Deadzone Exploration - A Mini Mecha RP

2065 - January 25th. -> Location: Silence Industries Island. Outside of8 England

A young woman steped forward into the garage, she wore a black blazer with the industry logo and a black pencil skirt, she was reading a clipboard for a moment until the door closed behind her. She looked forward. The woman herself seemed to have some green makeup on around her eyes.

"So you are all here to join the Silence Industries Mercenary Program?" She asked, she seemed rather businesslike. "As you all know I am Miss Mari, second in charge to only-"

The door burst open, Mari seemed to smile "The man in charge, Silence Echoes himself."

Out stepped a man in a large black trenchcoat with the collar turned up, a peaked cap rested atop his head with a coated fabric obscuring the sides of his head. On his face there was a white mask, no identifying features other than two eyes with tinted lenses, the eyes themselves changing and twisting in expression as he looked about.

"Ah wonderful!" He said jumping into a cheerful mood, "So wonderful to see so many new signups! Some of you for the Auxiliary Pilot Union, others... for other reasons. Regardless glad you decided to join because I am trying a new experiment, usually I send one of my Auxiliary pilots into the zone and they do well. Sometimes they bring back studies, or info, or they just come back alive letting the brass of the Western Union know that-"

Miss Mari decided to interrupt, "Sir. The point please. You are rambling," The boss looked back at her, and nodded, "Thank you Mari. Got ahead of myself."

Silence turned back to you, "Welcome to the Hush Brigade. Now I am certain many of you signed up because of the Motung workshop program, building and customizing your own motung. Well keep in mind that our Spider type production is down and will be for some time. You will be utilizing standard Humanoid frames," the eyes of his mask contorted, as if he had a wicked smile on, "Welcome to Silence. Industries everyone, please fill out the forms handed to you and we can begin to build your new Mobil Rustungs. Oh and of course you get to pick out which colour of your pilot suit you'll be wearing in the cockpit is. A lot of previous hires were very particular about that..."

Mari started to walk about handing everyone a forum, before reciting "Silence. Ind is not in anyway responsible for any injury sustained on battle or in the Deadzones and can not be sued for libel or injury. In case of death the next year of paychecks will go to next of kin if added to medical notes, or in case of no kin a fine funeral will be covered. In addition you get access to onsite apartments which you are free to customize for your stay in anyway possible, and the Motung workshop is open to you whenever available."

"And don't forget you will be getting new specialized Synths with you as well when you go exploring! One big happy team!" Silence cheered, Mari looked back at her boss, "Possibly."

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First Off. Are you a Human Pilot. Or a Android Synth. Human pilots get to use Motungs and customize them anyway possible. Androids do not require Motungs thanks to super strength but are generally not as well armored. So in short, Motungs are closer to Armored but slower tanks. While Synths are scout robots.

=Pilot=

• Name:
• Age: (Please be reasonable. Most Auxiliary Pilots have served at least 4 years of military service, at which age of entrance is 18.)
• Physical Experience: (Image optional)
• Character Background: (Veterans will have notable events of the past 4 years summarized below if you wish to add that to their character.)
• Personality:
• Possessions: (Notable weapons or items they keep on their person.)
• Proficiencies: (You know, what weapons and skills they are good at or how they pilot their Motung.)

=Motung=

• Name: (These are all custom models, feel free to name it.)
• Appearance: (Here is a general unarmored appearance◊. So Build around that as these things are mass production and no more than 18'6" when standing with their legs fully extended.)
• Notable Weapons: (Be creative, every weapon falls under Heavy Assault Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Marksman cannon, or Beam rifle. Feel free to customize yours.)
• Weapon mounts: (A Motung has 4 mount plugs on it. 2 for shoulders, 2 for arms. This generally means mounted autocannons, or large flak weapons or just plain old mounted missile launchers. Go for what you wish or come up with something new.)

And finally

=Synth=

• Name:
• Mental Age: (Androids don't have a physical age, they have a mental age. Again nothing too unreasonable, these aren't fancy civ models.)
• Physical Appearance: (Keep in mind that as dedicated military models they have a silky white "skin" covering their endoskeleton, other colours are available.)
• AI Type / Personality: (Are they a scout? A pilot? Soldier? Engineer? Do they sneak in and stab or do they go in guns blazing? Personality builds are also accepted here.)
• Possessions: (Notable weapons or items they keep on their person.)
• Proficiencies: (What are their programmed skills?)

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Notable Events in the Western Union

• The Blitz of Berlin - 2060 August 4th: Deadzone mutants escaped their contained area and went on a rampage within Berlin, advanced Motung forces were called in to help assist in evacuation and even the fight against the creatures. It lasted 37 hours and the creatures were only defeated after air support was finally allowed in as all the civilians and important personnel were evacuated. The mutants didn't survive the bombing raid, the center of the attack has since become a memorial after the rebuilding of Berlin.
• The Frozen War of Siuberia - 2063 Febuary 13th: A short skirmish between Eastern Alliance forces and soldiers stationed in Siberia, over a artifact that had left the zone itself. No one is quite sure what it was and record is fuzzy on whether or not the report of the Artifact itself was true, but a few soldiers claimed they saw it and stated it was a being made of crystal. Very few believe.
• The Boston Revolution - 2064 October 3rd: A experiment in mass producing synths all based after the same AI pattern failed and lead the androids to go mad. With the base Synth becoming a messiah and leader of sorts to his followers, they spread throughout Boston like a virus and killed whoever stood in their way. The Leader claimed it did not matter, for they could never beat him as he was a army on production. The Motungs were a distraction as a dedicated alert team entered the factory and forced a shut down (AKA they had to blow it up because it was heavily guarded). This has lead to some new-found distrust and distaste for Synths thanks to fear of another uprising.

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And there we go, wanted to do a RP for this setting of mine for awhile. So I hope interest peaks and after a little bit I'll have a Discussion thread up to answer big questions, such as the setting itself.

And here is a old discussion page of the world building for some ideas for the setting.

edited 16th Jan '15 9:41:54 AM by EchoingSilence

Interest.

Excellent! Hopefully more people pop up with interest.

edited 16th Jan '15 4:38:39 AM by EchoingSilence

So my options are human or synth? Who are we fighting?

edited 16th Jan '15 5:32:18 AM by deadpool616

Mutants mostly. All the characters are being sent off into Deadzones which are Eldritch Location areas, so really it's a more cinematic tale. You might face some Eastern Alliance Mercs and androids investigating as well.

The main focus of this is definitely character interaction, your new boss wants to see how well a team of various mercs and androids can work together and if he can use that in the future.

But I do have a end goal planned for any players. There is something in the zone they need to get.

edited 16th Jan '15 6:20:18 AM by EchoingSilence

Hmmm... Interesting

I'm taking that this is an original setting instead of being set in an established universe. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Original setting yes.

I see.

Any reason you wished to know.

I was wondering if I needed to do any more research.

What are the mutants?

Interest. Probably in playing a Synth, though I would like to note what kind of standards there are for the synthetics. Are they like fully-aware A.I.s with their own personalities? Are their personalities designed from the ground up?

edited 16th Jan '15 5:10:55 PM by dungeonguy88

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves." -C.G. Jung

The standard mutant is pretty much spindly sets of legs on a irregular body with odd proportions. Mutants vary and no one is really sure if they are mutated creatures.

And the Synths are true A.I.s with their own personalities.

edited 16th Jan '15 5:13:04 PM by EchoingSilence

And Synths otherwise appear human, apart from their skin?

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves." -C.G. Jung

Yeah pretty much. They can have more obvious robotic appearances.

Where did the mutants come from?

The deadzones. They primarily stay there as it is their home.

2-3 questions: 1-What is so valuable in the deadzones? 2-What are the synths for? 3-If they're for deadzone exploration, then what are humans doing here?

1. the setting is quite STALKER in origin. The deadzones contain artifacts that can be used for human study. Or scientists wishing to know how it works to see if it can be fixed.
2. Synths are modern robotics meant for wide spread use. Primarily military, but the deadzones respond to concious thought so androids must be programmed to be fully sentient in order to just operate on their own. This is incredibly expensive as you are essentially building a person so use of tanks and walking tanks is still facilitated.
3. Humanity had to return to frontline warfare after the Jump Incident, a teleportation experiment from the early days of the cold war between the Western Union and the Eastern Alliance up and caused the deadzones to appear. Hence the use of Motungs and such.

So it's some unholy mash up between the mutating Tiberium of Command and Conquer along with the widespread use of synths in Metal gear Revengeance.

Right...I guess that means we have world building to do XD

Eh, might drop a sign up sheet on this thread soon.

Also, a tint of Evangelion, considering the wide usage of mechs...or is it inspired by titan fall?

edited 16th Jan '15 8:16:23 PM by biomechtraveler

Synths are not widespread since again expensive.

And it is more Armored Trooper Votoms.

Cool, I think I got my character idea then.

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves." -C.G. Jung

What is the in-universe reason for synths not getting Mortugs?

Generally considered redundant, a Synth is already better armored than a human considering they are military androids, and a bit faster than a motung again thanks to advanced servos and muscle systems.

Pilot model synths can pilot Motungs just fine but that is just because they have full piloting knowledge of every vehicle available. But it is rarely seen because a human motung pilot is cheaper than programming up a few synths and sticking them in a larger robotic frame.