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''Alpha Outpost Blues'' is an online {{Play By Post Game|s}}, hosted on the [=RedvsBlue.com=] site forums before they were merged into roosterteeth.com. It is based loosely on both the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Haloverse]] and ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' canon, yet what specifically is undetermined and there's absolutely NoFourthWall to be found.
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''Alpha Outpost Blues'' is an online {{Play By Post Game|s}}, hosted on the [=RedvsBlue.com=] site forums before they were merged into roosterteeth.com. It is based loosely on both the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Haloverse]] and ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' canon, yet what specifically is undetermined and there's absolutely NoFourthWall to be found.
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->''"Protip: get a bit crazy, it keeps you from going completely insane."''
-->--'''Lieutenant Colonel Peter 'Mega' Firebrand'''
''Alpha Outpost Blues'' is an online {{Play By Post Game|s}}, hosted on the [=RedvsBlue.com=] site forums before they were merged into roosterteeth.com. It is based loosely on both the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Haloverse]] and ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' canon, yet what specifically is undetermined and there's absolutely NoFourthWall to be found.
On a planet named ''Undae'' a lot of armies are based, one of these being the Blue Army's Twelfth Armored Cavalry, generally just referred to as the blues. They are led by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Firebrand and-
No, no, this just isn't the right way to describe it.
Alpha Outpost Blues is the tale of the Blue Army, which consists of several crazy, murderous, sociopathic, if not downright insane soldiers, as they deal with all sorts of crap that goes against logic, physics, common sense and damn near everything else one can imagine. When they aren't fighting enemies from their past or back-from-the-dead no-longer-allies, they're either finding underground caves, Forerunner ships, magical crystals, or simply fighting among themselves.
There are occasionally underlying plots, but these generally take a back seat compared to the wacky hijinks the characters get themselves into.
The first version of the roleplay can be found [[https://roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2211861?page=1 here]], with its remake found [[https://roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2217049?page=1 here]]. It petered out, and received a sequel in ''[[https://screwattack.roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2225152?page=1 West Mountain Blues]]'', where the blue crew moved to the deserted planet Tribute. Once that roleplay finished in 2012, it received another sequel in ''[[https://roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2234194?page=1 Sigma Outpost Blues]]''.
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!!''Alpha Outpost Blues'' contains examples of:
* AnotherDimension: Finch and Cam have somehow ended up in the Multiverse RP.
%%* ArtificialHuman: Sarah, the daughter of Mega and Fox
%%* AxCrazy: Numerous characters, most notably Pete and Sam.
* AuthorAvatar:
** Lucas, Indy's creator is a literal example, as he is a teenager who is a PhysicalGod within the realms of West Mountain.
** Cam is a less literal example because his character is modeled directly from his own personality. Though not a physical god, he slices through the fourth wall like it's butter.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The longer you're around, the higher your rank, and more ridiculous stuff you can get away with.
%%* AwesomeButImpractical: Experimental weapons, and the radiation bomb fall under this trope.
* BackFromTheDead: Quadruply so for the AI, Skysong. Naturally he isn't too happy about this.
%%** [[spoiler:Captain Pete]]
%%** Captain Red's back too, seems like Captains do this a lot.
%%** [[spoiler:Sarah, too.]]
%%* BadassFamily: Mega and Fox with the addition of their robot daughter, Sarah.
%%* BattleCouple: Mega and Fox.
%%* BearsAreBadNews: The Mutant Bears.
* {{BFG}}: Due to the GadgeteerGenius nature of many of the characters, there are several throughout the RP, most notably Mega's KMG (Knife Machine Gun).
%%* BigBad: It's safe to call Pete this.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The RP has shown to have a corrupting effect on the players, because relatively nice characters have insanity in a month. The most sane person is Major Tori Roberts, who's method are pretty standard. The most insane person is Cam, who loves the base itself more than the people inside it. Cam summed it up nicely:
-->"This base is a black hole that consumes all innocence and sanity. That's what makes us us."
%%* BoredWithInsanity: "My mind is still adjusting to sanity. It was bound to happen."
%%* BoringYetPractical: Indy during his time BroughtDownToNormal was the embodiment of this trope.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Mostly done by Cam and Mega. Cam knows he's in an RP, while Mega can hear the [[InAndOutOfCharacter out of character]] talk as voices in his head.
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer: Numerous characters. Best seen in Nomad.
%%* ButtMonkey: Everyone has their turn. Indy gets it the most often though.
* CerebusRollercoaster: The role-play never actually settles down into a definitive genre. One page it could be a life or death mission capturing a rampant AI on an abandoned ship, and another page is seeing what the resident nut is up to. To put things in perspective, [[{{Troperiffic}} every trope on this page has been played for laughs, and for drama at least once.]]
* CloningBlues: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Mega's view of the Blue Crystals. When asked which one is the 'real one', they reply with: 'who the hell cares?'
%%* ClusterFBomb: Oh so very much...
%%* ColonelBadass: Lieutenant Colonel Peter 'Mega' Firebrand.
* ComedicSociopathy: Being run solely by lovers of the ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' series, naturally this is prevalent throughout.
* CoolCar:
** The Warthog that is customized and pimped by WO-2 Marc Draak. It has an auto-target gun on the back with 5 barrels and a Electric Discharge Grenade launcher. It has multiple layers of plating and is the fastest vechicle around.
** Thijs and Indy made a pretty cool forklift. It has two mini mac cannons and a slipspace engine.
%%* {{Cyborg}}: [[RobotGirl Fox]], Mega's girlfriend.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A lot of unactive characters got a bridge dropped in their lap after the Captain's last battle. Only some of them have gotten better.
%%** [[spoiler: Captain Red]] He got better.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Pete's hideout at Froman is mostly underground.
%%** The original West Mountain base was this trope.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:BigBad Pete]] helping against the Salt Vampires.
* ExpansionPackPast: The characters that have been around for a while tend to develop this. Especially the Captain as of late. He's gone from a military scientist from Reach, to a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord]] (since retconned out), finally to being adopted as a Sangheili warrior.
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Indy went from good to evil and back to good.
%%* AFatherToHisMen: Mega, sometimes. Loc was certainly fatherly to us.
%%* FourthWallObserver: Cam easily qualifies.
* FunWithForeignLanguages: A lot of the writers come from the Netherlands, so one can occasionally find a whole page of dutch conversation between characters. The other soldiers must have an ''extremely'' specific WeirdnessCensor for them to accept their usually English-speaking coworkers to suddenly break out in Dutch despite having no history of even being ''in'' the Netherlands.
%%* HeroicComedicSociopath: It's very hard to find someone on the Blues' side that isn't this. Major Tori Roberts might be one of the only ones.
* GadgeteerGenius:
** Popularised by Captain Pete, then expanded on by the WetwareCPU Skysong, now every man and his dog/rabbit/crow has got on-board.
** Indy is now the resident GadgeteerGenius as he can make anything in an instant.
* GreenRocks: Cam has the white crystal now. [[spoiler: it is made out of super compressed partials of space and time and has the potential to DestroyLifeAsWeKnowIt.]]
%%** Mega's crystals.
* ICallItVera: Cam's revolver. He calls it Shelby.
* KilledOffForReal: After some ambiguity as to whether he survived or not, it's finally confirmed that [[spoiler:Ex-Captain Pete]] is dead for good.
%%** [[spoiler:Major Steele]]
%%* LampshadeHanging: Several characters.
%%* MadScientist:
%%** Mega, sometimes.
%%** Indy's starting to get doses of this.
%%* ManChild: As is the case when mostly fully grown characters are authored by mostly teenagers, just about everyone fits this trope.
* NoFourthWall: Whatsoever. The fourth wall is more like a fourth door. A few of the actual players have even ended up entering the roleplay.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: Cam shot out your knee again? Go join a union, you big baby.
-->"Why haven't we court marshaled Band yet?"\\
"If we court marshal him, we'd have to court marshal everyone. I'm not doing all that fucking paperwork just to lose my job."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Even though he's one of the longest fixtures in the story, no one knows what Lieutenant Nomad's real name is.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are made out of salt.
%%* SanitySlippage: Again, damn near everyone, although it comes to light best in Skysong/Sierra.
* SchizoTech:The base has nano technology, technopaths, and advanced mechs. Yet the technology for everything is still Halo based, meaning that we still use cars and guns with bullets.
%%* SharedMassHallucination: Poor Indy... CalPal is starting to get a taste of it too. Stupid Indy... Leaking his brain juice everywhere...
* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: Alpha Outpost can be on the 'Beyond No Fourth Wall' side of things at times.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Sergeant Indy took the mantle of computer chief while Sky was offline. Zany antics ensued.
%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how!
* RuleOfCool:
** The Lieutenant Colonel has a machine gun that fires knives. And it's not the craziest thing to be invented there.
** Cam has a revolver that fires nukes, that explode into revolvers that fire nukes...
%%* SomethingBlues
%%* {{Technopath}}: Indy is one of these, through implants.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Just exactly why are these guys still in the army? Subverted in Skysong, who actually had to pay for his crimes against the [[BearsAreBadNews Mutant Bears]]. There is the theory that Command placed them there to get rid of them.
%%* VillainProtagonist: At times.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Some players (and therefore, their characters) tend to disappear quite often.
%%* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Binx. 'Nuff said.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** The orange, purple and blue crystals have this as a side-effect to their otherwise beneficial powers.
** Could also apply to the higher ranking officers. Good lord, are they a bunch of psychopaths.
** Indy's technopathic abilities give him split personality disorder, and to stop that he had to be BroughtDownToNormal.
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->''"Protip: get a bit crazy, it keeps you from going completely insane."''
-->--'''Lieutenant Colonel Peter 'Mega' Firebrand'''
''Alpha Outpost Blues'' is an online {{Play By Post Game|s}}, hosted on the [=RedvsBlue.com=] site forums before they were merged into roosterteeth.com. It is based loosely on both the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Haloverse]] and ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' canon, yet what specifically is undetermined and there's absolutely NoFourthWall to be found.
On a planet named ''Undae'' a lot of armies are based, one of these being the Blue Army's Twelfth Armored Cavalry, generally just referred to as the blues. They are led by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Firebrand and-
No, no, this just isn't the right way to describe it.
Alpha Outpost Blues is the tale of the Blue Army, which consists of several crazy, murderous, sociopathic, if not downright insane soldiers, as they deal with all sorts of crap that goes against logic, physics, common sense and damn near everything else one can imagine. When they aren't fighting enemies from their past or back-from-the-dead no-longer-allies, they're either finding underground caves, Forerunner ships, magical crystals, or simply fighting among themselves.
There are occasionally underlying plots, but these generally take a back seat compared to the wacky hijinks the characters get themselves into.
The first version of the roleplay can be found [[https://roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2211861?page=1 here]], with its remake found [[https://roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2217049?page=1 here]]. It petered out, and received a sequel in ''[[https://screwattack.roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2225152?page=1 West Mountain Blues]]'', where the blue crew moved to the deserted planet Tribute. Once that roleplay finished in 2012, it received another sequel in ''[[https://roosterteeth.com/forum/forum-games/topic/2234194?page=1 Sigma Outpost Blues]]''.
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!!''Alpha Outpost Blues'' contains examples of:
* AnotherDimension: Finch and Cam have somehow ended up in the Multiverse RP.
%%* ArtificialHuman: Sarah, the daughter of Mega and Fox
%%* AxCrazy: Numerous characters, most notably Pete and Sam.
* AuthorAvatar:
** Lucas, Indy's creator is a literal example, as he is a teenager who is a PhysicalGod within the realms of West Mountain.
** Cam is a less literal example because his character is modeled directly from his own personality. Though not a physical god, he slices through the fourth wall like it's butter.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The longer you're around, the higher your rank, and more ridiculous stuff you can get away with.
%%* AwesomeButImpractical: Experimental weapons, and the radiation bomb fall under this trope.
* BackFromTheDead: Quadruply so for the AI, Skysong. Naturally he isn't too happy about this.
%%** [[spoiler:Captain Pete]]
%%** Captain Red's back too, seems like Captains do this a lot.
%%** [[spoiler:Sarah, too.]]
%%* BadassFamily: Mega and Fox with the addition of their robot daughter, Sarah.
%%* BattleCouple: Mega and Fox.
%%* BearsAreBadNews: The Mutant Bears.
* {{BFG}}: Due to the GadgeteerGenius nature of many of the characters, there are several throughout the RP, most notably Mega's KMG (Knife Machine Gun).
%%* BigBad: It's safe to call Pete this.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The RP has shown to have a corrupting effect on the players, because relatively nice characters have insanity in a month. The most sane person is Major Tori Roberts, who's method are pretty standard. The most insane person is Cam, who loves the base itself more than the people inside it. Cam summed it up nicely:
-->"This base is a black hole that consumes all innocence and sanity. That's what makes us us."
%%* BoredWithInsanity: "My mind is still adjusting to sanity. It was bound to happen."
%%* BoringYetPractical: Indy during his time BroughtDownToNormal was the embodiment of this trope.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Mostly done by Cam and Mega. Cam knows he's in an RP, while Mega can hear the [[InAndOutOfCharacter out of character]] talk as voices in his head.
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer: Numerous characters. Best seen in Nomad.
%%* ButtMonkey: Everyone has their turn. Indy gets it the most often though.
* CerebusRollercoaster: The role-play never actually settles down into a definitive genre. One page it could be a life or death mission capturing a rampant AI on an abandoned ship, and another page is seeing what the resident nut is up to. To put things in perspective, [[{{Troperiffic}} every trope on this page has been played for laughs, and for drama at least once.]]
* CloningBlues: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Mega's view of the Blue Crystals. When asked which one is the 'real one', they reply with: 'who the hell cares?'
%%* ClusterFBomb: Oh so very much...
%%* ColonelBadass: Lieutenant Colonel Peter 'Mega' Firebrand.
* ComedicSociopathy: Being run solely by lovers of the ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' series, naturally this is prevalent throughout.
* CoolCar:
** The Warthog that is customized and pimped by WO-2 Marc Draak. It has an auto-target gun on the back with 5 barrels and a Electric Discharge Grenade launcher. It has multiple layers of plating and is the fastest vechicle around.
** Thijs and Indy made a pretty cool forklift. It has two mini mac cannons and a slipspace engine.
%%* {{Cyborg}}: [[RobotGirl Fox]], Mega's girlfriend.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: A lot of unactive characters got a bridge dropped in their lap after the Captain's last battle. Only some of them have gotten better.
%%** [[spoiler: Captain Red]] He got better.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Pete's hideout at Froman is mostly underground.
%%** The original West Mountain base was this trope.
* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:BigBad Pete]] helping against the Salt Vampires.
* ExpansionPackPast: The characters that have been around for a while tend to develop this. Especially the Captain as of late. He's gone from a military scientist from Reach, to a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord]] (since retconned out), finally to being adopted as a Sangheili warrior.
* FaceHeelRevolvingDoor: Indy went from good to evil and back to good.
%%* AFatherToHisMen: Mega, sometimes. Loc was certainly fatherly to us.
%%* FourthWallObserver: Cam easily qualifies.
* FunWithForeignLanguages: A lot of the writers come from the Netherlands, so one can occasionally find a whole page of dutch conversation between characters. The other soldiers must have an ''extremely'' specific WeirdnessCensor for them to accept their usually English-speaking coworkers to suddenly break out in Dutch despite having no history of even being ''in'' the Netherlands.
%%* HeroicComedicSociopath: It's very hard to find someone on the Blues' side that isn't this. Major Tori Roberts might be one of the only ones.
* GadgeteerGenius:
** Popularised by Captain Pete, then expanded on by the WetwareCPU Skysong, now every man and his dog/rabbit/crow has got on-board.
** Indy is now the resident GadgeteerGenius as he can make anything in an instant.
* GreenRocks: Cam has the white crystal now. [[spoiler: it is made out of super compressed partials of space and time and has the potential to DestroyLifeAsWeKnowIt.]]
%%** Mega's crystals.
* ICallItVera: Cam's revolver. He calls it Shelby.
* KilledOffForReal: After some ambiguity as to whether he survived or not, it's finally confirmed that [[spoiler:Ex-Captain Pete]] is dead for good.
%%** [[spoiler:Major Steele]]
%%* LampshadeHanging: Several characters.
%%* MadScientist:
%%** Mega, sometimes.
%%** Indy's starting to get doses of this.
%%* ManChild: As is the case when mostly fully grown characters are authored by mostly teenagers, just about everyone fits this trope.
* NoFourthWall: Whatsoever. The fourth wall is more like a fourth door. A few of the actual players have even ended up entering the roleplay.
* NoSuchThingAsHR: Cam shot out your knee again? Go join a union, you big baby.
-->"Why haven't we court marshaled Band yet?"\\
"If we court marshal him, we'd have to court marshal everyone. I'm not doing all that fucking paperwork just to lose my job."
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Even though he's one of the longest fixtures in the story, no one knows what Lieutenant Nomad's real name is.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are made out of salt.
%%* SanitySlippage: Again, damn near everyone, although it comes to light best in Skysong/Sierra.
* SchizoTech:The base has nano technology, technopaths, and advanced mechs. Yet the technology for everything is still Halo based, meaning that we still use cars and guns with bullets.
%%* SharedMassHallucination: Poor Indy... CalPal is starting to get a taste of it too. Stupid Indy... Leaking his brain juice everywhere...
* SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness: Alpha Outpost can be on the 'Beyond No Fourth Wall' side of things at times.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot: Sergeant Indy took the mantle of computer chief while Sky was offline. Zany antics ensued.
%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: And how!
* RuleOfCool:
** The Lieutenant Colonel has a machine gun that fires knives. And it's not the craziest thing to be invented there.
** Cam has a revolver that fires nukes, that explode into revolvers that fire nukes...
%%* SomethingBlues
%%* {{Technopath}}: Indy is one of these, through implants.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Just exactly why are these guys still in the army? Subverted in Skysong, who actually had to pay for his crimes against the [[BearsAreBadNews Mutant Bears]]. There is the theory that Command placed them there to get rid of them.
%%* VillainProtagonist: At times.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Some players (and therefore, their characters) tend to disappear quite often.
%%* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Binx. 'Nuff said.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** The orange, purple and blue crystals have this as a side-effect to their otherwise beneficial powers.
** Could also apply to the higher ranking officers. Good lord, are they a bunch of psychopaths.
** Indy's technopathic abilities give him split personality disorder, and to stop that he had to be BroughtDownToNormal.
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