You hear a whipping, whistling sound. Like driving down the highway with your windows down. Wherever you are, an ominous black box about the size of a Gamecube crashes to earth in front of you. Before you even have time to react a hologram appears above it, words that flicker and scratch aggressively.

ORGANIC LIFE DETECTED. LEVEL OF SENTIENCE ACCEPTED. BRAINWAVES ACCEPTED. BIOLOGY ACCEPTED. NEW PILOT ACCEPTED.

A holographic touch screen appears beneath the words.

200 RESOURCES TO ASSIGN. ENTER NEW USER SETTINGS NOW.

The box leaves a final message as it rapidly transmogrifies into your 200-point machine of choice:

DO NOT SQUANDER WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN.

On the news, similar things are happening all over your town of residence, the sleepy peninsula of Marbury, off the coast of Northeast Massachusetts. It's 8:00 in the evening. You thought people were done with their days. Strange thing about it, it's like there's a tube of power for the suits. They only work within the city limits; any more than a couple miles off shore or over the mountains and your suit will just stop working. Doesn't seem to have a limit straight up, though; that geosynchronous satellite over the city's awful tempting. In the face of this rapid change, and the knowledge that you can now change the world, or at least this small drab town, what do you do?

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Hoo, boy, been awhile since I ran an RP! First of all, credit where credit's due, I wanted to try resurrecting the RP that OffensiveHandle posted but never started. Mech Fiction is really fun for me so I think that this'd be a great time! Something different from the old RP is that not only am I confining you guys to a single location (I mean not literally, but can you guys cut me some slack here and please stay in or near the city?) but you guys are going to help me build it. Mostly because you're probably going to end up destroying it too, and I wanted that to be more impactful.

That means this RP's going to have two more informal rules on top of the ones we all understand to be in effect because you're all adults (if this is your first RP, though, please don't be intimidated! Just shoot me a PM and I can explain it there without cluttering the thread!). First of all, your first post should narrate your character's mundane life, where they talk to someone they are emotionally close to and talk about their day, before the boxes fell to earth. Narrate where they went and what they did. I'll add those locations to the map and to the OP, and a brief description of that character to the NPC list, because as it stands this right here◊ is Marbury. Not much right now; you guys have tons of space to work with. Make the most of it.

My second rule is something a little more serious: your characters should have personalities that spur them to take action. This is a Sandbox RP, which for one means that my DMPC is barely different from any other PC. That "Goals" section in the signup below is important. It also lets me know if I need to introduce factors to get your characters their goals. On a similar note, if there's anything you don't want in the RP, shoot me a PM and we'll talk about it. I'd like to have all the "no"s out of the way early so that we can say "yes" as much as possible.

That said, here's the character sheet, have at it! You can copy and paste the code straight into your post from this pastebin.

• Name:
• Suit Name: Optional, I guess...
• Age:
• Gender:
• Biography:
• Goals:
• Appearance: (I'm not particular, images and descriptions are fine.)
• Suit Appearance:
• Suit Purchases: Please put costs in parentheses next to these items so you can total them up more easily.
  • Suit Class:
  • Suit Features:
  • Suit Body Type: Choose one unless stated otherwise.
  • Suit AI:
  • User Interface:
  • HUD:
  • Comms:
  • Weapons:
  • Defenses: include Shield Links here.
  • Drones: list any gear or upgrades it has here too.
  • Upgrades and Utilities:
  • Nanites:
  • Final Stats:
    • Dexterity:
    • Durability:
    • Power:
    • Recovery:
    • Speed:
    • Strength:
  • Final Cost:

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Current Marbury Location List

• A-Interstate Highway 108 starts here, bridging off into Outerbelt 79 and 80 on the West and East sides of the city.
• B-The Sanderssen Mountains. Until the 108 got built the only way in or out of the city was a bunch of winding roads through these densely wooded mountains. Plenty of people still live there, but the Muse Tunnel straight through the base of the mountains now gets far more traffic.
• C-The Walker River is a fast-moving river running through the city. A lot of old buildings are built around this river, which used to be the best way on or off the peninsula.
• D-Blair's Allware Repair-Adam Kraft's place of work, a computer parts repair shop.
• E-Marbury West First Bank-Major bank of Marbury, robbed by Adam Kraft.
• F-Tomino Apartments-Apartment complexes, Adam Kraft's home.
• G-Greenville College-Local nice college, attended by Odette Ahlgren and under her protection. Also attended by Elise Ainsworth and Laura Nagase.
• H-Bridgewater Internet Service-ISP, employs Neil Findlay
• I-Alexandria Memorial Hospital, under the protection of Ciel Celia.
• J, K-Marbury Police Department, North and South Precincts-The two arms of the law in Marbury
• L-Darvin Projects-Charlie's home, low-income neighborhood.
• M-Brooks-Local bar on the coast, upscale.
• N-Seacrest High School-Niket's High School.
• O-Jouji Gym-Attended by Elise and Emma.
• P-Marbury Central Park-Self explanatory. A very nice, clean place.
• Q-Little Zeon-Middle class neighborhood, hosts Side 7 model shop, Loran's home.
• R-Dolphin Beach-Beach with some old scuttled boats on it.
• S-Marbury Island-Sandy beach island with light forests, fairly lawless, little infrastructure save a dock and some performance stages.
• T-Rigel Island-Sven's home, hosts small population of fishers and commuters.
• U-Anno Apartments-Tony's home, quiet apartment complexes.
• V-Hangman's Perch-The highest point in Marbury, James's home.
• W-The Onyx Dragon Comics and Games-Robin's place of work.
• X-North Eastside Estates-Fairly wealthy neighborhood, predominantly Chinese, Reaper's former home
• Y-Harkwell Island-Home to Harkwell Prison, dominated by Warden Thorton

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Character List

• Nakhte Sisiese and Sobek
• Jess Taras and Fucking Problems
• Loran and Ultimo
• Adam Kraft and Red Bull
• Daniel Lincoln and Titan
• Elise Ainsworth and Waifu Material
• Niket Wylder and Aremarune
• Vincent Lowe and Raptor
• Laura Nagase and Izanami
• Ciel Celia and Alexandros
• Sven Somvold and Troublesome Raven
• Miss Smith and Kitsune
• Tony Barnes and Chromeheart
• Jimmy Falcon and Non Omnis Moriar
• Robin Carlton and Tiberius
• Luis Dominguez and Bushido
• Wang Luo Yan and Thanatos
• Leo Pascal and The Legionnaire
• Samuel Troyard and Harlock
• Matthew Garcia and Kulay-Abo
• Johnathan Annets and Albion
• Anastasia Molitsya and Iudicium

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Current NPC List

• Eyckmann-A freelance journalist, friends with Nakhte Sisiese.
• Amy-Adam Kraft's coworker at Blair's Allware Repair, an absolute saint for even tolerating him.
• Johnathon-Ciel Celia's brother, took care of her when she was ill.
• Tycho-Friend of Neil Findlay's, plays games with him.
• Vlad-Coworker of Neil Findlay's at Bridgewater ISP.
• Jamal-One of Charlie's buyers, didn't appreciate the price hike.
• Samantha-Niket's mother, works at Brooks, has another kid, Kaiden.
• Emma-Elise's girlfriend
• Mr. Jones-Miss Smith's home base handler/commander
• Loran's Mom-No name given, runs the Side 7 model shop
• Ian-Sven's coworker, nice guy.
• Raymond-Ignatius's jogging buddy.
• Danny Blake-Robin's coworker at The Onyx Dragon
• Mary Ann Miller-Laura's roommate at Greenville College

edited 16th Apr '16 9:24:21 PM by Taco

Interested, WIP sheet coming up soon, though what are example body types? You wrote choose one, but I can'T find any I could choose from, is that something like humanoid etc?

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

There in the PDF, bottom of the first page.

Also working on my own charecter sheet now yes.

This post was thumped by the Eldritch Flyswatter of Horror

Oops, now I feel stupid, sorry...

Pilot:

• Name: Loran
• Age: 17
• Gender: Male
• Biography: Loran was raised as son of a normal family with his father working as programmer in a local IT-Company and his mother owning a local model-store. As such life for him was pretty normal up until now, the most interesting thing would be scoring the 2nd place at a Mech-Building competition with his protoype suit Ultimo. Loran always was fascinated with Mechs... well with most things like tanks, warships, etc (likely because of, but at least encouraged by his mother). Though for most part he could only build models.
• Goals: Now that Ultimo is real instead of being the model it was based on^Note For Clarifiaction, Ultimo is not a model or anything, only the design is basically the same as the model. Loran intends to correct what he thinks is wrong, that being mostly organized crime and the like (albeit he knows that he has to consider collateral damage etc)
• Appearance: Like that (Kinda Bishōnen, when he wants he can certainly go a step further.)

Suit:

• Suit Name: Ultimo
• Suit Appearance: Pretty much a Mecha-Centaur. His head sports a single camera eye. The Hellfire-missles are attached to the shoulders while the drones are attached to the sides of the horse part of the body. Its painted blue with orange ornaments over the armor. The horse part can extend a small structure on both sides, (for reference see the extra appendages on the AI) these contain powerful thrusters which enable the suit to take flight.
• Suit Class: Heavy
• Suit Features:
  • Flight (Free through mount)
• Suit Body Type: Mount-Tauric (30)
• Suit AI: Engineer (10)
• User Interface: Brainwave-Harness (10)
• HUD:
  • Suit Status (0)
  • Advanced Suit Status (5)
  • Thermal Vision (10)
• Comms:
  • Radio Transmitter (0)
• Weapons:
  • Hellfire-VLMs: Guided Missiles (20): Attached to the shoulders
  • Bunkercracker: War-Lance (15): Held in left hand
• Defenses:
  • Aegis: Heavy-Shield (10): Held in right hand
• Drones:
  • 3 x Königsberg: Heavy-Drone (3 x 10): Attached to side of horse body
    • Light Shield (Free with Heavy Drone): Held in left hand
    • Particle Beam (Free with Heavy Drone): Held in right hand
  • 1 x Königsberg-Command Ver: Heavy-Drone (Destroyer) (20): Attached to side of horse body
    • Light Shield (Free with Heavy Drone): Held in left hand
    • Particle Beam (Free with Heavy Drone): Held in right hand
    • Rocket Pods (Free with Destroyer): Attached to the shoulders
• Upgrades and Utilities:
  • Cyber Brain (10)
  • Engineering Kit (10)
  • Enviromental Controls (0)
  • Ghost (5)
  • Medkit (0)
  • Memory Palace (5)
  • Storage (0)
  • Uplift (10)
• Nanites: None
• Final Stats:
  • Dexterity: 2
  • Durability: 4
  • Power: 4
  • Recovery: 2
  • Speed: 7 (9)
  • Strength: 5
• Final Cost: 200

AI:

• Name: Aicha
• Personality: Cheerful (maybe a little bit too much considering she's the AI in what amounts to a machine of mass destruction)
• Appearance: Mostly like that, sans the weapon.
• Duties: Normally only in charge of Controlling the Drones (then she's in the left form), she transforms into a form more resembling Ultimo, both with the Centaur body and wing like appendages when controlling the suit itself.

BTW: Is there maybe an error in the AI's? Both Agent and Engineer give +/- 5 to all Tech Rolls, but the former gives - 10 to all Dex Rolls while the latter one gives + 10 to all combat rolls. That seems kinda strange, is the second + meant to be a -? Especially considering the Soldier also has a -.

Continuing tomorrow

edited 23rd Mar '16 7:30:11 PM by Sergey_Smirnov

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

Yeah, I think that's a thing for the actual capital-m Mechanics side of things. The AI's just let you multitask on whatever they're designed for.

Double-Post for DMPC.

• Name: Nakhte Sisiese
• Suit Name: Sobek
• Age: 25
• Gender: M
• Biography: Nakhte's a second-generation Egyptian immigrant and the son of a computer programmer and graphic designer. Their sedentary work meant that he spent a lot of time outside and on his own. With how quiet Marbury is his parents were fine with it, and he never got nabbed, but Nakhte did get bullied pretty consistently. He didn't talk right like all the other kids, and instead of trying to 'fix' it, he doubled down and started swinging. This contributed to a general trend as he got older, of harsh individualism and standing up for what he saw to be 'right.' He wanted to be a cop, but then 2014 happened. Life got scarier. He joined his neighborhood watch and brought justice that way, keeping people safe and stopping the occasional burglar. He got a job as a private investigator, and life got scarier. He tried digging into the multiple missing person cases over the years and got absolutely stonewalled by corruption and threats. His volunteer work kept him sane, but not by much. On the neighborhood watch, he kept people safe and aware. Nobody ever called the cops in his suburb. Then the Suitfall happened, and Nakhte finally had a way to make all his abstract ambitions a reality, to not just push the curtain away but to tear it to pieces.
• Goals: Destroy everything wrong with the town: the banks, the corrupt cops, the criminals who got away with their crimes, everything.
• Appearance: Nakhte◊ is a very short and slim guy, compact and full of muscle, and 5'2". He likes to dress nice most of the time.
• Suit Appearance: When in its collapsed form, Sobek is an olive-drab backpack with an image of the Egyptian God of the same name◊ on the back pouch. When it deploys the machine surges out of the bag in a wave of metal, engulfing the wearer. When fully deployed, Sobek is green all over, hunched forward on reverse-jointed legs, with claws on its hands and feet, and a big muzzled jaw on the front of the face. The armor itself is segmented like scales. Above the muzzle its eyes are blue and contained in a black cylinder, which hum and glow whenever Nakhte sees something worth noticing. The sonar pings come out of its chest in the form of low rumbles. Its hands are constantly sparking from its Power Fists. A pair of spines come out of the shoulder-blades and can fold down to become either the Mortar on the left or the Sharpshooter on the right. The Jump Jets are contained in a pair of bronze bricks on Sobek's shoulders, which bloom and flare outward whenever it jumps.
• Suit Purchases:
  • Suit Class: Heavy
  • Suit Features: Skates (10), Adhesion (10), Natural Weapons (10)
  • Suit Body Type: Hopper (10)
  • Suit AI: Agent (10)
  • User Interface: Brain Implant (20)
  • HUD: Advanced Suit Status (5), Hawkeye (5), Sonar (10)
  • Comms: Defence Maze (10)
  • Weapons: Power Fists (10 from Natural Weapons), Sharpshooter (15), Mortar (10)
  • Defenses: None
  • Drones: None
  • Upgrades and Utilities: Jump Jets (free with Hopper), Collapsible (5), Deployable Cover (15), Solar Panels (10), Cyber Brain (10), Martial Arts (5)
  • Nanites: Hydra (10), Hydra II (10)
  • Final Stats:
    • Dexterity: 3
    • Durability: 4
    • Power: 4
    • Recovery: 4
    • Speed: 5
    • Strength: 4
  • Final Cost: 200

edited 6th Mar '16 6:06:05 PM by Taco

• Name: Jess Taras
• Suit Name: Fucking Problems
• Age: 33
• Gender: Female/Herm in Suit
• Biography: In West Marbury born and raised, on the playground is where she spent most of her days. Jess Taras grew up a city girl in a smalltown, taking full advantage of her seemingly instinctual street smarts and wicked charisma to manipulate and play those around here, cultivating not only the kind mini-empire only a young black girl in Massachusetts could have, but also developing into a selfish and hedonistic miscreant. She's popular, infamous and has made plenty of enemies. Jess dreams of fame and fortune, specifically as a musician, she wants to be seen and heard. She loves music, sex, food and dancing. Unquestionably a shameless pervert.
• Goals: To use her suit to further her image and clout, creating an organization in her smalltown involved in music production, parties, and drug dealing.
• Appearance: Here.◊ She changes up her style often, but it's always interesting.
• Suit Appearance: Close to this◊ and this.◊
• Suit Purchases:
  • Suit Class: Light
  • Suit Features: Four Tentacles (40)
  • Suit Body Type: Sexy + Bio (20).
  • Suit AI: Agent (10)
  • User Interface: Brainwave Harness (10)
  • HUD: Advanced Suit Status + Night Vision + Sonar (25)
  • Comms: Terminal + Worm Platform (20)
  • Weapons: Big Dick Pile Bunker + Sound Cannon + Flamethrower (50)
  • Upgrades and Utilities: Collapsible + Cyber Brain + Duelist (25)
• Final Stats:

  • Dexterity: 7
  • Durability: 0
  • Power: 2
  • Recovery: 10
  • Speed: 7
  • Strength: 2

  • Final Cost: 200

edited 5th Mar '16 8:35:48 PM by Saturn

Jess Taras in Fucking Problems is approved.

Also, dropping a decision now about something called to my attention, if you pick up an AI it can multitask for you. This for instance allows you to run, gun, and hack all at the same time, dedicating an AI to either running and gunning or to hacking. You may control your own AI if you uplift it, or if you don't want to I can, or you can bring in someone else to play that AI.

Also, any stats that would drop below 0 given stat penalties or something instead become 0's. 0 represents a basic human.

edited 4th Mar '16 8:53:24 PM by Taco

Gonna be signing up. I had an earlier build but the current document changed a lot of stuff so I need to do a bit of number-jiggling.

Expect E-war.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

• Name: Adam Kraft
• Suit Name: Red Bull
• Age: 23
• Gender: M
• Biography: Adam Kraft had an easy life, despite what he would protest. Born into an upper middle class family as the only child, Adam lived life in the lap of relative luxury. He was naturally intelligent, cruising through school with minimal effort and being complimented on his brilliance daily. Upon arriving at college, however, he was greeted with a rude shock. The world told him he wasn't special. At the end of the first semester, he was dangerously close to flunking out, due to spending far too much time coding stupid minor viruses. By the end of the first year, he no longer was welcome, due to poor grades and having his hobby exposed. Fearing possible consequences for not actually applying himself, he took what little money he had and fled the state. Working as a manager at a local tech store, Adam refused to forgive the world for what he perceived as a great injustice. He deserved better than the lot he had before him. When the SUITFALL happened, he was the happiest he had been in quite some time. Finally, it was time to pay the world back for all it had taken from him. With interest.
• Goals: To acquire that which he so rightfully deserves: Anything he damn well wants.
• Appearance: Adam stands at a surprisingly imposing 6'1", with unbowed posture. His messy greasy black hair falls around his eyebrows, contrasting with his pale white skin. His intense dark blue eyes are almost black, watching the world around him with disdain from behind bags made from a hatred of sleep. He favours dark clothes, mainly longsleeves and jeans, when not working. His right wrist looks abnormally bulky under the longsleeves, as that's where the collapsible form of Red Bull is.
• Suit Appearance: Red Bull is, unsurprisingly, painted red, although a very dark crimson is the primary colour instead of something brighter. All the weapons are coloured silver. The head looks like that of an actual bull, except with a jet black visor where the eyes would be. The mouth opens to utilize the flamethrower. The upper body is mostly thick and chunky, save for the thin arms, wielding the shield and spear. The lower body once again mimics that of a bull, with the exceptions this time being rocket pods attached at the hips. The feet open up to deploy proximity mines. To transform, the back half of the lower body opens out, revealing large boosters and opening up the back legs into crescent wings.
• Suit Purchases:
  • Suit Class: Medium
    • Relentless: Your suit is immune to movement slowing effects and is very resistant to EM Ps. Lower all EMP damage received by 1.
    • Feedback: Firing your weapons or blocking attacks increases your Recovery by 4 for 20 seconds. This effect starts the turn after firing or recovering, and has a 20 second cooldown when it ends. Continually blocking or firing does not sustain the effect.
    • Courier: This drone can be deployed to another suit. Once deployed and attached to one of their weapons, it can either give a +2 bonus to their final damage with that gun OR give that gun a +10 FR bonus. Once that gun has been fired once, the drone expires. When it expires, there is a two minute cooldown before your suit can produce another Courier drone.
  • Suit Features:
    • Flight: Allows you to fly both inside and outside. Unusable underwater. +2 Spd while flying. (0, Avian)
  • Suit Body Type:
    • Tauric: +1 Spd, +1 Str (10)
    • Variable: Allow transformation into a second body type (5)
    • Avian: +2 Spd, -1 Dur (20)
  • Suit AI:
    • Soldier: Multitasking for combat (10)
  • User Interface:
    • Nerve Suit: Data that is unusable to the human brain is relayed via HUB (5)
  • HUD:
    • Suit Status: Pilot health, suit power, ammo, remaining oxygen, and damages are displayed in HUB (0)
    • Advanced Suit Status: Direction of enemy fire, environmental hazards, mines, traps or other defenses, and missile locks will be displayed in the HUD (5)
    • Hawkeye: Increases field of view to 260 degrees, improves motion detection within line of sight, and allows vision to be zoomed in (0, Avian)
    • Night Vision: Enhances light levels to make things appear brighter while retaining their natural colours. Passive effect. (0, Avian)
  • Comms:
    • Radio Transmitter: Send and receive data over standard radio frequencies. Allows for remote hack at RA 3 or less. (0)
    • Free-Space Optical Transmitter: Discreet point-to-point communication through focused infrared beams. Allows for remote hack at RA 9 or less, but requires constant line of sight to maintain connection. (10)
    • Spider: A computer virus that will sabotage any system it's installed on. Required in order to perform Disable Hacks, and used alongside Spyware to carry out Control Hacks. (5)
    • Spyware: A computer virus that will collect any data from any system it's installed on and transmit it back to the user. Required along with Spider in order to perform Control Hacks. (5)
    • Defense Maze: Advanced encryption software that reduces the chance of suit system infiltration and helps fight viruses. Required in order to perform Counter Hacks. (10)
  • Weapons:
    • Proximity Mines: ACC 3 / FR 3 / AM 6 / RA 1 / DMG 6 / Adhesive mines, activated by proximity detectors. (15)
    • War Lance: AM 1 / DMG 8 / A lance tipped with explosives that auto reloads after 1 turn. Counts as a blade for damage when not loaded. Can be thrown at RA 6. (15)
    • Flamethrower: ACC 2 / FR 12 / AM 6 / RA 3 / DMG 3 / Fires advanced napalm-like fluid in front of user. Reduce target's DUR by 1. (15)
    • Rocket Pods: ACC 5 / FR 8 / AM 5 / RA 10 / DMG 9 / Rapid fire FFAR pods. (20)
  • Defenses:
    • Heavy Shield: A sturdy shield that covers 1/2 over your body. +2 DUR vs blocked attacks. (10)
  • Drones: None.
  • Upgrades and Utilities:
    • Environmental Controls: Your suit's internal temperature can be maintained at 15C within an external temperature tolerance of -60C to 60C. It is also sealed, preventing unwanted air, water, or particulate matter from entering the suit. Air is drawn in and filtered from the outside but this can also be switched to a closed circuit for a limited amount of time. (0)
    • Lockpick Countermeasures: An all-purpose lock-breaking suite containing flares, chaff, and smoke grenades. When used this item breaks the line of sight of any attacking enemy units. Recharges over 3 turns. (10)
    • Camouflage: This device bends visible and infrared light around your suit, effectively making it invisible. Lasts for 30 seconds per use, with a 30 second cooldown. (10)
    • Collapsible: Allows your suit to be converted into a common accessory, such as a bracelet or a backpack. (5)
    • Collapsible II: Integrates a shortblade, holographic interface, and a variety of useful tools (such as lockpicks) into your suit's collapsed state. (5)
  • Nanites:
    • Canvas: An injection of surgical nanites allows you to change your appearance once to anything within human range. (5)
    • Canvas II: A more permanent form of the Canvas nanites. Allows you to change your appearance once a week. (5)
  • Final Stats:
    • Dexterity: 3
    • Durability: 2 (4 when Blocking)
    • Power: 4
    • Recovery: 4 (8 when Feedback is active)
    • Speed: 5 (6 when in Tauric Mode / 7 when in Avian Mode / 9 when flying)
    • Strength: 3 (4 when in Tauric Mode)
  • Final Cost: 200

"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior Val

...Finally done.

• Name: Daniel Lincoln
• Suit Name: Titan
• Age: 16
• Gender: Male
• Biography:
  • Daniel has never really been someone people noticed, unless it was due to his bright red hair. Ever since he was a kid, though, he's wanted to be a hero so people wouldn't have to suffer, but often his attempts to help never really went as planned — the number of times he's been to the hospital due to injuries and illnesses from ill-fated rescue attempts is rather staggering.
  • The worst of it, though, happened a few months before the start of the game. Daniel managed to save his little sister from a speeding truck, but in the process he himself was hit. He ended up in the hospital for weeks, and even after that, his left arm was paralyzed. His parents moved the family to Marbury not long after that, in hopes that a change in pace would help him adjust to what would likely be a permanent loss, but Daniel pretty much withdrew after the accident.
• Goals: Protect his new home, try and not get seriously hurt again.
• Appearance: Post-Suitfall appearance. Ignore the horns.◊
• Suit Appearance: The nine foot tall Titan is Daniel's suit. A bright red with dark green, almost black, details, including a set of horns and claws. A pair of large bat wings spread out from his back.
• Suit Purchases: Please put costs in parentheses next to these items so you can total them up more easily.
  • Suit Class: Medium
  • Suit Features: Flight (20), Natural Weapons (10)
  • Suit Body Type: Biped
  • Suit AI: Engineer (10)
  • User Interface: Brain Implant (20)
  • HUD: Hawkeye (5), Advanced Suit Status (5)
  • Comms: Radio Transmitter (0), Defense maze (10)
  • Weapons: Plasma Rifle (20), Plasma Pistol (Light Droid)
  • Defenses: Plasma Shield (15), EMP shield (10)
  • Drones: Light (5), Upgrade: Accuracy (5)
  • Upgrades and Utilities: Capacitor 1 (10), Cyberbrain (10), Environmental Control 2 (10), Veteran Soul (5)
  • Nanites: Mycellium (10), Hydra (10), Infused (10)
  • Final Stats:
    • Dexterity: 3
    • Durability: 3
    • Power: 4
    • Recovery: 4
    • Speed: 5
    • Strength: 3
  • Final Cost: 200

• Name: Elise Ainsworth
• Suit Name: Waifu Material(Or Waif, for short)
• Age: 21
• Gender: female
• Biography:
  • Elise is your typical nerdy shy mostly Asian girl who likes to spend her days indoors either watching anime or playing competitive vidya, like csgo and League of Legends, though she's not very good at them. Also, to her dismay, she's not very good with love because, one, she don't like the idea of being the dominant girl of the relationship and two, she don't think the girls in her high school is into kissing other girls.
  • So imagine her surprise that, when she got into a local college(for accountancy because her parents wanted her to, she's good at maths and scamming little kids online of their virtual goodies), a girl with her left arm covered in tattoos and half of her blond head shaven off swooned in and pick her up. The chemistry have surprisingly picking up despite the seemingly different lifestyle. Then her now official girlfriend ask if Elise wanted to go on a date. Doing an MMA class together. Elise thought that, hey, it's college so YOLO, and agreed to a date with a cutie rebel girl. Little did she know, after several weeks of getting her arse kicked, that she would love the sport and that her girlfriend is actually instructing the class as well(well, more like assisting the coach in the teachings but same thing) and have an orange belt in judo and white belt in kickboxing.
  • Of course, with her being a fragile flower previously been encapsulated in kawaii and dank memes now exposed to a world of hurt, she gets hurt. A lot. And half of their subsequent dates were her girlfriend chilling in Elise's crib and nursing her wounds. Of course, she enjoyed those chill times; watching Your Lie in April in a comfy bed together, post-ironically shouting rude Russian words in a game of csgo and talk shop and watch MMA but that's not the point. The point is that she wants to fight more often because it's so. Much. Fun.
• Goals: Fight a lot. But also she wants her victory to be fair and square. no tricky virus or long range stuff. She wants to beat her opponent down with her own suit covered fist. With that being said though, if her opponents wants to do something fishy, she'll punish them in kind...
• Appearance: What a cutie ◊
• Suit Appearance: Like this except no dude and replace the gun with a fist shaped pile bunker◊
• Suit Purchases:
  • Suit Class: Light
  • Suit Features: flight(20)
  • Suit Body Type: biped
  • Suit AI: agent(10)
  • User Interface: Brain Implant(20)
  • HUD: suit status,thermal vision(10)
  • Comms: terminal(10), defence maze(10)
  • Weapons: pile bunker taking a form of a fist, Elise call it the Vac Ban(20)
  • Defenses: heavy shield(10)+plasma shield(15) = bulwark of the weak, portable electronic jammer(15)
  • Drones: my arse
  • Upgrades and Utilities: Cyber Brain(10), martial arts(5), veteran soul(5), uplifted(10, let's call the AI Natalya, or more informally, Cyka Blyat), sub-amour pistons(10)
  • Nanites: Beserker(10), hydra(10)
  • Final Stats:
    • Dex: 4
    • Dur: 2(5 against blocked attack)
    • Pow: 2
    • Rec: 4
    • Spe: 4(6 in flight)
    • Stre: 3
  • Final Cost: 200

edited 5th Mar '16 7:36:19 PM by sgtpendulum

http://www.last.fm/user/sgtpendulum Yo, check out what I'm listening, it'll be heat, brah :^)

HEREWEGOBOIZ

I can come up with a lot of lore-like descriptiony stuff for each of the installed roles if you'd like me to, but I figured I would leave that out of First Submission so that you can just judge it mechanically for the time being.

It would also be nice if I could co-opt Crossfire from the Light abilities. While I don't make it a habit to ask the GM if I can break the rules he explicitly laid, I feel it's a better ability lore-wise for an electronic warfare mech.

• Name: Neil Findlay
• Suit Name: BSL-014 "Basilisk". It doesn't need to touch you to kill you. All it needs is line of sight...
• Age: 23
• Gender: Male
• Biography: Always an easygoing and a jokester-type person, Neil had a bit of a sheltered childhood, wherein he was exposed to electronics. Thus began a life-long love affair with the video game, the computer, and the Internet. Like many other people, Neil wasn't too sure what he wanted to do with his life, so he decided to get a degree in information technology... and found that he rather liked the task. Diving into networking, Neil's performance and certificates certainly impressed somebody, and he was accepted into an ISP as a network maintenance engineer, where he continues to serve with distinction, being one of the hardest workers in the Internet mines. While he is still at least somewhat hopeful, prolonged exposure to humanity does give one a few "jaded" ways of thinking.
• Goals: To be a force for good without directly engaging opponents. Why fight when you can assist the fighters - or expose the truth and prevent the fight from ever occurring at all? Of course, Neil is not stupid. Sometimes you will have to fight to hold the truth - you just need to choose when to fight. In the end, however, Neil strives to live by the creed of God from Futurama: "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
• Appearance: Aside from a set of green eyes and a near-permanent case of bedhead that refuses to be reigned in (he blames the curls), Neil doesn't look very descript. The most striking thing about his appearance is the bomber jacket he wears - something he decided looked pretty cool, but wasn't quite as fedorable as a trenchcoat. Notably, the bomber jacket carries two patches - the left breast with something nerdy but not obvious◊, and the right with something self-deprecatory. Sometimes, anyways. Physically, he at least does some basic exercise. He's not quite as built as someone who lifts for fun, but he's certainly not out-of-shape either.
• Suit Appearance: A Stryder from Titanfall makes up the base of this mech. The arms and legs have a fair bit of armor on them, referencing the higher than normal durability of the design. The paint job is a sage green/golden yellow job evocative of Lotus race cars, if they were spiky, (metaphorically) hacky giant robots.
• Suit Purchases: The Basilisk, as its name implies, is not built around direct action, but about making its allies' jobs easier through electronic warfare.
  • Suit Class: Medium. While a Light would have been selected, power needs necessitated a Medium-class build. The Basilisk thus carries Relentless, Feedback, and Courier.
  • Suit Features: Tremorsense, 10 pts
  • Suit Body Type: Hopper, 20 pts, +1 DEX/SPD
  • Suit AI: Soldier, 30 pts
  • User Interface: Manual, 30 pts
  • HUD: Suit Status/Adv. Suit Status/Radar/Sonar, 55 pts
  • Comms: All of them. Yes, all of them. 115 pts
  • Weapons: Machine Gun, 125 pts
  • Defenses: Hardwired ECM, 155 pts
  • Drones: Avatar w/Upgrade, 175 pts. As a special case, details about the Avatar are left to another post.
  • Upgrades/Utilities: Uplift, Ghost, Capacitor I, and Jump Jets/Medkit/Storage for free! 200 pts
  • Nanites: None. 200 pts
  • Final Stats
    • 4 Dexterity
    • 3 Durability
    • 6 Power
    • 4 Recovery
    • 6 Speed
    • 3 Strength
  • Final Cost: 200 points, on the docket.

edited 6th Mar '16 6:06:22 PM by SpartyMcFly

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

• Name: Serenity.
• Drone Name: T4R-SQ "Tarrasque"
• Age: Not even born when the during the first post of the RP.
• Gender: Female.
• Biography: She is an AI purchased with the points that come from suit creation, she has not exactly had a chance to live a life and develop a history yet, that will happen through play.
• Goals: To protect Neil Findlay, and to fuck around on the internet.
• Appearance: Normaly takes a kitsune for an avatar◊, although being an AI, its really whatever she feels like at the time.
• Drone Appearance: Something along the lines of this, the long stick thingy is a plasma shield◊
• Drone Purchases: (Upgraded avatar has 3 points, that can be spent to change body type, grant an upgrade, or be put on weapons)
  • Drone Class: Avatar (Counts as Mesh)
  • Suit Features: None
  • Suit Body Type: Armoured
  • User Interface: Direct AI Control
  • Weapons: Remote Explosives (Proximity mines)
  • Defenses: Plasma Sheild
  • Final Stats:
    • Dexterity: 3
    • Durability: 3 (6 when blocking)
    • Power: 1
    • Recovery: 5
    • Speed: 3
    • Strength: 1
  • Final Cost: 20 points, paid for by Spart.
• Special Notes: Serenity is Sparty's uplifted AI, piloting the upgraded avatar drone he purchased, however she will be played by me rather then him and treated as another player character.

edited 4th Mar '16 10:04:00 PM by Imca

• Name: Sven Somvold
• Suit Name: Troublesome Raven
• Age: 23
• Gender: Male

• Biography: an immigrant from northern Europe. As a child he came to America wondering what the land was like, if it was truly the exciting place that he had always seen in the movies. Unfortunately for Sven that turned out not to be the case in Marbury. Sven would grow into a man who had been bored with everyday life for a long time, his time in the town having driven him up the wall and made him feel he missed his chance at an exciting life. His job working at a local office building drilled into him a daily sense of monotony that left him an empty shell of a man who had nothing to live for but the 9 to 5. The only thing he wished for was something exciting to happen to him just once, and then suitfall happened and he got everything he wanted and more.

• Goals: Finding the strongest opponent he possibly can, not just fight against everyone. but specifically find someone that he is sure will give him the most exciting event of his life, even if he dies from it. Though he's not exactly keen on letting people kill innocents while he stands by.

• Appearance: Sven himself is around 6 feet tall, but he's very lanky in terms of body type, his hair is platinum blonde, and he has grey eyes that seem to have just had the life sucked out of them. Other than that he's well groomed thanks to having to not smell like a hobo for his office job.

• Suit Appearance: the Troublesome raven has an appearance similar to the laft kranz, but is slightly more ornate in appearance, looking more like a suit of armor from the middle ages rather than a high tech piece of weaponry.
  • Suit Class: Medium
  • Suit Features: total (15)
    • tremor sense (10)
    • Gills(5)

  • Suit Body Type: Hopper (10)
  • Suit AI: Soldier (10)

  • User Interface: Brain implant (20)

  • HUD: total (20)
    • suit status (0)
    • Advanced suit status (5)
    • Hawkeye (5)
    • Sonar (10)

  • Comms: (20)
    • Radiotransmitter (0)
    • Spider (5)
    • Spyware (5)
    • Freespace optical transmitter (10)

  • Weapons: (45)
    • Rocket pod (20)
    • pulse rifle (10)
    • Particle edged blade (15)

  • Defenses:
    • Heavy shield(10)

  • Drones: two light drones (10) each mounted with mortars

  • Upgrades and Utilities: total of (40)
    • Environmental controls II (10)
    • maneuvering rockets (10)
    • Cyber Brain (10)
    • Duelist (10)
    • Jump jets (0- come free with hopper body)

  • Nanites: none.

  • Final Stats:
    • Dexterity: 7
    • Durability: 3 (5 if blocked with shield)
    • Power: 4
    • Recovery: 4
    • Speed: 6
    • Strength: 3
  • Final Cost: 200

edited 8th Mar '16 1:04:22 PM by Bcom

Looks interesting. I'll post a character sheet after getting some sleep.

Taco I lovehate you. Love you because power armor, hate you because I knew the moment I saw this I wouldn't be able to sleep until I finished a signup.

• Name: Charlie Sheffield
• Suit Name: Hashashin
• Age: 27
• Gender: Male
• Biography: A man known best as "fuckin' Charlie" who dwells in shitty pubs and sketchy alleyways, Charlie is the premier weed dealer in Marbury. He's been arrested his fair share of times, and doesn't have the highest opinon of the law. Despite his rough-and-tumble attitude and his unkempt appearance, his parents had actually been quite wealthy. But Charlie didn't want to inheirit the family business, and after beating the shit out of his dad, he got disowned. Since then he's been going from place to place. He'd been working the streets of Marbury for a bit, and had actually just landed himself in a holding cell in the local police station when suitfall happened. Now Charlie's out to prove his dad wrong on the 'you'll never amount to anything' front...
• Goals: Steal shit, get rich, take over the town, then go from there. Basically become a badass crime boss.
• Appearance: A thin, pasty white guy, usually wearing a hoodie and sunglasses. Has greasy brown hair and beady brown eyes.
• Suit Appearance: "You're dead, buddy."◊
• Suit Purchases:
  • Suit Class: Mesh
  • Suit Features: Levitation, Gills (15)
  • Suit Body Type: Hunter (40)
  • Suit AI: None
  • User Interface: Brainwave Harness (10)
  • HUD: Night Vision, Thermal Vision, Radar (Free from Hunter), Hawkeye (5)
  • Comms: Radio Transmitter, Terminal (10)
  • Weapons: Plasma Bow, Plasma Blade - Katana (40)
  • Defenses: None
  • Drones: None
  • Upgrades and Utilities: Camouflage (free from Mesh), Capacitor I + II, Solar Panels, Photosynthetic Augment, Cyber Brain, Martial Arts, Veteran Soul (60)
  • Nanites: Mycelium I + II (20)
• Final Stats:

  • Dexterity: 9
  • Durability: 1
  • Power: 1
  • Recovery: 11
  • Speed: 3
  • Strength: 1

  • Final Cost: 200

edited 5th Mar '16 1:08:06 AM by kagescorpionakki

What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?

• Name: Odette "Odin the Allfather" Ahlgren
• Suit Name: Sleipnir - Cradle of Asgard
• Age: 23
• Gender: Female
• Biography: Odette Ahlgren is a young woman born of an US man of Scandinavian descent and his French wife who he met on a trip to Paris during his youth. The two of them settled in California where they had their darling daughter Odette. A petite young lady since she was young despite her father's prodigious height and her mother's rather average measurements, Odette would actually never grow beyond 4 feet and 11 inches of height, with a baby face that made her always appear younger than she was. Facing some teasing all her life specially when it came to athletics, Odette grew to take refuge among more quiet interests, such as literature, computers and some art. Become more than a bit of a geek, she decide to try her hand at Computer Science and start all over somewhere far away from home... Marbury, Massachussets. There in Greenville College she made a steady group of friends and found herself as an independent person... though it also only let a somewhat more bombastic and dramatic personality come out as she allowed herself to grow wilder and a bit less restrained. Having quite a bit of pride in her Scandinavian and European descent, she was a bit of a Nordic Geek to top it all off... and after reading a popular new book about Nordic Mythology and thus beginning to work with her college pals on a little RPG with such themes... it's safe to say her head was in Asgard when a certain box fell before her, heralding a new turn for her life.
• Goals: To obtain further improvements for her mech, herself and AI, have as much fun as she can, see if she can make some money or live in further comfort and grow herself a household. She will also steadfastly defend Greenville College, her house of study, from any harm that may come upon it. While not claiming to be the most lawful of them all, she'll try to stop any outright evil that is done with the suits.
• Appearance: Original , Avatar
• Suit Appearance: Sleipnir is a massive, Tauric mech of white and silver. Running upon four large legs and four more extra wing like attachments emerging from the same 'joint' which allow for levitation. Upon it's horse like torso lies the hangar from which it deploys its multiple drones and which can house allies and equipment. Access can come from beneath and either side through blast doors which can be sealed shut to prevent presenting any weak points. Upon the front, upper lenght of the taurian body of the mech lies the complex which marks Odin's sanctum called 'Valhalla', with a few rooms for storage, residence or to serve as common areas. Then on the humanoid body of the mech, lies Odin's inner sanctum and control rooms... among which lie the storage for her and Frigg's bodies, her memory palace named 'Asgard' and her control room of 'Hlidskjalf'.
• Suit Purchases:
  • Suit Class: Fortress
  • Suit Features: Levitation(10)
  • Suit Body Type: Tauric (20)
  • Suit AI: Engineer - Frigg (10)
  • User Interface: Brain Implant (20)
  • HUD: Suit Status (0), Radar (10), Hawkeye (5)
  • Comms: Radio Transmitter (0), Terminal (10)
  • Weapons: Helion Lance Rifle - Gungnir (20)
  • Defenses: None.
  • Drones: 2 Scouts Huginn and Muninn, 2 Medium Geri and Freki (Wolves with Natural Weapons T1 Vibroblade, One with Flame Thrower, the other with Freon Blaster), 2 Heavy Baldr and Thor (Both with Light Shields, one with a Particle Edge Blade and the other with an Ion Cannon) 2 Scavengers Brokkr and Eitri, 2 Avatars The Body of Odin and Frigg.
  • Upgrades and Utilities: Cyber Brain (10), Memory Palace (5), Veteran Soul (5), Environmental Controls I&II&III (20), Solar Panels (10), Storage (0), Medkit (0)
  • Nanites: None.
• Final Stats:
  • Dexterity: 1
  • Durability: 5
  • Power: 5
  • Recovery: 3
  • Speed: 4 (+1 when Levitating)
  • Strength: 6
• Final Cost: 200

edited 5th Mar '16 10:29:58 PM by daltar

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Hmm, a question before I make the suit. Is dual wielding allowed? I'm thinking about a melee focused suit.

Interest.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

mostly done by now, opinions?

edited 5th Mar '16 4:53:20 AM by Sergey_Smirnov

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"

@Sergey_Smirnov: After miscounting your costs repeatedly I've found that you check out just fine.

@Evi I Paladin: Adam Kraft and Red Bull are ready for launch!

@Aquatica: Daniel Lincoln rides again in Titan!

@sgtpendulum: Elise Ainsworth is ready to dunk scrubs in Waif.

@SpartyMcFly: Crossfire is really good and part of what makes Light balanced is their power restraints. This is an RP hook, though! Find another PC with a Light suit and make friends with them! Otherwise, you're good to go.

@Imca: T 4 R-SQ blasts into battle!

@Bcom: Duelist is so oriented on the roll Mechanics we don't use that it instead bumps you up 2 Dexterity (more cost-efficient because it locks out V. Soul and Martial Arts). Increase that stat and you'll be fine.

@kagescorpionakki: Charlie Sheffield in Hashashin is ready to strike!

@Undying Phoenix: Yeah, dual-wielding is just sort of something I think you should be able to do in these things. More advanced methods like Gun Kata require Veteran Soul or a Soldier AI to help you, though, otherwise, you're just holding two guns at once.

If I've missed anything or if you disagree with my rulings, please just shoot me a PM and lemme know! Also, we've got an overabundance of suits of Medium class and lower! Could we maybe have some suits that are Heavy or higher?

edited 5th Mar '16 1:13:47 PM by Taco

Fair enough. For a support suit, Courier does work pretty well in that role.

Time to hack the world.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

i'd be willing to switch to a heavy frame if you're asking people that have already posted to switch but I'm going to have to take some time to modify my build.