyes with my nonexistent fingers, and I say "Okay, obviously the usual application process isn't going to work for you. So I'm going to give you an interview instead.
First off, what's your actual name? I'm not going to let you use your username, and 'Shadow' is just dumb, I mean, come one man. You some kind of cartoon hedgehog? Nah mate, you're a real human being, so give me a name that you'd actually give to a person."

[randomgenericusername]

Voting for the Village Full of Innocents.

[Dustan Hache]

I vote for convoy again. I wanta rematch!

[TricMagic]

It is bedtime for me, will edit this in tommorow-

Well, this is interesting.
To answer your question, its Psykhe.

Can't really help what comes out of that Verse he calls a head, you know- You just got the end of his creativeness.

So, Next question;

[Questorhank]

I vote civilian protection.

[Yottawhat]

I wanna beat up a convey

[Radio Controlled]

Mission votin'.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Convoy mission please.

EDIT: Convoyo for this boyo please!

[syvarris]

What, we're spoiling votes, Radio?  Is this an underhanded game now?

Cawnvoy!

[Radio Controlled]

What, we're spoiling votes, Radio?  Is this an underhanded game now?

Cawnvoy!

I am merely following the rules as stated:

From now on, I'm going to provide a few different scenarios that you can vote between, with whichever one getting the most votes being the next mission. Players with a higher rank will have more votes, letting you choose a mission more suited to your strengths. In addition your votes will be hidden from players on the opposing side until I count them.

Emphasis mine.

EDIT: it doesn't matter much anyway, so I'll go edit my original vote to make it open, it seems egan is fine with it anyway.

[Parisbre56]

I guess I'll join the bandwagon and go for convoy.

Who knows, a decisive vote might even lead to an update

[Egan_BW]

Scenario 2
DAMP

Area of operations is a very large deciduous rainforest. On the southeast edge of the forest is a very open savanna area.
At the border between these two biomes the homeworlders have set up a decent base, defended by maybe a platoon of infantry, with static mounted machineguns. This base receives supplies directly from the mothership, via a supply route leading east.
About 13 kilometers north northeast, inside the forest, is a smaller FOB operated by the homeworlders. It receives supplies from the larger base. Over the past few days, native forces have harassed any attempt to deliver supplies to this base, using small arms and mortars.
The forest itself is, of course, highly vegetated, and as it's currently spring the trees are covered in leaves, limiting visibility farther. A basic path has been blazed between the two bases wide enough for a large mech to pass without knocking down any trees, but otherwise all is solid forest. Observed animals include hawks, rabbits, mice, foxes, Squirrel-like creatures with barbed fur, and cat-sized lizards.

Spoiler: mech stuffs (click to show/hide)

Your mission is to deliver 6 full Logistics-Gear loads of supplies from Theta Violet base to FOB-56. Do not allow either base to be destroyed, minimize allied casualties. Successfully delivering less than the full load of supplies will be counted as a partial victory.
Your allies for this mission include one platoon of infantry, lead by one Captain Jarn, a squad of commandos lead by Sergeant Harstall, as well as six rookie pilots certified to pilot Logistics Rigs.
For the sake of delivering the supplies, you have access to four Logistics Rigs, and have an overall budget of 600 Arcane to power your own mechs and the Rigs.
Complete the delivery within the next 10 days. Around that time FOB-56 will run out of food and fuel, and the site will need to be abandoned.

At the moment, Jag, Silene, Jarn's platoon, and the junior pilots are stationed at Theta Violet, while Eshu and Harstall's squad are at FOB-56, in case it comes under direct attack.

Supplies to be delivered:

1200 Arcane
10 tons of food
4 tons mechanical parts
3 tons munitions
1 ton assorted material
(Logistics gear can be simply refit to carry 1 ton of cargo in place of every 100 arcane)


syvarris
Name: Jag Laer
Appearance: A perpetually smiling young man, with altogether too much muscle on him.  Many mech pilots may tend towards the small size, but Jag is downright musclebound.  Despite that, he's softspoken and calm, and usually manages to look like one of the least threatening fellows around.
Personality: Friendly and happy-go-lucky, Jag is a likable fellow.  He largely only has one mood--serenely happy--and is famously lazy, which is the reason there's so many rumors that he's got a painkiller problem, but it's still near impossible to dislike the guy.  At least, up until you see him butcher creatures in combat, the only time his calm exterior is replaced by manic excitement.  Most mech pilots enjoy their job to some extent, but Jag is far, far too into messily butchering his victims.
XP: 15
Health: Fine, presumably
Traits:
   Close Combat Specialist ((Grants an advantage when attacking aggressively in melee. Leaves you open.))
   Lightning Reflexes ((Advantage to initiative.))
   Bloodthirsty
Inventory:
   Basic Survival Gear
   Knives for days
   Canned tuna (and other preserved food)

"Sasha", Jag Laer's Stalker
   Description: Muted cream, with black spots, emulating the look of predatory felines from the old world.  The claws and front of the 'head' have a chaotic and patchwork rainbow of colors covering them, mostly dried blood from a wide assortment of magical creatures Jag has killed in melee combat; he considers the blood a mark of glory, and has come to blows when maintenance personnel have tried to wash it away in the past.
   Arcane: 100/100
      Low-power (3A)
      Combat mode (12A)
   Integrity:
      Torso: 25/25
      FLLeg: 15/15
      FRLeg: 15/15
      BLLeg: 20/20
      BRLeg: 20/20
   Hardpoints:
      Heavy weapon: H Missile Launcher [Narcissus Marie / Silene / Spider / Aigresaur]
      Auxiliary system: Cloaking system  (8A)
      Drone dock: Repair drones (5A for 5) [Nyars STB 75/75 / Lulu STB 25/75 / Yog STB 25/75 / Shubby STB 25/75]


Radio Controlled
Name: Silene Silvers
Appearance: A young woman with short brown hair and a fair face. Shorter than the average, she compensates for any lack of height with an abundance of glaring.
Personality: Daughter of Lana Silvers, a woman of some notoriety within the first Expeditionary Marine Corps. Always standing in the shadow of her mother, who herself had been a distant presence in her life at the best of times, Silene constantly felt like she had to prove herself. This led to her spending hours upon hours in the simulator. What her mother did pass on to her daughter however, was a deep and burning hatred for all things wizard.
XP: 8
Health: Fine ‘n dandy cap’n.
Traits:
   Muscle memory ((Advantage to initiative in combat only, and to dodge on the first turn of combat.))
   Vigilant ((Advantage to spot things.))
   Burn the Witch
Inventory:
   Backup revolver (6/30) ((You're pretty good!))
   Combat knife
   Standard survival kit
   First aid supplies
   Flashbang ((Is it a good idea to apply sentimental value to something that goes off once with mildly explosive force?))
   
Support Hardsuit
   Appearance: Painted in configurable camouflage that can change to fit the environment, like an octopus. On both sides of the suit, under the armpits, is a poorly written erotic fanfiction about mechs written in subtle silver text. Every once in a while this text updates with spelling corrections and new chapters. (Removing earlier chapters, of course, so that the text will never expand to cover the whole suit. That would be bad for camouflage!)
   Arcane: 100/100
      Low-power (1A)
      Combat mode (3A)
   Integrity:
      Torso: 20/20
   Hardpoints:
      Silent flight system (6A)
      Personnel weapon: grenade launcher (2A) [3 Frag / 1 Smoke / 1 Flash / 1 Paint]
         10 high-ex fragmentation
         2 incendiary
         3 smoke (does not block infrared, so as to not interfere with thermal vision)
         2 flashbang
         1 paint nade (Does no damage, but splatters paint in a very large area)
      Auxiliary system: Thermal Vision (1A)
      Adaptive camouflage (1A)
      

Parisbre56
Name: Eshu Quaermius
Appearance: Pale and thin. Shiny long dark hair. Thick beard obscures most of his face. Wears his uniform but doesn't really take care of it, leaving it crumpled and slightly torn. Should his uniform ever be removed, one could see the traditional tribal tattoos marking his body and some scars that remind him of past hunts.
Personality: Quiet, focused, direct, sticks to himself, prone to anger, quick to violence. ((27: Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.))
XP: 0
Health: Fine.
Traits:
   Hunter's Aim
   Strong-willed
   Antisocial
Inventory:
   Ceremonial Knife
   Bone flute
   Standard survival kit
   Infantry Rifle (60/180)

Titan "Gidaia"
      Appearance: Painted an intimidating matte black. Lights on head change color depending on emotion. Emits distorted mechanical noises instead of speech.

      Arcane: 100/100
         Low-power (3A)
         Combat mode (10A)
      Integrity:
         Torso: 100/100
         RArm: 25/25
         LArm: 25/25
         RLeg: 40/40
         LLeg: 40/40
      Hardpoints: ((Refer to Armory section of OP for farther information))
         Heavy weaponR: Vulcan Cannon (800) ((You better believe that these mech suits count stuff by the bullet.))
         Heavy weaponL: MacroFlamer FR3 (1/8)
         Heavy weaponB: Devastator Lance (13A) (1/3) ((37: There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'reload.'))
      
46th Lavender Infantry
Leader: Captain James Jarn
Morale: Focused
8x Riflemen
   Infantry Rifle
   Infantry Sidearm
   1x Frag Grenade
   First-aid kit
2x Marksmen
   Special Rifle (scoped)
   Infantry Sidearm
   First-aid kit
3x Exo Heavies
   Infantry Exo
      10A
   Special Rifle (LMG)
   Exo Rocket
1x Platoon Medic
   Infantry Sidearm
   Medical kit

4th Rose Exo
Leader: Isabel Harstall
   Custom Exo
      20A
   Gauss Revolver
   Micro-Plasma
Morale: Weary
3x Exo Scout
   Light Exo
      10A
   Special Rifle (silenced bullpup)
   Binoculars
   First-aid kit
2x Exo Assault
   Jump Exo
      15A
   Double-Barrel hybrid shotgun
   Satchel Charge
   First-aid kit
1x Exo Superheavy
   Heavy Exo
      15A
   Minigun

Mech Trainee detachment a2
Name: Nathon Grana
Name: Lizbeth Fraye
Name: Donathert Himcastein
Name: Ned UnFormed
Name: Haslena Grantina
Name: Linda Steward

Spoiler: mage stuffs (click to show/hide)

Your mission is to destroy the mech FOB in the forest, or to force them to leave by disrupting supply routes.
Your allies include a group of hunters and warriors familiar with the area, as well as Konna Judge, a professional scout.
Allied forces are operating out of a small hunting settlement a few kilometers north of the path that the invader's have forged through the forest. It seems that the enemy doesn't know that the settlement exists, and its inhabitants would like to keep it that way.
This area is home to bear-sized hunting lizards and carnivorous trees, which snatch up the unwary in their vines. The native life can be dangerous, but doesn't pose much threat to the informed and aware.

Lenglon
Name: Tanya Xelcarostia
Appearance: Green eyes, tan skin, brown hair bound in a ponytail,  with moderately angular facial features. Short but strong, with splotchy brown leather clothing.
Personality: Quiet, shy, cautious, sneaky, alert, cunning. She doesn't talk a whole lot to people she doesn't know, but will open up after she's had a chance to get to know you.
XP: 12
Health: Okay.
Traits:
   Nopain ((Takes no negative effects from pain. Ever.))
   Flaming Blood ((Your blood catches fire when it leaves your body, and burns hot. You take no damage from this fire.))
   Lifeline ((Advantage to selfshape fox-like features. However, you cannot go more than 30 meters from you familiar, and if she dies, you die))
   Otherworldly
Inventory:

Mana: 3/3
Push: 4/2
Tether: Familiar (Swift Fox)
Powers:
   Selfshifting
   Lightshifting
   Pockets
   Breakbolt (Rolls against Push when cast, but does not increase Push. Otherwise acts like Elebolt. Breaks things.)


Dustan Hache
Name: Donnell Adderson
Appearance: Thin, with man with brown hair and greenish eyes
Personality: Reclusive, yet compassionate to the point of a fault.
XP: 4
Health: Healthy
Traits:
   Hard ((A certain toughness of the flesh makes minor injuries less problematic from a purely physical point of view.))
   Tough ((Pain and discomfort have less of an effect.))
   Unkilling ((You won't kill, even out of mercy.))
Inventory:
   Steel capped quarterstaff
   Bag of medical supplies
   Medic bag
   
Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Mana Tether: Weapon (Razor buckler)
Powers:
   Mobility
   Power
   Regeneration
   Heatbending


Yottawhat
Name: Niko Tessa
Appearance: A 16 year old girl, with short electric blue hair wearing a over-sized military long, the sleeves covering her hands and the back of the coat reaching all the way down to her knees.
Personality: Short-tempered, Niko is abrasive and quick to flew off the handle when dealing with people who she believed are not as smart as her (hint: Everyone)
XP: 7
Health: Alright
Traits:
   Quick ((Zoom zoom.))
   Smart ((Advantage to figuring stuff out, provided you make an action of it. Not passive.))
   Conceited
Inventory:
   Azurite Striker (Ivory focus)
   Notepad and pen
   Drawstring bag of batteries

Mana: 3/3
Push: 0/0
Mana Terther: Focus (Ivory baton)
Powers:
   Elecending
   Elecbolt
   Mobility
   Blink


Impromptu Native Force
Leader: Konna Judge
Morale: Disorganized
4x Hunter
   Bolt-action rifle
   Bear trap
2x Warrior
   Light Machine Gun
   2x Molotov cocktail
1x Warrior Doctor
   Submachine Gun
   Medical Kit

[syvarris]

Spoiler: Mech (click to show/hide)

1.Can we choose what Aux equipment the logistics mechs get?
2.Can we choose when what gets shipped?
3.Can our mechs carry any significant amount of supplies, or are multiple runs required?  We've got four logistics mechs, but six loads to deliver.

4.Can those of us with ammo-using weapons/drones get extra ammo from the supplies?
5.Can Jag get fireproof inferno drones, which just spray lots of fire all around them indiscriminately?
6.Do both bases have repair facilities, equivalent or better than repair drones?

7.If Jag just fired six Heavy Napalm missiles into the forest on the first day, would that be enough to start a massive wildfire, or are those missiles just depressingly weak?
8.Is all terrain within seven kilometers (~the maximum range of modern man-portable mortars) of the supply route and FOB itself forested, or is some of that savannah?
9.Have we done any aeriel scouting of the AO, and if so, are there any large, obvious clearings in the forest?

Here's a fun video you should watch, which certainly isn't related to the game in any way and has no ulterior motives behind it.  I just thought you'd like to watch something neat after answering nine bullet points.