Yet another update.

• Team NAMI: Result - Villages
  • Medus: Villages
  • Alexia: Villages (Not Official Vote)
  • Ieria: Villages
  • Pius: Urujauni
• Team FLRR: Result - Arcana
  • Rheia: Alexandros
  • Lucas: Arcana
  • Remus: Arcana
  • Jack: Arcana
• Team SOLR: Result - Villages
  • Sylvia: ??
  • Sechs: Villages
  • Yun: Villages
  • Rufus: Villages
• Team GRAY: Result - Shane
  • Falken: Shane
  • Hope: Shane
  • Ayers: Shane
  • Imuka: Shane
• Team MAGC:
  • Mau: Alexandros
  • Ai: ??
  • Glen: Shane
  • Charisse: Alexandros
• Team TANC:
  • Alfred: Alexandros
  • Noa: ??
  • Stormer: Alexandros
  • Cyanea: ??

So now we have Villages filled up, Team FLRR is scouting for Arcana in Hell, and Team GRAY is checking on Shane. Three other plots and the option to stay at Beacon remain unfilled, and the Arcana and Shane paths now only have one more team slot each.

Maybe that makes more sense (even if it denies me my precious alliterations).

The gist of it is to allow beast-master types letting loose with a pack of vicious super soldier dogs.

Edit: Cybernetics also makes sense, I guess, but I imagined the practice having roots long before such tech was theorized.

edited 15th Oct '15 10:46:35 PM by God_of_Awesome

Alright, opnerf has made their vote somewhere else.

Therefore: Current Mission Standings is as follows.

• Team NAMI: Villages
• Team SOLR: Villages
• Team FLRR: Hell
• Team GRAY: Shane
• Team MAGC: (Via coin toss) Shane, at least initially
• Team TANC: Pending

Also, I'd like to announce that during these missions, one of my goals is to test our improv skills. Therefore, I will be using an experimental system. That's right. The dreaded dice gods. Pray for natural 20s my friends.

Each character also has a roll modifier.

(Note: Combat uses different rolls, and also like always, if your post makes sense to hit/damage/etc)

Here they are.

(Luk rolls, determined by both backstory and in-RP experiences...not to mention, just general luck.)

• Pius: -3
• Alexia: -1
• Medus: +3
• Ieria: -1
• Sylvia: 0
• Sechs: 0
• Yun: +5
• Rufus: -4
• Rheia: -2
• Lucas: -4
• Jack: -4
• Remus: +3
• Falken: 0
• Hope: -4
• Ayers: -2
• Imuka: -3
• Mau: 0
• Ai: +3
• Glen: -3
• Charisse: 0
• Alfred: -4
• Stormer: -4
• Noa: -3
• Cyanea: 0

....Welp. That looks kinda bad. Like, really bad.

edited 16th Oct '15 1:33:58 AM by GrimHelm

...Looks like Blind and Blinder is not getting any good luck anytime soon. (-__-')

How the fuck does Yun have a +5 when he lost his eye?

I think Grim mentioned on Skype that it was due to the harem he's getting. Or something.

Clealy, Imuka just needs to seduce more people

That would be +5 CHA not LCK

Yunnn, you're with me.

edited 16th Oct '15 11:19:01 AM by God_of_Awesome

but you see

Grim, bless his innocent little heart, associates owning a harem with luck

Therefore CHA = LCK somehow

Luck favors the bold, so there might be something to that :P

@Luck/Charisma: I think luck also plays a part, considering he didn't try to charm Hope or Sophie.

I don't know how to respond to...wait, what was that about the harem I'm getting?"

edited 16th Oct '15 10:22:29 PM by svenorzokarkoff

I am pleased to announce that Bloodplum's replacement has arrived quickly in the form of Grigori Nikitich, and we are renaming Team TANC to Team TANG.

How are we removing Cyanea from the RP, Grim?

edited 17th Oct '15 10:35:18 PM by Insano

TANG(O?)

STAN?

AG(E)NT(S)?

STAG?

@Team names:

STAG

TAGS

TANG(Tangelo/Tangerine)

SATN (Satin/Satan)

GNTA (Gunmetal)

TANN(Tannin/Tan)

SANG (Sangria)

Grim approves of TANG. So it shall be.

Grim is a wee bit of a sadist.

I guess I'll enter at Novus 5.

Okay, 6th it is.

edited 18th Oct '15 12:08:25 PM by Ore-O

...I think Grim's implying that your character arrived on the 6th...

Hunting Dogs

The practice of breeding dogs for the purpose of hunting monsters is a really old one. Since before the Great War, it's fallen out of practice in the face of improving man-wielded weaponry. It's become a niche practice now.

The modern result is still fearsome. Great big hounds the size of ponies, sizable pools of aura and sharp cunning. These beasts are directed by their handler, either to fight instead or alongside their master. This depends entirely on the preferences of their trainer.

To give them an extra edge, some hound masters 'arm' their dogs. They are outfitted with collars bearing small vials of specially made dust. At the flip of a switch, this dust is injected into the dog, giving them a number of physical and elemental enhancements.

Dust injection is already a niche practice with humans and faunus, some consider it a waste of dust. There are hound masters that either don't care, think it's worth it or believe that careful use will mitigate that.

There's also the question of ethics. Although the science behind dust injections has a long history of refinement, there are those who point out that the subjects are normally humans and faunus who do it to themselves. Again, there are hound masters who don't care, think it's worth it, believe careful use will mitigate that or that obviously their dogs must enjoy the rush of power as much as they do.

This later group can often be found fighting alongside their dogs, veins pumped full of dust as well.

edited 18th Oct '15 11:42:56 AM by God_of_Awesome

I did think the whole black dogs being rare and badluck would have been interesting.

I was gonna include that in an entry with a sample hound master and his dogs, a guy who saved a trio of pups from being drowned after they were born with black coats.

Hey, look supplementary materials. Like I said, writing keeps me sane. Also, you know the deal with me and and shipping.

Metallic Love Stories: A Beacon Ultimate Miniseries

Part I-Beginnings

Gold: Chapter One

Lucretia Vale, aged seventeen, was nervous. Okay, let us get this straight, it was not like her at all to be nervous. Usually, the young princess was all stubborness, and temper, and fire. However, in this situation, she felt justified in being nervous.

Lucretia Vale, crown princess, had ran away from home to become a Huntress. Well, alright, that was overstating things. She didn't really run away from home. That would have started a national catastrophe. However, Lu's parents had not known that she was planning on attending Beacon until after she had already enrolled herself qnd was on the airship going there.

...Yes, her parents were not very amused. Her mother (also named Lucretia. The twentieth to bear that name, in fact. That wasn't confusing at all. Ugh. This was why Lu swore that she would not give her own children any of the traditional royal names) had never really gotten along with Lu all that well, since the Queen was a very traditional sort and wanted Lu to be a proper lady. Lu was very much not a proper lady. She did not believe in that lovely and demure crap, thank you.

However, Lu very much took after her father, Hector. Her father was a military man. A silent but steady presence in her life. Her father had told her stories of Grimm and of human warfare. That was when she knew what to do. She was a descendant of the Knight Queen. Lucretia was not going to stay safely behind stone walls while others fought and died for her kingdom. No, she would be right there in the frontlines. She was going to fight.

....Hence why she had enrolled at Beacon behind her parents's backs. As the airship landed at Beacon's great skydocks, Lucretia let out a breath to try and get rid of her nervousness. She hoped Father could calm Mother down and convince her not to pull Lu out of Beacon. ....Who was she kidding, she was dead meat for sure.

Carrying her bags, mind occupied, Lu walked stiffly out of the airship, down the ramp and into the skydocks. Unfortunately for the young princess, not looking where you were going was a bad idea. Who knew, right?

Lu bashed against something very solid, sending the petite girl back. She growled, and looked at whatever she bumped into. She froze. That guy...was definitely Sir Bors Cruz Aguila. He was Mother's knight. The Queen must have sent him to take her back to the palace.

Lu never swore, but oh shit.

Fortunately for our princess, Sir Bors did not seem to recognize the girl he had bumped into yet. Hooray for a new haircut and baggy jackets.

Lu did the most sensible thing. She dropped her bags and ran like hell.

Okay, maybe running like hell wasn't such a good idea. Mainly because Sir Bors had recognized her and chased after.

So now Lu was running as fast as she could across the Beacon grounds, dodging students, plants, and the occasional explosive device. No biggie.

Small mercies: Sir Bors was pushing sixty and Lu was pretty fast for a scrawny teenaged girl. However, that didn't mean she could lose the old coot. The man had a tracking sense better than most hunting dogs.

....And then Lu smashed into someone. Again. Oh, for Dust's sake, what is up with that?!

"Oww!"

Fortunately, this time she didn't topple over. Because the guy had grabbed her to stop her from falling. Lucretia locked eyes with the boy who she would love forever and eventually marry.

Her first thought? Wow, what a hick!

Indeed, the redheaded boy looked so much like a stereotypical farmboy that it wasn't even funny. He was tall, broad-shouldered and built like a tank. His wild red hair went everywhere underneath that goofy hat. He was wearing overalls, for the love of Dust! And was that cow manure on his boots? She was pretty sure it was cow manure.

But his eyes....they were the most brilliant shade of green she had ever seen. They sort of...sparkled.

Lu blushed. Now was not the time to be distracted by pretty eyes!

It took Lu a second to notice that the boy was speaking. "Whoah there! Ye alright, ma'am?"

Wow, what was that accent?

Lu glanced behind her and noticed that Sir Bors was gaining. Cursing, she broke the boy's grip and kept running.

She hadn't been running for long when she noticed something...off. Namely that the boy was running besides her, easily keeping pace with a relaxed jog.

What.

"Ma'am, that was mighty rude of ya. My ma always says, ye have to 'pologize when ye run into some'un." the boy said, sounding like he was giving her a lecture.

Bwuh?

"W-w-what?" sputtered Lu, completely flabbergasted.

"Wuz I unclear, ma'am? I wuz sayin'...Oh. There's some old timer followin' us. Is he chasin' after ye?"

Huh. He seemed to have noticed Sir Bors.

"What gave it away?" replied Lu, in her native tongue. That is, sarcasm.

The boy looked thoughtful. "Well, ma'am, ya seem to be runnin' away from somethin' and this man is runnin' t'wards us, so..." he said with a completely serious look on his face.

Lu gaped at him even as they ran. Was this guy for real?!

"I was being sarcastic!"

"Ah. Ma always says, I'm not very good with catchin' that."

Lucretia sighed. "Look, why are you even running? This has nothing to do with you. I'm sorry for bumping into you. I've apologized, so please leave me alone.

The boy smiled and wow, he was really attractive. Wait, no! Bad Lu! Shut up!

"I reckon I can't leave ye now, Ma'am. My Pa always says, help everyone who needs it!"

And with that, the boy grabbed her hand and led her off.

"H-h-hey!"

Lucretia might have been a firey brat of a tomboy (Or so Mother said), but she was still a sheltered princess and the boy was holding her hand. Nobody had ever done that, and she was pretty sure she was blushing.

"H-hey! W-what are you even doing?!"

"Ma'am, do ya have some manner of stutterin' disease or somethin'?"

....Lu almost punched him on the nose, the stupid jerkface.

"Where are we going?! Do you even know!"

He grinned at her. "Nope!"

She almost stopped just to facepalm. "You have got to be kidding me!"

He grinned again, completely unrepentant. "It's kinda like an adventure, Ma'am!"

....She was going to murder him.

Unfortunately for them, the boy was looking back at her and didn't see the brick wall in front of the. And he smashed into it.

Lucretia wondered if the gods of karma just...really liked people smashing into things.

The boy fell over backward, and Lu had to move to avoid getting pancaked by the big ox.

"Nice." she commented, rolling her eyes.

"That was sarcasm, wasn' it?"

"Yes. Yes, it was."

The boy smiled even as he looked dizzy, sprawled on the ground. "Yee-haw! I'm gettin' better at spottin' it."

Lu almost giggled. It was sort-of adorable...in a moronic way.

Bad news, though. That little episode meant that Sir Bors had caught up with them.

"Milady! You must return with me!" the old knight yelled.

Lu cursed. "No! I won't be just a painted doll, not doing anything! I want to fight! I can fight as well as anyone! I'm not weak, Bors!"

"But, princess!"

"...Wait one darn second here."

The boy suddenly spoke. "Princess? Yer a princess, ma'am?"

He sounded awed.

Lu sighed. Cat's out of the bag now...

"...Yeah."

The boy stood up, a weird look on his face.

....Then he leaned over and kissed her on the lips!

Bors looked scandalized.

Lu, however, had gone completely nuclear. She thought she had been blushing before? Nope. Now she was bright red, puffing out steam and could barely breathe.

She punched him in the face.

"Oww!"

"What the fuck was that, you bloody asshole?!"

Bors looked even more scandalized at her language.

"H-hey, ma'am, my Pa always says...ye had to kiss a noble lady in greetin', right? I wuz just givin' ye the proper respect."

The idiot had the balls to look confused!

"ON THE HAND, YOU BUFFOON!"

Lucretia Alisa Vale never forgot that day. Throughout her stay at Beacon, and on to the years beyond.

Funnily enough, her feelings towards the matter kept changing. At first she was furious, then embarassed...

Nowadays, the Queen looks back on it fondly. A funny little story and an inside joke that she would share with the boy, her husband, Percival Leonhardt.

Next Time on Metallic Love Stories:

Silver: Chapter One

Laeticia von Rivale, aged eighteen, was excited...

And so the last vote has been cast.

• Team NAMI: Result - Villages
  • Medus: Villages
  • Alexia: Villages (Not Official Vote)
  • Ieria: Villages
  • Pius: Urujauni
• Team FLRR: Result - Arcana
  • Rheia: Alexandros
  • Lucas: Arcana
  • Remus: Arcana
  • Jack: Arcana
• Team SOLR: Result - Villages
  • Sylvia: ??
  • Sechs: Villages
  • Yun: Villages
  • Rufus: Villages
• Team GRAY: Result - Shane
  • Falken: Shane
  • Hope: Shane
  • Ayers: Shane
  • Imuka: Shane
• Team MAGC: Result - Shane, at least initially
  • Mau: Alexandros
  • Ai: Shane
  • Glen: Shane
  • Charisse: Alexandros
• Team TANG: Result - Alexandros
  • Alfred: Alexandros
  • Noa: Shane
  • Stormer: Alexandros
  • As Grigori is new and uninformed, he does not get a vote.

So there it is. On Novus 10th, Teams NAMI and SOLR will investigate the matter of mysteriously destroyed villages, Team GRAY will check on Shane (with MAGC joining them for part of it, apparently), Team FLRR will investigate Arcana in Hell, and Team TANG will travel to Glen's homeland to see what Alexandros is up to.

edited 19th Oct '15 6:59:27 AM by Insano

Hmm...

How was the maid cafe assigned?