Mythril Aces (Re)Union: Real Robot RP Discussion Thread

I've had to mark someone who compared an internet not build on end-to-end principles to American Slavery.

Someone else also titled their paper "T— W—- is the Devil".

Another person actually had a decent essay, but all her pages had the header "ORGAN THEFT IN HUMANS" which I can only assume was a botched google search as the essay did not make any mention of anything like that.

edited 11th Dec '14 8:54:11 AM by Fauxlosophe

Wait, they compared what to...

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.....................................................................................................................................no. Just, no.

Or maybe it was a warning, Faux.

The Repo Men are coming for you.

Get the Plot moving Hydrall.

Essays are cake for me, too.

But when it's the last essay at 2am? Less easy

I now figured out how to sleep so I'll probably post something tomorrow.

Sorry about the slowness, but finals are nearly over and we're starting to get things moving for real.

I'm still going to working my ass off; I've got 4000 words by Christmas, 6000 more by new years and 1500 to sneak in somewhere in between, but I'll still be here.

The rest of you have had a long enough break; finals should be coming to a close, at least. Get on posting; remember what I said about hunting out down if you didn't post every three days. There could be a traitor on the ship or something picking you lazy buggers off. I've got DM powers now!

That said; Hydrall has a fancy map making tool to make things pretty and the relevant image files. I'm relying on him for mission maps but I have the premise planned out.

For the players; I'm working on hooks for all of you, but now would be a good time to start some intraparty dialogue. It's clear big things are happening, and your character probably has some thoughts on war or the deaths that happened which would be worth sharing with your comrades before this upcoming mission. Most of you are inwardly sad about people dying but you haven't reached out to eachother; you care about the fact flightmates died, more might die soon. Have your character share some feelings with a bit of urgency to show why they'd consider this a bad thing.

Or even just talk directly on the combat.

Sorry I've been silent. Mira's just looking for faculty to get Rick some clothes, and I didn't want to come back and interrupt Elaine if she was about to get deep and meaningful or something.

I've just been drained.

Hey - I'm going to sign up for this ol' thing fairly soon and I was wondering if anybody could give me a recap of what's happened so far in the RP. I've gotten to the third page of the main thread with the party but I've never been the fastest of readers .

Also any general tips/pointers about the setting would be appreciated.

A space station was attacked. Then everyone got onto a ship. A mission almost started. Then everybody died. Except for most people.

... I think that's it, really.

• Party on Space Elevator in Nirvana
• Federation Attack! Chaos ensues, but we pull through.
• We get assigned to a carrier from Dame Ignis (rival to other major player in the region Gladstone).
• We are assigned to hunt down Federation remnants.
• Game slows down due to real life stuff
• Offscreen Ambush! Major casualties, including my PC who is confined to a wheel chair. We merge the squads.
• You joined up.

Yeah, more or less.

Centauri C.O. (Faux's character) is also a drunken Irishman and the coolest guy there. And may or may not have given one of the female members of his squad some sort of hallucinogenic drugs.

edited 23rd Dec '14 9:29:28 PM by dragon573

1. Fergus is semi-retired and regulated to NPC-ish status. Their CO is a young Atlantican woman with a sarcastic sense of humour who needs to post more.

2. Lilith hallucinating and being bizarre is a natural state of affairs.

edited 23rd Dec '14 9:33:22 PM by Fauxlosophe

Sorry. Should have said former Centauri C.O.

And he was only the C.O. of one group, but it was the group I was in, so therefore it was the more important group. Honestly, the only person who matters outside of the original Hounds is Rick.

It was Elaine. Lilith is the other one.

edited 23rd Dec '14 9:35:41 PM by dragon573

Thanks guys. With this recent ambush, I'm assuming your squad is taking new transfers? Or is there another way to get new characters in the story?

I am technically not in charge of the Cents, but that is the angle I'd go for.

Random thought, what exactly did happen to Lilith's CVW? I like to think in the conditions for the ceasefire Lilith's CVW was specifically named to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of since by the end of Midgard it was modded to the point where it could be considered a near doomsday device. So right now it's in some black facility somewhere. Also I might be drunk.

I assumed she blew it up by accident at some point but I like your version better.

Perhaps Lilith is precisely why they were banned.

CVWs were given a mass recall, the official reason being that the corporation that developed them has begun preparing for a Mk 2 CVW that will be rolling out sometime in the next year or so. Unofficially, the company was losing money because nobody wanted to buy the damn things.

Lieutenant MacDonald may or may not have had anything to do with those reasons. There are also rumors about a minigolf company...

I always just figured it was because ass cancer.

Due to, you know, sitting in a nuclear reactor for extended periods of time.

You think the Federation gives enough of a fuck about their pilots to recall something because it'll result in cancer in their hindquarters?

You grossly overestimate their moral fiber.

Or you overestimate the value of their pilots.

edited 24th Dec '14 10:23:53 PM by Fauxlosophe

Nah, moral fiber. A life is a life, even if it belongs to a shit pilot.