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foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#126: Sep 6th 2015 at 10:31:55 AM

I may bring in a military commander whose subordinates were never established in the fiction that he's from. Can I create OCs to represent his crew?

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#127: Sep 6th 2015 at 10:34:15 AM

[up][up]Looking forward to it!

[up]Hmm....Possibly I can allow an exception to the no OC rule for that, if there are no cannon characters for him to work with for supporting cast. What's the work you're puling from?

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#128: Sep 6th 2015 at 10:34:56 AM

Thanks.

Should I PM it to you?

edited 6th Sep '15 10:35:25 AM by foxmccloud4387

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#129: Sep 6th 2015 at 10:35:32 AM

If you like, we can move this to PM.

Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#130: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:04:30 AM

I am interested in this RP, but before I post a sign up sheet and potentially waste the everyone's time I'd like to ask this:

the characters (and they would be a chunkless just for reference) I'm interested in bringing in are pilots with giant robots. Would the characters be allowed to have these giant robots with them as their equipment?

if the robots are ok, can I nerf them down to the size of the transformers, or perhaps even powered armor? Because these robots can be very big and I can already see balance issues occurring with their normal size.

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#131: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:07:57 AM

[up]Am I safe in assuming this is a Gundam signup? Probably not safe, now I've jinxed myself and it'll be from something else

Anyway, Transformers size is the maximum allowable size without throwing any notion of balance out the window, yes. Not sure if they'd need to be nerfed further, depends on what it is.

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
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#132: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:10:55 AM

Hello again, friends! After some thought, I've decided I want to retry my prior choice of City 17 and will be copypasting my signup below. Let me know if there's any issues or anything.


  • Main Character
    • Name: Dr. Wallace Breen
    • Age: 60
    • Appearance: grump
    • Personality: Breen takes immense pride in his puppet rule of the capitol of the Universal Union's Empire (colloquially known as the Combine). He is cocky, snide and immensely condescending, belittling nearly everyone he speaks to in some way and masking it behind a flimsy veneer of feigned politeness. What scruples he does have are flimsy at best, hypocritical and nonexistent at worst, as he has effectively discarded all of his human morals in exchange for his position, knowingly damning billions of people to a miserable existence under his puppet regime. Although he is in a position of theoretically absolute authority, Breen is easily frazzled when circumstances turn dire and takes tranquilizers to keep himself from panicking. He paints himself as a cultured man of learning, yet he is emotionally unstable and resorts to downright childish insults and threats when he doesn’t get his way. All of Breen’s bravado and pompousness vanishes quickly when actual danger mounts. He will beg, plead and make promises he knows he cannot keep to be spared his life and would most likely throw allies under the bus to save his own skin.
    • Powers: Fortunately for everyone else, Breen himself is a powerless old man who cannot hold his own in combat. He is an excellent orator, but that probably doesn't count for much.
    • Equipment: Breen resides in the heavily-fortified City 17 (formerly St. Petersburg, Russia). He lives at the top of an immensely tall Combine Citadel at the city’s center, guarded by specialized Overwatch Soldiers. Although he has little military or strategic experience prior to the beginning of his rule, Breen is technically the leader of the Combine’s human and synth forces and wields some degree of control over them. The Universal Union also has a number of small aerial drones in its employ, for both surveillance and combat purposes.
    • Backstory: The middle child of four in an affluent, if rather troubled and cold Irish-American Bostonian family, Breen received his doctorate in Physics and worked as a researcher at applied sciences company Black Mesa for several years. Gradually, he climbed his way into the upper echelons until he finally took the helm as Administrator. Yet even so, his desire for power and change was not satisfied. When contacted by a mysterious extraterrestrial faction known only as "Our Benefactors" promising a perfect transhumanist utopia on Earth, Breen practically leapt at the opportunity to let them into his home dimension and orchestrated the catastrophic failure of a teleportation experiment to do so. Now, twenty years later, Breen sits at the top of an oppressed, enslaved human race, preaching the gospel of the Combine Empire even as his own kind are slaughtered and tortured.

  • Supporting Cast
    • Name: Dr. Gordon Freeman
    • Age: 27
    • Appearance: Positively messianic.
    • Personality: Although introverted and presently mute, Gordon is a kind individual who is very willing to help those in need. He conveys much of his thoughts and feelings through gestures and is capable of writing his thoughts down, provided he has a piece of paper and a pencil. Combat and violent situations do phase him, but he is pretty good at keeping his composure when things become dire.
    • Powers: Gordon is equipped with an HEV Mark V Suit, allowing him to withstand radiation, blunt force trauma and some amount of gunfire with minimal injuries to his person, also providing him with augmented strength and movement capability. The suit is only able to absorb the most punishing blows when properly charged, however. Gordon also has several firearms, a Gravity Gun and his trademark crowbar.
    • Backstory: Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Gordon Freeman showed immense academic promise from his earliest years. However, he also suffered from social anxiety and selective mutism early in life. He graduated from MIT with his doctorate and attained a prestigious research position at the Black Mesa Research Facility. All went well for Gordon until the fateful day of the Resonance Cascade, a grueling blur of death, panic and confusion that would culminate in the fall of humanity to an oppressive regime. Plucked from his quiet life and hurled into an unforgiving future, Gordon struggled to cope with the torrent of unfamiliarity, lapsing into his childhood ailment and becoming unable to speak to even his closest friends.

    • Name: Alyx Vance
    • Age: 25
    • Appearance: Scruffy, but cute.
    • Personality: Alyx is brave, quick-witted and incredibly inventive, having constructed d0g, a robot companion when she was just a small child. She's something of a tomboy, spending most of her downtime hanging out with male cohorts and playing with d0g. Despite her playful nature, she is incredibly serious about contributing to the human rebellion against the Combine, wishing to bring about an age of peace and freedom from the tyrannical regime.
    • Powers: Alyx is a normal human woman with no superhuman abilities, although she is fairly physically strong, excellent at constructing machinery and adept at handling firearms.
    • Backstory: The Resonance Cascade happened when Alyx was just a baby, killing her mother and wounding her father. Thankfully, she was spared a repressive upbringing under state control, as her father and several other ex-Black Mesa personnel formed a clandestine pocket of resistance against the Combine. Wishing to avenge her fallen mother and save her people from oppression, Alyx is an active member of the resistance.

    • Name: C17OE-A0015
    • Age: Mid-twenties, exact date of birth unknown.
    • Appearance: He doesn't look so great under the suit...
    • Personality: The rigorous Combine brainwashing has done a considerable number on this Overwatch Elite Soldier's free will, as most of his present desires relate to fulfilling his post and guiding humanity into a transhuman utopia beneath Our Benefactors. As such, he has little in the way of actual personality and lets Breen do most of (if not all) the talking and decision-making. He holds Breen in a reverent, almost religious light and is not capable of questioning his motives or actions at this point.
    • Powers: As a soldier of the Overwatch Elite, C17OE-A0015's body has been subjected to several invasive surgeries, deprived of many organs and filled with cybernetic implants in their stead. As such, he is gruesome to behold beneath his armor, but incredibly strong and durable, capable of withstanding more punishment than a normal human. Aside from his strength and endurance, A0015 is also an excellent marksman, capable of taking out targets quickly with his Overwatch-issue Pulse Rifle. His armor is very resilient, covering his entire body and resistant to gunfire.
    • Backstory: This man used to have a human name, a life, perhaps a family, but he gave it all up after deciding to join Civil Protection. From there, he worked his way through the ranks, his combat prowess and good response to the numerous augmentations and the brainwashing prompting his promotion to Breen’s inner circle of personal aides.

  • Chunk
    • Name of the World: City 17
    • Description: A large, bustling city, formerly St. Petersburg, Russia before it fell under Combine control. Archaic pre- and post-Soviet architecture is interspersed with futuristic installations, the towering citadel jutting out of its center. Here's a picture.
    • Contents: The aforementioned massive, fortified Citadel, several decrepit landmarks, run-down Soviet era tenement dwellings for the unfortunate commoner and many buildings left abandoned in the wake of the Combine takeover. There is a network of canals, railway lines and underground tunnels utilized by the resistance. Military stations for the Overwatch soldiers are located within the Citadel.
    • Specialties: None.
    • Population: Roughly 2.5 million citizens (a thousand or so are part of the Resistance) and thousands of Civil Protection officers, Overwatch Soldiers and synths. There are sizable populations of enslaved vortigaunts scattered throughout the city, mainly charged with menial labor.

edited 6th Sep '15 11:55:48 AM by MobileLeprechaun

make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019
Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#133: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:23:34 AM

no not gundam, so congrats you jinxed yourself! it's from a videogame series called Super Robot Wars.

but anyway I'll make sure to include their abilities in the sign up sheet so you can decide what needs to be nerfed then.

edited 6th Sep '15 11:23:56 AM by Bcom

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#134: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:27:24 AM

[up][up]Welcome back! Your signup looks fine, and is accepted.

Now then, for incoming Chunk people, A map of Battleworld. Note that Ape Home is no longer with us, and will be removed in the next map update, leaving that area unoccupied. Should no one take it, it will become a rather large lake. You are free to request a location if you see a particular chunk you'd like to be next to.

edited 6th Sep '15 11:27:36 AM by Meanken

Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#135: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:33:55 AM

-one second, editing, hit the send button by accident-

edited 6th Sep '15 11:34:19 AM by Bcom

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
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#136: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:34:02 AM

Yay, thank you. :D Could I maybe wedge C17 in kinda-sorta adjacent to the Resistance Base and Koopa Kingdom? I think that would be a deliciously ironic arrangement for a small empire undergoing revolt and civil unrest.

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Meanken Since: May, 2013
#137: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:40:44 AM

[up]Everyone always goes for the most ironic arrangement. I see the area you're pointing at, and that should work fine.

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
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#138: Sep 6th 2015 at 11:41:37 AM

Muchas gracias. I am super looking forward to this!

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#139: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:34:30 PM

Interested. May post a sign-up later, if that's alright.

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#140: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:36:15 PM

[up]Wow, lots of sudden interest. No hurry on signups, drop it in whenever

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#141: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:38:35 PM

I'm also pretty interested, but I can't drop a signup until later tonight or so. Is it okay if I reserve who I'm interested in playing?

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#142: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:39:54 PM

colour me intriuged

Meanken Since: May, 2013
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#144: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:41:13 PM

In that case, I'll be reserving the MSF from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. Will edit in a signup later.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#145: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:41:47 PM

Also allow me to ask a quick question, what are the criteria for selecting one's main character?

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#146: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:41:58 PM

[up][up].....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh yes, yes I approve. This will get interesting.

[up]Ok, so for main charicter, it can be one of two things.

A-The official leader of the chunk. Most evil chunks fall under this heading by default.

B-Whoever is going to be the most active leader outside of your chunk. I always use our transformers chunk as an example here, Optimus Prime is the chunk representative, but he's not in charge, that falls under a different transformer who sits in his office all day.

edited 6th Sep '15 12:44:04 PM by Meanken

foxmccloud4387 Since: Mar, 2011
#147: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:51:38 PM

Can I also reserve who I'm playing - in this case, the UNSC Everest from Halo?

Meanken Since: May, 2013
#148: Sep 6th 2015 at 12:52:50 PM

Indeed you can, only didn't add you to the newly created reserve list because you had asked to talk via PM, so wasn't sure if you wanted it known before you'd posted the signup

UdtheImp from Stamford, CT (Series 2) Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
#149: Sep 6th 2015 at 2:26:29 PM

Actually, we can put City 17 where the Ape Home used to be. Basically right in the middle of Resistance Base, the Koopa Kingdom, Santa Destroy, AND Outworld. XD

DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!
SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#150: Sep 6th 2015 at 2:57:42 PM

Looks like you just got hit by a flood of the In A Room Together mob. They heard my excited ramblings and decided to come in force.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

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